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Sentences starting with joshua

Joshua knew to whom he and Ephraim owed this favor, and received it with grateful joy. [10]
Joshua was commissioned to detain the bands of rioters who, amid threats and curses, were striving to force their way past the warriors. [10]
Joshua now knew that it was the youth's sharp teeth gnawing the rope which had caused the noise that had just surprised him, and he immediately stood up and looked first upward and then around him. [10]
Joshua completed his search for the foe and saw on the yellow sands of the valley dark figures moving to and fro. [10]
Joshua seized her right hand, exclaiming: "Ah, if you could attain what your loyal soul desires! [10]
Joshua found his people in sore stress. [10]
Joshua saw him make the intelligent animals smell Ephraim's gnawed bonds and resting-place, and beheld them instantly rush to the ravine. [10]
Joshua dug with his hands a resting place in the sand, and with care and skill helped the youth to prepare a similar one. [10]
Joshua willingly allowed him to join the Hebrews. [10]
Joshua was now here, now there, and the ranks of the enemy were already thinning, while the numbers of the Hebrews seemed increasing. [10]

Sentences ending with joshua

It was at this interesting juncture that Mrs. Holt rattled her newspaper a little louder than usual, arose majestically, and addressed Mrs. Joshua. [9]
And again, it pleases you to spend hours with the stockbroker, who is as lacking in esprit as the bull of Joshua. [9]
The captain was obliged to have the hapless man placed on an ass and chain another prisoner to Joshua. [10]
But he did not return home; for after the council of the elders had separated, he helped the new commander to marshal the soldiers and did so as an assistant, subordinate to Hosea, who owed to her his summons and the name of Joshua. [10]
Those who were his friends readily adopted that of Joshua. [10]
Obey the Most High, who called you Joshua! [10]
Lend him the help Thou didst promise, when Thou didst name him Joshua! [10]
At last he gained the tents and pinfolds of his people, not a few of which had also been overthrown, and asked the first acquaintances he met for Nun, the father of his dead mother and of Joshua. [10]
But it was for a brief period only that they gave themselves up to the bliss of this happy meeting; the battle asserted its rights, and its direction fell, as a matter of course, to Joshua. [10]
Hur, his son, and grandson had accepted the invitation of Nun and Joshua. [10]

Short sentences using joshua

My brother Joshua took it. [9]
Robert and Joshua, Junior, remained. [9]
He, Joshua, knew better. [10]
Joshua gazed intently around him. [10]

More example sentences with the word joshua in them

As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. [9]
She did so with eager zeal; for it was she who had inspired her husband, before whom she had humbled herself, and whose love she now once more possessed, with the idea of inviting Joshua to the alliance both had now concluded. [10]
Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
Old Men's Tears, which furnished the mournful title to Joshua Scottow's Lamentations, do not suggest the deepest grief conceivable. [6]
This time Joshua walked with drooping head. [10]
But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. [5]
This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. [9]
Presently they came to Joshua's dairy farm, and Joshua himself was standing in the doorway of one of his immaculate barn Honora put her hand on Susan's arm. [9]
The man thus threatened was Joshua, and his companion in suffering Ephraim, who had been sentenced to share his fate. [10]
After arriving at this conviction Joshua considered, as deliberately as if the matter concerned directing one of his soldiers on his way, whether he himself, in case he regained the use of his hands, could succeed in following Ephraim without endangering his project. [10]
With joyous confidence they marched forward and, during the journey through the cool night, Ephraim and Nun described to Joshua how they had found Kasana and how she had died. [10]
They looked toward the tamarisk-bushes, whence the cry proceeded, and Joshua saw the young widow turn pale and then point with a hasty gesture to the convicts. [10]
Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
She still felt the pressure of his hand, and heard his assurance that from no lips would he more gladly hear the name of Joshua than from hers. [10]
This has been the finest party we have been to, sitting comfortably in such a beautiful ball-room, gazing at royalty in the flesh, and at the shades of departed beauties on the wall, by Sir Joshua and Gainsborough. [6]
Lastly he said that he, Joshua, would be placed in command of the Hebrew forces and, as regent, mediate and settle disputes between them and the Egyptians whenever it seemed necessary. [10]
While Joshua was still telling the youth from which Phoenician city the golden chariots came, he suddenly felt Ephraim's right hand clutch his wrist, and heard him exclaim: "She! [10]
When Joshua had spoken, many youthful lips, though parched with thirst, shouted enthusiastically: "Hail to the chief! [10]
His rage, however, soon subsided in the presence of the strange composure with which his companion in misfortune bore the rudest insults, and Joshua was glad to have the other beset him less frequently with complaints and questions. [10]
The guard commanded silence, for Joshua had raised his reproving voice louder, and this order seemed welcome to the defiant youth. [10]
Had Sir Joshua seen her, he would never rest content till he should have another portrait. [9]
The way to save him from himself lay before her; but Joshua had not yet ventured to disturb her devotions. [10]
Thoreau had many rare and admirable qualities, and Thoreau pictured by Emerson is a more living personage than White of Selborne would have been on the canvas of Sir Joshua Reynolds. [6]
This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said, "Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. [5]
There was one picture on their walls, that of a lady, by Sir Joshua, which both of us found very captivating. [6]
While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
Joshua, who sat on her other side and ate prodigiously, scarcely addressed a word to her; but she gathered from his remarks to his father and brother that he was interested in cows. [9]
The combined monarchies of the thirty "kings" destroyed by Joshua on one of his famous campaigns, only covered an area about equal to four of our counties of ordinary size. [5]
The last paragraph of the report contained tributes to Mrs. Joshua Holt and Mrs. Cecil Grainger for the work each had done during the year, and amidst enthusiastic hand-clapping the formal part of the meeting came to an end. [9]
At the summit of the pass Joshua and Miriam had met again, but found time only for a hasty greeting. [10]
During the hours of the evening watch soldiers marched past, and from troop after troop cheers for Joshua reached her. [10]
With a sigh of relief Joshua told himself that he had seen the flying Ephraim and that, come what might, the escaping youth had gained a considerable start of his pursuers. [10]
But Joshua had no thought of secret flight. [10]
Robert and Joshua must have had a secret sympathy for him. [9]
She halted a moment at a little distance from the porch, where he was talking with Howard Spence and Joshua, and the fact that he was an unchanged Peter came to her with a shock of surprise. [9]
At last the mines were opened and Joshua himself seized a lamp and pressed forward into the hot galleries where the naked prisoners of state, loaded with fetters, were hewing the copper ore from the walls. [10]
Hur and his men had remained concealed in a side-valley, and after Joshua had divided the Hebrew force into several bodies and assigned to each a certain task, he gave at dawn the signal for the assault. [10]
One which escaped me was, that Joshua Scottow, in "Old Men's Tears," dated 1691, speaks of "shaking agues," as among the trials to which they had been subjected. [3]
When you took me on to Calvert House to see Uncle Daniel that time, I remember the picture by, by--" "Sir Joshua Reynolds. [9]
It seems to me I invited him to stay all night, and Joshua tells me he extended the invitation. [9]
And in this light she saw a figure whose face startled her, not Joshua, but another to whom her heart did not incline. [10]
Honora, when she left her room, heard a swishing on the stairs--Mrs. Joshua, stiffly arrayed for the day. [9]
To his astonishment Joshua saw the huge shield, sword, or battle-axe of an Egyptian heavily-armed soldier in the hands of each of these sons of his people, but the shepherd's sling and the bag of round stones also hung from many girdles. [10]
This troop, which Joshua said was the van, went by at a slow trot and was followed by a great number of carts and wagons, drawn by horses, mules, or oxen, as well as whole troops of heavily-laden asses. [10]
Both agreed that Joshua must fight, no matter in what position Moses placed him; but Hur himself led him to the warriors, who joyously greeted him. [10]
During the march Joshua kept the warriors together as closely as though an attack might be expected; profiting meanwhile by every moment to give the men and their captains instructions for the coming battle, to inspect them, and range their ranks in closer order. [10]
I've lived with Joshua Holt thirty-five years last April, and I haven't pleased myself in all that time. [9]
He would repay Joshua for what he had done, when he remained in chains and captivity that he, his nephew, might go forth as free as a bird. [10]
Yet she loved Joshua and, instead of harshly repulsing him, she would have again nestled ah, how gladly, to the heart which she knew loved her so ardently. [10]
A discussion ensued in which, to her surprise, even the ordinarily taciturn Joshua took a part, and maintained that the buying and selling of blooded stock was equally gambling. [9]
Honora sank down in one of the upholstered light blue satin chairs and gazed at the shining brass of the coal grate set in the marble mantel, above which hung an engraving of Sir Joshua Reynolds' cherubs. [9]
What Hur, Miriam's husband, could not accomplish, Joshua had done, and ere the young soldiers departed with Ephraim, old Nun assembled them to offer thanks to the Lord. [10]
The men under Hur's command also joined in the prayer and wherever Joshua appeared Ephraim's companions greeted him with cheers. [10]
She left to Hur to explain to the lover whom she had forever resigned what she had granted him, and when Joshua heard it, he started back as though a gulf yawned at his feet. [10]
He had waved his hand to her while still afar, but he came alone, without Hosea or Joshua, she cared not what the rescued man called himself; and it angered her to feel that this hurt her, nay, pierced her to the heart. [10]
But Joshua, unheeding her entreaty, exclaimed "Should I be a man, if I forgot vengeance? [10]
The chief command henceforth belongs to you alone, Joshua, and to no other, and this is a source of joy to the whole people, above all to my wife and to me. [10]
Joshua, at the head of a strong detachment, had retreated from the battle, accompanied by Bezaleel, Hur's grandson, Aholiab, his most beloved comrade, the youthful Ephraim, and Reuben, Milcah's husband. [10]
And if henceforward he was to be called Joshua, the behest involved casting aside his former self, and becoming a new man. [10]
Adjusting his spectacles, he read, in a mild but impressive voice, a chapter of Matthew, while Mrs. Joshua tried to quiet her youngest. [9]
After midnight Joshua, having taken counsel with the elders, ordered the trumpets which summoned the fighting-men to be sounded. [10]
Robert and Joshua had not appeared, and Mrs. Holt, at the far end of the room under the lamp, regarded Honora from time to time over the edge of the evening newspaper. [9]
Such gnawing and grinding disturb the sleep of one who longs for slumber; but Joshua desired to keep awake to continue to open the eyes of the blinded youth, yet he waited in vain for any sign of life from his nephew. [10]
After both had gazed silently into vacancy a long time, Joshua broke the silence by asking: "And what is the name of this power? [10]
They had heard from Joshua that they would find there not only ruined cisterns, but also a hidden spring whose existence had been revealed to him by the ex-captain of the prisoners' guards. [10]
At last she found him; but he was engaged in earnest conversation with Joshua, and when she saw the latter a chill ran through the prophetess' blood, and she could not bring herself to approach the men. [10]
Joshua himself, in former days, had been in command of the most southerly of these fortresses, called the Migdol of the South; for each one of the fortifications bore the name of Migdol, which in the Semitic tongue means the tower of a fortress. [10]
Joshua had not finished speaking when a number of empty carts and unladen asses appeared. [10]
A terrible uproar filled the spacious enclosure, when Joshua sprang into the tent. [10]
But Joshua was familiar with the horrors of the battle-field and did not heed them. [10]
But beside the fallen men stood erect, and exulting in victory, the stalwart warriors of her people, among them the venerable form of Nun, and Joshua, whose father was binding up his wounds. [10]
The plain of Esdraelon--"the battle-field of the nations"--only sets one to dreaming of Joshua, and Benhadad, and Saul, and Gideon; Tamerlane, Tancred, Coeur de Lion, and Saladin; the warrior Kings of Persia, Egypt's heroes, and Napoleon--for they all fought here. [5]
But Joshua had deprived the Egyptians of their weapons, and they were therefore under his protection. [10]
Ephraim led his companions and, before greeting his uncle, formed them into two ranks like a double wall between Joshua and the hostile bow-men. [10]
The conversation was chiefly carried on by kindly little Mrs. Joshua and by Mrs. Holt, who seemed at once to preside and to dominate. [9]
Joshua, now recognized by Moses and the whole Hebrew people as the commander of the fighting-men, led his new-formed troops to the widest portion of the valley, which permitted him to derive more advantage from the superior number of his force. [10]
These thousands who, but a few short days before, had so gratefully felt the saving mercy of the Lord, seemed to Joshua, who stood watching their approach, like a defeated army. [10]
Again the moonlight burst through the cloud-curtain, and Joshua perceived near the pool a living creature which resembled an animal more than a human being, for it seemed to be crawling on four feet. [10]
After quiet had been restored, Joshua asked the wounded commander for the list of prisoners, but he pointed to the clerk of the mines, whom none of the convicts had assailed. [10]
Hur's consort must be made aware that he, Joshua, no longer cherished any love for her. [10]
Henceforward I will be called Joshua . [10]
Joshua and his band had forced their way to the vicinity of the spring, to maintain order among the greedy drawers of water. [10]
A terrible destiny awaited him, and her vivid imagination had shown her Joshua in the mines, languishing, disheartened, drooping, dying, always with a curse upon her on his lips. [10]
As Joshua looked at him, half questioning, half doubting, his companion whispered. [10]
They were shy at first, especially the third Joshua, but Honora captivated him by playing two sets of tennis in the broiling sun, at the end of which exercise he regarded her with a new-born admiration in his eyes. [9]
Joshua was treated as if he held the chief command, and he himself felt his own authority supreme. [10]
When Joshua marched around it seven times, some three thousand years ago, and blew it down with his trumpet, he did the work so well and so completely that he hardly left enough of the city to cast a shadow. [5]
Joshua had again appeared on the battle-field and, at the head of his warriors, rushed with resistless energy upon the foe. [10]
Joshua gave no answer to the questions his new companion-in-chains addressed to him; he was waiting with an anxious heart for the return of the pursuers. [10]
Joshua listened willingly and assured her that nothing would lighten his heart more than to have her clear herself from the charge of having consigned him and the youth at his side to their most terrible fate. [10]
He followed them, and as soon as Miriam found herself alone with Joshua, she said softly, yet earnestly, with beseeching eyes: "A hasty deed was needful to sever the tie that bound us, but a loftier hope unites us. [10]
Joshua had appeared among the people with his father. [10]
That was why, although he was no longer in the army, when Fielding and Dicky mounted for the sortie he said to Fielding: "Oh, brother of Joshua and all the fighters of Israel, I have a bobtailed Arab. [11]
If it was Adam, she would find Adam; if it was the Ark, she would find the Ark; if it was Goliath, or Joshua, she would find them. [5]
He felt as a peaceful citizen might feel who had squared off at a stranger for some supposed wrong, and suddenly discovered that he was undertaking to chastise Mr. Dick Curtis, "the pet of the Fancy," or Mr. Joshua Hudson; "the John Bull fighter. [6]
Amid such thoughts a great sense of compassion stole over Joshua and, with it, the consciousness that he was deeply accountable for this youth who, for his sake, while on the way to bring him a message, had fallen into such sore misfortune. [10]

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