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Sentences starting with over

Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
Over the anvil, with a small bar caught in a pair of tongs, hovered Madelinette Lajeunesse, beating, almost tenderly, the red-hot point of the steel. [11]
Over the door was painted, in straggling letters: "Louis Trudel, Tailor. [11]
Over all the village was a red glare, lighting up the sky, burnishing the trees. [11]
Over here the twenty thousand would-be exclusives come up to the polls and vote themselves to be ladies and gentlemen. [5]
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
Over at Spithead they're gettin' their own way. [11]
Over their coffee they both talked from long distances towards the point of attack and struggle, Ismail carelessly throwing in glowing descriptions of the palaces he was building. [11]
Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. [5]
Over there, where the shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the shouting grew louder and louder. [2]

Sentences ending with over

The days of your education, as pupils of trained instructors, are over. [3]
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 will give you something in my room which will pay the Nabathaean's charges ten times over. [10]
Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over. [2]
She thought they would move on as soon as the storm was over. [4]
But even then, would it be all over? [11]
A three-bottle man would have gone over. [9]
But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
I was once worthy of men's liking, perhaps, and I had good comrades; but that is all over. [11]
In all these words she saw only that the danger threatening her son would not soon be over. [2]

Short sentences using over

The worst danger was over. [6]
I rushed over too soon. [5]
He came over to her. [11]
A gang-plank was thrown over. [9]
He had been thrown over. [4]
He pondered over this feature. [13]
Today the same thing over. [5]
Laura thought the thing over. [5]
Pierre pondered over these broadsheets. [2]
Honora looked over them curiously. [9]

Sentences containing over two or more times

He is sure you will be cursed happy over it, and says that you predicted he would go over to the Whigs. [9]
It's many a year I've been a-dreamin', but now they're comin' over 'n' over the same thing. [6]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
I repeated the words over and over to myself. [9]
After these farewell words Frau Maria's features became painfully distorted, the lids drooped over her eyes, there was a brief struggle, then a slight gesture from the physician announced to the weeping group that her earthly pilgrimage was over. [10]
It was sung with the same spirit our men sing "We won't come back till it's over, over there! [9]
Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
An old man, whose studies had been of the severest scholastic kind, used to love to hear little nursery-stories read over and over to him. [6]
All this plain where the silly geese feed has been marched over and fought over by armies time and again. [4]

More example sentences with the word over in them

So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
But go to your room and think it over reasonably. [4]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
It was not your going over to the other side that pained me so, for all your people are Tories. [9]
Free to preach your convictions, unfettered, you will have a power over people that will be tremendous. [9]
The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you. [10]
You shall stretch your arm over Egypt and it will rise to you. [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]
They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
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]
If we had, you'd have waited till the Gulf of Mexico freezes over before you got any coupons paid. [4]
But I tell you, sir, that it will not be over in seven times ninety days. [9]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
The cruelest thing you Yankees did was to force us, who couldn't fight, to go over there for sympathy. [4]
I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
Why is it you wish to get Mr. Allen over the border, then? [9]
Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? [5]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
I've stuck to you thus far, and I'll be damned now if I throw you over, like they did Jonah. [9]
You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
Has Irene telegraphed you that she has got over her chill? [4]
And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
What ship did you say you came over in? [5]
It goes, as you say over here. [4]
Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
I've been thinking you over lately. [9]
He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
Well, here's wishing you luck, Bert, and hoping we'll meet over there. [9]
It was because you kissed it and cried over me. [9]
If, upon reflection, you Howellses find, you can stop over here on your way, I wish you would do it, and telegraph me. [5]
I know that you hold some power over my friend. [11]
Why, you ass, you have won a thousand times over what you lost. [9]
I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
She told how you had followed a fox over one of your rough provincial counties, which means three of Hertfordshire, with your arm broken, by Heaven! [9]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
What ship did you come over in? [5]
The best thing you can do is to let me die, for then you would be safe once for all from my wickedness, and all would be over and done with. [10]
I shall expect you at sundown at my house over there. [10]
Mr. Bradshaw, if you are not busy, I wish you would look over this bundle of papers. [6]
Of his love you are ever sure; remember him in your prayers; and as for that you have to say to Ann, say it in such wise that she shall not take it over much to heart. [10]
I haven't asked you any of the particulars, Captain, but I judge it goes without saying--if my experience is worth anything--that there wasn't much of a hooraw made over you when you arrived--now was there? [5]
I will send you a hat-tip of my hatter, and you can paste it over this tissue circle. [5]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
She was hardly yet over the naive surprises of her lovely surroundings. [4]
She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
She had not yet achieved peace, and much of the weary task would have to be done over after he was gone. [9]
To-day again, as yesterday, a storm burst over us. [10]
For over three years they had let society talk. [11]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
For over twenty years I had carried him in my mind, wondering whether, and when, I should-make use of him. [11]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
Dese las' skifts wuz full o' ladies en genlmen a-goin' over for to see de place. [5]
Prince Eugene of Wurttemberg fired from a hill over the French crowds that were running past, and demanded reinforcements which did not arrive. [2]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
Meanwhile Bartja had written Sappho a farewell letter, and was sitting over the wine with his fellow-prisoners and their elder friend Araspes. [10]
Mr. Mason had written it out and that afternoon read over this part of it to Nick. [9]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. [5]
They have been wrangling over this question for at least forty years. [7]
She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
The professor's pipe wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum, and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world, and you can't git him to smoke any other. [5]
The Emperor's star would triumph over his. [10]
Try as she would to keep it trim after the manner of her people, it still waved loosely on her forehead and over her ears. [11]
Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
And often you would repeat over and over: 'I have not yet begun, to fight, I have not yet begun to fight! [9]
That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
You ragged ruffians would never have given over the tops in this marsh and moorland, to any but a rightful master, and I know where the Sow is lurking--for the murderer of a messenger is no more to be called a Boar. [10]
If only they would leave us in peace--" "Hark, that is Pollux; I know by the dogs," said the woman, hastening as fast as she could over the threshold and out to meet him. [10]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
I reckoned I would have great times now if I was over at the town. [5]
In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
He, the Celebrity, would gladly sail the Maria over to Bear Island provided another man could be found to relieve him occasionally at the wheel, and the like. [9]
She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York--the surprise would follow; the surprise she had been working over for days. [5]
If Mr. Carvel would do him the honour of calling at his lodging, over Mackie's Italian Warehouse in Piccadilly, at four o'clock, he would take great pleasure in introducing him at Brooks's Club. [9]
A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
One more night would carry us over the hostile frontier if we had good luck, and we saw the night close down with a good deal of solicitude. [5]
She thought it would be well to sprinkle a slight layer of dirt over them; and I, indulgently, consented. [4]
Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
And faithful Rustem would be always with her, and the road over the mountains was the safest in all the country, with frequent stations for the accommodation of travellers. [10]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. [5]
The pearls were worth over ten thousand dollars--in all, there would be eleven thousand, enough to secure Rosalie from poverty. [11]
For us the worst anxiety was over, and our mother recovered her composure. [10]
He used to worry himself ill over that. [9]
All over the world, every day, there are some millions of men in that condition temporarily. [5]
All over the world One Pastor for the whole of them: to wit, her book, Science and Health. [5]
Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
It was his workmen who did the repairs, but he came over to see--to superintend. [11]
We watched them working their way over the ridges, and finally saw them coming back with one of the Vincennes sportsmen. [9]

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