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Sentences starting with finding

Finding the familiar, worn arm of the chair, he seated himself with a heavy sigh. [11]
Finding Madame still waiting in the gallery, I asked her to direct me thither. [9]
Finding her still very restless on this head, they made him up a bed in an inner room, to which he presently retired. [12]
Finding myself better towards evening, I went up to the hanging-gardens to see if everything was in order there, and also to look at the rare flower which was to blossom in the night. [10]
Finding it liquid, they would snatch away their heads and fall to trembling, snorting and showing other evidences of fright. [5]
Finding it in the Virgil was nothing, after all; it was a little delicate flower, which looked as if it were made to press, and it was probably shut in by accident at the particular place where he found it. [6]
Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor. [2]
Finding a division in the tapestry, he ran his fingers quickly and heavily down the crack between. [11]
Finding within himself his satisfaction, his fountain of appeasement, why should not his days be days of pleasantness and peace? [11]
Finding it at high water, I plunged in, with my knapsack and cloak on my head, and made my way across, reaching the opposite shore safely. [11]

Sentences ending with finding

Dare you speak of finding? [10]

Sentences containing finding two or more times

In finding love he had found conscience, and in finding conscience he was on his way to another great discovery. [11]
Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out, and I don't know but more so. [5]

More example sentences with the word finding in them

In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the letters to Princess Mary's apartments, but did not find him there. [2]
What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
They have not yet succeeded in finding a new Apis, and believe that the gods are wroth with your father's kingdom. [10]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
The world has witnessed how Peace fled from my path, or I from hers, and yet I see the possibility of finding the way. [10]
Still, if you wish to go there, you will have no trouble about finding it if you follow the directions given by Robert Louis Stevenson to Dr. Conan Doyle and to Mr. J. M. Barrie. [5]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
How could he, who was not able even to see his hand before his eyes, succeed in finding his friend? [10]
There are those who discredit Jake's story about finding the ring in the fish; anyhow, there was the ring and there was the pickerel. [6]
Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
Telling his sister where they had been placed, every morning she would go in search, and never fail of finding each stuck through the heart of a deer. [5]
All of them were in a state of incessant activity, as if perpetually seeking something and never finding it. [6]
Those around me were gradually finding out the circumstances which brought on the deadly attack to which I was subject. [6]
But if he were destined to meet his Myrtilus and his mother in the world beyond the grave, what had he not to tell them, how sure he was of finding a joyful reception there from both! [10]
Honora, when she went to town for the day, generally could be sure of finding some one, at least, of the Holt family at home at luncheon time. [9]
Their admiration for well-grown trees went so far, that Xerxes, finding on his way to Greece a singularly beautiful tree, hung ornaments of gold upon its branches. [10]
It is one way of finding out about things. [4]
This is the way he put it: "That man--we will just miss finding him, as I missed Zoe at the railroad junction when she went away, as I missed catching Carmen at St. Chrisanthine. [11]
I thought it was pretty manifest that the elderly lady was embarrassed at finding herself in such a conspicuous place arrayed in such cheap apparel; I began to feel sorry for her and troubled about her. [5]
He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it. [5]
General Grant, hard-pressed, was induced by the editors to prepare one or more articles, and, finding that he could write them, became interested in the idea of a book. [5]
After that I was delayed by various details; even on my way here--but for that I cannot be sorry for it gave me this chance of finding you alone. [10]
When the evening was come, the two attended the Free-thinkers' meeting, where Angelo was sad and silent; then came the Bible class and looked upon him coldly, finding him in such company. [5]
A young printer wanders around a good deal, seeking and finding work; and seeking again, when necessity commands. [5]
Moses Hatch hitched up his team and went out to see Jabez, spent an hour in general conversation, and then plumped the question, taking, as he said, that means of finding out. [9]
And it was true that fashion for the moment elected to be pleased with unconventionality, finding a great zest in freedom, and making a joke of every inconvenience. [4]
I wandered about town questioning everybody, boring everybody, and finding out that nobody knew anything. [5]
Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
As Talbott afterwards told me, he went to the General's, but not finding him at home, got the deed from his son, which, when compared with the record, proved what we had discovered was merely an error of the recorder. [7]
So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out what sort of reporter-material I might be able to rake together out of the sixth century when I should come to need it. [5]
I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
Then we returned to Mono Lake, and finding that the cement excitement was over for the present, packed up and went back to Esmeralda. [5]
Then she fell to conning the titles again, finding a delight in the inspection of the Hawthornes, the Longfellows, the Tennysons, and other favorites of her idle hours. [5]
Once he hurried to an afternoon party, and finding the mistress of the house alone, sat down and talked to her comfortably for an hour or two, not remembering his errand at all. [5]
For the first time in years he found himself doubting his rider's skill in finding tracks, and his memory of what he had actually seen. [13]
Toll, who in this battle played the part of Weyrother at Austerlitz, galloped assiduously from place to place, finding everything upside down everywhere. [2]
What she did think or feel could not easily have been set down, for her mind was one tremulous confusion of unusual thoughts, her heart was beset by new feelings, her imagination, suddenly finding itself, was trying its wings helplessly. [11]
It is time these gentlemen were finding out that these execrable eccentricities of instinct and conduct are only the evidences of genius, not the creators of it. [5]
Not finding anything there, he looked up with a serious and annoyed air, anxiously slapped his right pantaloon's pocket, and then his left, and exclaimed, "By George, that's annoying. [5]
Every real person--for there are persons as there are fruits that have no distinguishing flavor, mere gooseberries--has a distinct quality, and the finding it is always like the discovery of a new island to the voyager. [4]
Restraint fell upon them, brought about by the memory of the intimacy of their former meeting, further complicated on Hodder's part by his new attitude toward her father, and his finding her in the company, of all persons, of Mr. Bentley. [9]
Looking back to the time when I left America, I can recall the expectation of finding a Britain beginning to show signs of distress. [9]
During the delay the spectators exhibited unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner and the lawyers. [5]
One beauty of the Old World shops is that if a visitor comes back to the place where he left them fifty years before, he finds them, or has a great chance of finding them, just where they stood at his former visit. [6]
The finding of the knife was verified, the advertisement minutely describing it and offering a reward for it was put in evidence, and its exact correspondence with that description proved. [5]
The answer of the garrison was a defiant cheer, and those who had dropped, finding they were not shot at, picked themselves up again and gained the top, helping to pull the ladders after them. [9]
When he reached the first cedar-tree, he tied his scarf upon a dead branch, and then hurried toward camp, having no more concern about finding his trail upon the return trip. [13]
Plutarch's story of the finding of Osiris' dead body is very charming. [10]
I therefore approve the finding and sentence of the military commission, and direct that the major-general in command of the department including the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. [7]
We're members of the Exchange, so you won't have any trouble in finding us. [9]
He had rescued the Englishman and his party, but within a day of the finding the Englishman died, leaving him his watch, a ring, and a cheque on the H. B. C. at Winnipeg. [11]
He had met the cure, first accidentally on the shore, and afterwards in the cure's house, finding much in common--he had known many priests in the North, known much good of them. [11]
He had entered the cella of the sanctuary with the expectation of finding a peculiar, probably a powerful work, but one repugnant to his taste, and left it fairly overpowered by the beauty of this noble work of art. [10]
Anna Mikhaylovna saw that he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezukhov's fortune, and hastened to reassure him. [2]
From some observations that fell from the mouth of Griggs I gathered that he was searching for an island which evaded him; and each day added to his vexation at not finding it. [9]
But he had talked cautiously, feeling his way for sympathy, looking out for those indications of tact and judgment which would warrant him in some partial communication, at least, of the origin of his doubts and fears, and never finding them. [6]
But we have taken all the steps possible towards finding her. [9]
Not the smallest suspicion of the possibility of her escape troubled his sense of security, when, not finding Sirona in the sleeping-room, he went into the sitting-room to carry out the meditated punishment. [10]
No one is sure of finding work; no one is sure of not losing it. [8]
I was always sure of finding sympathizers for everything that touched my feelings. [10]
And they always succeed in finding something marvellous, to call out the exercise of their robust faith. [3]
Her eyes were still full of tears and she had great difficulty in finding words to return Hannah's greeting. [10]
Dinner at the Star and Garter being at the fashionable hour of half after four, I was forced to give over for that day the task of finding Mr. Dix. [9]
At last Old Sophy began to be alarmed about her, went to her apartment, and, finding the door unlocked, entered cautiously. [6]
The Curb almost smiled, for it seemed as if Margot were finding herself wanting. [11]
How he must smile to see a pack of blockheads like us, galloping about the world, and looking wise, and imagining we are finding out a good deal about it! [5]
As I walked slowly back into town I felt a reluctance to return to the noisy hotel, and finding myself in front of a little restaurant on a side street, I entered it. [9]
But finding Prince Sigismund in possession of the most territory and of the hearts of the people, the earl thought it best to assist the prince against the Turk, rather than Busca against the prince. [4]
Captain Martin, "always sickly and unserviceable, and desirous to enjoy the credit of his supposed art of finding the gold mine," took passage. [4]
If the Houyhnhnms should ever catch me, and, finding me particularly vicious and unmanageable, send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me, I'll tell you what drugs he would have to take and how he would have to use them. [6]
Returning to their ships and finding the water shallow, they rowed over to a point of land, where they found from six to twelve fathoms of water, which put them in good comfort, therefore they named that part of the land Cape Comfort. [4]
In the Grieb she was sure of finding admittance at once if she knocked at Frau Lerch's window, while the cantor house was closed early, and a long time might pass before the door opened to her. [10]
On the whole, she questioned inwardly whether it might not be some subtle pleasantry, and smiled, experimentally, with a note of interrogation in the smile, but, finding no encouragement, allowed her features to subside gradually as if nothing had happened. [6]
Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh. [2]
Under this influence she entered upon her studies with keen enjoyment, finding for a time all the relaxation she needed, in the charming social life at the Montague house. [5]
Lassiter reached it, searched along the base, and, finding a low place, dragged the weary horse up and over round, smooth stone. [13]
The hotel was satisfactorily kept, and Southern guests, from as far south as New Orleans, were spending the season there, and not finding time hang heavy on their hands. [4]
The love of rural life, the habit of finding enjoyment in familiar things, that susceptibility to Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in her homliest nooks and by her commonest sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or its equivalents. [4]
Natasha left the room with her father and, as if finding it difficult to reach some decision, first followed him and then ran downstairs. [2]
Running into Sonya's room and not finding her there, Natasha ran to the nursery, but Sonya was not there either. [2]
I hear him--so," responded Grassette; and his face had a strange, fixed look which the others interpreted to be agitation at the thought that he had saved his own life by finding Bignold--and alive; which would put his own salvation beyond doubt. [11]
I do not remember Emerson's last time of attendance at the "Saturday Club," but I recollect that he came after the trouble in finding words had become well marked. [6]
She had not recovered from her surprise in finding herself already so far in his confidence. [9]
Clement waited a reasonable time, but, finding it was of no use, began again. [6]
When he had reached the fence, still without finding those he sought, he stopped and looked about him. [2]
While I was questioning them, Clark rifled the wigwam; and presently, the excitable fellow, finding some excellent stores of skins, tea, maple sugar, coffee, and other things, broke out into English expletives. [11]
I do not question that the work of restoration was well done, but my eyes insisted on finding a fault in some of its lines which was probably in their own refracting media. [6]
All sail was put on, they got away to meet the newcomers, and they were not long in finding these to be their quarry. [11]
By the French precedent, it is plain that we must abide by the finding of the court. [5]
Sigismund finding himself poorly supported, treated again with the Emperor and agreed to retire to Silicia on a pension. [4]
I had the pleasure of finding that Mistress Piozzi had been beforehand with me in suggesting the same moral reflection. [6]
One could scarcely pick up a paper without finding in it one or two glorified discoveries of this kind. [5]
He flattered the people by remitting their taxes, by large gifts and larger promises, and finding his clemency gratefully recognized, determined on an imposture, by which he hoped to win the crown of Persia for his own family. [10]
As for the past two years people have amused themselves by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don't even know), the matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess Bezukhova. [2]
He tried to paint, and finding the attempt useless, gazed into the garden and at the distant chain of the Guadarrama mountains; but to-day he remained unmoved by the delicate violet-blue mist that floated around the bare, naked peaks of the chain. [10]
It is a painful thing either to dislike others or to fancy they dislike us, and I have felt both pleasure and self-reproach at finding myself so mistaken with respect to Mr. Coleman. [4]
In the pleasurable pain of such a mood he drew his bow across the strings with a sweeping stroke, and then, for an instant, he ran hither and thither on the strings testing the quality and finding the range and capacity of the instrument. [11]
We are finding out that not only "patriotism is eloquence," but that heroism is gentility. [6]

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