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Sentences starting with or

Or if you would learn business, and go to work in Pa's store. [9]
Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
Or else there would be plenty who'd rob us. [2]
Or in other words, the conception of a cause is inapplicable to the phenomena we are examining. [2]
Or especially a woman. [5]
Or one, perchance, with clouded brain From some unholy banquet reeled, --And since, our devious steps maintain His track across the trodden field. [6]
Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it. [5]
Or was the whole really so admirable that it would have seemed petty to find fault with the less successful details? [10]
Or rather, that was one of the reason why it failed, but there was another and better one. [5]
Or suppose he was making an offer of his hand and heart, do you think he would declaim a versified proposal to his Amanda, or perhaps write an impromptu on the back of his hat while he knelt before her? [6]

Short sentences using or

It's me or you. [11]
Me or the Wool Trust? [9]
To Kirkwood or Webster? [9]
Or unfortunately, which was it? [9]
Or how I used them? [8]
Or was it thunder? [9]
Ten or twelve thousand crowns. [5]
V. Shakespeare; or, the Poet. [6]
The cheque or the money-hein? [11]
The capitalist or the employee. [9]

Sentences containing or two or more times

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
There was a youthful member of one of your patrician families--an Ebner, I believe, or a Stromer or Tucher. [10]
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]
Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
Is Mr. Flint your example of the fittest type to exist and survive, or Gladstone or Wilberforce or Emerson or Lincoln? [9]
In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin. [9]
Fust I thot you was deef and dumb, then I thot you was sick or crazy, or suthin', and then by and by I begin to reckon you was a passel of sickly fools that couldn't think of nothing to say. [5]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
Here or anywhere you must scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. [5]

More example sentences with the word or in them

And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
Do you adapt yourself and your surroundings to him, or insist that he shall adapt himself to you? [4]
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]
You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
Did I save your wife's life or not? [5]
You can forgive your wife, and take her back, or you can say to both, Go! [11]
It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
But take down your sign, or never put it up. [3]
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]
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]
Has he asked your master to send him some seeds or slips? [10]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
Now, disperse to your homes, or every man of you will be arrested and tried by court-martial. [11]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [7]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
Glaucus proposes for your choice that you should either allow me to conduct you to his wife or return to the temple to which you are attached. [10]
And we want your captain, alive or dead. [9]
He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel. [11]
If I comprehend your art aright, its essence is opposed to the addition of superhuman dignity and beauty, with which you, or the model you used, strove to ennoble and deify your Demeter. [10]
You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
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]
I was so young; I did not know life, or men--or Egyptians. [11]
It was a young woman--a young woman where properly no young woman belonged; for she was in Judge Driscoll's house, and in the bedroom over the judge's private study or sitting room. [5]
I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. [10]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
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]
Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [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]
What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
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]
With or without you--I shall go to the Beggars! [10]
Do not--I entreat you; drop the subject or else. [10]
When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
I appeal to you, sir," turning to the gentleman of the house, "to know where Ambulinia has gone, or where is she? [5]
Let me tell you, sir, it is not now a question about Jimmy Madison or Jimmy Armstrong. [4]
Lucky I found you, or you'd have been sleeping till the Great Mass. [11]
No censure upon you, or either of you, is intended. [7]
I don't mean you, Lucy, or Laureston," she added to her sister, Mrs. Grey. [9]
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]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
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]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
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]
Call it as you will, my Daimon, or even my Genius--the name matters not. [10]
In the cities you will see a dozen civilians for every soldier, and as many for every priest or preacher. [5]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
Do that, or you will go to ruin, and that would be a pity! [10]
How many of you who are before me are familiarly acquainted with the name of Broussais, or even with that of Andral? [6]
There, if ever you want such a person, or if--" She paused. [11]
Which one do you want me to make my enemy by telling him or her that the other isn't good enough? [4]
They will seize you to-morrow, or the day after. [10]
But I wish you to understand that, though I am unwilling to go upon this platform, you are not at liberty to draw inferences concerning any other platform with which my name has been or is connected. [7]
I would like you to provide a proper outfit and start north as soon as I telegraph you, be it night or be it day. [5]
When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
I didn't want you to be like Ralph or the others. [9]
You'll prove that you threw a stone, or it shall go hard with you. [5]
I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
But, Ruth, do you think you would be happier or do more good in following your profession than in having a home of your own? [5]
And when do you think she will be ready for a drawing- room--Her Majesty Queen Victoria's, or ours? [11]
But what do you think is Roweny beginning to lean any toward him, or ain't she? [5]
Well, then, do you think I'd care what--what Mere Langlois or the rest of the world would say? [11]
I will post you the minute my scheme fails or succeeds. [5]
Suppose I told you that Austen Vane has avoided me, that he would not utter a word against you or in favour of himself? [9]
I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. [11]
Obey me, or you shall rue it with tears of blood. [10]
But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. [4]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
Has he done you or yours any great benefit? [10]
No one knows you or your name. [14]
And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
What else have you or I to look forward to? [11]
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 have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
Let me remind you of it, whether you have read it or not. [6]
I believe in you now, or I should not be drinking tea with you. [4]
Oh, but come you must, or we shall be offended! [11]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
Oh, come now, you may be a Gipsy, but that doesn't mean that you're an Egyptian or an Arab. [11]
And pray do you love her or me? [10]

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