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Sentences ending with intervals

But our intercourse with Nature had been limited to formal visits which we were permitted to pay the august lady at stated intervals. [10]
The worthies who took care of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, like the Revolutionary heroes, fought (with disease) and bled (their patients) and died (in spite of their own remedies); but their names, once familiar, are heard only at rare intervals. [3]
Even liars have to admit that, if they are intelligent liars; I mean in their private [the word conscientious written but erased] intervals. [5]
But of course this was at rare intervals. [5]
For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript--I will not say daily, though I sometimes receive more than one in a day, but at very short intervals. [6]
The view from the summit would have been superb but for the fact that the sun could only pierce the mists at long intervals. [5]
The choir made the responses, and performed at intervals. [4]
Breakfast was on the minute, an hour in his study to attend to affairs about the place, so many hours in his office at the mills, in the president's room at the bank, vestry and charity meetings at regular intervals. [9]
This was at still rarer intervals. [5]
The clouds were rolling northward, and the thunder followed the flashes of lightning at longer and longer intervals. [10]

Short sentences using intervals

At intervals he said: "Missouri. [5]
Broken at intervals. [5]
With intervals. [5]

Sentences containing intervals two or more times

It was only that he had intervals --frequent intervals, and rather long ones--when he did not admire it, and was still more doubtful as to the ways of providence. [5]
He dictated again, every two or three days--the intervals were intervals of exhaustion and slow recuperation--and at last he was able to tell me that he had written more matter than could be got into the book. [5]

More example sentences with the word intervals in them

There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
An' as the years passed at long intervals I would find such a man. [13]
The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
At intervals he would come to the Fosters to read a manuscript of his own. [4]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
Wolf went on with his noise and with his demands that he be granted the floor, resting his board at intervals to discharge criticisms and epithets at the Chair. [5]
When he spoke, which was at rare intervals, his voice was without feeling, concise, insistent, unappealing. [11]
Here is one which comes up at intervals in this way. [6]
Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
Redoubts and towers were within musket-shot of each other, with watch-houses between, and at intervals every able-bodied man in the country was obliged to leave his trade to act as sentinel, or go into camp or barracks with the militia for months at a time. [11]
All of this went on at frequent intervals during the winter, and while I was organizing the Elkington Power and Traction Company for George I found time to dine and sup at Maude's house, and to take walks with her. [9]
During study hours we were serious, but in the intervals we were merry enough. [10]
At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
He can take to the philosophic meerschaum, and nicotine himself at brief intervals into a kind of buzzing and blurry insensibility, until he begins to "color" at last like the bowl of his own pipe, and even his mind gets the tobacco flavor. [6]
His method is to sit quietly in the wagon, and at short intervals throw a small pebble at the horse. [4]
It was sad to see his name disappear from the newspapers; sadder still to see it resurrected at intervals, shorn of its aforetime gaudy gear of compliments and clothed on with rhetorical tar and feathers. [5]
That was not to my taste, save as a kind of dramatic entertainment to be indulged in at intervals like a Drury Lane pantomime. [11]
Two or three times, at intervals, the officer asked me if I had anything dutiable about me, and seemed more and more put out and disappointed every time I told him no. [5]
Now, for the third time, the bright steel of the axe flashed in the sunshine, and immediately after trumpet-calls sounded and were repeated at short intervals, which still, to her, seemed intolerably long. [10]
Neither knew what they were doing, and the spoiling process was interspersed with occasional and (to Austen) unmeaning intervals of severe discipline. [9]
After one of these intervals of silence, Eldon Parr looked up from his claret. [9]
True, they allowed themselves only brief intervals of rest, but they were long enough to show her how the sufferer's strength was failing. [10]
I shall have them relieved from time to time, and at intervals look after them myself. [10]
In the intervals the talk wandered into regions unfamiliar to Honora, and she had a sense that her own horizon was being enlarged. [9]
The woman in the rocking-chair was Miss Cynthia Badlam, second-cousin of Miss Silence Withers, with whom she had been living as a companion at intervals for some years. [6]
At intervals, at the openings of these ravines, are little marinas, where the fishermen have their huts' and where their boats land. [4]
I will wet the handkerchief at intervals in the pauses. [10]
How beautiful was the coupon bond, arrayed in its golden raiment of promises to pay at certain stated intervals, for a goodly number of coming years! [6]
During the months that followed, they had met, at rare intervals, exchanged casual greetings, and passed on. [9]
But besides this, sounds frequently recurring at irregular intervals are highly disagreeable, as every one will admit who has listened at night to the irregular flapping of a rope on board ship. [1]
Clement Lindsay was so well received at his first visit that he ventured to repeat it several times, with so short intervals that it implied something more than a common interest in one of the members of the household. [6]
The Howells incident so amusingly dramatized will perhaps be more appreciated if the reader remembers that Mark Twain himself had at intervals been a mind-healing enthusiast. [5]
This one was skipping about the upper great heights of the mosque --skipping across empty yawning intervals which were almost too wide for him, and which he only just barely cleared, each time, by the skin of his teeth. [5]
At intervals a sigh or a muffled sob broke upon the stillness. [5]
The moon was shining at intervals, for the night was partially clouded. [6]
These bridges were shaky and wanted a plank at intervals, but they are in keeping with the enterprise of the country. [4]
You can hang round the corner with Bella, and Tom can come up to me in tears, at stated intervals, and ask me if I've found anything yet. [8]
One of them rose at regular intervals to fill the earthen bowl by the side of the physician with fresh water. [10]
Opposite to him rose a heap of loose straw, beneath which something stirred from time to time, and from which at short intervals a slight cough was heard. [10]
He had no rest for meals, only snatched what he could eat as he drove along, or at intervals of five or eight minutes at the end of routes. [4]
How could he resist the dictate of humanity which called him to make his visits more frequent, that her intervals of rest might be more numerous? [6]
I do not refer to strongly-marked deviations of structure, which occur only at long intervals of time, but to mere individual differences. [1]
I continued to receive long and interesting letters from him at intervals during his residence as Minister at Vienna. [6]
There is no reason why a professional criminal, who won't change his trade for an honest one, should have intervals of freedom in his prison life in which he is let loose to prey upon society. [4]
As her thoughts ran on, the indignant tears would spring to her eyes, and she would spit out fierce little ejaculations at intervals. [5]
Now, in his quiet, sober intervals he read omnivorously, and worked out problems in physics for which he had a taste, until the old appetite surged over him again. [11]
At intervals he put his hand on the dog and stopped to listen. [13]
These works were produced with considerable intervals of time between their respective appearances, the first coming out in 1889 and the third ten years later. [4]
At intervals the presidents of the five corps have a cold official intercourse with each other, but nothing further. [5]
He was so popular at home, and so trusted--during his sober intervals --that he was enabled to use the name of a principal citizen, and get a large sum of money at the bank. [5]
We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. [5]
This was Old Phelps, whose appetite had failed the day before,--his imagination being in better working order than his stomach: he had eaten little that day, and his legs became so groggy that he was obliged to rest at short intervals. [4]
There were long periods when it was in plain sight, and intervals when it dropped behind the sage. [13]
At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation. [5]
Granted that this pabulum is desired by the reader, why not save the expense of transmission by having several columns of it stereotyped, to be reproduced at proper intervals? [4]
They were boiling over with youth and spirits, and they had to make the intervals of idleness endurable in some way; and as a rule, they did it by contriving practical jokes and playing them upon each other. [5]
The light burned on; and they that worshipped it, And they that caught its flash at intervals and held it dear, Contented lived in its secure possession. [5]
The same ocean on which she had looked that morning, and which she heard now, in the intervals of talk and laughter, crashing against the cliffs,--although the wind had gone down. [9]
The noise went on at intervals. [9]
But I am older than people think, and besides I live away out in the country and never stir from home, except at geological intervals, to fill left-over engagements in mesozoic times when I was younger and indiscreeter. [5]
In the back of the rector's mind lay a weight, which he identified, at intervals, with what he was now convinced was the failure of his sermon. [9]
In the intervals of the music there was silence, as if the great throng were too deeply enjoying this feast of the senses to speak. [4]
Presently, in one of the intervals of Miss Russell's feverish talk, he rose to go. [9]
By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. [7]
In the intervals of the dance wine passes, and idle things are said beside the draped and cushioned capstan or in the friendly gloom of a boat, which, in the name of safety, hangs taut between its davits. [11]
In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. [2]
A great portion of the best writing and reading literary, scientific, professional, miscellaneous--comes to us now, at stated intervals, in paper covers. [3]
The naturalist spoke of the bell bird, the creature that at short intervals all day rings out its mellow and exquisite peal from the deeps of the forest. [5]
In the intervals of such a life as this, "Jane Eyre" was making progress. [14]
Several other friends of mine were indulging in brief intervals of rest on the ground, and I barely avoided stepping on them. [9]
The level strip of ground which stretches through and beyond the town is laid out in handsome pleasure grounds, shaded by noble trees and adorned at intervals with lofty and sparkling fountain-jets. [5]
In the intervals of calm I still fished, and even descended to what a sportsman considers incredible baseness: I put a "sinker" on my line. [4]
At length they occurred at longer intervals, the thunder lost its appalling fury, and as the wind drove the storm farther and farther to the southwards, at last it wholly died away. [10]
This gibbon is not the only species in the genus which sings, for my son, Francis Darwin, attentively listened in the Zoological Gardens to H. leuciscus whilst singing a cadence of three notes, in true musical intervals and with a clear musical tone. [1]
William Wetherell did not know that it was a periodical bomb, like those flung at regular intervals from the Union mortars into Vicksburg. [9]
Separated only by narrow intervals, the rows of lights formed a glittering series of frames which outlined the noble building and rendered it visible from afar. [10]
I would like much to see the fringes of the Jordan in spring-time, and Shechem, Esdraelon, Ajalon and the borders of Galilee--but even then these spots would seem mere toy gardens set at wide intervals in the waste of a limitless desolation. [5]
He had seen much of Junia Shale in these years and had grown fond of her, but she was away much with an aunt in the West, and she was sent to boarding-school, and they saw each other only at intervals. [11]
Throughout the winter, Mr. Hopper's visits to Locust Street had continued at intervals of painful regularity. [9]
At intervals the mournful bay of a bloodhound came to us from a distance. [9]
On the lower mountains, at wide intervals apart, were isolated settlements, commonly a wretched cabin and a spot of girdled trees. [4]
In ten minutes more we struck into a beautiful road, and unlike some others we had stumbled upon at intervals, it led in the right direction. [5]
There emanated from Monsieur Vigo a sympathy which few men possess, and this I felt strongly as he listened, breaking his silence only at long intervals to ask a question. [9]
At intervals, showers might be heard pattering on the walk outside. [9]
But he merely looked around at me, at distant intervals, something as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail. [5]
We began the long winding ascent of the canyon, toward the "divide," and presently the cabins began to grow infrequent, and the intervals between them wider and wider, and then I began to breathe tolerably freely and feel less like a thief and a murderer. [5]
He sat a long time, looking at the floor, and at intervals muttering to himself and nodding his head acquiescingly or shaking it in mild protest. [5]
At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth. [5]
He had been little heard of up to that time, but since then we have never ceased to hear of him; we have never ceased to hear of him at stated, unfailing intervals. [5]
Even a rush like this did not fill up the postmaster's whole month, though, and therefore he "kept store" in the intervals. [5]
Here his mind, like that of a dying man's, grasped for brief intervals what life had offered and what awaited him beyond the confines of this short earthly existence, in eternity. [10]
Still, he enjoyed life all the time he was in the stone business, which, with inconsiderable intervals, was some forty-two years. [5]
Brightly glowing charcoal lay in front of the bellows which were worked by an automaton, at short regular intervals, while the god and his assistants modelled in brass, stood round the genial fire with tongs and hammers. [10]
But first and last and all the time he is human, and therefore in his reflective intervals he will always be speculating in "futures. [5]
At intervals they lapsed into silences, leaving a sentence unfinished, seemingly either unaware of it or losing their way. [5]
At intervals are landings, where arched windows are cut out to the sea, with stone seats and protecting walls. [4]
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. [6]
The game, with its intervals of hilarity, was inaugurated in the library, and by midnight it showed no signs of abating. [9]
But with Myrtle it was a fixed belief that she felt perfectly distinct currents of her ancestral blood at intervals, and she had sometimes thought there were instincts and vague recollections which must have come from the old warriors and hunters and their dusky brides. [6]
Strictly described, it is a practicing of difficult and unpleasant intervals, mainly. [5]

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