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Sentences starting with of

Of course the young schoolmaster will come, and that poor tired-out looking Helen, if only to get out of sight of those horrid Peckham wretches. [6]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
Of course, with you soldiers the years of warfare count double, and he--Duke Alba said so--was born a general. [10]
Of the reports you mention, I have not the means of seeing any except your own. [7]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
Of his practice you can form an opinion from his book called "Letters to a Young Physician. [3]
Of his love you are ever sure; remember him in your prayers; and as for that you have to say to Ann, say it in such wise that she shall not take it over much to heart. [10]
Of what are you accused? [10]

Sentences ending with of

But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
If I were you, De Conte, I would name the emotion; it's nothing to be ashamed of. [5]
But I leave you to judge of that, for you are the worst judge I know of. [5]
Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
What is it you speak of? [9]
And copper, coal,--everything--everything you can think of! [5]
I shall make you all some of the Naples biscuit Mrs. Brice told me of. [9]
Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. [5]
Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about some deeds which he says he left with you, but which I can find nothing of. [7]
And what else would they be likely to consist of? [5]

Short sentences using of

I thought of your wife. [4]
That's one-third of your property. [11]
I know of your people. [11]
How sweet of you! [9]
Come back-all of you! [5]
I'm ashamed of you! [4]
I'm thinkin' of you! [13]
I beg of you! [13]
Come both of you! [12]
How good of you! [11]

Sentences containing of two or more times

For Proctotretus, see 'Zoology of the Voyage of the "Beagle"; Reptiles,' by Mr. Bell, p. 8. [1]
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]
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
There was a youthful member of one of your patrician families--an Ebner, I believe, or a Stromer or Tucher. [10]
The splendour of youth is its madness, and the splendour of that madness is its unconquerable belief. [11]
At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
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]

More example sentences with the word of in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
Smedley the artist; Zorn the artist; Zogbaum the artist; Reinhart the artist; Metcalf the artist; Ancona, head tenor at the Opera; Oh, a great lot of others. [5]
Gunther's 'Record of Zoological Literature,' 1867, p. 260. [1]
Do you think, Zoe, that with that I could wear the dress of transparent bombyx silk that came yesterday from Cos? [10]
And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
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]
The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre. [5]
Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
In industry and zeal he was said to resemble the celebrated and lamented Mr. Rand, of the Peach Nectar. [9]
By St. Patrick, you've made yourself captain with the good-will of all, and your iron hand has held the thing together. [11]
The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
Did he to you--to any of you? [11]
Each of these youths is my keeper, my spy. [10]
And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
Remember also the youthful Ephraim, the grandson of Nun, Thy faithful servant. [10]
Now, in his youth, Caracalla went through his courses of philosophy. [10]
Those verses were youth, and youth was gone, with all its flushed and spirited dalliance and reckless expenditure of feeling. [11]
She saw a youth with a sword hurrying towards the Cohue Royale from a tangled mass of combatants. [11]
But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
At last, the youth succeeded, by means of the cleverest trick I ever saw, in clasping his opponent firmly. [10]
In me, the youth of nineteen, he awakened admiration, interest, and curiosity, and his "You are a poet" sometimes strengthened my courage, sometimes disheartened me. [10]
Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
We had a youth living with us by the name of Jim Wolfe. [5]
In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration? [6]
You know it yourselves--both of you; you know it perfectly well. [5]
You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
But don't expose yourself in any outbreak of eloquence; for, by the mortar in which Anaxarchus was pounded! [6]
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]
You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
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]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
The land is yours, and to-morrow my attorney shall give you a deed of it. [9]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds --regular dead-beats. [5]
But I'm glad you're going to the Old Mother of all. [6]
They tell me you're buildin' a mill up at McChesney's, and I reckon you're as cute as any of 'em. [9]
This light within your youthful hearts has beamed, Ripening the germs of all things good and fair; I also fostered them, and joyous dreamed Of future progress to repay our care. [10]
Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
But I have your word for it, too, and the returning elasticity of spirits which is manifested in your letters. [7]
I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and play you one of my adagio movements, and some of you say,--This is good,--play us so always. [6]
Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
Take leave of your wife, and (I speak by the king's command) be ready to start before dark. [10]
I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
Now it is your turn again: In what city of my home did you meet the signorina? [10]
You have had your trials, you have them still; but every gift of man is yours, and every opportunity. [11]
Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [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]
I rebel against your system of forced publicity. [6]
I'm afraid of your success, and of all the money you're making. [9]
But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
Yet I watched your steps as the hunter follows the trail of the game. [10]
Ye temple-servants, seize your staves, and spread in every part of the city the news of the miracle which the Divinity has vouchsafed to us. [10]
The quota of your State would be ______. [7]
I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone? [10]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
Every officer of your ship was the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew. [5]
He knows that your salvation is now secure, but of course you would like to know it yourself. [5]
Will it please your royal highness to dismiss all that attend you here, save my lord the Earl of Hertford? [5]
I heard of your riding to the Neck of Baroob--the men of Boonda Broke brought word. [11]
Any one of your reporters will tell you that he looks sick.".... [9]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
And it isn't your proposition--no, that doesn't fascinate me; it's something else, I don't quite know what; something that's born in you and oozes out of you, I suppose. [5]
Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
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]
Take out of your pocket the pistol you carry and give it to me," Crozier growled. [11]
The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. [7]
The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
You were dismissed your place by the mistress of this Manor. [11]
I go from your philosophical discussions to the reading of Jeremy Taylor's "Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying" without feeling that I have unfitted myself in the least degree for its solemn reflections. [6]
I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. [14]
He comes from your part of the country, and you will be concerned, of course. [11]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
Come back to your own people; be a true daughter of the Ry of Rys; live with your Romany chal. [11]
Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
You shall form your own opinion of her. [6]
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
Report to me your opinion upon the availability for good of the enrolled militia of the State. [7]

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