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Sentences starting with leaving

Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
Leaving it alone will be your perfect security against it. [7]
Leaving him to visions, in which perhaps the quiet figures we quitted in the old church porch were not without their share, be it our task to rejoin them as they sat and watched. [12]
Leaving the indolent village behind, I passed the Palace, where I beheld the sacred majesty of Tonga on the veranda sleepily flapping the flies from his aged calves, and I could not find that flag. [11]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
Leaving London at twenty minutes before ten in the forenoon, we arrived in Paris at six in the afternoon. [6]
Leaving this point, to notice another prominent consideration, which is generally one of great moment and of vital importance. [5]
Leaving her mainly to herself, she could be to some extent indirectly influenced,--not otherwise. [6]
Leaving out unimportant stretches of country and details of incident, I saw and experienced the following described matters and things. [5]
Leaving Alexandria and spending the winter on a lonely island in the tropics was an utterly incomprehensible idea. [10]

Sentences ending with leaving

A duplicate ticket will be handed to you on leaving. [6]
The few people we know who've come are leaving. [9]
He was gravitating to the majority, where he hoped to find "rest"; but he was dreadfully sensitive to the opinions of the minority he was on the point of leaving. [6]
I had, however, thrust into my pocket the Minneapolis papers, which had been handed me by the clerk on their arrival at the inn, which happened just as I was leaving. [9]
As they passed through, a hand drew aside the curtains on the other side of the room which they were leaving. [11]
Two years before this time I saw him lift a load from the back of a peasant woman and carry it home for her, putting into her hand a gold piece on leaving. [11]
Ships were constantly putting to sea from that port for Constantinople, and Chusar was enjoined to sail by the first that should be leaving. [10]
Its master quite overcame us with thanks when we gave him a few centimes on leaving. [4]
It does not love you very dearly, and will not miss you much when you disappear from its margin; but it means well to you, bids you good-morning with its coming waves, and good-evening with those which are leaving. [6]
We are all leaving. [5]

Short sentences using leaving

She was leaving them--for what? [9]
Lord Windlehurst was leaving. [11]
Jane's leaving Withersteen House? [13]
She was leaving for Europe. [9]

Sentences containing leaving two or more times

She must prevent him from leaving Jersey, from leaving her. [11]

More example sentences with the word leaving in them

Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
There, however, the young couple both fell victims to the climate, and died, leaving a little daughter, Sappho. [10]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither? [7]
I called to you as you were leaving, but you didn't turn back. [11]
But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
No wonder I'm wretched at the thought of your leaving me. [13]
The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
You will not wonder that I address myself chiefly to those who are just leaving academic life for the sterner struggle and the larger tasks of matured and instructed manhood. [3]
And at once, without leaving the church, thanks were rendered to the Creator for His help and for the victory. [2]
When I was with you the other day we made out 86,500 remaining, leaving 73,500 to be accounted for. [7]
It was tinged with that dialect he had heard, since leaving Cincinnati. [9]
Threaten him seriously with my grave displeasure if he persists in leaving it speedily. [10]
She had remained with him for hours, leaving her place at his side merely to give him his medicine, or, with her mother's aid, place poultices on his wounds. [10]
Why had he wished to see the Egyptian princess again before leaving Babylon? [10]
I believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leaving 50,000 who have left otherwise. [7]
It was Honora whom Mr. Spence sought after breakfast, and to whom he declared that her presence alone prevented him from leaving that afternoon. [9]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
But to those who live, as most of us do, in houses of moderate dimensions, snug, comfortable, which the owner's presence fills sufficiently, leaving room for a few visitors, a vast marble palace is disheartening and uninviting. [6]
So Venters, leaving Whitie with the horse, called Ring to his side, and, rifle in hand, worked his way out to the open. [13]
In a little while she too would be leaving for St. Louis. [9]
It isn't that which makes her sad and haggard; it is that we are leaving Ireland behind. [11]
Gifted hardly knew whether to be pleased with her sympathy, or vexed that she did not take his leaving more to heart. [6]
There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
She and Fabian, when the boat left the shore, went to one corner of the stern, leaving Carnac and Junia in the bow. [11]
Ulrich now noticed what he lacked, but before leaving, to supply the want, asked the porter, if he knew what had become of Master Moor. [10]
Very grave fears were for a time entertained of my recovery, but happily the malady is gone, though leaving me very, very weak. [5]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
Less than a week ago you notified us that reinforcements were leaving Richmond to come in front of us. [7]
She fought the weakness, as she fought to be above suspicious thoughts, and it passed, leaving her conscious of her utter impotence. [13]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
I suggest that we make the local appointments forthwith, leaving foreign or general ones for ulterior and occasional action. [7]
As to [Osterhaus], we did not know of his leaving at the time we made the appointment, and do not now know the terms on which he left. [7]
After leaving Hirsau, we again met the Gallaits in Wildbad and spent some delightful days with them. [10]
The curtain of water covering this entrance was blown back and forth by the wind, now leaving the platform dry and now deluging it. [4]
One of these was the Seigneur, who, when her husband died, leaving behind him a name for wit and neighbourliness, and nothing else, proposed that she should come to be his cook. [11]
Of Bolkonski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife with his eccentric father. [2]
The precious fluid was made by stirring a gallon of water with a quart of tar, leaving it forty-eight hours, and pouring off the clear water. [6]
But as Edward was leaving, the Admiral came forward again, and said: 'Where are you going, Debney? [11]
Just as he was leaving in the early morning a horseman rode rapidly past, and called out to the smith, who was standing in front of the shop: "The battle is lost. [10]
The river packet was leaving in a few hours for Muscatine, Iowa, where his mother and his two brothers were now located. [5]
Just as I was leaving here I got a telegram from London asking for the speech for a New York paper. [5]
While Sir Pyramus was leaving her Barbara had heard a man's voice in Frau Traut's room, but she scarcely noticed it. [10]
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
Hearing that I was awake, he had come in person to make his excuses for leaving me that morning. [9]
When the count was already leaving the room, Princess Mary went up hurriedly to Natasha, took her by the hand, and said with a deep sigh: "Wait, I must..." Natasha glanced at her ironically without knowing why. [2]
The weather was very hot, it had been many a day since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless to talk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. [5]
Virginia, on the verge of leaving, stayed on, fascinated by the turn the argument had taken. [9]
Dr. Butts looked upon them as possibly expressing wishes which would be his last, and noted them down carefully immediately after leaving his chamber. [6]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
Would you give up the contest, leaving any available means unapplied? [7]
Master Gridley shut up his book, leaving Solomon to his fate, like the worthy Benedictine he was reading, without discussing the question whether he was saved or not. [6]
The lines are unaffected and very touching, full of that deep affection which united the brothers in the closest intimacy, and of the tenderest love for the mother whom he was leaving to see no more. [6]
Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
For more than twenty years after leaving college he had clung to a clerkship in a Dolton mercantile establishment before he felt justified in marrying Hannah, the daughter of Elmer Wench, when the mercantile establishment amalgamated with a rival--and Edward's services were no longer required. [9]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
She was by turns annoyed, amused, and distrait: Peter was leaving his hotel; now he was taking the train. [9]
The tide was turning very fast now, very fast indeed--but in the wrong direction; it was leaving poor Tom Canty stranded on the throne, and sweeping the other out to sea. [5]
The tables had turned since leaving the island, and the senator held it in his power to ruin our one remaining chance of escape. [9]
Once outside, he took to the white road, leaving a trail of dust behind him that a wagon might have raised. [9]
He had been to Victoria Station to see a friend off by the train, and as he was leaving, Gaston and he recognised each other. [11]
Martin, too chicken-hearted to use them, came back with them to Jamestown, leaving his company to their fortunes. [4]
His Lordship went to the table and began to write, leaving me to the Chronicle, the pages of which I did not see. [9]
When he came to the point where Rudyard went from the house, leaving Stafford to deal with Fellowes, she burst again into laughter, mocking, wilful, painful. [11]
Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. [4]
I looked forward to the day when I would take you to my 'tan', and there we two would--" A flush sprang suddenly to Fleda Druse's face, then slowly faded, leaving it pale and indignant. [11]
Millions were coming to the cloud-bank all the time, happy and hosannahing; millions were leaving it all the time, looking mighty quiet, I tell you. [5]
If she wants to take the veil later, who can prevent it, but the abbess herself advises that she should have at least a glimpse of the world before leaving it. [10]
Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
Then she went to her room, leaving the door open. [11]
I am anxious to have a full consultation with you before leaving for America. [6]
He was afraid to go on, leaving this strong place in his rear. [5]
The only way to deal with it is to take one part hoe and two parts fingers, and carefully dig it out, not leaving a joint anywhere. [4]
A man pretends to be my brother and my lecture agent--gathers a great audience together in a city more than a thousand miles from here, and then pockets the money and elopes, leaving the audience to wait for the imaginary lecturer! [5]
Wetherell, not wishing to be intrusive, went to his desk again, leaving the first citizen standing among the barrels. [9]
I have many times stopped short and held my breath, and felt the blood leaving my cheeks, in one of these sudden clairvoyant flashes. [6]
Well, that last time, when I met you in the hall as we were both leaving a house of trouble, I felt the truth. [11]
Then came a time when, tiring of his kingship, he journeyed south, leaving all behind, even his queen, Wonta, who, in her bed of cypresses and yarrow, came forth no more into the morning. [11]
At the same time that he refused the colonel's demand he made up his mind that he must have recourse to artifice when leaving Orel, to induce the Italian officer to accept some money of which he was evidently in need. [2]
I went downstairs through the tobacco-stale atmosphere of the lobby into the fresh air and sparkly sunlight of the mild February morning, and leaving the business district I reached the residence portion of the little town. [9]
They saw the thousand places where cities could be made, and built their fires on the sites of them, and camped a day, and were gone, leaving them waiting and barren as before. [11]
I am leaving those I love dearly, very dearly, and yet I feel as glad as a bird escaping from its cage. [10]
We are leaving, this afternoon, for Ischl, to use that as a base for the baggage, and then gad around ten days among the lakes and mountains to rest-up Mrs. Clemens, who is jaded with housekeeping. [5]
As it was, they slunk away in twos and threes, leaving at last only the good smith with us. [9]
Since leaving home, they had halted here and there for necessary refreshment, and had frequently been delayed, especially in the night time, by waiting for fresh horses. [12]
One after another they all three dropped away, objects of kindly attention to the good people round, leaving little or almost nothing, and nobody to inherit it. [6]
Reporters had been there, Republican Headquarters had telephoned to know if I were ill. Leaving word that I was not to be disturbed under any circumstances, I went to my room, and spent most of the night in distracted thought. [9]
This being done there remains as actual receipts $720,039,039.79 and the actual disbursements $714,709,995.58, leaving the balance as already stated. [7]
Of the murder there could not be the least doubt, or that the prisoner followed the deceased to New York with a murderous intent: On the evidence the jury must convict, and might do so without leaving their seats. [5]
We are leaving them to you," I added. [9]
The receipts during the year from all sources, including loans and balance in the Treasury at its commencement, were $901,125,674.86, and the aggregate disbursements $895,796,630.65, leaving a balance on the 1st of July, 1863, of $5,329,044.21. [7]
I am leaving the world with a better opinion of it than I ever held in life. [9]
I fled through the woods, and made good my escape, leaving the accusing goggles behind me in that dead man's hand. [5]
I was, on the whole, so well satisfied that the Captain had gone East, that, unless something were heard to the contrary, I proposed following him in the late train leaving a little after midnight for Philadelphia. [6]
Folks are leaving the town, but you have come to it," said he. [2]
I flung away the torch, leaving the head of the column in darkness, broke from Mr. [9]
B.--I have seen the time when it was eligible and appropriate to leave the sack behind and walk off with considerable velocity, without ever leaving any word where to send it. [5]

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