Use even in a sentence
Sentences starting with even
- Even Appelles' perennial youth is only a long tragedy, and his life a failure. [5]
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- Even the serious young lawyer succumbed, though not without a struggle. [9]
- Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
- Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
- Even at meals you never have an hour of peace and comfort. [10]
- Even Croesus, who you know is one of Amasis' well-wishers, and advises peace whenever it is possible, had not a word to say against it. [10]
- Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with me because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. [7]
- Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
- Even if he wounded Racine only, what a wretched story to go abroad: that he had fought with a hunchback--a hunchback who knew the use of the sword, which he did not, but still a hunchback! [11]
Sentences ending with even
- Any one else you please,--Mr. Fairbrother even. [9]
- Now, I don't wish to be misunderstood, nor to leave a gap down to be misrepresented, even. [7]
- And their signatures --why I can tell their initials, even. [5]
- With the sword we are even. [11]
- He was trying to make for himself a future which might mean the control of a greater colony even. [11]
- The portmanteau behind the young master's saddle isn't exactly even. [10]
- Dryfoos couldn't keep the boom out of has own family even. [8]
- Haven't you thought that he will drag you down, down, down, wear out your soul, break and sicken your life, destroy your beauty--you are beautiful, my dear, beyond what the world sees, even. [11]
- And for whom should I dress even? [10]
- My powers of reserve are far greater than my curiosity even. [10]
Short sentences using even
- Perhaps even something worse? [5]
- No, not even with Delia. [11]
- Even the crows were silent. [5]
- Even the cabarets were deserted. [9]
- Even Polly Ann was silent. [9]
- Even his hair was brown. [11]
- They wouldn't even walk aft. [5]
- I've even predicted the type. [9]
- He even stopped swearing. [5]
- Not even the Sultan himself. [11]
Sentences containing even two or more times
- Not even your wife, Luis, not even our sister, Queen Mary, must learn what is being accomplished. [10]
- Even as dusk was falling, even as the Mayor, the Hon. [9]
- No, even Cauchon was ashamed to lay that monstrosity before her; even he had a remnant of shame in him, away down deep, a million fathoms deep, and that remnant asserted itself now and prevailed. [5]
- She found it very hard to speak of her troubles, even to Miss Lucretia, and she would have kept this secret even from Jethro, had it been possible. [9]
- There was some unfathomable fount in his nature which was even beyond any occurrence of his past; some radical, constitutional sorrow, coupled with a very strong, practical, and even vigorous nature. [11]
- When she returned to Ghent, even if Don John had not been appointed governor, she might even have ventured to make her house the rendezvous of the heads of the royalist party. [10]
- How and when this would be he did not know, he did not even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. [2]
- In this land they stayed; and even now far up the Nile you will hear of the Two Strange People who travelled the river even to Dongola and some way back--only some way back, for a long time. [11]
- As Althea stood there, her delicate arms seemed to have lengthened and lost even their slight roundness, her figure to have become even more slender and incorporeal, and how strangely her thin fingers spread apart! [10]
- So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith. [6]
More example sentences with the word even in them
- It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
- Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
- My Irenia is yours--" "But she does love me, and even should she no longer--" "The test is at hand. [10]
- I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
- So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
- And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
- You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
- Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
- To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
- To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
- Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
- You'll never lose your audience--not even for a moment. [5]
- Would people grow young together even as harmoniously as they grow old together? [4]
- Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
- He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
- I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
- He believed in you, was so pitifully eager to believe in you even when the letter--" "Where is the letter? [11]
- But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
- Yet to marry you, even as things are, if that might be! [11]
- But I tell you, as you know, that everything will depend upon a leader, even if you secure the men.... [11]
- And even then you wouldn't wish me, now, as I was. [9]
- I was afraid you would not take me, even now, to-night. [9]
- You are going?--and you won't say even good-night--or good-bye? [5]
- I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
- We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
- I know what you wish to express; I know that you consider it a sin to take one's life, even in 'the high Roman fashion. [11]
- Call it as you will, my Daimon, or even my Genius--the name matters not. [10]
- And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you. [11]
- So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
- But I suppose you will celebrate, and will even go so far as to read the Declaration. [7]
- I think even you will approve of her. [9]
- How many of you who are before me are familiarly acquainted with the name of Broussais, or even with that of Andral? [6]
- And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
- I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
- And even if you turn me out of the house--I will not help to drag us into deeper wretchedness; I will take no part in the performances. [10]
- I can't get you to talk seriously even when I come all the way from New York to find out what's going on here. [9]
- It would take you thirty years to guess, and even then you would have to give it up, I believe. [5]
- But I tell you there will be sensible men enough in every ward, every guild, nay, even in the council, and among the burgomasters. [10]
- I will tell you the truth, my friend, even if it cuts me to the heart. [11]
- I'd willingly spare you the climb, but he's watching for the carrier-pigeons that have been sent out, and won't even come down to his meals. [10]
- He soon convinces you that even these matters can be handled in such a way as to make a person low-spirited. [5]
- No, by Heaven, you shall not do it, even if it can be done! [11]
- But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
- He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
- I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
- I can save you little longer, even were it my will so to do. [11]
- They, even taught you how to cook. [9]
- No one, do you hear, no human being, not even the servants, must suspect what is going on. [10]
- And even as you have threatened me, I will warn you, yet not in anger. [9]
- Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
- As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
- But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
- But even if you find fifty, make sure of the other fifty, that is, make sure of all you can, at all events. [7]
- I don't believe you even thought of it. [9]
- He spoke of you even at the very last," she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant. [2]
- And even if you did not succeed--" "You would be all the better pleased," the sculptor put in. [10]
- Do you think you could live with such a man twenty-four hours, even if he had his crown on? [4]
- Do you think you can make your heroes and heroines,--nay, even your scrappy supernumeraries,--out of refuse material, as you made your scarecrow? [6]
- I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. [11]
- That's the question--can you be happy, even if I went and you stayed? [11]
- Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
- And even now you are not satisfied when I come back to tell you that I have money enough to snap my fingers at half these people you know. [9]
- As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
- I could put you a folding bed in the room where you wrote, and we could even have one in the parlor. [8]
- But even while yielding to these thoughts Barbara felt how sinful they were. [10]
- The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
- And yet and yet she feared it even in that instant of glory. [9]
- She was not yet purged of her uncleanness, and yet you tempt her to an assignation, not even in the stranger's quarters--but in the holy house of this pure Divinity. [10]
- This was all; yet even in this subdued attire she was divinely beautiful. [5]
- He was not yet even face to face with the fulness of his disaster. [11]
- He has not yet been able even to find a publisher. [5]
- It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. [5]
- The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
- Through it the yellow afternoon light was flooding now, even as then, checkered by the branches in their first fringe of green. [9]
- In his tenderer years, Honora even fired George, and riots occurred which took the combined efforts of Cousin Eleanor and Mammy Lucy to quell. [9]
- During the long years he had been coming to Fairview, even before the new house was built, when Victoria was in pinafores, he had never understood her. [9]
- Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
- And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
- By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
- Lead on, an ye will, be it even to the scaffold, for I am ready. [5]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
- I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
- There was nothing wrong, and even where mischief was concerned I can term it to-day "harmless. [10]
- There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
- Arrianus had even written these verses on the gigantic sphinx near the Pyramids. [10]
- There it was written that the vehemence flashing from the hero's bright eyes, even when peacefully inclined, showed how easily his wrath could break forth. [10]
- True, the hastily written sentences presented some difficulties even for Biberli, but after glancing through the whole letter, he exclaimed with a satisfied smile: "Just as I expected! [10]
- He has even written a treatise on the choice of typical examples of the viscera for representation. [1]
- She could not write, because she could not conceive the possibility of expressing sincerely in a letter even a thousandth part of what she expressed by voice, smile, and glance. [2]
- I determined to write to my dear Alixe the true history of my life, even to the point--and after--of this thing which now was bringing me to so ill a pass. [11]
- You did not write it yourself but translated it, and translated it abominably, because you don't even know French, you fool. [2]
- By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest; even the drammaker and dram-seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in the universal song of gladness. [7]
- And so you wouldn't even part with Clay? [5]
- Even Uncle Jerry wouldn't do that. [4]
- Well, if he wouldn't consent, but should even strenuously protest and say he wouldn't serve if elected, isn't it still wise and fair to nominate him and vote for him? [5]
- Even then I wouldn't believe it of him, that he'd take poor people's money that way when he had more than he knew what to do with. [9]
- Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
- Even the Cure would tell you that. [11]
- How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
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