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Sentences ending with gulf

I bring my wife and my little Babette; and that was how we sail back to the great gulf. [11]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
The call of tubas and bugles rang without ceasing through the great building, to the frequent accompaniment of the most horrible sound of all in this hideous spectacle--the heavy fall of a dead man dropping from above into the gulf. [10]
Here he ventured to look below, expecting to see Carterette, but there was only the white sand, and no sound save the long wash of the gulf. [11]
Gaspard felt the thrill of his voice, and flashed a look out to the gulf. [11]
Else how would she have permitted him to escape uninjured when he was already standing upon the verge of an abyss, and a wave of her hand would have sufficed to hurl him into the death-dealing gulf? [10]
This morning they sat in the sun looking out upon the gulf. [11]
The Rock of Perce was a wall, three hundred feet high, and the wall was an island that had once been a long promontory like a battlement, jutting out hundreds of yards into the gulf. [11]
The current running down the Atchafalaya was very swift, the Mississippi showing a predilection in that direction, which needs only to be seen to enforce the opinion of that river's desperate endeavors to find a short way to the Gulf. [5]

More example sentences with the word gulf in them

I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
If we had, you'd have waited till the Gulf of Mexico freezes over before you got any coupons paid. [4]
Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor; darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides, to shoot the gulf, to reconcile the irreconcilable? [6]
Then the hot winds come up from the Gulf, and sleet melts, and windows are opened. [9]
The great gulf will swallow up one and all. [10]
But thee it will lead into paths ending in a gulf of darkness. [11]
And if he were," she added, "do you think, Monsieur, that we should find it easier to cross the gulf between us? [11]
Even princesses, who were separated from him by so wide a gulf, could not help favouring this man. [10]
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]
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]
What he held was that the artificial differences springing from the social union were disproportionate to the capacities springing from the original constitution; and that society, as now organized, tends to make the gulf wider between those who have privileges and those who have none. [4]
He and Tom understood each other, while between my father and myself was a great gulf fixed. [9]
I beheld the tortured faces of the wicked gathered on the one side, and my mother on the other amongst the blessed, gazing across the gulf at me with yearning and compassion. [9]
He never seemed to tire of looking down the gulf, as though expecting some ship. [11]
They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic. [5]
I wish rather to have you notice the gulf that exists between what the majority want to know and that fine fruit of knowledge concerning which there is so widespread an infidelity. [4]
The hut seemed to have been built at a point where east and west and south the great gulf could be seen and watched. [11]
By the same title which South Carolina asserted to Fort Sumter, Florida would have challenged as her own the Gibraltar of the Gulf, and Virginia the Ehrenbreitstein of the Chesapeake. [6]
Had--and at the thought he fancied that his heart had stopped beating--Had some gulf swallowed the lad when he was groping his way through the night? [10]
The land-offices in those States and Territories, as all know, form the great gulf by which all, or nearly all, the money in them is swallowed up. [7]
He ask if there will be chance of pilot into the gulf, because it is the first time that he visit Quebec. [11]
This is the theory; but, in fact, the Gulf Stream is mostly a delusion as to New England. [4]
So, also, with the Sun and Moon and the Milky Pay, otherwise the Gulf Stream of the Skies. [5]
The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills cease, and that the two hundred miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. [5]
An article in the New Orleans 'Times-Democrat,' based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico--which brings to mind Captain Marryat's rude name for the Mississippi--'the Great Sewer. [5]
Only think of the innocent Iphigenia who was dragged to the altar; did not the gulf in the Forum close when Curtius had leaped into it? [10]
I am one, the Grand Gulf and Northern, the impecunious one. [9]
Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
The conductor said that one of those streams which we were looking at, was just starting on a journey westward to the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, through hundreds and even thousands of miles of desert solitudes. [5]
There never was such a mockery as this Gulf Stream. [4]
We did not stop there to exchange courtesies, but pressed on to the Grand Gulf, the grave of many a keel boat before and since. [9]
Never off the stage, thought she, had she seen a man so stricken by love; for she could not suspect that to him it was as though a gulf had suddenly yawned at his feet. [10]
For instance, in Sparta they would have hurled me into the gulf, on account of my big head, and deformed shoulder. [10]
The snow had shrunk from the ardent sun, and had swilled away to the gulf, leaving the tender grass showing. [11]
But that you should kill him, apart from all else--why, indeed, oh, indeed, it is a tragedy, for you loved my daughter, and the killing made a gulf between you! [11]
It would be severely cold if the Gulf Stream did not make it always damp and curtain it with clouds. [4]
The river Niger, running northward from below Jenne to near Timbuctoo, and then turning west and south to the Gulf of Guinea, flows through one of the richest valleys in the world. [4]
There are no pleasing associations connected with the great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mouth. [5]
The watchman shot out of the place again; Ealer seized the wheel, set an engine back with power, and held his breath while the boat reluctantly swung away from a 'towhead' which she was about to knock into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico! [5]
Was it the one great question, that which had been like a gulf of fire between them? [11]
Into the gulf of no work and degradation? [11]
The same gulf of family distinction separates the Thompsons with a p from the Thomsons without that letter. [6]
The sudden rattle of drums gave him a start, and cruelly reminded him of the gulf of prejudice and hatred fast widening between the friends. [9]
Where was the ocean-deep gulf when the perjured betrayer clasped me in his arms, uttered vows of love, and called himself happy because his possession of me would beautify the evening of his life? [10]
Then I could not bear to go away with the ships, and at last I said: 'One month, and then the ice fills the gulf, and there will be no more ships for the winter. [11]
As they fled northward through the flat river-meadows, the conductor would have liked to talk to her of Mr. Merrill; there were few employees on any railroad who did not know the genial and kindly president of the Grand Gulf and sympathize with his troubles. [9]
Collecting in the mind the detached pictures given to our eyes in all these brilliant and inspiring days, we realize afresh the variety, the extent, the richness of these northeastern lands which the Gulf Stream pets and tempers. [4]
He probably will make a tour down the Mississippi and home by the gulf and ocean, but he will not meddle in your affairs. [7]
Long time he looked out upon the gulf, then his eyes drew into the bay and stayed there, seeing mechanically, as a hundred fancies went through his mind. [11]
No, no, that little step could not be taken; there was a gulf between them which could not be bridged. [11]
There was a kind of radiance in her face that struck John with awe, and he felt that now there was a great gulf between him and Cynthia. [4]
We came upon it out of total darkness, without warning; and we seemed, from our great height, to be about to leap into the splendid gulf of tremulous light and color. [4]
He says: "If it had been all the same to Gen. Sherman, I wish he had gone around by the way of the Gulf of Mexico, instead of marching through Georgia. [5]
Between them and it a great gulf was fixed: and they met its every catastrophe with the Quid Refert? [11]
The Swannanoa Summit is the dividing line between the waters that flow to the Atlantic and those that go to the Gulf of Mexico. [4]
Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. [7]
The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator,--a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North. [4]
This would be intolerable, were it not for the Gulf Stream. [4]
They have been in that gulf from which they would teach others the means of escape. [7]
For weeks an impassable gulf separated me from my father, with whom I had always had one heart and soul. [10]
For the rest, I would simultaneously defend and reinforce all the ports in the gulf, and have the navy recalled from foreign stations to be prepared for a blockade. [7]
One reason, as I said, for the gulf between the majority and the select few to be educated is, that the college does not seldom disappoint the reasonable expectation concerning it. [4]
She left to Hur to explain to the lover whom she had forever resigned what she had granted him, and when Joshua heard it, he started back as though a gulf yawned at his feet. [10]
A day, an hour had transported her from bitter poverty and torturing yearning to the side of the highest and greatest of monarchs, but who could tell for how long--how soon the fall into the gulf awaited her? [10]
The gulf of horrible suspicion between Rudyard and Jasmine was closed. [11]
He had kept his side of the gulf, but gloating on this touch between the old luxurious, indulgent life, with its refined vices, and this present coarse, hard life, where pleasures were few and gross. [11]
But, by degrees, he grasped the purport of whole sentences, and now he understood all that they said, not a word of their further conversation escaped him, and it was absorbing enough, though it revealed a gulf from which he shrank shuddering. [10]
Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube. [2]
The Ottomans too had not been idle, and with twelve myriads of soldiers on three hundred ships, awaited the foe in the Gulf of Lepanto. [10]
The colonists had great hopes of this river, which Mr: Hariot thought flowed out of the Gulf of Mexico, or very near the South Sea. [4]
There was a great gulf between them which she could not pass unless she ceased to be herself. [4]
Her eyes had gone blind for an instant; it had seemed for one sharp, crucial moment as though she could not bear it; then the gulf of agitation was passed, and she had herself in hand. [11]
The Gulf Stream gets shunted off from New England by the formation of the coast below: besides, it is too shallow to be of any service. [4]
At last anguish forced even the clearest memories into oblivion: she saw nothing save the tortures of her lover; her brain, still active, revealed solely the gulf at her feet, and the tomb which yawned not only for Antony, but for herself. [10]
Maybe you'll butter everybody's bread pretty soon, but we'll cotton-seed his salad for him from the Gulf to Canada, and that's a dead-certain thing. [5]
She could not endure these references to the dark gulf between her and Dyck Calhoun. [11]
They believed it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. [5]
He will doubtless eagerly desire to do so, but with him there is a wide gulf between the wish and its fulfilment. [10]
As we travelled down the gulf a great storm came out of the north. [11]
Almost as they did so there came a big puff of wind across the bay: one of those sudden currents that run in from the ocean and the gulf stream. [11]
A beautiful October day was dawning; no cloud dimmed the azure sky, and the sun's disk rose, glowing crimson, behind the narrow strait, that afforded ingress to the Gulf of Corinth. [10]
Between the secluded daughter of millions and the law clerk was a great gulf, but this did not prevent Evelyn's face, and, in moments of vanity, Evelyn herself, from belonging to Philip's world. [4]
Soon the captain come to me and say: 'You know the coast, the north coast of the gulf, from Labrador to Quebec? [11]
What is it but a gulf of iniquity, in which they are to wallow in sensual delight? [10]
In a long, broad corridor she had to walk on a narrow path, bordered by sphinxes; and there she clung tightly to her guide, for on one side of the foot-way yawned a gulf of great depth. [10]
Then the broad bosom of the great Gulf opened on his sight, tossing its restless billows, limitless, voiceless, lonely as when born of chaos, without a sail, without a sign of life. [5]
Apparently it was because at this late day they thought they had discovered a way to make it useful; for it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. [5]
The smoke of battle covered miles of the great gulf. [11]
Besides, March was aware of the gulf that divided him as a literary man from Beaton as an artist, and he only ventured to feel his way toward sympathy with him. [8]
Evelyn, indeed, seemed, at the distance of Newport, more unattainable than ever, and the scant news he had of the drama enacted there was a perpetual notice to him of the social gulf that lay between them. [4]
Her father, on asking her to come on this cruise, had said that it was a pleasure trip to meet a vessel in the gulf. [11]
I was pilot, and took ships out to sea, and brought them in safe up the gulf. [11]
De Soto urged and pushed the youth, who had already lost his mental equipoise, into the midst of the gulf, ere he had found the right current. [10]
The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. [5]
Cape Hateras is a vast body of water surrounded by land and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. [5]
There is for a third of the year a contest between the icy air of the pole and the warm wind of the gulf. [4]
And here was a gulf between them as deep and wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. [6]
They have drifted 750 miles and are still drifting in the relentless Gulf Stream! [5]
For instance-- 'At 4 o'clock ominous clouds began to gather in the south-east, and presently from the Gulf there came a blow which increased in severity every moment. [5]

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