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Sentences starting with one

One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
One of the young Taugwalders returned to Zermatt. [5]
One of the young men she recognized from a photograph on Susan's bureau. [9]
One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
One of the young ladies presented Mr. Clemens, and thanked him for his amiability in coming to make them an address. [5]
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]
One word with you, Porphyrius. [10]
One would think you were going to write a rhetoric. [9]

Sentences ending with one

I'll not betray your secret to any one. [10]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
Pierre hated him; Young Aleck admired in him a quality lying dormant in himself--decision; Mab Humphrey spoke unkindly of no one. [11]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
I don't want you to trifle with any one. [8]
We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
It has brought you to a gate that is billions of leagues from the right one. [5]
Well, why haven't you taken one? [2]
He has tact--as you saw--and would make a wonderful master of ceremonies, a splendid comptroller of the household and equerry and lord-chamberlain in one. [11]

Short sentences using one

Which one did you buy? [5]
It is one year since. [11]
People who never wrote one. [5]
One kiss, a wrong? [11]
Well, any one would. [5]
Yet one more word. [10]
One was a woman. [5]
But it ended with one. [5]
It was a wintry one. [5]
One good instance will suffice. [1]

Sentences containing one two or more times

Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one, too; and we'll take the one we like the best. [5]
He is a young Titan, and no one would be astonished if he one day succeeded in piling Pelion upon Ossa. [10]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
Suppose one of you wants to borrow the legs a minute from the one that's got them, could he let him? [5]
Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
No doubt, as you say, where power is supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor magicians are not so situated. [5]
I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes--one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one full of interest, inflamed with it, white-hot with it. [5]
As certainly as you can tell a good picture from a bad one, or a good egg from a bad one. [4]
I will ask you all to pass one by one in front of me--here, where there is a good light--so that I can see your feet. [5]

More example sentences with the word one in them

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]
Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands. [11]
There was a youthful member of one of your patrician families--an Ebner, I believe, or a Stromer or Tucher. [10]
If ever a youth was cordially admired and hated by his comrades, this one was. [5]
Take these cakes--for yourselves--and give him this one, from his mother. [5]
You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
You said so yourself--that you didn't want, any one to know, now. [9]
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]
Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
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]
You may take your turn with my shears and needle one day. [11]
He'll travel with your roan as on one snaffle- bar. [11]
Any one of your reporters will tell you that he looks sick.".... [9]
It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
The one where your place is is the best for you. [6]
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]
She's--she's one of your oldest and best friends. [9]
No one but your old servant. [12]
Is it in your mind that we shall cross swords one day? [11]
Will you trust your life and happiness with one who can offer you so little beside his love? [6]
Suppose one of your journeymen goes out and buys the following articles: "1 pound of salt; 1 dozen eggs; 1 dozen pints of beer; 1 bushel of wheat; 1 tow-linen suit; 5 pounds of beef; 5 pounds of mutton. [5]
We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
I came into your father's camp one evening in the autumn, hungry and tired and knocked about. [11]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
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 will give your Excellency one more surprise. [9]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
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]
Poets are never young, in one sense. [6]
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]
Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
But being a young woman, and a pretty one, Stephen was angry. [9]
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]
I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. [10]
I am but young to die, and thou canst save me with one little word. [5]
In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
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]
I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
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]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
So the seven young men said one to the other, let us get up and travel. [5]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
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]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
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]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [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]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
A long, yellowish young borzoi, one Nicholas did not know, from another leash, rushed impetuously at the wolf from in front and almost knocked her over. [2]
I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
And I tell you,"--his jaw was set,--"I tell you that some day Eliphalet Hopper will be one of the richest men in the West. [9]
I'd come for you, to your house," he added quickly, "but we don't want any one to know, yet--do we? [9]
By its terms you, the guilty one, go free with the innocent. [5]
I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
Any one but you would say that the man determined it, and that in doing it he exercised Free Will. [5]
P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
Not one of you would be willing to change our civilization for any other. [4]
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
Six months ago you were, apparently, one of the most orthodox rectors in the diocese. [9]
One would think you were going to the calabozo. [9]
When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
Was it something you wanted to forget there, some one you wanted to help here? [11]
Which one do you want me to make my enemy by telling him or her that the other isn't good enough? [4]
I fear for you Vastly & I beg you not Riske y'r Life Foolishly & this for the Sake of one who subscribes herself y'r Old Playmate & Well-Wisher Dolly. [9]
He will show you two letters of mine on this subject, one somewhat General, and the other relating to named persons; they are not different in principle. [7]
Mind that one you torpedoed for me? [8]
I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
No one kills you to save the Baas! [11]
For I know you to be one of the greatest rogues in the colony. [9]
I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
But to tell you the truth, Jethro, one old friend to another, durned if I don't wish she was married. [9]
Shall I read you the poems referred to in the one you have just heard, sir? [6]
I return to you the hymn-book, I read one of those you marked, and do not care to read any more. [6]
I will send you that--and you must let no one but Ossip read it. [5]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
But I promise you that one of these days I will present to you the very finest comedy imaginable. [11]
What steps will you take to hinder a single one from escaping? [10]
To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
Each one, if you separate it from the whole and give it a careful examination, is worthy of inspection, nay, of admiration. [10]
I am vain, you see; but then vanity is no sin when one has fine aspirations, and I aspire to you! [11]
Is it that you say one must go to confession, and in order to go to confession it is needful to sin? [11]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that one of those extraordinary old men devoted to Serapis had been murdered instead of you. [10]
I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]

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