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Sentences starting with only

Only remember that your life's happiness depends on your decision. [2]
Only I beg you not to misunderstand me. [10]
Only recollect what you have done for me. [10]
Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
Only just now you appeared to consider certain words uttered last night in reference to a lady--" "Let that pass," interrupted Heinz with marked emphasis. [10]
Only five, and yet it seemed twenty. [11]
Only for one year had this paper been made, and then the trade in it was stopped. [11]
Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
Only lately he wrote to his uncle from Paris that he was minded to make me his wife. [10]
Only one favour would I ask: would the Herr Doctor be so kind as not to ask questions about Schimmel and myself or any member of the honoured Ueberhell family. [10]

Sentences ending with only

He hoped fortune would so favour him that he could arrange for the meeting of the two alone, or, at least, in his presence only. [11]
You don't hear with the ears only. [11]
One can't help wishing that Mr. Pugh could have got at him for a single lecture, at least, of the "Star Course," or that he could have appeared in the Music Hall, "for this night only. [6]
At first my wish was to possess you at any cost: I was your hunter only. [11]
She did not wish to speak with him now, nor to be near him yet; she wanted this day for herself only. [11]
Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only. [10]
A common bee will sting any one or anybody, but a royalty stings royalties only. [5]
I will be white or I will be Indian; and I will be white, white only. [11]
I confess that while I sat there, in an audience so keenly in sympathy with the play--almost a part of it, one might say--I doubted if I understood your people as well as I thought I did when I had been here a week only. [4]
You don't care whether she's happy in this world or the next; what you want is what you can see of her, for your life in this world only. [11]

Short sentences using only

Only, hold up your head! [10]
Only, they--they--told me you would. [5]
Oh, if only you would! [10]
And yesterday, only yesterday. [10]
It's only the woodsman there. [11]
Only for a while. [5]
If only Philippus were here! [10]
Only the leaders were absent. [10]
Only the four went. [11]
Only a little ways. [4]

Sentences containing only two or more times

I do not write this as a lawyer seeking an advantage for a client; but only as a friend, only urging you to do what I think I would do if I were in your situation. [7]
I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
The Parson, you would say, was the east wind, and only his intimates know that his peevishness is only a querulous humor. [4]
Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
And apparently the workers can only improve their condition by strikes, by suffering--it seems to be the only manner in which they can convince the employers that the conditions are bad. [9]
Only the conviction with which men like Clemens and Origen, who were friends of his wife, declared that the doctrine to which they adhered was the only right one--was, in fact, the truth itself--seemed to the skeptic "foolishness. [10]
He did this with the utmost consideration, fearing the effect of this agitating news upon his wife; but Barbara only turned pale, and then, with tears glittering in her eyes, said softly, "He, too, was only a mortal man. [10]
It is in winter the only mode Leukerbad has of communicating with the world; and in summer it is the only way of reaching Albinen, except by a long journey down the Dala and up another valley and height. [4]
Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
Only a little while ago few people in the United States knew how to draw, and only a few could tell good drawing from bad. [4]

More example sentences with the word only in them

The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre. [5]
As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands. [11]
Even Appelles' perennial youth is only a long tragedy, and his life a failure. [5]
You'll only get yourself into a mess! [2]
But only put yourself in my place. [10]
In pious Trust yourself forget For others only toil and fret, Since all we do for fellow Men With right good Will, shall be our Gain. [10]
Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
If you let your hand tremble so, we can never get away from them, but if you're only quiet now, we shall do so, easily. [12]
Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [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]
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]
Thank you for your dear, dear note; you who are my own and only sweetheart. [5]
I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
The success of your army and the cause of the country are the same, and, of course, I only desire the good of the cause. [7]
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]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence. [11]
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]
I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
It is only young magicians that give away a secret like that. [5]
Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
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]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
I never wronged you; I have only been your blister. [11]
I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of your own Greek cities to him. [10]
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]
She has vexed you, of that there can be no doubt; how, I can only guess. [10]
When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
If you do, you will only be a troublesome ghost. [11]
If he asks you where the heroic deed was done, name any house you please, only not this. [10]
That distressed me--but you were only watching Helios rise. [10]
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]
I only wish you were all as happy as I am. [2]
I don't ask you to vote at all--I only urge you to not soil yourself by voting for Blaine. [5]
I would ask you to stay to the dance to-night if your skin were only white, instead of red. [9]
I only ask you to remember, Honora, that you have not explained these reasons very clearly in your letters to your aunt and uncle. [9]
It's best for you to forget mot I've brought you only pain and dishonor. [13]
I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to try to see what makes me believe it. [6]
We only want you to be happy. [4]
I'm not asking you to be a detective,--I only want you to give me warning if we are to have a strike. [9]
I only tell you this because you close all other ways to me. [11]
But I assure you that it is my misfortune rather than my fault that I have not pleased you,--that I have met you only to anger you. [9]
I agree with you that enemies are easy enough to find, but only fools go out to look for them. [10]
How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! [5]
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]
Friend, I pray you repress those tears, Comfort from this derive: I am a score--and more-of years And Jean is only five. [11]
The trouble is, you only see one side of this question. [9]
My note to you only means that if you know of any such thing rendering a suspension of the execution proper, on your own judgment, you are at liberty to suspend it. [7]
Tell me, are you only a tourist--I was going to say idler, but I know you are not; you have the face of a man who does things--are you tourist or worker here? [11]
I can give you only a brief abstract of my own opinions on this delicate and difficult subject. [6]
You must live, you must not die; for see, Publius here asks me to be his wife, and the Immortals only can know how glad I am to go with him, and Irene is to stay with us, and be my sister and his. [10]
One thing only you may do. [10]
Ask whatever else you like, only deliver me from this awful suspense. [10]
Our evening meetings, you know, only begin at early candlelight. [4]
He was, as you know, greatly mistaken, and ought to have made love to me, only he did n't. [6]
Look at what you know, and then, if you only think, you'll laugh at what I know. [11]
In that ability you know I once prided myself as the only or chief gem of my character; that gem I lost--how and where you know too well. [7]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! [2]
The only chance you have is to ignore the thing from now on. [9]
And why couldn't you have answered my letter yesterday, if it were only a line? [9]
Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
I knew that you had advertised a trip to Europe (why, the Lord only knows), so I went East and sailed for England on the Canadian Line. [9]
I know that you gave the order that only three of the five ships which brought the contents of your winelofts should be unloaded. [10]
I will reward you for it with the only thing that the daughter of the wealthy Krates cannot purchase, yet which she probably rates at no low value--the love of her royal friend. [10]
I only wonder you don't find me more worn out, for what can be more excruciating for a woman, that to be obliged to enter the lists for manly decisiveness against a man who is defending a perfectly antagonistic view? [10]
It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip--still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
She felt that you could only love her and be glad of her, if her man was independent of you. [11]
But why did you choose a detail of my question which could be answered only with vague hearsay evidence, and go right by one which could have been answered with deadly facts?--facts in everybody's reach, facts which none can dispute. [5]
I only know you can't talk too much for me. [8]
Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
For the rest, you can think of me as badly as you will, or as well, for what I do henceforth is the only thing that really concerns the world, Monsieur le Cure. [11]
If he refuses, you can go in in spite of him, since you and Mr. Farrar are the only ones who can sail. [9]
It only disappoints you as to its "vine-clad hills. [4]
Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
You pretend, that you are only staying here to please your wife, but it's no such thing. [10]
Tell me now, you are not in earnest, are you, but only trying a little sentiment on me? [6]
I only know you are charged with killing a bad man, notorious in Dublin life, and that many think he got his just deserts in being killed. [11]
I'll tell only you and the wind that hears and runs away. [11]
We have brains, you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories. [5]
Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
We had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about. [5]
I was ambitious; yet I find solace in thinking that I saw only one way to it,--by patience, industry, and much thinking. [11]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]

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