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Sentences starting with matter

Matter has no existence; nothing exists but mind; the mind cannot feel pain, it can only imagine it. [5]
Matter and motion everywhere; void and rest nowhere. [6]
Matter is an error of statement, for there is no matter. [5]

Sentences ending with matter

Yes, it is young Lord Berkeley, who perished so heroically in the awful conflagration, what is the matter? [5]
He bolted with you, and he'd have killed you, if he could; but that doesn't matter. [11]
Do just as you say about the money matter. [7]
Lob' Gott, of you had lif'd in Paris you would be a Pree de Rome, dot's votes de matter! [5]
He said he would think about the matter. [9]
A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. [5]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
No, upon my word and honor, I never did; I appeal to the Most High to bear me out in this matter. [5]
Presently he said, with something of hope in his voice-- "Perchance he is but mad upon this one strain, and hath his wits unmarred as toucheth other matter. [5]
I do not wish to dwell at any great length upon this matter. [7]

Short sentences using matter

What's the matter with you? [9]
What's the matter with me? [11]
What's the matter with it? [9]
What's the matter with him? [9]
What's the matter with her? [5]
What's the matter with 'em? [5]
What did the weather matter? [9]
The matter was urgent. [5]
Her--what'll it matter to her! [11]
Tom, what is the matter? [5]

Sentences containing matter two or more times

To get money to do things, no matter how,--or little matter how; to be in the swim, and that swim all too rapidly washing out the real people--that was the almost universal ambition. [11]
But the chief things that matter to all, does thee not know that a 'silly Quaker village' may realise them to the full--more fully because we see them apart from the thousand little things that do not matter? [11]
However he put the matter to her, with what protestations of affectionate friendship and trust he wrapped up the statement that he made as matter of fact as possible, he could not conceal the ecstatic state of his mind. [4]
I have been talking of his method and manner; the matter the reader has here before him; and it is good matter, glad, honest, kind, just. [5]
Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is true, except that matter is unreal, simply a belief that has its beginning and ending. [5]
But within this ring is another,--an atmospheric girdle, one of repulsion, which love, no matter how enterprising, no matter how prevailing or how insinuating, has never passed, and, if we judge of what is to be by what has been, never will. [6]
They are illusions propagated by matter, and matter has no existence; there is no such thing as matter. [5]
Being unaristocratic is not always a matter of birth, though it may be a matter of parentage. [11]
It does not matter what one book is or is not, but it does matter that an author writes his book with a sense of the fitting and the true. [11]
What did it matter to him--who then alone amid a senseless crowd understood the whole tremendous significance of what was happening--what did it matter to him whether Rostopchin attributed the calamities of Moscow to him or to himself? [2]

More example sentences with the word matter in them

The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
And they all your friends--seem to take it as a matter of course. [9]
You cannot help your company in this matter --nobody can help them. [5]
Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
Promise me that you'll never yield the least point to him in a matter of right and wrong! [8]
If I were you, I'd let the matter stand. [11]
I thought maybe you viewed the matter differently from other people. [5]
Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
No matter where you put anything, they are not going to let it stay there. [5]
So I think you may dismiss the matter from your mind without further remorse. [5]
But no matter, you know the name of the place now. [5]
No matter where you find such people; they are clowns. [6]
It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip--still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
But no matter, you can describe them. [5]
If he knew you as I knew you, he would look at the matter in a different light. [9]
It was not yet time to discuss the matter with any one. [10]
I have not yet regained it; and until I do, I cannot trust myself in any matter of much importance. [7]
Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
In July, Goodman wrote that both Mackay and Jones had become somewhat diffident in the matter of huge capitalization. [5]
They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
If I were writing a poem you would expect, as a matter of course, that there would be a digression now and then. [6]
I wish you would tell him from me that when I am governor, I shall make it a point to discuss the whole matter with him, and that he will find in me no foe of corporations. [9]
She said: "It would not help the matter, dear good friend. [5]
Though the Duke would have defied them, it behoved him to end the matter, if possible, before these envoys' arrival. [11]
Waiting, in silence, would have been agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and wanted to give it a chance to work. [5]
But the matter would be dangerous, because the singer's friends were numerous and by no means powerless. [10]
She thought it would be an easy matter to keep awake while suffering such mental anguish. [10]
The matter will work so well this time that even they who now oppose will come in next time. [7]
He pledged his word, that his men would look on at the duel without taking any share in it, no matter what the result might be. [10]
I know they won't sell it, but no matter, I will not throw away a good idea for all that. [5]
I kissed the woman openly--is there none among you who has kissed secretly, and has kept the matter hidden? [11]
I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
What's the matter with your tooth? [5]
Nothing the matter with your mind. [5]
What's the matter with you?--you're in no danger--nobody's going to shoot at you. [5]
What's the matter with you this mornin', anyway? [5]
If you've lived with the tongue in the last hole of the buckle as you've gone, what matter when you go! [11]
Judge Douglas voted with the Republicans upon that matter of fact. [7]
Every detail connected with the matter costs something, and helps to fatten a priest. [5]
What's the matter with the capital, Will? [9]
Even to hammer with precision is no easy matter, as every one who has tried to learn carpentry will admit. [1]
The sidewalks swarmed with people--to such an extent, indeed, that it was generally no easy matter to stem the human tide. [5]
Nicholas dismounted, and with Natasha and Petya, who had ridden up, stopped near the hounds, waiting to see how the matter would end. [2]
What's the matter with my legs?--my prophetic soul, it hurts! [11]
What's the matter with his houses? [9]
I had been with him in Bermuda on the earlier visit, and as I remember it, there had been some slight oversight on his part in the matter of official etiquette--something which doubtless no one had noticed but himself. [5]
It was not with him a matter of feeling, but of principle, not to ascend them. [4]
Little p-private matter with both of us. [9]
You are furnished with an arrogant order, and you deliver it in a blustering way, and when you come to look into the matter you find you haven't any way of enforcing obedience. [5]
The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking. [5]
And I also wished to say, Mrs. Merrill, that I have thought about another matter very carefully. [9]
At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
We accompanied Mr. Wilton to a room, and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means afforded us. [7]
She steeled her will to wait till then, no matter how dark the sky might be. [11]
This once we will put the matter plainly: Who can hope to win love that gives none, but turns away morosely from his fellow-creatures? [10]
Its hidden motive will illustrate a but-little considered fact in human nature; that the religious folly you are born in you will die in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place meanwhile, and abolished and obliterated it. [5]
But first we will have some more talk about that tobacco matter. [5]
I hope you will have no unwelcome occasion for his services,--you are never ill, you know,--but, anyhow, he is going to be here, and no matter what happens he will be on hand. [6]
And then you will find that it is a good deal a matter of locality. [4]
Whether these anticipations will ever be realized, and whether increased leisure will make us all happy, is a subject of importance; but it is secondary, and in a manner incidental, to another and deeper matter, which may be defined as the responsibility of attractiveness. [4]
I'll warrant something will come of that matter this morning. [9]
She was a wilful creature that must have her way in this matter. [6]
We asked him why, once or twice, as we walked back to the camp but he still said it was no matter. [5]
The major-domo to whom these entreaties were addressed, though he was sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he dare not even mention the matter to the count. [2]
The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day. [6]
The mother, Matter, whom for the sake of the verse I called by her Greek name Hyle, was also invested with a shade of comedy as a dissatisfied wife and the mother-in-law of Intellect. [10]
To him for whom Apollo, the pure among the gods, and the Muses, friends of beauty, do not open it at the same time with truth, its gates will remain closed, no matter how strongly and persistently he shakes them. [10]
As a matter wholly my own, I would authorize no biography, without time and opportunity [sic] to carefully examine and consider every word of it and, in this case, in the nature of things, I can have no such time and Opportunity [sic]. [7]
I myself am wholly indifferent as to when we are going to "get in"; if any one else feels interested in the matter he has not indicated it in my hearing. [5]
Tell her the whole truth, out of Irene's hearing, with the gravity the matter deserves, and she will not hinder her sister when she knows how great and how imminent is the danger that threatens her. [10]
He put the whole matter by, and gave himself to the details of the work before him. [8]
He or she who sells that fine independence for a mess of pottage, no matter if the mess be spiced, sells, as the Master said, the immortal part of him. [11]
I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
So the matter, which was a weighty one, was like to go against the English monarch by default. [5]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
The matter of which I spoke to you so earnestly shall be just as earnestly attended to--and again with very many warm regards for Jo. [5]
It doesn't matter whether it's hot or cold. [8]
The question arises, whether do the London critics, or the old Northern squires, understand the matter best? [14]
Do you see where the kernel of the matter lies? [5]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
The time came when I had grown able to consider the matter with a degree of calmness. [9]
But really, madam, when I come to examine the matter in all its bearings, I find that the correctness of your assertion does not assert itself in all cases. [5]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
In fact, except when he had revealed his passion in the matter of the seizing of Venters, she had never dreamed he could be other than the grave, reproving preacher. [13]
Hello, my Gobal, what's the matter? [11]
It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them. [6]
So you see what we owe to England in the matter of liberties. [5]
We asked him what was the matter. [5]
When Rostov asked what was the matter, he only uttered some incoherent oaths and threats in a hoarse, feeble voice. [2]
I do wonder what was the matter with the cat. [5]
But I knew what was the matter with him; it was the expense. [5]
I didn't know what was the matter at first, and when I found out I was scared to death, I was ready to kill myself. [9]
Yet, no matter what they meant, here and now nothing should come between her and the beloved departed. [10]
And no matter what the result is, we must fulfill our duty by this being. [5]
I asked him what the matter was. [9]
Oh, I know what the matter is! [5]
He will understand what St. Gre is, and I will explain that Mr. Temple's reckless love of adventure is at the bottom of his share in the matter. [9]
But, no matter what might happen, the upas-tree whence emanated all these tortures, anxieties, and vexations, must be rooted out--stricken from the ranks of the living. [10]

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