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Sentences ending with holes

Beyond these there was the jaunting-car trundling over the rough cobblestone street, or bumping in and out of dangerous holes. [11]
More than half the men's boots were in holes. [2]
The keeper said that he intended at the next court to ask the commissioners to build the fence higher and stop up the holes. [4]
Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes. [13]
In all quarters of the world the septum, and more rarely the wings of the nose are pierced; rings, sticks, feathers, and other ornaments being inserted into the holes. [1]
But for that I should still be in the city of cities; but it robbed me of my best clients, and so I was transferred to this dullest of holes. [10]
Turning them over I saw that the zarape was pierced with holes-bullet holes. [11]
Ages of rain had run down the slope, circling, eddying in depressions, wearing deep round holes. [13]

More example sentences with the word holes in them

I had him wrapped in blankets and set in a chair with holes bored in the seat. [9]
Now and then we came upon holes burrowed a few feet into the declivities and apparently abandoned; and now and then we found one or two listless men still burrowing. [5]
The roofs are very thick, and so are the walls; the latter have square holes in them for windows. [5]
At first we used to shin for the holes a good deal faster than we did afterwards. [5]
It's no news up in Utah how he holes in canyons an' leaves no track. [13]
The day he took his degree he had to be dragged from a huge grandfather's chair, and forced along in his ragged gown--"ten holes and twelve tatters"--to the function in the convocation hall. [11]
The third mate told me that the boots were old and full of holes; then added thoughtfully, 'but the holes digested the best. [5]
Then he turned to the mob and said: "Hunt your holes, you scum! [5]
When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress. [5]
Every one of these wild cat mines--not mines, but holes in the ground over imaginary mines--was incorporated and had handsomely engraved "stock" and the stock was salable, too. [5]
And some of these things had small round holes bored through them--nobody knows how it was done; a mystery, a lost art. [5]
From one of these shady holes a rabbit hopped out and squatted down, laying its ears flat. [13]
Looking up at the walls I saw set in the timber a number of holes cleanly bored. [11]
I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them. [5]
The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. [5]
But he felt the judge's gimlet eyes boring holes in his back. [9]
They filled up the holes of the conversation with running commentaries, giving a dig at the luckless narrator and a side-slap at each other, until one would have given his oath they were sworn enemies. [9]
It automatically punches the holes in the jacquard cards, and does it with mathematical accuracy. [5]
When he gained the cover of cedars he paused to rest and look, and it was then he saw how the trees sprang from holes in the bare rock. [13]
These holes were the beginnings of tunnels, and the purpose was to drive them hundreds of feet into the mountain, and some day tap the hidden ledge where the silver was. [5]
The hill-sides of Syria are riddled with holes, where miserable hermits, whose lives it had palsied, lived and died like the vermin they harbored. [6]
The dancing-dogs, the stilts, the little lady and the tall man, and all the other attractions, with organs out of number and bands innumerable, emerged from the holes and corners in which they had passed the night, and flourished boldly in the sun. [12]
Holes, so to speak, were dug in New England, and in the middle South, and along the frontier, and such leads were found that again and again the certainty arose that at last the real American ore had been discovered. [4]
There is a sledge drawn by one poor horse, and on the front of it is a cask of water pierced with holes, so that the water squirts out and wets the stones, making it easier sliding for the runners. [4]
It was painfully quiet, as if a beaten people had crawled away into the holes our shot and shell had made, to hide their misery. [11]
Then we meandered pleasantly away toward the hermit holes in sociable converse together, and better friends than ever. [5]
This track was perforated by huge pot-shaped holes in the bed-rock, formed by the furious washing-around in them of boulders by the turbulent torrent which flows beneath all glaciers. [5]
An' now I'm packin' five bullet holes in my carcass, an' guns without shells. [13]
Then I looked over my burnt dress and was horrified to see how large the holes were, and it struck me that I might turn it, because when you turn a thing the spots, you know, do not show. [10]
It has climbed over all the accidental obstructions it met in the highway, and dropped into all the holes and deep ruts that made the heavy farmer sitting over it use his Sunday vocabulary in a week-day form of speech. [6]
About forty of our British birds (excluding those of large size which could defend themselves) build in holes in banks, rocks, or trees, or construct domed nests. [1]
The two injured ones were leaking badly; some of the men were kept busy baling, others patched the holes as well as they could. [5]
The hovel out of which pussy has crept is small and barely furnished; it would be perfectly dark too, but that the holes in the roof and the rift in the door admit light into this most squalid room. [10]
And in one of the last of these holes was a peg. [11]
By that salutation of the east, given in the far north, Lawless knew that he had met one who had lighted fires where men are many and close to the mile as holes in a sieve. [11]
The marble casements of the doors had been shattered in several places, and the double doors themselves pierced all over with bullet holes, from the musketry that played upon them from the staircase during that eventful night. [4]
Then the Gardeniers, of Hudson and thereabouts, distinguished by many triumphant feats, such as robbing watermelon patches, smoking rabbits out of their holes, and the like, and by being great lovers of roasted pigs' tails. [4]
Several horizontal rows of great square holes, obstructed by a thin, shiny, transparent substance, pierced the frontage of each cavern. [5]
And had I not been so long accustomed to picking holes in arguments I am sure I should not have perceived the fallacies of this she was making for the benefit of the Celebrity. [9]
The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs. [5]
The rooms were low and damp, the clammy walls were pierced with chinks and holes, the rotten floors had sunk from their level, the very beams started from their places and warned the timid stranger from their neighbourhood. [12]
Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls. [5]
Here criminals were killed, the flesh stripped from the bones and burned, and the bones secreted in holes in the body of the structure. [5]
When the baron is defeated, the serfs come out of their holes in the castle rock and fling their curses across the moat. [9]
They peeped down into the dark holes of the kivas, and Bess gleefully dropped a stone and waited for the long-coming hollow sound to rise. [13]
A golden screen, in which there were holes for him to look through without being seen, hid him from public gaze; still Diodoros could recognize those who were admitted to his presence. [10]
I knocked holes in the roofs per usual, burnt everything that wasn't wood, let in the light o' heaven, and splashed about limewash and perchloride. [11]
The first thing I hear of him is that he's digging holes in the clay of Chickasaw Bluff, and his cap is fanned off by the blast of a Parrott six feet above his head. [9]
They were mere holes, tunnels, driven into the perpendicular clay bank, then branched Y shape, within the hill. [5]
Says they are holes where he dug up saplings for shade-trees when ground was frozen last winter. [5]
Oldring had many holes to his burrow. [13]
Of all the holes for a rustler!...There's a cavern under that waterfall, and a passageway leading out to a canyon beyond. [13]
Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger. [5]
The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. [5]
The young one for me and the old one for you in our leisure hours, my son; better washed linen; clothes without holes in them; no dust on our books; a pleasant 'Rejoice' every morning, or at meal-times;--only look at the fruit on that dish! [10]
The month was February, the day overcast and muggy, and she stood for a while apparently watching the holes made in the snow by the steady drip from the cap of the garden wall. [9]
We've got to do it to-night, too, because if somebody sees these holes they'll know in a minute what's here and they'll go for it. [5]
The houses were dimly lighted by wooden-shuttered windows--that is, holes in the walls which served for windows. [5]
It was a cross-country road, full, after the first three or four miles, of holes and cart-ruts, which, being covered by the snow, were so many pitfalls to the trembling horses, and obliged them to keep a footpace. [12]
Shipped my newspaper correspondence, which they took with tongs, dipped it in sea water, clipped it full of holes, and then fumigated it with villainous vapors till it smelt like a Spaniard. [5]
Why, when he comes back to Coniston, them fellers'll hunt their holes like rabbits, mark my words. [9]
They had to climb this, so the guide in the lead cut steps in the ice with his hatchet, and as fast as he took his toes out of one of these slight holes, the toes of the man behind him occupied it. [5]
Instantly the toads came out of their holes in the dirt, by tens and twenties and fifties, to escape death by drowning. [4]
There are eight bullet-holes in that zarape"--he pointed to the wall--" there are eight holes in the wall for the Little Red Peg. [11]
These huge round boulders still remain in the holes; they and the walls of the holes are worn smooth by the long-continued chafing which they gave each other in those old days. [5]
But there came behind Adam Heyden's bier many right honest and respected folk, and a throng, reaching far away, of such as might feel the wind whistling cold through the holes in their sleeves and about their bare heads. [10]
I'll be a bandit, and when I'm old, and if Diaz doesn't put me against the wall and prod holes in me like Gonzales, they'll take me in the Rurales, same as Gerado. [11]
But your philosophers are treating the world of living souls as if they were, each of them, playing a game of solitaire,--all the pegs and all the holes alike. [6]
He said the Apaches used to annoy him all the time down there, and that he came as near as anything to starving to death in the midst of abundance, because they kept him so leaky with bullet holes that he "couldn't hold his vittles. [5]
Sure I've niver a shoe to my fut, only jist these two that I've got on, an' one other pair, and thim is so full of holes that whin I 'm standin' in 'em I'm outside of 'em intirely. [6]
If we had a little more faith and a few more caverns, or convenient places for making them, we should have hermits in these holes as thick as woodchucks or prairie dogs. [6]
He had climbed a hundred rods inward, and yet he had not reached the base of the shelf where the cliff-dwellings rested, a long half-circle of connected stone house, with little dark holes that he had fancied were eyes. [13]
It was not a favorable time for me to explain the difference between puttering hoeing, and the broad, free sweep of the instrument, which kills the weeds, spares the plants, and loosens the soil without leaving it in holes and hills. [4]
The slope for a couple of thousand feet was steep enough; but it was formed of granite rocks all moss-covered, so that the footing could not be determined, and at short intervals we nearly went out of sight in holes under the treacherous carpeting. [4]

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