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Sentences starting with lise

Lise was a truer daughter of her time and country in that she had the national contempt for law, was imbued with the American hero-worship of criminals that caused the bombardment of Cora Wellman's jail with candy, fruit and flowers and impassioned letters. [9]
Lise was roused to a sudden pitch of fury. [9]
Lise had escaped so far, but drunkenness was an ominous sign. [9]
Lise proceeded to put up her hair. [9]
Lise went to put on her hat; if she skimped her toilet in the morning, she made up for it in the evening when she came home from the store, and was often late for supper. [9]
Lise went out into it, became a part of it, returning only to sleep and eat,--a tendency Hannah found unaccountable, and against which even her stoicism was not wholly proof. [9]
Lise alone made him welcome, albeit demurely; but Mr. Wiley, not having sensibilities, was proof against Hannah's coldness and Janet's hostility. [9]
Lise paused in her labours and looked at her sister steadily. [9]
Lise struggled to escape. [9]
Lise had often boasted of a taste for oysters on the shell, though really preferring them smothered with red catsup in a "cocktail. [9]

Sentences ending with lise

And he deceivin' you like he did the company--" "He didn't deceive me," cried Lise. [9]
He had intruded with no advice, he had offered no comment that she had come downstairs alone, without Lise. [9]
It was wicked, what she was doing, but she gloried in it; and even the sight, in burning red letters, of Gruber's Cafe failed to bring on a revulsion by its association with her sister Lise. [9]
His manner of treating Janet, for instance, was quite different from that he employed in dealing with Lise. [9]
What would she think if it were Lise? [9]
And then came the odd reflection,--how strange that that same Sunday had been so fateful for herself and Lise! [9]
Despite the fact that the memories she had cherished were now become hideous things, she sought to drag them forth and compare them, ruthlessly, with what must have been the treasures of Lise. [9]
Go, go and tell Lise. [2]
Suddenly she said:--"You saw Lise? [9]
As has been said, she did not intellectualize her reasons, but the core of her resistance was the very essence of an individuality having its roots in a self-respecting and self-controlling inheritance--an element wanting in her sister Lise. [9]

Short sentences using lise

But Lise got up. [9]
What would become of Lise? [9]
And she thought of Lise. [9]
But Lise said nothing. [9]
To think it's my Lise! [9]
Success to Lise meant money. [9]
Your affectionate sister Lise. [9]
Go and tell Lise. [2]
Why had he destroyed Lise? [9]
Where had Lise been? [9]

Sentences containing lise two or more times

There were pictures of other artists whom the recondite would have recognized as "movie" stars, amazing yet veridic stories of whose wealth Lise read in the daily press: all possessed limousines--an infallible proof, to Lise, of the measure of artistic greatness. [9]
Now, because that odour of alcohol Lise exhaled had destroyed in Janet the sense of exhilaration, of life on a higher plane she had begun to feel, and filled her with degradation, she hated Lise, felt for her sister no strain of pity. [9]

More example sentences with the word lise in them

Janet and Lise would be growing up, there would be young men, and no place to see them save the sidewalks. [9]
Lise, feverishly occupied with her toilet, on her departure broke the silence there by inquiring:--"Say, if I had your easy money, I might buy a stove, too. [9]
It was Lise who had given the note of ornamentation to the bedroom. [9]
But she couldn't.... Where was Lise now?... [9]
Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist. [9]
In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather. [9]
Self-centered as Lise was, absorbed in her own trouble and present physical discomfort, this unaccustomed word from her sister and the vehemence with which it was spoken surprised and frightened her, brought home to her some hint of the terror in Janet's soul. [9]
Unlike Lise, she was able to see life as it is, she did not expect of it miracles, economic or matrimonial. [9]
Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame. [2]
A long way, too, from the Bagatelle and Fillmore Street--but to Lise a way not impossible, nor even improbable. [9]
She was amused, too, by the thought that Lise's envy would be modified by the prospect of a heightened social status; since Lise, it will be remembered, had her Providence likewise. [9]
Forgetting her repugnance to the bed, Janet sat down beside Lise and put an arm around her. [9]
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]
She had hoped to discover the identity of the man who had taken Lise to Gruber's, but she did not attempt to continue the conversation. [9]
There's Lise, married to Andrew--a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays--but is she contented with her lot? [2]
The hands of the old dining-room clock pointed to quarter of eight, and Lise had already made her toilet and departed. [9]
Thus he became the object of a morbid speculation, especially at such times as this, when Lise attired herself in her new winter finery and went forth to meet him. [9]
And Lise, despite the heaviness of the air, was dreaming. [9]
The thought, however, that she might fundamentally resemble her sister Lise, despite a fancied superiority, did occasionally shake her and bring about a revulsion against Ditmar. [9]
And it seemed that Lise, even in the place where she was, must have heard that cry and heeded it. [9]
And you can't stop Lise from going with him--she's earning her own money...." They had talked over the predicament before, and always came to the same impasse. [9]
Janet sought her sister, but returned after a brief interval, with the news that Lise had gone out. [9]
Yet how could she tell Hannah where Lise was! [9]
But presently, when she heard Lise sigh, she could contain herself no longer. [9]
Hannah chafed because she had no power to enforce this, because Mr. Wiley and Lise understood she had no power. [9]
Neither Lise nor she had had a chance. [9]
At first when she entered the bedroom she thought it empty, though the gas was burning, and them she saw Lise lying face downward on the bed. [9]
But Lise, though shaken, had not capitulated..... [9]
Lise, in this sense, was indeed virtuous, and her mirror told her she was beautiful. [9]
He greeted Miss Schuler effusively, but his eye was on Lise from the first, and it was she he took with, him in the front seat, indifferent to the giggling behind. [9]
Had not the saleslady been obdurate, Lise would have had it on credit; but she did succeed, by an initial payment the ensuing Saturday, in having it withdrawn from public gaze. [9]
Lise, her waist removed, was seated in a rocking chair at the window overlooking the littered yards and the backs of the tenements on Rutger Street. [9]
Janet, also, had recently been self-convicted of sharing with Lise the same questionable tendency toward self-adornment to please the eye of man. [9]
Still palpitating, she reached the house in Fillmore Street, halting a moment with her hand on the door, knowing her face was flushed, anxious lest her mother or Lise might notice something unusual in her manner. [9]
It was a principle with Lise to pay no attention to any young man who was not "presented," those venturing to approach her with the ready formula "Haven't we met before? [9]
She felt, indeed, pity for Lise, but something within her seemed to have hardened--something that pity could not melt, possessing her and thrusting heron to action. [9]
With that same peculiar, cautious movement she had observed, Lise approached a chair, and sank into it,--jerking her head in the direction of the room where Hannah and Edward slept. [9]
Rain was splashing on the bricks of the passage-way outside, the shadows of the night still lurked in the corners; by the grey light she gazed at Lise, who breathed loudly and stirred uneasily, her mouth open, her lips parched. [9]
Its only effect on Lise was to convince her of the existence of a prearranged plan of persecution, to make her more secretive and sullen than ever before. [9]
Suddenly a flash of sympathy revealed to her a glimpse of the truth that Lise, too, after her own nature, sought beauty and freedom! [9]
Janet was incapable of speech--nor could she have brought herself to ask Lise whether or not the money had been earned at the Bagatelle, and remained miraculously unspent. [9]
In the course of one interview he had conveyed to Lise, without arousing her antagonism, the conviction that it was wiser to trust him than to attempt to pull wool over his eyes. [9]
Mr. Tiernan's estimate of Miss Lise Bumpus, if he could have been induced to reveal it, would have been worth listening to. [9]
It seemed that of late he had been keeping all the money for the sprinklers, and spending a good deal of it on Lise. [9]
As a matter of fact, Lise sometimes did insist on a "party. [9]
It had only needed her meeting with Lise, in that house, to reveal how he had betrayed her faith and her love, sullied and besmirched them. [9]
But the next morning Lise went back to the Bagatelle, and Janet to the mill.... [9]
In this strange mood she fell asleep nor did she waken when, at midnight, Lise stealthily crept in beside her. [9]
In such rare moments as this her heart melted towards Lise, and she would fling a protecting arm about her. [9]
I know where Miss Lise is. [9]
And only a little while ago she and Lise had lain in that bed together! [9]
You haven't seen Lise, have you? [9]
About five o'clock Lise was coming home along Fillmore Street after an uneventful, tedious and manless holiday spent in the company of Miss Schuler and other friends when she perceived Mr. Tiernan seated on his steps, grinning and waving a tattered palm-leaf fan. [9]
And the words Lise had spoken between her sobs at first conveyed no meaning. [9]
Ever since then Lise had had a motor at her disposal, and on Sundays they took long "joy rides" beyond the borders of the state. [9]
The fact that Lise had got drunk there meant nothing to her now. [9]
In its acquisition Lise had expended almost the whole of a week's salary. [9]
After supper, when Lise had departed with her best young man, Hannah would occasionally, though grudgingly, permit Janet to help her with the dishes. [9]
She could not, like Lise, find joy and forgetfulness at dance halls, at the "movies," at Slattery's Riverside Park in summer, in "joy rides" with the Max Wylies of Hampton. [9]
And do you know, Mary, I am going to love him very much," said Lise, looking with bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. [2]
She did not know what she would say to Lise if she should find her; and in spite of Mr. Tiernan's expressed confidence, the chances of success seemed remote. [9]
The change effected, Janet went homeward swiftly, to encounter, on the corner of Faber Street, her sister Lise, whose attention was immediately attracted by the bundle. [9]
That was all.... Janet sank down in the rocking-chair, her hands clasped together, overwhelmed by the sudden apprehension of the tragedy that had lurked, all unsuspected, in the darkness: a tragedy, not of Lise alone, but in which she herself was somehow involved. [9]
Among his friends it was regarded as an accomplishment, but Lise was critical, especially since he did not look into one's eyes, but gazed off into space, as though he weren't talking at all. [9]
Not that it is so uncommon for Lise to be gone. [9]
And Lise, despite her degradation, was more than ever her sister! [9]
So appealing, so heartbroken was the cry one might have thought that Lise, wherever she was, would have heard it. [9]
As Lise observed, he had made a home-run with her at Slattery's Riverside Park. [9]
I remember how he began speaking to him about Lise as if she were alive--he had forgotten she was dead--and Tikhon reminded him that she was no more, and he shouted, 'Fool! [2]
Why should she have, in Lise, continually before her eyes a degraded caricature of her own aspirations and ideals? [9]
Don't judge Lise harshly," she began. [2]
Ordinarily Lise was hard, impervious to such reproaches, holding her own in the passionate quarrels that occasionally took place between them yet there were times, such as this, when her resistance broke down unexpectedly, and she lost all self control. [9]
Still rankling in Hannah's memory was a day when Lise had returned from school, dark and mutinous, with a tale of such a family. [9]
Lise, she remembered, had sometimes mentioned this place, though preferring Gruber's: and she was struck by the contrast between this spectacle and the grimness of the strike these people had come to encourage and sustain, the conflict in the streets, the suffering in the tenements. [9]
But, when she had slowly mounted the stairs and lighted the gas in the bedroom the sight of her sister's clothes cast over the chairs was proof that Lise had already donned her evening finery and departed. [9]
Her few choices had not been happy, they had failed to interest and thrill... Of the Bumpus family Lise alone found refuge, distraction, and excitement in the vulgar modern world by which they were surrounded, and of whose heedlessness and remorselessness they were the victims. [9]
And if she had little patience with Lise, she had less with the helpless attitude of her parents. [9]
From Lise she had been prepared for suspicion, arraignment, ridicule. [9]
Of late Lise had become an increased source of anxiety to Hannah, who was unwisely resolved to make this occasion an object lesson. [9]
Owing to certain expenses connected with Lise, he had been unable to acquire the shirt and the tie, but he had bought the suit in the hope and belief that she would find him irresistible therein. [9]
Lise, in her evening finery, looking occasionally at the clock, was awaiting the hour set for a rendezvous, whiling away the time with the Boston evening sheet whose glaring red headlines stretched across the page. [9]
Nor did Lise enlighten him, being gifted with a certain inscrutableness. [9]
Occasionally, somewhat to Edward's alarm, Hannah demanded: "Where are you taking Lise this evening? [9]
And yet what did it matter whether Lise knew or only suspected, if her words were true, if men were all alike? [9]
So she clung, desperately, to her sister's hand until at last Lise roused herself, her hair awry, her face puckered and wet with tears and perspiration. [9]
Never did she come as near comprehending Lise as in such moments as this, and when, on dark winter mornings, her sister clung to her, terrified by the siren. [9]
It was thus characteristically and with unintentional sharpness she expressed her maternal pride by a reflection not only upon Edward, but Lise also. [9]
The gas was burning, Lise had come in, and was moving peculiarly about the room. [9]
She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. [2]
One man's meat being another's poison, Lise absorbed from the movies an element by which her sister Janet was repelled. [9]
She, too, had been precariously close to poverty, had known the sordidness of life; she, too, and Lise and Hannah had been duped and cheated of the fairer things. [9]
Both investments had been made, needless to say, on the strength of Janet's increased salary; and Lise, when Janet had surprised her before the bureau rapturously surveying the combination, justified herself with a defiant apology. [9]
Lise thought her beautiful. [9]
She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. [2]
She remained gazing at Lise, who paid no attention to her entrance, but stood with her back turned before an old-fashioned bureau with a marble top and raised sides. [9]
She was astonished at herself for this sudden softening, since she did not really love Lise, and all day she had hated her, wished never to see her again. [9]
Just as you ask destiny why your splendid brother had to die, so I asked why that angel Lise, who not only never wronged anyone, but in whose soul there were never any unkind thoughts, had to die. [2]
And Leila, pictured as holding out for a higher price and getting it, encouraged Lise to hold out also. [9]
I don't know as any respectable man would want Lise, or that I could honestly wish him to have her. [9]
This work of art, conveying the moral that virtue is an economic asset, made a great impression on Lise. [9]

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