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Sentences starting with narrow

Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz. [2]

Sentences ending with narrow

I couldn't get up the chimbly; it was too narrow. [5]
Mr. Tiernan led the way, for the path was narrow. [9]
That was the reason the wound was so narrow. [10]
I thought his London-plan too narrow. [14]
He could not get at Amshar without thrusting Mrs. Falchion aside, and, as I said, the wall was narrow. [11]
It must be fenced in, and whatever is fenced in is narrow. [6]
The term belles-lettres does not fully express it, for it is too narrow. [4]

Short sentences using narrow

Boston's very narrow, you know. [5]
Oh, that narrow sulky! [6]

Sentences containing narrow two or more times

The dining room was long, low and narrow, and a narrow table extended its whole length. [5]
Next morning early she went through the French Pass--a narrow gateway of rock, between bold headlands--so narrow, in fact, that it seemed no wider than a street. [5]
In front of her was a small work-table, with a kerosene lamp on it, but the side of the room towards which she looked was quite occupied by a narrow couch --ridiculously narrow, for Aunt Margaret was very stout. [4]
Natural beauty it has none: it is simply a long, narrow strip of ground inclosed in walls, with straight, parallel walks running the whole length, and narrow cross-walks; and yet it is a lovely burial-ground. [4]

More example sentences with the word narrow in them

Now here; do you see this narrow belt of fine sediment That was deposited while the water was higher. [5]
By ingenious fetters you force the mighty winged intellect to content itself within the narrow world of reality. [10]
Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
The road which wound up to the summit of the Beacon was narrow and uneven. [6]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
They came from workshops and writing-rooms, from humble houses in narrow lanes, and from the handsomest and largest in the main street. [10]
She did her work on narrow slips of paper, and we pocketed them as fast as she turned them out, to show as curiosities. [5]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
He was done with that old world in which he once worked; he was concerned only for this narrow field where an Empire's fate was being solved. [11]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. [5]
And the gorge widened to narrow outlet and the gloom lightened to gray. [13]
He must travel wide at first to convince their narrow brains. [11]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
His beard was white, his face long and narrow and shrivelled, his forehead protruding, his eyes of the cold blue of a winter's sky. [9]
The narrow inlets which I have mentioned go wandering out into the land everywhere and hiding themselves in it, and pleasure-launches are always exploring them with picnic parties on board. [5]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
Curious to see what changes time had wrought, she peered through the by no means narrow crack and overlooked the minister's spacious office, where he was now entirely alone with the Councillor Viglius. [10]
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. [10]
The horse was well enough, but the seat was narrow for three people, and the entire establishment had in it not much prophecy of Baddeck for that day. [4]
You remember when we sleep on the ledge of the Voshti mountain--so narrow that we were tied together? [11]
During this walk we gathered blue cornflowers and scarlet poppies from the fields, bluebells, daisies, ranunculus, and snapdragon from the narrow border of turf along the roadside, and tied them into bouquets for the graves. [10]
By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
The crowd made way for her, and she came smiling and bowing through the narrow human lane, with Betsy Hale, as escort and support, smiling and bowing in her wake, the audience breaking into welcoming cheers as the old favorites filed along. [5]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
Lancy stood there watchin' us while we fetched Faddo back, and I tell you, that was a narrow squeak for him. [11]
Early though it was, the narrow streets of the wholesale district reverberated with the rattle of trucks and echoed with the shouts of drivers. [9]
His bullet-shaped head was unusually large, and his face, with its narrow brow and small, lustreless eyes, showed that he was not prone to thinking. [10]
The stallion's neck was stretched, his shoes rang on the cobbles, and my eyes were fixed on a narrow space between carriages coming together. [9]
The street beyond was so narrow, and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep, that he seemed to have risen out of the earth. [12]
The old lady was no longer alone, for in the background, on a long and narrow couch which stood in front of the statue of Apollo, lay a tall, lean man, wearing a red chiton. [10]
Because a man was married, was he to be shut up to one little narrow career, that of husband? [4]
You see, Cauchon was managing to narrow her chances more and more all the time; he was drawing the toils closer and closer. [5]
But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
By daylight it was easier to avoid the sand-banks; but how narrow was the water-way-at this season usually overflowing! [10]
His narrow face was blanched, and his agile limbs moved restlessly. [10]
Its narrow doorway was besieged by a crowd, for within the first of the rock-chambers of which it consisted, a harper was singing a dirge for the long-since buried prophet, his wife and his sister. [10]
At last Wyndham was able to drop into the narrow channel, now dry, through which, when the sluice was open and the sakkia turned, the water flowed to the house. [11]
Now, if there was a man in Ireland who had a narrow view and kept his toes pointed to the front, it was Miles Calhoun. [11]
As I don't want my wreck to be washed up on one of the beaches in company with devil's-aprons, bladder-weeds, dead horse-shoes, and bleached crab-shells, I turn about and flap my long narrow wings for home. [6]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
Yes, Boston is very narrow, but she has such a good opinion of herself that she can't see it. [5]
The streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. [5]
It is a very narrow and unjust view of the practice of medicine, to suppose it to consist altogether in the use of powerful drugs, or of drugs of any kind. [6]
And verily the Venetian lady was pleased with the placing of her house, and yet more with the old man's loving care for her; although the house was over tall, and so narrow that there were but two windows on each floor. [10]
Baton, hat, and veil skimmed by and disappeared, and the crash of the rocks--which I had started--as they fell on to the glacier, told how narrow had been the escape from utter destruction. [5]
Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefit of mankind are narrow, self-pleasing, conceited men, and affect us as the insane do. [6]
A bay ran up the two stories, and at the left were two narrow doorways, one for each flat. [9]
He was coming up the narrow stairs, so she ran out to meet him, blushing as though she were doing something wrong. [10]
I know your uncle--I know that he will make his borrowed throne as wide as he possibly can; but when we return home he will be quite content to sit on a narrow seat again. [10]
In Geotrupes and Typhoeus, a narrow ridge runs obliquely across (r, Fig. [1]
He could see two little boats, but they lay in a narrow walled canal and this was closed by an iron railing. [10]
They were like two armies watching each other across a narrow stream, between one conflict and another. [11]
This narrow passageway turned and twisted and opened into a valley that amazed Venters. [13]
The narrow old trim of the doors and windows had been kept, and the quaintly ugly marble mantels. [8]
T.] The Parisian travels but little, he knows no language but his own, reads no literature but his own, and consequently he is pretty narrow and pretty self-sufficient. [5]
It was in total darkness, but through the narrow open door in the middle of the left wall one could see what was going on in Barbara's little bow-windowed room. [10]
Was it not too narrow wholly to please the man who had known how to praise her own beauty so passionately? [10]
By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
From the palace to the gloomy prison is but a step--one might almost jump across the narrow canal that intervenes. [5]
So, entrusting Whisker to the charge of a man who was lingering hard by in expectation of the Job, he suffered his companion to take his hand, and to lead him up the dark and narrow stairs. [12]
When we came to the base of the rock, we found a way cut, a narrow path, most of the distance hewn out of the rock, winding upward along the face of the precipice. [4]
This will serve to show how narrow some of the chutes were. [5]
Everybody went there to see a bowlder which hung suspended over the stream in the narrow canon. [4]
She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
He desired Hermas to pass the night in his dwelling, as the scanty limits of the cave left but narrow room for the lad. [10]
We are ready to move again, though we are not really tired yet of the narrow passages of this old marble cave. [5]
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]
The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
I have only to go a few steps up a narrow, steep street, lined with the queerest houses, where is an ever-running pipe of good water, to which all the neighborhood resorts, and I am within the grounds of the castle. [4]
It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
His thin lips tightened, his narrow forehead seemed to grow narrower, and his very cassock appeared to contract austerely on his figure as he talked to the refugee of misfortune. [11]
Then a ramble through the town, which is a quaint one, with interesting, crooked streets, and narrow, crooked lanes, with here and there a grain of dust. [5]
It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
It then breaks through one of these eyes by hammering with its heavy front pincers, and turning round, extracts the albuminous core with its narrow posterior pincers. [1]
Up they climbed, through narrow ways in the forest--ways hedged with alder and fern and sumach and wild grape, adorned with oxeye daisies and tiger lilies, and the big purple flowers which they knew and loved so well. [9]
The man disappears through a narrow archway, and I follow. [4]
It was well-formed, though somewhat narrow, and its clear fairness formed a sharp contrast to his sunburnt face. [10]
Think of meeting this style of obstruction in a narrow trail. [5]
In Charley's day this gate had been often used, for it gave upon four steep wooden steps leading to a narrow shelf of rock below. [11]
Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. [2]
I mention these things to give an idea of how narrow the streets are. [5]
It's a hateful thing to see--the light green water, the deadly sissing of the straight narrow ripple like the grooves of a wash- board: and a ship's length ahead the water breaking over the reefs, two frigates behind ready to eat us. [11]
One fears that they may come down in the deep night, and stand at the bedside,--those narrow, canopied beds there in the distance, like the marble couches in the cathedral. [4]
They believed that they had brought the transcendental within the grasp of intelligent sense, and that their empty speculations had carried them far beyond the narrow limits of the Ancients. [10]
Mrs. Colfax, when they are come out of the narrow street into the great open space, remarks this with alarm. [9]
While reflecting over these matters, the image of the lean Egyptian goldsmith, with his narrow, brown, smooth-shaven face and skull, prominent cheek bones, receding brow, projecting ears and, with all its keenness, lustreless glance, rose before him as if he could see his bodily presence. [10]
The eyes under them needed to be taken on trust, they were so well concealed, but when they peered through the narrow chink between the rows of lashes, not even a mote escaped them. [10]
The shutters of the window were not open; light only entered through narrow openings in them, made for the needs of possible attacks by Indians in the far past. [11]
Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
The safety of the town in the narrow forest-valley was well secured, a wall and ditch enclosed it; only the houses on the edge of the ravine were unprotected. [10]
I remembered where the three were laid--in what narrow dark dwellings--never more to reappear on earth. [14]
If you leave the straight and narrow path you can't never get back--they keep pushing you off. [9]
We drove about the steep hills and narrow, crooked streets of this old town during three hours, yesterday, in a sleigh, in a driving snow-storm. [5]
It was just the sort of population to be narrow and ignorant and self-conceited. [5]
He spoke of the smell of the sea, of the rollicking sailors who surged through the narrow street to embark on his Majesty's men-of-war, and of the King's white soldiers in ranks of four going to foreign lands. [9]
The significance of the slight bridge on the narrow nose is less easy to define. [9]
Eastward and southward the sky was shrouded by dense veils of mist that rose from the large lakes and from the narrow estuaries that ran far up into the isthmus. [10]

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