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Sentences ending with folk

Near it, towards the north, in the open sea, was the anchorage of the larger sea-going ships and the various skiffs and boats of the fisher folk. [10]
I go and stand in the great gallery above the hall of dance, with crowd of people, and look down at the grand folk. [11]
If you are right, may they, poor folk! [11]
We are a puny and a fickle folk. [6]
The natural duplicity of the Oriental had been abashed and inactive before the simple and astounding honesty of these two Quaker folk. [11]
But I was obliged to remain in my armor, because I could not get it off by myself and yet could not allow Alisande to help, because it would have seemed so like undressing before folk. [5]
And I--have I not brought Thee many victims, And filled Thy temple with the captive folk? [10]
The thought that many others, too, would be glad to step into his shoes tortured Wolff's honest heart as though he himself were to blame for the delusion of these short-sighted folk. [10]
They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk. [5]
They cripple and kill more people on the Fourth of July in, America than they kill and cripple in our wars nowadays, and there are no pensions for these folk. [5]

Short sentences using folk

They are colored folk. [5]

Sentences containing folk two or more times

And again two nights afterwards it was the same, and yet again a third night and a fourth, and the simple folk, and wise folk also, went mad after Parpon the dwarf. [11]

More example sentences with the word folk in them

Older folk than you have wondered at the same thing before now. [12]
It is the word of the Ry that holds our folk together. [11]
A striking contrast with what happened when Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon, and Spenser, and Raleigh, and the other distinguished literary folk of Shakespeare's time passed from life! [5]
Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
We mingled companionably with the great folk who flocked to the big house to make Joan's acquaintance, and they made much of us and we lived in the clouds, so to speak. [5]
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
The king was willing, but the Board, who were all well-born folk, implored the king to spare them the indignity of examining the weaver's son. [5]
These poor folk who had had nothing of the world but what they earned, they would never hang on any prince's favours. [11]
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis. [10]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
Scarcely above a whisper she replied: "Of course he might say that, but how, oh, how should we simple folk, he and I, be fitted for these high places--yet? [11]
The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
Wherever we halted where there was a crowd, he would give me a look which said plainly: "if that thing could be tried over again now, with this kind of folk, you would see a different result. [5]
Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
You would have weened that day that there were none but rich folk in Nuremberg. [10]
The old man was startled and full wroth yet, by reason of all the fine folk about us, he was bound to refrain himself, and he presently departed. [10]
Every one who was respectable and aristocratic in Leipsic followed her, as well as many humbler folk on whom Bianca's glance had rested but once. [10]
The Clemens home was a sort of general headquarters for literary folk, near and far, and for distinguished foreign visitors of every sort. [5]
Spring is the very Saviour, as it were, of all the numberless folk, great and small, which grow green and blossom there, wherefore the forest holds festival for his birthday and cradle feast as is but fitting! [10]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
As carts passed under the great archway, its depth multiplied the sounds so powerfully, the echoes were so fantastic, that folk believed them the roarings of fiendish spirits. [11]
Never before were two such naive folk at court. [11]
Because you must turn your ill luck in love to advantage: and those from whom it comes are the two beautiful Ortlieb Es, as Nuremberg folk call the ladies Els and Eva. [10]
A few folk tried to engage Barouche in talk, but he responded casually; yet he smiled the smile which had done so much for him in public life, and the distance lessened to the station. [11]
Among these folk, too, there are good men as well as bad," said he, and still speaking, he turned on his knees with a supple movement, got up, coughed, and went off to another part of the shed. [2]
It had come to these notable folk that Mr. Gaston Belward had relations at Ridley Court, and that of itself was enough to command courtesy. [11]
Were the days to return when, in the Netherlands, Charles had condescended to treat even humble folk with blunt familiarity? [10]
If you want to diminish, in behalf of feathered folk, the time given to music, tame falcons, that's a knightly craft, and I can teach you. [10]
The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
They have humour, these fisher- folk, eh, gunner? [11]
You ask if there is promise enough there to justify the Hartford folk in going to an expense of training this young man. [5]
From the first the vast majority of folk had sided with Louise and denounced Mazarine. [11]
As he travelled the streets he needed all his fortitude, for his fiery speech had gone abroad, distorted from its meaning, and the common folk railed at him. [11]
It was called the Richtberg and nobody lived there except the rabble, executioners, and poor folk who were not granted the rights of citizenship. [10]
It told of the little good Folk of the Scarlet Hills, in vague allusive phrases: their noiseless wanderings; their sojourning with the eagle, the wolf, and the deer; their triumph over the winds, the whirlpools, and the spirits of evil fame. [11]
She turned from the house and came nearer to the lake, shaking her head, as though compassionating the poor, folk who lived there. [11]
It was in the height of summer, when there was little to think of in the old fortressed city, and a dart after a brigand appealed to the romantic natures of the idle French folk, common and gentle. [11]
This old man, the head of the Romany folk, had the bulk of the fortune which had been his own father's and he had the logic of lucre which is the most convincing of all logic. [11]
London and all the folk of Parliament will flutter along the dunes of Hamley. [11]
So you play the dog in the manger, and won't let other decent folk buy what they want. [11]
We shall be the better for it; our poor folk here will be the better. [11]
He came from the banks of the Mississippi--from the flatboatmen, pilots, roustabouts, farmers and village folk of a rude, primitive people--as Lincoln did. [5]
The activity of the "elements" has a great effect upon country folk especially; and it is a more wholesome excitement than that caused by a great conflagration. [4]
It may be that supremely grand folk, like the Nyzam of Hyderabad and the Gaikwar of Baroda, have more than eleven guns, but I don't know. [5]
Also fewer folk stood gossiping with her grandfather in the Place du Vier Prison, or by the well at the front door--so far he had not wondered why. [11]
These two men still tell the tale of the two mad English folk with faces like no English people ever seen in Egypt, who refused protection in their travels, but went fearlessly among the Arabs everywhere, to do good and fear not. [11]
The chase was short, however, for they were desert folk, and they returned to loot the camp which had menaced them so long. [11]
The clowns, tinkers, shepherds, tapsters, and such folk, he probably knew by name. [4]
And the grand Seigneur he has gone to meet The little good Folk of the Scarlet Hills! [11]
To go to sea with Jean Touzel, folk said, was safer than living on land. [11]
That is to say, it was diligence-time --the half-dozen big diligences would soon be arriving from Geneva, and the village was interested, in many ways, in knowing how many people were coming and what sort of folk they might be. [5]
Some folk might say that I am unmaidenly in this. [11]
No man had saved so many shipwrecked folk, none risked his life so often; and he had never had a serious accident. [11]
Dark things were said of this spot, and the country folk of the island were wont to avoid it. [11]
Dietel would far rather have served the Cologne theologians, whom he regarded as the appointed defenders of the true faith, than the insignificant folk at the other tables who had just finished their meal. [10]
A hoarse nor'-easter ranged across the tiger's head in helpless fury: a night of awe to inland folk, and of danger to seafarers. [11]
Specially was it provided with one of those half-doors now so rarely met with, which are to whole doors as spencers worn by old folk are to coats. [6]
It was a proud occasion for the widow, and she promised herself high satisfaction in showing off her fine foreign birds before her neighbors and friends--simple folk who had hardly ever seen a foreigner of any kind, and never one of any distinction or style. [5]
It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. [4]
But if a planet can grow as a rain-drop grows, why then--It was a great comfort to these timid folk when Lord Rosse's telescope resolved certain nebula into star-clusters. [6]
When he died, Parpon was nearer to him than the priest, and he loved to hear the dwarf chant his wild rhythms of the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills, more than to listen to holy prayers. [11]
We should thin out this sort of folk to such a degree that the people would have nothing to do but just step to the front with their republic and-- Ah, what a donkey I was! [5]
As they approached one could see that each bore a burden of a bulk and weight to sorely tax his strength; and we said among ourselves, truly these folk are well off for poor common soldiers. [5]
It's what the old folk used to say: 'A sweating hand's an open hand, a dry hand's close. [2]
You, the friend of your Prophet--I ask you what did you, who so tenderly spare the tree by the wayside, do to the innocent folk of Abyla, whom you fell upon like wolves in a sheepfold? [10]
The unarmed appearance of these men did not deceive the pioneer folk of Lebanon. [11]
In the movement of the ponderous car, some honest folk must be crushed by the wicked wheels. [11]
At the time of the Jameson Raid Rudyard Byng had gripped the situation with skill, decision, and immense resource, giving as much help to the government of the day as to his colleagues and all British folk on the Rand. [11]
Surely the magic of her art must exert a totally different influence upon the man to whom her whole being attracted her than upon the worthy folk here, for whom she cared nothing. [10]
The lesser kind of gentry, and many of the plainer folk of the village, half-pleased to find themselves passing beneath the stately portico of the ancient mansion-house, crowded in, until the ample rooms were overflowing. [6]
But the eyes of curious folk were on her, and she drew herself up bravely. [11]
In the homes of a few rich folk there was feasting also, for it mattered little to them whether Boonda Broke or Pango Dooni ruled in Mandakan, so that their wealth was left to them. [11]
For the summer of 1905 he leased the Copley Green house at Dublin, New Hampshire, where there was a Boston colony of writing and artistic folk, including many of his long-time friends. [5]
What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them. [5]
It was some more human nature; the admiring little folk imitating their elders; they were playing mob, and had achieved a success which promised to be a good deal more serious than they had bargained for. [5]
What did the merchants, artisans, and musicians know about the godless Greek and Latin writings which brought the names of Pirckheimer and Peutinger before the people, yet how reverently many of these folk now bowed before them. [10]
They were in marked contrast to the peasant folk with the high-peaked soft hat, knee-breeches, rough tail-coat, and stockings, some with rifles, some with pikes, some with powder-horns slung under their arms or in the small of the back. [11]
One day this Man came past my fort, folk with him, looking for preaching or prophesy from him. [11]
It's a prime lot, Nancy; as the Obedstown folk say about their hogs. [5]
This art he learned in Lombardy, where he had been living at Padua to study the law there; and they say that among those outlandish folk his music brought him a rich reward in the love of the Italian ladies and damsels. [10]
She talked, she laughed a little, she answered back the pleasantries of the seafaring folk who passed her doorway or her garden. [11]
There was a laugh from the honest country folk who had listened. [9]
He had at last secured information of where Zoe and Gerard Fynes had stayed while in Montreal; and now he followed clues which would bring him in touch with folk who knew them. [11]
There was no lack of evil-disposed folk in this time of want. [10]
And it has its own share of military folk. [5]
My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same. [2]
They kept him informed of the condition of the crops south and east, and thus he knew which articles were likely to be in demand and which articles were likely to be unsalable, weeks and even months in advance of the simple folk about him. [5]
He stood high in the opinion of the big folk at Westminster, and had a future. [11]
She saw herself in imagination travelling along the highway with nimble jugglers merry musicians, and other care-free vagrant folk, instead of plying the needle. [10]
Perhaps the strongest impression one has in visiting the various watering-places in the summer-time, is that the multitudes of every-day folk are abroad in search of enjoyment. [4]
There you and I were sealed before our Romany folk. [11]
In my time I have seldom seen such daring things marketed at any price as these conscienceless folk have worked off at par on this confiding observer. [5]
They, like us humanists, are allied to the Muses and, moreover, are harmless, happy folk. [10]
It was the house of the miller, and across the way was the King's storehouse, La Friponne, where poor folk were ground between the stones. [11]
What should such high- placed folk do stooping out of their sphere to us who walk in plain paths? [11]
The common folk held him dear, and his memory is still green in ballad and tradition. [5]
Look down from heaven on me, beset by foes, By heathen foes--the folk that know Thee not. [10]
He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life. [2]
The night before he joined the coast-guardsmen, he was down at the Book-in-Hand, and 'twas little like that I'd let the good chance pass--I might never have another; for Gover'ment folk will not easy work a quarrel on their own account. [11]
You see I have not all friends among the great folk. [11]

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