Use lead in a sentence
Sentences starting with lead
- Lead on, an ye will, be it even to the scaffold, for I am ready. [5]
- Lead on, we will follow. [5]
- Lead the way to him, himself! [2]
- Lead us not into . [5]
- Lead him away, guards, and strangle him! [10]
- Lead the squadron back. [2]
- Lead that man away! [2]
- Lead us . [5]
Sentences ending with lead
- And now I would have spoken had not Mademoiselle astonished me by taking the lead. [9]
- This practical joke which concealed a death-warrant--to what fearful issues might it not lead? [10]
- After "After the Wedding" I read "The Mother" aloud and sounded its human deeps with your deep-sea lead. [5]
- He was forever turning up in the lead. [5]
- It seemed ungenerous to meet her simple honesty by such obvious repartee, but he held on to see where the trail would lead. [11]
- She was born to lead. [11]
- He was determined to answer truthfully any question that was asked him, wherever it might lead. [11]
- Mark my words, the longer you remain one, the more steeped in selfishness you are likely to become in this modern and complex and sense-satisfying life which so many people lead. [9]
- I was in the lead. [5]
- Ho, hostler, heave the lead! [5]
Short sentences using lead
- Where would it lead? [9]
- Art shod with lead? [5]
- He'll lead us into Caroliny. [9]
- You will lead? [11]
- Lead, Kindly Light Volume 8. [9]
- Stabboard lead! [5]
Sentences containing lead two or more times
- It was one thing to be free to lead a life of single self-culture, and quite another to be compelled to lead a single fife without self-culture. [4]
- The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead. [5]
- For instance: The steps (two feet thick--lava blocks) that lead up out of the school, and the same kind of steps that lead up into the dress circle of the principal theatre, are almost worn through! [5]
- Well, it is of use to the dealer who sells white lead for paint, to increase the weight of the lead, and it is the belief hereabouts that it is mixed with powdered sugar. [4]
- But that is apart; lead on, lead on! [5]
More example sentences with the word lead in them
- It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
- Because you are young yourself, and can still cope with the bear and wild boar, you like the motto, which will probably lead to new wars, and thereby to fresh renown. [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]
- I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. [11]
- If we lead you across the mountains now, his blood will be upon your heads. [9]
- She said she would try to hope again, she would get up and follow wherever he might lead if only he would not talk like that any more. [5]
- This, we supposed, would tend to her welfare and induce her to lead a regular, decorous life; but we were mistaken. [10]
- That Eldon Parr would not lead the charge in person was a foregone conclusion. [9]
- This woman's hatred would lead her to destroy them rather than let them fall into the hands of her imperial enemy; and who can blame her? [10]
- The desire which would lead each and every one to the gates of the Inner World which was limitless and eternal, filled with dazzling light . [9]
- This climbing-party he would himself lead, accompanied by his brother Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and a handful of agile woodsmen. [11]
- Some other Moses would have had to lead us to our Jordan, to the sight of our promised land of liberty. [7]
- And yet again, woman-like, she knew it would lead to the same conclusion: "You must go to-night? [11]
- When afterwards my Wolff's unhappy deed was added, I felt as though I were standing in a dense, dark mist, where each step forwards must lead me into a stifling morass or over a precipice. [10]
- He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
- They mounted, and, with Jane in the lead, rode down the lane, and, turning off into a cattle trail, proceeded westward. [13]
- To-morrow I myself will lead you to her. [10]
- But thee it will lead into paths ending in a gulf of darkness. [11]
- The greatest men will hold out a hand to a beautiful woman, and time was when I could lead you all as with a rope. [10]
- Now then, I will ask you where there is any sense in training people to lead virtuous lives. [5]
- Whatever happens and whoever may stand at the head of affairs, the theory can always say that such and such a person took the lead because the collective will was transferred to him. [2]
- He ordered Cilo, who was then the prefect of Rome, to lead me to the seats of the past consuls and the old senators. [10]
- Where were the whims of the quality to lead them next? [9]
- Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
- Of the causes which lead to the victory of civilised nations, some are plain and simple, others complex and obscure. [1]
- To his inquiry, whether she could not rejoice in the coming of the glorious time in store for redeemed humanity, she answered, tremulously: "All you hope for is glorious, no doubt, but what shall lead to it must be a terror to all. [10]
- He knew now where they were, and, if she liked, he could lead her by a way which would not take them through the gate. [10]
- I tell 'ee what, sir, them Frenchies is treecherous devils, an' not to be trusted the len'th of a lead line. [9]
- I noticed, however, what I should call a palpebral spasm, affecting the eyelid and muscles of one side, which, if it were intended for the facial gesture called a wink, might lead me to suspect a disposition to be satirical on his part. [6]
- Berenike must know what he thought of Caesar's suit, and seeing her wholesome and honest hatred, he had sworn to himself that he would snatch his sister from the hands of the tyrant, if it were to lead him to the most agonizing death. [10]
- But Joshua's warriors were too much exhausted for it to be possible to lead them onward at once. [10]
- The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
- To begin, they went at his bidding to the graveyard with him, and there, at the full moon, they poured hot lead into the left eye-hole of a skull and made it into arrow-heads. [10]
- I know them well, for my humble functions lead me into daily and hourly intercourse with them. [10]
- There they may weave and stitch as much as you like; but as man and wife no one shall part us, and we will lead a life such a life! [10]
- Anything more that we could say now and here would lead to no good issue for either you or me. [10]
- Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
- She was to watch me intently, and whenever I glanced toward her she was going to deliver a gubernatorial laugh that would lead the whole audience into applause. [5]
- Slight as it was, it appeared to us a very Broadway to Paradise if broad ways ever lead thither. [4]
- The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
- And this need was to lead me farther than ever afield from the path of righteousness. [9]
- The new residence was to afford me an opportunity to lead a lonely, quiet life with my mother and my books, which latter, however, were only to be used in moderation. [10]
- Although the lead was pattering on the other side of the logs, Cowan lifted me to the port. [9]
- But his mind was on the logical side-track, and he followed the chain of reasoning without fairly perceiving where it would lead him, if he carried it into real life. [6]
- No, Mr. Sutton was not the man to lead a fight. [9]
- Such a thing was incomprehensible to Biberli; but notwithstanding her letter--nay, even on its account--he longed still more ardently to lead her home to his mother and see her receive the blessing of the woman whom he so deeply honoured. [10]
- Bunker, (whose horse was in good condition,) undertook, to lead mine, and I followed after him. [5]
- But the Maria was hardly cast and under way before it became painfully apparent that the Celebrity was much better fitted to lead a cotillon than to sail a boat. [9]
- If the age was coarse in speech or specially affected in manner, the books followed the lead given by the demand; but, coarse or affected, they had the quality of art demanded by the best existing cultivation. [4]
- At York we wandered to and through a flower-show, and _did_ the cathedral, as people _do_ all the sights they see under the lead of a paid exhibitor, who goes through his lesson like a sleepy old professor. [6]
- Theocritus will be waiting at the entrance to lead you to your seats. [10]
- Many of the vessels could scarcely be said to be launched at all; they sank like lead, close to the shore. [4]
- He will make use of us, and we can always lead the man who needs us. [10]
- Will you lead us home again? [11]
- You may spade up the ocean as much as you like, and harrow it afterwards, if you can,--but the moon will still lead the tides, and the winds will form their surface. [6]
- She was brought up abroad, and we lead the French class together. [9]
- We of the United States lead the world in beautiful paper-money; and when I exchanged my crisp, handsome greenbacks for the dirty, flimsy, ill-executed notes of the Dominion, at a dead loss of value, I could not be reconciled to the transaction. [4]
- Did not Mr. Tupper, that sweet, melodious shepherd of the undisputed, lead about vast flocks of sheep over the satisfying plain of mediocrity? [4]
- While it is true that the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. [7]
- They lead the troop, and when there is danger, come to the front. [1]
- When we sup together don't ask me about it if you care to have a jolly companion And do not tell Keraunus that I am here, it will lead to no good. [10]
- If these lead to what the critics call art, it is all very well; but if not, that grand desideratum has no chance of being run after or caught. [14]
- When you come to think of it, he must lead a pleasant kind of life. [6]
- I am going to the rooms of Bent-Anat; Katuti, who can go in and out as she pleases, will set fire to the stairs, which lead to the upper story, and which fall by touching a spring; and Paaker to the king's apartments. [10]
- So, entrusting Whisker to the charge of a man who was lingering hard by in expectation of the Job, he suffered his companion to take his hand, and to lead him up the dark and narrow stairs. [12]
- Now we propose to take you in with us, and claim the blind lead in our three names. [5]
- It was easy to see that what he was listening to touched him painfully, and that the two diametrically different men were fighting a battle which could never lead to any satisfactory issue. [10]
- I want you to promise me that you will let others lead the assaults, if there must be assaults, and that you will take better care of yourself in those dreadful battles. [5]
- Do you wish to lead us back to the cage whence the Almighty released us by a miracle? [10]
- To be allowed to lead him was an honor and pleasure. [10]
- If I were to lead her away, the question was, Where? [4]
- He can decide to lead an honest life and have his liberty, or he can elect to work for the State all his life in criminal confinement. [4]
- To lead her to it he seized her hand, but it was limp and cold, and a sudden fear came into his voice. [9]
- Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness. [10]
- He taught them to hold their mother's memory dear, and had so reared them that, in their maturity, he could lead them with head erect to the sarcophagus of the friend who had confided them to his charge. [10]
- We all like to have you lead us, because you do it with such delicate taste and comprehension, and, moreover, with a vigour which one would scarcely expect from you. [10]
- It pleases me to have you follow my lead in that glowing way, but it leaves me nothing to combat. [5]
- They were instructed to explore every navigable river they might find, and to follow the main branches, which would probably lead them in one direction to the East Indies or South Sea, and in the other to the Northwest Passage. [4]
- One soon learns to expect this bow and be on the lookout and ready to return it; but to learn to lead off and make the initial bow one's self is a difficult matter for a diffident man. [5]
- It was clear to everyone that the jury must return a verdict of wilful murder, and it was equally clear that the evidence was sufficient to fix suspicion upon Orlando, which must lead to his arrest. [11]
- This might lead to difficulties, and Gorgias opposed it. [10]
- So I hastened to console him and lead him on to forget his mishap in a conversational orgy about cattle and butchery. [5]
- He avoided talking to Conrad, from a feeling that if he did he should involuntarily lead him on to speak of his differences with his father. [8]
- She promised faithfully to come down into the entry, when the horses approached, to receive the poor lamb, surrounded by lynxes, wild-cats, foxes, and wolves, and lead it into the safe fold--if one can call this stately house by such a name. [10]
- It was unfortunate to be warmly devoted to a master who had no fear, whom he was obliged to serve as a messenger of love, and who now probably scarcely knew himself whither this love would lead him. [10]
- Those steps lead to a stable, through which we go to the quarry at the back of the compound. [5]
- Ever since that time the Rose of Sharon had taken the attitude of having washed her hands of responsibility for a course which must inevitably lead to ruin. [9]
- You waste much time here in inventing plans that lead to nothing, and making delays that are a damage. [5]
- I have no ties, no kindred,--no real friends, save you and Dale, and some of these honest fellows whom I lead to slaughter. [9]
- Its banks, and those of the brook are respectably adorned with blooming oleanders, but the unutterable beauty of the spot will not throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, as the Syrian books of travel would lead one to suppose. [5]
- But, don't follow this lead any farther, Lady Lawless, or you may come across something that will give you a start. [11]
- He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
- The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
- Where might not this friendship with Ferrol lead her? [11]
- I shudder to think where this determination of yours to have what you desire at any price will lead you in the future. [9]
- Does any one think they're the kind to lead a mutiny within a mutiny? [11]
- You must in these next months try to lead the priesthood in the temple of Hatasu, and in that post to win back my confidence which you have thrown away. [10]
- In express terms, there is absolutely nothing in the whole law upon the subject--in fact, nothing to lead a reader to think of the subject. [7]
- He will lead them in person, when they return. [5]
- Shall it guide thee to secret paths?--It is thy duty to lead the way. [10]
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