Use follows in a sentence
Sentences ending with follows
- In the mood suggested by my story I have ventured on the poem that follows. [6]
- I found this paragraph, which follows. [5]
- No thing, little or big, that contains any seed or suggestion of power escapes her avaricious eye; and when once she gets that eye on it, her remorseless grip follows. [5]
- Certainly, he was never qualified to delineate those fine artificialities of life which we are likely to associate with culture, and perhaps it was something of this sort that caused the hesitation confessed in the letter that follows. [5]
- If by any means we omit to do this, what follows? [7]
- We think of it just after we get our heads and faces thoroughly wet or just when we think we have been in the bathtub long enough, and then, of course, an annoying delay follows. [5]
- They closed Dollis Hill House near the end of September, and put up for a brief period at a family hotel, an amusing picture of which follows. [5]
- Ward's second letter here follows. [5]
- Witte would not have cared to show the Czar the telegram in its original form, which follows. [5]
- This morning General Grant having ordered an attack along the whole line telegraphs as follows. [7]
Short sentences using follows
- What follows, beggar of Rozel? [11]
- Some correspondence follows now. [5]
- Another consideration follows here. [4]
- Mark Twain's acknowledgment follows. [5]
- Wherever she goes death follows. [10]
- Howells's letter follows. [5]
Sentences containing follows two or more times
- Mammon is after him, ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the theology of the day fast joining the cry. [7]
More example sentences with the word follows in them
- Yet I watched your steps as the hunter follows the trail of the game. [10]
- In February, she writes as follows to Mr. Smith:-- "Something you say about going to London; but the words are dreamy, and fortunately I am not obliged to hear or answer them. [14]
- And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
- He follows forms which have but little resemblance to conversation, but they make the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey. [5]
- In the letter which follows the medicine which Twichell was to take was Plasmon, an English proprietary remedy in which Mark Twain had invested--a panacea for all human ills which osteopathy could not reach. [5]
- In a letter which follows he elucidates this doctrine. [5]
- For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
- Today, when there was so much rejoicing on account of Barine, I thought directly, 'Sorrow follows joy, and the second misfortune won't be spared us. [10]
- The rich shall warrant the poor against planless production and the ruin that now follows, against danger from without and famine from within, and the poor--" "No, no, no! [8]
- Such do not use the penny-post, they send a gilded and painted special messenger, and he strides into the Parliament, and business comes to a sudden and solemn and awful stop; and in the impressive hush that follows, the Chief Clerk reads the document. [5]
- It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. [6]
- All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
- This follows from unconscious selection during a long series of generations--that is, the preservation of the most approved individuals--without any wish or expectation of such a result on the part of the breeder. [1]
- Orion was a trial, certainly, and the explosion that follows was not without excuse. [5]
- In the letter to Twichell, which follows, there is mention of two unfinished manuscripts which he expects to resume. [5]
- Another sticks close to its own line of thought and follows it as far as it goes, with no heed for others' opinions, as the bishop sweeps the board in the line of his own color. [6]
- In the letter to Howells which follows we get another glimpse of Mark Twain's philosophy of man, the irresponsible machine. [5]
- I also yield to all which follows from that necessity. [7]
- This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that in disputed matters political and religious one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it follows that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
- To this follows the trimming and tricking of their heads, the laying out their hair to show, which is curled, crisped, and laid out on wreaths and borders from ear to ear. [4]
- Emerson follows out the train of influences which added themselves to the impulse given by Mr. Everett. [6]
- When he began the strain of thoughts which follows, a curious look went round The Teacups. [6]
- A writer in the 'Spectator' (March 12, 1871, p. 320) comments as follows on this passage:--"Mr. Darwin finds himself compelled to reintroduce a new doctrine of the fall of man. [1]
- A woman, (of the right kind,) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of the wheat. [6]
- The Mongolians of the plains of northern Asia, according to Pallas, have wonderfully perfect senses; and Prichard believes that the great breadth of their skulls across the zygomas follows from their highly-developed sense organs. [1]
- The counsels of the nation must proceed without you; if disaster follows, as follow full well it may, be it balm to your sorrowing spirit that by deed and voice you did what in you lay to avert it. [5]
- The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: "The public lands have ceased to be a source of revenue. [7]
- The first of the greater divisions of my life closes with the Easter which follows the Berlin revolution of March, 1848. [10]
- The reference in the first paragraph of the letter that follows is to the Bermuda chapters which Mark Twain was publishing simultaneously in England and America. [5]
- The act followed the desire as the sound follows the blow of the hammer, the thunder the flash of lightning. [10]
- Some member of the council was heard to say: "It follows, then, that we must begin with the bastille St. John, and that will give the English time to--" Joan turned and said: "Give yourselves no uneasiness about the bastille St. John. [5]
- Hence it follows that in the provinces of the natural sciences, in mathematics, astronomy, mechanics and geography the sages of our college have produced works of unsurpassed merit. [10]
- Therefore it follows that I am accustomed to severe wounds, though my heart often aches at the sight of them. [10]
- In the letter that follows we find him much less enthusiastic concerning his own performances than over the story by Howells, which he was following in the Atlantic. [5]
- In the one that follows they seem to have made it--with certain results, perhaps not altogether amusing at the moment. [5]
- The fragmentary letter that follows reflects something of his pleasant situation. [5]
- In a letter that follows Clemens would seem to have scorned this publication, but he was a frequent contributor to it at one period. [5]
- And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names --liberty and tyranny. [7]
- For who can tell here--unless he follows the herd and worships Serapis--who can tell to which god of them all he shall turn when he happens to be at his wits' end? [10]
- What follows is taken entirely from the same passage in Herodotus. [10]
- He did not stop to show that I have said any such thing, or that it legitimately follows from anything I have said, but he rushes on with his assertions. [7]
- The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. [5]
- That apathy of soul was upon her which follows the inward struggle that exhausts the throb and fret of inward emotions, leaving the mind dominant, the will in abeyance. [11]
- Unnoted, the desire so swiftly follows the thought and juggles with the will. [4]
- He gets them so broken in that they will run like a pair of deer all over the farm, turning the yoke, and kicking their heels, while he follows in full chase, shouting the ox language till he is red in the face. [4]
- I think, I said, that the passage which follows will be new and instructive to most of the company. [6]
- One lecture follows right on the heels of another, with very little time for the student to get out of one hall and into the next; but the industrious ones manage it by going on a trot. [5]
- Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim. [14]
- Many of these resemblances are more probably due to analogous variation, which follows, as I have elsewhere attempted to shew (10. [1]
- The long unmailed reply is the more interesting, but probably the briefer one that follows it was quite as effective. [5]
- Having in theory rejected the view held by the ancients, it still follows them in practice. [2]
- It appeared to read as follows, though I was not certain of some of the words: "Polygamy dissembles majesty; extracts redeem polarity; causes hitherto exist. [5]
- Then follows the principal group, which is one of the most lovely works of Greek art that I am acquainted with. [10]
- Then a bird pipes up, another follows, and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music. [5]
- A surface-smile may pay the toil That follows still the conquering Right, With soft, white hands to dress the spoil That sunbrowned valor clutched in fight. [6]
- Some of these painted walls reminded me somewhat of the tall van, plastered with fanciful bills and posters, that follows the bandwagon of a circus about a country village. [5]
- He needs no one; he follows no one--except me. [11]
- As soon as one of them has proved one thing, another one follows and proves quite a different thing. [5]
- But man seems often to act impulsively, that is from instinct or long habit, without any consciousness of pleasure, in the same manner as does probably a bee or ant, when it blindly follows its instincts. [1]
- The broad base of this monster wedge is planted upon a grand glacier-paved Alpine platform whose elevation is ten thousand feet above sea-level; as the wedge itself is some five thousand feet high, it follows that its apex is about fifteen thousand feet above sea-level. [5]
- They all three of them now experienced that feeling of awkwardness which usually follows after a serious and heartfelt talk. [2]
- In the midst of the multitude which follows there is often something better than in the one that goes before. [6]
- In his letter of grateful acknowledgment, which follows, Clemens also takes occasion to thank Mr. Rogers for his further efforts in the matter of his own difficulties. [5]
- After the study of form and composition follows close that of action, and this leads us along back to the first moment of the germ, and forward to the resolution of the living frame into its lifeless elements. [3]
- As he does not know me, it follows that he would sign anything that I would sign. [5]
- Another man takes no note of any of these things; always follows somebody else's lead when he can, and gets lost if he is left to himself; a mere owl in daylight. [6]
- But, it by no means follows, that the rule which may hold good for the Platyrrhini extends to the Catarrhini. [1]
- But it by no means follows from the above fact that the rattle may not be of use to these snakes in other ways, as a warning to animals which would otherwise attack them. [1]
- I believe that no fault can be pointed out in that argument; assuming the truth of the premises, the conclusion, so far as I have capacity at all to understand it, follows inevitably. [7]
- There can be no doubt that he would have confessed as much with reference to "The Over-Soul" as he has confessed with regard to "Circles," the Essay which follows "The Over-Soul. [6]
- The brain, the most important of all the organs, follows the same law, as shewn by Huxley and other anatomists. [1]
- But the full moon which is to bring you great happiness is scarcely the next, perhaps not even the one which follows it, but surely and certainly a later one will rise, by whose light the utmost bliss awaits you. [10]
- A.---First voice, or Mental Soprano,--thought follows a woman talking. [6]
- Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause. [6]
- King found here many acquaintances, for fashion follows a certain routine, and there is a hidden law by which the White Mountains break the transition from the sea-coast to Lenox. [4]
- It is a man's true self, so that it follows that absolute, supreme self-reliance is the law of his being. [6]
- The series of letters which follows was prepared by Mark Twain and General Fred Grant, mainly with a view of advertising the lecture that Clemens had agreed to deliver for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Monument Association. [5]
- It was a jubilee, a greater celebration than follows an excited election. [7]
- When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy. [5]
- And I think it also follows that the so-called usurpations with which history is littered are the most excusable misdemeanors which men have committed. [5]
- If so, great is the condescension of Boston; and John follows them with an undefined longing as they drive away toward the mountains of Zoar. [4]
- Thus the reproach is removed of laying the foundation of the noblest part of our nature in the base principle of selfishness; unless, indeed, the satisfaction which every animal feels, when it follows its proper instincts, and the dissatisfaction felt when prevented, be called selfish. [1]
- Sometimes a buoy is not laid at all, but the yawl goes ahead, hunting the best water, and the steamer follows along in its wake. [5]
- Now then, above is my preachment, and here follows the reason and purpose of it. [5]
- As Dr. Simpson is a gentleman (Dr. Meigs, as above), and as "a gentleman's hands are clean" (Dr. Meigs' Sixth Letter), it follows that a gentleman with clean hands may carry the disease. [3]
- From the deep inward moan which follows pressure on the great nerves of right, to the sharp cry as the filaments of taste are struck with a crashing sweep, is a range which no other instrument possesses. [6]
- It was an intoxicating trip altogether; the exceeding sense of satisfaction that follows a good dinner added largely to the enjoyment; the having something especial to look forward to and muse about, like the approaching grandeurs of Meiringen, sharpened the zest. [5]
- But we may infer from what follows that one form of weapon has often been replaced in the course of ages by another. [1]
- So it was, in fact, as for instance in the case which follows, for which the reader is indebted to Miss Lamed's book, before cited. [6]
- A while afterward, in another town, he sees the man enter a house; he infers that that is the new home, and follows to inquire. [5]
- To the student I would say, that however plain and simple may be our teaching, he must expect to forget much which he follows intelligently in the lecture-room. [3]
- The letter to Howells which follows was written a short time before the passage of the copyright extension bill, which rendered Mark Twain's new plan, here mentioned, unneeded--at least for the time. [5]
- He had put his past in the closet; yet the relief he felt was mingled with the peculiar qualm that follows the discovery of symptoms never before remarked. [9]
- Wherever he shows himself, delusion follows delusion, and every one redounds to his advantage, for whoever took him for an insignificant man must doff his hat when he utters his name. [10]
- Those legions followed him as the dust follows the wind, the whole world trembled at his nod, and in his hand lay the life and happiness of the millions he governed. [10]
- Do you suppose he follows me whenever I call? [10]
- The reader who has shrugged his (or her) shoulders over the last illustration will perhaps hear this one which follows more cheerfully. [6]
- The biographer follows Harriet's letter with a conjecture. [5]
- Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. [5]
- On the other hand a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in man's reason, and from a still greater advance in his faculties of imagination, curiosity and wonder. [1]
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