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Sentences ending with instrument

I have referred you to the proper authorities for the account of those improvements which about the year 1830 rendered the compound microscope an efficient and trustworthy instrument. [3]
Bulow is a wonderful conductor, a little man, all nerve and fire, and he seems to inspire every instrument. [4]
It will be well for us all--for me, for her, for Pulcheria, and even our absent Philip, if the divinity selects her as its instrument. [10]
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]
Ludo was learning to play on the piano, but I had chosen another instrument. [10]
The current running through her from him made her his instrument. [9]
It is not the proper instrument. [9]
Some members of the orchestra would not part with theirs, and behind the saddle of many a mounted virtuoso or attendant was fastened a violin case or a shapeless bag which concealed some other instrument. [10]
His comfort was that he would be the instrument. [9]
One has heard so much of this organ, that he expects impossibilities, and is at first almost disappointed, although it is not long in discovering its vast compass, and its wonderful imitations, now of a full orchestra, and again of a single instrument. [4]

Short sentences using instrument

I love that instrument. [10]
Tackle your instrument. [5]

More example sentences with the word instrument in them

The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
The kemengeh-player stood with his instrument ready, and he lifted it in a kind of appeal. [11]
There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object. [7]
Cato learned Greek when he was old, and speaks of wishing to learn the fiddle, or some such instrument, (fidibus,) after the example of Socrates. [6]
And we know what Helmholtz, the highest authority in Europe on the subject, has said about the human eye; that if an optician had sold him an instrument so carelessly made, he would have thought himself fully justified in returning it. [1]
The work which we had given the instrument to do during the day which had just closed had not fatigued it perceptibly. [5]
Only one thing was perfectly clear to her: she would rather starve and die of thirst, and shame, and misery-nay, she would rather be the instrument of her own death, than return to her husband. [10]
The leader, who was a giant, and carried the smallest instrument, outshone all the others in his incongruous splendor. [4]
Occasionally I hear very sweet strains of music,--whether of a wind or stringed instrument, or a human voice, strange as it may seem, I have often tried to find out, but through the partition I could not be quite sure. [6]
She gazed into vacancy with a sore and anxious heart, and, as an insane violinist lures the same tone from the instrument again and again, she constantly returned to the same thought, "Lost! [10]
The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affecting at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. [5]
Individuals had begun to use the instrument, but I never heard it alluded to by either Professors or students. [3]
One instrument seemed to me more than all the rest. [11]
I suspect it to have been shut most of the time, for I observe a good many elderly people adjust the organ of vision to any optical instrument in that way. [6]
Still, he submits to be the instrument of his party to injure us. [7]
Now I learned through Lotze to recognize the body as the instrument to which the emotions of the soul, the harmonies and discords of the mental and emotional life, owe their origin. [10]
The notes were those of a piano,--though the instrument mattered little,--that with which they were charged for him set the night wind quivering. [9]
It was in this way I became the possessor of the wonderful instrument I have spoken of, which had been purchased for him out of an Italian convent. [6]
I do not think any of us would like to turn out the possessor of a fine estate enjoyed for two or three generations on the faith of unquestioned ownership by making use of some old forgotten instrument, which accident had thrown in our way. [6]
Of course all the westing we have made is gain, and I hope the chronometer is wrong in our favour, for I do not see how any such delicate instrument can keep good time with the constant jarring and thumping we get from the sea. [5]
There was not the slightest change recorded by the instrument, during the whole time. [5]
She knew now the position she held towards her husband: that he had never loved her; that she was only an instrument for unworthy retaliation. [11]
His fingers smoothed the oval brown breast of the instrument with affection. [11]
In and by the original instrument, a mode was provided for amending it; and, as I have already stated, the present frame of "the Government under which we live" consists of that original, and twelve amendatory articles framed and adopted since. [7]
The priest took the instrument and tuned it softly. [11]
But besides all the impressions that furnished the stuff of the poem, there has been hard work to get the management of that wonderful instrument I spoke of,---the great organ, language. [6]
But what is the history of this instrument of torture? [11]
It is only the different understanding of that instrument that causes difficulty. [7]
The key-board of the big instrument is here. [11]
This instrument is the achromatic microscope. [3]
Verily Ursula believed that she had found a sure instrument of vengeance, whereas she had heard say that Junker Henning von Beust was one of the most dreaded swordsmen in the Marches. [10]
I've got a telephone instrument there, and so we could say good-night. [11]
Hand me your tablets; if the others are no worse--" "But they are," Alexander exclaimed, anxiously, and I only regret that I should be the instrument of your tormenting yourself--" "Tormenting? [10]
Tender, and again strangely and fiercely tender: an instrument of such miraculous delicacy as to respond, quivering, to the lightest touch; an harmonious and perfect blending of strength and weakness, of joy and sorrow,--of all the warring elements in the world. [9]
To the faint sound of the instrument, which was rather a large one, and which he had propped on the pillow by his side, he was singing, or rather murmuring a long ditty. [10]
There must be something vitally wrong with an instrument which failed to register the great earthquake shock of June the seventh! [9]
The old man smokes his pipe, but does not know what to do with his fingers, unless he plays upon some instrument, or has a mechanical turn which finds business for them. [6]
That matchless lyre shall silent lie: None hath the vanished minstrel's wondrous skill To touch that instrument with art and will. [6]
Come in and see me, the Professor, some evening when I have nothing else to do, and ask me to play you Tartini's Devil's Sonata on that extraordinary instrument in my possession, well known to amateurs as one of the masterpieces of Joseph Guarnerius. [6]
But Dr. Bostock says: "Much as the naturalist has been indebted to the microscope, by bringing into view many beings of which he could not otherwise have ascertained the existence, the physiologist has not yet derived any great benefit from the instrument. [3]
A century later, Romer hit upon the idea of using mercury in a thermometer; and Fahrenheit constructed the instrument which adds a new because distinct terror to the weather. [4]
His left hand rests upon a skull, his right hand holds an instrument which deserves a passing comment. [3]
It was a rather large lute, made of gold and ivory, and as he handed it to Sappho, he said, with a smile: "The inventor of this glorious instrument, the divine Anakreon, had it made expressly for me, at my own wish. [10]
There was no question about the genuineness and the legal sufficiency of this instrument. [6]
With the greatest pleasure,--he said, and proceeded to wheel the ponderous dome, and then to adjust the instrument, I think to the one in Andromeda, or that in Cygnus, but I should not know one of them from the other. [6]
In the pleasurable pain of such a mood he drew his bow across the strings with a sweeping stroke, and then, for an instant, he ran hither and thither on the strings testing the quality and finding the range and capacity of the instrument. [11]
The bow shot out and down upon the instrument with a great clangour. [11]
But the first of them, General Anatomy, would never, have reached this positive condition but for the introduction of that, instrument which I have mentioned as the second great aid to modern progress. [3]
In sheltered corners of that truculent instrument for the diffusion of the prejudices of the few among the many begin to grow the violets of tender sentiment, the early greens of yearning. [4]
But the boss of that instrument was to come, nevertheless; and from my own country--from Arkansaw. [5]
But this act of self-control must have cost the hot-headed, powerful man a great effort; for he shot a fierce look at the instrument which had had so narrow an escape, and gave it a push of vexation with the back of his hand. [10]
Nay, it was now a powerful instrument which played strangely on those who heard. [9]
Still, he would not succumb till the instrument of his ruin had preceded him to the grave. [10]
When we do not know exactly what to do with an exceptional man who is disagreeable, we call him an Instrument of Providence. [4]
But they do not give that instrument the credit; each sect claims that its way differs from the ways of the others. [5]
He pointed it, not at a newspaper editor merely, but at the President and his Cabinet and the members of Congress advocating the Lecompton Constitution and those framing that instrument. [7]
He played by no means badly on more than one instrument, and, moreover, as a reveller did honour to the other name. [10]
I will defend myself and you, too, with this conquering instrument I hold in my hand; huzza, I say, I now invoke time's broad wing to shed around us some dewdrops of verdant spring. [5]
Thou knowest why Miriam took no note of days and years, and asked nothing save to be Thy instrument until her people, who are, also, this man's people, received what Thou didst promise. [10]
I had to make the instrument sing before his eyes before he could be satisfied that he had not heard the cries of a woman. [6]
That instrument is literally silent about any such right. [7]
Kdnoon----A musical instrument like a dulcimer. [11]
At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule which had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. [6]
And when at last he hung up the instrument and turned to her, though still furious against the strikers, his voice betrayed the joy of battle, the assurance of victory. [9]
Mechanically and without knowing it, I put my eye to that strange instrument, and there was Peking and the Czar's procession! [5]
This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate--young Frederick Trent--who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own. [12]
Yesterday--I keep calling it yesterday, which is quite natural, for certain reasons--the instrument remained unused, and that also was natural, for it was the eve of the execution day. [5]
And yet it is true that in a popular government, like this, the humblest citizen, if he is wronged or oppressed, has in his hands a readier instrument of redress than he has ever had in any form of government. [4]
From the deep inward moan which follows pressure on the great nerves of right, to the sharp cry as the filaments of taste are struck with a crashing sweep, is a range which no other instrument possesses. [6]
I resented the instrument, its possibilities of betrayal, her voice sounded so matter-of-fact as she bade me good morning and deplored the rain. [9]
David raised the instrument to his lips, blew one low note, and then a little run of notes, all smooth and soft. [11]
It is the instrument I have here. [6]
And yet--oh paradox!--the instrument continued to improve, to grow stronger, to develop individuality and personality day by day! [9]
They have him in his prison house; they have searched his person, and left no prying instrument with him. [7]
Pale, and as if obeying some strange compulsion, she seated herself at the instrument, and the prelude sounded clear and tuneful from her skillful fingers. [10]
Few landsmen understand how delicate an instrument the destroyer is. [9]
He expressed himself highly gratified, however, with what he saw, and retired from the instrument to make room for the Young Girl. [6]
Nor could I help feeling then, as I have often felt, that in the whole of that proceeding I was a very humbled instrument. [7]
The populace is heaven's instrument to mete out vengeance. [10]
Nothing else had he, but of all men in Egypt he was the best instrument Nahoum could have chosen; and of all men in Egypt he was the one man who could surely help him. [11]
He forgot that he was man; music had lost its charms for him; whenever he attempted to carry his part, the string of the instrument would break, the bow became stubborn, and refused to obey the loud calls of the audience. [5]
Think you, does he still play the flute--an instrument none too grave, Luke? [11]
Another author would have found another instrument when he decided to defeat this elopement; but that is not McClintock's way. [5]
Some of them have a scale of your whole nervous system, and can play all the gamut of your sensibilities in semitones, --touching the naked nerve-pulps as a pianist strikes the keys of his instrument. [6]
There, under her hand was the instrument of revenge on the miscreant; she could make him taste of all the bitterness he had brewed for her aching spirit. [10]
And how your hand and the instrument are shaking. [10]
She threw her hair back and took her position at the instrument. [6]
Stephen and Shadrach had by Mr. Whipple's orders cleared a corner of his inner office and bedroom of papers and books and rubbish, and there the bulky instrument was finally set up. [9]
She watched the grotesque thing trundle away, then entering the house again, took a 'cello from the corner of the room and tuned the instrument tenderly. [11]
He discovered a great number of these trees, extending in a single rank, with wide intervals between, as far as his instrument would carry, both southward and northward. [5]
He drew a great calfskin wallet from an inside pocket of his coat, and the band leader, a florid German, laid down his instrument and made an elaborate bow. [9]
They understood the glory of a little instrument like this, and could forget the world in the light on a great picture. [11]
The "Red Coat"--[Executioner]--was giving orders to his "Life"--[Executioner's assistant ("Lion")]--as they carried across the courtyard a new instrument of torture intended for the room adjoining the Council chamber, where those who refused to make depositions were forced to it. [10]
Call Camelot, or get away from the instrument and I will do it myself. [5]
It is enough for our purpose that we are now in possession of an instrument freed from all confusions and illusions, which magnifies a thousand diameters,--a million times in surface,--without serious distortion or discoloration of its object. [3]
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. [2]
Hence the tiny fluctuations of Hilary Vane's seismograph an instrument, as will be shown, utterly out-of-date. [9]
He chose thy father to be the instrument of our deliverance, and will hear my prayer this day and soften thine heart like wise. [10]
It was a face that men turned to look at twice and shook their heads in doubt afterwards--a handsome, worn, secretive face, in as perfect control as the strings of an instrument under the bow of a great artist. [11]
I went to examine it about an hour afterwards, when I found the mercury had risen to the-top of the instrument and had burst the bulb, a circumstance that I believe no traveler has ever before had to record. [5]

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