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Sentences starting with main

Main conclusion that man is descended from some lower form--Manner of development--Genealogy of man--Intellectual and moral faculties--Sexual Selection--Concluding remarks. [1]

Sentences ending with main

So, for a week we climbed the mountain, laden with picks, drills, gads, crowbars, shovels, cans of blasting powder and coils of fuse and strove with might and main. [5]
I should like to ask him whether these statements are true in the main. [9]
True, the material they have is very limited, but they drive at it might and main. [7]
The Seigneur's words the day before had driven her back upon a tide of emotions which carried her far out upon that sea where reason and life's conventions are derelicts, where Love sails with reckless courage down the shoreless main. [11]
They--they hain't put just as they'd ought to be, perhaps, but that's the way I done it in the main. [9]
Both fountains were going furiously and both pumps bailing with might and main. [5]
He had not been born on the shore of this river, but of the Main. [10]
I shall not attempt to follow him in the precise order in which he addressed the assembled multitude upon that occasion, though I shall perhaps do so in the main. [7]
Iberville, thorough sailor as he was, had chosen for his captain one who had sailed the Spanish Main. [11]
Besides, there hung along two nails on the wall a telescope, relic of days when he sailed the main. [11]

Short sentences using main

He asked another main question. [11]
This is our main business. [4]

Sentences containing main two or more times

She wondered who should be singing a nursery rhyme on a sinking ship: "La main morte, La main morte, Tapp' a la porte, Tapp' a la porte. [11]

More example sentences with the word main in them

You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
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]
In the main you must be the judge as to what is to be done. [7]
They came from workshops and writing-rooms, from humble houses in narrow lanes, and from the handsomest and largest in the main street. [10]
In a long wooden building, divided into two main apartments, twenty to thirty operators are employed. [4]
But I work with might and main against his Immigration bill, --as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University. [5]
A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
I don't know why scoffers make so light of these partings--at the foot of the main stairs of the hotel gallery, just as Mrs. Farquhar was descending. [4]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
The main body were drawn up in front of the mines and, familiar with the signal which requested negotiations, asked their commander for an interview. [10]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on. [11]
The next instant we were away down the river, clawing with might and main to keep out of the woods. [5]
At the Canopic Way they turned eastward and rushed through this main artery of traffic till, in the Brucheium, they hastened in a northerly direction toward the sea. [10]
In her primitive way Kitty had intuitively apprehended the main truth, and that was enough to justify her in contributing to Mona Crozier's punishment. [11]
The main point was that the village was waked up. [6]
The main one was that in the Southern portion of the Union the people did not let the Republicans proclaim their doctrines amongst them. [7]
And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle. [5]
I thought that was pretty white, but March says the apologies and regrets are all well enough in their way, but they leave the main question where they found it. [8]
The main army was on the other side of Moscow or beyond it. [2]
This gentleman's home was on the main shore in its neighborhood. [5]
This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide. [5]
But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
It was a very large island, and used to be out toward mid-stream; but it is joined fast to the main shore now, and has retired from business as an island. [5]
The shaking, the vehemence and anger, of Euphrasia seemed to have had no effect whatever on the main trend of his thoughts. [9]
Anyway it loosened up Rowena from where she was stuck and got her out of the way, and that was the main thing. [5]
But you put up a pint of all kinds of worthless rubbish, and heave in some red stuff to make it beautiful--red's the main thing--and he wouldn't put down that glass to go to a circus. [5]
Then came that unexplained adventure of The Mountain,--almost like a dream in recollection, yet assuredly real in some of its main incidents,--with all that it revealed or hinted. [6]
I had, however, two or three plans, and these I chewed as I went across Maitre Abraham's fields, and came to the main road from Sillery to the town. [11]
Her face was turned toward the large doorway of the main entrance, while she sometimes greeted newly introduced guests, sometimes bade farewell to departing ones, and meanwhile answered and asked questions. [10]
Diodoros, meanwhile, had turned to look at the main entrance, and, carried away by the universal desire to see, had perched himself on an unopened case of dried figs. [10]
Bring her to try wi' the main course. [5]
This group also--soldiers, travelling artisans, peasants, and tradesfolk with their wives, who, like most of those present, were waiting for the vessel which was to sail down the Main early the next morning--gazed toward the door. [10]
Then he went to the window which, above the pylons that rose before the main front of the Sebasteum, afforded a view of the Bruchium and the sea. [10]
It is joined to the main by a low neck. [5]
You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. [5]
The judge desired to spend the night at Mohair, but was afterwards taken home by main force, and the next day his meals were brought up to him. [9]
Then he went to see if the hall were empty, and led her at once to the treasurer's office through the various passages which connected it with the main buildings. [10]
It is enough to recall the main facts. [6]
All this belongs to one of the side-shows, to which I promised those who would take tickets to the main exhibition should have entrance gratis. [6]
They are liable to lose sight of the main question in collateral issues, and to be run away with by suggestive speculations. [3]
They were instructed to explore every navigable river they might find, and to follow the main branches, which would probably lead them in one direction to the East Indies or South Sea, and in the other to the Northwest Passage. [4]
I was forced to climb the main rigging in order to escape being hacked to pieces. [9]
The main thing to be considered is that this great stream of thought is the highest achievement and the most valuable possession of mankind. [4]
Instead of the timid, irregular exchange of goods as far as the Rhine, the Main, and the Danube, regular intercourse with Venice, Milan, Genoa, Bohemia, and Hungary, Flanders, Brabant, and the coast of the Baltic had commenced. [10]
After a certain time of which he had no cognizance he found himself under the glaring arc-light that hung over Main Street before the Pelican Hotel, in front of what was known as the ladies' entrance. [9]
As he drove through the main street of Askatoon again, his lawyer--Burlingame's rival--waved a hand towards him in greeting. [11]
If, after walking through the entrance in the hedge that separated the Brackens from the main road, you turned to the left and followed a driveway newly laid out between young poplars, you came to a mass of cedars. [9]
The great ravine, three quarters of a mile long, the ancient boundary which now cuts the town in two, is bridged where the main street, the Corso, crosses, the bridge resting on old Roman substructions, as everything else about here does. [4]
Buried in his thoughts, he was only subconsciously aware of what he saw until, after near an hour's riding, he pulled rein at the door of the Stay Awhile Hospital, which was some miles in the rear of the main force. [11]
And the main thing is," he continued, "that I know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the only sure happiness in life. [2]
Osterhaut put the thing in a nutshell as he slithered up the main street of Lebanon on his way to the manning of the two fire-engines at the Lebanon fire-brigade station. [11]
But I got them out of my system, where they had been festering for years--and that was the main thing. [5]
Before they find their way to the main again, these harridans of nature bring forth a brood of currents which ceaselessly fret the boundaries of the isles. [11]
He said-- 'That's the very main virtue of the thing. [5]
The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
By instinct, over the twenty-five years of his life, he had observed and become familiar with the main features of the work. [11]
The Parson says the thermometer is 15 deg., and going down; that there is a snowdrift across the main church entrance three feet high, and that the house looks as if it had gone into winter quarters, religion and all. [4]
She had escaped the suspicion, if not the censure, of the world--or so she thought; and in the main she was right. [11]
As soon as the sedan chair, amid cheers and the blare of trumpets, had disappeared in the direction of the drawbridge and the great main entrance, Barbara retired to her room. [10]
We had talked the question over well, and were perfectly agreed on the main point. [6]
Snatched away from the present, yet conscious that Fate had granted him a great boon in this sorrowful hour, he moved on at her side and led her through the main entrance, the spacious inner court-yard of the palace. [10]
I knew thee the moment I saw thee; and main hard work it was to keep a stony countenance and seem to see none here but tuppenny knaves and rubbish o' the streets. [5]
I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest, the use of some is both right and indispensable. [7]
It was, in the main, the same noble Essay that has since been printed. [6]
The waves of the Main were now reflecting the golden light of the morning sun. [10]
So bad were the main thoroughfares, even, that markets were sometimes inaccessible for months together, and the fruits of the earth rotted in one place, while there was scarcity not many miles distant. [4]
He knew where the main strength of the Blemmyes lay and communicated this knowledge to the Centurion Phoebicius and the captain of the Pharanites. [10]
Almost unconsciously avoiding the main streets, he rode a roundabout way towards the little house where Constantine Jopp lived. [11]
In walking along the main street, Mr. Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico. [6]
I said that the main popularity of the almanac was derived from its poetry and conundrums, and that a few conundrums distributed around through his Treasury report would help the sale of it more than all the internal revenue he could put into it. [5]
However, as to the main point: it is certain that Mrs. Eddy did not doctor the Annex's English herself. [5]
The manager of the main mill, with grave face, said: "No, Mr. Grier, I don't think they'll be satisfied. [11]
Between it and the main mass of the mountain rose numerous single peaks, like a camp of granite tents, or a wildly tossing sea suddenly turned to stone; behind these blocks ran the streamlet, which he found after a short search. [10]
I don't believe the main idea was vicious. [11]
We went to the main gate of the city before nightfall, with a hope in our minds, based upon that vague prophecy of Joan's Voices which seemed to promise a rescue by force at the last moment. [5]
But of course the main fact was that no canvassing had been done--because a subscription harvest is before publication, (not after, when people have discovered how bad one's book is. [5]
He believed that the main demands of the seamen were just, and he made a useful organization to enforce them. [11]
The roof of the main building was capped by a lantern, the home of countless pigeons. [9]
But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]
This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more. [5]
We came opposite the head of a place or court running eastward from the main street.--Look down there,--I said,--My friend the Professor lived in that house at the left hand, next the further corner, for years and years. [6]
They were among the glories of Main Street now. [9]
On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the French to suppose that here--in the center--the main Russian forces were concentrated. [2]
This part of the enemy seem to now be trying to work along the White Oak road, to join the main force in front of Grant, while Sheridan and Warren are pressing them as closely as possible. [7]
From this position the enemy could be driven from their main position on the summit, because they could be swept now by artillery fire from a point as high as their own. [11]
The trumpets sounded the assault, and two charges followed in handsome style; but we were too weak, as yet, for our main body was still lagging behind. [5]
Well, I think that, in the main, the reformers manage to look out for themselves tolerably well. [4]
It is said that they also expected reinforcements from the Main, in order that the right to the road----" "Gossip, or positive news? [10]
Still, we believe that the main motive that dictated this epistle was kindness to Pocahontas. [4]
Every American paper that reaches me has a stamp upon it, which has been pasted there in the post-office or downstairs in the hotel office; but no matter who put it there, I have to pay for it, and that is the main thing. [5]
In the fight that had ensued, four Indians were captured, and the main body chased four miles, but nobody killed. [5]
Some of the temple-servants carried the merchant down a back staircase, while Olympius hastily and silently led his comrades in arms up the main steps into the great halls of the temple. [10]
This was his tale: "Well, to begin with, I was born at Castlegarry, in Kerry--you know the main facts from what I said in court. [11]
At a lower table the Court grandees and other guests of noble degree were seated, with the magnates of the city; the commoners took places at a multitude of tables on the main floor of the hall. [5]

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