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Sentences starting with firm

Firm and true to what she undertakes, and that which she requires by her own aggrandizement, and regards as being within the strict rules of propriety, she will remain stable and unflinching to the last. [5]

Sentences ending with firm

Why didn't you write me you had been admitted to the firm? [9]
He was not without emotions in this, but he held himself firm. [11]
Since Fabian's marriage with Junia Shale's sister, Sybil, he had become discontented with his position in his father's firm. [11]
There, there; I will keep firm. [10]
The following facts were taken by him from the account-books of this publishing firm. [3]
His own funds were exhausted by this time, and Orion, with his rather slender salary, became the financial partner of the firm. [5]
His new tone was apologetic but firm. [9]
There was the ultimatum,--respectful, even affectionate, but firm. [9]
If it makes trouble, we shall be sorry, but firm. [5]
It was some time before Jack could get speech with one of the young men of the firm. [4]

Short sentences using firm

And we're the older firm. [11]
The rope was firm. [10]

More example sentences with the word firm in them

It was sensitive, yet firm, as with some purpose deep as her nature was by creation and experience, and always deepening that nature. [11]
Such a deal would make it easy for a big firm to pour in a big cash capital and jump L. A. L. up to enormous prosperity. [5]
Then he had worked a little, afterwards more, and now, lastly, since he had seen what they had done to Pierre, with the hot but firm eagerness of an avenging giant. [11]
Aristomachus had a wooden leg, but his step was so firm, even when compared with that of the light-footed Phanes, that it might have been thought to be his own limb. [10]
The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
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]
Gaston was kind with him, keeping, however, a firm hand till his manner had become informed by the new duties. [11]
When I've trouble with Belloc's firm it's because they act like dogs in the manger. [11]
They watched him while, with a firm step, he crossed the room and pressed a button in the wall, and waited. [9]
Who stands firm while others tremble lest their power pass to-morrow? [11]
Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. [10]
Finally, the dowry which Els was to bring bore no comparison to the large sums Ernst Ortlieb had lavished upon the erection of the St. Clare Convent, and hence it was inferred that the wealth of the firm had sustained considerable losses. [10]
His regular features were still beautiful in their symmetry, and there was a touch of pathos in their mournful gentleness, so evidently incapable of any firm resolve, especially when a smile lent his mouth a bewitching charm. [10]
Hands and fingers were steady, and she felt for the heart with firm fingers. [11]
Her white caps were now plaited with almost coquettish skill and care, and the firm, contented manner in which she ruled Trautchen and the two under maid-servants showed that everything was going on well in Peter's house and business. [10]
After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and fixed rope to firm rocks, in addition to being tied together. [5]
Also how do we know but that the interloping fellow Fynes is an agent for a whisky firm perhaps? [11]
Carnac replied he was standing firm, that he would not yield a cent increase in wages, and that, so far, all was quiet. [11]
In that he was right, because Dolores, and his father before him, had been employed in the office of a great commercial firm in Cadiz, and had repaid much consideration by stirring up strife and disloyalty in the establishment. [11]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
Mr. Isham's voice was firm, his face certainly betrayed no feeling, but a flitting gleam of satisfaction might have been seen in his eye. [9]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
Yet his courage was firm as he made his way to London, with Michael Clones--faithful, devoted, a friend and yet a servant, treated like a comrade, yet always with a little dominance. [11]
But her hand-clasp was firm and strong; and her touch thrilled him. [11]
Though his head was bowed, he crossed the little garden with a swift, firm tread, and, without noticing the questions and warnings of his companions, walked at once to the impluvium. [10]
In truth it was a difficult task, for he pressed me again and again, and when he saw me firm, turned away to wipe his eyes upon his sleeve. [9]
He was a very handsome young man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. [2]
No cement was used, but the edifice is firm and compact and is capable of resisting storm and decay for centuries. [5]
You have to use firm methods here," Sheila said in reply. [11]
His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
To avoid further unpleasantness the firm had paid him all his wages; and he had straightway come to Vilray to earn his bed and board by other means than through a pen, a ledger and a gift for figures. [11]
I am, in turn, as firm, and nearly as excited in seeming. [4]
As soon as trouble oppresses us, the poor and lowly will stand firm, if the rich and great waver and deny the good cause. [10]
He got that training from John Grier's firm under another name. [11]
His sister Isabella, too, was dear to him, in spite of her husband, the reckless Sir Seitz Siebenburg, in whose hands the gold paid from the coffers of the firm melted away, yet who was burdened with a mountain of debts. [10]
The body was too healthy to belong to a fanatic, too powerful to be that of a dreamer alone, too firm for other than a man of action. [11]
People that want to, can go to the expense and trouble of shipping their oils to Europe and back--it's their privilege; but our firm knows a trick worth six of that. [5]
We have written to Valdez, but there is still time,--nothing binds me yet, and with you, with you I will stand firm to the end. [10]
She looked forward to this with such firm hope as filled me with fears, when I minded me of my brother's letters, in which he never had aught to tell of but vain pleasures and pastimes. [10]
Impulse prompted her to tell her uncle what had happened; but at the first step she paused, and her thin lips uttered a firm "No. [10]
Though she strove to make it so, nothing of all this was unbearable now, nor the remembrance of the firm torch of his arm about her nor yet again his calling her by her name. [9]
I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge. [10]
Melissa nodded gratefully to her brother, but Heron remained firm in his assertion that to think of flight would be foolish, or at least premature. [10]
She was certainly to be pitied if love had taken as firm a hold upon her heart as Cordula thought she had perceived. [10]
To liken him to a clothing store model of a well-built, broad-shouldered man with a firm neck, a handsome, rather square face not lacking in colour and a conventional, drooping moustache would be slanderous; yet he did suggest it. [9]
At that very time Prince Andrew was sitting with Pierre and telling him of his love for Natasha and his firm resolve to make her his wife. [2]
He had gone through the ground glass door with the firm intention of making a clean breast of the ownership of Hester. [9]
It was in this same year, 1816, when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal, that he wrote to Brevoort, upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor: "We are all selfish beings. [4]
In view of this firm and hopeful tone of his being he found it all the more surprising, as he reached the canal, to be seized by a trepidation strong enough to bring perspiration to his forehead. [9]
I like to think that I was firm, and that I declined to change the title. [11]
She heard disquieting things, I am sure, from Cousin Robert Breck, who had become more and more querulous since the time-honoured firm of Breck and Company had been forced to close its doors and the home at Claremore had been sold. [9]
For all of these operations a corps of counsel had been employed, including the firm of Harrington and Bowes next to Theodore Watling, Joel Harrington was deemed the ablest lawyer in the city. [9]
His own opinions, therefore, seem not to rest on a very firm basis, even in his own mind; and I suppose the world believes, and will continue to believe, that precisely on the substance of that change this whole agitation has arisen. [7]
I understand that there is a--a convention to be held at the capital the day after to-morrow, and that it is Mr. Vane's firm intention to attend it. [9]
And they with their simple, kind, firm faces surrounded his benefactor on all sides. [2]
Their close curls, their elegantly set heads, column-like necks, straight noses, short, curled lips, firm chins, deep chests, light flanks, large muscles, small joints, were finer than anything we ever see. [6]
And I am the voice of it," he added; and he drew up his loose unmanageable body till it looked enormous, firm, and dominant. [11]
We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses: they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit. [10]
The amount of the sums owed by the Eysvogel firm, as well as the names of its creditors in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, and Regensburg, Venice, Milan, Bruges, and other German and foreign cities, formed the most important portion of his speech. [10]
The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. [2]
The bottom of the sea on which they trod was firm, moist sand, on which even the herds could walk as if it were a smooth road, sloping gently toward the sea. [10]
The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to all that would be required of him. [2]
As she asked the question she heard a firm step on the path. [11]
The king and the queen knew nothing about these poor creatures, except that they were heirlooms, assets inherited, along with the throne, from the former firm. [5]
His mood towards the miserable creature changed: he spoke to him in a firm, quiet tone. [11]
He drove to the Karagins' with the firm intention of proposing. [2]
This was for the head of the firm, John Grier, when he returned. [11]
But as before, the friends of the measure stood firm and voted in a solid body every time, and so did its enemies. [5]
Mr. Sykes (of the firm of Sykes & Newton, the Allen House Pharmacy) replied that he had read the letter to the committee and that it had set those gentlemen right who had not before understood the situation. [5]
But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell me. [2]
It was from the firm in which Bryan Llyn of Virginia had been interested, for the letter had been sent to their care, and Dyck had given them his address in London on this very chance. [11]
His wife is the daughter of Nigrinus--who had to go, as I desired to stay and stand firm. [10]
The peasants in the crowd were similarly impressed when they saw Rostov's rapid, firm steps and resolute, frowning face. [2]
Made firm in the Constitution, so made that it cannot be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution; durable as the Constitution, and part of the Constitution. [7]
So long as the book was published, and by a respectable firm, he was indifferent as a lord to the ignoble details of royalty. [4]
Here indeed was that which justified all she had done, what she was doing now, what she meant to do when she had read the last word of it and the firm, clear signature beneath. [11]
It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
Was it true that the Eysvogel firm had been placed in a very critical situation by the loss of great trains of merchandise? [10]
And it appeared that Mr. Mecklin knew all about the "little matter," and that the mention of the firm of Watling, Fowndes and Ripon had a magical effect in these parts. [9]
She tells me that money's been sent to the big firm in Dublin- money to take me across the sea to Virginia. [11]
We may conjecture that it announced some fact, which had leaked out a little prematurely, relating to the issue of the great land-case in which the firm was interested. [6]
Howells's contract provided that his name was not to appear on any book not published by the Harper firm. [5]
I had just that desperate feeling of being lost, and with it went an acute sense of an imminent danger; the ground, no longer firm under my feet, had become a sliding shale sloping toward an unseen precipice. [9]
He pushed the table nearer the window, and the singing of the choir in the church came in upon him as his pen seemed to etch words into the paper, firm, eccentric, meaning. [11]
There 's a story that they're engaged, or like to be, if the firm consents. [6]
The youth was still standing; his feet were on the sand of the arena; but he had a firm grip on the right-hand spiral ornament that terminated the bar round the chariot. [10]
Besides, his voice sounded as deep and firm as usual as he called to her from the threshold: "A guest, Wawerl, a distinguished guest! [10]
Passengers carry all sorts of luxuries on board, in the firm faith that they shall be able to profit by them all. [6]
He had aged somewhat, his hair was a little gray, but otherwise he was the firm, dignified personage I had admired on this same gallery five years before. [9]
Can't you manage somehow to get into the firm? [5]
The two men, so widely different, became firm friends at sight, and it was to Howells in the years to come that Mark Twain would write more letters, and more characteristic letters, than to any other living man. [5]
His body was so firm that, as he bent or turned, it seemed as of soft flexible metal. [11]
Before the December snows set in Cynthia had made one firm friend, at least, in Boston; outside of the Merrill family. [9]
Even were it small and modest, it should be erected on a firm foundation and afford a safe abode for its inmates. [10]
For myself, I should prefer a physician of a sanguine temperament, who had a firm belief in himself and his methods. [6]
Some firm conviction, she was sure, must energise him yet she respected him the more for concealing it. [9]
By and by she turned; her countenance had cleared; the dreamy look was gone out of her face, all indecision had vanished; the poise of her head and the firm set of her lips told that her resolution was formed. [5]
For an instant she lay palpitating against him, and as long as he lives he will remember the first exquisite touch of her firm but supple figure and the marvellous communion of her lips. [9]
Two of their seven sons, Thomas and Edward, removed from Portland to Boston in 1802 and established themselves as partners in commercial business, continuing united and prosperous for nearly half a century before the firm was dissolved. [6]
Her own worth seemed clearer to her than ever before, from a comparison with these miserable creatures, and a wonderful certainty of ultimate victory stole into her heart, for Nitetis was a firm believer in the magic power of virtue. [10]

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