Use parr in a sentence
Sentences starting with parr
- Parr got a corporation lawyer named Langmaid--he's another one of your millionnaire crooks--to fix it up and get around the law and keep him out of jail. [9]
Sentences ending with parr
- Indeed--and this thought was cynical and out of character--he asked himself on one occasion whether his principal achievement so far had not consisted in getting on unusual terms with Eldon Parr. [9]
- I didn't intend to tell you, but I see you can't help knowing--Eldon Parr. [9]
- She addressed herself to Eldon Parr. [9]
- Thanks, perhaps, to the newspaper comments as much as to any other factor, in the minds of those of all shades of opinion in the parish the issue had crystallized into a duel between the rector and Eldon Parr. [9]
- Was it possible that this man, who had gone alone to the bridge in the night, had once been happy, content with life, grateful for it, possessed of a simple trust in his fellow-men--in Eldon Parr? [9]
- Her disquieting, submissive smile haunted him as he roped his way down the stairs to the street, and then the face in the photograph replaced it--the laughing eyes, the wilful, pleasure--loving mouth he had seen in the school and college pictures of Preston Parr. [9]
- The name was ringing like a knell in Hodder's head--Eldon Parr! [9]
- It was Alison Parr! [9]
- The handwriting, by no means classic, became then and there indelibly photographed on his brain, and summed up for him the characteristics, the warring elements in Alison Parr. [9]
- He had not looked at the rector during the whole of his speech, nor at Eldon Parr. [9]
Short sentences using parr
- Mr. Parr rang the bell. [9]
- Eldon Parr liked self-contained men. [9]
- Eldon Parr did not rise. [9]
- Mr. Parr, for instance. [9]
- Eldon Parr had halted abruptly. [9]
- Eldon Parr sat back. [9]
- Parr, Samuel, allusion, 28. [6]
- Parr? [9]
- Parr! [9]
More example sentences with the word parr in them
- 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]
- I confessed to you once that Mr. Parr had made for us all the money we possess. [9]
- That Eldon Parr would not lead the charge in person was a foregone conclusion. [9]
- I thought I would just give you a hint, as you are going to see Mr. Parr, that he is in rather a nervous state. [9]
- Indeed, it was with a well-defined feeling of antagonism that he took his seat, and this was enhanced as they flew westward, Mr. Parr wholly absorbed with the speaking trumpet, energetically rebuking at every bounce. [9]
- He, Eldon Parr, who had been used to settle the destinies of men! [9]
- If Eldon Parr were Procrustes he, Hodder, had fitted the bed, and to say the least, this was extraordinary, if not a little disquieting. [9]
- Few of them were in a position whence they might cast stones at Eldon Parr . [9]
- At the centre were Eldon Parr and Charlotte Gore. [9]
- For Eldon Parr well knew that his will needed no reenforcement by argument. [9]
- A free church was a magnificent ideal, but how was it to be carried on without an Eldon Parr, a Ferguson, a Constable, a Mrs. Larrabbee, or a Gore who would make up the deficit at the end of the year? [9]
- It troubled him vaguely, for Mr. Parr was the aggressor; and often at dusk, when Hodder was working under his study lamp, the telephone would ring, and on taking down the receiver he would hear the banker's voice. [9]
- Mr. Parr made us, as the saying goes. [9]
- Eldon Parr turned to one of the groups on the will, the earliest taken at school. [9]
- I was saying to Mr. Parr that it isn't often one hears a sermon nowadays as able as that, and as sound. [9]
- Mr. Parr seemed to like to have him there. [9]
- Mr. Parr had thought this peculiar. [9]
- But I'll say this for myself," Eldon Parr leaned forward over the blotter, "I had standards, and I stuck by them. [9]
- They crossed the third great transverse artery of the city (not so long ago, Mr. Parr remarked, a quagmire), now lined by hotels and stores with alluring displays in plate glass windows and entered a wide boulevard that stretched westward straight to the great Park. [9]
- After one of these intervals of silence, Eldon Parr looked up from his claret. [9]
- Mr. Parr was there; I'm told--and he's never been known to desert St. John's except on the rarest occasions. [9]
- Mr. Parr was then, as now, a business man, and could scarcely be expected to introduce philanthropy into finance. [9]
- Mr. Parr led the way up the wide staircase to the corridor above, traversing chamber after chamber, turning on the lights. [9]
- In spite of the tone of bitterness in which he had spoken, Eldon Parr smiled. [9]
- Having settled that,--though the thought of the blow she was to receive lay like a weight on his heart,--Mr. Bentley's reason for summoning Eldon Parr to Dalton Street came to him. [9]
- Eldon Parr and the men who stand with him in the struggle will never recover from the blow I shall give them. [9]
- Innumerable had been the meetings of financial boards at which Mr. Parr had glanced at Langmaid, who had never failed to respond. [9]
- The tempering of the lawyer's elation as he returned homeward to report to Mr. Parr and the vestry may be best expressed by his own exclamation, which he made to himself: "I wonder what that fellow would do if he ever got started! [9]
- And there were the expenses of the parish house, an alarming sum now Eldon Parr had withdrawn: the salaries of the assistants. [9]
- It's too bad that you couldn't have seen your way to take that cruise--Mr. Parr was all cut up about it. [9]
- Was it possible that she, Alison Parr, were going to church now? [9]
- It was clear that Mr. Parr intended to throw upon him the onus of the first move. [9]
- But he decided that Mr. Hodder had not meant to imply that he, Mr. Parr, was attempting to supersede the dean. [9]
- Mr. Parr replied that he had told the rector that he stood ready to contribute to such a scheme when he, the rector; should be ready to approve it. [9]
- You will probably tell me, as others have done, that no one has ever opposed Eldon Parr who has not been crushed. [9]
- And Hodder's eye, sweeping over the decorous congregation, grew to recognize certain landmarks: Eldon Parr, rigid at one end of his empty pew; little Everett Constable, comfortably, but always pompously settled at one end of his, his white-haired and distinguished-looking wife at the other. [9]
- A new and startling and complicated sensation--but Eldon Parr was no coward. [9]
- But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter. [9]
- There must be some logical connection between the habit and the age, since crimson velvet and gold brocade would have made Eldon Parr merely ridiculous. [9]
- If Mr. Hodder should begin to preach the modern heresy which you desire, Mr Parr might object. [9]
- Suddenly his mood shifted, betraying still another weakness, and he saw Eldon Parr, suddenly, vividly--more vividly, indeed, than ever before--in the shades of the hell of his loneliness. [9]
- The results accomplished seemed indeed, as Mr. Parr had remarked, strangely disproportionate to the efforts, for they laboured abundantly. [9]
- One thing he saw clearly, that Eldon Parr had slipped into what was still, for him, a meaningless hell. [9]
- Eldon Parr had said that poverty was inevitable. [9]
- Bedloe Hubbell had said on the political platform that Langmaid got one hundred thousand dollars a year for keeping Eldon Parr out of jail. [9]
- He left the room in such a state of absent-mindedness as actually to pass Mr. Parr in the corridor without speaking to him. [9]
- Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians. [6]
- Hodder did not relish half truths; and he felt that, however scant his intercourse in the future might be with Alison Parr, he would have liked to have kept it on that basis of frankness in which it had begun. [9]
- And behind this redoubtable and sinister Eldon Parr he saw, as it were, the wraith of that: other who had once confessed the misery of his loneliness. [9]
- I am in possession of definite facts in regard to Mr. Parr which I shall present to him when he returns. [9]
- Alison took no part in the casual conversation that began when they reached the boulevard and Mr. Parr abandoned the trumpet, but lay back in silence and apparently with entire comfort in a corner of the limousine. [9]
- He was Eldon Parr's minister, and it was Eldon Parr who stood between him and his opportunity. [9]
- You tell Eldon Parr to keep his charity,--he can't send any of it in here. [9]
- No wonder Eldon Parr had misunderstood her, had sought to crush her spirit! [9]
- For example, Mr. Parr had given away great sums in charity. [9]
- And yet Eldon Parr did meet it--with an effort. [9]
- You have mortally offended, among others, the most powerful layman in the diocese, Mr. Parr, who complains that you have presumed to take him to task concerning his private affairs. [9]
- The very horror of what Eldon Parr was now to suffer turned Hodder cold as he rang the bell and listened for the soft tread of the servant who would answer his summons. [9]
- He recalled one of the many things which Alison Parr had branded on his memory,--"the belief, the authority in which the man is clothed, and not the man! [9]
- A few moments of silence followed, when Eldon Parr was seen to be standing in the doorway, surveying them. [9]
- The constitutional reluctance of Eldon Parr to fight openly could not have been more clearly demonstrated. [9]
- But Eliza Preston, now Mrs. Parr, was one of those who were never to behold him again,--in this world, at least. [9]
- I warn you, Mr. Parr, in his Name, first to make your peace with your brothers before you presume to lay another gift on the altar. [9]
- By the way, Mr. Parr took most of Addicks' money before Funk got his silver. [9]
- At the lunch-table Mr. Parr plunged into a discussion of some of the still undecided details of the new settlement house, in which, as the plan developed, he had become more and more interested. [9]
- Tell me how Mr. Parr has ruined you. [9]
- Why is it," Mr. Parr continued reflectively, "that ministers as a whole are by no means the men they were? [9]
- Eldon Parr had moved towards the bed, seemingly unaware of the words they had spoken. [9]
- Then came the motor, the ring at the door, the entrance of Eldon Parr into the library. [9]
- Like many notable men before him, nobody but Mr. Parr himself suspected his future greatness, and he kept the secret. [9]
- Asa Waring might mean nothing to Eldon Parr, but he meant a great deal to Francis Ferguson, who had by no means forgotten his sensations of satisfaction when Mrs. Waring had made her first call in Park Street on Francis Ferguson's wife. [9]
- And now Hodder looked at Eldon Parr to behold another man from the one he had known, and in that moment realized that their relationship could never again be the same. [9]
- To cut a long story short, in addition to Mr. Bentley's house and other effects, Mr. Parr became the owner of the Grantham stock, which not long after went to one hundred dollars. [9]
- What indeed were left to Eldon Parr! [9]
- He visited Nelson Langmaid in the Parr Building. [9]
- The numbers who knew Alison Parr casually thought her cold. [9]
- Her remark, if it astonished Hodder, had a dynamic effect on Eldon Parr. [9]
- That confounded parson is getting ready to spring something, and I'm going to give Mr. Parr a tip. [9]
- Mr. Parr, for instance,--in whose service, as in that of any other friend, Mr. Plimpton was always ready to act--had had misunderstandings with eminent financiers, and sometimes with United States Senators. [9]
- And Hodder had, indeed, an intention of confiding to his friend, as one eminently entitled to it, the news of his engagement to Alison Parr. [9]
- And now fate, in the form of his master, Eldon Parr had ironically compelled him at one stroke to undo the work of years. [9]
- She'll tell you how I used to come home from the store and talk about him after supper, and hope that the kid there would grow up into a financier like Eldon Parr. [9]
- Then he seized his hat and made his way as rapidly as possible through the crowds to the Parr Building. [9]
- The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long one, and caused him to be looked upon, indeed, as the very Old Parr of ponies. [12]
- It grew on him when he couldn't get work, and then he began to cut things out of the papers about Mr. Parr. [9]
- And it was here, while gazing at the Corots and Bonheurs, Lawrences, Romneys, Copleys, and Halses, that Hodder's sense of their owner's isolation grew almost overpowering Once, glancing over his shoulder at Mr. Parr, he surprised in his eyes an expression almost of pain. [9]
- And Hodder, as he watched him, perceived--that his haggard look was directed towards a photograph in a silver frame on the table--a photograph of Preston Parr. [9]
- His feelings, as he listened to this tremendous arraignment of Eldon Parr by his daughter, are not easily to be described. [9]
- And now that he had cut the knot he was too just to blame Alison Parr for having pointed out --with what often had seemed a pitiless cruelty--something of which he had had a constantly growing perception yet had continually sought to evade. [9]
- What comfort could he give her, what hope could he hold out that the twist, now gnarled and knotted, might be removed, that she might gain peace of soul and body and the "happiness" of which he had talked with Alison Parr? [9]
- Eldon Parr didn't have a share--sold out everything when she went over two hundred, but you bet he kept his stock in the leased lines, which guarantee more than they earn. [9]
- And if he had chosen to establish that 'dernier cri' of modern civilization where ladies go who have 'welt-schmerz' without knowing why, --a sanitarium, he might have gained back again all the money he had lost in giving his Grantham stock to Eldon Parr. [9]
- You couldn't have got me to believe that Eldon Parr would put his name to anything that wasn't straight. [9]
- It was Philip Goodrich who remarked to his father-in-law, as they walked home afterwards, of the sense he had had at that moment that there were just two men in the room,--Hodder and Eldon Parr. [9]
- But when he glanced at her he saw to his surprise that the mood of abstraction into which she had fallen still held her; that the discussion which had aroused Eldon Parr to such dramatic anger had left her serious and thoughtful. [9]
- Eldon Parr will give orders that Hodder's to go. [9]
- I wanted to get at this neighbourhood--Dalton Street--I mean, and finally I agreed to the establishment of a settlement house over here, to be paid for largely by Eldon Parr and Francis Ferguson. [9]
- John Sylvester John Gardiner, once a pupil of the famous Dr. Parr, was then the leading Episcopal clergyman of Boston. [6]
- Why, that fellow, Funk, they sent to the penitentiary the other day for breaking into the Addicks' house isn't a circumstance to Eldon Parr. [9]
- Now, a word from Eldon Parr might turn the trick. [9]
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