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Sentences starting with moment

Moment after moment went, and though I had danced beyond reasonable limits, I still seemed to get new strength, as I have heard men say, in fighting, they 'come to their second wind. [11]
Moment after moment went by, and he came not. [11]
Moment by moment they skipped from one subject to another; yet in spite of this she always responded with an astonishing wisdom and memory. [5]

Sentences ending with moment

You'll never lose your audience--not even for a moment. [5]
First my wife you shall be, and after that I will win your love; in spite of all, mine now, though it is shifted for the moment. [11]
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]
Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
If he comes, you keep him busy for a moment. [11]
But the old writer, I said to The Teacups, as I say to you, my readers, labors under one special difficulty, which I am thinking of and exemplifying at this moment. [6]
I did not write The Trail of the Sword because it was in keeping with the spirit of the moment. [11]
He gave the wretch a sudden twist, pulling him clear of the hole, and wrenched the knife from his fingers at the same moment. [11]
But what security would there be for any calculations in life in a state of things in expectation of a revolution any moment? [4]
I knew he would forget it in an hour, and maybe be sorry for it, too; but it angered me a little, at the moment. [5]

Short sentences using moment

And the moment was past. [9]
The favourable moment soon came. [10]
It was a solemn moment. [5]
It was a serious moment. [5]
A moment it rested. [11]
Every moment is precious. [2]
It was a precious moment. [5]
Just one moment, please. [5]
I--" "One moment, please. [5]
For a moment neither stirred. [11]

Sentences containing moment two or more times

It is only when a moment, a moment like this comes that the quality of what we have lived seems so tarnished, that the atmosphere which we ourselves have helped to make is so sordid. [9]
The moment we were in the road I ran; and after a moment he threw dignity aside and followed. [5]
Colonel Ryder's face was stern, Clovelly was pale and anxious, as moment after moment went, and the boat was not yet free. [11]
Their common destiny was but for a moment, and that moment had come and gone. [10]
If that happens, though, I shall remember the place where I had the biggest moment of my life, and the woman who made that moment possible. [11]
For a moment they stood so, for a moment of revealing and understanding, but speechless; and then, suddenly, and with a smile infinitely touching, she said, as he had heard her say in the monastery--the very words: "Speak--speak to me! [11]
A moment later, the meek eyes of the pale young fellow heretofore mentioned came up slowly, rested upon the old man's face a moment, and the meek mouth began to open. [5]
She stood in the doorway for a moment, radiant, smiling, half embarrassed, then she said: "Please may I for a moment, Carnac? [11]
It was at that moment the Young Doctor entered the room, and he distracted Mona's attention for a moment. [11]
That moment when she seemed to be lifted by some spiritual transfiguration was the most beautiful moment of his life. [13]

More example sentences with the word moment in them

If it is your viscera, you cannot have them taken out and reorganized a moment too soon. [5]
It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. [11]
Can I see your husband a moment, madam? [5]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. [5]
From the moment you went to see her you became responsible for her. [9]
Well, then, don't you see the fateful moment has come in Irish life and history? [11]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
I have loved you from the moment we first met; and if my life has anything left worth accepting, it is yours. [6]
For a moment you could have heard a pine needle drop on the stoop. [9]
A moment since you asked me who was right and what was wrong. [11]
For sixteen weary years I have yearned for a moment like this, and--" Here his feelings were too much for him, and he swooned away. [5]
For sixteen weary years I have yearned for a moment like this, and"-- Here his feelings were too much for him, and he swooned away. [5]
It came this year just at the right moment, for here was a distinguished stranger visiting in the place. [6]
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. [6]
It had nearly wrecked her life: and he only realised it now, in the moment of clear-seeing which comes to every being once in a lifetime. [11]
Any of them would say in a moment, if asked, that it was always right and always best to tell the truth. [5]
She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
And yet, how would it have been if Ruth Leigh had not had a moment of reserve, of prudent repulsion! [4]
Sellers's face, and would have given the world, the next moment, if he could have spared her that. [5]
The 'last bells' would begin to clang, all down the line, and then the powwow seemed to double; in a moment or two the final warning came,--a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, 'All dat ain't goin', please to git asho'! [5]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity? [2]
The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
Doris had never worn so unpleasing an aspect to Hadrian as at this instant, in this decisive moment of her life. [10]
Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
It isn't the work," she added, after a moment, "if only I could see any good of it. [4]
He heard Byng's words, and for a moment his dark eyes glowed with a look of evil satisfaction. [11]
The moment the words were out of her mouth Massieu was reading to her the abjuration, and she was repeating the words after him mechanically, unconsciously--and smiling; for her wandering mind was far away in some happier world. [5]
After Fleda's scornful words of release and dismissal, Jethro stood for a moment confounded and dismayed. [11]
Something in her words had ruled him to her own calmness, and at that moment he had the first flash of understanding of her nature and its true relation to his own. [11]
He loved a word for righteous mouthing, and in a moment of inspiration pagan and scandal came to him. [11]
There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
Some of them wondered to see her so cheerful in such a moment of trial. [6]
What satisfies a woman's heart is luxury, thought Henderson, in an admiring cynical moment. [4]
He expected the wolf to come his way any moment. [2]
Outside the house Wolf returned to her memory a moment. [10]
In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow. [13]
I went there with--" "Wait--wait a moment. [5]
They both brought with them so many reminiscences of familiar scenes and events, that it was like going back for the moment to Oxbow Village. [6]
The mob was with the preacher; it had been beguiled for a moment, but only that; it would soon return. [5]
Fielding was busy with the map at the dreaded moment that hundreds of the villagers appeared upon the bank and rushed the Amenhotep. [11]
Rosalie busied herself with the letters and papers for a moment before she answered Mrs. Flynn's greeting, for there were ringing in her ears the words she herself had said a few days before: "It is good to live, isn't it? [11]
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and velvet gown. [2]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
After a moment, with muttered words, Achmet sank down upon the stone again, drew a cake of dourha from his inner robe, and began to eat. [11]
He covered it with his own so quickly that she left it there for a moment, as though paralyzed, while she listened to the first serious words he had ever addressed to her. [9]
She had seen with her own eyes the tumult that was rife in Alexandria, and felt that they had arrived at an inauspicious moment. [10]
Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment. [2]
Presently, as if with an effort, he rose to his feet, took the red fez from his head, and fanned himself with it for a moment. [11]
Somehow she felt wiser than he at that moment, wiser and stronger, though she scarcely defined the feeling to herself, though she knew that in the end her brain would yield to her heart in this. [11]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
Be sure she will write the moment she comes. [5]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
But if you will be reasonable and give up your suit, I shall not blame you a moment. [10]
Cloud-in-the-Sky gave a wild whoop, and from the mountain there came, a moment after, a faint replica of the sound. [11]
Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowy snow, the driving storm, every soul leaped, with the consciousness that a moment lost now might bring destruction to us all. [5]
It was a wild night, for winter was come again for a moment, after the habit of this region in the early spring. [5]
But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
I think the whole thing, and in a moment it is before you--created. [5]
Looking at the whole field for a moment dispassionately, objectively, as the dear Teutonic philosophers say, and merely as an exhibition of phenomena, I cannot imagine any other issue. [6]
Parpon the dwarf, who that moment perched himself on the fence, could not decide which Valmond was just then--dauphin or fool. [11]
Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power. [4]
The people were white with wrath, and it tied their tongues for the moment, and they could not speak. [5]
He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
From this client while in a state of abject subjection, Berry, whose heart was hard that day, but whose diplomacy was impeccable, discovered a thing of moment. [11]
In that moment, while he still held her hand, she experienced the greatest joy that woman ever knows--the bliss of absolute surrender. [4]
Her feeble health, which was very evident, became her particularly ill when, as at this moment, the harsh acrimony of her embittered soul came to light with hideous plainness. [10]
The rich clothes which the princess had given her became her as if she had never worn any others; she could obey discreetly, disappear at the right moment, and, when she was invited, chatter delightfully. [10]
Her tact, on which she prided herself, had deserted her in a moment of unlooked-for emotion. [9]
It was that which made Jethro Fawe shrink and cower for a moment. [11]
He said, "That which I have seen, in that one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. [5]
The spirit with which he had entered the room, however, remained with him, even when he saw Kaid summon to him some of the most fanatical members of the court circle, and engage them in talk for a moment. [11]
The dread moment which had blighted his life returned in all its terror. [6]
All the affection which bound the sisters together found expression at this moment of parting. [10]
It left me when we met here, when I heard your voice again; and for a moment I was happy. [11]
At the moment when Virginie turned away with the handsome dish from M. Manotel, and the crowd cheered her gaily, she caught Jean-Jacques' eye, and she came straight towards him. [11]
At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
I fancy that when the right day came she confessed that the moment was when she first saw him enter their box at the opera. [4]
At a moment when the body-guard appeared to be most ostentatious in his freedom from clothing the American said to his Majesty: "King, do you know what 1/60th of your standing army is? [11]
From the moment when she had seen Zminis she had expected the worst, but the cry of rage and despair from a thousand voices which now split her ear told her how far the incredible reality outdid her most horrible imaginings. [10]
Since the moment when he had left the laboratory and made his way to the Red Mansion, he and Eglington had never met face to face; and he avoided a meeting. [11]
At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
How, or by what means, he was connected with the great event foretold in the Apocalypse he did not know, but he did not doubt that connection for a moment. [2]
Leicester's undoubted gifts were well and cautiously directed, and his talent of assumed passion--his heart was facile, and his gallantry knew no bounds--was put to dexterous use, convincing for the moment. [11]
The moment we were under way I began to prowl about the great steamer and fill myself with joy. [5]
Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. [11]
And now they were standing on the platform, and the train might start at any moment. [9]
As the words were spoken a sigh broke from her, and there came to Philip's mind that distant day in the council chamber at Bercy when for one moment he was upon his trial; but he did not turn and look at her now. [11]
But the tents were pitched, and at that moment the young Captain was seen to hand over his horse to an orderly, and to come toward them. [9]
Two men who were in advance of us rode through one of these and for a moment their garments shone with a more than regal splendor. [5]
Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
Frequently their walks were extended tramps, and once in a daring moment one or the other of them proposed to walk to Boston. [5]

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