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Sentences starting with few

Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
Few people took work into their calculations--or outlay of money either; except the work and expenditures of other people. [5]
Few as the words were, Jane knew how infinitely much they implied. [13]
Few discontented faces were to be seen in Leyden on this eighteenth of April. [10]
Few of them were in a position whence they might cast stones at Eldon Parr . [9]
Few people that were able to read took food that morning. [5]
Few men had ventured to cross swords with him. [11]
Few people do understand him. [2]
Few took the trouble to pitch a tent. [10]
Few took the trouble to inquire into the very apparent causes for the change. [10]

Sentences ending with few

But I thank you for the compliment in a land where compliments are few. [11]
He is not without fear, but it is only fear for those who care for him, be they ever so few. [11]
Never before were we together so well betimes, Margery, and happy hours are few. [10]
The instances are very few. [11]
They are distributed to the few, and are not always read by those few. [5]
The complexion which they try to counterfeit is one which nature restricts to the few--to the very few. [5]
Of necessaries even there were few. [11]
She felt, as the years went on, that Sheila had gifts granted to few. [11]
It gives you the right to do much that might pain me, and has graven your name on my heart, the foremost among those to whom I am indebted for any benefit.--They are but few. [10]
But to be taken there by Charles Fox was an honour falling to few. [9]

Short sentences using few

Tragedy needs few words. [11]
There were few words. [11]
However, few escape that distinction. [5]
A faithful few surrounded him. [11]
Life has few such moments. [4]
Few lands are so blest. [5]
Few words will settle this. [7]
Take a few prominent examples. [7]
Those few are pleased. [5]
I took few notes. [5]

Sentences containing few two or more times

A few more years--all too few, I fear--mark my words, we shall have cider! [5]
Only a little while ago few people in the United States knew how to draw, and only a few could tell good drawing from bad. [4]
After nightfall, as we walked in the middle of the roughly paved streets, meeting few people, and hearing only the echoing clatter of the wooden sabots of the few who were abroad, the old spirit of the place came over us. [4]
I am going to spend a few days with the Langdon's in Elmira, New York, as soon as I get time, and a few days at Mrs. Hooker's in Hartford, Conn., shortly. [5]
The few silver threads which now mingled in her hair were skilfully concealed by Lamperi's art, and few ladies in Ghent were more tastefully and richly apparelled. [10]
But the books, though few, were of a high quality; and because they were few they were read much, and their contents became an integral part of his intellectual equipment. [4]
Few plays on the world's stage have held such suspense, few battles such excitement for those who watched. [9]
By this time the soldier had rejoined Pentaur, and both listened for a few minutes; then the poet whispered to his guide: "They are speaking Egyptian, I caught a few words. [10]
Of the few, The royal few is she, martyred and true. [11]
By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it, and thus it will be left without friends, or with too few, and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual. [7]

More example sentences with the word few in them

You have proved yourself a man, Richard, and there are very few macaronies would have done as you did. [9]
No letters but yours must reach the camp for the next few weeks. [10]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
And now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I'll lay a few mines. [9]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
Though I write you these few words, dear Robert, I do not know that they will reach you, for as yet it is not certain they will let Voban visit you. [11]
But, Aristomachus, would you then avoid the few Oases in the desert, because you must afterwards return to its sands and drought? [10]
And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
And you thought you and your few superstitions were enough for her.--Ah, poor fool! [11]
I have read you a few extracts, most of them of rather slight texture, and some of them, you perhaps thought, whimsical. [6]
Arrived in New York he took lodgings near old Washington Square, where there were a few studios near the Bohemian restaurants and a life as nearly continental as was possible in a new country. [11]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
Rustem had not yet quitted Memphis, for the first caravan, which he and his little wife were to join, was not to start for a few days. [10]
He had as yet made few literary acquaintances in England. [4]
I was busy yesterday and I did not intend to go, knowing I should have another "Tannh:auser" opportunity in a few days; but after five o'clock I found myself free and walked out to the opera-house and arrived about the beginning of the second act. [5]
Now, for many years our international relations have been uncommonly smooth, oiled every few days by complimentary banquet speeches, and sweetened by abundance of magazine and newspaper "taffy. [4]
A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
She had lived years in the last few hours. [11]
A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. [6]
When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
Within a few years a distinguished Scotch clergyman made a fortune by diluting a paragraph written by Saint Paul. [4]
For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
Laura's few friends wrote to her or came and talked with her, and pleaded with her to retire while it was yet time, and not attempt to face the gathering storm. [5]
Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
A few Continental writers have adopted similar conclusions. [3]
But a naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys, other characters in an intermediate condition, and some few, perhaps, distinct from those now found in either group. [1]
He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
After all, she would make such a wife for his son as few men possessed. [9]
There's few that would have took the pains with you that I have. [5]
And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
And few buildings would have borne the wear and tear of many house-cleanings of the kind Miss Crane indulged in throughout the morning and afternoon. [9]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
A few days would end it, for good or ill. Madame Chalice heard the news with consternation, and pity would have sent her to Valmond's bedside, but that she found Elise was his faithful nurse and servitor. [11]
Then her tears would burst out afresh, she would utter imploring supplications to the gods for mercy, and a few minutes later, begin conjuring her mother to take her to the hanging-gardens, that they might hear Nitetis' defence of her own conduct. [10]
Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
What an unreal world it all was, that of a few months ago! [4]
They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
Her quiet, gentle words, few though they might be, were evidently grateful to those Yorkshire ears. [14]
Into those few words was thrown all the suffering of his silent years. [9]
A few hurried words told them the fearful story. [6]
In a few words she told him all, tears dropping from her eyes. [11]
A few swift words passed between Goatry and Foyle. [11]
A few more words of thanks and farewell, and Quintus had fulfilled his mission to the Aurelians. [10]
After a few words of salutation, he said quietly, "Elsie, my dear, your cousin Richard has left us. [6]
After a few words of confidence in the result of their project had been exchanged, they bade the grinning Quilp good night. [12]
In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts. [2]
A very few words may be a convenience to the reader who takes up the book and wishes to know what he is likely to find in it. [6]
And how few words in secret had we as yet spoken, how little had we discussed what might befall on the morrow, and how he should demean himself to his mother! [10]
Now a few words in regard to these extracts from speeches of mine which Judge Douglas has read to you, and which he supposes are in very great contrast to each other. [7]
In so few words have I disposed of the twenty-one slow-drifting years that have come and gone since I last looked from the windows of a pilot- house. [5]
But these few words had opened up a world for her--a new-created world on the instant. [11]
The first few words had little or no significance for Guida, but presently she was held as by the fascination of a serpent. [11]
He began to wonder how it would feel to own a few of these valuable fellow-creatures. [9]
It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
When we were within a few rods of them, it appeared to rise from the water, was hurled on a rock, and overturned. [11]
The brave was within a few feet of them. [11]
Tom sat down within a few feet of her. [9]
There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
I have met with very few statements opposed to this conclusion. [1]
They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
A few moments with this death-document had transformed Hylda's life. [11]
Friend," he added, with the winning insistence that few found it possible to resist, "if all be well, and we go thither, wilt thou become the governor-general yonder? [11]
Rosalie busied herself with the letters and papers for a moment before she answered Mrs. Flynn's greeting, for there were ringing in her ears the words she herself had said a few days before: "It is good to live, isn't it? [11]
A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
During the interviews with Sappho, Zopyrus and the attendants used all their endeavors to kill a few snipes, jackals or jerboas. [10]
The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
My friend stayed with me a few days in the early part of January; she could not be spared longer. [14]
He had danced with many a one, and kissed a few in the old days among the flax- beaters, at the harvesting, in the gaieties of a wedding, and also down in Massachusetts. [11]
A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed. [5]
And while busy with his few camp tasks he revolved the thing in his mind. [13]
It was so with Captain Jack, who blossomed in a week; and few could vie with him, I warrant you, after he made his decision. [9]
It was supplied with bare necessaries, and with a counter, behind which were cups and a few bottles. [11]
I was blessed with a sturdy health such as few men enjoy, and came to myself sooner than had been looked for, with a dash of cold water. [9]
Mercy," she said, with a quick gesture at my protest, "there are few men with whom one might talk thus in so short an acquaintance. [9]
Ingenious and tasteful, with a gift for cooking and an educated hand, she had made her little home as pretty as their few possessions would permit. [11]
I will begin with a few sentences from the excellent little local guide-book of Mr. Satya Chandra Mukerji. [5]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
Sketching the outlines with a few hasty strokes, he seized the brush, and while hurriedly guiding it and mixing the colors, he saw in fancy Costa standing before him, asking him to paint his portrait. [10]
At seventy, you, with a few fellow-passengers, are on a raft. [6]
I came home with a broken hip-bone, tolerably patched up, and again, a few years later, I could not keep still in one place. [10]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Our performance to-morrow will--at any rate--but--Zoe, pray be good enough to retire with the maids; I have a few words to say to my brother alone. [10]
A few items will refresh the reader's memory. [5]
Besides, your recovery will progress without my professional aid; and, moreover, I shall leave Ratisbon with my illustrious master in a few days. [10]
Our council, which will meet in a few days, can only determine how, and not whether we shall fulfil his command. [10]
A few words will make us acquainted with them. [6]
The Emperor's last will had a codicil, which concerned a son of his Majesty; but, a few days before his end, Charles had also remembered Barbara, and commissioned Ogier Bodart, Adrian's successor, to buy a life annuity for her in Brussels. [10]
A few days will determine its success. [10]
No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
A few jars-full will be enough. [10]
Perhaps Mark Antony will arrive in a few hours. [10]
All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. [5]

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