Use forms in a sentence
Sentences ending with forms
- To-morrow morning I will begin to practise myself in the old Aeolian forms. [10]
- If only that were true which Zoe was reading yesterday, that the souls of men were destined to visit the earth again and again in new forms! [10]
- The vast forest was silent, and yet in its shadowy depths my imagination drew moving forms. [9]
- The twisted and variously figured chimneys are of singular variety and exceptional forms. [6]
- It is difficult to know whether most to admire their stately dimensions or the beauty of their forms. [10]
- The Fire-Tender said that we are imposed on by forms. [4]
- This activity was that of a mind essentially concerned to find how many ways it could see for escape from a maze of things; while his vanity was taking new forms. [11]
- They are also sometimes present, and sometimes absent, in nearly allied forms. [1]
- The first postulate shows that he valued the demands of the soul far above social forms. [10]
- The poor schoolmaster shook his head, and said that they barely filled the two forms. [12]
Short sentences using forms
- It forms no attachments. [4]
Sentences containing forms two or more times
- We change, but the changes are only New forms of the old forms again, We die and some spaces are lonely, But men live in lives of new men. [11]
- Unfortunately this can rarely be done: for the larger genera generally include closely- allied forms, which can be distinguished only with much difficulty, whilst the smaller genera within the same family include forms that are perfectly distinct; yet all must be ranked equally as species. [1]
- And all the forms, so full of meaning, which appeared to him from Nature, and from every powerful emotion of his own soul, were waiting to be represented by his art in the noblest of forms, those of human beings. [10]
- Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power. [2]
- In the third category he included those Brothers (the majority) who saw nothing in Freemasonry but the external forms and ceremonies, and prized the strict performance of these forms without troubling about their purport or significance. [2]
More example sentences with the word forms in them
- Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
- A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
- It fills them with grief and alarms; and, would you believe it--such anguish of mind, especially when the Nile is so low and there is more sickness than usual, gives rise to numberless forms of disease? [10]
- He follows forms which have but little resemblance to conversation, but they make the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey. [5]
- If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
- You little realize what far-reaching harm has just been wrought here under the fickle forms of law. [5]
- In the texture were the tracings of fossil forms of ferns and the most exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. [4]
- If my Myrtilus were still alive, and these miserable eyes yet possessed the power of rejoicing in the light and in beautiful human forms, by the dog! [10]
- On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
- I am not well acquainted with the forms of procedure in the courts of New York, but in the West, sir, in the West--" The Judge. [5]
- Yet with a wave of the hand he accepted the roll of bills, and signed the receipt with an air which said, "These forms must be observed, I suppose. [11]
- His characteristic answer was: "I place no value on these forms unless they depend upon and express the inner self. [10]
- The little street was deserted, but in Pall Mall the dark forms of busses could be made out scurrying for shelter, one wondered where? [9]
- You are well up on the bar, now; there is a bar under every point, because the water that comes down around it forms an eddy and allows the sediment to sink. [5]
- The mother, brought up an Episcopalian, conformed to the religious forms and worship of her husband, but she was never in sympathy with his rigid views. [4]
- She should walk under the frescoed vaults of palaces, until her colors deepened to those of Venetian beauties, and her forms were perfected into rivalry with the Greek marbles, and the east wind was out of her soil. [6]
- One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law. [7]
- This is eminently true of manners and forms of speech; a movement or a phrase often tells you all you want to know about a person. [6]
- He had already tried it in one or two forms and would begin it again presently. [5]
- It would be tried at other times and in other forms, but it never seemed to accommodate itself to a central idea, so that the good writing in it eventually went to waste. [5]
- He did not treat himself like an earl, whatever consciousness he may have had that his prospective rank made it safe for him to flirt with the various forms of equality abroad in this generation. [4]
- Mr. Bernard's professional training had made him slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition. [6]
- In the Levant, too, were seen the beginnings of commerce, of art, of letters, in the forms in which the modern world best knows them. [4]
- He might try to kill her, but she had seen death in many forms far away in Spain, and she would not be afraid till there was cause. [11]
- When he came to himself again, he found himself in a closed cave, amidst strange forms of grey-brown, dripping stalactites. [10]
- Jones would seem to have suggested forms of contracts, but if he came to the point of signing any there is no evidence of it to-day. [5]
- It is sure to exhibit itself in forms more objective than are found in great populations where methods of punishment are various, and even when deadly are often refined. [11]
- The world grows tired of solid forms in all the arts. [5]
- This is no time to stand upon forms and ceremonious observances. [5]
- For by that time all eyes here and above and below will have become adjusted to the change and in love with it, and the present clumsy and ragged forms will be grotesque to the eye and revolting to the soul. [5]
- It had passed through various animal forms, and now began a new human course in the body of a paraschites, once more to stand after death in the presence of the judges of the under-world. [10]
- For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
- His victims sprawled this way and that, but the mob-tide poured over their prostrate forms and dashed itself against the champion with undiminished fury. [5]
- Out of all this he forms an ideal portrait, which is not a copy of your exact look at any one time or to any particular person. [6]
- Some motionless forms they were obliged to leave behind. [10]
- Old men were there, whose eyes were dim and senses failing--grandmothers, who might have died ten years ago, and still been old--the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave. [12]
- In this work there are many details connected with the forms of these shelter dykes, their arrangements so as to present a series of settling basins, etc., a description of which would only complicate the conception. [5]
- Our naturalist would then perhaps turn to geographical distribution, and he would probably declare that those forms must be distinct species, which differ not only in appearance, but are fitted for hot, as well as damp or dry countries, and for the Artic regions. [1]
- And most of them are fine-looking fellows, good figures in elegantly fitting and tasteful uniforms; but they do like to show their handsome forms and hear their sword-scabbards rattle on the pavement as they stride by. [4]
- Men stopped in their tracks, staring fixedly at three forms which had come out of the woods into the clearing. [9]
- The whisking of their forms among the trees and over the rocks was fine, gracious, and full of life-life without alarm. [11]
- In such cases the young of the different species cannot resemble each other more closely than do the parents; nor can they strikingly resemble allied forms when adult. [1]
- We may concede the unity of all forms of force, but we cannot overlook the fixed differences of its manifestations according to the conditions under which it acts. [3]
- The gorge of the river forms its western boundary. [4]
- It is mainly the repetition over and over again, by the third-rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. [5]
- I wetted down the paper Saturdays, I turned it Sundays--for this was a country weekly; I rolled, I washed the rollers, I washed the forms, I folded the papers, I carried them around at dawn Thursday mornings. [5]
- All forms of the lever and all the principal kinds of hinges are to be met with in our own frames. [6]
- He knew that the great primal truths, which each successive revelation only confirmed, were fast becoming hidden beneath the mechanical forms of thought, which, as with all new converts, engrossed so large a share of his attention. [6]
- The doctrines of the convertibility or specific equivalence of the various forms of force, and of its conservation, which is its logical consequence, are very generally accepted, as I believe, at the present time, among physicists. [3]
- Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse. [6]
- With respect to the "Cranial forms of the American aborigines," see Dr. Aitken Meigs in 'Proc. [1]
- It is found that what used to be called lusus naturae, or freaks of nature, are just as much subject to laws as the naturally developed forms of living creatures. [6]
- We thus see that two distinct forms of the same species may co-exist in the same district, and we cannot doubt that if the one had possessed any advantage over the other, it would soon have been multiplied to the exclusion of the latter. [1]
- I think, Katuti, that the figures in our dreams are this day taking forms of flesh and blood! [10]
- It was presumed that the baths were the subject of the entertaining conversation; for I read in a charming little work which sets forth the delights of Leuk, that La poussee forms the staple of most of the talk. [4]
- It is not that he deified you, Daphne; he merely bestowed on the divinity forms which he recognised in you. [10]
- It is granted that all the forms of what is called puerperal fever may not be, and probably are not, equally contagious or infectious. [3]
- And this responsibility takes two forms the duty of every one to be attractive, and the danger of being too attractive. [4]
- The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base. [10]
- That "union is strength" is a truth that has been known, illustrated, and declared in various ways and forms in all ages of the world. [7]
- But we stood still, with yearning eyes staring back through the frantic forms for a sight of Tom's. [9]
- He was a stern, unsmiling man, and hated all forms of precocity. [5]
- Real Republicanism is stern and severe; its essence is not in forms of government, but in the omnipotence of public opinion which grows out of it. [6]
- Even as I stared, breathless, half a score of forms shot up and were running madly for the stockade. [9]
- Filled with the spirit of the god, they are able to model truthfully and faithfully even the forms of the immortals invisible to the physical eye. [10]
- In a second species of the same genus a terminal scale forms a minute horn on the summit of the flexible appendage; and in a third species (C. Stoddartii, fig. [1]
- I made out some dim forms, and a woman started up from the ground and stared at me, as one does who is wakened from sleep. [5]
- This is not so very difficult a matter if one begins in good season and forms regular habits. [6]
- He patronises young Snobby besides; you'll find, Sir, that he'll be constantly coming backwards and forwards to this place: yet I don't suppose that beyond the common forms of civility, he has ever exchanged half-a-dozen words with me. [12]
- There were certain signs, certain facades, certain audacities of the prevailing hideousness that always amused him in that uproar to the eye which the strident forms and colors made. [8]
- The better, the shorter, the easier forms are constantly gaining the upper hand, and they owe their success to their own inherent virtue. [1]
- He was awakened, shivering, by the beat of rain on the roof, and stumbling over the prostrate forms of the four Beaver brothers, reached the window. [9]
- In her Manual, she has provided a prodigality of ways and forms whereby she can rid herself of any functionary in the government whenever she wants to. [5]
- If faint and shadowy forms had already come between them, he gave no evidence of having as yet discerned these. [9]
- Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? [2]
- There she stood, seeing and hearing, and her low moaning changed to that laughter which anguish borrows from gladness when it has exhausted all forms of expression. [10]
- Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
- I try to recall my feelings as I trotted beside the tall forms that loomed above me in the night. [9]
- If he had really found her he would also have found, I am sure, that she was not new, that she exists in other lands in the same forms, and with the same frivolous heart and the same ways and impulses. [5]
- All this must react on the minds which handle these forms of truth. [6]
- She felt that rather would she defy the prowling panthers, the night-chill, hunger and thirst, than appear again before Dame Dorothea, the senator, and Marthana, with this guilt on her soul; and the flying Miriam was one of the goblin forms that had terrified Paulus. [10]
- She could, however, quit the body from time to time at will, and could appear to mortals in various forms and places; these appearances differed according to the hour, and were prescribed in exact words and delineations. [10]
- But the great question "Materialism or Antimaterialism" still agitated the Georgia Augusta, in whose province the conflict had assumed still sharper forms, owing to Rudolf Wagner's speech during the convention of the Guttingen naturalists three years prior to my entrance. [10]
- A feeling of purity impresses itself on the eye and the mind from the absence of the coarser material which forms so invariable a material in Agra architecture. [5]
- That paper was published at the time, and has since seen the light in other forms. [6]
- He put that proposition, as will be seen by the Congressional Globe, in a variety of forms, all running to the same thing in substance,--that it was a question for the Supreme Court. [7]
- There is no presumption against any of this class of substances, any more than against water or salt, provided they are used in fitting combinations, proportions, and forms. [3]
- If the Associated Press will adopt and use our simplified forms, and thus spread them to the ends of the earth, covering the whole spacious planet with them as with a garden of flowers, our difficulties are at an end. [5]
- Phoebicius ended his prayer to-day--a prayer for strength to break his wife's strong spirit, for a successful issue to his revenge on her seducer--ended it without haste, and with careful observance of all the prescribed forms. [10]
- He had the power of calling up the image of his lost love with as much vividness as the forms of the dead, and indulged in this magic, not only through a hundred still nights, but in long rides and drives through silent wastes. [10]
- It is very possible that a hundred or five hundred years from now the forms of religious belief may be so altered that we should hardly know them. [6]
- The first long poem I wrote of my own impulse was a description of the wonderful forms assumed by the stalactite formations in the Sophie Cave in Switzerland, which we had visited. [10]
- But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms. [2]
- Presently the tug Pinafore glides up to the landing, the engineer flings open the furnace door, and the glowing fire illumines the interior, brings out forms and faces, and deepens the heavy shadows outside. [4]
- After all, every people must have its own forms of ostentation, pretence, and vulgarity. [6]
- Every expectation held out in the handbills is realised to the utmost, and the whole forms an effect of imposing brilliancy hitherto unrivalled in this kingdom. [12]
- In two bounds our little detachment was in the street, the fire spouting red from the Deckards, faint, shadowy forms fading along the line of trees. [9]
- Chester Perkins and others were watching him with various emotions from the stoop, and Bijah took a seat in the midst of them, characteristically engaging in conversation without the usual conventional forms of greeting, as if he had been there all day. [9]
- But the chief ornament is a space parallel to the dark-blue shaft, which in outline forms a perfect second feather lying within the true feather. [1]
- I refer here only to the pleasure given by certain colours, forms, and sounds, and which may fairly be called a sense of the beautiful; with cultivated men such sensations are, however, intimately associated with complex ideas and trains of thought. [1]
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