Use moses in a sentence
Sentences starting with moses
- Moses Hatch was wont to ask Cynthia how her daddies were. [9]
- Moses is a very good illustration. [4]
- Moses Hatch hitched up his team and went out to see Jabez, spent an hour in general conversation, and then plumped the question, taking, as he said, that means of finding out. [9]
- Moses and Aaron, too, had gone away, taking Hur's grandson with them; but no one had deemed her, who lived and breathed solely for her people and their welfare, worthy to learn whither their journey led or what was its purpose. [10]
- Moses was unwilling to remain inactive during this conflict and his weapon was prayer. [10]
- Moses had seemed to lay the utmost stress upon this privilege, and according to the existing law, no one was permitted to cross the narrow fortified frontier on the east without the permission of the government. [10]
- Moses drove homeward that sparkling day, shutting his eyes to the glare of the ice crystals on the pines, and thinking profoundly. [9]
- Moses would as soon have questioned the seasons or the weather as Cynthia's changes of moods,--which were indeed the weather for him, and when storms came he sat with his back to them, waiting for the sunshine. [9]
- Moses knew this region where he had lived so long as a fugitive; it was only necessary to inform him of the close vicinity of the foe. [10]
- Moses had murdered Pharaoh's first-born son, but he and the aged chief-priest of Amon held the weal or woe of the dead prince's soul in their hands,--a weapon sharp and strong, for he knew the monarch's weak and vacillating heart. [10]
Sentences ending with moses
- The old people were proud of Aaron, too; but all their love was lavished upon Eleasar, their grandson, whom they beheld growing up into a second Moses. [10]
- The Almighty shows us the way, and every one must hasten, in His name and by the command of Moses. [10]
- The lowing, bleating throng which the priests had imagined to be the souls of the damned was the Hebrew host, departing by night from their old home with all their flocks under the guidance of Moses. [10]
- He would willingly take the last place in the ranks, if such was the command of Moses. [10]
- Then Thou wilt surely remember the vow Thou didst make to the people through Thy servant Moses. [10]
- Had he been sure that hers was estranged he would have dashed away again, after having revealed his whole soul to his father, and risked the ride into unknown regions to seek Moses. [10]
- A whiff of smoke drifted back over my shoulder, and-- "The suffering Moses! [5]
- The next moment she beheld a grey-haired old man, bowed by heavy toil, raise his fist against Moses. [10]
- He had lingered perforce with his brothers and sister outside the cabin until dinner time, and when he came in he was meek as Moses. [9]
- Oh, mother o' Moses! [11]
Short sentences using moses
- Moses, the great warrior! [5]
- Stuart, Moses, literary rank, 33. [6]
- Moses, the great patriot! [5]
- Moses, the great law-giver! [5]
- Mother o' Moses, how manny! [11]
- Moses Hatch laughed. [9]
- It was Moses. [10]
Sentences containing moses two or more times
- The young Moses referred to was Moses Hatch, Junior, son of the pillar of the Church and State, and it was an open secret that he was madly in love with Cynthia. [9]
- Moses laughed when he first heard of it, for Fletcher was an easy-going farmer of the Methodist persuasion who was always in debt, and the other members of the ticket, so far as Moses could learn of it--were remarkable neither for orthodoxy or solidity. [9]
- Have we not come back to our starting-point, even as Moses Hatch drove around in a circle.. And we have the advantage over Moses, for we suspect somebody, and he did not know whom to suspect. [9]
More example sentences with the word moses in them
- Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
- Some other Moses would have had to lead us to our Jordan, to the sight of our promised land of liberty. [7]
- Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
- Do you counsel us to fasten it anew, with a looser knot, which will hold as long as the whim of a vacillating weakling who has broken his promises to us and to Moses a score of times? [10]
- Yet we are told that Moses himself lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, and that his eye was not dim nor his natural strength abated. [6]
- It is enough to recall the names of Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Paul, Homer, David. [4]
- But, ere carrying this plan into execution, Moses, accompanied by a few trusty men, desired to examine the new route and ascertain whether it would be passable for the great wandering people. [10]
- There are few things in literature that are more piteous, more pathetic, than the celebrated "humorous" incident of Moses and the spectacles. [5]
- Instead of taking them to the goal of the journey, as he had promised, he had deserted them in a miserable tavern by the way-side, among rough, godless lansquenets, as the mother of Moses abandoned her babe. [10]
- Hur was telling the newcomer that Moses had gone on a reconnoitring expedition, and Hosea was expressing his regret, because he had important matters to discuss with him. [10]
- She must see the grave of Captain Moses Rice. [4]
- Emma Beach was the daughter of Moses S. Beach, of the 'New York Sun. [5]
- And then below the bridge the lad could see the historic meadow, which was a cornfield in the eighteenth century, where Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms came suddenly one summer day to the end of their planting and hoeing. [4]
- Dr. Ebers attracted the attention of the learned world by his treatise on Egypt and the Book of Moses, which brought him a professorship at his university, Gottingen, in 1864, the year following the close of this autobiography. [10]
- By the piper that played before Moses, I'll ate ye! [5]
- It is probable that Moses borrowed his prohibition of swine's flesh from the Egyptian laws with regard to unclean animals. [10]
- She had heard that his name had been mentioned in the meeting at the house of Moses Hatch as having taken part in the matter, and she guessed something of certain of his methods. [9]
- Doesn't she remember telling me the story of Moses, one Sunday, last Spring, and how hard she tried to explain it and simplify it so that I could understand it--but I couldn't? [5]
- The result was still uncertain, and Moses could not cease uplifting his heart and arms to heaven, but at last, at last this long final struggle came to an end. [10]
- This was to some extent explained, a few days later, when Wetherell found himself gazing across the counter at the motherly figure of Mrs. Moses Hatch, who held the well-deserved honor of being the best cook in Coniston. [9]
- The night was so warm, and the sooner they pressed forward the better, for Moses had promised to join them a few leagues hence. [10]
- Copper- plates, Moses Smiting the Rock, and Return of the Prodigal Son. [5]
- He had long since planned the execution of a statue of Moses, and when his father had left him, he could not get the tall and dignified figure of the old man out of his mind. [10]
- So the combatants saw Moses and his two companions on the peak dominating the valley, and knew that the trusted servant of the Most High would not cease to commend their cause to Him and pray for their success and deliverance. [10]
- She waved to Rias and Lem and Moses at the store, but she drove on to the tannery house, and hitched the horse at the rough granite post, and went in, and through the house, softly, to the kitchen. [9]
- Honest Moses Hatch pursued his courting untroubled, and never knew that he had a rival. [9]
- He was a Presbyterian, and had a most deep respect for Moses which was a Presbyterian, too, he said. [5]
- He got the postmaster at Knob Lick to write the letter for him, and while Moses intended that his bid should be $400, his scribe carelessly made it $4. [5]
- In 1886 Moses Pendergrass put in a bid for the contract to carry the mail on the route from Knob Lick to Libertyville and Coffman, thirty miles a day, from July 1, 1887, for one years. [5]
- So Moses carried out his contract, walked thirty miles every week-day for a year, and carried the mail, and received for his labour $4, or, to be accurate, $6.84; for, the route being extended after his bid was accepted, his pay was proportionately increased. [5]
- Spite of Bai's opposition, Moses had been named regent of the new territory, while he, Hosea, himself was to command the soldiers who would defend the frontiers, and marshal fresh troops from the Israelite mercenaries, who had already borne themselves valiantly in many a fray. [10]
- Old Moses sleeps on the hillside, let us hope in the peace of the orthodox and the righteous. [9]
- Jethro Bass, Chairman of the Board, in the honored seat of Deacon Moses Hatch, the perquisite of the church in Coniston! [9]
- Jethro Bass Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, in the honored place of Deacon Moses Hatch! [9]
- If I am not mistaken, it was under this tree that your own father, the worthy Nun, gave to my son Uri the sole answer which Moses must also make to every bearer of a message akin to yours. [10]
- It was certainly not good election weather, thought Moses, and others of the orthodox persuasion, high in office, were of the same opinion as they stood with parted coat tails before the stove. [9]
- But he was, no doubt, lusty and vigorous for his years, and ready to smite the Canaanites hip and thigh, and drive them out, and take possession of their land, as he did forthwith, when Moses gave him leave. [6]
- Phineas Arms martial name--was long since dust, and even the mortal part of the great Captain Moses Rice had been absorbed in the soil and passed perhaps with the sap up into the old but still blooming apple-trees. [4]
- I will ask Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the elders to confide to thee the office of commander. [10]
- Did the hatred Moses implanted in your heart kill love as well as every other feeling? [10]
- That very evening, Moses Hatch had called, had been received with more favor than usual, and suddenly packed off about his business. [9]
- I must find Moses ere it is too late. [10]
- Curses directed against Moses and the elders, who had led them from the comfort of well-watered Egypt to this misery, never ceased; but when they climbed the pass of the "Swordpoint" their parched throats had become too dry for oaths and invectives. [10]
- Of the noted men of Andover the one whom I remember best was Professor Moses Stuart. [6]
- It was that meeting which shook the serenity of poor Moses, and he learned of it when he went to Jonah Winch's store an hour later. [9]
- She, too, was kindly disposed toward the Egyptians, among whom her pride and joy, our Moses, had attained such high honors. [10]
- Both agreed that Joshua must fight, no matter in what position Moses placed him; but Hur himself led him to the warriors, who joyously greeted him. [10]
- That's the way Jethro spends the money he makes in politics, and he hain't no more of a farmer than--" Moses looked at Wetherell. [9]
- On the same island is still shown the spot where Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. [5]
- There you see--there is the scene of what Moses did. [5]
- He said: "There is but one Moses, one Jesus; and there is but one Mary. [5]
- Kaid is no ingrate--no, by the hand of Moses that smote at Sinai! [11]
- A certain subject--if I am not mistaken, Moses drawing water from the rock in the wilderness--was to be executed with pencil or charcoal. [10]
- After sunset Moses, holding his staff uplifted, and Aaron, singing and praying, entered at the head of the procession the end of the bay. [10]
- I will obey His will, which He has made known to Moses and to this noble maiden. [10]
- General Mabry and his son Joe were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a few weeks ago. [5]
- The secret of his sepulture, like that of Moses, must remain a mystery always. [5]
- As he sat, his head sunk on his breast, his elbow resting on a stump of pine--the token of a progressive civilisation--his chin upon his hand, he looked like the figure of Moses made immortal by Michael Angelo. [11]
- Deacon Moses Hatch, his chores done and his breakfast and prayers completed, fought his way with his head down through a white waste to the meeting-house door, and unlocked it, and shivered as he made the fire. [9]
- They hang about him as if he was Moses in the wilderness smiting the rock. [11]
- Without a blush he will vote for an unclean boss if that boss is his party's Moses, without compunction he will vote against the best man in the whole land if he is on the other ticket. [5]
- And Moses when he beat the overseer--and Elias, and Deborah, and Judith. [10]
- Even the Egyptians have long known that they obeyed the bidding of Moses and Aaron as the sheep follow the shepherd. [10]
- Moses Hatch, Senior, has already interrogated him with all the authority of the law and the church, for Mr. Williams is orthodox, though the deacons have to remind him of his duty once in a while. [9]
- Nay, Moses himself had no conception of it. [9]
- Moses, the Hebrew, had been his pupil, and never had he instructed a nobler nature, a youth more richly endowed with all the gifts of intellect. [10]
- Moses, the great guide, who, as I tell you, brought these people through these three hundred miles of sand in forty years, and landed there safe and sound. [5]
- Why, Moses, the great guide, soldier, poet, lawgiver of ancient Israel! [5]
- He had learned from Hur's words that his father and Moses rejected all mediation, yet the promises he was bearing to the people seemed to him a merciful gift from the Most High. [10]
- Turrible, turrible, and for clothes to wear--Mother of Moses! [11]
- When the council finally broke up, Moses took leave of his sister with fraternal affection. [10]
- But you listen every Sunday to Moses--if it was Moses? [9]
- You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! [5]
- And as they drove away there trotted up behind them Moses and Amandy Hatch, with their farm team, and all the little Hatches,--Eben and George and Judy and Liza. [9]
- He had gone down to the shore with Moses and other elders of the people. [10]
- But far more distinctly the words with which Moses had thanked him rang in his soul. [10]
- Strange that they didn't occur to Moses. [9]
- They and their descendants wandered forty years in the desert, and then Moses, the gifted warrior, poet, statesman and philosopher, went up into Pisgah and met his mysterious fate. [5]
- Yet in those days she welcomed Moses's society as she never had before; and Coniston, including Moses himself, began thinking of a wedding. [9]
- During the still days before the turn of the year,--days of bending fruit boughs, crab-apples glistening red in the soft sunlight,--rumor came from Brampton to wrinkle the forehead of Moses Hatch as he worked among his father's orchards. [9]
- When the old dame heard the messengers boast that the fair future promised to the people was now close at hand, her eyes often sought her husband, and she exclaimed: "Yes, Moses! [10]
- Moses got the contract, and did not find out about the mistake until the end of the first quarter, when he got his first pay. [5]
- When Moses Hatch congratulated her, with more humor than sincerity, he received the greatest scare of his life. [9]
- But with Established Church Coniston tight in the saddle (in the person of Moses Hatch, Senior), how was he to do it? [9]
- Even Moses Hatch can get nothing out of Samuel, who then talks Jacksonian principles and the nights of an American citizen. [9]
- Joshua, now recognized by Moses and the whole Hebrew people as the commander of the fighting-men, led his new-formed troops to the widest portion of the valley, which permitted him to derive more advantage from the superior number of his force. [10]
- The three Northampton-born brothers Allen, Thomas, Moses, and Solomon, lifted their voices, and, when needed, their armed hands, in the cause of liberty. [6]
- I had been blind to their suffering, but Moses opened my eyes and sowed in my heart hate, intense hate of their oppressors, and from this hate sprang love for the victims. [10]
- Where the germ began that caused it, Moses knew no better than the deacon, since those who were suspected of leanings toward Fletcher Bartlett were strangely secretive. [9]
- A few hours before he had heard Moses repel similar propositions with harsh decision and crushing reasons; now he had heard them again brought. [10]
- Why not go back to Moses? [4]
- He nodded briefly at Moses Hatch, who greeted him with genial obsequiousness. [9]
- He cavalierly waved aside all such confusing things as dates: made Moses and Mahomet contemporaneous, incidentally referred to King Solomon's visits to Cleopatra, and with sad irreverence spoke of the Exodus and the destruction of Pharaoh's horses and chariots as "the big handicap. [11]
- One touched another, and whispered a name familiar to every one, that of the sacred mountain where the Lord had promised Moses to "bring them unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. [10]
- The rumors persisted, and still Moses laughed, for the senior selectman was a big man with flesh on him, who could laugh with dignity. [9]
- Eben is timid, and replies to us, as to Moses, that he has heard of the Democratic ticket, and callates that Fletcher Bartlett, who has always been the leader of the Democratic party, has named the ticket. [9]
- As yet, I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in. [6]
- Callate she is," added Moses, with conviction. [9]
- Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. [5]
- Meanwhile Moses, with Aaron and Hur, remained on the cliff overlooking the battle-field. [10]
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