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Sentences ending with motion

Polite charity was written in her manner and consecrated every motion. [11]
The Speaker, not without some difficulty, recognized Mr. Harper amidst what seemed the beginning of an exodus--and Mr. Harper read his motion. [9]
She was pulsing with life, as a bird drunken with the air's sweetness sings itself into an abandonment of motion. [11]
It needed no very keen perception to discover this part of the enemies program, so soon as by open hostilities their machinery was fairly put in motion. [7]
It is difficult to get the train in motion. [4]
The only way to conclude such a speech appropriately would be with a motion! [5]
And for some time I swung between sense and oblivion before an overpowering stench forced itself upon my nostrils, accompanied by a creaking, straining sound and sweeping motion. [9]
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 beldame saw the motion. [9]
What action will the House take upon the gentleman's motion? [5]

Short sentences using motion

I insist upon my motion. [5]
She made no motion. [11]
Mr. Trollop--"Second the motion! [5]
Power spoke in every motion. [11]
Calhoun made a dissenting motion. [11]
Presently all motion ceased. [11]
The motion was carried. [5]
The motion ceased. [9]
Second the motion! [5]

Sentences containing motion two or more times

Twice a motion to adjourn had been offered--a motion always in order in other Houses, and doubtless so in this one also. [5]
Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements. [2]
Des Cartes and Leibnitz denied that any new motion originated in nature, or that any ever ceased to exist; all motion being in a circle, passing from one body to another, one losing what the other gained. [3]
On Friday morning last, Mr. Joy filed his papers, and entered his motion for a mandamus, and urged me to take up the motion as soon as possible. [7]
They seemed to be in motion, they seemed to be alive; and certainly the colors in them were in motion. [5]
The absurd answer (that Achilles could never overtake the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was continuous. [2]

More example sentences with the word motion in them

As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
The company advanced with levelled pikes, but at a motion from the Seigneur his men fell back before them, and, making a lane, disclosed Michel de la Foret at the end of it. [11]
The motion changed with it, became rougher, and the hoof-beats a fraction less frequent. [9]
Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
He stopped us with a motion of his hand. [9]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
In the interval which followed, the music from the other room struck upon the ears of both, with exasperating insistence: "Not like the roses shall our love be, dear--" Stafford made no motion to return the letter. [11]
The Ry started when he saw Jethro Fawe; then he made a motion as though he would seize the intruder, who was too dumbfounded to flee; but he recovered himself, and gazed up at the open window. [11]
What am I, what are my possessions to set in motion such intensity of secret oppression? [13]
If she gets well, she will be--" She made a motion to her eyes. [11]
The sense of watching his every motion, himself meanwhile utterly unseen, was delicious. [6]
Philip's first motion was to stand up and say: "I dare not think your Highness means in very truth to make me your kinsman in the succession. [11]
If what is wanted in society is cold hauteur and languid superciliousness or lofty immobility, we are confident that with a little practice she can sit stiller, and look more impassive, and move with less motion, than any other created woman. [4]
Mr. Jameson of Wantage moves that the report of the Committee be accepted, and on this motion a roll-call is ordered. [9]
Upon Mr. Cooke's unwillingness or inability to interfere in his behalf, the Celebrity had assumed an aggrieved demeanor, but soon the motion of the Maria became more and more pronounced, and the difficulty of maintaining his decorum likewise increased. [9]
He did not understand the motion, until he saw a cent drop in the road at his feet. [4]
With a sudden tragic motion she caught the pistol from the table and raised it, but he wrenched it from her hand. [11]
He wants something to relieve his pain, to mitigate the anguish of dyspnea, to bring back motion and sensibility to the dead limb, to still the tortures of neuralgia. [6]
The Cure turned to Lajeunesse and made a motion towards the statue. [11]
Dicky came over to him, and was about to speak, but a motion of Fielding's hand stopped him. [11]
Thus for a time they swung together in ethereal space, breathless with the motion of their flight. [9]
For a long time it had a habit of trembling, as if in an earthquake spasm, but with a shivering motion very different from that produced by an earthquake. [4]
I hope that this motion will be voted down. [9]
I do not think he often cares to use his arts--he is too indolent; but with my father, my mother, and my sister he has set in motion all his resources. [11]
It was not these matters that vexed him now, but the underlying forces of life set in motion by the blow which killed a fellow-man. [11]
For a moment there was no motion on the part of either procession. [11]
He and Doltaire then moved on to the doors of the citadel, and, pausing there, Doltaire turned round and made a motion of his hand to Gabord. [11]
But they took their cue from the Protector, and made no motion towards the old man's advantage. [11]
Power--power, that is the thing of all," she said, her eyes shining and her small fingers interlacing with eager vitality: "power to set waves of influence in motion which stir the waters on distant shores. [11]
He had seen the swift motion of her hand, and again a look peculiar to him crossed his face, enigmatical, cynical, not pleasant to see. [11]
The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. [2]
Natasha threw off the shawl from her shoulders, ran forward to face "Uncle," and setting her arms akimbo also made a motion with her shoulders and struck an attitude. [2]
The man saw the motion, unnoted and unsignificant to any other save Angele, meaningless even to Melvill, the innocent and honest gentleman at his side; and he realised that the Queen had had a warning. [11]
The Marchioness changed the motion of her head, which had not yet left off nodding, and suddenly began to shake it from side to side, with a vehemence which threatened to dislocate her neck. [12]
He turned to the motion of her hand, and saw Laforce asleep on a couch. [11]
So real was the momentary illusion that, as he passed through the great hall where hung the portraits of the Duke's ancestors, he made a sudden outward motion of his arms as though to free himself from a physical restraint. [11]
He could see the fat, wheezy Duclosse hesitate, but the arid, alert Garotte had determination in every motion and look. [11]
The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was! [5]
And it has the elements of motion, of agitation, of life, because the vast territory is filling up with a rapidity unexampled in history. [4]
The impeachment of the chief magistrate followed, upon Stavely's motion. [5]
He leaned against the bulwarks, and made a helpless, despairing motion with his hand. [11]
It could require the ayes and noes on the motion, and use up thirty minutes on that detail. [5]
It needed but the arrival of a guest to set the machinery in motion. [4]
The womanliness of that last motion was a thing for a man to wonder at. [9]
To-day I know that in the Palace where I was summoned to my first: duty with the Prince, every step I took was shadowed, every motion recorded, every look or word noted and set down. [11]
I knew well that if I had tried to bribe him he would have scouted me, or if I had made a motion for escape he would have shot me off-hand. [11]
He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
The ten minutes that ensued appeared an hour; but at the end of that time, a shivering figure led out the horses they required, and after another brief delay they were again in motion. [12]
His big head swayed upon his thin neck; his droll, though emaciated features constantly changed their expression, and even when he was not coughing, his mouth was continually in motion. [10]
It is a superb figure, clad in a high tight bodice and long skirts simply draped so as to show every motion of the athletic limbs. [4]
She was the sun that melted the frozen torrents and set them boiling; with that sun removed, they froze again, and the army and all France became what they had been before, mere dead corpses--that and nothing more; incapable of thought, hope, ambition, or motion. [5]
It made too strong a contrast to his gloomy soul, and it even seemed as though the course of the sun, in its beaming, unattainably lofty path, mocked the hapless, painful obstruction to his own motion. [10]
Thus, it is stated on good authority that "almost every animal becomes panic-struck at the sight of the rattlesnake, and seems at once deprived of the power of motion, or the exercise of its usual instinct of self-preservation. [6]
Promise you won't stand on the platform, and won't get off while the train is in motion, and all the rest of the directions," she said, laughing a little with him; "and you will be careful? [4]
The car was speeding over the smooth surface of the boulevard; the swift motion, which seemed to her like that of flying, the sparkling air, the brightness of the day, the pressure of Ditmar's shoulder against hers, thrilled her. [9]
There was no sound, no motion. [5]
The effect of some music is to produce a divine quiescence of the senses, a suspension of motion and aggressive life; to reduce existence to mere pulsation. [11]
As she did so Doltaire made a motion to Gabord, and he shut the door quickly on us. [11]
Alas, there was small room for hope--Backus's eyes were heavy and bloodshot, his sweaty face was crimson, his speech maudlin and thick, his body sawed drunkenly about with the weaving motion of the ship. [5]
He was a short man, and spare, but his bearing had dignity and every motion significance. [11]
He used me--" She shuddered, put her hands to her eyes with a pained, trembling motion, then threw her head back with a quick sigh. [11]
He was right; she made a motion backward, but he held her firmly, tenderly. [11]
The President has set the fair in motion by pressing the button in Washington. [5]
Very gently I set it in motion, facing the slide as I did so. [11]
He was not sent on the expedition, but went of his own motion. [4]
Although a brisk sea was on, the wind had been steady from that quarter all night, and the motion was uniform. [9]
But Judge Douglas says that he himself moved to strike out that last provision of the bill, and that on his motion it was stricken out and a substitute inserted. [7]
It was dizzy riding, though the motion was not great, and before I had reached the right angle I regretted my rashness. [9]
It was a relief to be again in motion, although our progress was slow, and it was a question every rod whether the guide could go on. [4]
Humor makes me reflect now to-night, it sets the thinking machinery in motion. [5]
He had been received gladly, and had made himself an agreeable figure in the duchy, to the delight of the Duke, who watched his every motion, every word, and their effect. [11]
There were many reasons for a delay, reasons which of course are never mentioned, but which it would seem that a New York judge sometimes must understand, when he grants a postponement upon a motion that seems to the public altogether inadequate. [5]
So it was read aloud, and Hans Teufel's motion to let it drop without any action met with no approval, warmly as I supported it. [10]
Dicky had hardly reached the spot when a figure came running to the poor waler with a quick stumbling motion. [11]
There are three railway-tracks; the central one is cogged; the "lantern wheel" of the engine grips its way along these cogs, and pulls the train up the hill or retards its motion on the down trip. [5]
There was a quiver in the hindlegs, but no other motion. [4]
There were long, quiet stretches, hemmed in by alders, where the canoes, dodging the fallen trees, glided through the still water... No such silent, exhilarating motion Janet had ever known. [9]
She made a quick, appealing motion of her hands. [11]
She made a protesting motion of her hand. [11]
Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. [5]
Even in purely philanthropical enterprises the driving-wheel that keeps them in motion for any length of time is the salary paid the working members. [4]
The small servant, perhaps frightened by his looks, returned no audible reply; but it appeared from the motion of her lips that she was inwardly repeating the same form of expression concerning the note or message. [12]
You have--" He paused, for she made a protesting motion, and a fire sprang into her eyes. [11]
When the whole party got in motion, the entire slope seemed to slide a little with us, and there appeared some danger of an avalanche. [4]
He beckoned to Parpon to come over, and the dwarf trotted with a sidelong motion to the chancel steps. [11]
Gabord coolly drew out his watch, and made a motion to me not to take off my cloak yet. [11]
During the spring our little white-throat (Sylvia cinerea) often rises a few feet or yards in the air above some bush, and "flutters with a fitful and fantastic motion, singing all the while, and then drops to its perch. [1]
Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. [6]
Where the horizon opened widely, it pleased me to watch the curious effect of the rapid movement of near objects contrasted with the slow motion of distant ones. [6]
He had sunk one part of himself far below the level of activity or sensation, while new resolves, new powers of mind, new designs were set in motion to make his career a real and striking success. [11]
Almost--so it seemed--at one motion, the owner of the voice had come out of the door and had seized Stephen's hand in a warm grasp,--a tall and spare figure in the dress of a senior officer. [9]
Then, almost with one motion he unrolled the newspaper, pointed to a paragraph, and handed it to the officer. [9]
Nor was it one event that set him in motion. [4]
Gabriel Druse was on him, gripping his arms so tight to his body that his swift motion to draw a weapon was frustrated. [11]
Whatever the sign, old Stanwix was not far wrong when he read it upon me, and 'twas no great while before I was part and parcel of the ship beneath my feet, breathing deep with her every motion. [9]
I wish to offer a motion. [5]
He would not offer a motion, as none was required. [5]
It could shut off business every now and then with a motion to adjourn. [5]
If a motion of the hand was sufficient, then let it go at that. [11]

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