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Sentences starting with pair

Pair has not been able to see this long ago. [9]

Sentences ending with pair

I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
During the first week the old noblewoman thought that she had never met a happier pair. [10]
If this maiden wedded the governor's son, they would indeed be a pair! [10]
Before the night was over everybody at Guidon Hill, save Hilton and Ida, knew what gift would come from Macavoy to the wedded pair. [11]
The Patriarch Benjamin, too, who was led by many considerations--and not least by Katharina's will to remain on good terms with the son of the Mukaukas, was a visitor to the youthful pair. [10]
The only drawback to the theory is that unmarried people seem each as complete and whole as a married pair. [8]
The people adored the royal pair. [10]
They made a striking pair. [5]
After the violent storm which had raged all night, the garden was looking as fresh and cheerful in the morning light as the faces of the newly-married pair. [10]
We are a pair. [5]

Short sentences using pair

The pair were puzzled. [5]
They are a pair. [5]
A noble wedded pair. [10]

Sentences containing pair two or more times

Then I should want a better pair of eyes and a better pair of ears, and, while I was reorganizing, perhaps a quicker apprehension and a more retentive memory; in short, a new outfit, bodily and mental. [6]
And in all the great town was there not a pair to be and that would fit him, and it would take a whole day to make him a pair to his measure. [10]
The illustrious Jenner states that in Wiltshire one of a pair was daily shot no less than seven times successively, "but all to no purpose, for the remaining magpie soon found another mate"; and the last pair reared their young. [1]
My Lord of Leicester sent down two pair of fine sheets for the cardinal and one pair for the bishop. [4]
Mr. Fox, Mr. F. Bond, and others have shot one of a pair of carrion-crows (Corvus corone), but the nest was soon again tenanted by a pair. [1]
This would be cheek-by-jowl with a bet that an heir would be born to one new-married pair before another pair. [11]

More example sentences with the word pair in them

A very handsome young lady in the store offered me a pair of blue gloves. [5]
Upon my soul, you two should fence like a pair of veterans. [11]
All the adults would marry or pair, and all the offspring, as far as that was possible, would be reared; so that the struggle for existence would be periodically excessively severe. [1]
After this, the worthy pair commenced preparations for rejoining the waking world, and in due time proceeded downstairs. [6]
We were commonly wont to chirp like a pair of crickets while we braided our hair and got into our beds; but this night there was not a sound in the chamber. [10]
You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
The Torzhok peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. [2]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
The tailor came with his goose and a pair of shears; but he despised me, too, and departed for the South that night. [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]
The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
First, those persons who had been induced to purchase a pair of Tractors. [6]
The two meeting-houses which faced each other like a pair of fighting-cocks had not flapped their wings or crowed at each other for a considerable time. [6]
All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
The youthful pair were married in 1761, and two years after embarked for New York, where they landed July 18, 1763. [4]
I think we were a pair in that, only I managed to keep mine, under. [9]
He did not wear the sheepskin leggings so common among the ranchmen of the West, but a pair of yellowish corduory riding-breeches, with boots that laced from the ankle to the knee. [11]
He says there was not a sound pair of legs in Richmond, and that our men, had they known it, could have safely gone in and burned everything and brought in Jeff Davis. [7]
At last I was lucky enough to light on a sturdy wagon, drawn by a pair of serviceable bays, and driven by James Grayden, with whom I was destined to have a somewhat continued acquaintance. [6]
Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament. [10]
While the prophet was absorbed in these reflections a pair of ravens fluttered around his head and, croaking loudly, alighted on the dusty ruins of one of the shattered houses. [10]
I thought she wanted a pair of stilts, but I had the deep sagacity not to say so. [5]
The pair must wait for next week's paper--Tilbury had evidently postponed. [5]
Have I made us out a pair of deliberate, calculating snobs? [9]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
Then he took up a pair of heavy dumb-bells, and swung them for a few minutes; then two great "Indian clubs," with which he enacted all sorts of impossible-looking feats. [6]
The close, constant, uninterrupted companionship of the married pair revealed to each unexpected treasures in the other, which, perhaps, might have remained forever concealed in city life. [10]
Then entered the twins--the handsomest, the best dressed, the most distinguished-looking pair of young fellows the West had ever seen. [5]
A factor of twenty years before, in recognition of the chief's merits and in reward of his services, had presented him with a pair of epaulettes, left in the Fort by some officer in Her Majesty's service. [11]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
I have been trying for the last ten or twelve days to get a pair of drawers dry enough to put on, and to-day at last succeeded. [5]
A galley ready to weigh anchor was constantly at the disposal of the commandant of the fortress, and the next noon the noble pair, with Hermon and his faithful Bias, went on board the Galatea. [10]
I was surprised to see it as a tree, standing by itself, and making the most delicious roof a pair of young lovers could imagine to sit under. [6]
Howbeit I had to put on a guise of content, nay of gladness, for the Royal pair had bidden me to their side and it was my task to explain all they desired to learn. [10]
Berg drove up to his father-in-law's house in his spruce little trap with a pair of sleek roans, exactly like those of a certain prince. [2]
When you wish to buy a pair of shoes you have the swing of the whole street--you do not have to walk yourself down hunting stores in different localities. [5]
The story used to be current that in their younger days this father and mother were the handsomest pair the town of Boston could show. [6]
When it was time to depart, she joined the hands of the betrothed pair, and called down a blessing from the gods. [10]
Putting her arm through Virginia's, she sauntered off with the pair toward the parade grounds, Clarence maintaining now a distance of three feet, and not caring to hide his annoyance. [9]
He converted sixteen thousand South Sea islanders, and taught them that a dog-tooth necklace and a pair of spectacles was not enough clothing to come to divine service in. [5]
As a pair they were certainly notable, and would give a good account of themselves. [11]
In a moment they sighted this wild pair bearing down upon them with a terrible swiftness. [11]
So costly are these that "now it is a small matter to bestow twenty nobles, ten pound, twenty pound, fortie pound, yea a hundred pound of one pair of Breeches. [4]
In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening-tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning. [12]
In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad's neck and a sweet voice cried: "There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me--the farce shall go no further! [5]
As I stood there on the great steps, I chanced to look along the plain, bare front of the palace to an annex at the end, and standing in a doorway opening on a pair of steps was Voban. [11]
Soon after meeting the vagrant pair she had listened to a conversation between two travelling scholars, and learned some strange things. [10]
She moved to the staircase, then slowly down it, and through a passage to a morning-room, where, opening a pair of French windows, she passed out onto the lawn. [11]
When Eva greeted the reunited pair they had already poured forth to each other the events which had driven them to the verge of despair, and which now once more permitted them with budding hope to anticipate new happiness. [10]
It has played the part of the unwedded priest, who marries a pair without taking a fee or having any further relation with the parties. [3]
As soon as the pair were alone together Petrus said, while he held out his hand to his wife with genial affection, "Well, mother--shake hands. [10]
By the time the pair reached Brampton, Chamberlain Bixby was introducing his chief as Congressman Sutton, and by this title he was known for many years to come. [9]
Hermon listened to the pair in silence. [10]
In the morning the pair carried fuse, drills, and the powder-can to the shaft; it was now eight feet deep, and to get into it and out of it a short ladder was used. [5]
The sight of the hapless pair placed Hosea's own terrible future before him as if in a mirror, and for the first time he groaned aloud and covered his face with his hands. [10]
Let us suppose the case of a pair of tongs that falls upon a man's foot, causing a cruel hurt. [5]
He brought to the camp a stout force of warriors, heavily armed, being each clad in ten pair of linsey-woolsey breeches, and overshadowed by broad-brimmed beavers, with short pipes twisted in their hatbands. [4]
She had seen the blossoms stripped from the scanty remnant of her faith in truth and goodness, which had begun to bloom afresh in her heart through the characters of this pair whose marriage procession she had watched. [10]
The strength of the associations connected with the function of the first pair of nerves, the olfactory, is familiar to most persons in their own experience and as related by others. [6]
It appears, therefore, that we must attribute the fact that they do not pair to their rejection by their normally coloured comrades. [1]
Gradually the realization that they were rich sank securely home into the souls of the pair, then they began to place the money. [5]
It was evident that the meeting was as great a pleasure to the elderly pair as to the young man. [10]
He told me that the first pair of rabbits imported into Australasia bred so wonderfully that within six months rabbits were so thick in the land that people had to dig trenches through them to get from town to town. [5]
Which reminds me that last week I sent down and got Susie a vast pair of shoes of a most villainous pattern, for I discovered that her feet were being twisted and cramped out of shape by a smaller and prettier article. [5]
Fox informs me that he possessed at the same time a pair of Chinese geese (Anser cygnoides), and a common gander with three geese. [1]
And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life. [5]
It is certain that distinct species of birds occasionally pair in a state of nature and produce hybrids. [1]
He had not talked much the few days he had been in the shop, but, as the old man had said to Filion Lacasse the saddler, his brain was like a pair of shears-- it went clip, clip, clip right through everything. [11]
The city is taken, the booty mine; With red gold, I'll deck--I know whom; Pair maids' cheeks burn red, red too glows the wine, Fortune, Paradise of good fortune! [10]
It had a table hanging like a lid from the wall, a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red peppers, a crucifix on the wall, a short sword, a huge pistol, a pair of rusty stirrups, and several chairs. [11]
The Lord Chamberlain swept down upon the pair like a flamingo with wings outspread. [11]
Such were the surroundings of the newly wedded pair, who had been reared in the capital. [10]
Why do not such spare birds immediately pair together? [1]
A pair of substantial mammary glands has the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned Professor's brain, in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants. [3]
Then followed a stupefying apparition --a double-headed human creature with four arms, one body, and a single pair of legs! [5]
A pair of Stuarts, viz., 1. [6]
Five minutes later Stephen was bowling through the chute and showing the rival boat a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar pair of heels. [5]
Meantime Mary had spent six thousand dollars on a new house for herself and a pair of slippers for her pastor, and then had fallen peacefully to rest. [5]
Gabord did not speak to me at all, but roughly hurried the soldier at his task of fire-lighting, and ordered the other to fetch a pair of stools and a jar of water. [11]
I would as soon have touched him as a ball of angry bees or a pair of fighting wildcats. [9]
As the pair, so unlike each other, quitted the anteroom, Plutarch looked after them with a meaning smile and thought to himself: "That is well done. [10]
As at Memphis, so in all the principal temples of the great cities to the southward, the Imperial pair accepted the homage of the hierarchy and the honors due to divinity. [10]
He gets them so broken in that they will run like a pair of deer all over the farm, turning the yoke, and kicking their heels, while he follows in full chase, shouting the ox language till he is red in the face. [4]
If M. Laflamme should not arrive, and you should go alone, leave one pair of oars; then I shall know. [11]
Life as yet seemed a festal hall, and as the bird flies from bough to bough wherever a red berry tempts him, my heart was attracted by every pair of bright eyes which glanced kindly at me. [10]
To think of seeing her barouching about Rockland behind a pair of long-tailed bays and a coachman with a band on his hat, while she, Blanche Creamer, was driving herself about in a one-horse "carriage"! [6]
Did he ever see the Siamese twins, or any pair like them? [6]
What would you say if the gentleman were to give you a pair of ear-rings, now; real gold ear-rings I mean? [10]
She whispered and said, "Put up those wicked cards this minute!--two pair and a jack, you numskull, and the other fellow's got a flush! [5]
Meantime I shall put up a pair of hatchments on my house-front, and you will of course do the same at your several seats. [5]
Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land-snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together. [1]
One pair of protecting arms more or less could not matter to the nuns, while the captive Narses might very probably perish before he could be rescued without his interest with the Arab general. [10]
Thereupon Kitty Fagan proceeded to array herself in her most tidy apparel, including a pair of shoes not exactly answering to her description, and set out straight for the house of the Widow Hopkins. [6]
He was a powerful man of about fifty, with a pair of honest blue eyes in his plain face. [10]
They appeared in perfect training, neither too fat nor too fine, mettlesome as colts, steady as draught-horses, deep-breathed as oxen, disciplined to work together as symmetrically as a single sculler pulls his pair of oars. [6]
Popincourt's lodgings, and people turned to look at the pair, one carrying something covered with a white cloth, evidently a savoury dish of some kind--the other with a cage in which a handsome canary hopped about, well pleased with the world. [11]
But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. [2]
While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
They were a pair that seemed made for each other, and Martina delighted in match-making. [10]
More than one pair paused in the dance to watch them. [9]

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