Use pages in a sentence
Sentences starting with pages
- Pages 197 and 216 are of that grade. [5]
Sentences ending with pages
- But many thoughts worth gathering are dropped along these pages. [6]
- The first thing which suggests itself to me, as I contemplate my slight project, is the liability of repeating in the evening what I may have said in the morning in one form or another, and printed in these or other pages. [6]
- And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
- Of these, one was Mr Brass himself, who has already appeared in these pages. [12]
- But its essential truthfulness has been illustrated every month or two, since my story has been in the course of publication, by a fresh example from real life, stamped in darker colors than any with which I should have thought of staining my pages. [6]
- Now, these things Trumbull says were stated by Bigler upon the floor of the Senate on certain days, and that they are recorded in the Congressional Globe on certain pages. [7]
- These questions are too deep for these pages. [4]
- The rustic merrymakings, the feasts in great halls, the games on the greensward, the love of wonders and of marvelous tales, the regard for portents, the naive superstitions of the time pass before us in his pages. [4]
- The captain took the book and began mechanically to turn over the pages. [9]
- There were all sorts of faces among the arabesques which laughed and scowled in the borders that ran round the pages. [6]
Sentences containing pages two or more times
- Every day of the three hundred and sixty-five the only pages of the world's countless newspapers that are read by all the human beings and angels and devils that can read, are these pages that are built out of Associated Press despatches. [5]
- Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. [5]
- There are pages on pages of titles of works any one of which would be a snug little property if turned into money at its catalogue price. [6]
- Joe, ten pages of Mrs. Cheney's masterly biography of her fathers--no, five pages of it--contain more meat, more sense, more literature, more brilliancy, than that whole basketful of drowsy rubbish put together. [5]
- Of the five hundred and fifty-four pages of prose in it I find ten lines, on page 319, to be Mrs. Eddy's; also about a page of the preface or "Prospectus"; also about fifteen pages scattered along through the book. [5]
- I think the book has harmony, although the first story in it covers eighty-two pages, while some of the others, like 'The Marriage of the Miller', are less than four pages in length. [11]
More example sentences with the word pages in them
- I have not written less than 30 pages any day since I began. [5]
- Dainty pages certainly would not be deprived of the favour of carrying her train and lighting her way with torches. [10]
- Otherwise these pages would never have been written. [9]
- Are there pages where he ceases from posing, ceases from admiring the placid flood and flow of his own dilutions, ceases from being artificial, and is for a time, long or short, recognizably sincere and in earnest? [5]
- These volumes, alas, were still uncut; but some of the pages of the novels--if one cared to open them--were stained with chocolate. [9]
- And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
- In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]
- In her, I was sure, was personified that courage for which her order will go down eternally through the pages of history, and in my darker moments I pictured her standing beside the guillotine with a smile that haunted me. [9]
- Old King Cole was himself a merry old soul, if we may put any faith in the pages of history. [12]
- But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
- He defends the use of translations, and I doubt whether he has ever read ten pages of his great authorities, Plato, Plutarch, Montaigne, or Goethe, in the original. [6]
- Howells was always urging him to send something to the Atlantic, declaring a willingness to have his name appear every month in their pages, and Clemens was generally contributing some story or sketch. [5]
- The three dropped upon their knees, and Elizabeth waved without the pages and the gentleman-in-waiting. [11]
- Presently I took up the pages and began to read. [9]
- A specimen or two may dispose the reader to turn over the pages which follow in a good-natured frame of mind. [6]
- A paper of twenty pages would come in, with an underscored request to please read through, carefully. [6]
- His pages are too much like those artists' studios all hung round with sketches and "bits" of scenery. [6]
- His Lordship went to the table and began to write, leaving me to the Chronicle, the pages of which I did not see. [9]
- The narrator wishes to sweep the hearth, as it were, in these opening pages, before sitting down to tell his story. [6]
- I am glad to hear that my namesake, whom I never saw and never expect to see, has cut another tooth; but why write four pages on the strength of that domestic occurrence? [6]
- It is unnecessary to enrich the pages of this folio with all the footnotes and remarks of, the sages of Brampton. [9]
- I have not time to read the original text on the notes; but the whole may be found on page 267, and the two or three following pages, of the first volume of the edition of 1844. [7]
- This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
- She has flitted through these pages as she flitted through life itself, arrayed by Jethro like the rainbow, and quite as shadowy and unreal. [9]
- We cannot do this if we see the author set them up as if they were marionettes, and take them to pieces every few pages, and show their interior structure, and the machinery by which they are moved. [4]
- You must n't think there are no better things in these pages of mine than the ones I'm going to read you, but you may come across something here that I forgot to say when we were talking over these matters. [6]
- You would not think that in a little wee primer--for that is what the Autobiography is--a person with a tumultuous career of seventy years behind her could find room for two or three pages of padding of this kind, but such is the case. [5]
- I can hardly think Gordon had ever looked at his figures, though he names their author, when he wrote the captious and sneering article which attracted so much attention in the pages of the "Edinburgh Review. [3]
- Ten pages of these sky-scrapers of yours would pay me only about three hundred dollars; in my simplified vocabulary the same space and the same labor would pay me eight hundred and forty dollars. [5]
- I have tried them a couple of times on the family, and pages 212 and 216 are qualified to fetch any house of any country, caste or color, endowed with those riches which are denied to no nation on the planet--humor and feeling. [5]
- Fourteen pages later the width of the brook's outlet from the lake has suddenly shrunk thirty feet, and become "the narrowest part of the stream. [5]
- To settle everything the Widow made out a diagram, which the reader should have a chance of inspecting in an authentic copy, if these pages were allowed under any circumstances to be the vehicle of illustrations. [6]
- The courtiers around the throne straightened their bowed figures, the pages forgot their fatigue, and all joined in the Greek salutation of welcome, and the "Life! [10]
- The publication of the stories was continuous, and at the time that Pierre and His People appeared several of those which came between the covers of A Romany of the Snows were passing through the pages of magazines in England and America. [11]
- To whom belong the shining purple pages in the great book of national history? [10]
- The pages before the reader will be found to average about three hundred and twenty-five words. [6]
- I can see the pale shadow glancing through the pages and hear the comments that shape themselves in the bodiless intelligence as if they were made vocal by living lips. [6]
- As I turned the pages, I hesitated for a moment. [6]
- He opened out the pages with a slowness that seemed almost apathy, while the man opposite clinched his hands on the table spasmodically. [11]
- One looking through the pages of contemporary periodical literature is apt at any moment to light upon pieces, and sometimes upon series of them, which the author never took the trouble to collect. [4]
- Before looking at the page to which she had directed his attention, he turned the letter over slowly, fingering the pages one by one. [11]
- A trick of the mind opened for Stephen one of the histories in his father's library in Beacon Street, across the pages of which had flitted the ancestors of this blue-eyed and great-chested Saxon. [9]
- I reached for the ledger, and turning the pages, called off to him the sums he had spent. [9]
- Idling members of the House flocked to their seats, nervous gentlemen sprang to their feet, pages flew hither and thither, life and animation were visible everywhere, all the long ranks of faces in the building were kindled. [5]
- The style of the forty pages is loose and feeble and 'prentice-like. [5]
- She glanced around the familiar, sordid room, at the magazine pages against the faded wall-paper, at the littered bureau and the littered bed, over which Lise's clothes were flung. [9]
- So listen: When the Emperor meets Geronimo in the presence of strangers, he seems to take neither more nor less notice of him than of the other pages who come to San Yuste. [10]
- To avoid becoming the bore of the domestic circle, he proposed to ease off this surcharge of the intellect by inflicting his tediousness on the public through the pages of the periodical. [4]
- It will hurt the Atlantic for me to appear in its pages, now. [5]
- But all through the afternoon that scene was painted on the pages of Stephen's books. [9]
- The only manuscript that we ever held of his, longer than to correct it, was one of perhaps a dozen pages, most of which we had composed. [5]
- It may be that I've got some of the sample pages here, if I haven't left them at home," said Mr. Grady, fumbling in an ample inside pocket, and drawing forth a bundle. [9]
- The letter of ten close pages from which I have quoted these passages is full of confidential information, and contains extracts from letters of leading statesmen. [6]
- And let me tell you, I am the leech in Montfort, and unless death is near, and the chaplain accompanies me bearing the sacrament, I often go alone with the manservant, the maid, or the pages who carry my medicines. [10]
- Peace to all such as may have been vexed in spirit by any utterance these pages have repeated! [6]
- These pages record some of the intimacies I have formed with her under some of her various manifestations. [6]
- Yet it was so crowded with historical interest, that if all the pages that have been written about it were spread upon its surface, they would flag it from horizon to horizon like a pavement. [5]
- I could not shake the thing off, the last pages demanded to be written. [11]
- He turned over several pages until he came to a part of the interleaved volume where we could all see he had written in a passage of new matter in red ink as of special interest. [6]
- Then we have several pages of romantic powwow and confusion dignifying nothing. [5]
- He has given seven pages of these symptoms, not selected, but taken at hazard from the French translation of the work. [3]
- Mr. Motley's first serious effort in historical composition was an article of fifty pages in "The North American Review" for October, 1845. [6]
- Don't trouble to send me all the proofs; send me the pages with your corrections on them, and waste-basket the rest. [5]
- Hannah and Edward sat there under the lamp, Hannah scanning through her spectacles the pages of a Sunday newspaper. [9]
- She had just sat down to have her hair arranged, which occupied a long time, when one of the pages handed her a letter brought by a mounted courier. [10]
- As Doltaire had said, the two books of poems I had lent Alixe were there, and between the pages of one lay a letter addressed to me. [11]
- Carterette was busy running over the pages of the letter, and did not notice her colourless face. [11]
- Before he reached Rottenpach he met one of the duchess's pages who had remained at the village forge and was now riding after his mistress. [10]
- Now in this review of Shirley, the heading of the first two pages ran thus: "Mental Equality of the Sexes? [14]
- Give me a religious paper to advertise in, every time; and if you'll just look at their advertising pages, you'll observe that other people think a good deal as I do--especially people who have got little financial schemes to make everybody rich with. [5]
- My first pages relate the effect of a certain literary experience upon myself,--a series of partial metempsychoses of which I have been the subject. [6]
- She began to read slowly, but presently, with a little cry, she hastened through the pages. [11]
- While Scott was read at the North for his knowledge of human nature, as he always will be read, the chivalric age which moves in his pages was taken more seriously at the South, as if it were of continuing importance in life. [4]
- The question of protection is a subject entirely too broad to be crowded into a few pages only, together with several other subjects. [7]
- As far as possible I have endeavored to let the actors in these pages tell their own story, and I have quoted freely from Capt. [4]
- This statement is perhaps worth more than pages of description as to the character of Roan, and its contrast to Mount Washington. [4]
- To daub and paste 3 or 4 pages of scraps is tedious, slow, nasty and tiresome. [5]
- Then this short paper of six lines was slipped aside and a long one of many pages was smuggled into its place, and she, noting nothing, put her mark on it, saying, in pathetic apology, that she did not know how to write. [5]
- I've got 900 pages written (not a word in it about the sea voyage) yet I stepped my foot out of Heidelberg for the first time yesterday,--and then only to take our party of four on our first pedestrian tour--to Heilbronn. [5]
- He crams his pages with the very marrow of his thought. [6]
- After this, three pages were left blank in the diary, and then the following was written: I have had a long and instructive talk alone with Brother V., who advised me to hold fast by brother A. [2]
- I wrote 280 pages on a yarn called "Tom Sawyer Abroad," then took up the "Twins" again, destroyed the last half of the manuscript and re-wrote it in another form, and am going to continue it and finish it in Florence. [5]
- Outside of the pages of poetry he had never experienced longing like that which had tortured him during the past few days. [10]
- They have two pages of large-print reading-matter-one of them English, the other French. [5]
- And on its pages I saw a beautiful representation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds. [2]
- The first two pages had to deal with Miss Dorothy's triumph, to which her father made full justice. [9]
- The first four pages are devoted to an inflamed eulogy of Woman--simply woman in general, or perhaps as an institution --wherein, among other compliments to her details, he pays a unique one to her voice. [5]
- You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions,--a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. [7]
- With his arm over her shoulder, he turned the pages idly, and the long lists of guests which bore witness to the former life and importance of Highlawns passed before her eyes. [9]
- I like "In Our Town," particularly that Colonel, of the Lookout Mountain Oration, and very particularly pages 212-16. [5]
- If he had opened them he would have seen a profusion of marginal notes in pencil, and slips of paper stuck in the pages to mark important passages. [11]
- He is not one of those for whom these pages are meant. [6]
- But let no one be frightened away from his pages by the terrible names of Plotinus and Proclus and Porphyry, of Behmen or Spinoza, or of those modern German philosophers with whom it is not pretended that he had any intimate acquaintance. [6]
- Our Scheherezade kept on writing her stories according to agreement, so many pages for so many dollars, but some of her readers began to complain that they could not always follow her quite so well as in her earlier efforts. [6]
- She was sobbing on the pages of that book he had given her--long ago. [9]
- They were written on foolscap, 600 words to the page, and usually about twenty-five pages in a report--a good 15,000 words, I should say,--a solid week's work. [5]
- In the stenographer's office of the Windsor Hotel, with the life of a caravanserai buzzing around me, I dictated the last few pages of When Valmond Came to Pontiac. [11]
- We were all of us aware of Ralph, who sat at some distance looking over the pages of an English sporting weekly. [9]
- Does the reader of these pages ever think of the work a sick man as much as a well one has to perform while he is lying on his back and taking what we call his "rest"? [6]
- The ill-spelled pages of the town records contain the result. [6]
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