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Sentences starting with like

Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
Like most inspirations worth anything, it was very simple. [9]
Like lightning, and with cold fury in his eyes, Foyle caught the tall cattleman by the forearm, and, with a swift, dexterous twist, had the fellow in his power. [11]
Like most people with a future, she began young. [9]
Like every other wish of her son, Barbara had fulfilled with quiet indulgence his desire that she would not again enter the Netherlands and Ghent. [10]
Like Jupiter I will be blessed and bless With love; and in the image of a swan. [10]
Like every knight whose own home was not pleasant, he sometimes gambled; and when, yesterday, ill luck pursued him and he lost the estate of Tannenreuth, he sincerely regretted the disaster, but it could not be helped. [10]
Like Paul, of whom he spoke, he too was transformed, had come to his own, radiating a new power that seemed to shine in his face. [9]
Like the Englishman who, when he first witnessed a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," cried out, "How very unlike the home life of our dear Queen! [9]
Like a wanderer, who, after a long journey, sees his home in the distance, he quickened his pace. [10]

Sentences ending with like

You're a gossip; you're a damned, pertinacious, preposterous gossip, and I'll say it as often as you like. [11]
I consent to your saying "blood horse," if you like. [6]
I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
But mind, now, you must not meddle; if you do, you will spoil everything, and get your name in the 'Household Inquisitor' in a way you won't like. [6]
Call it what you like. [9]
Call it anything you like. [9]
Say on what you like. [11]
Now, I'll let you hear it if you like. [11]
I can give you any number of addresses, if you like. [9]
Now, Evelyn, haven't you any curiosity to see what this world we are talking about is like? [4]

Short sentences using like

Do I like you? [9]
It isn't like you. [9]
It sounds like you. [5]
But not like you, Bigot. [11]
I like to work accurately. [2]
She sat like wax. [11]
Something like this, wasn't it? [6]
We like him very much. [5]
You'll like the trip, Dingan. [11]
Wouldn't you like to? [2]

Sentences containing like two or more times

It will carry your name down to posterity like the ring of Thothmes, like the coin of Alexander. [6]
It was like you; like your good great heart, like your matchless and unmatchable self. [5]
He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
No; I like you, and I like your calm unruffled way of explaining things to the customers, but you see I am not used to it. [5]
And this, if you like, is practical,--so practical that the men like you, who have gained unexampled privilege, fear it more and more. [9]
Try as I would, I could not bring myself to like them, and I feared only too truly that they did not like me. [11]
I have to work on it occasionally, which I don't like a particle I don't like to work at too many things at once. [5]
In Mrs. Hopkins's words, "They looked like picters, and behaved like angels. [6]
Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so longsighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length. [6]
My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]

More example sentences with the word like in them

To my mad youth her gentle surveillance Was like a watch-fire on a rock-bound coast. [11]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
It looks like you're cutting out the minister, too. [9]
Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
I will keep your verses to tell me dat my French subjects are all loyal like M. [11]
We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery--I like it. [5]
He knows that your salvation is now secure, but of course you would like to know it yourself. [5]
A monument like your Pulpit Rock? [4]
Why, she's like your own daughter. [9]
Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one, too; and we'll take the one we like the best. [5]
It is in your honor, and not in his, that we have no music this evening; you said that you did not particularly like it at a banquet. [10]
Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
I wish that your countrymen, who are coming down the river like driftwood, more resembled you. [9]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
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]
How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
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]
I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
I asked the young man in the ticket-office if I could have a sleeping-section, and he answered "No," with a snarl that shrivelled me up like burned leather. [5]
It is only young magicians that give away a secret like that. [5]
I thought my young friend's attitude was a little too much like that of the Muggletonians. [6]
One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
I am sure you'll like it. [5]
I don't think you'll like it. [11]
I thought maybe you'd put it aside for me, like you do for the others. [9]
I should think you'd like to go. [4]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
To men like you, work is as the breath of life. [11]
It's just like you, thinking he's doing her a good turn. [9]
But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
But I like you, Richard, as I have said more than once. [9]
Good to see you, Captain, on a day like this. [9]
I looked at you, and I wished that I had never seen a woman before and could look at the world as you did then--it was like water from a spring, that look. [11]
Somehow, "I like you" and "I love you" got a little mixed, as they heard it. [6]
That's just like you young men," said the regimental commander cooling down a little. [2]
Well, I hope you won't come to an early grave like poor Charles,--or at any rate, that you may be prepared. [6]
The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
Perhaps it'll make you wise like the old Adam. [11]
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
I was like you when I was young. [11]
I believed in you when he said it, as I believe in you now when you stand there like that. [11]
Upon my soul, you two should fence like a pair of veterans. [11]
I don't like you to wear them too long. [8]
It's kind of you to take it like this, sir, seeing you've never been tempted and mightn't understand. [11]
An' I'd like you to see jest how hard an' cruel this border life is. [13]
What I want you to see is that I did not grudge my brother his share of my father's inheritance, like any petty trader. [10]
I would like you to provide a proper outfit and start north as soon as I telegraph you, be it night or be it day. [5]
But I'd like you to believe that when I agreed with with the sentiments you expressed the first time I saw you, I was sincere. [9]
I didn't want you to be like Ralph or the others. [9]
I've stuck to you thus far, and I'll be damned now if I throw you over, like they did Jonah. [9]
I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
Why, mother, did you think it like the ballet? [8]
And, to tell you the truth, I believe he would like that a good deal better; I believe that, if there's anything he hates, it's openness and candor. [8]
It doesn't give you the jim-jumps like Mexico. [11]
I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
But why do you stand and look like that? [10]
And like Beatrice, you showed me the path, and hell and heaven. [9]
When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
And what will you say then, I should like to know? [8]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
But how knew you our baker was English?--which he is, a prisoner like yourself. [11]
They have cast you off like an old moccasin. [9]
A man like you makes a bee out of a gnat--a bee that brings honey to the hive. [10]
The less pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run. [3]
Call it what you like, say that I am weak. [9]
Ask whatever else you like, only deliver me from this awful suspense. [10]
Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over. [2]
And her mate--would you like to know her mate? [11]
Why, yes, if you like the term. [5]
I wouldn't treat you like that, and you know it. [5]
I say, if you like such people, go with them. [6]
It is as you like it. [4]
My, it fits you like it was made for you, and it's just your style--and you can see it wants a lady to wear it. [9]
And how did you like his looks? [6]
And he deceivin' you like he did the company--" "He didn't deceive me," cried Lise. [9]
Which style do you like best? [6]
The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard,--to take everything coolly,--nil admirari,--if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing. [6]
I will show you how fellows like you are dealt with in Alexandria. [10]
I can show you her letter, if you would like to see it. [5]
Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
What business have you got sleuthing 'round after me like this? [9]
Mr. Brice, do you feel like walking? [9]
But why do you do a thing like this when you must know I need every man here to help turn out these machines? [9]
But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
A gentleman like you could give us twenty-five, and never know it was gone. [9]
Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
The idea that you can't do what you like with your own! [5]
Come round when you can; I'd like to introduce you to old March. [8]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
One man like you can put a whole troop of Egyptians to flight. [10]
If you like, you can give him the canoe. [11]
Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
And then, when you brought me to him that morning and he got up and treated me like a lady, I just couldn't stand it. [9]
I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison. [10]
He will throw you aside like an empty wine bottle when he has used you for a model. [10]

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