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Sentences starting with on

On the New Zealanders, Mantegazza, 'Viaggi e Studi,' 1867, p. 526. [1]
On Sunday morning your letter came, and you have thus been spared the visitation of the unannounced and unsummoned apparition of Currer Bell in Cornhill. [14]
On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [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]
On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
On the Sahbath you will be able to attend divine service three times, which is expected of our teachers. [6]
On you, do you understand? [9]
On the fight, you understand. [5]
On the way you shall tell me everything. [10]
On Trinity Sunday you shall preach in my chapel, Monsieur de la Foret, and thereafter you shall know your fate. [11]

Sentences ending with on

I will kiss your footprints--I will worship the very ground you walk on! [5]
The face of your daughter drew him on. [11]
Just hang up your coat on the floor anywhere," Fulkerson went on. [8]
I said to you, Give up; but you kept on. [11]
Hasn't anybody told you what's going on? [9]
W'y, what has you lived on? [5]
As soon as you left, it began and went on. [2]
No one, do you hear, no human being, not even the servants, must suspect what is going on. [10]
The only chance you have is to ignore the thing from now on. [9]
This is what you have been working on? [9]

Short sentences using on

Go on with your story. [10]
This warrant's on your father. [9]
Go on with your chatter. [5]
Victory depends on you. [2]
Say on what you like. [11]
Git down on yo' knees! [5]
Others came on with weapons. [11]
Lead on, we will follow. [5]
So on we went. [5]
And yet I went on. [9]

Sentences containing on two or more times

Thank you for yours on my little notification speech and on the recent inaugural address. [7]
Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
That it was your brother was an accident, and--" "It was an accident that the penalty must fall on Claridge Pasha, and on you, madame. [11]
The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
The trouble with you, my dear Hugh, is that you have never failed," she went on, "you've never had a good, hard fall, you've always been on the winning side, and you've never had the world against you. [9]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
We can get you some garter-snakes, and you can tie some buttons on their tails, and let on they're rattlesnakes, and I reckon that 'll have to do. [5]
He says: "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. [5]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]

More example sentences with the word on in them

Such was the youth who first sprang on shore. [10]
But the rash youth went on in the same tone: "I would worship her gladly, though I have forgotten how to pray. [10]
Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [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]
To my mad youth her gentle surveillance Was like a watch-fire on a rock-bound coast. [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]
Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
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]
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]
Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
You're joking, sir, you're joking with me,' replied the lawyer, putting on his hat. [12]
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]
You were on your way to be married. [11]
Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you! [5]
Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
He'll travel with your roan as on one snaffle- bar. [11]
Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
When we want your opinion on scientific matters, we will hasten to let you know. [5]
Please give me your opinion in writing on this question. [7]
If--always according to your notion of the convention--if I don't get out, and haven't any chance, they tell me on pretty good authority Austen Vane will get the nomination. [9]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
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]
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]
The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
You will have your lifetime to reckon with it, free from any interference on my part; for, if I can help it, we shall never meet again in this world--never. [11]
Only remember that your life's happiness depends on your decision. [2]
An attempt on your life, great Caesar; but we have him fast! [10]
I had read your letters to my wife--" "Your wife once on a time! [11]
They are aware, your honour, that he and you knew each other in Ireland, and they think you are hard on him. [11]
And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you. [5]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [7]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it. [5]
They grate on your finer sensibilities, and all that sort of thing. [9]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
Fight on, with your doomed followers--brave men I admit--and Hoche will have no mercy. [11]
Is swording then your dearest vice that you must urge it on a harmless gentle man, and my visitor? [11]
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]
You'll know, and your country'll know, what's going on here in the hum of the dim bazaars. [11]
Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
Tain's out of your beat--away on the right flank there. [11]
Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
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]
The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
I'll go with you--now there's my word on it. [5]
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]
Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. [2]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
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]
Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said-- 'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors. [5]
One of the young men she recognized from a photograph on Susan's bureau. [9]
He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
She kissed the young man on his forehead, wetting him with her tears. [2]
None but a young man could take on the job, for it will require boldness, skill, and the recklessness of perfect courage. [11]
And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
He was a young lawyer turned actor, and he had lived in Montreal before he went on the stage. [11]
He needed encouragement,--what young lawyer does not on his first important case? [9]
Another, a mature young lady of fifteen, who waited on the table, in the leisure after supper asked the Friend for a light for her cigarette, which she had deftly rolled. [4]
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]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
There were handsome young fellows on the Pontine coast, and we captured them. [10]
All right,--said the young fellow.--I would n't be hard on the poor little-- The word he used was objectionable in point of significance and of grammar. [6]
Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it..." He threw it on the table. [2]
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]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. [5]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
Lord bless me you'll love her--you'll dote on her --you'll be twins! [5]
But I believe you'll find he left for the capital on the eleven o'clock, and if you take the trouble to inquire from Bedding you will probably learn that the Throne Room is bespoken for the session. [9]
Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes' shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'. [5]
Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in a balcony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night-gown and her ruffled nightcap. [5]
I'm a-countin' on you, Will Wetherell. [9]
Probably it was you, too, who had him flung into the water, after you had vented your wrath on him? [10]
Ack, what are you, to turn your back on me? [11]
There's gossip for you, thick as mortar," cried the charcoalman, and the mealman's fingers beat a tattoo on his stomach. [11]
Manners waits on you, sir, in the drawing-room," said the footman. [9]
He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
Good to see you, Captain, on a day like this. [9]
I also authorize you, by an order, or in what form you choose, to suspend all operations on the Treasury trade permits, in all places southeastward of the Alleghenies. [7]
I say to you, Brice," he went on earnestly, "the importance of plain talk can't be overestimated. [9]
When I visit you, as you say I shall, I mean to indoctrinate Maurice with sound views on that subject. [6]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [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]
Please answer as you would do, on my requirement, if the act of June 15, 1864, had not been passed, and I will so use your opinion as to satisfy that act. [7]
Well, then, are you willing to try it out, on the level? [9]

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