Use jo in a sentence
Sentences starting with jo
- Jo watched him with an intense alarm and a horrified curiosity. [11]
- Jo roused himself with an effort, and opened to the knocking. [11]
- Jo says you want to go to Canada within a month or six weeks--I forget just exactly what he did say; but he intimated the trip could be delayed a while, if necessary. [5]
- Jo turned quickly to the wall, and taking it by its cord from the nail where it had been for these long months, handed it over. [11]
- Jo Portugais rose to his feet with a startled exclamation. [11]
- Jo said that they ought to wait and see--wait awhile, and then, if his memory did not return, they would try to find his friends, by publishing his story abroad. [11]
- Jo rushed into the shop, and saw, as he thought, Charley lying dead-- saw the robber dead upon the floor. [11]
- Jo was in the light, and Charley's eyes again studied him hard. [11]
- Jo Portugais saw that memory was gone; that the past was blotted out. [11]
- Jo could hardly speak. [11]
Sentences ending with jo
- The matter of which I spoke to you so earnestly shall be just as earnestly attended to--and again with very many warm regards for Jo. [5]
- At last he turned to Jo. [11]
- The carpenter and the carver in wood who were responsible for the work had fallen victims to white whiskey on the very last day of their task, and had been driven from the church by the Cure, who then sent for Jo. [11]
- The first day on the raft, as Charley had opened his eyes upon the world again after that awful night at the Cote Dorion, Jo. [11]
- Don't worry about me, Jo. [11]
- You stunned me, Jo. [11]
- You heard them, Jo. [11]
- After a minute his eyes opened again, and he gazed with painful, pathetic seriousness at Jo. [11]
- Charley heard the door open, heard unfamiliar steps, seized his pistol, and, springing up, with his back to the safe, called out loudly to Jo. [11]
- She opened the door of the post office and called to Jo. [11]
Short sentences using jo
- He believed what Jo said. [11]
- There is time," Jo asked. [11]
- Jo had an inspiration. [11]
- Jo Portugais caught his sleeve. [11]
- Jo Gordineer was his associate. [11]
- Jo Portugais is here. [11]
- Gawdor hated Jo Gordineer. [11]
- Jo made no comment. [11]
- Love to Jo. [5]
- Jo was startled. [11]
Sentences containing jo two or more times
- Twice a year the Cure made it a point to visit Jo in the interests of his soul, though the visits came to little, for Jo never went to confession, and seldom to mass. [11]
- In the earlier part of the winter Jo and he had met two or three times a week, but now Jo had come to help him with his work in the shop--two silent, devoted companions. [11]
- Now it was Kathleen, now Billy, now Jo Portugais, now John Brown, now Suzon Charlemagne at the Cote Dorion, again Jo Portugais. [11]
- What had driven Jo from home only his father knew; what had happened to him during that year only Jo himself knew, and he told no one, not even his dying father. [11]
- When Injun Jo, he leave me with the dogs, an' I wake up all alone, an' not know my way--not like Jo, I think I die, it is so bad, so terrible in my head. [11]
- The Cure was a simple man, and when Jo urged that if the sick man could get well anywhere in the world it would be at Vadrome Mountain in Chaudiere, the Cure's parochial pride was roused, and he was ready to believe all Jo said. [11]
More example sentences with the word jo in them
- Speed says he wrote you what Jo Smith said about you as he passed here. [7]
- Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
- Charley turned, and, without a word, followed Jo into the house. [11]
- And the red will run, in spite of all Jo or Milner or you can do. [11]
- M'sieu', the tailor was ill for three days here, and he would let no one except the Cure and Jo Portugais near him. [11]
- As he folded up the paper to put it into his pocket, Jo Portugais entered the room. [11]
- On the way to the hospital at Quebec, however, Jo had been so careful of her father, so respectful when speaking of M'sieu', so regardful of her own comfort, that her antagonism to him was lulled. [11]
- A hurried question to the Cure from Charley, a key handed over, a nod from Jo, and before the Cure could prevent them the two men had rushed through the smoke and flame into the vestry, Portugais holding Charley's hand. [11]
- Shon went over to the coat, did as Pourcette had done, and said: "Is it gone y'are, Jo, wid your slow tongue and your big heart? [11]
- They parted, Jo to remain behind as they had agreed, to be near Rosalie if needed; Charley to return to the valley of the Chaudiere. [11]
- She imagined M'sieu' to be at Vadrome Mountain, until, glancing round the crowd at the quack-doctor's wagon, she saw Jo Portugais gloomily watching the travelling tinker of human bodies. [11]
- She had taken the river-path down from Vadrome Mountain, where she had gone to see Jo Portugais, who had not yet returned from Quebec. [11]
- Before he left the post-office, Filion Lacasse, Maximilian Cour, and Mrs. Flynn had given forth his history, as related by Jo Portugais. [11]
- New phases of the most interesting case Charley had ever defended spread out before him--the case which had given him his friend Jo Portugais, which had turned his own destiny. [11]
- The constables were the machinery of the Law, and Jo Portugais was the unwilling witness, whose evidence would be the crux of the case. [11]
- It seemed to the delighted and excited Rosalie that Jo Portugais had been sent to her as a surprise, and that his team of dogs was to take her father back. [11]
- And Jo Brackenbury, the dandiest rip, the noisiest pal that ever said 'Here's how! [11]
- On this occasion the Cure arrived when Jo was out in the woods. [11]
- Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more. [5]
- So it was that, at last, Jo made no attempt to lock the door, but with a nod or a good-bye left him alone. [11]
- She was glad that Jo should defend M'sieu', but she was jealous of his friendship for the tailor. [11]
- He heard in stern silence the Cure's happy statement that Jo Portugais had returned to the bosom of the Church, and attended Mass regularly. [11]
- He took a step forward, as though with sudden resolve, but there came a knocking, and, pausing, he motioned Jo to open the door. [11]
- If Jo could speak, he would say, Give it up. [11]
- The Cure's eyes shone when he saw on a little knoll in the trees, apart from the worshippers and spectators, Charley and Jo Portugais. [11]
- The Cure had sent for Jo to do some last work upon a little altar, to be used the next day for the first time. [11]
- Charley had often seen Jo on his knees of late, and he had wondered, but not with the old pagan mind. [11]
- Jo Gordineer only said jestingly: "Say, now, what are you doing, Shon, bringing us down here, when we might be well into the Valley by this time? [11]
- Perhaps Jo was right, he thought. [11]
- Jo Portugais had recognised the voice--that of Charley Steele the lawyer who had saved him from hanging years ago. [11]
- He would have quarrelled with Jo, if he had dared; Gordineer was too quick a shot. [11]
- If he wanted proof of what she said, let him ask Jo Portugais. [11]
- Jo Gordineer and Pretty Pierre strode on together. [11]
- In the week preceding Easter, when all the parish was busy at Four Mountains, making costumes, rehearsing, building, putting up seats, cutting down trees, and erecting crosses and calvaries, Charley disclosed to Jo a new intention. [11]
- Was it not possible that Jo knew where M'sieu' came from, and all about him? [11]
- It was Jo Portugais, who had seen him coming, and had waited for him. [11]
- Charley and Jo Portugais, the infidel and the murderer, were thus the sentries to the peace of a parish, the bankers of its gifts, the security for the future of the church of Chaudiere. [11]
- This night Jo Portugais was sleeping up-stairs, while Charley lay upon the bench in the tailor-shop. [11]
- It's on Jo Portugais' little cart," added Filion Lacasse. [11]
- These things Jo Portugais diligently impressed on the minds of all who would listen. [11]
- Jo lighted his pipe, and smoked steadily for a time without speaking. [11]
- He thought that perhaps she meant Jo, and he glanced towards the door; but she kept her eyes on him, and they told him that she meant himself. [11]
- Two of the others then fired at Jo, who had caught a horse by the head. [11]
- If you were only going to Pike's Peak, a little matter of 700 miles from St. Jo, you might take the coach, and I wouldn't say a word. [5]
- Just before dawn on the second morning, worn out and heavy with slumber, Jo lay down by the piled-up fire and dropped into a sleep that wrapped him like a blanket, folding him away into a drenching darkness. [11]
- It was thoughtful of this man to make his soup overnight-he saw Jo lift it from beside the fire where it had been kept hot. [11]
- The real reason of this early departure was clear to Pretty Pierre at once, and in due time it dawned upon Jo Gordineer. [11]
- Jo had skill of a sort, and his crude medicaments were efficacious. [11]
- Looking at Jo now, he was possessed by a composed intoxication like that in which he had moved during that last night at the Cote Dorion. [11]
- Besides, did there not appear to be a secret between Jo and M'sieu'? [11]
- She met the men who were bringing the body of Jo Portugais into the shop. [11]
- As Charley stood looking round the workshop, Jo entered, shaking the snow from his moccasined feet. [11]
- At length Charley leaned over and touched Jo on the shoulder. [11]
- All day he lay and watched Jo as he worked, as he came and went. [11]
- But I wish, Lawless, I wish that I'd niver known how Jo wint off, an' I wish we were all t'gither agin, as down in the Pipi Valley. [11]
- Are you Sam Kilby, Jo Brackenbury's friend, from Samoa? [11]
- He glanced at Jo, whose eyes, strained and painful, were fixed upon the door. [11]
- Very soon afterwards Jo was inside the post-office, telling his tale with the deliberation of a lesson learned by heart. [11]
- In an instant Jo was beside him again, with a bowl of fresh water at his lips. [11]
- His motions waked Jo Portugais, who scrambled from the floor, and came towards him. [11]
- The sight of Jo Portugais' dogs had roused her out of the apathy which had been growing on her in this patient but hopeless watching beside her father. [11]
- Opening the door, Jo heard the sound of footsteps and saw a figure flying down the road. [11]
- A hundred ways Jo had tried to rouse his memory. [11]
- Again and again Jo had come round to the rest-house since one direful day, but had not, found his way therein. [11]
- He knew that Jo had been looking at people and places once so familiar; that he had seen--Kathleen. [11]
- Pretty Pierre and Jo Gordineer and his party carried Sir Duke's letters over into the Pipi Valley, from where they could be sent on to the coast. [11]
- For never did Jo forget that a year from the day he had confessed his sins he meant to give himself up to justice. [11]
- Rosalie turned to Jo and greeted him with a friendlier manner than was her wont towards him. [11]
- He feebly put it to his eye, and looked at Jo in a strange, questioning, uncomprehending way. [11]
- But I consider it over 2,000 miles from St. Jo to Carson, and the first 6 or 800 miles is mere Fourth of July, compared to the balance of the route. [5]
- Till Jo Portugais is cross-examined and steps down, I don't see what I can do! [11]
- Jo had no intention of cutting his story short. [11]
- The three stood in the middle of the street for a minute, Jo talking freely. [11]
- The Abbe, on his arrival, had made inquiries concerning the tailor of Chaudiere and Jo Portugais, as persistently about the one as the other. [11]
- But I let him away in the night, Jo, and I resigned, and they thought that Halbeck had beaten me, had escaped. [11]
- In three days he was upon his feet, and in four he walked out of doors and followed Jo into the woods, and watched him fell a tree and do a woodsman's work. [11]
- When Jo came he lied to the Cure. [11]
- Jo evidently thought he had had enough, for he did not move. [11]
- But Jo might have read it before it was spread upon the bench-put it there of purpose for him to read. [11]
- Some wrung their hands, and Jo Portugais, with blanched face, stood with gun half raised. [11]
- Then, suddenly, the hands relaxed, a bluish paleness swept over the face, and Charley fell sidewise to the floor before Jo could catch him. [11]
- The Abbe Rossignol had undertaken to see them safely to the hospital, and Jo Portugais, at his own request, was permitted to go in attendance upon M. Evanturel. [11]
- His pilot brother had the funds, and upon being appointed "private" secretary, agreed to pay both passages on the overland stage, which would bear them across the great plains from St. Jo to Carson City. [5]
- The footsteps she had heard were those of the Cure and Jo Portugais. [11]
- Thus five days had gone, until at last a wagon was brought to the door of the tailor-shop, and M'sieu' came out, leaning on the arm of Jo Portugais. [11]
- Long after he had gone, Jo wandered up and down among the trees on the river-road, up which Charley had disappeared with Jo's dogs and sled. [11]
- Of late Jo had come in and gone out of the shop oftener than in the past, had even brought her bunches of mosses for her flower-pots, the first budding lilacs, and some maple-sugar made from the trees on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
- Jo Gordineer was going to say: "Here's a safe foot in the stirrups to you," but he changed his mind and drank in silence. [11]
- I saw him go to Jo Portugais a little while ago. [11]
- They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home. [5]
- Charley's glance withdrew from Jo, and busied itself with the few crumbs remaining upon the table. [11]
- Jo accompanied them for a distance. [11]
- His eyes were fixed on Jo intently. [11]
- She received the final impetus to her resolution by a quarrelsome and threatening remark of Jo Portugais to some sharp-tongued gossip in the post-office. [11]
- It was hardly fair, however, to leave Alminy Cutterr waiting while this piece of natural history was telling.--As she spoke of little Jo, who had been "haaf eat up" by Tige, she could not contain her sympathies, and began to cry. [6]
- Jo raised his eyes, red with an unnatural fire, deep with gratitude. [11]
- Sometimes Jo went down to the village below, and then, at first, he locked the door of the house behind him upon Charley. [11]
- Jo says I didn't talk of the past, that I never had delirium, that I never said a word to suggest who I was, or where I came from. [11]
- Charley waved a deprecating hand towards Jo. [11]
- Out of the delirium of his drunken trance had come Charley's recognition of the man he knew now as Jo Portugais. [11]
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