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Sentences starting with last

Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
Last I knew, you were deep in the Mind Cure. [4]
Last night's good work seemed to have gone for naught. [11]
Last night the woman said to me: 'I'm glad I'm going to die. [11]
Last Friday, Fred Whitmore (it was the 28th day of his apprenticeship on the machine) stacked up 49,700 ems of solid nonpareil in 8 hours, and the type-breaking delay was only 6 minutes for the day. [5]
Last winter I went over to Blountsville to a dance in the court-house; there was a trial between Union and Blountsville for the best dancing. [4]
Last January, when we were beginning to inquire about a home for this summer, I remembered that Abbott Thayer had said, three years before, that the New Hampshire highlands was a good place. [5]
Last night he was very late, and it was quite light. [12]
Last of all was the thought of the Englishman whom I resembled. [9]
Last week I was telling a jealous person about it, and I could see him wince under it, see him bite, see him suffer. [5]

Sentences ending with last

How long do you think it would last? [9]
Madame, I thank you for your violets of Sunday last. [11]
The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
I've told it you at last. [11]
As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
Spent an hour, yesterday, with A. W. Lamb, who was not married when I saw him last. [5]
After so many years of waiting and longing, he was mine at last. [5]
More times this year than last? [5]
When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
But such a world as they dream of never can, never will last. [10]

Short sentences using last

Did it last year? [5]
That's my last word. [9]
That was last week. [4]
The last repetition was successful. [5]
At last he was saved. [10]
Her last hope was gone. [5]
That last doubt vanished! [5]
At last he turned. [9]
At last he turned. [11]
At last my turn came. [5]

Sentences containing last two or more times

I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
And his last words --oh, tell me, tell me his last words! [5]
Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
My last dollar went to pay my last debt to-day. [11]
Flint Buckner's cabin was the last one of the village, going south; his silver-claim was at the other end of the village, northward, and a little beyond the last hut in that direction. [5]
Last night, it was last night; and he prayed that I might go with him. [11]
That fair dream was in my mind when Jean met me at the steamer last Monday; it was in my mind when she received me at the door last Tuesday evening. [5]
Finally Noel came up out of his thinkings and said: "The first shall be last and the last first--there's authority for this surprise. [5]
I have been trying for the last ten or twelve days to get a pair of drawers dry enough to put on, and to-day at last succeeded. [5]
He had come to his mother, believing that the visit would comfort and calm his troubled mind, but Sappho's words had destroyed his last hope, and with that his last possibility of rest or peace. [10]

More example sentences with the word last in them

An' we have--what you've lived through these last months. [13]
At last, the youth succeeded, by means of the cleverest trick I ever saw, in clasping his opponent firmly. [10]
At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
Didn't I raise your wages last January? [9]
I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
Besides, it is your last day here. [11]
You would give your last copper piece to hear her again. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
At last the young soldier departed, and the very same day Adam was summoned to the monastery, to mend something in the grating before the treasury. [10]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
I 'll tell you what saves these last fellows. [6]
I must tell you what I could not last night. [4]
I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
Where better can you take your pleasure for the last time? [11]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
The last time you saw me you offered me your hand and heart. [11]
When, at last, you return to it, you do not find it as it was when acquired. [6]
I said: "Now you never would guess what I made lecturing this winter and last spring? [5]
I dreamed of you last night. [10]
Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
Only just now you appeared to consider certain words uttered last night in reference to a lady--" "Let that pass," interrupted Heinz with marked emphasis. [10]
Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
At last he yielded to the longing which urged him, and kissed little John--his, yes, his own son--first on his high, open brow, and then on his red lips. [10]
I had not yet taken it when I last questioned the fortune-tellers of the sky. [10]
Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
While the light Yet lingers in the darkening hall, I come to say a last Good-night Before the final Exeunt all. [6]
David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
But day before yesterday I concluded to go out of the Galaxy on the strength of it, so I have turned it into the last Memoranda I shall ever write, and published it as a "specimen chapter" of my forthcoming book. [5]
Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
They last five years, and they won't absorb water. [5]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
She had lived years in the last few hours. [11]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
This very last year the fisherman Phabis killed with a hammer the Alexandrian clerk who had stolen into his house, and drowned his faithless wife. [10]
For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
More times last year than the year before? [5]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
A half a year ago I used to always be the last one; but I've been promoted. [5]
The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground. [11]
Refusal had been written on the lips and the face of the manager at the beginning, but at last I prevailed. [11]
I thought of writing you, when you nearly won last autumn. [9]
Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
I might easily write a volume, pointing out inconsistencies between the statements in Adams's last address with one another, and with other known facts; but I am aware the reader must already be tired with the length of this article. [7]
The last severe wrench was come, and she had left him standing there alone in the cold, divining what was in his heart as though it were in her own. [9]
The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
Besides, her father would last forever, if he was left to himself. [6]
I believe he would have parted with his last shirt for bucksheesh if he had had one. [5]
Of these last would have been Guida. [11]
I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
The reader who would finish this Essay, which I suspect to belong to an early period of Emerson's development, must be prepared to plunge into mysticism and lose himself at last in an Oriental apologue. [6]
The great merchant would do everything for his fame-crowned nephew, and he, Hermon, was conscious that had his uncle been in his situation he would have divided his last obol with him. [10]
The official celebration would begin in the afternoon and last till sundown, so that all the governor's time must be fully occupied. [11]
She lost $60,000 worth last night. [5]
See here--these shoes--how worn they are--she kept them to remind her of our last long journey. [12]
Pollux had been working for a long time with zeal and pleasure, but at last the steward's snoring had begun to disturb him. [10]
It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and Columbia the forest fires were raging. [5]
There was no work to do; that was all finished; this was but the second session of the last winter's Congress, and its action on the bill could have but one result--its passage. [5]
His round of work not consuming all his energies, he must needs cultivate the Doctor's garden, which he kept in one perpetual bloom, from the blowing of the first crocus to the fading of the last dahlia. [6]
It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
I think devil's work has been done last night upon those innocent poor people. [5]
He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived in clover; and his last act (like a choleric old gentleman) was to kick his doctor. [12]
The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
Some long minutes wore away; at last he thought he perceived that Hermas had raised himself. [10]
Mr. Carvel's last words will never be known, my dears. [9]
And the last words I ever heard him say was to reproach--" But this memory was too much for the old lady, and she broke entirely down. [5]
In so few words have I disposed of the twenty-one slow-drifting years that have come and gone since I last looked from the windows of a pilot- house. [5]
His friend's last words had paralyzed him. [10]
Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
When the last word of the memoirs (I may call them so), addressed to Alixe, had been written, I turned my thoughts to other friends. [11]
Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
At his last word Dingan, who had been standing abstractedly listening, as it were, swung round on him with a muttered oath, and the skin of his face appeared to tighten. [11]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
She would first wonder, then doubt, and then believe at last that he was a common criminal. [11]
Love is not won in a breath, Idle, impassioned and sure; Why should not love then endure, Challenging doubt to the last? [11]
And the dead woman's last words? [10]
It was a woman's confession, and her voice fell to a whisper as it threaded the last words. [6]
The king's lawful wives sat on his left hand; Nitetis next to him, then Atossa, and by her side the pale, plainly-dressed Phaedime; next to this last wife of Cambyses sat Boges, the eunuch. [10]
He urged her, with warm insistence, to tell him what it was that weighed on her, and at last, with eyes full of tears, she forced herself to say: "You yourself have seen what they take me for. [10]
If you've lived with the tongue in the last hole of the buckle as you've gone, what matter when you go! [11]
This last matches with the idea that Lee has retained his cavalry, sending Imboden and perhaps other scraps to join Ewell. [7]
Rosalie was here, with the great, the last problem. [11]
When, at last, with the closing notes of the song, I went to the port-hole and looked in, I saw that the singer was Miss Treherne. [11]
She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. [2]
So he gazed with tender anxiety at the features convulsed by pain and, when she at last opened her eyes, smiled at her with paternal affection. [10]
To go now, with something accomplished, and turn my back forever on the world, with one last effort to do the impossible thing for some great cause, and fail and be lost forever--do you not understand? [11]
His packing finished, with one last glance at the room Austen went downstairs with his valises and laid them on the doorstep. [9]
Pollux had spoken with much warmth, but Selene's last words startled him and checked the effervescence of his feelings. [10]

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