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Sentences ending with person

My visits to your mother have been to me a comfort, a pleasure,--for she is a rare person. [9]
Florida is in your Department, and it is not unlikely you may be there in person. [7]
It was a young person. [10]
I should think you'd be scandalized, mamma, if you were a really feminine person. [8]
She has made you out a very wonderful person. [9]
I began abruptly:--Do you know that you are a rich young person? [6]
I think now you know something of this young person. [6]
I hear that you are soon to see him, and to receive his obligations from him in person. [9]
You retort that you are not that kind of person. [5]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]

Short sentences using person

The person is the thing. [11]
The person, not the subject. [4]
Who was that person? [9]
I'm a light-minded person. [11]
That person was M. Pasteur. [6]
She is a good person. [6]
Admittance one shilling each person. [9]
One person cannot do all. [11]
One elderly person crossed himself. [9]
A serious person. [9]

Sentences containing person two or more times

And the person who has no interest in things is the person who once had a great deal of interest in things, who had too passionate an interest. [11]
So far he was the only person who could do so, for he was the only person who knew! [11]
He was a very queer person to be attached to the Embassy,--not a courtier, but a serious, literal person like you, Mr. Ritchie, and he resembled you very much. [9]
They're always likely to happen with me in any case, and they are especially likely to happen where a person has--er--well, where a person is, say, about three weeks in arrears for his board. [5]
What is there to fear in a person dead more than in a person living? [5]
In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth. [5]
But suppose a person whom I have reason to believe he likes and trusts and respects, a person who understands his vagaries, should go to him on such an errand. [9]
Edith, the one person who could have comforted him, was the last person to whom he could have told this, for he had the most elementary, and the common conception of what marriage is. [4]
What does a person kill another person for, Tom Sawyer?--answer me that. [5]
Even a sober person does not like to have a human being emptied on him when he is not going any harm; a person who is not sober cannot endure such an attention at all. [5]

More example sentences with the word person in them

In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs throughout the Act includes woman. [5]
So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]
This place is your home, and dearer to you than any other, so build yourself a snug nest here with the person you have in mind. [10]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
There, if ever you want such a person, or if--" She paused. [11]
He soon convinces you that even these matters can be handled in such a way as to make a person low-spirited. [5]
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters. [10]
But what do you let a person look at your hand for, with that awful thing printed on it? [5]
I can put you in correspondence with such a person, and you had better trust him than me a great deal. [6]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
I will cure you because you are the person to whom the infamous wretch most ardently wished the sorest trouble. [10]
He thinks of you as a person of convictions--and he has heard things about you. [9]
She did not write a mournful poem; indeed, she was a silent person, and perhaps hardly said a word about it; but she quietly turned of a deep orange color with jaundice. [6]
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]
It is,--said I.--But would you have the kindness to tell me if you know anything about this deformed person? [6]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
That Eldon Parr would not lead the charge in person was a foregone conclusion. [9]
A brighter person would have seen what the trouble was, earlier than I did, perhaps, but I saw it early enough for all practical purposes. [5]
His looks, indeed, would have scared a timid person into a fit; but I resolved I would die rather than show the fear with which he inspired me. [9]
Nearly any person would have said to M. Bourget: "Oh, that is very simple. [5]
A wiser person would have kept such a thing discreetly to himself, but with this harmless creature everything comes out. [5]
Many a person would have given up and descended, but I stuck to my task, and would not yield until I had accomplished it. [5]
No other creature would be so likely to trouble a person who had an antipathy to it. [6]
Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
Plotinus was a worthy man, and he had been highly indignant at these instructions; it was not in his power to contravene them; but at any rate he had led the procession in person, and had not forbidden John's accompanying him. [10]
Sherman sent back word to keep the man until he could see him in person. [9]
But not one word to any person. [10]
Everybody began talking with the person sitting next at hand. [6]
He speaks English with the ease and purity of a person born to it. [5]
Fortunately some person with sense discovered the fraud before it was too late. [9]
The Emperor sees with regret that the picked soldiers appointed to guard his person, who should set an example of discipline, carry disobedience to such a point that they break into the cellars and stores containing army supplies. [2]
When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
I overheard her with Emily, and she talks like a grown-up person. [9]
He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing. [2]
The diminutive person, with angular curvature of the spine,--I said, --and double talipes varus,--I beg your pardon,--with two club-feet. [6]
At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
But, if they wish to employ another person, who, as they think, knows more than you do, do not take it as a personal wrong. [3]
I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
The above reward will be paid in cash to the person who will furnish the seeker, in a personal interview, the criminal's address. [5]
In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
The German Ulrich will be a very different person to them from the Castilian Navarrete. [10]
I don't see why you want to keep back things that way, and try to injure a person that's never done you any harm. [5]
Perhaps that was why he had lived so near the person of the Prince, had held office so long. [11]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
The only person whom she did not know was the handsome young man standing at her brother's side. [10]
The person from whom it came was the barber's widow, whose attack had alarmed Eva so terribly the day before in front of the pillory. [10]
But--to spring the whole twenty-two on a person unprepared and not very strong anyway--' 'Oh, it was a crime! [5]
Whatever happens and whoever may stand at the head of affairs, the theory can always say that such and such a person took the lead because the collective will was transferred to him. [2]
Captain Stanwix's wife, who was a good, motherly person, took charge of the little orphan, and arriving at Carvel Hall delivered her to my grandfather, who brought her up as his own daughter. [9]
But the man who threw it was not to blame, for he was excited, and a person who is excited never can throw straight. [5]
Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
The first person who received sure tidings was old Tabus. [10]
The unassuming man, who on the journey had associated as familiarly with the poor invalids he had picked up by the wayside, the tavern-keepers, and soldiers of his escort, as if he were one of themselves, now seemed a very different person. [10]
The question is: Who manages her, and how can you get at that person or those persons? [6]
Still, the person who made the fingerprints must be sought. [5]
But the person who is to have this reception, by the staff of Dionysus! [10]
If a person who is born with it looks at you, you die, or something happens--awful--is n't it? [6]
The first person who had ventured to dance the gaillarde before the eyes of the monarch and his horrified courtiers, was Sophonisba--her partner was Duke Gonzaga. [10]
But the person who had hitherto instructed her--the family chaplain--was dead. [10]
But the woman who gives only one person reason to despise her signs the death-warrant of her own dignity. [10]
The first person who came to meet the visitors was Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
It was one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. [5]
Then the thing which he grieves to leave is narrowed down to a person--to the person whose "dewy looks" had sunk into his breast, and whose seducing words had "stirred poison there. [5]
On my asking where the model came from, he said it was taken direct from the arm of a deformed person, who had employed one of the Italian moulders to make the cast. [6]
There are times when I think I had a taste of Paradise in Hawaii--but a Paradise not without a Satanic intruder in the shape of that person from Illinois. [11]
Any such effort, when a person is so enfeebled, may stop the heart in a moment; and if it stops, it will never move again. [6]
They change color when a person comes along and hangs up an immortelle; but that is nothing: any right-feeling reptile would do that. [5]
The result was what the reader has by this time guessed: the most magnificent idea that was ever conceived had to be abandoned, from sheer lack of a person with enterprise enough to carry it out. [5]
I don't know what the charm is about me which makes it impossible for a person to say a harsh thing about me and say it heartily, as if he was glad to say it. [5]
You don't know what it is to have an inferior person condescend to you simply because he is a man. [4]
Yet that is what he did; for nothing is impossible to a Cooper person. [5]
Thus his clothes were much shredded by bullets and his person grievously lacerated. [5]
Friends and neighbors were coming in and out; and the next person that came was the old minister, of whom, and of his colleague, the Rev. [6]
The other guests were a florid Miss Chamberlin, whose person loudly proclaimed possessions, and a thin Miss Longman, who rented one of the Silverdale cottages and sketched. [9]
It is probably well to have a period in the year that tests character to the utmost, and the person who can enter spring through the gate of February a better man or woman is likely to adorn society the rest of the year. [4]
I knew very well the strength of my position; I knew that I was the only spotlessly pure and innocent person in that whole town, and I came out and said so: And they could not say a word. [5]
Why, it would wear a person out in a week! [5]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
The more I weakened, the more stubbornly you fastened on to those particular sins; till at last the places on my person that represent those vices became as callous as shark-skin. [5]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner. [5]
About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
But I think we had better try to study her, and coax her along, and not fob her off as a very inferior person, or we shall have our hands full in earnest. [11]
I don't know: we don't quite expect a saint to be rustic; but with all his goodness Conrad Dryfoos was a country person. [8]
How often do we deliberately weigh such a choice as we would that of another person, testing our inclination by solid reason? [4]
It is because we are not the person involved. [5]
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. [5]
And in a way it was true; I was as glad as a person is when he is scalped. [5]
This is the way it happens: Every grown-up person has either been ill himself or had a friend suffer from illness, from which he has recovered. [3]
How delightful it was, too, to be able to give something to the person from whom hitherto she had only received. [10]
Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
Just as I was writing these last words, I heard the cry of a young person, as it sounded, for help. [6]
I thought it was very good of them, whereas a person situated as that young man is--" "Ma, you oughtn't to begin by getting up a prejudice against him. [5]
Hereupon the father was urgent on the King's Majesty that he should seek to seize my brother, pronounce him a banished outlaw, and that whenever his person should be taken he was to be punished with death. [10]
Mr. Gamaliel Ives was triumphantly marching down the aisle, and with him was--well, another person. [9]
And so Cynthia was transformed into a city person, though her skin glowed with a health with which few city people are blessed. [9]

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