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Sentences starting with mark

Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
Mark Twain was writing a great deal at this time. [5]
Mark Twain's contracts with Bliss for the publication of his books on the subscription plan had been made on a royalty basis, beginning with 5 per cent. [5]
Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering. [5]
Mark my words, when you see a man who wants a big office cheap, look out for him. [9]
Mark my words: we shall have a wedding here by the Nile. [10]
Mark her unwearied watchfulness, as the night passes away. [5]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
Mark Twain's mother was visiting in Fredonia when this letter was written. [5]
Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass-meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time! [5]

Sentences ending with mark

Old Age.--There, between your eyebrows,--three straight lines running up and down; all the probate courts know that token,--"Old Age, his mark. [6]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
Once, when I was an underpaid reporter in Virginia City, whenever I wished to play billiards I went out to look for an easy mark. [5]
Some morning this town will flock aghast to view a gory corpse; on its brow will be seen the awful sign, and men will tremble and whisper, "He has been here--it is the Mysterious Avenger's mark! [5]
But it fell to the ground before reaching which Paulus had indicated as the mark. [10]
It was attached to himself as well as to the letters; heretofore he had been called Sam or Clemens, now he became almost universally Mark Twain and Mark. [5]
I am going to a grand house, where no one will be admitted who does not look worthy of people of mark. [10]
Only now and then a tremor of the mouth, as he slowly chewed his food, or a slight raising of the eye-brows, betrayed that one shaft or another had not wholly missed its mark. [10]
Her instinct whispered that it had left its mark, a hidden mark. [9]

Short sentences using mark

You mark my words. [9]
You mark me sir? [12]
These will leave no mark. [5]
Mark my words, Mr. [9]
That's the Lord's mark. [5]
A man of mark, indeed! [11]
Mark Twain's acknowledgment follows. [5]
Mark my words, Carry. [9]
Akenside, Mark, allusion, 16. [6]
Ever yours, Mark. [5]

Sentences containing mark two or more times

Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, then editor of Every Saturday, had not met Mark Twain, and, noticing the verses printed in the exchanges over his signature, was one of those who accepted them as Mark Twain's work. [5]
The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. [5]
Some young fellows shooting at a mark in the meadow saw the flying deer, and popped away at her; but they were accustomed to a mark that stood still. [4]
Apparently Mark Twain relished it, for as Bernard DeVoto points out, "The book is always Mark Twain. [5]
Lowest spot or mark in row B. c. The next succeeding spot or mark in the same row. [1]
They say St. Mark had a tame lion, and used to travel with him--and every where that St. Mark went, the lion was sure to go. [5]
In the following letter we get a Mark Twain estimate of the great financier who so cheerfully was willing to undertake the solving of Mark Twain's financial problems. [5]
She was sure it was Mark Twain, because Mark is in the Bible and Twain is in the Bible. [5]
But never mind, he'll make his mark someday--finger mark, you know, he-he! [5]

More example sentences with the word mark in them

And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
There, now, Can't you say-- "In a letter to Mr. Howells of the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain describes the reception of the new comedy 'Ali Sin,' and then goes on to say:" etc. [5]
And Davy, did you mark the gentle, rounded arm? [9]
I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? [6]
With love to you both, Ever yours, S. L. C. In the foregoing letter we get the first intimation of Mark Twain's failing health. [5]
Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
For fourteen hundred years St. Mark has been her patron saint. [5]
November 30th that year was Mark Twain's fiftieth birthday, an event noticed by the newspapers generally, and especially observed by many of his friends. [5]
He invited the writer to accompany him, and elsewhere I have told in detail the story of that excursion,--[See Mark Twain; A Biography, chap. [5]
Fire and water would unite sooner than Mark Antony and cowardice! [10]
Such an event would naturally stir Mark Twain to comment on human nature in general. [5]
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]
He speaks of Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality as the high-water mark of the poetry of this century. [6]
Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. [5]
You mark them words--don't forget I said them. [5]
And mark my words: A lie stains the soul, but doubt eats into it. [10]
But mark my words, the day will come when it will. [9]
You mark my words, Mr. T.'s endearments are going to be declined, with thanks. [5]
You mark my words, before this session's ended I'll scare h-l out of Flint--see if I don't. [9]
But mark the words of the prophecy: 'He shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. [5]
I mark these words because, notwithstanding their common use, they involve so much that is not true. [6]
And how the woman with the red band around her neck, the mark of the rope by which she carried the stone, rushed at the other whose eye had been put out! [10]
He pleased himself with the idea that he knew a man of mark at sight, and he set down Clement in that category at his first glance. [6]
Thus I fared with him to the great and mighty city of Saint Mark, which I had ever longed to behold with my bodily eyes. [10]
I am, sir, with great respect, Mark Twain. [5]
I shall overflow with gratitude at this mark of your royal condescension. [5]
Go and talk with any professional man holding any of the medieval creeds, choosing one who wears upon his features the mark of inward and outward health, who looks cheerful, intelligent, and kindly, and see how all your prejudices melt away in his presence! [6]
He roomed that winter with a rugged, self-educated Scotchman--a mechanic, but a man of books and philosophies, who left an impress on Mark Twain's mental life. [5]
And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
Perhaps Mark Antony will arrive in a few hours. [10]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]
Because a man who happens to be my double commits a crime, is it right that I, whose reputation is without a mark, should be made to suffer? [9]
For the man who had kindled a fire--the blaze of which was to mark an epoch--he was exceptionally calm. [9]
Even Joseph Goodman, who had a fine literary perception and a deep knowledge of men, intimately associated with Mark Twain as he was, received at this time no hint of his greater powers. [5]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
The military instinct, which is the special mark of barbarism, is strong in him. [4]
In the letter which follows the medicine which Twichell was to take was Plasmon, an English proprietary remedy in which Mark Twain had invested--a panacea for all human ills which osteopathy could not reach. [5]
He asked March whether he thought Mr. Depew could be got to come; Mark Twain, he was sure, would come; he was a literary man. [8]
He knew that when it was possible she would never fail to come to the mark where he was concerned, and she had equal faith in him. [11]
Now mark thou what 'tis to forsake the ways of purity the which He loveth, and wanton with such as be worldly and an offense. [5]
In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
She was like wet clay on which even the light touch of a butterfly leaves a mark, her sister like a mirror from which the breath that has dimmed it instantly and entirely vanishes. [10]
The privately printed West Point edition, the first printing of the text authorized by Mark Twain, of which but fifty copies were printed. [5]
At what mark were their arrows to be aimed? [10]
Train and Twain were sometimes confused by the very unlettered; or pretendedly, by Mark Twain's friends. [5]
Yet the years were not unkindly to Mark Twain. [5]
The upper branches were alive with these industrious toilers, and Big Tom was always on the alert to discover and mark a bee-gum, which he could visit afterwards. [4]
And mark me well, all of you! [10]
Philip seemed to wear no mark of convention, and Guida spoke her thoughts freely to him. [11]
They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. [5]
Lad that I was, I would mark with pain the blush on Mrs. [9]
Perhaps Mark Twain was too busy at this time to write letters. [5]
For herself, she was to sleep in Mrs Jarley's own travelling-carriage, as a signal mark of that lady's favour and confidence. [12]
Mark Twain's idea was to make a combination with Nast. [5]
George W. Cable was there at the time, and we may believe that in the company of Mark Twain and Osgood those Southern authors passed two or three delightful days. [5]
If Mark Twain was tempted, we get no hint of it in his answer. [5]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
Mark Twain's reply was prompt and heartfelt. [5]
Naturally Mark Twain was one of its favorite members, and his contributions never failed to arouse interest and discussion. [5]
Slocum" (no, it was one "Carl Byng," I perceive) "Carl Byng" for Mark Twain, and that it was the former who wrote the plagiarism entitled "Three Aces," I think that would do a fair justice without any unseemly display. [5]
Following the Equator was issued by subscription through Mark Twain's old publishers, the Blisses, of Hartford. [5]
If Mark Twain was hard up in search of, a French "chestnut," I might have told him the following little anecdote. [5]
Mark Twain himself was full of the Sellers optimism, and it was bound to overflow, fortify as he would against it. [5]
Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
The book, however, was distinguished in a special way: it contains Mark Twain's first utterance in print on the subject of copyright, a matter in which he never again lost interest. [5]
The "gorgeous letter" was concerning Mark Twain's article, "The Turning-point in My Life" which had just appeared in one of the Harper publications. [5]
His journalistic style was climbing, steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, and couldn't be told from the editorial output of that region either by matter or flavor. [5]
Mark Twain's work was always of a kind to make people talk, always important, even when it was mere humor. [5]
Mark Twain's mind was always busy with plans and inventions, many of them of serious intent, some semi-serious, others of a purely whimsical character. [5]
Mark Twain's mother was a woman of sturdy character and with a keen sense of humor and tender sympathies. [5]
While Mark Twain was a journalist in San Francisco, there was a middle-aged man named Soule, who had a desk near him on the Morning Call. [5]
The Clemens and Warner families were constantly associated, and The Gilded Age, published in 1873, resulted from the friendship of Warner and Mark Twain. [5]
It was Artemus Ward who first suspected the value of Mark Twain's gifts, and urged him to some more important use of them. [5]
When Mark Twain visits a garden does he smell the violets, the roses, the jasmine, or the honeysuckle? [5]
Several Asiatic princes vied with each other in the desire to honour Mark Antony by a magnificent funeral, but Octavianus had allowed Cleopatra to provide the most superb obsequies. [10]
Thereat he was vexed and answered that as matters were, so might they remain; but that he was somewhat amazed to mark how lightly she had got over that which had spoiled many a day and night for him. [10]
Though he used very little liquor of any kind, it was Mark Twain's custom to keep a bottle of Scotch whiskey with his collection of pipes and cigars and tobacco on a little table by his bed-side. [5]
There was a veiled moonlight, which was only just strong enough to enable us to mark the general shape of objects. [5]
Burlingame and Van Valkenburgh were on their way to their posts, and their coming to the islands just at this time proved a most important circumstance to Mark Twain. [5]
Wherever in the uttermost parts of the globe, a Lynch has penetrated, there has the Mysterious Cross been seen, and those who have seen it have shuddered and said, "It is his mark, he has been here. [5]
Howells and Aldrich used it as their half-way station between Boston and New York, and every foreign notable who visited America made a pilgrimage to Hartford to see Mark Twain. [5]
He turned angrily upon the Prince, and said-- "The morrow must we pay two pennies to him that owns this hole; two pennies, mark ye--all this money for a half-year's rent, else out of this we go. [5]
In the next unmailed letter Mark Twain relieves himself to a misguided official. [5]
Years of trial unknown to me had left an ennobling mark upon her features, increasing their power an hundred fold. [9]
It proved an unfortunate journey; the hot weather was hard on Mrs. Clemens, and harder still, perhaps, on Mark Twain's temper. [5]
The Buffalo Express, under Mark Twain's management, had become a sort of repository for humorous efforts, often of an indifferent order. [5]
This was the type-setting machine investment, which, in the end, all but wrecked Mark Twain's finances. [5]
Mark Twain was twenty-eight years old. [5]
This concludes Mark Twain's personal letters from the islands. [5]
One of Mark Twain's friends was Henniker-Heaton, the so-called "Father of Penny Postage" between England and America. [5]
Considered among Mark Twain's books to-day, the collection of sketches does not seem especially important. [5]
To Howells, Mark Twain wrote the adventures of this athletic and strenuous exponent of the gospel. [5]
Now would Mark Twain remark to this: 'An American is not such a fool: when a creditor stands in his way he closes his doors, and reopens them the following day. [5]
Certainly, to Mark Twain Orion Clemens was a trial. [5]
In 1873 Mark Twain led the van of the debunkers, scraping the gilt off the lily in the Gilded Age. [5]
Another thing Mark Twain did that winter was to buy some land on Farmington Avenue and begin the building of a home. [5]
The National Mark Twain Association did not surrender easily. [5]
In 1882 Mark Twain and Joe Twichell visited their friend Lieut. [5]

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