Use interest in a sentence
Sentences starting with interest
- Interest in music had also united her to Dr. Martin Luther, her husband's friend, and mane a composition of the Wittenberg ecclesiastic had first been performed at the Hiltners. [10]
Sentences ending with interest
- In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
- Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
- Hence the older works come in time to have only an antiquarian interest. [4]
- They inspected it with profound interest. [5]
- I watch her with great, I may say tender interest. [6]
- And the person who has no interest in things is the person who once had a great deal of interest in things, who had too passionate an interest. [11]
- Shrewd country delegates who had listened to the Champion's speeches and had come to the capital prepared to vote for purity, had been observing the movements since yesterday, of Mr. Tooting and Mr. Wading with no inconsiderable interest. [9]
- The great war which has since devastated the world gives to this incident an added interest. [5]
- But it's lovely weather in these regions, too; and the friends are as lovely as the weather, and Johannesburg and Pretoria are brimming with interest. [5]
- By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
Short sentences using interest
- It will interest you. [5]
- That should meet the interest. [11]
- You shall have my interest. [9]
- It doesn't interest me. [5]
- He couldn't interest me. [5]
- That did not interest him. [2]
- Anything to interest her. [6]
- He can command her interest. [11]
- Inspiring interest is gone. [4]
- The interest wouldn't be fresh. [11]
Sentences containing interest two or more times
- Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
- I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes--one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one full of interest, inflamed with it, white-hot with it. [5]
- In giving himself up to a biography in which he had no special interest, Warner felt conscious that he could not interest others. [4]
- We went ashore there, and tried to take an interest in the ship-building, and in the little oysters which the harbor yields; but whether we did take an interest or not has passed out of memory. [4]
- The grand interest, the supreme interest, came instantly to the front again; nothing could keep it in the background many minutes on a stretch. [5]
- Unless it is the desire and willingness to strive for a larger interest than the individual interest, work and suffer for others? [9]
- But he knew that this was not true when he was met at the door of the ward where Lindau lay by the young doctor, who had come to feel a personal interest in March's interest in Lindau. [8]
- He had changed since the day he left Bordeaux on the Antoine; since he had first caught the flash of interest in Carmen Dolores' eyes--an interest roused from his likeness to a conspirator who had been shot for his country's good. [11]
- This I will say, that I do take the most intense interest in this young person, an interest much more like pity than love in its common sense. [6]
- It is a phenomenon of inconceivable importance and interest, view it as one may, but its interest to us is vastly heightened by an added knowledge of its nature which no scholar has heretofore possessed or even suspected. [5]
More example sentences with the word interest in them
- In me, the youth of nineteen, he awakened admiration, interest, and curiosity, and his "You are a poet" sometimes strengthened my courage, sometimes disheartened me. [10]
- Do you find yourself disposed to take a special interest in Elsie,--to fall in love with her, in a word? [6]
- I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
- I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
- It will interest your mind and concentrate it, and it will pursue the subject with satisfaction. [5]
- Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
- But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
- We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
- It must interest you to come back, and see the changes in our Western civilization. [9]
- If such as you take an interest in such as he, know, then, that I have sent him of an errand. [5]
- I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]
- I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
- 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]
- I wanted to write what was in me, and that invasion of a little secluded French-Canadian society by a ne'er-do-well of the over-sea aristocracy had a psychological interest, which I could not resist. [11]
- I thought I would stick to it while the interest was hot--and I am mighty glad I did. [5]
- And whatever she would say was bound to have a quality of interest and attraction that could be exercised by no other lips. [4]
- Perhaps his diary would have something of interest with reference to the "Saturday Club," of which he was a member, which, in fact, formed itself around him as a nucleus, and which he attended very regularly. [6]
- The Federal Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. [7]
- I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
- It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
- If you're doing work you like, that you've got an interest in, and that's some use, you don't need religion (she pauses). [9]
- A small, unpicturesque, wooden town, in the languor of a provincial summer; why should we pretend an interest in it which we did not feel? [4]
- The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
- While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
- To him a woman was the supreme interest of existence, apart from making a necessary living. [11]
- Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
- I may say, without indiscretion, that I intend from now on to take even a greater interest in public affairs. [9]
- They were fellow-creatures with whom one did not naturally enter into active sympathy, and the principal point of interest about the fiacre and its arrangements was whether the horse was fondest of trotting or of walking. [6]
- And the man with us--that might interest you more, Mrs. Laflamme, was Mr. Lyon, who will be the Earl of Chisholm. [4]
- The crowd sways with the rise and fall of the shifting, testimony, in sympathetic interest, and hangs upon the dicta of the judge in breathless silence. [5]
- I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. [7]
- His active connection with the paper he never gave up absolutely, nor did his interest in it ever cease. [4]
- I looked forward with the greatest interest to revisiting the Gallery of the Louvre, accompanied by my long-treasured recollections. [6]
- Your profession deals with the facts of life that interest me most just now, and I want to know something of it. [6]
- Everything not connected with the execution of the prince's orders did not interest and did not even exist for Alpatych. [2]
- King watched this with the double interest of spectator and player. [4]
- I went, therefore, with peculiar interest, on the day that we rested at our grand hotel, to visit some new pleasure-grounds the citizens had been arranging for us, and which I had not yet seen. [6]
- I often think, with no little interest and some degree of anxiety, about her future. [6]
- Miss Cynthia listened with involuntary interest to her stories of school and school-mates. [6]
- I followed it with interest, for I was anxious to learn how easy-divorce eradicated adultery in America, but I was disappointed; I have no idea yet how it did it. [5]
- Tybalt was aching with interest, for he scented a thing of note. [11]
- Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
- She now listened with eager interest, sometimes completing Hermon's acknowledgments by an explanatory or propitiating word, as the leeches subjected him to a rigid examination, but the latter felt that his statements were not to serve curiosity, but an honest desire to aid him. [10]
- I am watching with considerable interest to ascertain what figure "the free-State Democrats" cut in the concern. [7]
- It was rather with a tremulous interest than with open hilarity that the rumor was generally received. [6]
- He watched me with a silent and exaggerated interest as I laid it on the table. [9]
- Madame Duvarney responded with a look of interest, and the Seigneur's eyes steadied to his plate. [11]
- He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others. [11]
- We do, however, wish to know what are the convictions of any such persons in matters of highest interest about which there is so much honest difference of opinion in this age of deep and anxious and devout religious scepticism. [6]
- Why should we wish to know the rate of interest on those notes, or the time? [9]
- What interest, you will say, could the pioneer lawyers and storekeepers and planters have in the French Revolution? [9]
- Noah's memorable voyage will always possess a living interest for me, henceforward. [5]
- The water-bearers of whom you desired to speak to me do not interest me--I care no more about them than about the swallows flying over the house yonder. [10]
- The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
- So now the whole council is French, and in all ordinary matters of legislation they vote together and in the French interest, not the English. [5]
- Even the Professor, who was traveling in the interest of Reform, couldn't wake up a discussion out of such a state of mind. [4]
- For his grandfather, who was indisposed, he was induced to preside at a political meeting in the interest of a wealthy local brewer, who confidently expected the seat, and, through gifts to the party, a knighthood. [11]
- Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
- As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and, next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government. [7]
- We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
- There was another who read the account of the exercises with intense interest, a gentleman of whom we have lately forborne to speak. [9]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
- Nobody, he implied, who came to his house had ever exhibited the proper interest in Sid. [9]
- The colored people, who are a conspicuous part of the establishment, are a source of never-failing interest and amusement. [4]
- She saw the whispering, she noted the well-bred disguise of interest, and she met the visitor's gaze with cold courtesy. [11]
- In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
- The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
- To the objection which might be urged that these interest bonds could not be cashed, he replied that if our other bonds could, much more could these, which offered a perfect security, a fund being irrevocably set aside to provide for their redemption. [7]
- These are questions which it may interest you to consider. [3]
- The next things which interest us when we travel are, first, the people; next, the novelties; and finally the history of the places and countries visited. [5]
- On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
- Charley nodded pleasantly when the Cure introduced his brother, but showed no further interest at first. [11]
- The Sagalac, even when muddy, had its own deep interest, and when it was full of logs drifting down to the sawmills, for which he had found the money by interesting capitalists in the East, he sniffed the stinging smell of the pines with elation. [11]
- The next morning, when I sallied out to hire a conveyance, I was an object of interest to the entire population, who seemed to think it very odd that any one should walk about and explore the quiet streets. [4]
- Society is not what it was in your mother's day, who knew these people or their mothers, and took an interest in what they were doing. [9]
- He spoke of what he knew might interest the old lady and that she could understand. [2]
- What noble principle, what deathless interest, was there at stake? [6]
- You can't think what an interest I have in you. [12]
- These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
- The resulting experiences were full of interest and adventure. [5]
- As the years went on he was still unable to pay off the mortgage; and sometimes, indeed, he could not even meet the interest, in spite of the princely sum he received from Mr. Willard of the Guardian. [9]
- So the visitors went home, wondering whether it were worth while after all to interest themselves in the cause of such a self-contained and self-reliant young woman. [9]
- The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing more was needed. [12]
- Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
- You remember when we were in the depths of the woods last summer how difficult it was to get up any interest in the files of late papers that reached us, and how unreal all the struggle and turmoil of the world seemed. [4]
- For an hour we took as much interest in Overland City as if we had never seen a town before. [5]
- In that information we shall have a stern, unbending basis of facts--a basis in no wise subject to whim, caprice, or local interest. [7]
- We sold when we heard what an interest there was in the road. [4]
- It isn't because we haven't anything else to talk about, but because nothing else has so strong an interest for us. [5]
- The combatants were watching each other with alert eyes; a perfect stillness, a breathless interest reigned. [5]
- The maid had watched her career with much interest, and while Barine had been her mistress's guest her efforts to amuse and soothe her were unceasing. [10]
- I at least watch your work with interest, and do not dispute your art so long as it does not cross the boundaries of the beautiful, which to me are those of art. [10]
- Perhaps she might watch his career with more interest from her acquaintance with him. [6]
- The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
- All this process was watched by the three spectators with absorbing interest, their heads bent together over Luigi's palm, and nobody disturbing the stillness with a word. [5]
- His special interest was the fauna of Australasia, and his knowledge of the matter was as exhaustive as it was accurate. [5]
- Long before supper was ready, nearly nine o'clock, we had almost lost interest in it. [4]
- The court room was packed on the morning on which the verdict of the jury was expected, as it had been every day of the trial, and by the same spectators, who had followed its progress with such intense interest. [5]
- Naturally Mark Twain was one of its favorite members, and his contributions never failed to arouse interest and discussion. [5]
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