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Sentences starting with off

Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. [4]
Off we go, homeward bound! [10]
Off with him, guards! [10]
Off in the grounds of the dead Seigneur's manor he could see a man push the pebbles with his foot, or twist the branch of a shrub thoughtfully as he walked. [11]
Off goes the citizen's hat. [4]
Off with you, Benjy, and find out where she lives," he cried, and the obedient Benjy dropped the saddle-bags as though such commands were not uncommon. [9]
Off again at another right angle into still another long street with white shutters and white steps to all the houses. [6]
Off at right angles into another long street with white shutters and white steps to all the houses. [6]
Off to sea again; lay her off. [5]

Sentences ending with off

Do you want your head blown off? [5]
How long would you put it off? [9]
I want to write to Orion, but I keep putting it off--I keep putting everything off. [5]
The recruiter himself would have got off scot-free had not an arrow pinned one of his fingers to the loom of the steering-oar just as they were getting off. [5]
Perhaps the visions would come back, perhaps my head would come off. [9]
Besides, Trinity Day would bring the end of it all, and that was not far off. [11]
Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off. [5]
So, if you will put up with my acid tongue, there's no reason why we shouldn't hit it off. [11]
I can't think why his nieces put it off. [2]

Short sentences using off

Be off with you. [11]
He went off with it. [5]
He's gone off with dad. [9]
It went off well, anyhow. [5]
The porter warned us off. [9]
Some had been torn off. [9]
I was off to Alton. [9]
Why put off the inevitable? [11]
O.--"No, of course that's off. [5]
His hat was still off. [11]

Sentences containing off two or more times

And presently, when we drew a little closer, he gave one big shout and whipped off the hat from his head; and off, too, came the caps from the white heads of Scipio and Chess and Johnson behind him. [9]
Hard work will train it off, as sharp exercise trains off the fat of a prize-fighter. [3]
She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
While they were throwing off their clothes, the Ninety-Nine came down, and stood off. [11]
I've took off thousands of warts off of my hands that way, Huck. [5]
Far off, above, the sapphire gleams, Far off, below, the sapphire flows, And this, my place of morning dreams, The bank where my vain visions rose! [11]
Where it is,--said the little man;--it will never come off, till it falls off from the bone in the darkness and in the dust. [6]
But Myrtle tore the eagle's feathers from her hair, and stripped off her colored beads, and threw off her painted robe. [6]
They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved. [5]
He rose and stood gazing off down the valley once more, and she watched him with her heart beating, with a sense of an impending crisis which she seemed powerless to stave off. [9]

More example sentences with the word off in them

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]
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]
Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
And I need your true soul to help me to shake off the burden which is crushing me to the earth and choking me. [10]
Now take off your things, quick! [2]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
But take off your coat, Mr. Gridley,--very glad to see you. [6]
What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
He dragged our young men with him to Russia, and left them to die moaning on the frozen wastes, while he drove off in his sledge. [9]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
While he's up-stairs, you'll get out of the way, and I'll clear off Mr Richard. [12]
Be off with you, you house-rat. [10]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Throw in what you want, and we'll be off directly. [12]
And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway? [5]
I say that you took your hat off your head, and you prove me a liar by putting it on your head. [7]
I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and engage him at an advantage. [7]
It's easy for you to shoot off your mouth, you've got a soft snap with Ditmar. [9]
I must ask you to knock off part of that. [5]
I look to you to divide the responsibility with me, and you've shirked by running off to Maine. [9]
I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
Friends, what do you say to letting me off this evening? [10]
On the raft, you remember, he took off his hat to death. [11]
Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on--en what did I git for it? [5]
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]
But where are you off to? [2]
They have cast you off like an old moccasin. [9]
I will let you off at twenty-eight per cent.--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist, for there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. [5]
I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
I still owe you my after-dinner speech, but you must let me off, for I can't speak your language fluently. [10]
But I bet you I ain't going to throw off on di'monds. [5]
The one thing you have--" He broke off, nodding his head in amusement. [11]
Good-by, sir, good-by; you have taken a great load off my mind. [5]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
I move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces, and give the result to the right man--the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward Richards. [5]
Arrived at New York, they went to a hotel off Broadway for dinner, and Carnac signed names in the hotel register as "Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier. [11]
You be off yonder way and I'll go this. [5]
It feared him; yet, as he travelled with it, he scarcely ever took his eyes off it, and he never trusted it. [11]
It was not yet dusk when Master Ulsenius came and broke off our discourse. [10]
One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. [5]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
That night he wrote his daughter and broke off her match with her student. [5]
The thing went wrong, but checking off my blunder he blundered too,--out of sheer wonder, perhaps, at my bungling,--and I disarmed him. [11]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
At all events write me all about it, till I can somehow get it off my hands. [7]
Enough that they write "delightful spot" in their diaries, and hurry off to new scenes, and more noisy life. [4]
But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
I asked him wouldn't he knock off twenty per cent. [5]
And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep. [5]
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
In the meantime would the Scientist kill off a good many patients? [5]
Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve. [2]
I hoped he would show off some, but he didn't. [5]
This horrid man would have gone off with you to Asquith or somewhere else, with handcuffs on your wrists; for it isn't a detective's place to take evidence, Mr. Crocker says. [9]
Satan said we would have a storm now, and an earthquake, if we liked, but we must stand off a piece, out of danger. [5]
Elsie loved riding,--and would go off with him on a gallop now and then. [6]
My cousin, who would fain have hindered her from coming in, held her by the arm; and her efforts to shake off the old lady's grasp were all in vain till she caught sight of Herdegen. [10]
Then Miles Hendon would cripple some of those people, and carry off his little ward, and comfort and cheer him with loving words, and the two would never be separated any more. [5]
The old Janet would be cast off with the old raiment; the new suit would announce to herself and to the world a Janet in whom were released all those longings hitherto disguised and suppressed, and now become insupportable! [9]
And when the workers were in possession of all, would not they be as badly off as Mrs. Brocklehurst or Ditmar? [9]
He had not worked off a cake; yet he had tried all the tricks of the trade, even to the washing of a hermit; but the hermit died. [5]
For any casual work connected with public functions Osterhaut was indispensable, and he would serve as a doctor's assistant and help cut off a leg, be the majordomo for a Sunday-school picnic, or arrange a soiree at a meeting-house with equal impartiality. [11]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. [2]
These were the words I was maundering with this noble voice of mine: "'The news I bring, fair Lady, Will make your tears run down Put off your rose-red dress so fine And doff your satin gown! [11]
I astonished Mr. Wood; and sometimes he would tilt back his chair, take off his spectacles and pull his beard. [9]
Besides, when they won't get well and bore you to death, you can send 'em off to travel. [6]
There was a wonderful light on all the inner bay, as we put off from shore. [4]
You've been a wonder, the way you've caught on and taken things off my shoulders. [9]
If the Rowens woman should hook Dudley, she felt as if she should gnaw all her nails off for spite. [6]
Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off, and the entire machine was out of service. [5]
It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly! [9]
Now, be off with you this minute. [10]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving. [4]
He then proceeds, with the air and method of a master, to take off the bandages. [6]
It's always sunrise with that man, and fine and blazing, at that--never gets noon; though--leaves off and rises again. [5]
Well, he began with taking off the case, and so on from one liberty to another, until he got it fairly open, and there were the works, as good as if they were alive,--crown-wheel, balance-wheel, and all the rest. [6]
We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. [5]
I finished off with reading some verses of my friend the Professor, of whom you may perhaps hear more by and by. [6]
The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
They mounted, and, with Jane in the lead, rode down the lane, and, turning off into a cattle trail, proceeded westward. [13]
The widow, kneeling with clasped hands, never took her eyes off the face of the youth, nor moved for fear of disturbing the deacon who, as she knew, was praying--praying for the salvation of the heathen soul snatched away before it could repent. [10]
Austen suddenly remembered, with an irresistible smile, that one of the reasons which he had assigned for his visit to the capital was to hear this very speech, to see how Mr. Crewe would carry off what appeared to be a somewhat difficult situation. [9]
He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]

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