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Sentences ending with liable

Ameni was entering on his fiftieth year; his figure was tall, and had escaped altogether the stoutness to which at that age the Oriental is liable. [10]
He would however escape all danger of those anachronisms to which the author of such a work as I have undertaken must be hopelessly liable. [10]

Short sentences using liable

Accidents is liable to happen. [9]

Sentences containing liable two or more times

Myrtle was no longer liable to those nervous seizures which any sudden impression was liable to produce when she was in her half-hysteric state of mind and body. [6]
The Patent Office is liable for that beef, I reckon; and, liable or not liable, the Patent Office has got to pay for it. [5]

More example sentences with the word liable in them

Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]
But, on the whole, the magnet remains the same, and it is probable that a person's normal electric condition is the thing in him least liable to dangerous variation. [4]
As far as we can judge, a recurrent period, if approximately of the right duration for any process or function, would not, when once gained, be liable to change; consequently it might be thus transmitted through almost any number of generations. [1]
In our disgust, we are liable to be intolerant. [6]
They said it was a dangerous stream to cross, now, because its quicksands were liable to swallow up horses, coach and passengers if an attempt was made to ford it. [5]
He will be very liable to misquote his author's meaning while he is picking off his outside sentences. [3]
It all seems very fair, but we must not forget that this is a mortal world, and that it is liable to various accidents. [4]
The best of us are liable to commit errors, which become apparent by subsequent developments; but I do not know of a single error, even, committed by Mr. Judd, since he and I have acted together politically. [7]
It is Polly's uncle, as I very well know, from the many times she has thrown him up to me, and is liable so to do at any moment. [4]
It was found, to use the slang of the dry-goods shops, that it would not wash, for there were liable to crowd into it at any moment those who had in fact washed for a living. [4]
She was liable to sore throat, and depressing pain at the chest, and difficulty of breathing, on the least exposure to cold. [14]
I don't wish to seem to throw any suspicion on anybody's statements, because we are all liable to be mistaken. [5]
If you try to run over the dog he knows how to calculate, but if you are trying to miss him he does not know how to calculate, and is liable to jump the wrong way every time. [5]
They are trying to revolutionize Russia from within; that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to interruption all the time, and is full of perils for the workers. [5]
Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, syphilis, cholera, herpes, etc. [1]
Man is liable to numerous, slight, and diversified variations, which are induced by the same general causes, are governed and transmitted in accordance with the same general laws, as in the lower animals. [1]
Monkeys are liable to many of the same non-contagious diseases as we are; thus Rengger (5. [1]
They are liable to lose sight of the main question in collateral issues, and to be run away with by suggestive speculations. [3]
It is certain to be partisan, and more liable to be misinformed than a newspaper, which exercises some care in view of immediate publicity. [4]
It is liable to abuse, no doubt. [6]
I tremble to think what will come of it; for we have several inflammable elements in our circle, and a spark like this is liable to light on any one or two of them. [6]
Not only are they liable, as has been mentioned, to various accidental complications which may prove suddenly fatal, but too often, after convalescence seems to be established, relapses occur which are more serious than the disease had appeared to be in its previous course. [6]
When this occurs, they are nevertheless liable to occasional reappearance through reversion-- a circumstance well worthy of attention. [1]
But, to speak the plain truth, that sort of energy of expression has its inconveniences, and a, man is liable to interruption. [5]
Now, you know the pains and penalties you are liable to, and so I need not dilate upon them, but I have a proposal to make to you. [12]
She can soften the occasional expression of half-concealed ridicule with which the poor old fellow's sallies are liable to be welcomed--or unwelcomed. [6]
The muscles of the hands and arms--parts which are so eminently characteristic of man--are extremely liable to vary, so as to resemble the corresponding muscles in the lower animals. [1]
The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
I was reminded that unexplained sudden deaths were of constant, of daily occurrence; that any emotion is liable to arrest the movements of life: terror, joy, good news or bad news,--anything that reaches the deeper nervous centres. [6]
Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request; and nothing but the unwarrantable length to which I have already extended these remarks forbids me now attempting to expose it. [7]
We should say that one ought to be most liable to receive a "testimonial" who, being a superintendent of any sort, did not superintend with a view to getting it. [4]
I was answered that he could do no harm, since the ministry and the parliament governed the land, and he was liable to impeachment for misconduct. [5]
All students are subject to examination and rejection; and they are liable to leave the class if found unfit to remain in it. [5]
I am liable, some day, to want to print my opinion on jurisprudence, or Homeric poetry, or international law, and I shall do it. [5]
Her temper was singular, her tastes were anomalous, her habits were lawless, her antipathies were many and intense, and she was liable to explosions of ungovernable anger. [6]
The governor, whose sensitive nerves had been liable to such attacks of panic ever since an exiled Greek had once attempted to murder him, now soon recovered his composure, and looked with great admiration at the hanging round which the family were standing. [10]
In the high road of our own country, one is liable to fall in with people and conveyances that it is far from a pleasure to meet. [6]
It had been risked in many gigantic speculations (such as the Argentine), and it had been liable to collapse at any time if its central credit was doubted. [4]
And if he raised his voice much, or attempted any extra flights, he was liable to be drowned in a refluent sea of his own eloquence. [4]
Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. [1]
Homologous structures are particularly liable to change together, as we see on the opposite sides of the body, and in the upper and lower extremities. [1]
It is not only going backward that the plain practical workman is liable to, if he will not look up and look around; he may go forward to ends he little dreams of. [3]
Launched into Jersey, one has a vague notion that he is on many lines and no one in particular, and that he is liable at any moment to come to Elizabeth. [5]
Just that sort of youth is liable to turn up some day in India or somewhere and do a mighty plucky thing, and become a hero. [4]
And this sort of watery camping out was a thing which these people were rather liable to be treated to a couple of times a year: by the December rise out of the Ohio, and the June rise out of the Mississippi. [5]
Such are some of the eddies in which we are liable to become involved and carried back out of the broad stream of philosophical, or, in other words, truth-loving, investigations. [3]
Lurida was full of suggestions, plans, projects, which were too liable to run into whims before she knew where they were tending. [6]
You should beware of making so serious a mistake, for however honest a man may be, every one is liable to misapprehend. [5]
In the course of a generation, more or less, physicians themselves are liable to get tired of a practice which has so little effect upon the average movement of vital decomposition. [3]
The carts were obliged to pass through the back-building with the workshops, and the goods liable to be injured by the weather, were to be placed in the course of the day in the large garrets of his house. [10]
And true or not in the instance, nothing but the sternest necessity can justify the making and maintaining of a system so liable to such abuses. [7]
I may live--but not in the British Isles; and if any man kills me, he is not liable to the law. [11]
Neither the President nor any one can possibly specify an improvement which shall not be clearly liable to one or another of the objections he has urged on the score of expediency. [7]
They are also much more liable to vary, both in structure and in the period of their development, than the other teeth. [1]
Even with the most elaborate care it was liable to miss fire. [5]
Since you ask me," continued Prince Andrew, becoming irritable--as he was always liable to do of late--"I can only say that if there are any misunderstandings they are caused by that worthless woman, who is not fit to be my sister's companion. [2]
Ex pede Herculem may often prove safe enough, but ex verruca Tullium is liable to mislead a hasty judge of his fellow-men. [6]
For days it may lie basking and smiling in the sun, but at any hour it is liable to become inhospitable and pitiless, and for a good part of the year the summit is the area of elemental passion. [4]
Meanwhile, Robert was liable to the law for the attempt. [11]
You will be liable to meet an uncomfortable man here and there in the profession,--one who is so fond of being in hot water that it is a wonder all the albumen in his body is not coagulated. [3]
They are also liable to insanity, though far less often than in the case of man. [1]
We are therefore led to enquire whether slight individual differences, to which man is eminently liable, may not have been preserved and augmented during a long series of generations through natural selection. [1]
The man who knows too much about one particular subject is liable to become a terrible social infliction. [6]
Intercourse of any kind with the so-called commissioners is liable to be construed as a recognition of the authority which appointed them. [7]
There is another kind of application to which editors, or those supposed to have access to them, are liable, and which often proves trying and painful. [6]
Every room had its book-cases or book-shelves, and was more or less a library; upon every table was liable to be a litter of new books, fresh periodicals and daily newspapers. [5]
So long as it exists, the wisest practitioner will be liable to deceive himself about the effect of what he calls and loves to think are his remedies. [6]
The suffering combatant is liable to want all his stamina, and five per cent. [3]
For Mrs. Eddy is liable to testify again at any time. [5]
The best talker is liable to become the most formidable of bores. [6]
We know, for instance, that the muscles of our hands and feet, which determine our powers of movement, are liable, like those of the lower animals, (65. [1]
But she is ingenious,--full of all sorts of devices, innocent enough in themselves, but liable to be misconstrued. [6]
Are we to infer from this fact that they construct a different sort of nest from that made by their nearest allies, and not liable to be injured by their spurs; so that the spurs have not been removed? [1]
In certain localities I have found myself liable to attacks of asthma, and, although I had not had one for years, I felt sure that I could not escape it if I tried to sleep in a state-room. [6]
Old Dr. Lemuel Hurlbut, at the age of ninety-two, very deaf, very nearly blind, very feeble, liable to odd lapses of memory, was yet a wise counsellor in doubtful and difficult cases, and on rare occasions was still called upon to exercise his ancient skill. [6]
Every one knows how liable animals are to furious rage, and how plainly they shew it. [1]
She knew that he was possessed of a devil, of a very reserved devil, but liable to bold action on occasions. [11]
The section, if he read its meaning aright, was fraught with the gravest consequences for the Northeastern Railroads; if he read its meaning aright, the Northeastern Railroads had been violating it persistently for many years and were liable for unknown sums in damages. [9]
In this continuance he is liable to the temptation to work for a market, instead of following the free impulses of his own genius. [4]
The muscles are great sponges that suck up and make use of large quantities of blood, and the other organs must be liable to suffer for want of their share. [6]
This is a good place for it: roots and stony ground to break up your stately gait, a region not liable to interruption, only one field and one hut in sight, and they so far away that nobody could see us from there. [5]
They're liable to get married at any moment, you know. [8]
It even appears from what we see, for instance, in parts of S. America, that a people which may be called civilised, such as the Spanish settlers, is liable to become indolent and to retrograde, when the conditions of life are very easy. [1]
One of those fitful flaws of wind to which the lake is so liable struck the sail suddenly, and over went my boat. [6]
The late Mrs. Ditmar for some years before her demise had begun to give evidence of certain restless aspirations to which American ladies of her type and situation seem peculiarly liable, and with a view to their ultimate realization she had inaugurated a Jericho-like campaign. [9]
They do not cut through the gums till about the seventeenth year, and I have been assured that they are much more liable to decay, and are earlier lost than the other teeth; but this is denied by some eminent dentists. [1]
Natures which are complementary of each other are liable to these accidental collisions of feeling. [6]
Nor do the branching horns, though highly important as a means of defence against rival stags, appear perfectly well adapted for this purpose, as they are liable to become interlocked. [1]
A concession of belligerent rights is liable to be construed as a recognition of them. [7]
Homoeopathy has come before our public at a period when the growing spirit of eclecticism has prepared many ingenious and honest minds to listen to all new doctrines with a candor liable to degenerate into weakness. [6]
The change had been rapid, though not that abrupt one which is liable to happen at any moment in these cases.--The sick man looked towards him.--Farewell,--he said,--I thank you. [6]
It should also be remembered that many species of Lepidoptera are liable to considerable and abrupt variations in colour. [1]
But butterflies would be particularly liable to be attacked by their enemies when at rest; and most kinds whilst resting raise their wings vertically over their backs, so that the lower surface alone is exposed to view. [1]
Women's wages can't be expected to do more than feed and clothe 'em, as a gineral thing, with a little savin', in case of sickness, and to bury 'em, if they break daown, as all of 'em are liable to do at any time. [6]
Some regard it as a sort of initiation, like that into the Odd Fellows, which renders one liable to his regular dues thereafter. [5]
But health permits are not granted after seven in the evening, partly because a ship cannot be inspected and overhauled with exhaustive, thoroughness except in daylight, and partly because health-officers are liable to catch cold if they expose themselves to the night air. [5]
No doubt both animal and vegetable hybrids, when produced from extremely distinct species, are liable to premature death; but the parents of mulattoes cannot be put under the category of extremely distinct species. [1]
Surely it is an island of magic, unsubstantial, liable to go adrift and plunge into the canon. [4]

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