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Sentences ending with origin

If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
I remember that when Leverrier discovered the Milky Way, he and the other astronomers began to theorize about it in substantially the same fashion which M. Bourget employs in his seasonings about American social facts and their origin. [5]
The tomato appears well on the table; but you do not want to ask its origin. [4]
When such a vessel appeared there was sure to arise great dispute about it, and from time to time expeditions were organized to ascend the river and discover the place and circumstances of its origin. [4]
These things seem to throw light upon those words, "our [my] divine origin. [5]
He was quick to see a bush move, to observe the flick of a branch, to catch the faintest sound of an animal origin. [11]
Calvin was given to me eight years ago by Mrs. Stowe, but she knew nothing of his age or origin. [4]
Now I learned through Lotze to recognize the body as the instrument to which the emotions of the soul, the harmonies and discords of the mental and emotional life, owe their origin. [10]
The pus-corpuscle and the white blood-corpuscle can only be distinguished by tracing them to their origin. [3]

Short sentences using origin

What is his origin? [11]
Our divine origin. [5]

More example sentences with the word origin in them

I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do. [10]
Besides, what can you do with a morbidness which has its origin in fateful circumstances? [11]
This young man, with a curious name of Scandinavian origin, appeared unheralded in the town, as it was then, of Cantabridge. [6]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
And this, too, was the origin of that school of scientists called Manologists, whose specialty is the deciphering of the ancient records of the extinct bird termed Man. [5]
In truth he was none of these things, save that he was of German birth, and of as good and honest German origin as George of Hanover and his descendants, if not so distinguished. [11]
He believed Boyne was a servant of the French; but unless the facts came out in the trial, they should not have sure origin in himself. [11]
It may be very wrong to pay any attention to those speculations about the origin of mankind which seem to conflict with the Sacred Record. [6]
It was a very curious fact that the first train of thoughts Mr. Bernard's small menagerie suggested to him was the grave, though somewhat worn, subject of the origin of evil. [6]
Marion Lamont, let us say at once, was of Southern origin, born in London during the temporary residence of her parents there, and while very young deprived by death of her natural protectors. [4]
Thus we can understand--and in no other way as it seems to me--the present condition and origin of the ornaments on the wing-feathers of the Argus pheasant. [1]
She had a touch of the vixen--an impetuous, loving, forceful mademoiselle, in marked contrast to the rather ascetic Francois, whose ways were more refined than his origin might seem to warrant. [11]
Referring their origin to some sort of an election, their continuance seems to rest simply on forbearance. [4]
He was said to be a man of humble origin, the son of a gardener of the House of Seti; and now what do I learn through Ameni? [10]
While she was thus engaged, Mr Swiveller looked on with a grateful heart, very much astonished to see how thoroughly at home she made herself, and attributing this attention, in its origin, to Sally Brass, whom, in his own mind, he could not thank enough. [12]
With enough of this world's goods to give him comfort of body and suave gravity of manner, the figure he cut was becoming to his Quaker origin and profession. [11]
The origin of this distressful thing was this--and I assert here that every fact in the following resume can be amply proved by the official records of the General Government. [5]
The Cause of this Deplorable Quarrel, which had its Origin at the Ball, is purported to have been a Young Lady of Wit and Beauty. [9]
I generally found there two or three sentimental young butchers, an eminently philosophical tinker, and several very unsophisticated medical practitioners or medical students, all of low origin and vulgar and offensive manners. [5]
It is not, then, in anything exceptional that we are interested in the operations of Murad Ault, but simply on account of his fortuitous connection with a great fortune which had its origin in very much the same cyclonic conditions that Mr. Ault reveled in. [4]
It was only the swift thought of a moment, which faded even as it saw the light; but it had its origin in that last flickering sense of human companionship which dies in the atmosphere of despair. [11]
Setchem had seen the struggle from her litter at the top of the landing steps, but without understanding its origin, and without recognizing the chief actors. [10]
I went to the stern of the steamboat to tell a stout American traveler what was the origin of the odor he had been trying to dodge all the morning. [4]
Only too often the same drinking and carousing had gone on below as to-day-Henrica had always been compelled to join her aunt's guests, elderly dissolute men of French or Italian origin and easy morals. [10]
A consideration of the principles underlying this proposed social order may prove that it is essentially--if perhaps paradoxically--individualistic, a logical evolution of institutions which had their origin in the Magna Charta. [9]
And what was the origin of this majestic city and its efflorescence of palatial town houses and country seats? [5]
With respect to the origin of the habit, Von Fischer remarks that his monkeys like to have their naked hinder ends patted or stroked, and that they then grunt with pleasure. [1]
Was not this the origin of popular sovereignty as applied to the American people? [7]
Sir J. Lubbock, 'The Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, chap. [1]
With respect to the origin of articulate language, after having read on the one side the highly interesting works of Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood, the Rev. [1]
Her agitation was the more intense because she never permitted herself to talk of him to others, even when his name was discussed at dinner-tables, accompanied by strange legends of his origin and stranger romances regarding his call to power by Kaid. [11]
She guilelessly reasserted the heavenly origin of her mission, and did it with the untroubled mien of one who was not conscious that she had ever knowingly repudiated it. [5]
Three out of the five men who form the war cabinet of an empire are of what would once have been termed an "humble origin. [9]
The origin of the empire is obscure, but the development was not indigenous. [4]
She now blew the dust from the frame and canvas, and perceived the signature of the artist to whom the picture owed its origin. [10]
The other contains the body of the great Alexander, to whom the city owes its origin and name. [10]
Needless to say that the patented remedies most in request are those that profess a secret and unscientific origin. [4]
It was hoped that in time they could be proven to have been of satanic origin. [5]
The truth is that David Claridge had his origin in a fairly close understanding of, and interest in, Quaker life. [11]
It was possible that Cynthia might take him, and Deacon Ira Perkins made a note the next time he went to Brampton to question Silas Wheelock on Mr. Worthington's origin, habits, and orthodoxy. [9]
It is probable that both these stories may have had their origin in the simple fact of Tom's shedding tears upon the inquest--which he certainly did, extraordinary as it may appear. [12]
But he had talked cautiously, feeling his way for sympathy, looking out for those indications of tact and judgment which would warrant him in some partial communication, at least, of the origin of his doubts and fears, and never finding them. [6]
The faces that surrounded Jim were thin with hunger, and the murder that had been committed by the chief had, as its origin, the foolish replies of the Hudson's Bay Company's man to their demand for supplies. [11]
It is the supposed secrecy or low origin of the remedy that is its attraction. [4]
The Press unanimously supported him, for it was felt the strike had its origin in foreign influence, and as French Canada had no love for the United States there was journalistic opposition to the strike. [11]
I am the son of a good family, for my father was overseer of the granaries of this temple and was of Macedonian origin, but my mother was an Egyptian. [10]
Morgan, 'A Conjectural Solution of the Origin of the Class, System of Relationship,' in 'Proc. [1]
Mr. Nusserwanjee Byranijee, Secretary to the Parsee Punchayet, said that these formalities had once had a meaning and a reason for their institution, but that they were survivals whose origin none could now account for. [5]
The clause then says: "I shall claim no especial gift on account of my divine origin. [5]
It was a revelation, having its origin in an honesty which impelled a pure outspokenness to himself. [11]
It was a resentment whose origin was not a mere personal wrong to him, but the betrayal of all that invaded his honour and the honour of his country. [11]
Her bitterness, her resentment had its origin in the fact that he did not understand--and yet in his crude big way he had really understood better than Ian Stafford. [11]
True, he hastily remarked, he sometimes visited him at the request of his gracious mistress, but he had no more knowledge of his real origin than she or Dona Magdalena de Ulloa. [10]
Indeed, Victoria's simple reference to her father's origin had touched him deeply. [9]
He had been proud of rising, despite his origin, to place and power. [10]
In the effective power to move the heart of man, Clay was without an equal, and the heaven-born endowment, in the spirit of its origin, has been most conspicuously exhibited against intestine feud. [7]
So that my poor heroine found her origin, not in fable or romance, but in a physiological conception fertilized by a theological dogma. [6]
He alone is our origin, aim, and Being. [5]
Of course its origin, like all dancing, was religious. [4]
With a common origin, a common language, a common literature, a common religion, and--common drinks, what is longer needful to the cementing of the two nations together in a permanent bond of brotherhood? [5]
With a common origin, a common language, a common literature, a common religion and--common drinks, what is longer needful to the cementing of the two nations together in a permanent bond of brotherhood? [5]
What was the origin of the idea? [5]
What was the origin of the feeling? [5]
Uarda knew the origin of her mistress's deep grief, and revered her for it, as if it were something sacred. [10]
It had its origin in the soul: "Whereaway goes my lad? [11]
Such was the origin and duration of this doctrine and practice, into the history of which we will now look a little more narrowly. [6]
He, who had often felt flattered at being praised for the purity of his Greek--pure not merely for his time: an age of bastard tongues--and for the engaging Hellenism of his person, here and now had an impulse of pride of his Egyptian origin. [10]
A good many of them seem to be foreigners, or of foreign origin. [4]
The philosophical student of the origin of New World society may find food for reflection in the "materiality" of the basis of the civilization of New York. [4]
Jowett was one of the few men in either town for whom the Ry had regard, and the friendliness had had its origin in Jowett's knowledge of horseflesh. [11]
Darwin, Charles, Origin of Species, 105. [6]
It is perhaps of Puritan origin, and rhymed in New England. [4]
The well-known fable of Pandora owes its origin to Simonides. [10]
The high standard of our intellectual powers and moral disposition is the greatest difficulty which presents itself, after we have been driven to this conclusion on the origin of man. [1]
If the origin of man had been wholly different from that of all other animals, these various appearances would be mere empty deceptions; but such an admission is incredible. [1]
But, in spite of his satanic origin, he is a cowardly wight, and a loving face, a tender word, drives him away. [10]
His parents, though of good origin, began life in humble circumstances. [4]
In the light of Fulkerson's history of the family, its origin and its ambition, he interpreted it to mean a sense of her sister's folly and an ignorant will to override his opinion of anything incongruous in themselves and their surroundings. [8]
The true origin of David Claridge, however, may be found in a short story called 'All the World's Mad', in Donovan Pasha, which was originally published by Lady Randolph Churchill in an ambitious but defunct magazine called 'The Anglo-Saxon Review'. [11]
He was probably of Arab origin. [10]
They are combined of a frankness as to the emotions, and such outer concessions to physical sensations, as make a painful combination against a mere man's caution; even when that caution has a Norman origin. [11]
Still, that is nothing to the point; the feature of interest is the happening of the thing just at that time, instead of at an earlier or later time, which is argument that its origin lay in thought-transference. [5]
His motives had not their origin in hatred of Philip alone, nor in desire for honours and estates for himself, nor in racial antagonism, for had he not been allied with England in this war against the Government? [11]
Many tones and noises, whose origin and nature she could not understand, reached her ears, and when morning dawned, the court-yard under her windows, usually so quiet, was full of bustle. [10]
He had absolutely no knowledge of Crozier's origin and past; but he was in a position to find it out if Crozier told the truth on oath, and he was sure he would. [11]
I stand to my English origin, but I want to see the French develop here as they've developed in France, alive to all new ideas, dreaming good dreams. [11]
They also differed much in severity, the cases of puerperal origin being among the most formidable and fatal. [3]
The animal takes its place between ourselves and nature; its actions are guided, not, like our own, by the letter, but by the eternal laws of nature, which owe their origin to the Deity, while the letter is a device of man's own mind. [10]
Thus, what in its own intrinsic origin and material should in all outer reason be a tragedy, does not of itself shake the foundations or make a fissure in the superstructure. [11]
Doubtless it owed its origin to a memory, for Wolff Eysvogel had been fired with love for her sister while Els was winding laurel around his helmet. [10]
This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate--young Frederick Trent--who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own. [12]
A single ocellus is thus formed on each tail-covert, though still plainly betraying its double origin. [1]
With the "our" in, she is plainly saying "my divine origin. [5]
Her earnestness aroused in Tryon a sudden flame of sympathy which had its origin, as he well knew, in three years of growing love. [11]
The remark quoted in my text will surprise every one who has read Mr. Wallace's celebrated paper on 'The Origin of Human Races Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection,' originally published in the 'Anthropological Review,' May 1864, p. clviii. [1]
Hold it not in contempt; it is the humble step which will lead to grandeurs more worthy of the splendor of an origin like to thine. [5]
Even to an impecunious noble there is a charm in this, although the society itself has some of the lingering conditions of its money origin. [4]
Three years before, his uncle Arius had sent him with excellent letters of introduction to Rome to become acquainted with the life of the capital and try whether, in spite of his origin, his brilliant gifts of eloquence would forward his fortunes there. [10]
The mystery of his origin, which was at first against him, became at length an element of his strength and of the fear he inspired, as a sort of elemental force of unknown power. [4]

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