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Sentences starting with events

Events were wonderfully in my favor. [10]
Events and time do not wait. [2]
Events run in circles. [11]
Events were thickening around me which were soon to change the world, but they were unmarked by me. [6]

Sentences ending with events

But even if you find fifty, make sure of the other fifty, that is, make sure of all you can, at all events. [7]
Well he knew what the question in her eyes meant or something of what it meant, so inexplicably is the soul of woman linked to events. [9]
As yet he was like a returned traveller who does not quickly recognise old familiar things, and who is struggling with vague suggestions and forgotten events. [11]
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
What did our two Annexes say to this unexpected turn of events? [6]
Modern history replying to these questions says: you want to know what this movement means, what caused it, and what force produced these events? [2]
The same applies to historical events. [2]
What had he to do with this strange disposition of events? [11]
The power of the press is in its facility for making public opinions and events. [4]
Nor is it the mere capacity of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas; for it is certain that some parrots, which have been taught to speak, connect unerringly words with things, and persons with events. [1]

Short sentences using events

We confound events with causes. [4]
Great events are stirring. [10]
Great events were impending. [10]
However, these were extraordinary events. [5]
What causes historical events? [2]
This subject to events. [7]
Answer at all events. [7]
Then came events! [5]

Sentences containing events two or more times

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. [7]
We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). [2]
In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. [2]
After a slight pause he continued somewhat hesitatingly: "I dreamed last night, three times, of events that occurred in my past; events which I hoped would never disturb me in the life I am now leading. [11]
Truly, events were in the air,--great events in which he had no part. [9]
Far from making his book a mere register of events, he has penetrated deep below the surface and explored the cause of these events. [6]
How many tunes had he rehearsed the events in the tannery house--for they were the events of his life now. [9]
Examining only those expressions of the will of historical persons which, as commands, were related to events, historians have assumed that the events depended on those commands. [2]
But examining the events themselves and the connection in which the historical persons stood to the people, we have found that they and their orders were dependent on events. [2]
Having restored the condition of time under which all events occur, we find that a command is executed only when it is related to a corresponding series of events. [2]

More example sentences with the word events in them

At all events, you ought to thank Judge Douglas for it; it is for your benefit it is made. [7]
The events of yesterday; painful and agitating as they had been, had fallen away in the prospect that lay before him--he would see her to-day, and speak with her. [9]
In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly. [11]
At all events write me all about it, till I can somehow get it off my hands. [7]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
I was merely wondering whether any event or series of events had transformed a mere knowledge of these conditions into feeling. [9]
They both brought with them so many reminiscences of familiar scenes and events, that it was like going back for the moment to Oxbow Village. [6]
And the jealousy which, fool that she was, she had desired to arouse in her lover, what abundant nourishment it would derive from the events which had occurred on her return from the festival! [10]
In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
The crisis through which I passed at Cambridge, inaugurated by the events I have just related, I find very difficult to portray. [9]
Here, for instance, were two far-reaching and momentous events, one crowding upon the other, and not an hour for reflection, realization, or adjustment! [9]
Harris and Douglas were both in Springfield when the Convention was in session, and although they both left before the fraud appeared in the Register, subsequent events show that they have both had their eyes fixed upon that Convention. [7]
But as he went towards Mizraim's quarters he saw no sure escape from the stage of those untoward events, save by the exit which is for all in some appointed hour. [11]
During the events we have described the house of the charioteer Mena had not remained free from visitors. [10]
Venters went his way with busy, gloomy mind, revolving events of the day, trying to reckon those brooding in the night. [13]
A single number was printed, when it was interrupted the course of events, and not resumed until nearly years later, in January, 1890. [6]
A new turn was given to events, however. [11]
The imaginary man was for going to call on her and letting subsequent events take care of themselves; Austen Vane, had an uncomfortable quality of reducing a matter first of all to its simplest terms. [9]
Yet their talk was ever of simple subjects, of everyday life about them, now and then of politics, occasionally of the events of the world filtered to them through vast tracts of country. [11]
At all events, victory had never been bought more cheaply. [9]
There was not very much to cheer her in the few events that touched her interests during this time. [14]
These events, to Venters's color of mind, had a dark relationship. [13]
A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention. [2]
Though, while with us, she said that she longed to return to the days of the peaceful Garden of Epicurus, she devoted herself eagerly enough to the events occurring in the world and to statecraft. [10]
The master enjoins us to look back every evening on the events, feelings and actions of the day just past. [10]
She seated herself upon the scarlet seat with a gesture of thanks, while the salutations and greetings increased; then she awaited events, thrilled by the weird and pleasant music, with its touches of Eastern fantasy. [11]
The sudden flaring up of this trivial incident served to re-establish her identity, to light a fuse along which her mind began to run like fire, illuminating redly all the events of the day before. [9]
Recent events bring up glorious names, and particularly prominent ones; but these I will not mention. [7]
Young Vorchtel had undoubtedly heard of the events in the entry, taunted Wolff with his betrothed bride's nocturnal interview with a knight, and thus roused the strong man to fury. [10]
What was painfully uncertain then is much better defined and more distinct now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direction. [7]
Yet I have two reasons, which seem to me good and valid ones, for giving some particulars of the course of events which led to her few months of wedded life--that short spell of exceeding happiness. [14]
The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us. [2]
I think no trouble will come of it; and, at all events, I shall take care of it so far as in me lies. [7]
But you close to the intimate source of the events must know all. [11]
They reverted first to the events of the day; but as the Indian removed the warm surcoat, the night breeze blew coldly into the room, and he shivered. [10]
The gossips came to talk over with Barbara the events occurring at the White Gate. [10]
It pains me to report the events which took place when the master made his rash attempt to maintain his authority. [6]
As Charmian went to Lochias with Archibius, it was difficult for her to find words, the events of the past few hours had agitated her so deeply. [10]
While Stephen related to his mother the events of the morning, Hester burned the dinner. [9]
Besides, she seemed to have been weeping and, in fact, heart-rending events had just occurred. [10]
Dion was right to give this warning; for Gorgias's bearing and the very tone of his voice changed as he eagerly declared that the frightful events had been followed by more than happy ones for the city, his friend, and Barine. [10]
He knew what to expect from the irritable mood into which recent events appeared to have thrown his master. [10]
I would attempt to exemplify the influence of individual humors and passions--some of them among the highest, and others certainly the basest that agitate humanity--upon the march of great events, upon general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of eminent personages. [6]
We are here to celebrate one of the greatest events of American history, and not only in American history, but in the world's history. [5]
Madelinette had gone to bed, but, excited by the events of the day, she could not sleep, and she went down to the library to read. [11]
Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. [5]
He was helpless to alter the course of events, to stay a terrible possibility. [11]
Most of the time had been taken up with apparently idle and purposeless inquiries about the Chinon events, the exiled Duke of Orleans, Joan's first proclamation, and so on, but all this seemingly random stuff had really been sown thick with hidden traps. [5]
Such were Biberli's thoughts as he recalled the events of the previous day. [10]
Heinz Schorlin's friends thought the change in his mood a natural consequence of the events which had befallen him; young Count Gleichen, his most intimate companion, even looked up to him since his "call" as a consecrated person. [10]
These justifications release those who produce the events from moral responsibility. [2]
Not one of those events had gone for nothing; each was bearing fruit after its kind. [11]
The newspaper files, those chroniclers of current events, will show that the evils now complained of were quite as prevalent under Fremont, Hunter, Halleck, and Curtis, as under Schofield. [7]
And added to this were a thousand little features, anecdotes, and events which all pointed to the universal discontent. [10]
All news reached this meeting-place first, and he found a large number of Macedonian citizens who, like himself, wished to discuss passing events in these decisive hours. [10]
And now, before this chapter which contains these memorable events is closed, one more strange and significant fact is to be chronicled. [9]
He forbore from thinking, now, of the looming events which might thrust them apart,--put a physical distance between them,--his anxiety was concerned with the possible snapping of the thread of sympathy which had bound them. [9]
Three days after, these joyful events were celebrated by a splendid banquet at Herr Van der Werff's house. [10]
Three weeks after these events Hadrian was again in Alexandria. [10]
Six weeks after these events a little troop of horsemen might have been seen riding towards the gates of Sardis. [10]
He understands that there is something stronger and more important than his own will--the inevitable course of events, and he can see them and grasp their significance, and seeing that significance can refrain from meddling and renounce his personal wish directed to something else. [2]
The events of the war give an increased interest and importance to the Navy which will probably extend beyond the war itself. [7]
In view of the very important events Occurring there, he has thought that the interests of the United States would be promoted by the conclusion of two treaties which should provide for a loan to that republic. [7]
The reference to the unfortunate Mr. Blodgett, after taking his breath away, aroused in him an intense curiosity betraying, as it did, a certain knowledge of past events in his life in the hitherto unknown daughter of Augustus interest could she have in him? [9]
John experienced all the thrill of this conspicuous authority, and I daresay that nothing in his later life has so exalted him in his own esteem; certainly nothing has since happened that was so important as the events of that parade day seemed. [4]
Cross currents of the strange events of the day flowed through her mind: Peter's arrival and its odd heralding, and the discomfort of Mr. Grainger. [9]
Whether to tell the story of men that have lived and of events that have happened, or to create the characters and invent the incidents of an imaginary tale be the higher task, we need not stop to discuss. [6]
The insincerity of the sovereign's agreement with the ideas, events, and men of his day was evident in the reaction which appeared only too soon. [10]
Two diaries of the same events rarely agree. [4]
In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable. [2]
When Eva greeted the reunited pair they had already poured forth to each other the events which had driven them to the verge of despair, and which now once more permitted them with budding hope to anticipate new happiness. [10]
So that examining the relation in time of the commands to the events, we find that a command can never be the cause of the event, but that a certain definite dependence exists between the two. [2]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
It is to the mind, and not to the senses, that such a story must appeal, and all attempts to render the character and events objective on the stage, or to make them real by artistic illustrations, are almost of necessity failures. [6]
At luncheon, in the midst of a general conversation, Mr. Spence made a remark sotto voce which should, in the ordinary course of events, have remained a secret. [9]
Then she permitted the messenger to speak, and when the latter again described the events which had occurred in the city of Rameses, and then announced that the fugitives from Tanis would arrive in a few hours, loud shouts of joy burst from the throng. [10]
The events of the last few hours had moved him deeply, and shaken his confidence in his unerring judgment of men and things. [10]
The events of the last few days had cut deep. [11]
When Ranulph entered the kitchen his greeting to the sieur and the chevalier was in French, but to Guida he said, rather stupidly in the patois--for late events had embarrassed him--"Ah bah! [11]
He would decide the fate of the young prince later; but at all events he was to be taken to the place of execution with the rest. [10]
The next morning the events of the evening seemed like a dream. [10]
What enthusiasm for the Emperor William, Bismarck, and Von Moltke, Langethal, Middendorf, and Barop would have inspired in our hearts had they been permitted to witness the great events of 1870 and 1871! [10]
This interest in the direction of great events occupied the sibyl's versatile mind. [10]
The events of the day were interrupting the ordinary run of thought, and I felt at a miserable disadvantage. [11]
Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing. [5]
The events of the day no longer differentiated themselves in his mind but lay, a composite weight, upon his heart. [9]
The events of the day had shaken this man's soul to the foundations. [10]
The events of the day at "The Red Eagle" had brought things to a crisis in the affairs of Carmen's father. [11]
The necessity of the conception of power as an explanation of historical events is best demonstrated by the universal historians and historians of culture themselves, for they professedly reject that conception but inevitably have recourse to it at every step. [2]
Specialist historians describing the campaign of 1813 or the restoration of the Bourbons plainly assert that these events were produced by the will of Alexander. [2]
It seemed strange that, in the midst of such great events, the loss or keeping of an empire, these men should thus devote the few hours granted them for sleep; but they did according to their natures. [11]
History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; but it is truer still that it has perils, events which try the soul as it is never tried in the smaller life--unless, indeed, the soul be that of the Epicurean. [11]
But how did that old man, alone, in opposition to the general opinion, so truly discern the importance of the people's view of the events that in all his activity he was never once untrue to it? [2]
Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. [6]
The President replied that he must not be expected to quarrel with the New York Tribune before the right time; he hoped never to have to do it; he would not anticipate events. [7]
I can recollect that first time I ever saw them on the platforms just as well as I can remember the events of yesterday. [5]
The source of that extraordinary power of penetrating the meaning of the events then occuring lay in the national feeling which he possessed in full purity and strength. [2]
The supposition is that being contemporaneous with the events spoken of, it must be true, and that it is an honest record. [4]
We pitched our tents, supped, established a proper grade, recorded the events of the day, and then went to bed. [5]

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