Use laura in a sentence
Sentences starting with laura
- Laura said that very likely it was only her nervousness. [5]
- Laura pursued her usual course: she encouraged Mr. Buckstone by turns, and by turns she harassed him; she exalted him to the clouds at one time, and at another she dragged him down again. [5]
- Laura was seriously troubled. [5]
- Laura welcomed Mr. Trollop, a grave, carefully dressed and very respectable looking man, with a bald head, standing collar and old fashioned watch seals. [5]
- Laura had gone to be married; but Laura had cautioned her; she did not want to be thought of, she said, as going in search of a husband; let the news come back after she was married. [5]
- Laura thought the thing over. [5]
- Laura stood while the long indictment was read; and at the end, in response to the inquiry, of the judge, she said in a clear, low voice; "Not guilty. [5]
- Laura arrived before the great lecture hall in a close carriage within five minutes of the time set for the lecture to begin. [5]
- Laura remained in the drawing-room and left them to pilot themselves out of the house--an inhospitable thing, it seemed to her, but then she was following her instructions. [5]
- Laura soon discovered that there were three distinct aristocracies in Washington. [5]
Sentences ending with laura
- You'll be famous within a fortnight, Laura. [5]
- It mattered little whether most people were changed or not because one state of their minds could not be less or more interesting than another; but a change in Laura. [11]
- Can't you see what a swab he is, Laura? [11]
- He said it was all right, he only wanted a word with you,", continued Laura. [5]
- The crowd of spectators who had watched the trial were moved with the most profound sympathy for Laura. [5]
- Run along home, now, and tell Laura. [5]
- They will hang Laura! [5]
- It is the land that's to bring the money, isn't it Laura? [5]
- The law took its course with Laura. [5]
- But presently made his adieux, and had got as far as the hall, when something occurred to Laura. [5]
Short sentences using laura
- Laura thanked him once more. [5]
- Laura was not much changed. [5]
- He conferred with Laura privately. [5]
- Louise told Laura in confidence. [5]
- For Laura had her dreams. [5]
- Laura seeks her father. [5]
- He turned sharply--and faced Laura. [11]
- Laura knows her business. [5]
- No, Laura said. [5]
- Laura was crushed. [5]
Sentences containing laura two or more times
- Now it might occur to the reader that perhaps Laura had been somewhat rudely suggestive in her remarks to Mrs. Oreille when the subject of corals was under discussion, but it did not occur to Laura herself. [5]
- When Laura had been in Washington three months, she was still the same person, in one respect, that she was when she first arrived there--that is to say, she still bore the name of Laura Hawkins. [5]
More example sentences with the word laura in them
- Sellers about Napoleon, you've always told me so," answered Laura, with a look intended to contradict her words. [5]
- Neither of the young men felt like attempting to see Laura that day, and she saw no company except the newspaper reporters, until the arrival of Col. [5]
- The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
- Mr. Braham divided with Laura the attention of the house. [5]
- Both ladies rose with grave dignity, conferred upon Laura a formal invitation to call, aid then retired from the conference. [5]
- Colonel, poor Laura will never get any benefit from our bill. [5]
- While the nurse was thus carrying me, Laura came suddenly upon the balcony. [6]
- My cousin Laura was of course deeply distressed to feel that her thoughtlessness had been the cause of so grave an accident. [6]
- Courted as Laura was by a certain class and still admitted into society, that, nevertheless, buzzed with disreputable stories about her, she had lost character with the best people. [5]
- When next Laura was alone, she fell into a train of thought something like this: "If the Senator has really taken hold of this matter, I may look for that invitation to his house at, any moment. [5]
- But now Laura was a convert to the prophet of the Healing Springs, and those people who still retain their heads in the eddy of religious emotion were in despair. [11]
- The week seemed very short that he passed in Hawkeye, and when he bade Laura good by, he seemed to have known her a year. [5]
- If Laura at twelve was beginning to be a beauty, the thought of it had never entered her head. [5]
- Washington was unable to say anything; he looked from Laura to the miserable creatures who were walking in the corridor with unutterable disgust. [5]
- The jury finally threw themselves back upon the indisputable fact that Selby was dead, that either wound would have killed him (admitted by the doctors), and rendered a verdict that he died from pistol-shot wounds inflicted by a pistol in the hands of Laura Hawkins. [5]
- Not even the thought of seeing Laura at the capital made him restless in the society of the two young ladies; two birds in hand are worth one in the bush certainly. [5]
- Jansen did not think Tim good enough--not within a comet shot--for Laura Sloly; but they thought him better than any one else. [11]
- Was it unnatural, therefore, that when George Selby departed, Laura should watch him from the window, with an almost joyful heart as he went down the sunny square? [5]
- The case of the State of New York against Laura Hawkins was finally set down for trial on the 15th day of February, less than a year after the shooting of George Selby. [5]
- Entering the house, the Senator called a servant and said, "Tell Miss Laura that we are waiting to see her. [5]
- The fact was the poor fellow hung around there day after day for the chance of seeing Laura for five minutes at a time. [5]
- It was about the hour, now, for the chairman of the House Committee on Benevolent Appropriations to make his appearance, and Laura stepped to the door to reconnoiter. [5]
- Laura was glad that she had the check for new clothing, for she felt very certain of being able to get the Colonel to borrow a little of the money to pay hotel bills with, here and there. [5]
- A whisper grew that Laura was in love with the Faith Healer. [11]
- She some times talked to people in a way which some ladies would consider, actually shocking; but Laura rather prided herself upon some of her exploits of that character. [5]
- Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. [5]
- His remittances had supported the Hawkins family, entirely, from the time of his father's death until latterly when Laura by her efforts in Washington had been able to assist in this work. [5]
- And now the sun rose once more and ushered in the first day of what Laura comprehended and accepted as a new life. [5]
- To find in such an out of the way country place a woman like Laura was a piece of good luck upon which Col. Selby congratulated himself. [5]
- It was into such a mood as this that Laura had drifted from the musings which the letters of her lovers had called up. [5]
- Harry left in such a hurry that he hadn't even time to bid Miss Laura Hawkins good-bye, but he had no doubt that Harry would console himself with the next pretty face he saw --a remark which was thrown in for Ruth's benefit. [5]
- As in the stupor of a sudden calamity, and not fully comprehending it, Mrs. Hawkins saw Laura led away by the officer. [5]
- Laura went down stairs, knocked at/the study door, and entered, scarcely waiting for the response. [5]
- Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid. [5]
- It was a southern family, and of good blood; and for any person except Laura, either within or without the household to have suggested such an idea would have brought upon the suggester the suspicion of being a lunatic. [5]
- They told him so much more than he cared to hear, that his face flushed a deep red--the bronze of it most like the colour of Laura Sloly's hair; then he turned pale. [11]
- She could not shut out the dreadful facts of the case, but it had been enough for her that Laura had said, in their first interview, "mother, I did not know what I was doing. [5]
- How fortunate it seems, now, that we kept this thing to ourselves; Laura still has a father in you, and it is better for her that we drop this subject here forever. [5]
- Then those outside saw Laura Sloly lean over and close the sightless eyes. [11]
- Laura smiled, and said, forgetting her acquired correctness of speech, "It is only me. [5]
- Could Laura have run away with him? [5]
- We've got to round out our territory, and--" Washington's further observations were broken off by Laura, who whisked him off to another part of the room, and reminded him that they must make their adieux. [5]
- In the court room the general feeling was in favor of Laura, but whether this feeling extended to the jury, their stolid faces did not reveal. [5]
- Laura kept her room for two days, on one excuse and another--a nervous headache, a cold--to the great anxiety of the Senator's household. [5]
- He saw the road on which Laura was going clearly enough, though he did not believe the worst he heard of her. [5]
- So, as the result of our correspondence, Laura is coming this evening, and I wish you to be present at our meeting. [6]
- Laura concluded, after reflection, to let circumstances determine the course it might be best for her to pursue as regarded the several aristocracies. [5]
- The state would prove that Laura Hawkins, the prisoner at the bar, a fiend in the form of a beautiful woman, shot dead George Selby, a Southern gentleman, at the, time and place described. [5]
- Laura received Mr. Philip with a courtesy and a slight hauteur that rather surprised and not a little interested him. [5]
- Both had risen, Philip as if to go, and Laura in suppressed excitement. [5]
- Warning words had passed among the few invincible ones who waited where the Healer must pass into the open, and there was absolute stillness as Laura advanced. [11]
- Laura was very pale, but this pallor heightened the lustre of her large eyes and gave a touching sadness to her expressive face. [5]
- Laura had her own reasons for wishing to know the Senator, and the Senator was not a man who could be called indifferent to charms such as hers. [5]
- Laura was happy, or thought she was. [5]
- Whatever cruel suspicion or nameless dread this was, Laura tried bravely to put it away, and not let it cloud her happiness. [5]
- While Laura is on her errand to find Mr. Buckstone, it may not be out of the way to remark that she knew quite as much of Washington life as Senator Dilworthy gave her credit for, and more than she thought proper to tell him. [5]
- Perhaps Laura was older than Harry. [5]
- P. S. One of the persons present in the parlor says that after Laura Hawkins had fired twice, she turned the pistol towards herself, but that Brierly sprung and caught it from her hand, and that it was he who threw it on the floor. [5]
- It was not of the least moment to Laura that her question had not been answered, inasmuch as it concerned a thing which did not interest her; and yet, human being like, she thought she would have liked to know. [5]
- Besides, the safety of society, the decencies of criminal procedure, what we call our modern civilization, all would demand that Laura should be disposed of in the manner we have described. [5]
- After the recovery of Laura from her long illness, did Mrs. Hawkins think there, were any signs of insanity about her? [5]
- But the effect of it all was, that Laura was considered to be very wealthy and likely to be vastly more so in a little while. [5]
- At the time of first finding Laura on the steamboat, did she notice that Laura's mind was at all deranged? [5]
- In the midst of a profound hush Laura entered, leaning on the arm of the officer, and was conducted to a seat by her counsel. [5]
- Even Petrarch must occasionally see Laura at the church door, and dwell upon the veiled dreamer that passed and perhaps paused a moment to regard him with sad eyes. [4]
- And, he had noticed, also, that when midnight struck, the patient turned his eyes toward the door, with an expectancy in them which presently grew into a longing but brightened into contentment as soon as the door opened and Laura appeared. [5]
- I've brought the note Laura wrote you, for one thing, and I've seen your uncle, and explained the truth of the case to him. [5]
- Yet Laura was not without friends, and some of them very influential too. [5]
- But Laura was not one of them. [5]
- As Laura came near me I shrieked and instantly changed color. [6]
- I never saw my cousin Laura after this last trial. [6]
- It brings before me Mrs. Gordon, young, round-limbed, handsome; and with her the Youngbloods and their two babies, and Laura Wright, that unspoiled little maid, that fresh flower of the woods and the prairies. [5]
- We saw a manuscript of Virgil, with annotations in the handwriting of Petrarch, the gentleman who loved another man's Laura, and lavished upon her all through life a love which was a clear waste of the raw material. [5]
- Master Byles Gridley lost himself for half a minute in a most discreditable inward discussion as to whether Laura Penhallow was probably one or two years older than Mr. Bradshaw. [6]
- Laura was a little thing then. [5]
- Sellers; and a little more would calm the anxiety of Washington Hawkins about Laura, for however the trial ended, he could feel sure of extricating her in the end. [5]
- Did this seem like a damnable plot to Laura against the life, maybe, of a sister, a woman like herself? [5]
- Laura read the letter, with a little sigh may be, as she thought of other days, but with contempt also, and she put it into the fire with the thought, "They are all alike. [5]
- When Laura at length raised her eyes a little, she saw Philip and Harry within the bar, but she gave no token of recognition. [5]
- Whether or no Laura Sloly was in love with the Faith Healer, Jansen must look to its own honour--and hers. [11]
- Only one face Laura saw, as she led the way to the moment's safety--Tim Denton's; and it was as stricken as her own. [11]
- It will make Laura rich with the rest of us, and she has done nearly as much as if she were a man. [5]
- The first call Laura received from the other extremity of the Washington aristocracy followed close upon the heels of the one we have just been describing. [5]
- It belonged to Laura Harman's father, and her brother Archie was in it. [11]
- For some days Laura had been a free woman once more. [5]
- During the morning Laura drove down to Mrs. Schoonmaker's to pay a friendly call. [5]
- The parting between Laura and her mother was exceedingly painful to both. [5]
- In due time Laura alighted at the book store, and began to look at the titles of the handsome array of books on the counter. [5]
- Laura, after her last conversation with Harry, had a new sense of her position. [5]
- Washington did not know then or after what it was, but Laura bound him not to send news of her marriage to Hawkeye yet, and to enjoin her mother not to speak of it. [5]
- Of Laura he knew not much, except that she was a woman of uncommon fascination, and he thought from what he had seen of her in Hawkeye, her conduct towards him and towards Harry, of not too much principle. [5]
- The substance of it was that his murderess is a Miss Laura Hawkins, whom he had known at Washington as a lobbyist and had some business with her. [5]
- Little by little it was dragged out of the witness that Laura had behaved strangely there, appeared to be sick, and he had taken her home. [5]
- Laura is adopted into the Hawkins family. [5]
- Laura was early instructed in the mysteries of society life by a competent mentor, and thus was preserved from troublesome mistakes. [5]
- Laura was more in the shadow and stood for an instant, long enough for the Colonel to make the inward observation that she was a magnificent Woman. [5]
- Laura grew up in her humble southern home, a beautiful creature, the joy, of the house, the pride of the neighborhood, the loveliest flower in all the sunny south. [5]
- Laura, with tears in her eyes, turned a grateful look upon her counsel. [5]
- Willful, generous, forgiving, imperious, affectionate, improvident, bewitching, in short--was Laura at this period. [5]
- When Laura reached home she was tired but exultant, and Senator Dilworthy was pleased and satisfied. [5]
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