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Sentences starting with imagination

Imagination would not take away her courage. [11]
Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. [5]
Imagination grew high in him in a moment--that beginning of fear and sorrow and heart-burning; yet, too, the beginning of hope and wisdom and achievement. [11]
Imagination labors best in distant fields. [5]
Imagination cannot conceive how disjointed I was--how internally, externally and universally I was unsettled, mixed up and ruptured. [5]
Imagination would beset her path with dangers; it would be to her, with her beauty, a fatal gift, a danger to herself and others. [11]
Imagination then has free play. [4]
Imagination came to a standstill, for what could it add to these wonders? [10]

Sentences ending with imagination

The latter opinion will probably prevail, for it has nature on its side, and the course of history, and the imagination. [4]
And a lawyer will never be eminent who has not imagination. [4]
There are some who say that those are happiest who keep at home and content themselves with reading about the lands of the imagination. [4]
Moor praised your vivid imagination. [10]
Nay, he found very soon that the feeling of security, without any sordid worry, gave freedom to his imagination. [4]
I wrote The Trail of the Sword because the early history of the struggles between the French and English and the North American Continent interested me deeply and fascinated my imagination. [11]
I must return to the scene where I found myself when the suggestion of the broken circle ran away with my imagination. [6]
It is hard to report the processes of his sophistication; perhaps this, again, may best be left to the marital imagination. [8]
Now, it seems to me that the transmutation of the crude and heretofore unpoetical materials which he found in the New World into what is as absolute a creation as exists in literature, was a distinct work of the imagination. [4]
Again he was to her, once more, the dreamer, the worker, the conqueror--the conqueror of her own imagination. [11]

Short sentences using imagination

Their very imagination was dead. [5]
This was a pleasing imagination. [4]
The imagination can not work. [5]
A cat has no imagination. [5]
The imagination choked me. [9]
Sophie's imagination was limited. [11]
The mystery inflamed her imagination. [11]
She caught attention, aroused imagination. [9]
It had force and imagination. [11]
They surpassed imagination. [9]

Sentences containing imagination two or more times

The imagination drank the living stream, and we realized anew what delusive food the imagination furnishes in an actual strait. [4]
I do not know how much the imagination has to do in shaping the national character, but for half a century English writers, by poems and novels, controlled the imagination of this country. [4]
It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality; nay, it was worse, for the reality would have come and gone, and there an end, but in imagination it was always coming, and never went away. [12]
Poetry and Imagination, 283; subdivisions: Bards and Trouveurs, Creation, Form, Imagination, Melody, Morals, Rhythm, Poetry, Transcendency, Veracity, 283, 284; quoted, 325. [6]

More example sentences with the word imagination in them

Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
But the imagination works wonders truly, and Philip saw the woman and not the heiress. [4]
The imagination associated with it the cheerful nature which, like a loyal comrade, goes hand in hand with success, deserved and undeserved good fortune, woman's favour, doughty deeds, the highest and strongest traits of character. [10]
To Honora, gifted with imagination, the house had an odour all its own; a rich, clean odour significant, in later life, of wealth and luxury and spotless housekeeping. [9]
Archibius's thoughts lingered with his beloved Queen, and his vivid power of imagination conjured before his mind everything which could distress her. [10]
A young woman who was a stunner, who rode wild horses and fell off them and rode them again, was beyond the pale not only of Euphrasia's experience but of her imagination likewise. [9]
It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
Was it a whim, or the excited imagination of youth, or that prompting which the young often have to make the world better? [11]
The beautiful image which had so bewitched me faded gradually from my imagination, and I returned to the still perplexing mysteries of my little neighbor's chamber. [6]
Sums were discussed, which even the winged imagination of the lansquenet could scarcely grasp. [10]
But the qualities which alienated an expert here and there caught the imagination of the pioneer spirits of Lebanon. [11]
At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
The only thing we need to do now is to correct our imagination, which has been led astray. [4]
The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,--this agent of immense resource and boundless power,--this has not been subdued by its instrument. [6]
But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
All his will was with the wholesome thing, but his brain, his imagination were always hunting. [11]
He thought vice was ugly; he had imagination and a sense of form. [11]
The vast forest was silent, and yet in its shadowy depths my imagination drew moving forms. [9]
At first Ulrich was not specially pleased with his new companions, for in the strangely visionary life he led, he had depended solely upon himself and "Fortune," and the figures living in his imagination were the most enjoyable society to him. [10]
Verily my imagination was not belied, for whereas I passed round the pine-grove I heard my brother cry out: "Ah--wild cat! [10]
Of course it was her imagination, but it was like a voice which came from some desolate place, distant, arid and alien. [11]
Her imagination, which was a spirit more sombre than sunny--more powerful than sportive--found in such traits material whence it wrought creations like Heathcliff, like Earnshaw, like Catherine. [14]
Here, before her, was a nobler display, and yet her lively imagination which often, sometimes indeed against her will, gave shape to her formless thoughts--called up the image of the beautiful youth surrounded by the glowing glory which still painted the horizon. [10]
His imagination was wandering over it too often when his pen was travelling almost of itself along the weary parallels of the page before him. [6]
W'y--" But the voice of the butler recalled them from the fields of imagination, and they went with lordly leisure upon the business of the household. [11]
My imagination, naturally vivid, stimulated by such repasts, nearly mastered me. [4]
The young beauty's vivid imagination transported her to this new and quieter life. [10]
The young man's vivid imagination and excellent memory recapitulated every word the prelate had uttered. [10]
Harry was a very entertaining fellow, having his imagination to help his memory, and telling his stories as if he believed them--as perhaps he did. [5]
I seek in vain for words to express the exhilarating effect of that briny coolness on my imagination, and of the visions it summoned up of the newer, larger life into which I had marvellously been transported. [9]
He had not uttered one warm or human word concerning Claridge Pasha, and it was felt and said, that no pledge had been given to insure the relief of the man who had caught the imagination of England. [11]
He has led us in imagination all over the globe. [5]
Something in the unfailing good-humour, the buoyant energy, the wide imagination of the man seized Dicky, warranted the conviction that he would yet make a success. [11]
His imagination wavered uncertain for a while between pictures of various modes of ridding himself of existence, and fearful deeds involving the life of others. [6]
When his imagination tortured him with fancies that mice and beetles were leaping and running out of his pockets and the breast of his doublet, he thought that his end was drawing near. [10]
Encourage your imagination to think the best of him. [10]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
Probably a visit to his room would clear up all that has puzzled me, and make me laugh at the notions which began, I suppose, in nightmares, and ended by keeping my imagination at work so as almost to make me uncomfortable at times. [6]
The imagination likes to dwell upon this, for the new order is capable of infinite extension. [4]
Ideas require time to develop, to seize the imagination of masses. [9]
My imagination began to construct dangers out of nothing, and they multiplied faster than I could keep the run of them. [5]
The woman seemed to be living over again that scene, in her imagination. [9]
This was due to a sanguine temperament and a large imagination. [4]
Therefore, from 1905 to 1909, I kept drawing upon all those experiences of others, from the true tales that had been told me, upon the reminiscences of Hudson's Bay trappers and hunters, for those incidents natural to the West which imagination could make true. [11]
From time to time, Hodder himself was uncomfortably aware of her presence, and he read in her upturned face an interest which, by a little stretch of the imagination, might have been deemed personal . [9]
It acts sometimes through the senses, sometimes through the imagination, sometimes through an unknown channel. [6]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
The habit of this sort of invention is certain to destroy the writer's quality, and if he attempts a legitimate work of the imagination, he will carry the same unveracity into that. [4]
The composition of this ointment was complicated, in the different formulae given by different authorities; but some substances addressed to the imagination, rather than the wound or weapon, entered into all. [6]
Now what does this fellow do but go off and get drunk and then proceed to his quarters and set to work with his imagination in a state of chaos, and that chaos in a condition of extravagant activity. [5]
I begin to think you've got a good deal of imagination. [5]
What she did think or feel could not easily have been set down, for her mind was one tremulous confusion of unusual thoughts, her heart was beset by new feelings, her imagination, suddenly finding itself, was trying its wings helplessly. [11]
There are many things to be seen which enrich the imagination, but where could the young heart find the calmness it needs? [10]
I don't say they're not good, in away, but they lack a certain imagination. [9]
He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason. [5]
Dear Dr. Gilman, they said, had had neither the strength nor the perception of 'modern needs; and McCrae, the first assistant clergyman, while a good man, was a plodder and lacking in imagination. [9]
You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks--in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. [5]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
And most of them had not only the gift of the imagination necessary to great eloquence, but also were so mentally disciplined by the classics that they handled the practical questions upon which they legislated with clearness and precision. [4]
It opened to them a boundless realm of poetry and imagination. [4]
To completely deny their existence would hardly be possible even for you, because their persons have found a place in your imagination. [10]
Mine have been the words of a plain business man, and I have not indulged in wild accusations or flights of imagination. [9]
The roar of the torrent is maddening, then, for his imagination is assisting; the physical pain it inflicts is exquisite. [5]
Wolf suspected that the time was not far distant when yonder monarch at the window, who had won so many victories, would have a reckoning with the Smalcalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, and his vivid imagination surrounded him with an almost mystical power. [10]
For of all the strange, and frantic, and incomprehensible, and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
For of all the strange and frantic and incomprehensible and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
They went up the stairs together, and what occurred there I leave to the imagination. [9]
One may read the Scriptures and believe, but he can not go and stand yonder in the ruined theatre and in imagination people it again with the vanished multitudes who mobbed Paul's comrades there and shouted, with one voice, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians! [5]
The splendours of the scene delighted his eye and fired his imagination at first, but the audience was long and dreary, and so were most of the addresses --wherefore, what began as a pleasure grew into weariness and home-sickness by-and-by. [5]
Dyck's tempestuous nature, the poetry and imagination of him, would quickly respond to French culture, to the new orders of the new day in France. [11]
The interests of the persons in her novels supplied the lack of interest in her own life; and Memory and Imagination found their appropriate work, and ceased to prey upon her vitals. [14]
The imagination of the multitude is limited. [10]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
Why it is the most ludicrous spectacle, the most inconsistent and incongruous spectable, contrivable by even the most diseased imagination. [5]
I am not the model housewife which your imagination depicts, Humphrey. [9]
For whom is the Medea probably brewing in imagination the poisoned draught? [10]
Sometimes I turned the lights low: this gave perspective, you see; and the imagination could play; always, the dim receding ranks of the dead inspired one with weird and fascinating fancies. [5]
Even while putting the last touches of the file to the Demeter, for which Archias's devout daughter posed as your model, another whom you could not banish from your mind filled your imagination. [10]
No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites. [5]
As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, together with some power of reasoning, had become partially developed, man would naturally crave to understand what was passing around him, and would have vaguely speculated on his own existence. [1]
It almost satisfies the imagination, this royal vehicle; one can go in it to the confines of the world,--to Boston and to Albany. [4]
This predominance of the imagination over the judgment gave that appearance of exaggeration to his conversation and to his communications with regard to himself, which sometimes conveyed the impression that he was not speaking the truth. [5]
You must have the imagination of a poet to transfigure them. [6]
But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
The terrors of the hurricane which dispersed the fleet, and this shipwreck, were much dwelt upon by the writers of the time, and the Bermudas became a sort of enchanted islands, or realms of the imagination. [4]
Here, now that the gentlemen were alone, there was an inspiring largeness in their talk that fired the imagination. [9]
Now there is the conversation of hens, when the hens are busy and not self-conscious; there is something fascinating about it, because the imagination may invest it with a recondite and spicy meaning; but the common talk of people! [4]
Above and beyond the city rose, overpowering, a very different city, somehow, than that her imagination had first drawn. [9]
There is in the cap and gown a subtle suggestion of the union of learning with womanly charm that is very captivating to the imagination. [4]
I remember all the accounts there given of the battle-fields and struggles for the liberties of the country; and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. [7]
The truth is, that while the episode, which is the first essential of a short story, was always in the very forefront of my imagination, the character or characters in the episode meant infinitely more to me. [11]
It was not that she wished to reflect, in the ordinary meaning of the word, that she had sought seclusion, but rather to give her imagination free play. [9]
She had felt that she belonged to this quarter, where all who had any claim to aristocracy lived; here, near the palace and the beautiful leafy trees, her future home had been in her imagination. [10]
The imagination of that scene drove me mad. [9]
It's so grotesque that it--well, it paralyzes the imagination. [5]
That position was that I had been irreverent beyond belief, beyond imagination. [5]
Why, the dream that I am in Arthur's court--a person who never existed; and that I am talking to you, who are nothing but a work of the imagination. [5]
Despite the fact that Hugh Chiltern had with such apparent resolution set his face towards literature and the tillage of the land, it was as the Viking still that her imagination pictured him. [9]
It was curious that his imagination would not rise, now, to a realization of that intercourse on which, at times, his fancy had dwelt with such vividness. [9]

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