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Sentences starting with personal

Personal considerations informed the policy of the moment. [11]
Personal Merit [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. [5]
Personal pronouns and adjectives are a fruitful nuisance in this language, and should have been left out. [5]
Personal merits? [5]

Sentences ending with personal

I say this with the greater freedom, because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal. [7]
She appreciated fully the skilful duel that had kept things on the surface, and had committed neither of them to anything personal. [11]
In other words, that the whole attitude toward life should be changed, that life should appear a bright thing rather than a dark thing, that labour should be willing vicarious instead of forced and personal. [9]
Everything here was personal. [4]
They were purely personal. [11]
He surely owed me nothing for refusing a case against him, and must have known that my motives for so doing were not personal. [9]
Its note to me announcing the forwarding of your proof-sheets to France closed thus--for your protection: "It is needless to ask you to avoid anything that he might consider as personal. [5]
I shall say many things which an uncharitable reader might find fault with as personal. [6]
Was it that it was too personal? [5]
Because its performance is not personal. [5]

Short sentences using personal

The personal letter was short. [11]
His personal force was remarkable. [11]
It is a personal question. [4]
It's a personal experience. [9]
It's getting so dreadfully personal! [8]
Their personal relationship bore responsibilities. [9]

Sentences containing personal two or more times

Motives of personal spite and of personal gain were laid bare, and even the barter and sale of offices of trust took place before my very eyes. [9]
The learning, the personal character, the sacredness of their office, tended, to give the New England clergy of past generations a kind of aristocratic dignity, a personal grandeur, much more felt in the days when class distinctions were recognized less unwillingly than at present. [6]
Exists the personal law of the Oriental palace, and who may punish any there save by that personal law? [11]
I am not insensible at all to the personal compliment there is in this, yet I do not allow myself to believe that any but a small portion of it is to be appropriated as a personal compliment to me. [7]
In both cases his personal activity, having no more force than the personal activity of any soldier, merely coincided with the laws that guided the event. [2]
During this period he received from the United States treasury, for personal services and personal expenses, the aggregate sum of ninety-six thousand and twenty eight dollars, being an average of fourteen dollars and seventy-nine cents per day for every day of the time. [7]
In earned personal dignity, then, and in personal merit for what he does, it follows of necessity that he is on the same level as a rat? [5]
Here they had declared a devotion that, historically platonic, had a personal passion which, if rewarded by no personal requital, must have been an expensive outlay of patience and emotion. [11]
It is absurd because, there being no reasoning faculty--that is to say, no faculty of personal command--in a pair of togs, personal responsibility for the acts of the tongs is wholly absent from the tongs; and, therefore, responsibility being absent, punishment cannot ensue. [5]
I think that at this time I was so much occupied with tracing personal appearances to personal influences that I lost to some degree the physician's practical keenness. [11]

More example sentences with the word personal in them

I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
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 here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
Let me tell you briefly the history of my personal relation to tobacco. [5]
I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. [7]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
Nor could Hodder's years of provincialism permit him to forget that this man with whom he was about to enter into personal relations was a capitalist of national importance. [9]
It was the year in which he entered fully into the publishing business and launched one of the most spectacular of all publishing adventures, The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant. [5]
During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
At home she would have absorbed it eagerly; they would have discussed it; the doubts and suggestions in it would have assumed the deepest personal importance. [4]
This common labor would be a sort of bond between them, a bond of charity purified from all personal alloy. [4]
I hope it won't make any difference in our personal relations. [9]
And presently, not without feeling, but in a manner eliminating all account of his personal emotions, he was relating that climactic episode of the woman at the piano. [9]
The gracious sentiment with which the Queen sought to express her sense of what Holland owed him would have been deeply felt even had her personal friendship been less dear to us all. [6]
And I rode with the staff--the personal staff--the staff of Joan of Arc. [5]
I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. [7]
They were struggling with him for personal safety now. [11]
It was therefore with a sense of personal injury that, when he reached Bethlehem junction, he found a railway to the Profile House, and another to Bethlehem. [4]
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 chose to win you by personal means alone, to have you give yourself to Tinoir Doltaire because you set him before any other man. [11]
Nay, if you will have the kindness to notice, Nature has not gifted my lady musk-deer with the personal peculiarity by which her lord is so widely known. [6]
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]
Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
And the lawyer who defends such cases, whatever his personal feelings may be, cannot afford to be swayed by them. [9]
They were those who cherished in their minds an ideal of statesmanship and of personal bearing in high office with which, in their opinion, Lincoln's individuality was much out of accord. [7]
Many of them, Whigs and Democrats are my constituents and personal friends; and I thank them,--more than thank them,--one and all, for the high imperishable honor they have conferred on our common State. [7]
The only thing which we old folks do not willingly relinquish is personal comfort, and I thank you for enduring annoyances so patiently for the sake of securing mine.--It is a terrific summer! [10]
But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. [5]
He had that which compelled interest--a suggestive, personal, distinguished air. [11]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
It is only when one has withdrawn from the more personal influence of the emotions that one's philosophy may be trusted. [11]
But isn't this what I'm accused of doing--shirking my duty of personal service by a contribution? [4]
Even as they were uttered, kaleidoscopic memories rushed in, and David's face, figure, personal characteristics, flashed before him. [11]
The principal characters were to take their tours under the personal conduct of the novelist. [4]
The questions involved were political, local, personal, and above all religious. [6]
The rural readers were not to be wheedled out of their cherished conception of the personal appearance of the philosopher of the Tri-bune. [4]
Clemens and Rice were constant associates, though continually firing squibs at each other in their respective papers--a form of personal journalism much in vogue on the Comstock. [5]
Curiosity, inquiry, expectation, were common to them all, but with each was a different personal feeling. [11]
Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted. [11]
Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
While he ate, we smoked and chatted; and when he was finishing he found his voice at last, and of his own accord broke out with his personal history. [5]
I think that we should not make our own personal experience a law unto the world. [11]
Mr. Edison is wasting his time in objective experiments, while we are in the deepest ignorance as to our electric personality or our personal electricity. [4]
Democrat though he was, he did not let democracy transgress his personal associations. [11]
This fact he was to learn by personal experience. [4]
That private reason was the request of an old personal friend who himself desired to be receiver, but whom I felt it my duty to refuse a recommendation. [7]
So vividly personal was the influence upon him that it seemed impossible that she should not be aware of it--impossible that she could not know there was such a person in the world as Philip Burnett. [4]
Emerson's personal appearance was that of a scholar, the descendant of scholars. [6]
After all, it was rather absurd to propose making a purely personal question the pivot on which his relations with 'Every Other Week' turned. [8]
But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
Influenced as I was by emotion when in her presence, I resorted to a personal application of my opinions--the last and most unfair resort of a disputant. [11]
If Captain Jones was ambitious of personal glory, he may never, at least, be accused of mercenary motives. [9]
Something in the voice, insistent, vibrating, personal, made every note a thrust of victory. [11]
After a personal visit to St. Saviour's, this biggest creditor and financial potentate--M. Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles. [11]
I know this very well, that some personal pique or favoritism is at the bottom of half the praise and dispraise which pretend to be so very ingenuous and discriminating. [6]
Yet at this very time Doltaire was living in the Intendance, and, as he had told Alixe, not without some personal danger. [11]
Thirty cultivated and very musical ladies and gentlemen present--all of them acquaintances and many of them personal friends of mine. [5]
Mr. Peckham gave very little personal attention to the department of instruction, but was always busy with contracts for flour and potatoes, beef and pork, and other nutritive staples, the amount of which required for such an establishment was enough to frighten a quartermaster. [6]
It was a very foolish thing for him to try to inflict personal punishment on such a lusty young fellow as Abner Briggs, Junior, one of the "hardest customers" in the way of a rough-and-tumble fight that there were anywhere round. [6]
In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
This personal peculiarity varies with the age and conditions of the individual. [6]
She only knew vaguely that she was glad of it in a more personal than impersonal way. [11]
Nothing will bring us into this desirable mutual understanding except sympathy and personal contact. [4]
Her father had urged her to make personal appeal to the Queen; and at times, despite her better judgment, she was on the verge of doing so. [11]
Thin-skinned, like all up-starts in authority, he took the bishop's delay as an act of personal contumely. [10]
Charley's soul rose up in revolt against the danger that faced him--not against personal peril, but the danger of being dragged back again into the life he had come from, with all that it involved--the futility of this charge against him! [11]
This was joy unspeakable to me, but it made my wife as mad as if he had offered her a personal affront. [5]
Agne's flight remained unperceived for some little time, for every member of the merchant's household was at the moment intent on some personal interest. [10]
I had sold two hundred tickets among my personal friends, but I feared they might not come. [5]
This concludes Mark Twain's personal letters from the islands. [5]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
Having found the Truth; perceiving that beyond question man has but one moving impulse--the contenting of his own spirit--and is merely a machine and entitled to no personal merit for anything he does, it is not humanly possible for me to seek further. [5]
Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might be--perhaps a very important person--and hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him. [2]
One of these told him that at the Grier big-mill was one man working to defeat him by personal attacks. [11]
Didn't it occur to you that in civil and society functions they will take precedence of all the rest of the personal staff--every one of us? [5]
It appears so to us because we see only the general historic interest of that time and do not see all the personal human interests that people had. [2]
She was competent to treat it in all its phases: not merely those of personal interest, but those of duty to the broken Southern past, sentimentally dear to him, and practically absurd to her. [8]
Capable of sacrifice to their country, personal ambition is, nevertheless, the mainspring of their actions. [9]
He declined both, to the lasting astonishment, yet personal joy, of the Cure and the Avocat; but, as time went on, not so much to the surprise of the Little Chemist and Medallion. [11]
He had everything to spoil him,--beauty, precocious intelligence, and a personal charm which might have made him a universal favorite. [6]
But we desire to reach out beyond those personal outrages and establish a rule that will apply to all, and so prevent any future outrages. [7]
He is entitled to no personal credit for possessing it. [5]
He presently confided to me, with infinite naivete and ingenuousness, that, judging from my personal appearance, he should not have thought me the writer that he in his generosity reckoned me to be. [6]
I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. [7]
Clemens presently decided to make a trip to America to give some personal attention to business matters. [5]
What I wish to know is, whether my taking the case would cause you any personal inconvenience or distress? [9]
It never occurred to her to fancy that the young lady had any personal dislike to her, for, though she might be ignored and forgotten, who had ever had any but a kind word for her. [10]
He seemed instantly to have established a chain of personal sympathy with her. [4]
Still, she longed to have an idea of the personal appearance and manners of some of those whose writings or letters had interested her. [14]
It is easy to define this sort of untruthfulness, and to study the moral deterioration it works in personal character, and in the quality of literary work. [4]
It is not to be wondered at that people crave office, some salaried position, in order to escape the anxieties, the personal responsibilities, of a single-handed struggle with the world. [4]
The notion appears to be spreading that there must be some way by which one can get a good intellectual outfit without much personal effort. [4]
Now Ah'm goin' to be personal, too. [8]
They ought not, to be editorials, or the vehicles of personal opinion and feeling. [4]
From time to time, Hodder himself was uncomfortably aware of her presence, and he read in her upturned face an interest which, by a little stretch of the imagination, might have been deemed personal . [9]
In two or three of the last numbers of the Sangamon Journal, articles of the most personal nature and calculated to degrade me have made their appearance. [7]
We have a thousand proofs of this in the colossal character of their personal acts and the acts of ordinary men to whom they have given supernatural qualities. [5]

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