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Sentences starting with field

Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow --not hard and bright and bitter--to be Eugene Field's. [5]

Sentences ending with field

Or one, perchance, with clouded brain From some unholy banquet reeled, --And since, our devious steps maintain His track across the trodden field. [6]
But new reapers will arise, and they too will seek a field. [7]
It covered a wide field. [4]
The fierceness with which the Moors had rushed to the attack was suddenly cooled; they were bold and adroit for a skirmish, but unequal to the veteran Spaniards in the open field. [4]
But where they were to take him Pierre did not know: back to the coach house or to the place of execution his companions had pointed out to him as they crossed the Virgin's Field. [2]
The Gaul's orders were immediately obeyed, and Hermas walked at the head of the division entrusted to him, as proud and as self-possessed as any of Caesar's veterans leading his legion into the field. [10]
All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
General Halleck says we have absolutely no force here fit to go to the field. [7]
This at last was so evident that the good brother advised him, and the advice was in the nature of a command in his order, to retire for a while, and then take up his work in a fresh field. [4]

Short sentences using field

The lecture field was profitable. [5]
The Sokolniki field was deserted. [2]
Prince Kutuzov is field marshal! [2]

Sentences containing field two or more times

My belief is that the permanent estimate of what a general does in the field is fixed by the "cloud of witnesses" who have been with him in the field, and that, relying on these, he who has the right needs not to fear. [7]
Throw open the sally-port; to the field, Goths, to the field! [5]
Step by step, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final consummation. [7]
What did the building of a city or a country mean to a Romany 'chal' or a Romany 'chi', they who lived from field to field, from common to moor, from barn to city wall. [11]

More example sentences with the word field in them

I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
Once, when I wrote a Letter to Queen Victoria, you did not put it in the respectable part of the Magazine, but interred it in that potter's field, the Editor's Drawer. [5]
Many of the wounds had not been tended since they were dressed on the field weeks before. [9]
Solomon's court fool would have scoffed at the thought of the young Galilean who dared compare the lilies of the field to his august master. [6]
The chief-priest was wont to bear himself stoutly in the field, and now he gives up the command because a dying woman touches his heart. [10]
We call the woman from the field, and give her money, which she seemed not to expect, and for which she shows no gratitude. [4]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
He was done with that old world in which he once worked; he was concerned only for this narrow field where an Empire's fate was being solved. [11]
You will ride with me in every field, and when France is saved, you will give it me back. [5]
He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]
He does not wish to command in the field, though he has more military knowledge than some who do. [7]
In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
The best scheme will have the preference; and you seem to me to be the man to win the prize, and, with it, a wide and noble field of work in the future. [10]
This once I will allow you to go to the field without a wife. [10]
Seized of that wilful, daring spirit called Love, her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed. [11]
The question is, Why not work him in the field of foreign literature? [8]
His wife, to whom he had been so faithful in one sense since she had passed into the asylum, had died, and with her going, a new field of life seemed to open up to him. [11]
This shows the whole field, on the basis of the election of 1856. [7]
Then when the whole field was covered with smoke, two divisions, Campan's and Dessaix's, advanced from the French right, while Murat's troops advanced on Borodino from their left. [2]
Looking at the whole field for a moment dispassionately, objectively, as the dear Teutonic philosophers say, and merely as an exhibition of phenomena, I cannot imagine any other issue. [6]
This was Raevski, who had spent the whole day at the most important part of the field of Borodino. [2]
That field in which the tanks manoeuvre is characteristic of the whole of this district of levelled villages and vanished woods. [9]
But the opening which now presented itself introduced him to a field of activity much more suited to his talents and his tastes. [4]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
So felt Lincoln when on the field of Gettysburg he spoke those immortal words which Pericles could not have bettered, which Aristotle could not have criticised. [3]
In any case, what 'Pierre' did was to open up a field which had not been opened before, but which other authors have exploited since with success and distinction. [11]
This time they were taking the field to hew down men of his own blood. [10]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
Excitement and adventure were as the breath of life to him, and since he had played his little part at the Jersey battle in a bandbox eleven years before, he had touched hands with accidents of flood and field in many countries. [11]
Those who entered went up one by one to the field marshal; he pressed the hands of some and nodded to others. [2]
On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino. [2]
But there it was, fresh in every field, by every wayside, at every doorway. [11]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
After the charging was over, the reviewing party rode to the center of the field, and the troops galloped round them; and the Emperor distributed decorations. [4]
But to him was opposed a man who was at the beginning of his career, who needed this victory to give him such a start as few men get in that field of retarded rewards, diplomacy. [11]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
When the army was in the field her anxiety was ceaseless; day and night were spent in restlessness and watching. [10]
His real life was in the eddy of his many interests, in the field of his superficial culture, in the eyes of the world. [11]
As Prince Maurice was at that time the great soldier of Protestantism, without clearly scanning the grandeur of the field in which he was a chief actor, or foreseeing the vastness of its future, so the Advocate was its statesman and its prophet. [6]
Prince Andrew, who was a little behind looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. [2]
To him it was a gigantic break from a green pasture into a red field of war. [11]
But philosophy--ah, there was a field where a man could always use knowledge got from books or sorted out of his own experiences! [11]
Said he would wait for us in a little bunch of sycamores right back of Tom's uncle Silas's tobacker field on the river road, a lonesome place. [5]
After a personal visit to St. Saviour's, this biggest creditor and financial potentate--M. Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles. [11]
I am indeed very grateful to the brave men who have been struggling with the enemy in the field, to their noble commanders who have directed them, and especially to our Maker. [7]
I have been very anxious for some days in regard to our armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable news from them. [7]
My field of usefulness is about trimmed down to tramps, budding authoresses, and that line of goods now; but don't you worry --I'll harry you on theirs while they last! [5]
If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
The veteran straightens up, and his eyes flash as if he saw again that sanguinary field. [4]
He had made up his mind that Junia should be his, and suddenly the usefulness of the business about to fall into his hands became a weapon in the field of Love. [11]
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.M. Saturday was not large. [7]
No, it was unbelievable that this, the very field itself of their future labours, should be denied them. [9]
So he fought twenty-nine after his badge had given him the right to retire from the field. [5]
You tilt the tube skyward and bring planets and comets and corona flames a hundred and fifty thousand miles high into the field. [5]
We have fewer troops in the field at the end of the six days than we had at the beginning--the attrition among the old outnumbering the addition by the new. [7]
The traction engine travels about on its own wheels, till it reaches the required spot; then it stands still and by means of a wire rope pulls the huge plow toward itself two or three hundred yards across the field, between the rows of cane. [5]
This swept the town like wildfire, and mightily reinforced the enthusiasm of the Angelo faction, who said, "If any doubted that it was moral courage that took him from the field, what have they to say now! [5]
It pointed clearly towards the field in which he was to gather his laurels. [6]
The obliging man took up a cradle and led the gang round the field. [4]
You--you ask me to yield to them, when you have lost your son, when they're willing to sacrifice--to murder my son on the field of battle? [9]
In the answer to this question some among you may find a key that shall unlock the gate opening on that fair field of the future of which all dream but which not all will ever reach. [3]
They took him to the upper end of the field, where there were some sheds built of charred planks, beams, and battens, and led him into one of them. [2]
Again he looked to the right and saw something running toward him across the deserted field. [2]
They had come to the Pipi field when it was languishing. [11]
Heinz had gone to the field the day before yesterday. [10]
There is news to the effect that Russia espouses the cause of Prussia and will bring 4,000,000 men to the field. [5]
It all belonged to some degenerate land, some exhausted civilisation, not to this field of vigour where life rang like silver. [11]
It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere. [5]
It does seem to me that in the field the two classes have been very much alike in what they have done and what they have failed to do. [7]
It has occurred to me that I might open a new field in the family connection of my father-in-law and mother-in-law. [6]
It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proved equal to the occasion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly exceeds the force which Congress authorized me to call into the field. [7]
Telling the groom to follow him with the horses, Pierre went down the street to the knoll from which he had looked at the field of battle the day before. [2]
His voice seemed to fill the whole wood and carried far beyond out into the open field. [2]
Judge Driscoll declined to fight with an assassin--"that is," he added significantly, "in the field of honor. [5]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
Then he began to contemplate it, much as a philosopher contemplates a gnat's ear in the ample field of his microscope. [5]
But whoever wishes to compel the field to bear fruits must dig sturdily, draw the buckets from the well, plough, and sow the seed. [10]
He was going to Boston in charge of the body of the lamented Dr. Revere, the Assistant Surgeon of the regiment, killed on the field. [6]
Henceforth you are to be sowers as well as reapers, and your field is the world. [3]
When it ceases to be so, then the Rys will vanish from the world, and be as stubble of the field ready for the burning. [11]
It is seen to be a power existing in pronunciamento only, It has never won a field. [7]
He drew attention to Barouche's leonine head and beard, to his alert eyes and quizzical face, and said he was as strong in the field of legislation as he was in body and mind. [11]
To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain--plow had gone over before. [5]
They are suited to all grades of intelligence, to every sphere of life --to the field, to the nursery, to the guild. [5]
For the first time, after a fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. [2]
For the first time in his life his talents had a fair field. [5]
In the hall, through the open doorway, the mouth of a shotted field gun could be seen. [9]
Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and descending the valley. [2]
He was looking through a field glass down the highroad before him. [2]
We have got three or four months to do our work in,--a fair field and no favor. [6]
The result was three letters: the largest addressed to a famous society in London, one to a solicitor in Montreal, and one to Mr. Field, the chief factor. [11]
Gideon, with only three hundred men, surprised them in the night, and stood by and looked on while they butchered each other until a hundred and twenty thousand lay dead on the field. [5]
It was as though, fully armed for his battle of life, he had suddenly been stripped of armour and every weapon, and left naked on the field. [11]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
And, more than this, you have had the services, the blood, and the lives of our political brethren in every trial and on every field. [7]

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