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Sentences starting with groups

Groups of singers stood outside the windows. [2]
Groups of gazing pilgrims stood around all and every of these strange objects, lost in reverent wonder, and envious of the fleckless sanctity which these pious austerities had won for them from an exacting heaven. [5]
Groups of people, having taken the water, were strolling about the graveled paths, sitting on the slopes overlooking the pond, or wandering up the glen to the tiny deer park. [4]
Groups of tall bamboo. [5]
Groups of Germans are seated at tables playing cards, smoking, and taking coffee. [4]

Sentences ending with groups

By nature and tradition we are inclined to deplore and oppose any tendency toward the stratification of class antagonisms--the result of industrial discontent--into political groups. [9]
We cannot have this house next season, but I have secured Mrs. Upton's house which is over in the law and science quarter, two or three miles from here, and about the same distance from the art, literary, and scholastic groups. [5]
The pictures of these bizarre cottages, with the family and friends seated in front, show very serious groups. [4]
With the exception of the aunt, beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had settled into three groups. [2]
In the family of pigs, and in the tapirs, the young are marked with longitudinal stripes, and thus differ from all the existing adult species in these two groups. [1]
It must not, however, be supposed that groups of organic beings are always supplanted, and disappear as soon as they have given birth to other and more perfect groups. [1]
This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual places and met in certain habitual groups. [2]
When he had gone, Nahoum swung slowly round and faced the agitated groups. [11]
Then he steps forward and surveys the scattered groups. [9]
They were now enjoying the evening respite and had gathered in two groups. [10]

Sentences containing groups two or more times

For decoration, there was an oar garnished with a ribbon, and several groups of college undergraduates, mostly either in puffed ties or scanty attire, and always prominent in these groups, and always unmistakable, was Mr. Humphrey Crewe himself. [9]
These three groups traveling together--the cavalry stores, the convoy of prisoners, and Junot's baggage train--still constituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away. [2]
There were also small scratch groups of foot and horse, and groups of peasants and landowners that remained unknown. [2]
He walked on, slowly, past other groups, turned the corner of West Street, where the groups were more numerous, while the number of those running the gantlet had increased. [9]
He kept the peasant families together in the largest groups possible, not allowing the family groups to divide into separate households. [2]

More example sentences with the word groups in them

They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
There were here whole groups of men who did not join at all, or hardly opened their mouths. [10]
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]
Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, others chess, other groups were chatting together, and many were smoking cigarettes while they waited for the coming duels. [5]
Here and there were groups of river-drivers and their foremen, prying twisted heaps of logs from the rocks or the shore into the water. [11]
All night there were groups of men waiting outside Ingolby's house. [11]
Between them fires were burning, round which were gathered groups of Roman soldiers and imperial servants. [10]
He made his way to the door and saw the people in the choir room, standing silently, in groups, looking toward him. [9]
Austen took his way slowly across the state-house park, threading among the groups between the snow-banks towards the wide facade of the Pelican Hotel. [9]
When the "reception" was over and the company was breaking up into groups and moving about, Philip again sought Evelyn. [4]
At no hour was it empty, but at morning prayer and at vespers the benches were apt to be filled, and groups of penitents or spectators were kneeling or standing on the floor. [4]
After hearing what was being said by one or other of these groups he generally turned away with an air of disappointment, as though they were not speaking of anything he wished to hear. [2]
Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
We took a walk down street, a block or two, and a place where four streets met and the principal shops were clustered, found the groups of men in the roadway thicker than ever--for this was the Exchange of Chamonix. [5]
For a while voices came up to him from the street, but at length the groups dispersed, one by one; and a distant clock boomed out eleven solemn strokes. [9]
Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. [5]
Together they sped towards the mine, little groups running beside them, muttering those dark sayings which, either as curses or laments, are painful comments on the relations of life on the lower levels with life on the higher plateaux. [11]
It was interesting to watch the groups under the locusts, to see the management of the ferry, the mounting and dismounting of the riding-parties, and to study the colors on the steep hill opposite, halfway up which was a neat cottage and flower-garden. [4]
Suppose we were to remain in this magnificent palace, and to represent ourselves the beautiful groups which the great artists of the past have produced in painting or sculpture; but let us choose those only that are least known. [10]
Eldon Parr turned to one of the groups on the will, the earliest taken at school. [9]
He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and strutting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them. [5]
In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street. [5]
For we can thus see how it has come to pass that certain mental faculties, in various and widely distinct groups of animals, have been developed in nearly the same manner and to nearly the same degree. [1]
The gallery was thronged with spectators, clustering like bees about the large windows, and the notes of the band came floating out over the lawn, bringing to the groups there the lulling impression that life is all a summer holiday. [4]
This edifice, which, though its exterior was almost wholly devoid of ornament, nevertheless presented a majestic aspect on account of its vast size, adjoined a splendid park, whose leafy groups of ancient trees merged into the forest of Soignies. [10]
He slipped in there, avoiding the crowded lobby with its shifting groups and its haze of smoke,--plainly to be seen behind the great plates of glass,--went upstairs, and gained room Number. [9]
Any description of them is impossible; but mention may be made of two characteristic groups, remarkable for execution, and having yet a deeper interest. [4]
Staid citizens with their families occupied the benches, groups were chatting under the spreading linden-tree at the north entrance, and young maidens in white muslin promenaded, looking seaward, as was the wont of Puritan maidens, watching a receding or coming Mayflower. [4]
Some slouched in their chairs, others stood and talked in groups, gesticulating with cigars and pipes; yet a keen spectator, after watching them awhile through the smoke, might have been able to pick out striking personalities among them. [9]
In like manner the same form of transmission has generally prevailed under nature throughout the same groups, although marked exceptions to this rule occur. [1]
But most of the pictures were taken on dry land, of single persons, couples, and groups in their bathing suits. [4]
Between these is the old Residenz, adorned with fountain groups and statues in bronze. [4]
Suddenly one of the groups, shouting and gesticulating, surged toward him and made an appeal through their interpreter. [9]
The fact of the feathers in widely distinct groups having been modified in an analogous manner no doubt depends primarily on all the feathers having nearly the same structure and manner of development, and consequently tending to vary in the same manner. [1]
I had reached the dock and was making my way through the hurrying and shifting groups toward the steamer train when I saw Maude. [9]
Anna Pavlovna arranged the different groups in her drawing room with her habitual skill. [2]
The remainder of the day, if the weather was pleasant, I spent out of doors, usually in the grounds under the leafy trees and groups of shrubs on the shore of the Enz. [10]
In spite of the cries of protest that followed her and drew--she thought--an unnecessary and disagreeable attention to her departure, she threaded her way among groups of people who stared after her. [9]
Every portion of the building blazed with gold and vivid coloring; the painter's hand had added life to the marble groups in high relief that filled the pediments and the smaller figures in the long row of metopes. [10]
The Report shows that the travelers moved in exceedingly small groups --twos, threes, fours, as a rule; a party with a dozen in it was rare. [5]
The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit. [2]
Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one noble and saving, as the other is fatal. [4]
These latter fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods, and were constructed on what is called a generalised type, that is, they presented diversified affinities with other groups of organisms. [1]
The easiest and surest why of acquiring facts is to learn them in groups, in systems, and systematized knowledge is science. [3]
The judge was stretching himself; several men who must have been lawyers, and with whom Mr. Beckwith was exchanging amenities behind the railing, were arranging their books and papers; some of the people were leaving, and others talking in groups about the room. [9]
Soldiers and sailors stood in groups in the centre, awaiting the orders of the old general and his subordinate officers. [10]
Still he had stayed on, going here and there, mostly among the men themselves, talking to them in little groups, arguing simply with them, patiently dealing with facts and figures, quietly showing them the economic injustice which lay behind their full demands, and suggesting compromises. [11]
Many simple folks squatted in circular groups on the ground, and joined in the burden of songs which were led by an appointed singer, to the sound of a tabor and flute. [10]
A score of sputtering, smoking pine-knots threw a lurid light on as many hilarious groups, and revealed, fantastically enough, the boles and lower branches of the big shade trees above them. [9]
It offered a splendid, and at the same time a pleasing prospect to the ships which sailed by at its foot, for it stood, not a huge and solitary mass in the midst of the surrounding gardens, but in picturesque groups of various outline. [10]
Along Faber Street, singly or in little groups, anxiously glancing around them, behind them, came the workers who still clung desperately to their jobs. [9]
Some groups were silent; others discussed angrily the question, who was the incendiary--that it had been set on fire seemed certain. [11]
On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. [2]
In a wooden shed, whose roof was supported by gaily painted pillars, through which the wind whistled, the servants, from the porters to the litter-bearers, had gathered in groups under the flickering light of the lanterns. [10]
The Welshman admitted several ladies and gentlemen, among them the Widow Douglas, and noticed that groups of citizens were climbing up the hill--to stare at the stile. [5]
Their statues are set up in the streets; their works still live in the churches and city buildings,--pictures, and groups in stone and wood; and their statues, in all sorts of carving, are reproduced, big and little, in all the shop-windows, for sale. [4]
This brilliant company separated into several groups who all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the position, the state of the army, the plans suggested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions generally. [2]
But I never see much life in those groups I sometimes meet;--and then the careful man watches them so closely! [6]
It was a sea of flashing color all about, but these two groups were the high notes. [5]
All along the road groups of French prisoners captured that day (there were seven thousand of them) were crowding to warm themselves at campfires. [2]
A wind was rising, bearing with it song and laughter from distant groups, --Teutonic song and, laughter. [9]
Sweet-toned bells were ringing as she reached the residence portion of the town, and subdued pedestrians in groups and couples made their way along the sidewalks. [9]
It was all quite as vague to Honora as the trial of the Jack of Hearts; the buzzing of the groups still continued around the court room, and nobody appeared in the least interested. [9]
Bindon was peacefully pursuing its way, though here and there were little groups of strikers who had not resumed work. [11]
When the popular proprietor of the tin shop came sauntering along the sidewalk with nose uptilted, waving genial greetings to the various groups on the steps, Chris Auermann's expression would suddenly change to one of fatuous playfulness. [9]
But the call produced no effect, for in the market square groups had formed on opposite sides, and blows and wrestling threatened to end in a sanguinary street-riot. [10]
Several of the priests placed themselves together in groups as soon as they saw him, and began singing. [10]
At a certain point there were little groups of men with faces more set than excited. [11]
In the hall, people were talking and laughing in groups, and it came as a distinct surprise to her that their arrival seemed to occasion no remark. [9]
He saw the people in scattered groups, looking more homeless than if they had no homes. [11]
Various groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displacement of peoples was in course of preparation. [2]
The dingy brown parlour was filled with men, standing in groups and talking in subdued voices. [9]
But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange-tip, etc. [1]
Hyomoschus, also, offers one of those interesting cases of a form linking together two groups, for it is intermediate in certain osteological characters between the pachyderms and ruminants, which were formerly thought to be quite distinct. [1]
He was approaching one of the groups of strikers, and unconsciously he slowed his steps. [9]
He had wandered on until he had come to the end of the bridge and into the great groups of traffickers who, at this place, made a market of their wares. [11]
They sat down on one of the benches and watched the groups of players pass. [9]
Some of the old folks looked on, others conversed in groups and pairs, and so the evening wore along, until a little after ten o'clock. [6]
They were standing off about a mile from the island, and could see lighted fires and groups of people upon the shore, when suddenly a gale came out from the southwest, the wind having again shifted. [11]
In the court of the pattern-house stood several groups of citizens from Thebes, gathered round different individuals, to whom they were expressing their sympathy. [10]
At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving. [2]
In the bowels of the granite mountains she has patiently carved out dozens of vast temples, and made them glorious with sculptured colonnades and stately groups of statuary, and has adorned the eternal walls with noble paintings. [5]
On the outskirts of one of the groups, however, I saw Justine Caron. [11]
Those little groups of men sleeping around their fires were like a family, where men grow to serve each other as brother serves brother, knowing each other's foibles, but preserving each other's honour for the family's pride, risking life to save each other. [11]
A big fire of logs was blazing in the ample chimney-place; groups were seated about at ease, chatting, reading, smoking; couples promenaded up and down; and from the distant parlor, through the long passage, came the sound of the band. [4]
Upon the appearance of Jethro's party, the talk was hushed, the groups gave way, and they accomplished a kind of triumphal march to the desk. [9]
The picturesque groups of idlers and traffickers were more interesting to us than the palaces with sculptured fronts and old Roman busts, or tombs of the Scaligers, and old gates. [4]
Besides this show of foot-soldiers--that is, regulars and irregulars of the Cornwallis Regiment, and men of the Defenders and the Peep-o'-Day Boys--there were little groups of cavalry making their way to the parade- ground, the castle, the barracks, or the courts. [11]
The great principle of evolution stands up clear and firm, when these groups or facts are considered in connection with others, such as the mutual affinities of the members of the same group, their geographical distribution in past and present times, and their geological succession. [1]
Among the groups of elders gathered for gossip were piratical Calabrians in sombre clothes, descended from Greek ancestors, once the terrors of the Adriatic Sea. [9]
In many groups of birds the plumage is differently coloured in the several species, yet certain spots, marks, or stripes are retained by all. [1]
From the facts now given, we may conclude that the courtship of birds belonging to widely different groups, is often a prolonged, delicate, and troublesome affair. [1]
The war has not changed the Southern habit of sitting out-of-doors, but has added a new element of street picturesqueness in groups of colored people lounging about the corners. [4]
The groups do not all remain long in place, you may imagine; there is a good deal of shifting about, and I see little stragglers wandering over the church, like fairies lighted by fireflies. [4]
But there were no strikers in sight, and on Second Avenue they stood quietly about in groups on the corners. [8]
But these lesser nervous centres are to a large extent dominated by influences transmitted from certain groups of nerve-cells in the brain and its immediate dependencies. [6]
They approach much nearer, if we take them in groups of twenty. [6]
Some of the most important old men were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully to hear the voices of well-known men. [2]

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