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Sentences starting with gain

Gain that and I myself will lead the singer to my son's arms. [10]

Sentences ending with gain

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]
When they become voters, if they ever do, it may be feared that the pews will lose what the ward-rooms gain. [6]
My watch began to gain. [5]
Wrangle had ceased to gain. [13]
The joys that thrill, the ill that thralls, Pressed down on heart and brain- These are the only horologues, The Age's loss or gain. [11]
And we reckon this enlargement of nerve contact somehow a gain. [4]
The subject was not mentioned that day at Nauheim, for we were hurrying away, and there was no time; but the thing that surprised me was this: when I induced you, you said, 'I am glad to meet your lordship gain. [5]
These veterans were not going to branch out and do things without the sanction of the Maid--that is true; and it was a great gain. [5]
Whatever his detractors might have said of him, no one was ever heard to avow that he had bought or sold anything for gain. [9]
It plugged up her conversation mill, too, for a considerable while, and that was a gain. [5]

Short sentences using gain

You don't gain, you lose. [5]
What should we gain? [5]

Sentences containing gain two or more times

But it's all gain, it's gain! [12]
We do not gain the protection of society, and we do not gain the reformation of the criminal. [4]

More example sentences with the word gain in them

You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. [5]
And yet I yearned to go back, and looked forward eagerly to the time when I should have stored enough in my head to gain admission to the bar. [9]
With all the world conquered there is still some mystic island of which she whispers, and to gain this her votary risks all--and loses all. [11]
Hylda had spoken with sorrowful decision, and then this pause had come, in which Faith tried to gain composure and strength. [11]
For Carmen, dining with Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was a distinct gain, and indirectly opened many other hitherto exclusive doors. [4]
In short, I wish we could gain time, and see how she gets on. [14]
The old political wire-pullers never go near the man they want to gain, if they can help it; they find out who his intimates and managers are, and work through them. [6]
When a man will not speak, will not lie to gain a case for his lawyer--or save himself, there is something! [11]
Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. [7]
The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
And then, too, where amongst ourselves do we find so earnest a longing and endeavor to gain freedom, the highest good, as among the animals? [10]
Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand. [10]
People don't know what a gain there is to health by living in cities, the best parts of them of course, for we know too well what the worst parts are. [6]
When the cards were dealt, with but one point for either to gain, and so win and save his life, there was a slight pause before the two took them up. [11]
A man may well pawn his last doublet, if he may thereby gain a larger. [10]
And what do we gain by our present method? [4]
At my age we count it gain not to be disappointed, and the day when our expectations are not only fulfilled, but surpassed we number among our festivals. [10]
He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as these, but he cares not how much he misrepresents us if he can gain a few votes by so doing. [7]
Chief of all was the renowned Bend Or, a Derby winner, a noble and beautiful bay, destined in a few weeks to gain new honors on the same turf in the triumph of his offspring Ormonde, whose acquaintance we shall make by-and-by. [6]
It is a war claim which implies no private gain, and no compensation except for one of the cases of destruction incident to war, which may well be repaired by the people of the whole country. [5]
All this, so vividly described, seemed to gain a new witchery from his glowing fancy. [5]
Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
M. Fille bridled up, and his spare figure seemed to gain courage and dignity. [11]
I was of two minds to announce the scurvy trick he had played, but saw that I would lose rather than gain by the attempt. [9]
And when he told us of what he hoped to gain at that place we could but account his judgment good, and wish him good speed and that he might come home from that famous Italian school a luminary of learning. [10]
But we believe today, more strongly than ever before, as democracy advances, as peoples tend to gain more and more control over their governments, that even this may not be an unrealizable ideal. [9]
It was mortgaged to within eight thousand dollars of what it could be sold for but, if he could gain time, that eight thousand dollars would build the mill again. [11]
Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. [7]
Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. [7]
As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
You have only to read Cullen's description of inflammation of the lungs or of the bowels, and compare it with such as you may find in Laennec or Watson, to see the immense gain which diagnosis and prognosis have derived from general anatomy. [3]
I had nothing to gain, and everything to lose by such a venture. [9]
If he were to gain the heights, only to stumble in the sight of all men, to stumble and fall. [9]
He will endeavour to gain a better understanding of what stirs, fires, angers, and divides the theologians. [10]
She had thought to enter by the billiard-room door, and so gain her own chamber without encountering the household; but she had reckoned without her hostess. [9]
There was still time to gain, in exchange for dead florins, living salvation. [10]
I had no time for reflection, for before I could gain any certain information by word of mouth, a captain of the heathen had seized me, and we came to a life and death struggle before Miriam's very eyes. [10]
You will gain through me something better than awaits you there, and not only for to-day and to-morrow. [10]
We still punish those who gain property by violence; those who get it by smartness and cleverness, we try to imitate, and sometimes we reward them with public office. [4]
But perhaps all this might gain a more satisfactory aspect by daylight. [10]
Well, you are thinking of my loss or gain, and that I can not but praise. [10]
But what could they gain by it? [5]
Our adversaries think they can gain a point if they could force me to openly deny the charge, by which some degree of offence would be given to the Americans. [7]
Through his brain there ran a succession of queries and speculations, and dominating them all one clear question-was he to gain anything by this strange conversation? [11]
As a rule, there is little gain, either in instruction or in elevation of character, if the teacher is not the superior of the taught. [4]
But now call them, (they are playing in the garden), and we will tell them of the new friend they are to gain through you. [10]
One may attack them on the false side and perhaps gain a conversational victory. [6]
And both of them often gain by the interchange. [6]
Of course all the westing we have made is gain, and I hope the chronometer is wrong in our favour, for I do not see how any such delicate instrument can keep good time with the constant jarring and thumping we get from the sea. [5]
The Caesar had the sole disposal of the Queen's fate also, and whoever desired to see her remain on the throne must strive to gain the good-will of Octavianus. [10]
She must cross the Slidebrook Valley if possible, and gain the mountain opposite. [4]
She seized upon the opportunity to represent that it was his duty to himself and her to gain more rest. [10]
The Atalantas saw the movement, and made a spurt to keep their lead and gain upon it if they could. [6]
It was not the most promising party to travel with and hope to gain a higher veneration for religion through the example of its devotees. [5]
There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
You gain by the historic setting of the Church, and yet it does not absorb you. [9]
I did; and the great change in your life won't be lost, it will be gain, too. [11]
Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor. [2]
The shade of the cliff above obscured the point he wanted to gain, but he could see dimly a few feet before him. [13]
If thrift and the ability to gain wealth be qualities for a hero, Jethro had them--in those days. [9]
It was plain that it must not be allowed to gain ground. [5]
He felt now that he must temporize, that he must gain time. [5]
The Nubian replied that everything had been considered; but, to gain time, she must beg Barine to let her colour her skin and curl her hair while she was talking. [10]
They would gain Suzanne for a dance only to have her snatched away at the next by the slim and reckless young gentleman in the gray court clothes. [9]
Descending to the street, she was unable to gain any news of Clarence from Ned, who was becoming alarmed likewise. [9]
With that I started off to gain the top of the promontory in order to watch the chase. [9]
Motives of personal spite and of personal gain were laid bare, and even the barter and sale of offices of trust took place before my very eyes. [9]
It was in some wholly legendary, perhaps spiritual, world that it was necessary to renounce love to gain the Rhine gold. [4]
Soon after this some proposal, of which I have not been able to gain a clear account, was again mooted for Miss Bronte's opening a school at some place distant from Haworth. [14]
We thus gain some insight into the early state of man, before he had spread step by step over the face of the earth. [1]
If his story should gain the public attention, and his occasional essays come to be talked of, it was Evelyn's interest and approval that he caught himself thinking about. [4]
But what would she gain by that? [4]
It does not seem to me a sufficient gain in this situation that we are immensely increasing the amount of steel in the world, or that twenty more people are enabled on account of this to indulge in an unexampled, unintellectual luxury. [4]
So when the ring of dancers had loosed hands, a troop of petitioners rushed in upon Boges, kissing his hands, stroking his cheeks, whispering in his ear all kinds of requests, and trying by flattery to gain his intercession with the king. [10]
Science names and registers the ills of life; and yet it is a gain to know the names and habits of our enemies. [4]
One of his reasons, indeed, --in addition to the friendship that had grown up between them,--for coming to visit her had been to gain the effect of her poise on his own. [9]
A king who really knows his duties, finds it an easy and beautiful task to win the love of the people--an unthankful one to gain the applause of the great--almost an impossibility to content both. [10]
She did not quite believe him, for she saw that he feared her, and she began to suspect that his were the protestations of a coward to gain time. [5]
You lose some quiet by this attitude, some repose that is pleasant and even desirable perhaps, you entertain many errors, you may try many useless experiments, but you gain life and are in the way of better things. [4]
Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. [2]
He had done pretty well with the father: the next thing was to gain over the nurse. [6]
In vain they pressed about him, in vain they even pulled the fringe of his shirt to gain his attention. [9]
I know the power of love too, and I will help you to gain our mother's consent. [10]
I am so poor and make so little headway in the world, that I drop back in a month of idleness as much as I gain in a year's sowing. [7]
But we in Pontiac gain what the world loses. [11]
We must be patient, as our fathers were patient; even in our worst calamities, we must remember that defeat itself may be a gain where it costs our enemy more in relation to his strength than it costs ourselves. [6]
Apparently, it was partly piety, largely gain, and there is reason to suspect that the sport afforded was the chiefest fascination of all. [5]
Dodge's at 10 p. m. where we had magic-lantern views of a superb sort, and a lot of yarns until an hour after midnight, and got to bed at 2 this morning --a good deal of a gain on my recent hours. [5]
These were the only persons on the place of much importance to gain over. [6]
He was not only a suitor with a prize to gain, he was a colloquial artist about to employ all the resources of his specialty. [6]
He had gained one minute of time, he might be able to gain more. [11]
Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. [2]
Many persons were on the street, attracted by the services, but were unable to gain admission to the church where the public ceremonies were held. [6]
The same trains of thought and feeling might naturally gain in force from another association of near family relationship, though not of blood. [6]
Of the first of these three nations we know scarcely anything but through fabulous tales; by attacking them we should lose much and gain little. [10]
I've heard some of them saying, sir, that if the unions gain what they're after, there'll be no classes at all at all. [9]
She caught glimpses of its ambitions, its unscrupulous use of its position in international relations, to gain advantage for itself, even by a dexterity which might easily bear another name, and by sudden disregard of international attachments not unlike treachery. [11]
At the end of each whole year's toil he can't show a gain of fifty dollars. [5]
The long strain of a long fight, in which he had risked much for which he had labored a life to gain, had told on him, and there were crow's-feet at the corners of, his eyes, and dark circles under them. [9]
Exercise the gentleness of a father towards the rebels; they did not rise in mere self-will, but to gain their freedom, the most precious possession of mankind. [10]

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