Use intelligent in a sentence
Sentences starting with intelligent
- Intelligent and honest reporting of whatever interests the public is the sound basis of all journalism. [4]
Sentences ending with intelligent
- The woman was young, good looking, she seemed intelligent. [11]
- You, monsieur"--he smiled whimsically--"will agree that I have been persistent--and intelligent. [11]
- It is true that suffrage peculiarly fits a people virtuous and intelligent. [4]
- Those insects which possess the most wonderful instincts are certainly the most intelligent. [1]
- If he goes on like this, the poor little fellow will be quite sharp and intelligent. [10]
- I'm sure you know--you look so intelligent. [9]
- At any rate, he is intelligent. [4]
- He was of good family, son of a judge in one of the higher courts of his State, educated, pleasant, gentle, intelligent. [6]
- I have known a number, and all of them were intelligent. [6]
More example sentences with the word intelligent in them
- And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
- He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
- The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know. [2]
- Strangely enough, Mr. Worthington's remarks on American Indians are not only intelligent, but interesting. [9]
- Go and talk with any professional man holding any of the medieval creeds, choosing one who wears upon his features the mark of inward and outward health, who looks cheerful, intelligent, and kindly, and see how all your prejudices melt away in his presence! [6]
- They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
- I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. [7]
- Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
- But if he will not point out anything erroneous in the evidence, is it not rather for him to show, by a comparison of the evidence, that I have reasoned falsely, than to call the "kind, amiable, intelligent gentleman" a liar? [7]
- The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
- I'll tell you who have thought about it--the Bolshevists and the I. W. W. And because they have a programme,--some programme, any programme, they're more intelligent than we, for the time. [9]
- The eyes, however, were malignantly intelligent, the hands, ill-cared for, were long, well-shaped and capable, but of a hateful yellow colour like the face. [11]
- The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up. [5]
- In this particular volume what interested me most, perhaps, was the very spirited and intelligent account of the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, but it gave me an hour's mighty agreeable reading. [6]
- It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
- The proprietor, a very intelligent and enterprising man, who had traveled often in the North, was full of projects for the development of his region and foremost in its enterprises, and had formed a considerable collection of minerals. [4]
- Dr. Thompson, the very active and intelligent surgical director of the hospitals of the place, took me in charge. [6]
- I have heard two very intelligent critics speak of Murillo's Immaculate Conception (now in the museum at Seville,) within the past few days. [5]
- We have here to-night one who has made millions laugh--not the loud laughter that bespeaks the vacant mind, but the laugh of intelligent mirth that helps the human heart and the human mind. [5]
- I don't mean to say you're not intelligent, but I'm at a loss where to begin with you. [9]
- It is proper to say that at Alexander's we began to see what this pleasant and fruitful country might be, and will be, with thrift and intelligent farming. [4]
- For the ability to perform it, I must trust in that Supreme Being who has never forsaken this favored land, through the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people. [7]
- It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler. [5]
- If she seems to be influenced at present by the French and Italian examples, we may be sure that she is too intelligent and too fond of freedom to long tolerate any system of chaperonage that she cannot control. [4]
- Even liars have to admit that, if they are intelligent liars; I mean in their private [the word conscientious written but erased] intervals. [5]
- He argued and thought--as every intelligent man in his position would have done--until he had come into the old life again, and into the presence of the old advantages and temptations! [11]
- How wonderful, she thought, to be able to dwell in such a beautiful place, to have as friends and companions such amusing and intelligent people as the stranger with whom she had talked! [9]
- You may observe this: that the conversation of intelligent men of the stricter sects is strangely in advance of the formula that belong to their organizations. [6]
- I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the community so desires. [5]
- The writer of this once traveled for days with an intelligent curmudgeon, who made himself at all points as prickly as the porcupine. [4]
- The owner of this estate holds an important position in the Foreign Office, and the hostess has, by her wit and intelligent grasp of affairs, made an enviable place for herself. [9]
- He was then thinking that it was the most intelligent hand he had ever seen. [11]
- I do not think we believe things because considerable people say them, on personal authority, that is, as intelligent listeners very commonly did a century ago. [6]
- They believed that they had brought the transcendental within the grasp of intelligent sense, and that their empty speculations had carried them far beyond the narrow limits of the Ancients. [10]
- One can watch them--the irresponsible, formless lumps of intelligent flesh--for hours without tiring. [4]
- When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
- See what was the state of belief in other matters among the most intelligent persons of the colonies, magistrates and clergymen. [3]
- I fear that the specialist is apt to hold his intelligent reader or hearer too cheap. [6]
- I had seen the said sister some three years before, thought her intelligent and agreeable, and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her. [7]
- Ethics had taken the place of religion; intelligent men didn't go to church. [9]
- He examined all the papers in detail, and whenever there seemed anything like a hitch, either in the papers or my statement, he would go back and take up the thread and follow it patiently out to an intelligent and satisfactory result. [5]
- Pierre showed all the intelligent, resolute coolness of a trained officer of the law. [11]
- After that, like the intelligent workman, I was firmer than ever for the Tariff. [9]
- They're part of the game--their theories are the basis for an intelligent practice. [9]
- His interest in the colony was never the most intelligent, and apt to be in things trivial. [4]
- Paula was moistening the bandage on the Masdakite's head, and Pulcheria was busy in the adjoining room with Mandane, who obeyed the physician's instructions with intelligent submission and showed no signs of insanity. [10]
- What is it that an intelligent public should care to hear of and talk about? [4]
- Here am I, suppose, seated--we will say at a dinner-table--alongside of an intelligent Englishman. [6]
- I found him strangely intelligent, considering his condition and where he is getting his training. [5]
- But I am still more intelligent now. [5]
- And if the stage goes on in this materialistic way, how long will it be before it ceases to amuse intelligent, not to say intellectual people? [4]
- It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are. [5]
- It is no small distinction to a man like that to sit here before an intelligent crowd like this and to be classed with Napoleon and Caesar. [5]
- It was a short man about forty years old, with sandy hair, no beard, and a pleasant face badly freckled but alive and intelligent, and he wore slop-shop clothing which was neat but showed wear. [5]
- Her face was shapely, intelligent, and comely--even beautiful. [5]
- But Vic had seen, and she had very calm, intelligent eyes, and a vast deal of common sense, though she had only come from out Tibbooburra way. [11]
- Now I have seen country people, --and by country people I don't mean people necessarily who live in the country, for everything is mixed in these days,--some of the best people in the world, intelligent, honest, sincere, who acted as the Indian would. [4]
- Only when I see how much work is to be done, what room for a poet--for any spiritualist--in this great, intelligent, sensual, and avaricious America, I lament my fumbling fingers and stammering tongue. [6]
- They were the scrawny, tough ponies of the plains, reasonably cheap, and it took no great discernment on my part to choose three of the strongest and most intelligent looking. [9]
- As I was saying, when I can lay down the cares of office and retire to the sweets of private life in some such sweet, peaceful, intelligent, wide-awake and patriotic place as Hawkeye (applause). [5]
- You would not say that the place was stuffed with books, or overrun by lecturers, but it is an orderly, Sabbath-keeping, fairly intelligent town. [4]
- There is certainly room for difference of opinion as to whether so precocious a woman, as her intelligent apprehension of affairs shows her to have been, should have remained unmarried till the age of eighteen. [4]
- Now something in regard to the Lecompton Constitution more specially; for I pass from this other question of popular sovereignty as the most arrant humbug that has ever been attempted on an intelligent community. [7]
- The law I refer to must be familiar to all observing physicians, and to all intelligent persons who have observed their own bodily and mental conditions. [6]
- She never caught Ralph; his methods of torture were more intelligent and subtle than Gene's and Russell's, but she was his equal when it came to a question of tongues. [9]
- Our new friend proved to be the president of one of our American colleges; an intelligent and well-instructed gentleman, of course. [6]
- Burlington has the progressive modern city's full equipment of devices for right and intelligent government; including a paid fire department, a thing which the great city of New Orleans is without, but still employs that relic of antiquity, the independent system. [5]
- She was a pretty, intelligent woman, at whose dinner table one was sure to hear the discussion of some "modern problem": she believed herself to be a socialist. [9]
- All intelligent people praise Kamehameha I. and Liholiho for conferring upon their people the great boon of civilization. [5]
- I had the pleasure of knowing him well, and I always appreciated his energy, his manliness, and his intelligent cheerful heroism. [6]
- We talked together pleasantly on various subjects for an hour, perhaps, and I found him exceedingly intelligent and entertaining. [5]
- She had rejected plain John Lyon, amiable, intelligent, unselfish, kindly, deferential. [4]
- Here are selected, picked out by special invitation, the best that society can show, the most intelligent, the most accomplished, the most beautiful, the best dressed persons in the community--all receptions have this character. [4]
- His name was Phinehas Barnes, and, if he is inquired after in Portland or anywhere in the State of Maine, something will be heard to his advantage from any honest and intelligent citizen of that Commonwealth who answers the question. [6]
- Possibly no intelligent person was deceived, but in the estimation of the mass of the people the Spectrum increased its reputation for enterprise and smartness and gave also an impression of its fairness. [4]
- We must admit our mistakes, both social and political, and set about the solution of our problem with intelligent resolution and a large charity. [4]
- And on the other hand, an attentive and intelligent hearer, listening to a succession of wise teachers, might become actually better educated in theology than any one of them. [6]
- Come--is this instinct, or is it thoughtful and intelligent discussion of a thing new--absolutely new--to their experience; with a verdict arrived at, sentence passed, and judgment executed? [5]
- Mr. Arnold made one string of his epithets familiar to all of us,--"This great, intelligent, sensual, and avaricious America. [6]
- The making him one did not warp his generosity or diminish his courage; on the contrary it gave intelligent direction to the one and a broader field to the other. [5]
- These noble animals, on whose intelligent heads large bunches of feathers nodded, and whose rich harness glittered with gold and gems, were indeed a splendid sight. [10]
- You have shown, on many occasions, that your mission is not simply to antidote the melancholy of a world, but includes a real and intelligent concern for the general welfare of your fellowman. [5]
- He congratulated Stephen on his speech, and volunteered the news that he had come in a spirit of fairness to hear what the intelligent leaders of the Republican party, such as Judge Whipple, had to say. [9]
- With the advent of the new passion all his dormant faculties start into life, and the seeming simpleton becomes the bright and intelligent lover. [6]
- In the presence of Hermon's Demeter, the opinion of the experienced man and intelligent connoisseur had suddenly changed. [10]
- But in spite of all this success, and the number of those interested and committed in its behalf, Perkinism soon began to decline, and in 1811 the Tractors are spoken of by an intelligent writer as being almost forgotten. [6]
- When darkness would obscure his mind, and a thick cloud of gloom would bewilder its operations, her intelligent eye darts a ray of streaming light into his heart. [5]
- Of course the object of the excitement was wholly ignorant of the cause of it, as no daily newspaper was ever seen by her that had not been carefully inspected by the trusted and intelligent governess. [4]
- It is sufficient now to note this tendency, and to claim the credit of it for the wise and intelligent American Girl. [4]
- But I do not desire to dwell upon this branch of the question more than to say that this assumption of his is false, and I do hope that that fallacy will not long prevail in the minds of intelligent white men. [7]
- The divinity-student could not deny that this was what might be called opening the subject to the discussion of intelligent people. [6]
- It is little needed, because the case is clear enough to all intelligent readers of our diplomatic history, and because his cause has been amply sustained by others in many ways better qualified than myself to do it justice. [6]
- I trust that nearly all of this intelligent audience have read that speech. [7]
- I soon saw my course--for, indeed, there was but the one course for an intelligent man to pursue. [5]
- But those popular movements seem to us rather blind struggles against physical evils, and to be distinguished from those more intelligent actions based upon the theory which began to stir Europe prior to the Reformation. [4]
- I was the most intelligent fool that passed through, that year. [5]
- At present they merely make trouble and do harm in the evoking of cyclones and other kinds of electric storms; but once under humane and intelligent control this will cease and they will become a boon to man. [5]
- If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. [7]
- If a bishop meets an intelligent gentleman, and reads fatal interrogation in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him. [6]
- A very intelligent medical student, Mr. William D. Chapin, whose excellent project is indorsed by well-known New York physicians and professors, proposes to publish a yearly index to original communications in the medical journals of the United States, classified by authors and subjects. [3]
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