Use jethro in a sentence
Sentences starting with jethro
- Jethro drew breath when he saw that look, as if a great load had been lifted from his heart. [9]
- Jethro turned to Wetherell. [9]
- Jethro led the way in silence until they came to the models. [9]
- Jethro Bass, who was engaged in pushing hemlock bark under the stone to be crushed, straightened. [9]
- Jethro thought the view from Thousand Acre Hill, especially in September, to be one of the sublimest efforts of the Creator. [9]
- Jethro Bass, rugged, uncouth, in rawhide boots and swallowtail and coonskin cap, came down from the porch to welcome her, and she ran toward him with an eagerness that started the painter to wondering afresh over the contrasts of life. [9]
- Jethro Bass was typical of his Era, and it is of the Era that this book attempts to treat. [9]
- Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. [9]
- Jethro was content to wait. [9]
- Jethro Bass--Eben testifies to us--is in the habit of visiting him once a month, perhaps, when he goes to Amos Cuthbert's. [9]
Sentences ending with jethro
- Yes, she loved you, Jethro. [9]
- I should stay with Uncle Jethro. [9]
- Beard was introduced, with some ceremony, to Cynthia and Jethro. [9]
- She knew they were unaware that the Sentence had been passed, else they would not have been with Jethro. [11]
- And I will wear it for you when I am rich, Uncle Jethro. [9]
- Mr. Worthington sprang to his feet, and flung out a hand toward Jethro. [9]
- I was wasting time in Boston, and I--I was not happy so far away from you all--from Uncle Jethro. [9]
- The clerk, descrying them, desisted abruptly from a conversation across the cigar counter, and with all the form of a ceremony dipped the pen with a flourish into the ink and handed it to Jethro. [9]
- I think on the whole, since you have insisted upon my coming to you--" "H-hain't insisted that I know of," said Jethro. [9]
- Whar'd you hear that, Jethro? [9]
Short sentences using jethro
- How would Jethro treat him? [9]
- But had Jethro told all? [11]
- Jethro Fawe lay still. [11]
- Jethro could not speak. [9]
- Cynthia Wetherell had reformed Jethro. [9]
- Jethro was in real distress. [9]
- He stood bending over Jethro. [9]
- They never spoke of Jethro. [9]
- Jethro Bass did no calculating. [9]
- Jethro did not move. [9]
Sentences containing jethro two or more times
- Then she would steal down the stairs to Jethro on the doorstep: to Jethro who would sit there for hours at a time, to the wonder and awe of his neighbors. [9]
- This watchman was not Jethro Fawe, but she knew well that Jethro was not far off. [11]
- Although he would not confess it to himself, he had been in fear of Jethro Bass all his life, and his fear had been greater than ever since the March day when Jethro had left Coniston. [9]
- Although Jethro had never mentioned Isaac Worthington's name to him, Wetherell knew that Jethro hated the first citizen of Brampton. [9]
- Not neglecting to let it be known that Jethro had sent for him, Jake hurried off through the summer twilight to the tannery house, bowed ceremoniously to Cynthia under the butternut tree, and discovered Jethro behind the shed. [9]
- Cynthia and Ephraim knew, and Coniston guessed, that Jethro was taking care of Ephraim, and strong as was his affection for Jethro the old soldier found dependence hard to bear. [9]
- You will find it difficult to get a judgment of Jethro Bass that is not a partisan judgment, and yet I believe that that article is in the main a history of the life of Jethro Bass. [9]
- Bob decided that his liking for Jethro had not diminished, but rather increased; he admired Jethro for the advice he had given, although he did not mean to take it. [9]
- Was it the embodied second self of Jethro Fawe, doing the evil that Jethro Fawe, the visible corporeal man, wished to do? [11]
- When Cynthia came downstairs, Jethro was standing with the gentleman in the corridor leading to the dining room, and she heard the gentleman say as he took his departure:--"I haven't forgotten what you did for us in '70, Jethro. [9]
More example sentences with the word jethro in them
- There was a young man in Boston, when Jethro arrived in Lyman Hull's team, named William Wetherell. [9]
- But to tell you the truth, Jethro, one old friend to another, durned if I don't wish she was married. [9]
- But seriously, Jethro, you and Wetherell ought to send her to school in Boston after a while. [9]
- The issue may yet have been undecided when he turned round to Jethro with a sneer which he could not resist. [9]
- That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
- Humiliation, in Mr. Worthington's eyes, had an element of publicity in it, and this episode had had none of that element; and Jethro Bass, moreover, was a highwayman who had held a pistol to his head. [9]
- Jethro, had Mr. Worthington but known it, was more interested in animate machines: more interested in Mr. Worthington than the falling-mill or, indeed, the tannery business. [9]
- Why in the world she should ever have been curious about Jethro Bass is a mystery to many, for the two of them were as far apart as the poles. [9]
- It was a world of unbridled will, this, where the soul of Jethro Fawe had its origin; and to it his senses fled involuntarily when he put Sarasate's fiddle to his chin this Autumn evening. [11]
- After Fleda's scornful words of release and dismissal, Jethro stood for a moment confounded and dismayed. [11]
- There was a wonderful sunset beyond the Capitol, but Mr. Balch did not talk about the sunset, although Jethro was watching it from behind the curtains. [9]
- The Newcastle Guardian, with unconscious irony, proclaimed the golden era; and declared that its columns, even in other days and under other ownership, had upheld the wisdom of Jethro Bass. [9]
- It all began with the news Milly Skinner had got from the stage driver, imparted to Jethro as he sat reading about Hiawatha. [9]
- Their owners trooped with muddy boots into the meeting-house, and when the moderator rapped for order the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Jethro Bass, was not in his place; never, indeed, would be there again. [9]
- Might not Jethro wish to take vengeance upon him? [9]
- There, outside her window, was Jethro Fawe. [11]
- To Ephraim Prescott, who, as the days went on, found it more and more difficult to sew harness on account of his rheumatism, Jethro was not only a great man but a hero. [9]
- It was Jethro who was standing beside him. [9]
- It was that which made Jethro Fawe shrink and cower for a moment. [11]
- The veiled threats which Jethro had made she did not despise. [11]
- Concerning the locality where Jethro Bass was born and lived, it will and will not be recognized. [9]
- The Ry started when he saw Jethro Fawe; then he made a motion as though he would seize the intruder, who was too dumbfounded to flee; but he recovered himself, and gazed up at the open window. [11]
- My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
- This was perhaps what Jethro wanted. [9]
- This, then, was what happened when Jethro had heard of her dismissal--he had left Coniston without writing her a word and passed through Brampton without seeing her. [9]
- Would Jethro remember what happened there almost six and thirty years before? [9]
- Look at me well, Jethro Fawe. [11]
- You know as well as I do that Jethro has agreed to put the bill through. [9]
- With the warm weather he was able to be about again, and occasionally to mend a harness, but Doctor Rowell shook his head when Jethro stopped his buggy in the road one day to inquire about Ephraim. [9]
- After this, as we have said, Jethro was more than ever at the store--or rather in that domestic domain behind it which Wetherell and Cynthia shared with Miss Millicent Skinner. [9]
- But how shall we chronicle Bijah's rank and precedence in the Jethro army, in which there are neither shoulder-straps nor annual registers? [9]
- Coniston, too, was watching the drama, and had had a better view of the stage than Brampton, and saw some reason presently for the change in Jethro Bass. [9]
- Even Jake Wheeler was tongue-tied, and Jethro appeared to be lost in reflection. [9]
- All Jethro realized was that the man who stood in his way, the big, rich, masterful Gorgio was there. [11]
- Some such query was running in their minds as they talked, while Jethro, having finished his milk and crackers, sat silent at the end of the table with his eyes upon her. [9]
- Mr. Price, however, was one of an adaptable nature, and by the time he had pulled up beside Jethro he had recovered sufficiently to make a few remarks on farming subjects, and finally to express a polite surprise at Jethro's return. [9]
- William Wetherell, who was looking out of the window, drew his breath, and even Jethro drew back with an exclamation at the change wrought in her. [9]
- But Cynthia, who was listening with one ear while Susan talked into the other, gathered that Jethro had been struggling with the railroads, and was sooner or later to engage in a mightier struggle with them. [9]
- The district, too, was largely rural, and therefore anti-consolidation, and the inability of the Worthington forces to get their bill through had made it apparent that Jethro Bass was as powerful as ever. [9]
- One evening it was Jethro who laid the letter on the table beside her as she sat under the lamp. [9]
- But the apathy was dispelled now, and she shrank from giving Jethro pain by mentioning the fact. [9]
- The horse was walking now, and suddenly Jethro Bass faced around, and her heart stood still. [9]
- He met her walking among the trees, very near the place where they had had their first long talk, months before, when Jethro Fawe was a prisoner in the Hut in the Woods. [11]
- She found it very hard to speak of her troubles, even to Miss Lucretia, and she would have kept this secret even from Jethro, had it been possible. [9]
- And on that very day, also, came Jethro Fawe out of the Past and demanded her return. [11]
- William Wetherell looked up, and there was Jethro Bass on the doorstep. [9]
- When Jethro went up the stairs that afternoon, he found William Wetherell alone, looking out over the garden with a new peace and contentment in his eyes. [9]
- But Jethro put up his hand. [9]
- It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
- She ushered the unsuspecting Chester into the kitchen, and there, seated beside Joe and sipping a saucer of very hot coffee, was Jethro Bass himself. [9]
- And I guess Uncle Jethro will get to Boston twice a month if you're there. [9]
- Will," he added, turning to Wetherell, "let me make you acquainted with Jethro Bass. [9]
- Then Mr. Worthington turned to Jethro, who was stooping over the bark. [9]
- If it were true that Bijah had gone over to Jethro Bass, the Consolidation Bill was dead. [9]
- Then some one tried the door, peered in through the glass, perceived Jethro, shook the knob, knocked violently, all to no purpose. [9]
- Suddenly with a toss Jethro drained the glass of spirit, though he had not meant to do so. [11]
- Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
- During this period, too, there sprang up the strangest of intimacies between him and Jethro Bass. [9]
- Mr. Flint had told him, that very morning, of her separation from Jethro, and of the reasons which people believed had caused it. [9]
- Fiercely though she told herself she would believe none of it, fiercely though she hated Mr. Worthington, fervently though she repeated aloud that her love for Jethro and her faith in him had not changed, the doubts remained. [9]
- He will try to wrest the power from Jethro Bass. [9]
- As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
- Give your consent to the marriage, and Jethro Bass will go back to Coniston. [9]
- I want you to tell Jethro that I'm downright sorry I couldn't get him that Brampton postmastership. [9]
- Something prompted him to take another look at Jethro, who was still whittling. [9]
- Jethro had begun to sweep the finer pieces of bark toward the centre. [9]
- Bob had managed to shift the subject from Jethro, not without an effort, though he had done it in that merry, careless manner which was so characteristic of him. [9]
- He hain't here to see Worthington; he's here to see Jethro, when Jethro's a mind to. [9]
- Jethro had learned to read, after a fashion, to write, add, multiply, and divide. [9]
- Then she turned to Jethro: "I wish to speak to you alone, Jethro Fawe," she added. [11]
- Instead of going to Jethro, he went to Heth Sutton, and Heth got the bill as far as the Committee on Corporations, and there she's been ever since, with our friend Chauncey Weed, who's whispering over there. [9]
- The situation appealed to Jethro, especially as he glanced at the backs of the two gentlemen facing the desk. [9]
- It never occurred to Jethro that she might have been embarrassed. [9]
- They said, 'Go to Jethro Bass. [9]
- It's no joke to have that townsman of yours; Jethro Bass, opposed to you. [9]
- Jethro hain't had to call out his best men. [9]
- They are known to be bitter enemies, and it is said that Jethro Bass has but one object in returning to the field--to crush the president of the Truro Railroad. [9]
- William Wetherell ventured to ask Jethro who the man was. [9]
- She was about to ask Jethro his name when Ephraim came limping along and put the matter out of her mind, and the three went into the almost empty dining room. [9]
- The railroads were tired of paying toll to the chief of a band of thieves and cutthroats, to a man who had long throttled the state which had nourished him, to--in short,--to Jethro Bass. [9]
- She has flitted through these pages as she flitted through life itself, arrayed by Jethro like the rainbow, and quite as shadowy and unreal. [9]
- As they walked through the silent streets toward the Opera House, he listened perforce to Mr. Bixby's comments upon some of the innumerable details which Jethro had planned and quietly carried out while sitting, in the window of the Throne Room. [9]
- I was goin' through the barber shop," Mr. Hartington continued, speaking to Jethro and ignoring the railroad president, "and I heard somebody whisperin' my name. [9]
- Jethro had not thought of this. [9]
- She felt as though she could willingly sentence this man to death as her father had done Jethro Fawe that very morning. [11]
- The cause of this was the sight of fat Tom coming around a corner, with Jethro Bass behind him. [9]
- Others had had this same feeling with Jethro, even the minister; but the man of leisure (who was nothing of the sort) merely felt a kind of bewilderment. [9]
- It was at this point, when fifty knives flashed in the air, with vengeful exclamations, that Jethro Fawe appeared in the midst of the crowd. [11]
- He liked Jethro, this man of rugged power whose word had become law in the state. [9]
- When Cynthia read this advertisement to Jethro, he chuckled again. [9]
- Jethro was about thirty years of age, and he wore a coonskin cap even in those days, and trousers tacked into his boots. [9]
- There are some thirty other individuals in Coniston whose mortgages Jethro holds, from a horse to a house and farm. [9]
- Perhaps Jethro was thinking of her. [9]
- But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. [9]
- Jethro Bass runs things in this state. [9]
- Jethro saw this thing coming about a year ago, and he took the precaution to have Chauncey Weed and the rest of the Committee in his pocket--and of course Heth Sutton's always been there. [9]
- When at length they had all departed, Jethro rose and went about the house making fast the doors, as was his custom, while Cynthia sat staring through the bars at the dying embers in the stove. [9]
- The first of these clippings was the article containing the arraignment of Jethro Bass which Mr. Merrill had shown to his wife, and which had been the excuse for Miss Penniman's call. [9]
- Jethro was not there, either, but Cynthia heard some one laughing above the chatter of the guests, and drew back into the corridor. [9]
- The only person then in Coniston whom he thought about was Jethro Bass. [9]
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