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Sentences starting with perfect

Perfect day for the expedition succeeds perfect day, boatload after boatload sails away from the little marina at the base of the cliff, which we follow with eves of desire, but--to-morrow will do as well. [4]
Perfect ass; they say she's got diamonds in every hotel in the country. [5]
Perfect quiet, Ptolemaeus said, was the best medicine. [10]
Perfect culture has refined all blood, warmth, flavor, out of them. [4]
Perfect stillness reigned in the cave for about an hour; at last Paulus raised his face, and said, "Forgive me Stephanus. [10]
Perfect stillness was around him; the doves even had flown up, and settled on the roof. [10]
Perfect discretion means absence of brains. [5]
Perfect summer weather. [5]
Perfect silence followed. [10]

Sentences ending with perfect

But on the whole it has been a delightful day, and with M----in hell it would have been perfect. [5]
Simple as it was, an architect would have said that its proportions were nearly perfect. [9]
His opening speech was perfect. [5]
What was wanting to make this charming camaraderie perfect? [4]
But I want to hear these lips of yours, which are also mine, utter it first--then its music will be perfect. [5]
When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. [5]
She turned herself this way and that--everything was satisfactory, her attire was perfect. [5]
That is just the way in this world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. [5]
We read in the Sermon on the Mount: "Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect. [6]
The behavior of the audience was perfect. [5]

Short sentences using perfect

There was perfect stillness. [2]
No marriages are perfect. [9]
The deception was perfect. [5]
St. Mark's is perfect. [5]
Because it is perfect. [5]
The illusion was perfect. [4]
The day was perfect. [4]
He was a perfect pet. [5]
Is that in perfect gallantry? [11]
Keep them in perfect condition. [13]

Sentences containing perfect two or more times

I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
A perfect intelligence, trained by a perfect education, could do no more than keep the laws of the physical and spiritual universe. [3]
Sometimes nothing is so tiresome as a perfect day in a perfect season. [4]
The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and of all the dramatists, are a perfect commentary on the fashions of the day, but a knowledge of the fashions is necessary to a perfect enjoyment of the plays. [4]
Grease-wood is a perfect --most perfect imitation in miniature of a live oak tree-barring the color of it. [5]
It is a perfect dog's life, sir--a perfect dog's life. [5]
And so with perfect confidence, perfect trust, I wrote on a piece of paper the opening words--ending with "Go, and reform,"--and signed it. [5]
He was one of the finest men I ever sat down to handsome, educated, refined, spoke several languages fluently a perfect gentleman he was a perfect gentleman, and singularly juicy. [5]
It is said in one of the admonitions of our Lord, "As your Father in heaven is perfect, be ye also perfect. [7]
Whatsoever is perfect in its kind, in literature, is imperishable: nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone: its immortality is secure. [5]

More example sentences with the word perfect in them

An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
None but a young man could take on the job, for it will require boldness, skill, and the recklessness of perfect courage. [11]
He was just young enough, and there was still enough natural health in him, to know the healing touch of a perfect decency, a pure truth of spirit. [11]
If there are young birds, they feed them together in perfect harmony. [10]
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
I will help you perfect the thing, and give it the finishing touch. [10]
Just so subtly, yet with the same seeming suddenness had budded and come to leaf and flower a perfect understanding, which nevertheless remained undefined. [9]
Nick's imitation of Xavier, and his description of Benjy's terrors after the storm, were so perfect that I laughed quite as heartily; and Madame de St. Gre wiped her eyes and repeated continually, "Quel drole monsieur! [9]
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. [5]
I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
Althea's very defects would perfect the figure of the restless, wretched weaver whom Athene transformed into the spider. [10]
No, the drawing-room would not quite do, though it was near the perfect thing. [11]
You do your work in the same old delicate and delicious and forceful and searching and perfect way. [5]
Was it not wonderful that at a glance she should know him for the one man who could finish and perfect her work and establish it in perpetuity? [5]
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]
To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
In our struggles with the porter to obtain the little items of soap, water, and towels, we were convinced that we had arrived too late, and that for perfect satisfaction we should have been here before the war. [4]
Silas Peckham reckoned with perfect confidence on his Trustees, who had always said what he told them to, and done what he wanted. [6]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
Part of secondary wing-feather of Argus pheasant, shewing two perfect ocelli, a and b. [1]
Come when you will, and call me your mother with the same perfect confidence with which I, from my whole heart, name you my daughter. [10]
From this you will see that you have a perfect right to reassure the inhabitants of Smolensk, for those defended by two such brave armies may feel assured of victory. [2]
Leaving it alone will be your perfect security against it. [7]
During the period while he was engaged in writing it, his wife, who had seemed in perfect health, died suddenly of pneumonia. [6]
The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. [2]
To the objection which might be urged that these interest bonds could not be cashed, he replied that if our other bonds could, much more could these, which offered a perfect security, a fund being irrevocably set aside to provide for their redemption. [7]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
I was sleeping when she entered the nursery and came and took a seat at my side in perfect silence. [6]
I will do whatever he bids me in perfect confidence; and what he thinks about me you may judge for yourself, for he is going to put me in the care of his tutor Eusebius. [10]
These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
At the Swannanoa were half a dozen bridal couples, readily recognizable by the perfect air they had of having been married a long time. [4]
If every one were as perfect in the marriage relation as those who are reading these lines, the question of the wife's letters would never arise. [4]
Then the sun went behind Posilipo in a perfect blaze of scarlet, and all the sea was violet. [4]
For some time we tried the hook-rope and other means of scaling it, but without success--that is, without perfect success. [5]
We know how we stand towards each other and can count on each other with glad and perfect confidence, thanking the Almighty for having opened out a new life to us. [10]
It's the perfect way and the only true way (I speak from experience. [5]
The combatants were watching each other with alert eyes; a perfect stillness, a breathless interest reigned. [5]
I'm able to watch all their inspirations with perfect composure. [8]
But as it was, in the upper room where Louise sat all day looking out over the prairie, and on the prairie where business carried Orlando from ranch to ranch on this perfect day, no recreant thought or feeling existed. [11]
The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
But the advantage was with Iberville, not merely because of more practice,--Gering made up for that by a fine certainty of nerve,--but because he had a prescient quality of mind, joined to the calculation of the perfect gamester. [11]
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. [5]
And yet there was that perfect smile, that adorable aspect of the brow, that light in the deep eyes. [11]
Such accuracy, it was sometimes whispered, required absolutely perfect adjustment, and what would happen when the great inventor--"the poet in steel," as Clemens once called him--was no longer at hand to supervise and to correct the slightest variation. [5]
Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
No one, unfortunately, was perfect in this life,--not even Mr. Hodder. [9]
His perfect amiability was one of his most striking characteristics, and in a nature fastidious as was his in its whole organization, it implied a self-command worthy of admiration. [6]
Quite mad he was not, for the illusions which haunted him were often absent for several hours, when he spoke with perfect lucidity, received reports, and gave orders. [10]
The old art was not so perfect, perhaps, but there was in the voice all that she had learned and loved and suffered and hoped. [11]
This perfect organization was maintained for many years, and though it came to be relaxed in details, it was literally true that the heiress was never alone, and never out of the sight of some trusted person responsible for her safety. [4]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
Certainly no man was ever a more perfect prototype of Colonel Sellers than the creator of that lovely, irrepressible visionary. [5]
Meantime, a home was being built for them in Hartford, and in the autumn of 1874 they took up residence in ita happy residence, continued through seventeen years--well-nigh perfect years. [5]
Plainly enough now,--it was an exactly fitted niche, for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in, and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all. [7]
And yet Columbus was a well-meaning man; and if he did not discover a perfect continent, he found the only one that was left. [4]
He said, "She was a perfect polyglot once, but somehow her palate got down. [5]
You see she was a perfect mine of singularities and idiosyncrasies. [6]
Bemis said he was "a perfect Allen's revolver of dignities. [5]
All that was wanting to render him an almost perfect character was a few harsher traits and perhaps more masculine vigor. [6]
France can teach us how to levy village and city taxes which distribute the burden with a nearer approach to perfect fairness than is the case in any other land; and she can teach us the wisest and surest system of collecting them that exists. [5]
Once more let us have one hour of pure and perfect enjoyment, and then we will pay up capital and interest when we must. [10]
All the way up we have found wild flowers in the greatest profusion; and the higher we ascend, the more exquisite is their color and the more perfect their form. [4]
Yet this face, unlike Eglington's, expressed a perfect single-mindedness; it wore the look of a self-effacing man of luminous force, a concentrated battery of energy. [11]
As men, the Twins have not always lived in perfect accord; but still there has always been a bond between them which made them unwilling to go away from each other and dwell apart. [5]
The law has tried to break this up, but not with perfect success. [5]
And what perfect tranquillity, what smooth travelling found therein. [11]
Miss McDonald turned towards him with a look of perfect understanding, and then replied, "No, not eager; she hasn't been in her usual spirits lately--no, not ill--and probably the change will be good for her. [4]
Senator Dilworthy said to Washington that an humble deportment, under punishment, was best, and that there was but one way in which the troubled heart might find perfect repose and peace. [5]
Then Lewis sprang to the ground and stood in this V. He gathered his vast strength, and with a perfect Creedmoor aim he seized the gray horse's bit as he plunged by and fetched him up standing! [5]
It is needless to say that the visit was conducted with the most perfect propriety in all respects. [6]
I am obliged to say that if looking proud and happy when one is marching were sufficient, he would have been the perfect soldier. [5]
A strong desire to regain perfect self-possession ere he again mingled in the jubilant throng and met his father, who shared every lofty emotion that stirred his own soul, detained him on the battle-field. [10]
This restored her to perfect consciousness; she raised herself with difficulty into a sitting posture, returned the loving caresses of her two friends, and then turning to Cambyses, asked: "How could you believe such a thing of me, my King? [10]
It was lovely to look at, it was so shapely and fine, and so cunningly perfect in all its particulars, even to the little flags waving from the turrets. [5]
But Virginia turned to him with perfect self-possession. [9]
Nefert still held to her immovable belief that her husband was faithful to his love for her, and the magic charm of a nature made beautiful by its perfect mastery over a deep and pure passion made itself felt in these sad and heavy days. [10]
Mentally she took to comparing this room with Adrian Fellowes' sitting-room overlooking the Thames Embankment, where everything was in perfect taste and order, where all was modulated, harmonious, soigne and artistic. [11]
It is apt to be weak when one is in perfect health; but when one is sick it grows strong. [4]
Hadrian ordered him to be quiet, and then turning to his companion, he exclaimed: "A perfect monster of a man! [10]
I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress, perfect relief is not possible, except with time. [7]
And presently, near to a lake, there was a great gateway, and perched upon a rock near it a chateau of divine proportions, on which was written above the perfect doorway: "The Keeper of the House awaits thee. [11]
Up to this time Shelley had been master of his nature, and it was a nature which was as beautiful and as nearly perfect as any merely human nature may be. [5]
Something warped and thwarted the emotion which would have been love in another, no doubt; but that such an emotion was striving with her against all malign influences which interfered with it the old woman had a perfect certainty in her own mind. [6]
I had not thought there was in the world so much artlessness, with all the power of perfect art. [11]
Well, from nursing those portraits so long, I have come at last to have a perfect infatuation for art. [5]
The creator of this work was not only one of the foremost artists of his day, nay, he had also been permitted to fathom the nature of the deity and to bestow upon it a perfect form. [10]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
Every sentence that this master has produced may be likened to a perfect set of teeth, white, uniform, beautiful. [5]
So portions of this letter of his had not the perfect ring of truth, not the conviction which unselfish love alone can beget. [11]
And out of this exhaustive examination Joan's character and history came spotless and perfect, and this verdict was placed upon record, to remain forever. [5]
I don't suppose this country is perfect, but I think it's about the best there is, and it don't do any good to look at its drawbacks all the time. [8]
The schoolmaster received this communication with perfect cheerfulness, observing that he had a day to spare--two days for that matter--and could very well afford to wait. [12]
He must not think to divert us from our purpose by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weapons are not entirely perfect and uniform. [7]
If Madame says things to me, and if I see what I see, and hear what I hear, it is no crime; it is no misdemeanour; it is within the law--the perfect law. [11]
Ameni enjoined this thing on one, on another, that; and on all, perfect silence as to the dream which he had related to them, and then he dissolved the meeting. [10]
Little by little they discover and apply the multitude of details that go to make the perfect engine. [5]
When she made these excursions to Sark, Dormy Jamais had always remained at the little house, milking her cow, feeding her fowls, and keeping all in order--as perfect a sentinel as old Biribi, and as faithful. [11]
The minister was there, the Reverend Mr. Doddridge, who would have made, in appearance at least, a perfect Puritan divine in a steeple hat and a tippet. [9]
As they stood there, the conviction had come upon her that they had come to the last battle-field, that this journey which Jim now must take would decide all, would give them perfect peace or lifelong pain. [11]
Some come into their perfect condition late, like the autumn kinds, and they last better than the summer fruit. [6]

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