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Sentences starting with ground

Ground wires were good enough, in both instances, for my wires were protected by an insulation of my own invention which was perfect. [5]
Ground floor. [5]

Sentences ending with ground

The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
Something--call it anything you like--made us meet on this neutral ground. [11]
The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground. [11]
Roaring like a wounded bull, cursing and raging, he laid about him on all sides with his staff, but hit nothing but the ground. [10]
Then people came who wanted to till the ground. [10]
The knight's knees were trembling under him, and as the monster, in the form of a unicorn, charged against his shield he fell to the ground. [10]
On the hummocks were graves, graves marked by wooden crosses, others by broken rifles thrust in the ground. [9]
Perhaps some deer were feeding there, for it was no unusual thing, when we rose in the morning, to hear the whistle of a startled doe near our camping ground. [9]
Down hill we went together, the fall showing that I must have wandered to high ground. [4]
We ought to wear emotional lightning-rods to carry off the brain-waves into the ground. [11]

Short sentences using ground

Chiltern leaped to the ground. [9]
It is on high ground. [5]
He shifts his ground. [7]
He shifted no ground. [7]
That covers the ground. [5]
Because she has given ground. [9]
He covers the entire ground. [5]
When do you break ground? [9]

Sentences containing ground two or more times

The explosion threw us all to the ground, and covered us with dirt and debris; it frightened us extremely, too, for the crash it made was deafening, and the violence of the shock made the ground tremble. [5]
Well, we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there. [5]
From the outside the spectacle might have had its pathos, and it is not easy to justify such an experiment as he had made at his time of life, except upon the ground where he rested from its consideration--the ground of necessity. [8]
The spot for the shanty is cleared of underbrush; forked stakes are driven into the ground, cross-pieces are laid on them, and poles sloping back to the ground. [4]
Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons. [5]
Orlando slid to the ground beside the figure which was slowly raising itself from the ground. [11]
I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground--hard packed, and no boards. [5]
The garden is on high ground in the middle of the town, overlooking the great harbor, and it adjoins the spacious grounds of Government House--fifty-six acres; and at hand also, is a recreation ground containing eighty-two acres. [5]
After the effects of a shower of rain have passed away the surface of the ground crumbles into a thick layer of dust, and occasionally, when the wind is in a particular quarter, it is lifted bodily from the ground in one long opaque cloud. [5]
There has been no thought of removing General Fremont on any ground connected with his proclamation, and if there has been any wish for his removal on any ground, our mutual friend Sam. [7]

More example sentences with the word ground in them

Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [7]
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
I will kiss your footprints--I will worship the very ground you walk on! [5]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
When he had yielded the ground to another orator, I handed him the letter. [9]
They gleam golden yellow, and will yield us snow-white meal when they are ground, and yet they grew from a rotting seed. [10]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
At first he would draw with his stick a square upon the ground to show them where it used to stand. [12]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
It was level with the ground, a crumpled heap of ruins. [11]
Whitie watched him with somber eyes of love, and Ring, crouched on the little rise of ground above, kept tireless guard. [13]
Lassiter traveled slower, with more exceeding care as to the ground he chose, and he kept speaking low to the dogs. [13]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
This was coincident with his failure at the ash-factory, where he mismanaged and even robbed Jean Jacques right and left; and she had firmly insisted on Jean Jacques evicting him, on the ground that it was not Sebastian Dolores' bent to manage a business. [11]
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]
He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. [2]
They had come with a message, whose importance would permit no delay, to the Regent Mardion, who stood between Zeno and Iras, gazing gloomily at the ground with a frowning brow. [10]
I do not wish to see any more places like Esdraelon, where the ground is level and people can gallop. [5]
Turkey-cocks scrape their wings against the ground, and some kinds of grouse thus produce a buzzing sound. [1]
The fate of William Morgan, which the community learned not long after this time, reminds me of the danger of the ground upon which I am treading. [6]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
By these it will be seen how wide a ground it covers. [6]
This covers the whole ground, from the settlement of a Territory till it reaches the degree of maturity entitling it to form a State Constitution. [7]
It's only we who turn up the ground, where nothing grows and everything decays, who think of such things as these--who think of them properly, I mean. [12]
He ordered Morris, who stood behind his chair, to have the ground searched and to bring in any straggler. [11]
Those illustrious adventurers who sailed in her landed on the Jersey flats, preferring a marshy ground, where they could drive piles and construct dykes. [4]
The two men, who had been drinking, hardly knew what ground to take. [6]
The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
They ground their white teeth with fury and nothing within ken escaped their bright hawk's eyes. [10]
She let her whip fall to the ground, that he might pick it up and restore it to her, but he did not observe it. [10]
The changes also which they undergo are due to the intrusion of new precedents, which hold their ground against opposition, and keep their place. [5]
The ground on which the city stood was too high for the water ever to reach it. [10]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
On the ground which Joan had won we camped; for night was coming on. [5]
In the garden, which is a room of the house, the tall callas, rooted in the ground, stand about the fountain; the sun, streaming through the glass, illumines the many-hued flowers. [4]
The ground upon which I have ventured was already occupied by three considerable Memoirs. [6]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
In spite of which he almost succeeded, this very day, in regaining, for a time at least, the ground he had lost with her. [11]
In my answers, which have been printed, and all have had the opportunity of seeing, I take the ground that those who elect me must expect that I will do nothing which will not be in accordance with those answers. [7]
The caravansary into which Haschim and his following now turned off stood on a plot of rising ground surrounded by palm-trees. [10]
A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion. [10]
There were afternoons when the world was flooded with silver light, when the fields were lucent in the sun; and afternoons stained with blue,--the landscape like a tapestry woven in delicate grins on a ground of indigo. [9]
She was glad when she saw the young braves bring a long sapling from the forest, and, digging a hole, put it stoutly in the ground, and fetch wood, and heap it about. [11]
But Cerise knew, when Gaston let her to the ground again, that she had not conquered. [11]
One month later, when a fine white surf of frost lay on the ground, and the sky was darkened often by the flight of the wild geese southward, they came upon a hut perched on a bluff, at the edge of a clump of pines. [11]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
Birds of prey were attacking his body as it lay upon the ground, and she could not drive them off. [10]
All his nobles were assembled waiting for him there, welcomed him with loud acclamations, and fell on their faces to the ground before their king. [10]
Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [2]
It will be well for the council, however, not to publish the bull either just before or just after a rain; for nothing can kill this pestilent heresy when the ground is wet. [4]
In a few weeks you would in any case have left the college, and by the king's command have transferred your blooming life, health, and strength to the exercising ground of the chariot-brigade. [10]
And Lockhart, next week, was coming to Hampton to make a great speech and look over the ground for himself. [9]
But even as we waited with set teeth, our bows ground into the enemy's weather quarter-gallery. [9]
In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill-cities--for Baton Rouge, yet to come, is not on a hill, but only on high ground. [5]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
They declared that we had been traveling over and over the same ground all day, in a kind of circle. [5]
And even if we do not win at once, it is better to suffer and die fighting than to have the life ground out of us--is it not? [9]
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]
It was straight way baptized, then it passed from life again and was buried in holy ground. [5]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
Once a cement water-pipe under ground at Stawell began to gradually reduce its output, and finally ceased altogether to deliver water. [5]
He simply stopped washing, leaned forward and surveyed the clean, blank ground a moment, and then remarked: "Mph! [5]
But, as it was, he cut the face off the work with a knife, and deliberately trod the pieces under foot as they lay on the ground. [10]
Whatever mistake he was thought to have committed was condoned by amicable treatment, neutralized by the virtual indorsement of the government in the instructions of the 25th of September, and obsolete as a ground of quarrel by lapse of time. [6]
After all, where was the ground for the charge of insult? [11]
The whole ground was strewed with fragments of clothing, haversacks, canteens, cap-boxes, bullets, cartridge-boxes, cartridges, scraps of paper, portions of bread and meat. [6]
Just as he was stooping over the fire, as Gordineer did, I sprang upon him, clasping him about the neck, and bringing him to the ground. [11]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
When the question was raised in 1846, he was in a blustering hurry to take ground for it. [7]
The old woman was quite herself again over the work, and as she looked at Euphorion, who sat quite crushed on his couch with his eyes fixed on the ground, she cried out to him: "After bad times, come good ones! [10]
When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight. [2]
But the island was not true to itself or its history if it did not divide itself into factions, headed by the Seigneurs, and there had been no ground for good division for five years till De la Foret came. [11]
Only it still was not the sea at all; but the little chopping waves looked like flecked clouds; and it was exactly as if one of the violet, cloud-beautified skies that we see at home over some sunsets had fallen to the ground. [4]
Just as I was in the very act of mounting, I lost my senses and strength, and fell down on the ground in a dead faint. [10]
Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
The ground about was compact gravel. [4]
The dwarf Nemu was brought before the Regent and threw himself on the ground at his feet. [10]
A keen wind was blowing, and rushed against them fiercely: bleaching the hard ground, shaking the white frost from the trees and hedges, and whirling it away like dust. [12]
They said it was an old battle ground. [5]
At the top was a plateau, smooth and fine as a parade-ground, where battle could be given, or move be made upon the city and citadel, which lay on ground no higher. [11]
Behind the house was a little stable where four tiny horses with spotted skins, the rarest and prettiest creatures imaginable--a gift from the King of Media--were stamping the ground. [10]
This we learned was a favorite camp-meeting ground. [4]
She hurried along Warren Street without once looking over her shoulder; her feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground, the sound of music was in her ears, the lights sparkled. [9]
Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
He liked to wander dreamily in lonely paths, with his large, dark eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
Eleven of them voted dead against the torture, and stood their ground in spite of Cauchon's abuse. [5]
Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
They long to visit the haunts of men, To see the old dwellings they knew again, And ride on their broomsticks all around Their wide domain of unhallowed ground. [6]
Does he not virtually shift his ground and say that it is not a question for the Court, but for the people? [7]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
She pressed along vigilantly by a descending path, until her feet touched rocky ground. [11]
The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. [5]
It must be very near noon if not already past; she dusted her sandals and tidied her curly hair, picking out the dry leaves and not noticing that at the same time a rose fell out on the ground. [10]

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