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Sentences starting with making

Making believe be what you are not is the essence of vulgarity. [6]
Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent. [4]
Making money in those days was so ridiculously easy! [9]
Making my own market price, I asked two cents apiece for them. [4]
Making a circle I drove them back toward the fort, much troubled in mind. [9]
Making a detour, he met her at the moment she discovered her mistake. [11]
Making a polite gesture for me to step aside, Monsieur Doltaire said, in a voice which was perfectly controlled and courteous, though I could hear behind all a deadly emphasis, 'I know everything now. [11]
Making it ready for the launch, he came back to the Fort. [11]
Making a great effort she did however go to call on them a few weeks after her arrival in Moscow. [2]
Making these snow-balls cost me a fine gold ring--that and ignorance together; for the quicksilver invaded the ring with the same facility with which water saturates a sponge--separated its particles and the ring crumbled to pieces. [5]

Sentences ending with making

I'm afraid of your success, and of all the money you're making. [9]
She says, "Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making! [5]
They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. [5]
But an attempt will at any rate be worth making. [10]
Now you see what kind of speed I was making. [5]
This situation, like those of the past, was not of his own making. [9]
For one of these piers Brydon was making. [11]
I conformed to the rules of the game; I soon had sense enough knocked into me to understand that the conditions were not of my making. [9]
P. S.--Since writing the above, getting additional information, I am enabled to say that the draft may be made in subdistricts, as the enrolment has been made, or is in process of making. [7]
Because she had smiled at him, yesterday and to-day, he had soared heavenwards on wings of his own making. [9]

Short sentences using making

I'm making my own life. [11]
There was no making time. [9]
He loved making little speeches. [11]

Sentences containing making two or more times

While I thought you were making your fortune (as you said you were) you were making yourself a beggar, eh? [12]
For some hours we had been making three and a half or four miles an hour and we were still making that. [5]
A man might want to save his country by making some good law, and be mistaken both as to the result of that law and the right methods in making it. [11]
He had elected to use his little patrimony in making himself instead of in making money--if merely following his inclination could be called an election. [4]
The scheme of the assault may have been: First--To terrify me by making me conscious of my own helplessness after making actual though not legal threats against my life. [5]
There is no pleasure comparable to making a vow in the presence of one who appreciates that vow, in the presence of men who honor and appreciate you for making the vow, and men who admire you for making the vow. [5]
These two surpluses making two thousand and added to the six thousand, making eight thousand to be furnished by the two States, or four thousand each less, by fair credits. [7]
I think I learned from him to express myself in good old-fashioned English, and without making as much fuss about it as our Fourth of July orators and political haranguers were in the habit of making. [6]
He has the expectation of making money, of making more than he could by lending his money. [4]
After all this, an honest night's sleep served to round out the day, in which little had been effected besides making a few purchases, writing a few letters, reading the papers, the Boston "Weekly Advertiser" among the rest, and making arrangements for our passage homeward. [6]

More example sentences with the word making in them

Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet. [11]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
But I know you well," he exclaimed, his manner changing, "you are making this great sacrifice on my account. [9]
Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
I'm always making you out more than human...only, let me say--I meant that--about riding away. [13]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
At first, as you know, the hope of making him a combatant for the possessions which I have learned through you to regard as the highest and most sacred. [10]
By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. [7]
Now, what are you going to do about it--you--his brother--you that come here making love too? [11]
How I wish you could see us felling trees to make bullet-moulds, and forging slugs for canister, and making cartridges at night with our bayonets as candlesticks. [9]
I know the years when the fevers and dysenteries are in earnest, and when they're only making believe. [6]
For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
And Tikhon, purposely writhing and making faces, pretended to be angry and swore at the French with the funniest curses. [2]
And when the writer is making a story and finds it necessary to report some of the talk of his characters observe how cautiously and anxiously he goes at that risky and difficult thing. [5]
John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
His art, too, would be a comfort to him, and if he only had the chance of making his way in his career he would have no difficulty in winning Agatha. [10]
Well, isn't it worth while making the bargain? [11]
Anyway, it was worth while making such a beauty care for him. [11]
Desert, it is worth making a note of. [4]
She soon found work for us, making us do many a Samaritan-task; and many a time have we marvelled to mark the skill with which she wove her web, and the wisdom coupled with her open-handed bounty. [10]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
I hope you won't lose any patients by my making a little fun of your meters and scopes and contrivances. [6]
Begorra, 'tis a wondher ye wuddent wash yereselves," he added, making a face, "wid muddy wather to be had for the askin'. [9]
These qualities soon won the heart of Frau Puricelli, who had at first been very averse to making his acquaintance. [10]
Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
To him a woman was the supreme interest of existence, apart from making a necessary living. [11]
Why should this woman have this extraordinary effect of making him dissatisfied with himself? [9]
I stated that, without making any complaint of it at all. [7]
From a distance without came the shouts of the survivors making for the tavern. [9]
Finally Richards said, with the hesitancy of one who is making a statement which is likely to encounter doubt, "Mary, Burgess is not a bad man. [5]
So they departed with speed, making notes about the gigantic web as they went. [5]
He joined forces with Puss in making clever fun of the booby Dutch, which Stephen was wise enough to take good-naturedly. [9]
These were filled with people of all sorts and conditions, supping and making merry. [9]
Sometimes I sat with my back against the dunes watching the drag of the outgoing water rolling the pebbles after it, making a gleaming floor for the light to dance. [9]
The company advanced with levelled pikes, but at a motion from the Seigneur his men fell back before them, and, making a lane, disclosed Michel de la Foret at the end of it. [11]
This letter--which ended with greetings to Paula, for whose father he was making diligent search--agitated Philippus greatly. [10]
He said the witches was pestering him awful these nights, and making him see all kinds of strange things, and hear all kinds of strange words and noises, and he didn't believe he was ever witched so long before in his life. [5]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards. [10]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
A few priests whom he passed turned their backs upon him, others looked down at their dinners, eating noisily, and making as if they did not see him. [10]
Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. [2]
Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
The mosaic workers, who were making the floor of the great hall, had surpassed themselves. [10]
And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
There were people who had accepted her invitations, to whose houses she had been, who had a dozen ways of making her feel that she was not of them. [4]
It was Nancy who conceived the brilliant idea--the more delightful because she said nothing about it to me--of making use of Sophy. [9]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
They now stood whispering and making love in the shadow of the temple. [10]
Four weeks ago, while making some necessary excavations upon the property, Signor Smitthe unearthed the most remarkable ancient statue that has ever bees added to the opulent art treasures of Rome. [5]
Was it that which was working in his mind, and making him say hard things about their own two commendable selves? [11]
At one place where we halted for a while, the foul gush from a sewer was making the water turbid and murky all around, and there was a random corpse slopping around in it that had floated down from up country. [5]
I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
His eye paused when in line with us, and we were seized with astonishment to behold him making in our direction. [9]
During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
Yet, in 1895, when he was sixty years old, he decided to rebuild his fortunes by making a reading tour around the world. [5]
But Philip wondered what would be the effect on his own character and on his intellect if he indulged much in the habit of making the worse appear the better cause, and taking up indifferently any side that paid. [4]
And I wonder what they think of us, making this gorgeous progress through their midst. [8]
He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
Our eyes were wet when we reached the lower hall, and I was making for the door in an agony to leave the place, when the bailiff came out of his little office. [9]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
The law they were passing was not about States, and was not making provisions for States. [7]
One night we were overtaken by a snow-storm while still a mile from the village we were making for. [5]
The Golden Dogs were making preparations for the battle. [11]
Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. [11]
Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
The old man wept too, but his tears were tears of joy and he repeatedly assured Cambyses that he would recover and have ample opportunity of making amends for the past. [10]
My daughter is well settled and my son is making his own living. [6]
Philip was not weary, however, of making these attempts, he rather enjoyed it. [5]
We see that we was making trouble, so we went up again about a mile, to the cool weather, and watched them from there. [5]
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. [5]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
I think that we may fairly claim a superiority in our journals over the English dailies in our habit of making brief, pointed editorial paragraphs. [4]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making, and not of ours. [7]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making and not of ours. [7]
One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
The little Chevalier watched the boat glide out into the gloom of night, and waited till he knew that they must all be aboard Ranulph's schooner and making for the sea. [11]
Deeply agitated, we watched during the memorable examination the touching spectacle of the greatest heart making itself the standard by which to measure what is petty and ignoble. [10]
It was my watch till midnight, and then it was Jim's; but Tom stayed up, because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land, and didn't stand no regular watch. [5]
Then my tongue wasn't making a fool of me, after all. [11]
At first it was thought he was joking, but when at last, in his calm and dreamy look, they saw he meant what he said, they rose and carried him round the room on a chair, making impromptu songs as they travelled. [11]
Henry Brevoort, who was then in London, wrote an anxious letter to Irving to impress him with the necessity of making much of Mr. Jeffrey. [4]
Nobody knew which was the higher office; so Lyman had to settle the matter by making the rank of both officers equal. [5]
The old head-master was suddenly retired, and one of the best educators summoned in his place man who quickly succeeded in making the decaying Kottbus School one of the most excellent in all Prussia. [10]
That day I was so hungry for the sight of her that I got my field-glass--used to watch my vessels and rafts making across the bay--and trained it on the window where I knew she sat. [11]
Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
After all, it was rather absurd to propose making a purely personal question the pivot on which his relations with 'Every Other Week' turned. [8]
More likely she was only making a common friendly visit, though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair. [4]
To me there was nothing strange or incongruous in heaven's making such an uproar about Lem Hackett. [5]
But the change was not from the capacity of making a fool of myself. [8]

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