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Sentences ending with measure

Argue as you will and long as you will, this is the naked front and aspect of the measure. [7]
These houses were whitewashed, or painted white and red, and had double glass in winter, after the same measure. [11]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
Surrounded as he was by servile favorites, whose superior he was in gifts and intellect, what had here come under his notice seemed to interest him above measure. [10]
Thus is the utilitarian spirit eating away the foundations of a higher intellectual life, applying to everything a material measure. [4]
But Nebraska is urged as a great Union-saving measure. [7]
We are instructed to remind a man a few times of an error; and I don't mind acknowledging that we try to give pretty good measure. [5]
Was it freedom, to get away from all this--from England and rule and measure? [11]
All he saw there pleased him beyond measure. [10]
Return, return, to the right levels, the right heights, the right depth, the right measure! [10]

Short sentences using measure

In large measure, yes. [5]

Sentences containing measure two or more times

He was taken with her in a certain' measure, in a certain way; the question was in what measure, in what way. [8]
If so, the measure would save money, and in that view would be a prudent and economical measure. [7]
There you have it: the measure of the magnitude of a dream-failure is the measure of the disappointment the failure cost the dreamer; the value, in others' eyes, of the thing lost, has nothing to do with the matter. [5]

More example sentences with the word measure in them

P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
I do hope you are all well and having as jolly a time as we are, for I love you, sweetheart, and also, in a measure, the Bays. [5]
The Federal Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. [7]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
You measure strength with Francois Bigot: we will see which proves the stronger in the end. [11]
Tread the measure, with fearless stamp, Of this our reckless, rapturous dance, In holy rejoicing! [10]
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. [4]
They are men whose measure of resolution is not guessed at. [9]
Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business. [8]
Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]
That would be well, and would atone in some measure for the errors you have made. [13]
That is the way to measure her beauty. [6]
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]
After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]
Poor Mr. Stoker was now helpless, faithfully and tenderly waited upon by his own wife, who had regained her health and strength,--in no small measure, perhaps, from the great need of sympathy and active aid which her unfortunate husband now experienced. [6]
When the scaffolding was erected in the winter riding-school, he went there under the court-artist's direction, to measure, arrange and finally transfer the painter's sketches to the wide surfaces. [10]
At bottom he was a little surprised at this, because although his theories had been all in that direction for some time, he was not prepared to find himself actually eager to measure strength with quite so common a man as this ruffian. [5]
He could not wait to turn the insult over in his mind, to weigh the exact amount of affront in each question, to take counsel, to sleep over it, and reply to it with diplomatic measure and suavity. [6]
It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government. [7]
If he might venture to offer counsel, he would not interrupt his master now; he had received very sad news, and the tailor who came to take his measure for his mourning garments had just left him. [10]
The Daily Hurrah urges the measure with ability, and seems confident of ultimate success. [5]
We were mounted upon very small donkeys, as a measure of safety; in time of peril we could straighten our legs and stand up, and let the donkey walk from under. [5]
He drew himself up, and appeared to measure his visitor as a swordsman would his enemy. [11]
The cart stood untended in the street; and selecting a large orange, which would measure twelve inches in circumference, I turned to look for the owner. [4]
Those persons are uninteresting, certainly, who have gone so far in culture that they accept conventional standards supposed to be correct, to which they refer everything, and by which they measure everybody. [4]
While it is true that the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. [7]
His was the true measure of things now; his lesson had been learned; values were got by new standards; he knew in a real sense the things that mattered. [11]
Opposition from the town-senate was also to be looked for, since the deceased Mukaukas had pronounced this measure unjust and detrimental to the common welfare. [10]
But, returning resolutely to the petit verre, I am willing to concede that all after fourscore is the bain de pieds,--the slopping over, so to speak, of the full measure of life. [6]
Him I consoled to the best of my ability, and afterwards, in some slight measure, supplied his wants. [6]
As she tried to take the measure of the situation and plan what she would do, the noise of the music suddenly ceased, and she heard a voice, though low in tone, give some sort of command. [11]
I have had to take my measure a good many times in this world. [11]
The resolutions promise to support me in every constitutional and lawful measure to suppress the rebellion; and I have not knowingly employed, nor shall knowingly employ, any other. [7]
She suffered him to seal his vows with kisses, herself offering him her lips, as her heart swelled with fervent thanksgiving for so much joy and such a full measure of love. [10]
I took occasion to measure one of the lemons, called a citron-lemon, and found its circumference to be twenty-one inches one way by fifteen inches the other,--about as big as a railway conductor's lantern. [4]
One has only to mark what sort of novels reach the largest sale and are most called for in the circulating libraries, to gauge pretty accurately the public taste, and to measure the influence of this taste upon modern production. [4]
She brings everything to its end and purpose in obedience to some rule and measure, and will so deal with me after I am dead; there is no waste. [10]
Tears came readily to his eyes, real tears--of excitement; but he could measure, too, the strength of his appeal. [11]
D.W.] The blow to her father was terrible, but heavy as it was, one may perhaps understand that her passing in that swift, painless way must have afforded him a measure of relief. [5]
You are able to help a measure along in many ways, if you choose. [5]
My father used to carry a chain for a surveyor sometimes, and there is a ten-foot pole in the house he used to measure land with. [6]
He strove hard to become their friend, and that of the men; to win their confidence, and with a considerable measure of success. [9]
How this was to be done, he could not see; therefore he had, after turning the matter over in every way, devised this measure, which would carry us on till the next Legislature. [7]
When people belong to a clique, they must, I suppose, in some measure, write, talk, think, and live for that clique; a harassing and narrowing necessity. [14]
These words from Titian had ennobled his work; they echoed loudly in his soul, and the measure of his bliss threatened to overflow, when no less a personage than the famous Paolo Veronese, invited him to come to his studio as a pupil on Saturday. [10]
So may the tides be in some small measure restrained in their inroads. [6]
Thou dost measure thyself against Nahoum? [11]
Striving to peer through the infinite azure, Alternate turning to earthward and falling, Measuring life with Damastian measure, Finite, appalling. [11]
What man of those who, soberly, had put his hand to the Paper which declared the opportunities of generations to come, could measure the Force which he had helped to set in motion. [9]
The vitality of this club has depended in a great measure on its utter poverty in statutes and by-laws, its entire absence of formality, and its blessed freedom from speech-making. [6]
Examined in detail, this and much of the show of testimony brought up to stare the daylight of conviction out of countenance, proves to be in a great measure unmeaning and inapplicable, as might be easily shown were it necessary. [3]
Or perhaps you think it easier to ruin the life of a woman than to measure your strength against her defender? [10]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
But I think there will be a general agreement that in the needed revisal of our local copyright law we can attain some measure of justice. [4]
Elsie rattled out the triple measure of a saraband. [6]
The harder I--as the sovereign--find it to answer the question the more positively do I feel it to be my duty to mete out the same measure to all veterans alike, whether officials, warriors or instructors. [10]
Of late years the prying student of history has been delighting himself beyond measure over a wonderful find which he has made--to wit, that Tell did not shoot the apple from his son's head. [5]
Ah, it is the pale passions that are the fiercest,--it is the violence of the chill that gives the measure of the fever! [6]
In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. [5]
The melody, to the measure of which the Greek boatmen usually timed their strokes. [10]
The allotting of the measure of wealth would not be difficult to the socialists, because they would insist that every person should be born with an equal amount of property. [4]
In this way the internal improvement Democrats are to be, by a sort of forced consent, carried over and arrayed against themselves on this measure of policy. [7]
Shall we bury the hatchet and be good friends and respect each other's little secrets, on condition that I vote Aye on the measure? [5]
And in all the great town was there not a pair to be and that would fit him, and it would take a whole day to make him a pair to his measure. [10]
In vain was the Governor besieged, entreated, threatened,--it was said; Mr. Trulease had informed protesters--so Colonel Varney gleefully reported--that he had "become fully convinced of the inherent justice of the measure. [9]
But as before, the friends of the measure stood firm and voted in a solid body every time, and so did its enemies. [5]
Will it measure the fluttering leaf by the same standard as the firmly-rooted plant? [10]
The man in the corner spreads his umbrella, and the protective measure is resented by his neighbor. [4]
Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. [4]
The trouble is, that there is nothing to measure it by. [9]
I merely knew that she was my superior in fineness of mind, in the delicacy and subtlety of her intellect, but to fully measure her I was not competent. [5]
And a feeling that is so far above all measure of what ordinary mortals experience, it seems to me, must be divine. [10]
He should remember that he took us by surprise--astounded us by this measure. [7]
With stern severity that boded evil, she gazed down upon her left forearm, bent at the elbow, which corresponds with the ell, the just measure. [10]
If there were tears shed for her, they could not be bitter ones; for she had lived out her full measure of days, and gone--who could help fondly believing it?--to rejoin her beloved mistress. [6]
You have been taught to value a fine understanding, to measure everything by it, to build everything on its decisions. [10]
Then, as if sure of her cause, she indignantly cut short his words: "You measure him according to your own standard, and do not know what depends upon it for us. [10]
These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday. [5]
The workings of such a measure are as impossible to predict in advance as the operation of the McKinley tariff. [4]
At last she succeeded in persuading him to measure a queen by a different standard from a woman of the people, and inducing him to arrange the manner and time of conveying the serpent into the well-guarded palace. [10]
In America we succeeded in eliminating hereditary power, in obtaining a large measure of political liberty, only to see the rise of an economic power, and the consequent loss of economic liberty. [9]
This is a striking illustration of the difficulty which the system finds in dealing with non-assimilable elements, and justifies in some measure the vulgar prejudice against mineral poisons. [3]
The old man's story amazed him beyond measure. [11]
But to measure stone, to batter defenceless blocks with a mallet and chisel, or to join the squares with accurate pains--that does not tempt me. [10]
Take a truer standard: the measure of a man's contributing capacity to his time and his people--the work he can do--and then number the population of this country to-day, as multiplied by what a man can now do, more than his grandfather could do. [5]
Get hold of some man in the North whose position and ability is such that he can make the support of your measure, whatever it may be, a Democratic party necessity, and the thing is done. [7]
Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. [5]
I've known Hylda since she was ten, and I've known him since the minute he came into the world, and I've got the measure of both. [11]
She did not shirk hers, and was willing to accept a full measure. [9]
In these days she looked at her idol, and for the first time believed it to be within her finite powers to measure him. [9]
The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell. [10]
If it be said that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that object, for emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. [7]
Paige had always said that the machine would measure invisible particles of dirt and allow for them, but even he had forgotten that vast fact for the moment. [5]
Louis Trudel had rule and measure, shears and a needle. [11]
Toward noon he rose, uncovered his unconscious ward--a section at a time--and took his measure with a string. [5]
I have a right to speak of it, for I long ago attempted to supply the want of indexes in some small measure for my own need. [3]
I snatched both revolvers from the holsters and began to measure distances and calculate chances. [5]
But in this remark of the Judge there is a significance which I think is the key to the great mistake (if there is any such mistake) which he has made in this Nebraska measure. [7]

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