Use inspiration in a sentence
Sentences starting with inspiration
- Inspiration itself could not furnish a rational answer to that question. [5]
- Inspiration itself could hardly comprehend them. [5]
Sentences ending with inspiration
- How feverishly she worked, unknown to him, he never guessed; so carefully and unobtrusively planted her suggestions that they were born again in glory as his inspiration. [9]
- I think it was not premeditated but an inspiration. [5]
- His own patriotism was not a deep or lasting thing: vanity and a restless spirit were its fountains of inspiration. [11]
- Each, to Honora, was an inspiration. [9]
- The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. [6]
- Facts are nothing to him, he has no use for such things; he works wholly by inspiration. [5]
- They work these things up from twenty-five-cent tintypes; they get six dollars apiece for them, and they can grind out a couple a day when they strike what they call a boost--that is, an inspiration. [5]
- Perhaps you know them," she added, with sudden inspiration. [9]
- The idea of the banner with its inscription had come as an inspiration. [9]
- Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
Short sentences using inspiration
- They are a persistent inspiration. [5]
- The inspiration was mine. [11]
- What an inspiration it was! [5]
- You are the inspiration. [9]
- I had an inspiration. [9]
- This is called inspiration. [5]
- All this indicates inspiration. [5]
- Jo had an inspiration. [11]
- Good!--he had an inspiration! [5]
- Then he had an inspiration. [5]
Sentences containing inspiration two or more times
- She abandoned the Communion of Saints, sold her birthright for a mess of pottage, for worldly, temporal power when she declared that inspiration had ceased with the Apostles, when she failed to see that inspiration is personal, and comes through rebirth. [9]
More example sentences with the word inspiration in them
- That--in her belief--she wrote the book under the inspiration of the Deity, but furnished the language herself. [5]
- Co-equal with his work of instruction and inspiration was His work of healing. [5]
- He loved a word for righteous mouthing, and in a moment of inspiration pagan and scandal came to him. [11]
- Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
- I hope you will find something of the Greek rhythm in my versions, and that I have caught a spark of inspiration from the impassioned Lesbian. [6]
- That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
- His whole soul was full of Gwendolen Sellers, and this condition was an inspiration, art-wise. [5]
- Rawley had trusted to the inspiration of the moment; he had had no clearly defined plan; he had believed that he could frighten the old man, and by force of will bend him to his purposes. [11]
- I don't have to reflect a moment; the right name comes out instantly, just as if it were an inspiration, as no doubt it is, for I am sure it wasn't in me half a minute before. [5]
- The inspiration came to him then, when he was ennobled by the Governor-general, who represents the Empire. [9]
- She was about to hand it back to him, but an inspiration seemed to seize her, and she threw it on the floor and put her heel upon it. [11]
- She learned how to cook, and in time Farette learned that he had his one true inspiration when he wore mourning at his second marriage. [11]
- His buoyant devotion to an idea was an inspiration and a tonic. [11]
- It's no inspiration, though, I tell you that. [9]
- Still they kept this inspiration in reserve for use at the first opportunity. [8]
- It's a queer thing about inspiration, you only find it when you're not looking for it. [9]
- One might think there was a touch of prophecy in that, and we will let it go at that; but to my mind it had its inspiration in those great men's accurate knowledge of the King's trivial and treacherous character. [5]
- The inspiration, by the way, had come from Cynthia. [9]
- And by contrasting the powers and limitations of two such young persons as Gifted Hopkins and Cyprian Eveleth, we may better appreciate the nature of that divine inspiration which gives to poetry the superiority it claims over every other form of human expression. [6]
- They were like the Paladin; I think he was afraid of his shadow--I mean in the afternoon, when it was very big and long; but when he was under Joan's eye and the inspiration of her great spirit, what was he afraid of? [5]
- The first is the naked individual protest; the voice of the inspiration which giveth man understanding. [6]
- Adding to all the logic of which the subject was susceptible that noble inspiration which came to him as it came to no other, he aroused and nerved and inspired his friends, and confounded and bore down all opposition. [7]
- He knew that the inspiration which gave him understanding was losing its throne in his intelligence, and the almighty Majority-Vote was proclaiming itself in its stead. [6]
- Then there came the inspiration to write his poem on Sir John Franklin, and he had done so, winning the college prize for poetry. [11]
- There must be the inspiration of the clash of minds and the encouragement of good listening. [4]
- The lack in the general reading public, in the novels read by the greater number of people, and in the common school is the same--the lack of inspiration and ideality. [4]
- Through him comes the ever-springing inspiration in affairs. [4]
- The handle on the end of the Trunk has evidently been retouched--I think, with a piece of chalk --but one can still see the inspiration of the Old Master in the tranquil, almost too tranquil, hang of it. [5]
- The speakers won the deathless hatred of the house by these delays, but at last there was an end and hope revived; inspiration was about to find utterance. [5]
- It is evident that whenever, under the inspiration of the Deity, she turns out a book, she is always allowed to do some of the preface. [5]
- You may suspect that there was a special inspiration for these great efforts of the Paladin's, and there was. [5]
- Sally was his strength, his support, his inspiration, his bulwark of defence; Nancy was the charm he wore about his neck--his mascot, he called her. [11]
- There aren't any stamps for afterthoughts; the sums vary, according to inspiration, and they whirl in the one that suggests itself at the last moment. [5]
- There Polykarp had spent some time, for there, if anywhere--there, where the Law-giver himself had stood, must he find right inspiration. [10]
- New sympathies, new sources of encouragement, if not of inspiration, have opened themselves before me and cheated the least promising season of life of much that seemed to render it dreary and depressing. [6]
- Well, I am soulfully glad the baggage fetcher saved me from consummating my insane inspiration. [5]
- That She believes She wrote it under the Deity's inspiration. [5]
- No wonder that she learned to dance quickly under such an inspiration! [9]
- Can't we go," she added, with an inspiration, "can't we go into--the kitchen? [9]
- For once the Seigneur had a burst of inspiration. [11]
- When a stranger says to me, with a glow of inspiration in his eye, some gentle, innocuous little thing about "Twain and one flesh," and all that sort of thing, I don't try to crush that man into the earth--no. [5]
- We accept the saying unquestioning, as a sort of inspiration out of the air, true because nobody has challenged it for ages, and probably for the same reason that we try to see the new moon over our left shoulder. [4]
- He has a reputation for eccentricity which he feels he must keep up, and this notion of assuming a name evidently appealed to him as an inspiration. [9]
- And now Alison recalled, only to be thrilled again by an electric sensation she had never before experienced with such intensity, the look of inspiration on the preacher's face as he closed. [9]
- His "pleasant work-room" provided exercise, but no inspiration. [5]
- There is a prophecy in every seam, and its pockets are full of inspiration. [6]
- She longed to pray for strength to bow before the man who was her lord and master; but the prophetess, who was accustomed to fervent pleading, could not find inspiration. [10]
- All that these people felt sure of was, that the inspiration back of it was genuine and puissant. [5]
- Egypt offered an opportunity for a man like Dimsdale, and he always said that his going there was the one inspiration of his life. [11]
- It is not only that literature is the source of inspiration to youth and the solace of age, but it is what a national language is to a nation, the highest expression of its being. [4]
- The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealist on the power of Thought and of Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture. [6]
- One day the old man got an inspiration when he was scratching around in the dirt for an odd-sized iron. [9]
- But the knowledge of what she expected of him was an inspiration, always present in his visions of her. [4]
- Valmond knew nothing of Sergeant Lagroin, so that what followed was of the inspiration of the moment. [11]
- With the exception of Louisiana, which was absolutely ignorant of American literature and drew its inspiration and assumed its critical point of view almost wholly from the French, the South was English, but mainly English of the time of Walter Scott and George the Third. [4]
- Mr. Lowell says of it, that its delivery "was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. [6]
- If the word of another is taken instead of this primary faith, the church, the state, art, letters, life, all suffer degradation,--"the doctrine of inspiration is lost; the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul. [6]
- And it is not very far from being the solitary confidant, and the single source of inspiration, to the growth of a livelier interest, where a young man and a young woman are in question. [6]
- This she could not tell Havel, but when the critical moment came--if it did come--she would then act upon the moment's inspiration. [11]
- Perhaps this did not sound practical, nor would it be so if the transforming inspiration failed. [9]
- Imperialistic cynics were not lacking to scoff at our protestation that we were fighting Spain in order to liberate Cuba; and yet this, for the American people at large, was undoubtedly the inspiration of the war. [9]
- All day the new feeling grew and strengthened; it grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. [5]
- I tell your Nancy----" "For goodness sake, Si----" "Wait, Nancy, wait--let me finish--I've been secretly bailing and fuming with this grand inspiration for weeks, and I must talk or I'll burst! [5]
- It's an acrostic--the name at this moment is Warren, and the idea's a convertible one, and a positive inspiration for Jarley. [12]
- I cannot help my feelings--they were dead indeed if they did not respond to such an inspiration. [9]
- And yet you must follow the impulse of your own inspiration. [14]
- With his fine military mind, he had probably arranged to let his brother Edward in for the cherry tree results, but by an inspiration he saw his opportunity in time and took advantage of it. [5]
- We are not met in a cathedral, except so far as every building whose walls are lined with the products of useful and ennobling thought is a temple of the Almighty, whose inspiration has given us understanding. [3]
- Unlike most large men, he had a mind always alert, not requiring the inspiration of unusual moments. [11]
- I wanted a little inspiration, a little freshening up, a little change of ideas, and-- 'Pon my soul and honour,' said the military gentleman, checking himself and looking round the room, 'what a devilish classical thing this is! [12]
- Yes, there was life enough in all this, and inspiration, if one only knew what to be inspired about. [4]
- Half of its length has wasted away in the course of the ages, but the other ten miles of it remain in the plain by Govardhun to this day as proof of the might of the inspiration of our gods. [5]
- Not for the laws of the Levites, not for the battles and hangings, but for the inspiration of the prophets. [9]
- He did not know that this inspiration came from Lucy Gray. [11]
- He's been awfully kind both to Howard and me," she added with inspiration. [9]
- The movement borrowed its inspiration more from him than from any other source, and the periodical owed more to him than to any other writer. [6]
- For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness; and where will you find this but in woman? [6]
- The feeling that intuition was discovering a new heaven and a new earth was the inspiration of these "young people" to whom Emerson refers. [6]
- He believed in inspirations, and he would back his knowledge, his inspiration, by an irretrievable move. [11]
- Atmosphere: effect on inspiration, 290; spiritual, 413, 414. [6]
- It was an inspiration to his pen when it ran in the way of literature, but a distinct damage to progress in his profession. [4]
- And what an inspiration that was, and how instantly the present toast recalls the verses to all our minds when the most noble, the most gracious, the purest, and sweetest of all poets says: "Woman! [5]
- And what an inspiration that was (and how instantly the present toast recalls the verses to all our minds) when the most noble, the most gracious, the purest, and sweetest of all poets says: "Woman! [5]
- With a sudden inspiration she came forward quickly, nodded and smiled to him, and then pointed to a grindstone standing in the corner of the yard. [11]
- The evidence for inspiration is further augmented by the testimony of Rev. [5]
- There was an inspiration in the air that one looks for rather in the mountains than on the sea-coast; it seemed like some new and gentle compound of sea-air and land-air, which was the perfection of breathing material. [4]
- There is little inspiration in side talk to one or two. [4]
- It was Bagshot's insolent inspiration at Auvergne. [11]
- Since the meeting in the restaurant the day before, which had resulted in Hugh's happy inspiration that the festival begun should be continued indefinitely at Highlawns, a kind of freemasonry had sprung up between the four. [9]
- He hated irony in anyone else, though he loved it in himself, when heaven gave him inspiration thereto. [11]
- It is enough if he himself caught inspiration from those eloquent lips; but many a listener has had his youthful enthusiasm fired by that great master of academic oratory. [6]
- When I see how unerringly they did select and occupy the eligible places, I think they were moved by a sort of inspiration. [4]
- The painter seized his pad and pencil and with a few strokes, guided by inspiration, sketched the costume then and there and held it up to Jethro, who blinked at it in astonishment. [9]
- He acknowledged to himself, with sincere thankfulness, that he had now found the ideal woman, of whom he had dreamed in his hours of best inspiration, and that she was his, wholly and alone. [10]
- It would make her the idol of France, and the whole nation would rise and march to victory and emancipation under the inspiration of her spirit. [5]
- But at last he hit it--just by sheer inspiration, as it seemed to him --and all their troubles were gone in a moment; they would celebrate the Discovery of America. [5]
- Your horticultural inquiries have been of a nature to astonish the vegetable world, if it listened, and were a constant inspiration to research. [4]
- The master-carpenter had had the true inspiration in his hour of danger. [11]
- Never before; perhaps, had the fire of such inspiration been given him. [9]
- Even here Patsy had his inspiration from real life; and yet he disguised it all so well that no one except the Young Doctor even imagined what he meant. [11]
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