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Sentences starting with five

Five minutes after you left me they all started for your house, and Lula Chandos said it was the quickest cure of a headache she had ever seen. [9]
Five simple, happy years--then war. [9]
Five and sixty years are gone since Mr. Calvin Brinsmade took his bride there. [9]
Five hundred consumers would prematurely exhaust the already insufficient stock of provisions. [10]
Five minutes later Wetherell saw the Speaker descending again, the usually impressive quality of his face slightly modified by the twitching of a smile. [9]
Five of them were of old dates, the others of various later crops; the list closed with a picture taken by Falk in Sydney a month before. [5]
Five languages in use in the house (including the sign-language-hardest-worked of them all) and yet with all this opulence of resource we do seem to have an uncommonly tough time making ourselves understood. [5]
Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
Five minutes after two shots were fired in quick succession, and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came. [5]
Five years previous to the battle of the Plains of Abraham, one comes across three genuine Scots in the streets of Quebec--all however prisoners of war, taken in the border raids--as such under close surveillance. [11]

Sentences ending with five

Friend, I pray you repress those tears, Comfort from this derive: I am a score--and more-of years And Jean is only five. [11]
In all they were five. [11]
Sometimes they make three, and sometimes five. [6]
The clock on the mantel struck three; his train was to leave at five. [9]
He sent with the letter a portrait of his wife and when the duchess saw it and read the letter she grew ten years younger from pure delight, and old Nonna at least five. [10]
I'd begin with the five. [11]
But E is the fifth letter in the alphabet, so I should choose the five. [10]
Then she fancied that she was again standing before the judges, who were called The Five. [10]
Two I will spend on wine for us all, and that makes the five. [10]
At the end of another week he had lost five. [6]

Short sentences using five

It's five thousand years old. [11]
They contain five thousand cats! [10]
These five signatures still exist. [5]
The other five sisters too! [10]
Five of them proved fatal. [3]
There were five of them. [9]
Thus five long months passed. [10]
Thirty-eight thousand five hundred! [5]
He has five hundred horses. [11]
Five persons, five hours. [4]

Sentences containing five two or more times

By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five in the afternoon,--and then you don't know which way the machine's headed. [9]
Increasing his stake, which had begun at five francs and had risen at length to five louis, he still coaxed the sardonic deity. [11]
My understanding is, when a common job is done, or a common enterprise prosecuted, if I put in five dollars to your one, I have a right to take out five dollars to your one. [7]
If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
Yet he had to pay a house-tax of five piastres, a war-tax of five piastres, a camel-tax of five piastres, a palm-tax of five piastres, a salt-tax of nine piastres, a poll-tax of thirty piastres, a land-tax of ninety piastres. [11]
Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive? [6]
And thus, in those five States, and in five millions of free, enterprising people, we have before us the rich fruits of this policy. [7]
They found that the water at the upper end ran slower than five miles; that below it was swifter than five miles, but that the average was five miles. [7]
Five times in the past had Tinoir been the Guardian of the Fire, and five times had the people praised him; but praise and his scanty wage were all he got. [11]
You cannot settle that matter for yourself, but you can stand up straight, and give your five feet five its--full value. [6]

More example sentences with the word five in them

Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
He was a young man,--perhaps five and twenty as I now know age,--woodsman-clad, square-built, sun-reddened. [9]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
Seegars, I bet you--and cost five cents apiece, solid cash. [5]
Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
I know that you, you alone, kept him prisoner here five long years. [11]
Why did not you think of a railway-station, where the cars stop five minutes for refreshments? [6]
Tell me--I'll give you the five dollars. [5]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
Lady Margery.--So please you madam, my limbs are feeble wh ye weighte and drouth of five and sixty winters, and it behoveth yt I be tender unto them. [5]
All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
So long as you had a grievance you would talk and talk and talk, and you never were so astonished in your life as when I took that five dollars. [11]
I know that you gave the order that only three of the five ships which brought the contents of your winelofts should be unloaded. [10]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
Only five, and yet it seemed twenty. [11]
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]
They last five years, and they won't absorb water. [5]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
For within five years Paris fell--1436--and our King marched into it flying the victor's flag. [5]
She seemed five years older in the minute. [11]
Though only five years my senior, he was already enrolled among the teachers of the legal faculty. [10]
For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
After being five years at the Port School, the time drew near when I was to enter college. [6]
Very well; five years ago, when the troubles concerning the frontier line arose between Great Britain and Siam, it was presently manifest that Siam had been in the wrong. [5]
Four or five years ago, when I was going to socialist lectures, my sense of all this--inequality, injustice was intellectual. [9]
Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. [5]
It was five years ago, but I remember him. [11]
These became from year to year more common; about five years ago he shot one, and afterwards another, and now they are frequently killed. [1]
I sat every year for five years, trying to satisfy that insatiable organization. [5]
Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
Already he had wounded five and killed two. [11]
The persons struck would respond, and inside of five minutes every man would be locked in a death-grip with his neighbour. [5]
Perhaps Number Five would give him some lessons in it. [6]
At five our work begins--not an eight-hour day. [11]
It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and the weakening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. [6]
At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
He played sneak with the daughter of Five Fingers, an Injin chief. [11]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
Also he hed with him the five riders who've been guardin' him pretty close of late. [13]
I sent them with Griffin to help Sheridan at Five Forks. [9]
And Fastolfe coming with five thousand men! [5]
All at once, with determination in her eyes, she said: "You didn't use him right or you'd not have been parted for five years. [11]
So he escaped with a sentence of exile from the city for five years. [10]
She came on with a calm and cheerful countenance, stopped once, and casting her eyes upwards, said, 'Why have they kept me five days from thee, my husband? [5]
Medea, so the wise woman was called, though scarcely past five and forty, harmonized in appearance with this strange habitation, full as it was of objects calculated to rouse repulsion, dread, and amazement. [10]
After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
F-o-o-l-s,--those five letters will give you the first and largest half. [6]
One of you will die to-morrow week; another of you will die to-night; the third has but five minutes to live--and yonder is the clock! [5]
I don't see why an officer should get two thousand five hundred times as much as a seaman. [11]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
The five men who had ridden forward would have to force their way through the mass of scorched and dried up vegetation. [10]
The Continental officers who fought in the East have half-pay for life or five years' full pay. [9]
Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
The five hundred who during the next three months are to register the laws find quarters as best they can. [9]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
Meanwhile she inquired whether it might be possible to get four horses at the next change, and she offered five gold pieces to a man who would ride on ahead of them and secure the team. [11]
In all places where italics occur, they are mine: After the execution of the five men on the 14th of January, the Vigilantes considered that their work was nearly ended. [5]
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would fetch me to Goshen. [5]
After this explanation, when I speak of Number Five or Number Seven, you will know to whom I refer. [6]
And that evening, when I came in at five o'clock to study, I asked my mother what had become of Gene Hollister's aunt. [9]
There was nothing whatever in this dim marble prison but five more of these biers. [5]
I asked him what they meant by sending that slick Mr. Tooting 'raound to offer me five hundred dollars. [9]
Let me explain what the five did--you would not be able to reason it out for yourself. [5]
The leading facts were, briefly, these: A lady in Hamburg, Germany, wrote, on the 22d of June last, that she had what she supposed to be nightmare on the night of the 17th, five days before. [6]
And if I were to tell you some of the things that have happened to me in five years you wouldn't believe them. [9]
But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
All five Arabs were stretched on the deck, and the insatiate boatmen were dealing a finishing stroke to those who were only wounded. [10]
Ah, if I were only a habitant of the Campagna five and twenty miles from Rome! [5]
Radiating from this were five streets and passages like the spokes of a wheel, and from these now poured the defenders of the isle. [11]
Now if you were five or six feet high, and--" "Oh, come! [5]
The Five Forks were barricaded by the enemy and carried by Devin's division of cavalry. [7]
Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. [5]
And yesterday," he went on, resolutely for him, "yesterday I got an order for five hundred more. [9]
Twenty dollars, Madam--and we wouldn't part with a foot of our 75 for five times the sum. [5]
Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
In five days we shall hear our marriage-hymn. [10]
At two o'clock we meet--work, talk, and walk together till five, her dinner-hour, spend the evening together, when she converses fluently and abundantly, and with the most complete frankness. [14]
Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
Traversing a drift, we came to the Spanish line, passed five sets of timbers still uninjured, and found the earthquake. [5]
That is the way Number Five was in the habit of dealing with the explosions of Number Seven. [6]
Anyway, there they was, the five all in a row. [13]
If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
He knew he was within five steps of the stile leading into Widow Douglas' grounds. [5]
The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse. [6]
My first wish was to revisit Stratford-on-Avon, and as our travelling host was guided in everything by our inclinations, we took the cars for Stratford, where we arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. [6]
And behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the dungeons the evening before! [5]
The strange voice was saying: "I have collected five thousand dollars-- all that can be got in the two counties. [11]
To do either was plainly the labor of months; for we could blast and bore only a few feet a day--some five or six. [5]

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