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Sentences starting with four

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]
Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
Four hours passed, without tidings. [5]
Four weeks ago, while making some necessary excavations upon the property, Signor Smitthe unearthed the most remarkable ancient statue that has ever bees added to the opulent art treasures of Rome. [5]
Four years at West Point, and plenty of books and schooling, will learn a man a good deal, I reckon, but it won't learn him the river. [5]
Four years ago we had our hands read out to us as if our plans had been covered with print. [5]
Four times he walked me up the road to a point whence we could see a long distance; and there he would stand, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking. [5]
Four bearers were waiting outside with the sedan-chair, three servants with torches, and two stout attendants carrying clubs over their shoulders. [10]
Four apartments opened upon each landing, in which was the common hydrant and sink. [4]

Sentences ending with four

Carmen, socially triumphant, would have been much more in her element at a petit souper of a not too fastidious four. [4]
We had seen wonders this day; and my thoughts began to run on the pleasure it would be to tell them when I got home, but he noticed those thoughts, and said: "No, all these matters are a secret among us four. [5]
One penny every week the good priest that teacheth me shall have; mother, Nan, and Bet the other four. [5]
No, sir, nor two, nor three, nor four. [9]
They were free to go to any meals in the house, and they chose their accustomed four. [5]
How much is three times four? [11]
It was already three o'clock when I reached my room, and the mail left at four. [9]
Yes, I thought there was, the programme said four. [11]
I will bring them forward now only reaching to number four. [7]
Call all of them at half-past four. [4]

Short sentences using four

It was four years ago. [10]
Only the four went. [11]
Four and twenty thousand sequins! [10]
I made four thousand dollars. [11]
Four torch-bearers accompanied the litters. [10]
Then they resumed the four. [5]
Four seasons at the breast? [11]
Four hundred from--from--from that gentleman. [9]
Four in all, sir! [9]
Four face the other four. [5]

Sentences containing four two or more times

If the truth will permit, I propose that you sustain me in the following manner: copy the inclosed scrap in your own handwriting and get everybody (not three or four, but three or four hundred) to sign it, and then send it to me. [7]
He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth for four years and persecute the nations thereof with lectures, promising that at the end of four years I would pay dollar for dollar. [5]
The Nebraska-Kansas Bill was introduced four years and a half ago, and if the agitation is ever to come to an end we may say we are four years and a half nearer the end. [7]
In short, she was charming and maddening in her defensive ruses, in her advances and retreats, for I pressed her hard during the four weeks which followed, and in them made four visits. [9]
In the deep twilight of that forest solitude four desperate rascals--Burgess, Sullivan, Levy, and Kelley--ambushed themselves beside the mountain-trail to murder and rob four travelers--Kempthorne, Mathieu, Dudley, and De Pontius, the latter a New Yorker. [5]
Applying the principle to these new facts, the Fifth and Seventh districts must be added to the four in which the quotas have already been reduced to 2200 for the first draft; and with these four others just be added to those to be re-enrolled. [7]
It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotes three and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabbered them over three or four times the evening before. [5]
Thus, you see there are four hands to feed Angelo, and the same four to feed me. [5]
For four months the Khedive was never told the truth save by European financiers, when truths were obvious facts; for four long months never saw a fearless or an honest eye in his own household. [11]
The entrance to the cave is four feet high and four feet wide, and is in the face of a lofty perpendicular cliff--the sea-wall. [5]

More example sentences with the word four in them

Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
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]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
If you stir--if you so much as wink--for four whole minutes, I'll bite you! [5]
By the figures you send, which I presume are correct, the twelve districts represented fall into two classes of eight and four respectively. [7]
I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
May I offer you four thousand drachmae for your precious possession? [10]
Here, I'll spin you a yarn: "It happened four years ago. [11]
In another four years... then I will ask for your hand. [2]
For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. [5]
It is four years, and still there are but two in your lodge. [11]
The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
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]
During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
In four years,--four years of battle-days,--his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. [6]
In four years--four years of battle days--his endurance, his fertility of resource, his magnanimity, were sorely tried, and never found wanting. [7]
For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed. [5]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
For four hard years he had been denied the free air of free men. [11]
It is four years ago, shortly before your wedding with Mena; my father called me to play draughts. [10]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
Clemens would naturally write something about Bermuda, and began at once, "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," and presently completed four papers, which Howells eagerly accepted for the Atlantic. [5]
For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. [9]
If Mr. Carvel would do him the honour of calling at his lodging, over Mackie's Italian Warehouse in Piccadilly, at four o'clock, he would take great pleasure in introducing him at Brooks's Club. [9]
There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't. [5]
I have often wondered that Hogarth did not add one more picture to his four stages of Cruelty. [6]
When he was within fifty yards of the house, four Arabs intercepted him. [11]
Your servant arrived with your note at four o'clock. [9]
They lasted me, with occasional intermissions, I should say, three or four years. [6]
I was delighted with my new property,--but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter. [6]
While he was with her she made him forget that the Hawkins' house was nothing but a wooden tenement, with four small square rooms on the ground floor and a half story; it might have been a palace for aught he knew. [5]
Fellow of 30 with four valises; a slim creature, with teeth which made his mouth look like a neglected churchyard. [5]
Then Amphitrite appeared, with floating hair and resonant voice, and beside her Poseidon with his four steeds. [10]
He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
He was armed with a long knife, and I saw four men fall beneath it, while he himself got but one bad cut. [11]
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]
Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work. [4]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. [7]
She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
This interview, about which there has been so much controversy in the newspapers, and denials and counter-denials from the press bureaus of both gentlemen,--this now historic interview began at four o'clock precisely the next day. [9]
The four Fs which he had advised his master to heed in his wooing--Family, Figure, Favor, and Fortune--he no longer deemed the right touch-tones. [10]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water. [9]
There are four which are equal to all the rest, namely, Mercury, Antimony, Bark and Opium. [3]
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 the place where three or four currents meet there was the usual jam of carriages, furniture wagons, carts, cars, and hurried, timid, half-bewildered passengers trying to make their way through it. [4]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
Once at school, when we were eleven, I upset my ink and spoiled four copy-books, and was in danger of severe punishment; but I put it upon him, and he got the whipping. [5]
The day after, when he looked out of the window of his sleeping-compartment at half-past four, he saw the red sky of morning, and against it the spires of Philadelphia. [4]
He'll ask me what I'm doing, and I'll tell him you went upstairs at half-past four and haven't come down. [9]
These four years were the period of Mr. Adams's administration, nearly and substantially. [7]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
The bed- posts were sawed off on top, as the ceiling was not more than four feet from the improvised floor. [5]
The room we were in was at least four feet higher than the other, and we looked down on its occupants. [11]
All four horsemen were in the sand, plunging on towards us. [11]
All the quality were in the country, of course, save only four gentlemen of the local Patriots' committee, of which Captain Daniel was a member, and with whom he had an appointment at ten. [9]
In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. [2]
Consequently the four were equal to the fifteen, and therefore 4x = 15y. [2]
At "Flowers" they were chased by four French men-of-war. [4]
Before midsummer they were all out excepting two, who refused to sign the petitions for release; 58 had been fined $10,000 each and enlarged, and the four leaders had gotten off with fines of $125,000 each with permanent exile added, in one case. [5]
That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three hundred and forty miles); the 'Eclipse' and 'Shotwell' did it in one. [5]
After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander. [2]
So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
But she was well fixed--rich, as she would have described it; for she had lived a steady life, and had banked four dollars every month in New Orleans as a provision for her old age. [5]
I bore it well enough, though, and said to myself, with secret satisfaction, "In three or four short days, my lads, you will be employing your tongues in a different sort from this--and I shall be there to hear. [5]
They stayed four weeks, and during that time one of the crazy men died. [11]
It's only four weeks since you were court-martialed, and you escaped being reduced by the very closest shave; and yet you come and make love to me, and want me to marry you. [11]
It was four weary days before this jury was made up, but when it was finally complete, it did great credit to the counsel for the defence. [5]
At each place we stop there are always three, four, or more dug-outs arriving, bringing information of stock in other places in need. [5]
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. [5]
And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock A.M., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. [4]
For some hours we had been making three and a half or four miles an hour and we were still making that. [5]
I don't think we got lost exactly, but we wandered four hours over the steepest, rockiest and most dangerous piece of country in the world. [5]
Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"--only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt. [5]
You, and Josh way, an' Will, an' Sam, an' the Cap'n, an' the four Beaver brothers, will all sleep in number ten. [9]
Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
I halted; waited; watched; the conversation continued between the four men; it grew earnest; Backus drew gradually away; the gamblers followed, and kept at his elbow. [5]
Not a man was wanting, for at the four strokes of the rarely-sounded alarum every dweller in the House of Seti was expected to appear in the court of the temple. [10]
What delight it was to burst from the shelter of the thicket and touch with our poles two, three, or four of the surprised enemies ere they thought of defence! [10]
If no boat was there, then we must circle the lake three or four miles farther through a cedar-swamp, with no trail in particular. [4]
Whether the portrait was there four years ago or not, it is not there now, for I have inquired. [5]
How glad she was that she still had the four drachmae which she had coaxed out of Karnis in the Xenodochium that evening; she could buy whatever she liked for her lover. [10]
The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood. [5]
The little Shawshine was our swimming-school, and the great Merrimack, the right arm of four toiling cities, was within reach of a morning stroll. [6]
Whenever her mind was irrevocably made up, the automobile whirled away on all four cylinders for a half a mile or so, until they were out of reach of the railroad. [9]
Shon's bubbling sarcasm was full-stopped by the beneficent savour that, rising now from the hands of the four, silenced all irrelevant speech. [11]
The distance covered was four hundred yards. [5]
Or ever he was four and twenty I found the first white hair in his brown locks. [10]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
This night he was crowding into the music four years of events: of memory, hope, pride, patience, and affection. [11]
At last order was called and the court said: "All of the coins but four are of the date of the present year. [5]

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