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Sentences starting with not

Not Tardif but yourself is open to the law. [11]
Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the letters to Princess Mary's apartments, but did not find him there. [2]
Not one of you would be willing to change our civilization for any other. [4]
Not one of you is to mention Anana's name; do you hear? [10]
Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
Not going, ladies, you are not going, surely! [12]
Not a customer yet; he was a discouraged man, and sorry he had come. [5]
Not having as yet seen occasion to change, it is now my purpose to pursue the course marked out in the inaugural address. [7]
Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]

Sentences ending with not

Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
Did I save your wife's life or not? [5]
You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
I have upset your life, have I not? [11]
I should think you'd know why not! [9]
Call it as you will, my Daimon, or even my Genius--the name matters not. [10]
No, I know you will not. [9]
How he discovered you were with us I know not. [9]
I have believed you to be as righteous as all other men are not. [10]
Let me remind you of it, whether you have read it or not. [6]

Short sentences using not

Why not include yourself? [9]
Do not deceive yourself. [5]
I am not your friend. [5]
Are we not young? [6]
It is not you. [11]
But not like you, Bigot. [11]
You ought not, you see. [11]
You believe, do you not? [6]
You were, were you not? [12]
You approve, do you not? [11]

Sentences containing not two or more times

And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
Do not abuse your mirrored image; do not call yourself a clumsy fellow. [10]
The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
It is in your honor, and not in his, that we have no music this evening; you said that you did not particularly like it at a banquet. [10]
I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
It is not your duty, and you must not do it. [11]

More example sentences with the word not in them

You do jest; zis is not ze palace; we come there directly. [5]
But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
It's human nature you've got to deal with, not theories about law and justice. [4]
As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by him. [10]
You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. [10]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
You're--you're tired tonight, you're not yourself. [9]
And you say you're not sick, and so I don't see why we shouldn't come to business. [8]
You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
It is not your will to watch and hear; it is because you love the lady. [11]
I am not your wife save by the law; and little have you cared for law! [11]
I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
It is to your strength that I cling, and I know that you will not fail me. [9]
The world wants your skill to save life, not to destroy it. [11]
I'll not betray your secret to any one. [10]
It is not your rich gifts that have drawn me to you. [10]
You ask why your restless microscopic atoms may not come together and become self-conscious and self-moving organisms. [6]
Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
If Zminis searches your premises he will certainly go into the cellar; for what can he not do in Caesar's name? [10]
The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
It should be your part to entreat her help for our father and brother; but you must not venture where Caesar is. [10]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
But--but why grieve your mother when it--when it may not happen? [5]
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
Let that be your model; and remember, on peril of your reputation as a prophet, not to put a stop before or after the nunquam. [6]
You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. [5]
But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. [7]
You have not your match here in Alexandria, no, nor so far as Greek is spoken. [10]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
Your soldierly stride, your lordly port--these will not do. [5]
We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
I can endure your lies, but not your love. [5]
I remember in your letter you mentioned the remark of some friend of yours that the verses, "Take, O take those lips away," were not Shakspeare's; I think they are. [6]
I am not your inquisitor, but your bishop and your friend, and I am asking for your confidence. [9]
You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
I suppose, however, your husband told you of these things, so that you were not surprised. [11]
No, I suppose your husband did not speak much of his old friends. [11]
Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
I wonder--" "No, your honour need not wonder. [11]
I question not your honesty in that; I but warn you, that is all. [5]
Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
She desires not your governance and care. [11]
It was not your going over to the other side that pained me so, for all your people are Tories. [9]
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]
But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous. [6]
It is not your fault, my dear, it is Howard's. [9]
They won't know your father here--" If Stephen thought the Judge brutal, he did not say so. [9]
I see by your face that it will not be wasted. [10]
I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
Florida is in your Department, and it is not unlikely you may be there in person. [7]
You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
If you call your bosom friend a fool, and intend it for an insult, it is an insult; but if you do it playfully, and meaning no insult, it is not an insult. [5]
I disagree with your beliefs, but I do not think that your pursuit of them has not been sincere, and justified by your conscience. [9]
I have avoided your bait, as you call it, for your sake, not mine own. [11]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
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]
I was so young; I did not know life, or men--or Egyptians. [11]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
When you were young you were not taught the truth--neither was I. [9]
I was not young when you were born. [9]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
She is so young that she does not yet understand what life is. [4]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
Gifted Hopkins, a young poet of distinction, whose fame will reach you by and by, if it has not come to your ears already. [6]
Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
Would not the young nobleman accompany him? [10]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
He called his young mistress by name, but she did not hear him. [9]
Evidently these two young men were unfamiliar with the dueling ceremonies, though they were not unfamiliar with the sword. [5]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
If it fails, young master, you will not live a whole minute after, I promise you that. [5]
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
If you yourself, young man, do not suffer for Alexandrian wit, it will certainly not hurt Caesar! [10]

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