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Sentences starting with leading

Leading from the study was a passage in which a partition with ragged curtains could be seen. [2]
Leading such a life I can't decide or think properly about anything. [2]
Leading the burros down to the spur of rock, he halted at the steep incline. [13]
Leading the lion by the collar, he went to the window. [10]

Sentences ending with leading

For the first time in her memory she had seen her father speak to an Eglington without harshness; and, as he weakened for a moment, she moved to take command of that weakness, though she meant it to seem like leading. [11]
The portrait of Sellers, by Tracy, was fighting along, day by day, through this mixed weather, and daily adding to itself ineradicable signs of the checkered life it was leading. [5]
Her very soul rebelled at the thought, and cried out that she was made for something better, something higher than the life she had been leading. [9]
After a slight pause he continued somewhat hesitatingly: "I dreamed last night, three times, of events that occurred in my past; events which I hoped would never disturb me in the life I am now leading. [11]
We have lost our way, Hugh--it's all so clandestine, so feverish, so unnatural, so unrelated to life, this existence we're leading. [9]
We climbed out of the window, and made our way in the mist through the long, wet grass, Nick leading. [9]
Now Pierre was leading. [11]
They stay; and in our cheerfulest, most peaceful moments confront us, and mock the new life we are leading. [11]
She wondered whither he was leading. [9]
In New York he had seen much of Margaret, not at all to his peace of mind in many ways, though the generous fellow would have been less hurt if he had not estimated at its real value the life she was leading. [4]

Short sentences using leading

Nancy was the leading lady. [9]

Sentences containing leading two or more times

The young husband was riding a little in advance; one guide was leading the husband's horse, another was leading the bride's. [5]
Presently the straw was in a blaze, and from this the fire extended to the furniture, to the stairway leading up from the cellar, and was working its way along the entry under the stairs leading up to the apartment where Maurice was lying. [6]
The dogs led the descent; then came Bess leading her burro; then Venters leading his. [13]
From these letters, etc., it appears that in some instances appointments were made in accordance with the recommendations of leading Whigs, and in opposition to those of leading Democrats; among which instances the appointments at Scott, Wayne, Madison, and Lawrence are the strongest. [7]
In the meantime a sort of scuffling-ground had been found in the brush in the angle, or point, where the road leading into the woods past the brewery and the one leading in past the brick-yard meet. [7]

More example sentences with the word leading in them

I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
Have I done wrong in leading the Celebrity to the point where you saw him this morning? [9]
The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, stopped to buy a newspaper, and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. [9]
It had a wide, brownstone front, with a basement, and a high flight of steps leading up to the door. [9]
Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
It was Mathilde who saved him from a violent illness, closing the box and leading him downstairs, and whispered something incomprehensible in his ear as she pointed him homeward. [9]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
The last words which he addressed to her before leading her back to the others contained the promise to make her patron saint, St. Clare, his own. [10]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
Below the mound where the tuneful youth loitered was a path, leading down through the fields and into the highway. [11]
From the landing where Pierre stood there was a second staircase leading to the back entrance. [2]
At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
The Prophet, or whatever he was called, was a burly, bull-necked man of hard sense, really leading a great industrial army. [6]
Then all these Westphalians and Hessians whom Napoleon is leading would not follow him into Russia, and we should not go to fight in Austria and Prussia without knowing why. [2]
The leading facts were, briefly, these: A lady in Hamburg, Germany, wrote, on the 22d of June last, that she had what she supposed to be nightmare on the night of the 17th, five days before. [6]
Venters and Lassiter were turning toward the house when Jane appeared in the lane leading a horse. [13]
The Gaul's orders were immediately obeyed, and Hermas walked at the head of the division entrusted to him, as proud and as self-possessed as any of Caesar's veterans leading his legion into the field. [10]
He was wonderfully well acquainted with the leading facts about the Andes, the Apennines, and the Appalachians; he had nothing in particular to say about Ararat, Ben Nevis, and various other mountains that were mentioned. [6]
Silently leading the way through the dusky corridor, no longer illumined by the moonlight, he entered his daughter's room before her. [10]
He knew he was within five steps of the stile leading into Widow Douglas' grounds. [5]
The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had taken from the prisoner. [2]
Excitable, eager, there was an elemental adaptability in the baker, as easily leading to Avernus as to Elysium. [11]
Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
And then we walked slowly to the house and into the dining room, Mr. Carvel leading the procession, and I an unwilling rear, knowing that my fate would be decided between them. [9]
I had a very complete set of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences;" an entire set of the "North American Review," and many volumes of the reprints of the three leading British quarterlies. [3]
Lost in the variety, the multiplicity of minute details, the refinements of analysis and introspection, he would miss any leading indications. [4]
Fluctuations in the value of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation. [7]
The only bed unoccupied was the one in the little room next to the stairs leading to the garret, which was occupied by Katterle. [10]
Why should the two halves of a brain not show a natural difference, leading to confusion of thought, and very possibly to that instinct of contradiction of which I was speaking? [6]
She experienced a twinge of surprise at the discovery that other people in the world, in Hampton, were still leading tranquil, untormented existences. [9]
Several times he turned to look towards the house and up the pathway leading from the hillock to the doorway. [11]
Herbert and I, traveling north one summer, fancied that we could draw in New England a sort of diet line, like the sweeping curves on the isothermal charts, which should show at least the leading pie sections. [4]
Then he called to them to return, but Jenny only bent a little lower and paddled on, guiding the canoe towards the safe channel through the first small rapids leading to the great Dog Nose Rapids. [11]
The Serapeum lay to their right, several streets leading to it from the street of the Sun. [10]
It lies next to the porch leading into the temple of the goddess Neith, the protectress of Sais. [10]
By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
The passage leading to the auditorium was full of perfume, and Arsinoe, who had already visited this theatre two or three times, hardly recognized it, it was so gaily decorated with colored scarfs. [10]
Then he started to run, leading Jane's horse, and he ran, and trotted, and walked, and ran again. [13]
It is painful to relate that the irregularity and deceit of the life the Vicomte was leading amused her, for existence at Silverdale was plainly not of a kind to make a gentleman of the Vicomte's temperament and habits ecstatically happy. [9]
He needs only to guard a trail leading down from the sage-flat above. [13]
It is not to give the possessor vegetables or fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy and the higher virtues, hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation and sometimes to alienation. [4]
All I had to do was to shift some of their leading peculiarities, keeping the rest. [6]
We have first to cast off the leading strings of authority. [9]
She was about to answer, when there came a sharp knock at the door leading from the backyard, and Lambton's Indian lad entered. [11]
From time to time Venters walked, leading his burro. [13]
He had not time to protest, for we heard footsteps in the hall, and Mademoiselle entered, leading an older lady by the hand. [9]
As though her thoughts had summoned him, she came suddenly upon Felix Marchand at a point where her path resolved itself into two, one leading to Manitou, the other to her own home. [11]
In Charley's day this gate had been often used, for it gave upon four steep wooden steps leading to a narrow shelf of rock below. [11]
It was too thick for game, there was no roadway leading anywhere, but only an overgrown path, used in the old days by Indians. [11]
One night as they sat at the club Jack had asked him a leading question, apropos of Henderson's successful career: "Mavick, why don't you get married? [4]
But scarce could they have reached the street and we have broken ranks, when we saw them coming back again, the priest leading them as before. [9]
As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert. [2]
They got to their feet, and ran with wonderful swiftness, Pierre leading, to the gate. [11]
Unity in multiplicity, the symbolism of nature, and others of his leading ideas appear in new phrases, not unwelcome, for they look fresh in every restatement. [6]
Old Jason, at the same time, was standing before the little grove beside the steps leading to the cella. [10]
He kept to the sage far to the left of the trail leading into the Pass. [13]
Not so with the row of elms which you may see leading up towards the western entrance. [6]
I was in the rear, leading the pack horse. [5]
A reading-room is the proper introduction to a library, leading up through the newspapers and magazines to other literature. [5]
Ned entered, leading the prisoner with one hand and carrying a Bible and a rope in the other. [5]
When he reached the path leading to Jane's home he decided to go down to the village. [13]
A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath, leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving them to wander as they will. [4]
This way, to the officer on duty" (he was shown the door leading downstairs), "only it won't be accepted. [2]
Gradations, also, in the muscles leading to structures found in animals still lower in the scale, are numerous in the Lemuroidea. [1]
Beside him stood the murderous pilot who was leading in the expedition, the colleague of Olivier Delagarde. [11]
The descendants of the men "daily exercised in tyranny," the "petty tyrants" as their own leading statesmen called them long ago, came at length to love the institution which their fathers had condemned while they tolerated. [6]
The election of the Lower House of the Bavarian parliament, whose members have a six years' tenure of office, which takes place next spring, excites uncommon interest; for the leading issue will be that of education. [4]
Mr. Clay was the leading spirit in making the Missouri Compromise; is it very credible that if now alive he would take the lead in the breaking of it? [7]
Dr. Butts was the leading medical practitioner, not only of Arrowhead Village, but of all the surrounding region. [6]
When Mastor appeared the lad had just succeeded in dragging the dog away from Selene, who was lying on the stairs leading to the corridor. [10]
Lassiter was leading the horse up a smooth slope toward cedar trees of twisted and bleached appearance. [13]
Next came Plutus, the god of Wealth, followed by Freiberg miners bearing large specimens of silver ore in buckets and baskets; and, lastly, Mars, the god of War, leading by a long chain two camels on which rode captive and fettered Turks. [10]
He entered through the gates with their stone pillars and drove up the avenue leading to the house as if he were entering an enchanted, sleeping castle. [2]
The head of the French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. [2]
She stepped to the door leading into the hall, opened it, went out, travelled its length, ran down a back hallway, out into the park, towards the stables, her blanket, as her hair, flying behind her. [11]
Then he closed the door and went into the apartments leading to the courtyard. [10]
Then she opened the door again--the side-door leading into the street-closed it softly, and was gone. [11]
The man on the chair, his face lighted by a fanatic enthusiasm, is the Honourable Hamilton Tooting, coatless and collarless, leading the cheers that shake the building, that must have struck terror to the soul of Augustus P. Flint himself--fifty miles away. [9]
The door at the back, to the south, through which he was finally admitted, opened into a gallery passing by the great quadrangle where sacrifice was made, and leading to the inner rooms of the temple, to the cubicles among others. [10]
A correspondence between the author and the dramatist followed, leading to a friendly arrangement by which the latter agreed to dispose of his version to Mark Twain. [5]
The toe of the Arab leading the horse touched his head, then a hoof was on him--between the shoulders, pressing-pressing down, the iron crushing into the flesh--down--down--down, till his eyes seemed to fill with blood. [11]
He had dreamed that he and Uncle Pierre, wearing helmets such as were depicted in his Plutarch, were leading a huge army. [2]
But there--what was that gleaming under the two palm-trees which, springing from the same root, had grown together tall and slender--was not that a flight of marble steps leading down to the sea? [10]
Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him forward, and experienced great happiness. [2]
The letter of ten close pages from which I have quoted these passages is full of confidential information, and contains extracts from letters of leading statesmen. [6]
Come in and take another glass of wine," he said, leading him back to his own office. [6]
In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90's, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. [5]
And to my surprise we turned in at a gate, and up a path leading to the high steps of one of these. [9]
Half of the summer horde in Switzerland is made up of English people; the other half is made up of many nationalities, the Germans leading and the Americans coming next. [5]
Would he be strong enough to follow the long passage leading to the sea? [10]
The way was strewn with leaves and green branches, and the Saxon was leading her lord directly over the hard little boughs in the middle of the path. [10]
There are four staircases leading up to the main steeple, each of which cost a hundred thousand dollars, with the four hundred and eight statues which adorn them. [5]
Below, under the staircase, was a door leading to the lower floor. [2]
The Reverend Dr. Sprague's valuable and well-known work, "Annals of the American Pulpit," contains three letters from which we learn some of his leading characteristics. [6]
A gentleman was speaking, who was, as my unknown next neighbor told me, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, a leading member, as we all know, of the opposition. [6]
They are the souls of the thousands whom grim death has snatched away, laden with the curse of the Hebrew, unburied, unshielded from corruption, to descend the rounds of the ladder leading to the eternal world. [10]
Mr. Meeker's cringing soul responded, and in a month Honora was the leading spirit of the class, led the marches, and was pointed out by the little dancing master as all that a lady should be in deportment and bearing. [9]

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