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Sentences starting with observation

Observation of this sort would also teach us doubtless what places are most conducive to literary production, what to happy homes and agreeing wives and husbands. [4]
Observation and thought, I guess. [5]

Sentences ending with observation

Sometimes it comes with little observation. [4]
Such, at least, was the story I heard after he disappeared from general observation. [6]
If the cave was inhabited, it must be by strangers, and by men who had some secret purpose in seeking this seclusion and eluding observation. [4]
If she is to stay in the background and pretend to surrender her choice to her parents, and with it all the delights of a matrimonial campaign, she will still maintain a position of observation. [4]
Had they seen the thing done, there would have been sensation, but no mystery; but night, secrecy, distance, mystery, all begot, not a reaction in Mazarine's favour, but a protest against the thing being done under cover, as it were, unhelped by popular observation. [11]
It was not the state to favor sound, calm observation. [3]
As soon as the square began to empty, Barine left her post of observation. [10]
Yet they knew the small clouds floating away from his head did not check his observation. [11]
He glanced at the menu as if idly interested, conscious that he was under observation. [11]
After the confession the almoner heard things to which he would gladly have shut his ears, though they proved that the time which the marquise had spent at the French court had benefited her powers of observation. [10]

Short sentences using observation

Observation? [5]

Sentences containing observation two or more times

It is an inherited habit which was originally thought--that is to say, observation of an exterior fact, and a valuable inference drawn from that observation and confirmed by experience. [5]
The false induction from genuine facts of observation, leading to the construction of theories which are then deductively applied in the face of the results of direct observation. [3]

More example sentences with the word observation in them

How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
He fell to wondering, but, even as he wondered, his habit of observation made him take in every feature of the governor's house and garden, so that he could have reproduced all as it was mirrored in his eye. [11]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
Mr. Buxton, however, who had excellent means of observation (11. [1]
Once in a while you will have a patient of sense, born with the gift of observation, from whom you may learn something. [3]
Once in a while he would make a droll observation that was greeted with fits of laughter. [9]
What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties. [14]
The interest to us now in the observation of this phase of modern life is not in the least for purposes of satire or of reform. [4]
He had sat up till morning, had rested scarcely three hours, and now, with knitted brows, was comparing the results of his night's observation of the starry sky with certain astronomical tables which lay spread out before him. [10]
As the drama unfolded, Philip was more interested in this phase than in the observation of her enjoyment and appreciation. [4]
They had you under observation while you were in the bank. [11]
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. [4]
He had some touch of wit, some biting observation, and, as he neared the place of the encounter, he played upon the coming event with a mordant frivolity. [11]
But, from time to time, she would lift her eyes toward Mr. Bernard, and let them rest upon him, without a thought, seemingly, that she herself was the subject of observation or remark. [6]
It is patent to the most superficial observation that our present method does not protect society, and does not lessen the number of the criminal class, either by deterrent methods or by reformatory processes, except in a very limited way. [4]
What he meant to say was, "Adam was the first and Adams is the last of earth," but he put it off a trifle too long, and so he had to go with that unmeaning observation on his lips. [5]
My wife said to me that she was reminded of the gentle observation of Carmen Eschelle, "The people I cannot stand are those who pretend they are not wicked. [4]
From the junction to Fabyan's they rode in an observation car, all open, and furnished with movable chairs, where they sat as in a balcony. [4]
There was ample time to note these particulars, for besides that they were sufficiently obvious without very close observation, some moments elapsed before any one broke silence. [12]
She realized that those noticing her liked her, and this observation helped to calm her. [2]
I presume that this observation must have been made on birds under confinement. [1]
Nor do I think that we need to take shelter behind the wellworn and convenient observation, the truth of which stands in much doubt, that literature is the final flower of a nation's civilization. [4]
To this observation there was, obviously, no answer. [9]
A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath, leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving them to wander as they will. [4]
In the autumn the observation of the chrysalis state of insects was connected with that of the various stages of their existence. [10]
First, there is the natural incapacity for sound observation, which is like a faulty ear in music. [3]
Our observation of the influence of climate is mostly with regard to physical infirmities. [4]
Your observation that the horse-chestnut as an article of commerce is steadily gaining in favor is simply calculated to destroy this journal. [5]
Now with birds the evidence stands thus: they have acute powers of observation, and they seem to have some taste for the beautiful both in colour and sound. [1]
To all observation the career of Lyon, and not of Margaret, was most affected by their interview. [4]
Uncle Jerry was the calmest man in town, and his observation that Henderson knew what he was about was reassuring. [4]
I stood on the brink above, secure, as I thought, from observation, when she chanced to look up and spied me. [9]
He walked with the air of a man courting observation. [11]
I will say that the same high qualities, the same moral and intellectual attainments, the same graciousness of manner, of conduct, of observation, and expression have caused Admiral Harrington to be mistaken for me--and I have been mistaken for him. [5]
The problem is that regarding man as a subject of observation from whatever point of view--theological, historical, ethical, or philosophic--we find a general law of necessity to which he (like all that exists) is subject. [2]
Still I think that it caught and held some phases of Egyptian life which the author of 'Said the Fisherman' might perhaps miss, since the observation of every artist has its own idiosyncrasy, and what strikes one observer will not strike another. [11]
We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there. [9]
If the graver symptoms recur while the patient is under our observation, we propose to make use of an agency discredited by modern skepticism, but deserving of a fair trial as an exceptional remedy for an exceptional disease. [6]
This shows the subtle observation of the ancients; for the hunchback whose body is bent, applies a crooked standard to things in general. [10]
Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again--a croak with a distinctly insulting expression about it. [5]
The observation was so innocent and so honest that it amounted to a very good thing for a guide to say. [5]
With all the sight seeing he was averaging a full four letters a week--long letters, requiring careful observation and inquiry. [5]
Life seems a serious thing, what I have seen of it--and my observation teaches me that it is made up mainly of hiccups, unnecessary washings, and colic. [5]
Everything that you see with your own eyes and touch with your own hand, you think infallible, and everything that escapes your observation you secretly regard as untrue, and pass by with a smile of superiority. [10]
He is a retired college officer, a man of books and observation, and himself an author. [6]
He considered the reflection with anxious observation, and when he seated himself in his litter to be borne to the house of his friend Katuti, he said to himself that he still might claim to be called a handsome man. [10]
A person of real observation and astuteness, however, would have noticed that Kitty's laughter told a story which was not joy and gladness-- neither good humour nor the abandonment of a luxurious nature. [11]
Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
This latter part proved to be easy traveling, well screened from possible observation from the north and west, and he soon covered it and felt safer in the deepening shade of his own canyon. [13]
Birds possess acute powers of observation. [1]
To get the parallax of heavenly truths, you must take an observation from the position of the laity as well as of the clergy. [6]
Send some policeguards over there, and let her be brought over here as a prisoner; I will examine her myself, and so can question her without exciting observation. [10]
They were lifted out of the life of that continent with sympathy and care, and most of the incidents were those which had come under my own observation. [11]
Science, on the other hand, was in a sphere by herself, and need have no conflict with religion; science was not an undertaking, but an impartial investigation by close observation of facts in nature. [9]
When any experience or observation of his went counter to it he suffered--something like physical pain. [8]
I believe common opinion confirms Sir James Clark's observation to this effect. [3]
The fear is only mitigated by the observation that the reputation of a person for great talent sometimes ceases with his reformation. [4]
He had only one criticism of institutional work, that in his observation it did not bring the people whom it reached into the Church in any great numbers. [9]
We have been on the point several times in this journey of making the observation, but have been restrained by a reluctance to touch upon politics, that it was no wonder that a people with such a cuisine should have rebelled. [4]
Nobility was written on the placid, apathetic countenance, except when it was not under observation, and then the look of Cain took its place. [11]
After many years of travel and home-staying observation I have found that all worth remembrance, the salient things and scenes, emerge clearly out of myriad impressions, and become permanent in mind and memory. [11]
That the organ of the mind brings with it inherited aptitudes is a simple matter of observation. [6]
On the arrival of the candidate, instead of a surging crowd lining the sidewalk, he found only a fringe of the curious, whose usual post of observation was the railroad station, standing silently on the curb. [9]
Apart from consciousness of self no observation or application of reason is conceivable. [2]
In his observation of pictures, it was the common soldier who was always falling and dying, while the officer stood unharmed in the storm of bullets and waved his sword in a heroic attitude. [4]
The alleged results of observation may be set aside; first, because the so-called facts are in their own nature equivocal; secondly, because they stand on insufficient authority; thirdly, because they are not sufficiently numerous. [3]
Her awakening powers of observation had discovered him in bondage, and in bondage he had been ever since: for their acquaintance had begun on the first Sunday afternoon after Honora's arrival in St. Louis at the age of eighteen months. [9]
With many species of butterflies the upper surfaces of the wings are obscure; and this in all probability leads to their escaping observation and danger. [1]
The ant has observation, the reasoning faculty, and the preserving adjunct of a prodigious memory; she has duplicated man's development and the essential features of his civilization, and you call it all instinct! [5]
These results of observation, being admitted, may, we will suppose, be interpreted in different methods. [3]
Is it your observation that the writer for a syndicate, on solicitation for a price or an order for a certain kind of work, produces as good quality as when he works independently, uninfluenced by the spirit of commercialism? [4]
I made the observation that the ladies were ten times as lively as the gentlemen. [8]
What Verus was now projecting he regarded as being a simple act of self-defence; and after all, it consisted merely in detaining Hadrian for an hour, interrupting him in an idle occupation--the observation of the stars. [10]
These qualities did not tend to render him popular in a Western town, if indeed they would have recommended him anywhere, and I confess to have thought him a surly enough fellow, being guided by general opinion and superficial observation. [9]
The constellations were not made from any geography of the heavens, but from actual nightly observation of the positions of the heavenly bodies. [4]
The horses were not ambitious, but went on at an easy fox-trot that permits observation and encourages conversation. [4]
By dint of minute observation and reasoning powers and unflagging determination she passed rapidly through several strata, and had made a country place out of her husband's farm in Tunbridge, so happily and conveniently situated near Leith. [9]
My observation persuades me (I do not like to venture beyond my own personal observation,) that the upper classes of Naples possess those traits of character. [5]
And here it may be said that people of any observation (though, of necessity, they were few, since Rahway attracted only busy sugar-planters and their workmen) were used to speak of Louis Bachelor as one who must certainly have a history. [11]
For it is matter of observation that in this arena the pickerel, if he succeeds in clearing out the pool, suddenly becomes a trout, and is respected as the biggest and most useful fish in the pond. [4]
Another observation, which makes men discontented with very slow accumulation, is that apparently, in the public estimation it does not make much difference whether a man acquires wealth justly or unjustly. [4]
She tried to make her novel like a piece of actual life,--feeling sure that, if she but represented the product of personal experience and observation truly, good would come out of it in the long run. [14]
The long colonnade made an admirable promenade and lounging-place and point of observation. [4]
Jack had been lucky, but there was, no doubt, truth in an observation of Mavick's. [4]
The longer she lived, the more experience and observation she had of life, the greater was her wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness. [2]
But we had little time for observation. [10]
To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved. [2]
I said I knew nothing against the upper classes by personal observation. [5]
She had the keen observation of the dweller in lonely places, where every traveller has the potentialities of a foe, while the door of hospitality is opened to him after the custom of the wilds. [11]
Of course, the keen and practised observation of Helen Darley could not fail to notice the change of Elsie's manner and expression. [6]
I cannot lay it down, and I cannot shorten it, for story, character, soul and reflection, imagination, observation are dragging me along after them. [11]
Shrewd observation there is indeed, but its strength is in broad generalization and epigrammatic characterizations. [6]
Much of it is admirable in workmanship, and exhibits a cleverness in details and a subtlety in the observation of traits which many great novels lack. [4]
How full of information, of philosophic observation, of accurate knowledge! [4]
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history. [2]
Neither the long incubation of hydrophobia, nor the protecting power of vaccination, would ever have been admitted, if the results of observation in these affections had been rejected as contradictory to the previously ascertained laws of contagion. [3]
Laura was more in the shadow and stood for an instant, long enough for the Colonel to make the inward observation that she was a magnificent Woman. [5]
Seated one afternoon in his favorite corner for street observation, by the open window, with the evening paper in his hand, in the attitude of one expecting the usual five o'clock cocktail, he hailed Jack, who was just coming down-stairs from a protracted lunch. [4]

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