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Sentences starting with movement

Movement of adhesion--as they say in the Chamber of Deputies--on the part of the young fellow they call John. [6]
Movement went on in the outer circle, and that, too, gradually stilled. [13]

Sentences ending with movement

But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
A geographer who was asked to describe the tides of Massachusetts Bay, would have to recognize the circumstance that they are a limited manifestation of a great oceanic movement. [3]
Everything now depends upon the celerity and vigor of your movement. [7]
Pressing his hand upon his throbbing heart, he watched her every movement. [10]
He came straight towards the bear, then suddenly made a swift movement to the left, trusting to his greater quickness of movement. [11]
He was just touching up the final proposition, when his granddaughter, Letty, once before referred to, came into the room with her smiling face and lively movement. [6]
They had happened to be looking towards the door when the man--Col. Selby--entered with his cane, and they looked at him, because he stopped as if surprised and frightened, and made a backward movement. [5]
As guardians of this wretched unity the various courts sent diplomats to Frankfort, who interrupted their careless mode of life only to sharpen distrust of other courts or suppress some democratic movement. [10]
The scope of this book has not permitted the author to introduce the peasantry and trading classes which formed the mass in this movement. [9]
With gloating eyes they watched every movement. [5]

Short sentences using movement

Movement, party of the, 147. [6]
Alpatych made a slight movement. [2]
I'll join that movement. [4]
They restricted every movement. [10]
It is a glorious movement. [4]

Sentences containing movement two or more times

The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
A great movement was going on to transfer actual participation in government from the few to the many, --a movement towards true Democracy, and that was precisely what was about to happen in the Church. [9]
Whenever I see the movement of a locomotive I hear the whistle and see the valves opening and wheels turning; but I have no right to conclude that the whistling and the turning of wheels are the cause of the movement of the engine. [2]
The commencement of that movement was the movement from west to east. [2]
The only conception that can explain the movement of the peoples is that of some force commensurate with the whole movement of the peoples. [2]
The only conception that can explain the movement of the locomotive is that of a force commensurate with the movement observed. [2]
Again, I cannot see why the movement on East Tennessee would not be a diversion in your favor rather than a disadvantage, assuming that a movement toward Nashville is the main object. [7]
We see the same if we watch moment by moment the movement of historical characters (that is, re-establish the inevitable condition of all that occurs--the continuity of movement in time) and do not lose sight of the essential connection of historical persons with the masses. [2]
The counter movement reaches the starting point of the first movement in the west--Paris--and subsides. [2]
The movement of peoples from west to east was to be succeeded by a movement of peoples from east to west, and for this fresh war another leader was necessary, having qualities and views differing from Kutuzov's and animated by different motives. [2]

More example sentences with the word movement in them

But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
I have called your attention to this movement in order to say that it was neither accidental nor isolated. [4]
The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
An early movement would also help to supersede the bad moral effect of there certain, which is said to be considerably injurious. [7]
That movement being without result, with a shade of disappointment on his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. [5]
The latter turned with upraised beaker towards the Thuringian and, as the Junker who had relapsed into his reverie, did not notice the movement, irritably exclaimed: "Well, Herr Dornburg, you require a long time to pledge a man. [10]
He rubs them with that peculiar twisting movement of his, and pauses for the effect. [6]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. [2]
She started up with a vehement movement, and exclaimed, in angry excitement: "Seleukus might have prevented such an outrage! [10]
The unmasked rogue, with a swift movement, snatched the hood of the caracalla off Alexander's head, flew at his throat with the fury and agility of a panther, and with much presence of mind called for help. [10]
We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
There are Southerners who declare that it is too hot in summer, and that the complete circuit of mountains shuts out any lively movement of air. [4]
In a little while, if they were not surprised, they would complete a movement, take a hill, turn the flank of the foe, and, if designed supports came up, have the Boers at a deadly disadvantage. [11]
But as he went downstairs he halted on the, landing, his hand going to his forehead, a reflex movement significant of a final attempt to achieve the hitherto unattainable feat of imagining her as his wife. [9]
Get your force well in hand and stand on the defensive, guarding against a movement of the enemy either back toward Strasburg or toward Franklin, and await further orders, which will soon be sent you. [7]
Why not as well die in the attempt to break up a wretched servitude to a perverted nervous movement as in any other way? [6]
If we inquire, we shall find one preponderating cause underlying every movement of the age. [4]
By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it passes. [5]
A movement, which we need not go unto, was first made upon the courts, and for a while adverse decisions came down like summer rain. [9]
Meanwhile he had watched every movement of the bay, and at the right instant his strong hand had grasped its nostrils and forced it to stand. [10]
What had happened was that news (which afterwards proved to be false) had been received during the night of a movement by the French to outflank the Drissa camp. [2]
When the movement was completed, each man knew that he was not the only person who had crept to the front wall and had his eye at a crack between the logs. [5]
Toward eleven there was a movement in her room. [10]
The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber. [6]
It required keen vision to see any movement whatever in the purple clouds. [13]
Matronly dignity was visible in every movement, and the charm of her manner lay, not in a youthful endeavor to be pleasing, but in the effort of age to please others, considering their wishes, and at the same time demanding consideration in return. [10]
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan. [7]
He had picked up his hat from a corner of the littered table, and started to leave, when Garvin, by a sudden movement, planted himself in the doorway. [9]
It was not until the morning dawned that the true nature and extent of the sudden movement was ascertained. [6]
No, for his uncle would not allow that--he was all-powerful and could and would crush such a movement, of course. [5]
This is eminently true of manners and forms of speech; a movement or a phrase often tells you all you want to know about a person. [6]
They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
It was in touch with the universal movement of humanity and of human thought and speculation. [4]
Among these folk, too, there are good men as well as bad," said he, and still speaking, he turned on his knees with a supple movement, got up, coughed, and went off to another part of the shed. [2]
But she detected, too, an occasional painful movement of Mrs. Falchion's lips, a kind of trouble in the face. [11]
Every look, movement, tone, expression, subject of discourse, that may give pain to another is habitually excluded from conversational intercourse. [6]
I will try to write out a Mental movement in three parts. [6]
The rapid movement to which the philologer was prompted on my account will prolong his existence; he bristles with learning at the tip of every hair, and he sits still more than is good for him. [10]
The issues seem to vary, but it is always a right against a claim, and, however the struggle of the hour may go, a movement onward of the campaign, which uses defeat as well as victory to serve its mighty ends. [6]
It was big to those who lived, but in the long movement of time it was small, distant, and subordinate. [11]
Modern history replying to these questions says: you want to know what this movement means, what caused it, and what force produced these events? [2]
He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own. [2]
We are not to question the sincerity and generousness of this movement, however it may have halted and lost enthusiasm in many localities. [4]
If we come to our own country, who can fail to recognize that Benjamin Rush, the most conspicuous of American physicians, was the intellectual offspring of the movement which produced the Revolution? [3]
Time meant little to him now that he had started, and he edged along with slow side movement till he got clear of the thicket. [13]
She went up to him and with a swift, flexible, youthful movement dropped on her knees. [2]
A movement of timid curiosity impelled her, when she approached the spot, to glance towards the fire. [12]
A movement, a thrill, ran through the spangled vault of dusk and sleep, and seemed to pass over the world, rousing the sea and the earth. [11]
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country. [10]
It seemed as though he feared his ear might miss a note of this song, his eye a movement of this source of melody. [10]
Here in America this is, in great part, a movement for merely physical or material equalization. [4]
The movement of this great work is very fine. [5]
Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed. [2]
He must, I think, have reasoned to himself in a rapid and unconscious manner, that movement without any apparent cause indicated the presence of some strange living agent, and that no stranger had a right to be on his territory. [1]
But presently, while they sat talking of many things, the canvas of the fly was thrust back with a quick movement, and who should come stooping in but General Sherman himself. [9]
The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play of expression on his face. [2]
By and by these flakes fused themselves together in interminable lines, with shady faint hollows between the lines, the long satin-surfaced rollers following each other in simulated movement, and enchantingly counterfeiting the majestic march of a flowing sea. [5]
Tom's first movement there was to reach for a cup of water; but a silk-and-velvet servitor seized it, dropped upon one knee, and offered it to him on a golden salver. [5]
This evening, however, there was little movement even there; the Emperor and his court, the Burgrave and his train, with all the secular and ecclesiastical princes, counts, and knights, had gone to the Town Hall with their ladies. [10]
All at once there came a wide peace and clearing, and the everlasting jar and movement ceased. [11]
While I think there are many chances to one that this is a humbug, it occurs to me that any real movement of this sort in the Army would leak out and become known to you. [7]
A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east. [2]
As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. [2]
And there came the young anchorite, who forgot himself and everything else in her presence, whose looks, whose movement, whose very silence even seemed to do homage to her. [10]
In spite of the trampling of the French gendarmes' horses, which were pushing back the crowd, Rostov kept his eyes on every movement of Alexander and Bonaparte. [2]
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]
In 1883, when the simplified-spelling movement first tried to make a noise, I was indifferent to it; more--I even irreverently scoffed at it. [5]
He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]
It broke with the quick movement she made to kindle it, and she snatched another as if a fiend were after her. [6]
Please tell me the progress and condition of the movement in that direction. [7]
Its movement over the paper is like the flight of a swallow, while the quill pen and the steel pen and the gold pen are all taking short, laborious journeys, and stopping to drink every few minutes. [6]
Holding his breath, the older man watched every movement, and his heart began to throb anxiously. [10]
In both cases the object has been, I think, the same as the Hunt movement in New York--to throw States to Douglas. [7]
That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way. [2]
The Atalantas saw the movement, and made a spurt to keep their lead and gain upon it if they could. [6]
He had arranged the movement of the story to his fancy, but would it occur in all as he hoped? [11]
Drawn on by the movement of his troops Napoleon rode with them as far as the Dorogomilov gate, but there again stopped and, dismounting from his horse, paced for a long time by the Kammer-Kollezski rampart, awaiting the deputation. [2]
As always happens the men, starting cheerfully, began to halt; murmurs were heard, there was a sense of confusion, and finally a backward movement. [2]
We fancied that the lively movement in the streets had an air of unreality. [4]
We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
The strength of the justification of the man who stands at the head of the movement grows with the increased size of the group. [2]
Not only is the illusion gone, but the movement of the story, if there is a story, is retarded, till the reader loses all enjoyment in impatience and weariness. [4]
In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One of the second gun's crew was "uncle"; Tushin looked at him more often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. [2]
The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. [2]
When they saw the flag and heard the battle-cry there was a movement backward, as though this handful of men were an overwhelming army coming at them. [11]
I came to the creek as it flowed silently in the shade, stepped in, and made my way slowly down it, I know not how far, walking in the water, my eye alert to every movement about me. [9]
At this thought the blind man, with a swift movement, sat erect upon his couch; it seemed as if a bright light blazed before his eyes in the dark room. [10]
Let us test that: In 1858 the emancipation party of Missouri, with Frank Blair at their head, tried to get up a movement for that purpose, and having started a party contested the State. [7]
It strikes me--ahem that you might find, in some quarters at least, a freer response to a movement founded on principle. [9]
With a movement that was almost rough he released himself and fled, calling back a "good night" to her out of the darkness. [9]
I was aware that the movement of glaciers is an established fact, for I had read it in Baedeker; so I resolved to take passage for Zermatt on the great Gorner Glacier. [5]
A third asserts that the cause of its movement lies in the smoke which the wind carries away. [2]
Mr. Fulton says that on Friday night, between twelve and one o'clock, General McClellan telegraphed Commodore Goldsborough that the result of the movement was satisfactory to him. [7]
The character of that movement, however, must depend upon circumstances which may change any day and almost any hour. [7]
I am afraid that it is a good plan to get rid of old Professors, and I am thankful to hear that there is a movement for making provision for those who are left in need when they lose their offices and their salaries. [3]
When she found that he became quieter, and the movement of her hand once more did him good, she recovered her presence of mind. [10]
With a movement that had become habitual, subconscious, she reached out her hand to arouse her sister. [9]

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