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Sentences starting with getting

Getting up, he went over to the bell-cord at the door and pulled it. [9]
Getting pretty hungry to see you. [5]
Getting no answer to her words, Guida went first to the hearth and stirred the fire, the old man sitting rigid in his chair and regarding her with fixed, watchful eyes. [11]
Getting drunk three times a day. [5]
Getting free of them, I came on my way, and was glad to reach the cathedral unchallenged. [11]
Getting out of the train at Heddington, he made up his mind to walk home by the road that David had taken on his return from Egypt, and he left word at the station that he would send for his luggage. [11]
Getting over against the signal fires blazing on Flamborough Head, she wore ship and stood across our bows, the midshipman on the forecastle singing out to her, by the commodore's orders, to lay the enemy by the board. [9]
Getting upon a piece of rising ground, behold! [5]
Getting up, she opened the glass door, and stood trying to estimate the hour: it must be, she thought, about six. [9]
Getting down on my hands and knees, I crept forward, and felt the ground rising. [9]

Sentences ending with getting

He had not realized what he was getting. [9]
Some spoke, too, of Washington and his ragged soldiers going up and down the old colonies and fighting for a freedom which there seemed little chance of getting. [9]
What have you been getting? [5]

Short sentences using getting

I am getting very old. [11]
Hugh, you're getting quite human. [9]
I'm for getting out. [11]
You are getting old. [11]
I'm for getting off. [11]
Rivervale is getting known. [4]
It's getting late, I reckon. [5]
Times are getting hard. [9]
He's too busy getting rich. [9]
The son is getting married! [2]

Sentences containing getting two or more times

We are getting used to all these things, but we are not getting used to carrying our own soap. [5]
Perhaps Tinoir was too dull to see that he was giving all and getting naught; that while he waited and watched he was always poor, and also was getting old. [11]
Well, said I to myself this is getting pretty dull; this is getting pretty dry; there don't appear to be anything going on anywhere; has this progressive nation gone to sleep? [5]
The Secretary of this association was getting somewhat tired of the office, and the office was getting somewhat tired of him. [6]
Shelley was not thinking of love, for he was just getting over a passion for his cousin, Harriet Grove, and just getting well steeped in one for Miss Hitchener, a school- teacher. [5]
Several times he said: "I'm getting worried, I'm getting right down worried. [5]
In the case of the turkey she is badly mixed: she gives it a bone to be used in getting it into trouble, and she also furnishes it with a trick for getting itself out of the trouble again. [5]
I have heard of an American student who was asked how he was getting along with his German, and who answered promptly: "I am not getting along at all. [5]
Perhaps, indeed, his keen taste for the one had much to do with his eagerness for the other--though most men find getting gold as cheerful as getting married. [11]
Well, that is just our way, exactly-one half of the administration always busy getting the family into trouble, and the other half busy getting it out again. [5]

More example sentences with the word getting in them

I really believe you're getting fat. [9]
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]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
I didn't expect you to go to the expense of getting a seat. [9]
He added, "So you think our society is getting too sensitive and nervous, and inclined to make dangerous mental excursions? [4]
Has mamma told you of our adventures in getting settled? [8]
And I give you my honour, mon cher Courtenay, that I lost no time in getting back to Arlington Street, and called Dorothy down to tell her. [9]
I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
How much are you getting out of this? [9]
How darned precise you are getting, Crocker! [9]
You can't bathe yet without getting pneumonia. [4]
And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
I believe it would result in getting even the bells of the Philadelphia hotels answered, and cheerful service rendered. [5]
The recruiter himself would have got off scot-free had not an arrow pinned one of his fingers to the loom of the steering-oar just as they were getting off. [5]
A second's thought would have convinced every one that getting out was impossible, and that the only effect of a rush would be to crash people to death. [5]
You're getting the worst of it. [5]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
They had a word of talk as they were getting to bed. [5]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
And then I wondered if it was not the disagreeable habit of some night-patrol or other to beat round the garden before the Sire went to bed for good, to find just such characters as I was gradually getting to feel myself to be. [4]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
I went on with an energy increased by the ridiculousness of the situation, the danger that an experienced woodsman was in of getting home late for supper; the lateness of the meal being nothing to the gibes of the unlost. [4]
Now, if you will do this, you will be soon out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. [7]
I hope you will bear in mind how remarkably well you have been getting along at St. John's, and what a success you've made. [9]
The old man will be getting scared, oui-gia! [11]
She knew well why Havel had ridden on ahead without her permission, and shaking hands with the landlord and getting into the coach, she said hastily to her new coachman: "Lose not an instant. [11]
Mr. Crede, behind whose store I still lived, was getting rich, and happened to have an affair of some importance in Philadelphia. [9]
Mr. Brad, to whose nineteenth-century and newspaper eye Philip had shrunk from confiding his modest creation, but who was consulted in the business, consoled him with the suggestion that this was a sure way of getting his production read. [4]
To tell the whole truth is to bring fresh shame upon Mrs. Llyn and her daughter, and not to tell the whole truth is to take away my one chance of getting out of this trouble. [11]
Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
It was she who tenderly prepared the body for burial, who telegraphed to Gaston at Audierne, getting a reply from Jacques that he was not yet back from London. [11]
The angry borzois whined and getting free of the leash rushed past the horses' feet at the wolf. [2]
And after a while I noticed Florry was getting discouraged. [9]
I'm just wondering whether the world is getting to think more of having a good time than it is of salvation. [4]
One windy morning when the leaves were kiting over the valley we were getting ready for pounding hominy, when a figure appeared on the trail. [9]
But you see when people have been getting ready for months in a quiet way to get married, they are bound to grow stingy, and go to saving up money against that awful day when it is sure to be needed. [5]
He is getting what he wants now," she added, with such obvious meaning that I found no words to reply. [9]
His air was what distressed me most of all, being that of a man who spends his days seeking favours and getting none. [9]
I says: "But what are we going to tell your aunt Sally has made us so long getting down here from the village, Tom? [5]
His only companions were the Indians, who in summer-time came and went, getting stores of him, which he in turn got from a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, seventy miles up the coast. [11]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
My overcoat pockets were stuffed with German cigars and linen packages of American smoking tobacco, and a porter was following us around with this overcoat on his arm, and gradually getting it upside down. [5]
But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
The drenching we were getting was misery enough, but a deeper misery still was the reflection that the halter might end us before we were a day older. [5]
License is what we're getting now! [9]
They knew they were getting nearer to him than they had ever done; even Cloud-in-the-Sky appreciated that. [11]
The ladies' dresses were constantly getting ruined, nevertheless protests and supplications went for nothing. [5]
By and by we told her he was getting well, and then she didn't come, but stayed at home, just saying his name over to herself. [11]
In due time we arrived at the "mine"--nothing but a hole in the ground ninety feet deep, and no way of getting down into it but by holding on to a rope and being lowered with a windlass. [5]
In the pictures we always saw the angels with wings on--and that was all right; but we jumped to the conclusion that that was their way of getting around --and that was all wrong. [5]
And why are we always getting glimpses of things when it is too late? [9]
There are other ways of getting rid of this man. [10]
All the different ways of getting hot and tired were gone through with, and by-and-by the rovers straggled back to camp fortified with responsible appetites, and then the destruction of the good things began. [5]
You have a way with the men, Mr. George, of getting into their hearts, like. [9]
They worked their way through the billiard-room, where a crowd had gathered in the hope of getting a glimpse of the Extraordinary Man. [5]
That was Sally's way of putting it; and he was getting impatient, too, and harassed. [5]
There is no way of getting around that deadly fact. [5]
In his off-hand way he was getting out some flour, dried fruit and preserves for the cook, who stood near as he loaded up her arms. [11]
And no sane way has yet been discovered of getting around its formidable significance. [5]
When we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about recess time, which was a three-mile tramp. [5]
I thought it was very good of them, whereas a person situated as that young man is--" "Ma, you oughtn't to begin by getting up a prejudice against him. [5]
And Mr. Plimpton was the more hurt since the happy suggestion was his own, and he had had no little difficulty in getting Mr. Beatty to agree to it. [9]
To Philip it was the first time in his life that a picnic had ever seemed a defensible means of getting rid of a day. [4]
Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune. [5]
But while I was speaking about the sense of smell he nestled about in his seat, and presently succeeded in getting out a large red bandanna handkerchief. [6]
In short, everything was getting tangled up together, and there would be no chance of disentangling the threads in this chapter. [6]
In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected. [5]
Perhaps the youth was getting into mischief? [11]
Just as he was getting into his chariot, news was brought him that the mat-maker, who had sawn through the masts at the gate, had been caught. [10]
His Southern blood was getting impatient. [6]
Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
I thought I was getting ahead of her little assessments of $35 a month, but find I am falling behind with her instead, and have let her go without money. [5]
The old Librarian was getting a miserly feeling about his books, as he called them. [6]
To Philip, who was getting a good idea of what her education had been, an understanding promoted by his knowledge of the character and attainments of her governess, her mental processes, it may be safely said, opened a new world of thought. [4]
Indeed--and this thought was cynical and out of character--he asked himself on one occasion whether his principal achievement so far had not consisted in getting on unusual terms with Eldon Parr. [9]
When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat. [5]
That law trial was a slow business--appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding. [5]
He was very warm, and well he might be; for, not to mention the exertion of getting the trunk up stairs, he was closely muffled in winter garments, though the thermometer had stood all day at eighty-one in the shade. [12]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
I wish I'd waited a little longer before telling her about the strike, but one day she asked me how it had come out--and she seemed to be getting along so nicely I didn't see any reason for not telling her. [9]
We stopped the wagon, and, getting out, began to look around us. [6]
So I bade Voban go thither at once, getting a horse from any quarter, and to ride as if for his life. [11]
I had to visit Niagara fifteen times before I succeeded in getting my imaginary Falls gauged to the actuality and could begin to sanely and wholesomely wonder at them for what they were, not what I had expected them to be. [5]
The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
Well, I am very sorry, but it is getting dark and I must go. [10]
I was getting very much pressed for time, and I allowed ten minutes only for my visit. [6]
But I am very forgetful, now that I am old, and my sense of duty is getting spongy. [5]
It was getting very close to nine. [5]
We are getting used to ice frozen by artificial process in ordinary bottles --the only kind of ice they have here. [5]
We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
What was the use of getting him up in that tragic style for so innocent a trade as his? [5]
Where is the use in getting excited? [5]
The guide told us these things, and he would hardly try so hazardous an experiment as the telling of a falsehood, when it is all he can do to speak the truth in English without getting the lock-jaw. [5]

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