Use harm in a sentence
Sentences ending with harm
- He was progressing, you see--the moral fear of shame had risen superior to the physical fear of harm. [5]
- Then the presumption would naturally be that it does harm. [3]
- I don't see why you want to keep back things that way, and try to injure a person that's never done you any harm. [5]
- Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
- Did the Tugendbund which saved Europe" (they did not then venture to suggest that Russia had saved Europe) "do any harm? [2]
- An hour ago we saw the Falls of the Rhone, a prodigiously rough and dangerous looking place; shipped a little water but came to no harm. [5]
- At first she was ill disposed to answer any questions, but she soon felt that attitude would only do harm. [11]
- Why do you want to do me any harm? [11]
- They are not unfriendly, and I don't see how they can do any harm. [5]
- Still he'd have understood, and he'd have thought no harm. [11]
Short sentences using harm
- Meaning no harm, worthy merchant! [10]
- Has harm come to him? [11]
- No harm in that. [5]
- I didn't mean no harm. [5]
- But it is no harm. [5]
- Me doing Dr. Jonathan harm? [9]
- What harm does it do? [5]
- But no harm is done. [5]
- There's no harm in it. [5]
- Well, that's no harm. [8]
Sentences containing harm two or more times
- Also, the Khedive told the Mouffetish that if any harm came to Dicky there would come harm to him. [11]
- Jim didn't mean no harm, and I didn't mean no harm. [5]
- No harm was meant, no harm in the world. [5]
- No harm --I mean no harm at all. [5]
- Do harm to me, and you do harm to her. [11]
- It was an insidious challenge which, if it failed, might do more harm to others, might do great harm, but he plunged. [11]
- Who seeks to harm him, would harm me. [11]
- They are forbidden, and he says I shall come to harm; but so I come to harm through pleasing him, why shall I care for that harm? [5]
- All their rushing and galloping at one another did little harm, the harm of disablement and death was caused by the balls and bullets that flew over the fields on which these men were floundering about. [2]
- The harm that a bad woman can do, Augusta, is sometimes exceeded only by the harm a good woman can do. [9]
More example sentences with the word harm in them
- I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
- Where I am you need have no fear that harm will befall them. [10]
- I dare say you meant no harm, and perhaps you will not now be able to understand why I was so grieved at what you will probably deem such a trifle; but grieved I was, and indignant too. [14]
- I don't do you any harm, do I? [5]
- I never did you any harm, and I do want to have a hero in my tiny circle. [11]
- It is my will that no harm befalls her. [10]
- There's nobody here will harm you. [12]
- I don't know what harm I may have brought about, but, great or little, I did it for you, Quilp. [12]
- You little realize what far-reaching harm has just been wrought here under the fickle forms of law. [5]
- If true, it were no great harm to suspend the law this one time--any would say that. [5]
- For so it went in the backwoods in those days, and long after, and no harm in it that ever I could see. [9]
- Gyges told us we were very imprudent, but we felt confident that we were too much inured to such things to get any harm, and very much enjoyed our swim in the cool, green water. [10]
- Her first thought was that she had been doing herself a harm by some deadly means or other. [6]
- But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn't any to see. [5]
- The white tent was carried away, but the cannon-balls flew over or merely battered the solid rock, the shells were thrown beyond, and no harm was done. [11]
- I said: "You wanted to burn me alive when I had not done you any harm, and latterly you have been trying to injure my professional reputation. [5]
- What do you want to harm him for? [5]
- Once within its walls, and confession made to the priest and absolution obtained, the wretch with a price upon his head could go forth without fear and without danger--he was tabu, and to harm him was death. [5]
- When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause. [5]
- They can be used and can circulate and fulfill their purpose without harm to anyone and even advantageously, as long as no one asks what is the security behind them. [2]
- He never did us any harm, and you know that's true, father. [11]
- She was tore up a good deal--one en' of her was; but dey warn't no great harm done, on'y our traps was mos' all los'. [5]
- Why should he treat dumb animals that way when they are not doing any harm? [5]
- But if I told you that you might harm Dr. Pindar by staying here, interfere with his career, would you be willing to leave? [9]
- I showed it to Uncle Jerry, and he said, 'Yes, I mentioned it to the editor; such things don't do any harm. [4]
- I don't want to report anybody, and I don't want to be reported--why, it might do me no end of harm! [5]
- He's done harm to Manitou--he's against Manitou every time. [11]
- One gentleman objected to it strongly, as calculated to do moral harm, and regretted that a man having so great an influence over the tone of thought of the day, as Thackeray, should not more carefully weigh his words. [14]
- They had concluded to hide the cheques, lest harm come to them; but when they searched they were gone from under the patient's pillow--vanished away. [5]
- Admitting this connection to exist, I should like to see the gentleman from Coles, or any other gentleman, undertake to show that there is any harm in it. [7]
- For I began to comprehend how much harm my conduct might do you socially in your village. [5]
- To be admired, to be deferred to--was there any harm in that? [4]
- You shan't come to any harm. [5]
- One couldn't come to any harm, whether he ran it right or not; and as for depth, there never had been any bottom there. [5]
- My hands are tied with regard to you, and yet they must be everywhere and always at work if the hundreds committed to my care are to be kept from harm. [10]
- The thought shot through me that I was a murderer; that I had killed a man--a man who had never done me any harm. [5]
- She no longer thought of the harm a piece of news might do her empty stomach, and, while mentally seeing the flutter of a matron's beautiful blue garment and the flash of Xanthe's rich dowry, eagerly asked the welcome messenger: "Does she speak the truth? [10]
- Fournel could only think of how to save his life, and to do that he must become the aggressor, for his wounds were bleeding hard, and he must have more wounds, if the fight went on without harm to the Seigneur. [11]
- That sort of thing only does harm. [11]
- Such benefactions as these compensate the temporary harm which Bonaparte and the Revolution did, and leave the world in debt to them for these great and permanent services to liberty, humanity, and progress. [5]
- I don't believe there's any harm in that young gentleman,--I don't care what people say. [6]
- Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? [12]
- She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. [5]
- Then I told them that this was only a bit of enchantment which would work harm to none but my enemies. [5]
- The family talked their troubles out before him the same as if he wasn't there, but we reckoned it wasn't any harm for him to hear what they said. [5]
- Then she recollected the severe punishment she had once suffered, because, when she was still quite little, and without meaning any harm, she had taken her father's water-clock to pieces, and had spoiled it. [10]
- The suggestion in the proclamation as to maintaining the political framework of the States on what is called reconstruction is made in the hope that it may do good without danger of harm. [7]
- Bodily harm was the natural form for their passion to take. [11]
- If not, divil the harm done. [11]
- It greatly enlarges the business, and does no one any harm. [5]
- There were in the Apostolic writings and tradition misinterpretations of life which had done much harm. [9]
- The disadvantage is that products, in the eagerness of competition for a market, are accepted which are of a character to harm and not help the development of the contemporary mind in moral and intellectual strength. [4]
- I assured her that nothing was needed for him that night but rest, and persuaded her that the excitement of her presence could only do harm. [6]
- The poor devil that Inspector Jules would arrest--well, he will get off, perhaps, but that does no one harm. [11]
- I was answered that he could do no harm, since the ministry and the parliament governed the land, and he was liable to impeachment for misconduct. [5]
- Her father had taken no harm from the heavy work at the oars, but Philip had returned from the galleys very ill, and they had carried him forthwith to the bedchamber, where Dido was now nursing him. [10]
- Remained, therefore, the supposition that if he cared for her she would do him no harm, as to his position. [11]
- These pretended inflammatory speeches, so reported as to seem full of combustibles, even if they were as threatening as they have been represented, would do no harm if read or declaimed in a man's study to his books, or by the sea-shore to the waves. [6]
- I've always been sorry since that I didn't make him take it back--it never did anything but harm to me. [9]
- Everybody was feeling so well that even the grave, pale young man (who, by a sort of kindly common consent, had come latterly to be referred to as "The Ass") received frequent and friendly notice--which was right enough, for there was no harm in him. [5]
- She had struggled so hard in these last days to banish all thought of her own happiness, and shield her dear ones from harm, that such selfishness appeared doubly cruel to her. [10]
- They fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm. [5]
- He would have shielded her from harm at the cost of his life. [11]
- It is feared she may have come to harm in some way, or be wandering at large in a state of temporary mental alienation. [6]
- And if a sentimental squeamishness held one or two of them back from taking a less rosy view of Napoleon, our hospitalities tied his tongue, at least, and he said nothing at all and so did us no harm. [5]
- Her quick eye seemed to read my thoughts, for as it met mine she added that there was no harm in what she had been doing, but it was a great secret--a secret which she did not even know herself. [12]
- But there don't seem to be any harm in him. [6]
- An', Jamie, ye'll see that nae harm cams to her when I'm far awa'? [9]
- What makes you say he means personal harm? [11]
- Why, for the sake of a whim, should you sacrifice the future bliss of a man, who in all his long life has never known happiness, and who has never done you any harm? [10]
- As Finden had said, "She was for ever acting, and never doin' any harm by it. [11]
- She said she reckoned it didn't do him no harm, and may be it done him good. [5]
- A cold chill ran through him when she asked him with trembling lips and a smothered voice, "What harm have I done you? [10]
- It was a quarrel, and Clint never did Greevy any harm. [11]
- No excommunication, no punishment, can make my present suffering harder to bear, but if you harm the doctor, I shall curse the hour I invited you to cross my threshold. [10]
- Keep these two protectors about your person day and night; they will not harm you, and you may want one or the other or both before you think of it. [6]
- But the "invulnerable probity" made the Richardses blush prettily; however, it went for modesty, and did no harm. [5]
- I yearn to print it, and where is the harm? [5]
- One never can predict the harm that a woman of that kind can do. [9]
- But if any prayed for me I think it was no harm. [5]
- Not that the powers of the Empire had permitted debates on most subjects, but there could be no harm in allowing the lower House to discuss as fiercely as they pleased dog and sheep laws and hedgehog bounties. [9]
- That cloud-bank is placed where the noise can't disturb the old inhabitants, and so there ain't any harm in letting everybody get up there and cure himself as soon as he comes. [5]
- I thought of Percy Singleton, and stopped him in the midst of a dance to bid him run as fast as his legs would carry him to the Coffee House, and to see that no harm befell you. [9]
- I'd gag some people that are doing terrible harm. [11]
- A little more pain and regret could do no harm, but only good. [11]
- The watch looked over, having heard a slight noise; but not knowing that Gering's cabin was beneath, thought no harm. [11]
- Digitalis has gone out of favor; how sure are we that Veratrum viride will not be found to do more harm than good in a case of internal inflammation, taking the whole course of the disease into consideration? [3]
- It did no other harm, but we took to the water just the same. [5]
- Nobody finds fault or feels outraged; no harm has been done. [5]
- A poor poem or essay does not do much harm after all; nobody reads it who is like to be seriously hurt by it. [6]
- Maybe that is only vanity, and no real harm, when you get to the bottom of it. [5]
- I must quote one other sentence, as it shows his animus at that time towards a distinguished statesman of whom he was afterwards accused of speaking in very hard terms by an obscure writer whose intent was to harm him. [6]
- But the sense of what she said, was, "He couldn't have done any harm in the conservatory--so you must go and make the entire house free to him and the burglars, imagining that he will prefer the coal-bins to the drawing-room. [5]
- She was one of those people who believe that if you dread harm enough it is less likely to happen. [8]
- A curious exemplification of the power of a single book for good or harm is shown in the effects wrought by 'Don Quixote' and those wrought by 'Ivanhoe. [5]
- At the end of ten seconds each man had struck twelve or fifteen blows, and warded off twelve or fifteen, and no harm done; then a sword became disabled, and a short rest followed whilst a new one was brought. [5]
- When I think of myself, it's as her old servant, and one that loved her dearly, as his kind, good, gentle mistress; and who would have gone--yes, and still would go--through any harm to serve her. [12]
- What Verus required of him did not seem to have any harm in it, and yet it was not right. [10]
- Well, a party of Aztecs on the other side of the river began firing across, not as if doing or meaning any harm. [11]
- I was incensed now, and he must take what fortune might send; one can not guide one's sword to do the least harm fighting as did we. [11]
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