Use miss in a sentence
Sentences starting with miss
- Miss Woodburn said you were freezing him to death when I came down. [8]
- Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
- Miss Grower was wont to express optimism in deeds rather than words. [9]
- Miss Bronte spoke with the greatest warmth of Miss Martineau, and of the good she had gained from her. [14]
- Miss R. P., with that repugnance to ostentation in dress which is so peculiar to her, was attired in a simple white lace collar, fastened with a neat pearl-button solitaire. [5]
- Miss Cynthia listened with involuntary interest to her stories of school and school-mates. [6]
- Miss Woodburn laughed with her face bowed upon her wrist. [8]
- Miss Crane, tall, with all the severity of side curls and bombazine, stood like a stone lioness at the gate. [9]
- Miss Turner's influence will, in my opinion, do much to counteract these tendencies. [9]
- 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]
Sentences ending with miss
- Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss. [5]
- He continued presently with shortened breath: "I have evidence--I have evidence to get you back a good share of the estate, which my father will never miss. [9]
- This was said to be a spectacle which the tourist ought by no means to miss. [5]
- It's a busy time, miss. [9]
- I cannot say that I regret having missed this ordeal; I would as lief have walked among red-hot plough-shares; but I do regret one great treat, which I shall now miss. [14]
- She was a sensible woman, she knew that she had done wrong, and she said very promptly: "I am very sorry, miss. [11]
- It was all right when I was younger, when there was no one else to take you riding, and jump off the barn for your amusement, Miss. [9]
- From the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps, the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maidservant saying, "Straight, straight, along the path, Miss. [2]
- Give me your name, please, miss. [9]
- You don't believe--I hope you don't really believe--that I deserve to be cast off as I have been; do you, miss? [12]
Short sentences using miss
- Miss Trevor began to philosophize. [9]
- Miss Badlam's in the parlor. [6]
- Miss Bumpus has the memorandum. [9]
- Miss Dolly'll come terectly, suh. [9]
- Miss Mary A. Tappan. [6]
- Miss Ellen S. Tappan. [6]
- You mustn't miss seeing them. [9]
- Miss Martineau I relish inexpressibly. [14]
- Didn't Miss Hawkins refuse you? [5]
- Miss Lucretia was puzzled. [9]
Sentences containing miss two or more times
- But I know you don't miss me as I miss you. [9]
- Oh Miss Jinny, you an' Miss Lill an' Mammy Easter an' Susan's gwine with Jackson, an' de othah niggahs can walk. [9]
- I'll tell you what he said to me only--" But fortunately at this juncture Miss Trevor was captured again, and Miss Thorn put her hand over her mouth. [9]
- The other guests were a florid Miss Chamberlin, whose person loudly proclaimed possessions, and a thin Miss Longman, who rented one of the Silverdale cottages and sketched. [9]
- Miss Melissa Wackles was the eldest daughter, Miss Sophy the next, and Miss Jane the youngest. [12]
- I suppose he's very much in earnest with Miss Vance at times, and with Miss Dryfoos at others. [8]
- He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam. [6]
- And after listening to Miss Penniman I take this opportunity to declare, of my own free will, that I will add my vote to that of Judge Graves to reinstate Miss Wetherell. [9]
- Cynthia must come to her at the first sign of doubt or trouble: this, Miss Lucretia's house, was to be a refuge in any storm that life might send--and Miss Lucretia's heart. [9]
- There was no time to hoist Miss Swain over the wall, or to drive Miss Manners back upon the house. [9]
More example sentences with the word miss in them
- My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
- 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]
- I should think you'd want to paint Miss Woodburn. [8]
- He just said, 'You'd better come with me, Miss Hutchins,' and I went with him. [9]
- An' wuss fer you, too, Miss Withersteen. [13]
- I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
- I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
- Now who do you think stopped at the booth for a chat with Miss Jinny? [9]
- Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
- At any rate you must go through the vestibule; you cannot miss your way out of the viridarium. [10]
- On that day you must call me Miss Jinny. [9]
- And yet, do you know, Miss Raglan, I don't feel a bit ashamed of it, after all: which may be evidence of my lost condition. [11]
- But I see you doubt my word, Miss Swain. [9]
- And then, 'Do you bike, Miss Mavick? [4]
- But now that you are here, you will find a warm welcome, Miss Penniman. [9]
- Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
- And wasn't it yerself, Miss Mary, that dressed her like a princess? [9]
- She was seven years old when her teacher, Miss Sullivan, under the direction of Mr. Anagnos, at the Blind Asylum at South Boston, began her education. [6]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me; and seem to have sermonised her, to judge from her reply. [14]
- I'll have to write Miss Turner. [9]
- I said I wouldn't miss it if I were dead. [5]
- De yuther servants wouldn' miss me, kase dey'd shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way. [5]
- Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. [5]
- The little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell again that story of good Miss Nell who died. [12]
- And few buildings would have borne the wear and tear of many house-cleanings of the kind Miss Crane indulged in throughout the morning and afternoon. [9]
- I set to work right then to make a fortune for you, Miss Jinny. [9]
- I give my word, Miss Withersteen, thet I went cold to my very marrow. [13]
- Cynthia repeated the word, and remembered the glimpse she had had of him in the dining room with Miss Janet Duncan. [9]
- Mr Swiveller was wondering whether this might be another Miss Brass, twin sister to the Dragon, when there came a rapping of knuckles at the office door. [12]
- I have often wondered what prompted me to ask Miss Trevor again to go canoeing. [9]
- Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
- To Miss Forsythe's wonder, Margaret did not resent this impertinence, but only said that no accumulation of years was likely to bring Carmen into either of these dangers. [4]
- Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly! [9]
- To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
- When, at last, with the closing notes of the song, I went to the port-hole and looked in, I saw that the singer was Miss Treherne. [11]
- And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
- Following that occupation with Miss Hawkins? [5]
- When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
- They set up with her all night, Miss Mary Jane said, and they don't think she'll last many hours. [5]
- Even Ben noted with approval Miss Virginia's scorn for pecks and pints, and grunted with satisfaction over the accurate pinches of spices and flavors which she used. [9]
- She congratulated me with apparent frankness, and asked for Miss Treherne's address, saying she would write to her. [11]
- And Miss Trevor, with a mirthful glance at me that was not without a tinge of triumph, jumped lightly to the deck and went in to see the invalids. [9]
- Do you like winter, Miss Hawkins? [5]
- She wondered, indeed, why he now failed to appeal to Miss Duncan, and she began to doubt the sincerity of that young lady's statements. [9]
- The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
- Miss Cynthia, to whom Myrtle made a generous allowance, had gone to live in a town not many miles distant, where she had a kind of home on sufferance, as well as at The Poplars. [6]
- One big fellow who was leaning against a lamp-post growled, 'You'd better stay in your own palace, miss, and not come prying round here. [4]
- And Miss Hood, who takes us out walking and teaches us composition, is such a ridiculously strict old maid--you would laugh at her. [9]
- A celebrated poet who read the letters to the Guardian--at Miss Lucretia Penniman's request--has declared Mr. Wetherell to have been a genius. [9]
- Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! [9]
- Blind people generally who have seen the light know what it is to miss the light. [5]
- Miss Puss Russell, who has another name, and whose hair is now white, will tell you how Virginia carried off the occasion with credit to her country. [9]
- The old postmaster who found fault with Miss "Lulu's" designation would probably have quarrelled with this address, if it had come under his eye. [6]
- I wondered what whim had impelled Miss Thorn to get into this seat. [9]
- These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
- The cottage in which Margaret lived with her aunt, Miss Forsythe, was not far from our house. [4]
- The Clemens party, which included Miss Clara Spaulding, of Elmira, sailed as planned, on the Holsatia, April 11, 1878. [5]
- They are weapons which hit you, but miss us. [7]
- The question was where Miss Lamont should pose. [4]
- The next morning, when the train for the East pulled out of Illinoistown, Miss Jinny Carvel stood on the plat form tearfully waving good-by to a knot of friends. [9]
- The days came when the tender-hearted Miss Forsythe went about the house restless, impatient, tearful, waiting for a summons that was sure to come when she was needed. [4]
- Cynthia promised, and when she went out at last through the little door her own tears were falling, for she loved Miss Lucretia. [9]
- Honora actually quivered when she read of Dr. Johnson's first conversation with Miss Burney. [9]
- And Miss Evelyn, when I take home these specimens, will analyze them and tell all about them. [4]
- The night before, when I had sat with Miss Thorn beside the fire, they went up; this morning her anxious solicitude for the Celebrity had sent them down again. [9]
- Nevertheless, I will, when I can (I do not know when that will be, as I have no access to a circulating library), diligently peruse all Miss Austen's works, as you recommend. [14]
- I'll tell you what, Stanhope, I'll take Miss Benson to the Town and County Club next Saturday. [4]
- I asked him what was become of young Harney and Miss Sophia. [5]
- I don't think we've given Miss Dryfoos a pleasure, but perhaps nobody could. [8]
- Had not Miss Wetherell heard the song wherein seniors were designated as grave and reverend? [9]
- And if it were proved to her that you were in love with Miss Swain, the barrister's daughter, over whom we were said to have fought, she would as soon marry Chartersea, or March, or the devil, to show you how little she cared. [9]
- Her own spirits were none too good, and Miss Lucretia's eye, in its search for truth, seemed to pierce into her very soul. [9]
- And then there were Jane's and Susan's friends, in and out of Miss Sadler's school. [9]
- His bitter reflections were interrupted by the appearance of Miss Lamont and the artist, and with them Mr. Benson. [4]
- If so, they were generous designs; and perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Lucretia should recognize in every young woman of spirit and brains a possible recruit for the cause. [9]
- Both gentlemen however were from home, nor was the life and light of law, Miss Sally, at her post either. [12]
- Miss Sally's accomplishments were all of a masculine and strictly legal kind. [12]
- When Mrs. Mavick went to her daughter's apartments she found Evelyn reading aloud and Miss McDonald at work on an elaborate piece of Bulgarian embroidery. [4]
- Miss Silence Withers went herself to see him. [6]
- The sober-minded, sensible, well-instructed Dr. Butts was not a little exercised in mind by the demands made upon his knowledge by his young friend, and for the time being his pupil, Miss Lurida Vincent. [6]
- It may be well for you to know that Miss Trevor still has my respect as a woman and my admiration as a lady. [9]
- We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed. [5]
- The Celebrity had weighed Miss Thorn's words and was listening passively now while she talked. [9]
- After this, as we have said, Jethro was more than ever at the store--or rather in that domestic domain behind it which Wetherell and Cynthia shared with Miss Millicent Skinner. [9]
- Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
- I am afraid we cannot come to an understanding, Miss Hawkins. [5]
- The evening before we came to the Suez Canal I was walking with Miss Treherne and her father. [11]
- Miss McDonald says we are vulgarized in all our ideals by so much domesticity. [4]
- This is the way he put it: "That man--we will just miss finding him, as I missed Zoe at the railroad junction when she went away, as I missed catching Carmen at St. Chrisanthine. [11]
- Ole missus--dat's Miss Watson--she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans. [5]
- Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. [5]
- Why can't Miss Watson fat up? [5]
- Miss Thorn was watching him, too, her eyes half closed, as though in thought. [9]
- For the story was, that he was paying his court to the young lady whenever he got an opportunity, and that he was cultivating an intimacy with Miss Cynthia Badlam. [6]
- Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
- Yes, the spirit was there, for it flashed in her eyes as she turned and looked into Miss Lucretia's face. [9]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe was there, and Mrs. and Miss Beecher, Mrs. Hooker and my old Quaker City favorite, Emma Beach. [5]
- Miss Victoria Flint was sated beside Mr. Meader's bed, and qualified friendship had evidently been replaced by intimacy since Austen's last visit, for Mr. Meader was laughing, too. [9]
- Miss Lamont, who was reading at the other end of the car, gave a nervous start, and looked up in alarm. [4]
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