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Sentences starting with for

For Proctotretus, see 'Zoology of the Voyage of the "Beagle"; Reptiles,' by Mr. Bell, p. 8. [1]
For penance, all your life you shall teach a chile no more. [11]
For a year your husband has sent nothing of importance. [10]
For his sake your beautiful Eva, with her saintly gaze, might easily forget to pray. [10]
For we were young then, yes, we were very young. [5]
For such a young man, seemingly destined for the inner life of contemplation, to be a soldier seemed almost unnatural. [6]
For she loves you, Richard, as surely as the world is turning. [9]
For conscience sake, you would crush out evil. [11]
For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
For certain reasons you will next go and do homage at this well. [5]

Sentences ending with for

Is that what you're here for? [2]
There's some rocks you'll have to look out for. [4]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
That's a point you want to watch for. [5]
And what do you want to go and discourage the other flowers for? [5]
And what do you think George Pindar is fighting for? [9]
When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for. [9]
But before won't you tell me what you think the company made this rule for? [5]
Edward, what do you tell me that for? [5]
Why, what do you take me for? [5]

Short sentences using for

Well, for sure you're right. [11]
Look out for your watch! [9]
I'm grateful for your service. [13]
That accounts for your question. [9]
I'll wait for you. [9]
I'll live for you. [13]
It's bad for you. [11]
I looked for you. [11]
Guess what--it's for you. [11]
He asked for you. [10]

Sentences containing for two or more times

I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
As for 'Wild Youth' I make no apology for it. [11]
In pious Trust yourself forget For others only toil and fret, Since all we do for fellow Men With right good Will, shall be our Gain. [10]
You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
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]
You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]

More example sentences with the word for in them

I haf to zit for the young ladties. [8]
My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
But I believe ze Baron think Morro good place for them jus' the sem. [9]
Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
See here, mother, you've sacrificed enough for me already. [9]
I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. [10]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
But don't expose yourself in any outbreak of eloquence; for, by the mortar in which Anaxarchus was pounded! [6]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
You've almost ruined yourself for me. [13]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
There, now, you're yourself again, and look all the better for it. [11]
Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
Thank you for yours on my little notification speech and on the recent inaugural address. [7]
No letters but yours must reach the camp for the next few weeks. [10]
Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
I've carried out your--instructions--sent for the committee. [9]
At another time you're all for work. [12]
The real world, your world, England, Europe, would have no more use for all your skill and knowledge and power, because there would be a woman in the way. [11]
But I have your word for it, too, and the returning elasticity of spirits which is manifested in your letters. [7]
I am not your wife save by the law; and little have you cared for law! [11]
It will make your whole night miserable, and to no good; for we will hope--" "But it isn't a presentiment--it is a fact. [5]
You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
Handily situated, at your very elbow, is opportunity for this. [5]
And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers, whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time you jack up the wages. [9]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
Thank you for your sympathy, ma'am. [9]
The money for your son shall be conveyed to you to-day before sunset. [10]
Possibly it is your skull: you want to look out for that. [5]
You long for your sister; go to her, I have nothing more to say against it. [10]
When I need your services I will call for you. [10]
If Zminis searches your premises he will certainly go into the cellar; for what can he not do in Caesar's name? [10]
The one where your place is is the best for you. [6]
I go from your philosophical discussions to the reading of Jeremy Taylor's "Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying" without feeling that I have unfitted myself in the least degree for its solemn reflections. [6]
I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. [14]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
You still nurse your passion for blood. [13]
It should be your part to entreat her help for our father and brother; but you must not venture where Caesar is. [10]
Report to me your opinion upon the availability for good of the enrolled militia of the State. [7]
Get emancipation into your new State government constitution and there will be no such word as fail for your cause. [7]
If he--" "Shut your mouth, let Ingolby speak for himself," snarled the big river- driver. [11]
Will you forgive your mother, my dear, for speaking to you? [11]
The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
Now go to your mistress, and carry to Katuti this letter which has arrived for her. [10]
And make up your mind that, for once, you have got to take life seriously. [11]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
I will nominate your little Philopator heir to the throne, for I have no wish to contract a permanent tie with any woman, as Cleopatra belongs to you. [10]
You will have your lifetime to reckon with it, free from any interference on my part; for, if I can help it, we shall never meet again in this world--never. [11]
In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. [11]
Besides, but for your interruption, I should have said nothing about my father. [10]
I am not your inquisitor, but your bishop and your friend, and I am asking for your confidence. [9]
He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
Remember me to your husband, and tell him, that Captain Allertssohn's body has been brought in and to-morrow is appointed for the funeral. [10]
I'll go to your house and send the servant for you with a lantern. [10]
But what is your highness's idea for racking the prisoner? [5]
Let me tell your Highness the truth, in return for saving my life. [11]
And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you. [5]
Thank you for your help--and my pitcher? [10]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
Just think of your having had our head translator for a model. [8]
The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
It was not your going over to the other side that pained me so, for all your people are Tories. [9]
I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
You can thank your Gentile friends for that. [13]
This is for your general purification. [5]
I believe in your friendship for Barine, though I deem it dangerous. [10]
I'm coming for your friend to-night. [11]
I will tell your fortune," she suddenly added, reaching for his hand. [11]
The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
I have seen your face by the light, and that is enough for this time. [10]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
I am deeply your debtor for revelations which never could have come to me without your help. [11]
Thank you for your dear, dear note; you who are my own and only sweetheart. [5]
This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
I commend to your consideration the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. [7]
I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining that part of the District and the restoration of the original boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of Virginia. [7]
I transmit for your consideration copies of the letters and report. [7]

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