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Sentences ending with missed

Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed. [2]
It would have turned on you if you had missed. [11]
Let us try to make more possible for them the life we have missed. [9]
I flung the poker at him, and missed. [5]
The opportunity to know him again--was not to be missed. [9]
And yet when he dropped out of the party he was sorely missed. [4]
The fallen man fired the second time, but again missed. [11]
Prince Andrew was expected in Moscow any day, the trousseau had to be ordered and the estate near Moscow had to be sold, besides which the opportunity of presenting his future daughter-in-law to old Prince Bolkonski while he was in Moscow could not be missed. [2]
Perhaps the National Council of the Congregationalists, held at Boston in 1865, may be reckoned as one of the occurrences which the oracle just missed. [6]

Short sentences using missed

We have missed you dreadfully. [9]
I had missed the head! [9]
And I have missed you--terribly. [9]
You must a missed him. [5]
Have you missed me--a little? [9]
I have missed it all. [11]
And missed the house! [5]
They had missed her. [9]
I missed him everywhere. [10]
You missed your chance. [11]

Sentences containing missed two or more times

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]
He had come to represent to her the great thing she had missed in life, missed by feverish searching in the wrong places, digging for gold where the ground had glittered. [9]
He was missed, and the little world that missed him was astray. [4]

More example sentences with the word missed in them

I told you, you remember, that Rosa would have to leave us; we barely missed a scene, I think, if not a whole tragedy, by her going at the right moment. [6]
Jim said he wou'dn't 'a' missed it for three dollars, and I felt the same way. [5]
There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
Marmette had sent word to M. Barouche by messenger, but the messenger had missed him. [11]
Each time I woke I missed my coverlet, and had to reach down to the floor and get it again. [5]
When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
At the entrance, which was perfectly dark, he found his master, Papias, who had not missed a word of what had passed between him and the Emperor. [10]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
I don't know whether you were ever at an English watering-place, but if you have not been, you have missed the best opportunity of studying English oddities, both moral and physical. [4]
You have been wet all day long, and have missed your dinner. [9]
But no; he went poking up into the chaparral and just missed the whole thing. [5]
Harris said if we had brought the courier along, as we ought to have done, we should not have missed these sunrises. [5]
Cynthia loved these walks, for she sadly missed the country air,--and they had kept the color in her cheeks and the courage in her heart that winter. [9]
A shot from Venters, which missed the man but sent the dust flying over him made him run back to his horse. [13]
Atossa, with her usual impetuosity, fell on the neck of the friend she had so sorely missed during his absence; the queen gave him her hand, and Nitetis met him like a loving daughter. [10]
What, give me up when I never missed a birthday,--and this the best of all of 'em. [9]
She picked him up by a miracle, after he had just missed a round trip through her wheel-house. [9]
Elsie's pillow was unpressed that night, but she had not been missed by the household,--for Dick knew enough to keep his own counsel. [6]
The gentlemen took turns, and never was their business so pressing that they missed their hour. [9]
In his anxiety to keep under cover he must have lost himself in this offshoot of Deception Pass, and thereby in some unaccountable manner, missed the canyon with the trails. [13]
He was glad to get back; he had missed her. [9]
If he refused to fire, he would be strung up to the yardarm; if he fired and missed, perhaps other gunners would fire, and once started they might raze the fishing-post. [11]
At the same time, however, I had an uneasy feeling that I had missed something which might have been to my advantage. [9]
He stood some time before he missed his wampum. [5]
His mother had tied up his hand, which Rameri had severely hurt; it was extremely painful, but he would not have missed the banquet at any cost, although he felt some alarm of the solemn ceremony. [10]
A stone was thrown at Delagarde as he stood in the doorway, but it missed him. [11]
It seemed as though in my isolation I loved Nancy, I missed her more than ever, and the flavour she gave to life. [9]
Several times after this, she pulled her horse down to a walk, and was apparently on the point of turning around again: a disinterested observer in a farm wagon, whom she passed, thought that she had missed her road. [9]
You missed seeing this young man you've just employed buy the prettiest quadroon wench I ever set eyes on. [9]
Virginia pictured him this year at Mrs. Brice's little table, and wondered whether he would miss them as much as they missed him. [9]
Tom said that they must have been missed long ago, and no doubt the search was going on. [5]
For I knew they missed me sadly of a Sunday at the supper-table. [9]
When he goes there'll be no tailor--ah, old Trudel will be missed for sure, M'sieu'! [11]
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]
The roughest among them was sorry if he missed her in the usual place upon his way to school, and would turn out of the path to ask for her at the latticed window. [12]
He had witnessed them often enough with his friend Diodoros, who never missed the procession to Eleusis, because, as he declared, the mysteries of Demeter alone could assure a man of the immortality of the soul. [10]
However, I enjoyed the walk inexpressibly, and would not have missed the spectacle on any account" She did not achieve this walk of seven or eight miles, in such weather, with impunity. [14]
There was not the slightest movement of the body except the small eyes, which wandered restlessly around the spacious room as if they missed something. [10]
I missed seeing the slab with the inscription _miserrimus_. [6]
He had missed the servant in the morning. [10]
And even when the scholar is lavish of his knowledge in helping an ignorant world, he may find that if he has made his studies as a pursuit of happiness he has missed his object. [4]
I have lost the respect of the Methodist Church, the board of aldermen--" "Well, I haven't anything to say about that, because I may have missed it a little in their cases, but I was too many for the Baldwin's Ranch people, General! [5]
It was arranged the night previously that it would be best to choke them, in case the report of the arms might be heard from the road, and if they were missed they never would be found. [5]
She had missed the meaning of things, and suddenly it was held up before her, in a garden. [9]
For an instant the little French-Canadian policeman whom the shot had missed gazed stupidly down at her.... As Janet ran along the dark pavements the sound of the shot and of the woman's shriek continued to ring in her ears. [9]
Charles instantly scanned the list of dishes, and his face clouded still more as he missed the highly seasoned game pasty which the culinary artist had proposed and he had approved. [10]
The weapon missed the Chevalier, but laid low a centenier, who, though a municipal officer, had in the excitement lost his head like his neighbours. [11]
The Indians ransacked the cellar, but missed the prey. [6]
He came up the bank dripping, and declaring that it was extraordinary, most extraordinary, but he wouldn't have missed it for the world. [4]
Sometimes I believe that you were made for something different, that in spite of your success you have missed your 'metier. [9]
There were indications that that man was fond of his anecdote; that it was his pet, his standby, his shot that never missed, his reputation-maker. [5]
It was likely that Selamlik Pasha would be secret till he saw whether Sowerby would be missed and what inquiry was made for him. [11]
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]
The fact is, that I myself have missed several small sums from the desk, of late, and have refrained from mentioning it, hoping that accident would discover the offender; but it has not done so--it has not done so. [12]
It missed his temple, but caught the rim of his straw hat, carrying it off his head, and crashed into a lantern hanging against the wall, putting out the light. [11]
We forgot to take a lantern along, consequently we missed all the scenery. [5]
I am quite sure that when he told that large one about a lie not being able to live he had just missed an American and was over excited. [5]
One comfort alone stood forth, even had I gone home with John Paul, I had missed him. [9]
So the dervish starts along again, and says: "All right, if you want to take the risk; but I reckon you've made a mistake this time, and missed a chance. [5]
Once, when we spun around, we only missed a house about twenty feet, that had a light burning in the window; and in the same instant that house went overboard. [5]
He missed him sorely, since it did not enter his head that his faithful shadow, Biberli, knew nothing of the thunderbolt which had almost robbed him of his master and killed his pet, the dun horse. [10]
I had gained something, in truth, but had I not also missed something? [9]
They slipped away so quietly that they were not missed from the ship for several hours. [5]
The miles appeared so long that they sometimes thought they must have missed their road. [12]
Seldom had I so keenly missed Herdegen's mirthful voice. [10]
I missed a small plain gold ring worth two or three dollars, but that will turn up. [5]
They must long since have missed me at the House of Seti, perhaps discovered all my preparations, when seeking me in my room! [10]
Judge Driscoll's old silver watch is gone, and Tom here has missed a gold ring. [5]
I missed the sharp outlines, the delicate artistic sky lines, sharply defined in uplifted bare granite peaks and ridges, with the purple and violet color of the northern mountains, and which it seems to me that limestone and granite formations give. [4]
I missed the Seigneur's loyal public welcome. [11]
I went to see them, but missed them. [2]
The desire to see Hermon's masterpiece drew her back to Alexandria even more strongly than the knowledge of being missed by her father. [10]
What should he say to their Majesties if they ordered the choir for the late meal and missed the voice about which the Queen had said so many complimentary things in the Emperor's name? [10]
As I nodded sadly enough, she must have seen in my face that I missed the little volumes and, ere I was aware, she had taken them out of her chest and thrown them in with the rest. [10]
A half-intoxicated man rose up and threw something, which missed her but bespattered a chair at her side, and this evoked an outburst of laughter and boisterous admiration. [5]
I run the risk of shocking those who read this by declaring that if my family had been taken permanently out of my life, I should not long have missed them. [9]
How well I remember one night--it was in 1886--I missed the train to Silverdale, and my telegram miscarried. [9]
I missed the refreshing and luxurious sense, induced by the night-gown, of being undressed, emancipated, set free from restraints and trammels. [5]
How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. [5]
He missed the reason of my silence. [9]
Jane missed the rattle and trot, canter and gallop of the incoming riders on the hard trails. [13]
It is a pleasure to record, at this crisis, that Mr. Crewe fixed upon his secretary as steady an eye as though Mr. Pardriff's bullet had missed its mark. [9]
We missed some pleasant faces which we would rather have found at dinner, and at night there were gaps in the euchre-parties which could not be satisfactorily filled. [5]
I fired a pistol at him, but missed him, and then I was ramming a powder charge down the long barrel of the rifle. [9]
All the physical perfections which Miss Lurida had missed had been united in Miss Euthymia Tower, whose school name was The Wonder. [6]
I read the page Where every letter is a glittering world, With them who looked from Shinar's clay-built towers, Ere yet the wanderer of the Midland sea Had missed the fallen sister of the seven. [6]
Napoleon having cut our armies apart advanced far into the country and missed several chances of forcing an engagement. [2]
Detectives Cross and O'Shaughnessy were passing through town, but going south--so missed elephant. [5]
This morning early one of the drivers on awaking had missed Pentaur and Nebsecht, and he roused his comrades, who had been rejoined by Uarda's father. [10]
Orion Clemens was once more a candidate for office: Nevada had become a State; with regularly elected officials, and Orion had somehow missed being chosen. [5]
How I missed Olympus during those fatal hours! [10]
Many of the old force were missed, and a new and greater force were come in. [9]
Occasionally, but not often, he missed the train. [4]
I had made of myself a tolerable printer, under the impression that I would be another Franklin some day, but somehow had missed the connection thus far. [5]
If she had obeyed his wish and left him, then--yes, then--" Here the current of her thoughts was checked, for the first time she asked herself the question: "Would he have really missed your helping hand, your cheering word? [10]
He had often noticed their brilliancy, but now it seemed to him that they appeared dull, and the look on her features was as of some passion which had missed its stroke. [6]
But I find nothing in the manly sentiment and true tenderness of Irving to warrant the sentimental gush of his followers, who missed his corrective humor as completely as they failed to catch his literary art. [4]
Only he would not have missed, at any cost, the sweet memories associated with Eva. [10]
Yet she would not have missed this forest walk at any price. [10]
Indeed, I would not have missed the experience for a lady-in-waiting-ship. [9]

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