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Sentences starting with peter

Peter felt animated with new life. [10]
Peter played backgammon with her on the front steps, and later on--chess. [9]
Peter Erwin, of whom we caught a glimpse doing an errand for Uncle Tom in the bank. [9]
Peter the valet, who was now wide awake, had roused the doctor. [2]
Peter Van der Werff did not follow her, but went quietly into his study and strove to reflect upon many things, that concerned his office, but his thoughts constantly reverted to Maria. [10]
Peter and George were the only ones that come out here; George was the married brother; him and his wife both died last year. [5]
Peter Irving, who was then in Edinburgh, was impressed with the brilliant talent of the editor of the "Review," disguised as it was by affectation, but he said he "would not give the Minstrel for a wilderness of Jeffreys. [4]
Peter the Great was frightened, when an infant, by falling from a bridge into the water. [6]
Peter checked Honora's trunk, and Peter had got the permission--through Judge Brice--which enabled them all to pass through the grille and down the long walk beside which the train was standing. [9]
Peter had refused to sell himself. [9]

Sentences ending with peter

At last the widow paused, saying: "Perhaps the Prince has sent a messenger for Peter. [10]
What would her wedding have been without Peter? [9]
The capitalist, overbearing, tyrannical, hearing a few, simple truths in his own house from Peter--her Peter. [9]
He impressed her to-day as force--tremendous force in repose, and yet he was the same Peter. [9]
She waited quietly till he had signed the first paper, then turned her pretty head aside, and blushing faintly, exclaimed with downcast eyes: "It is I, Peter! [10]
But seeing him still obdurate, with startling suddenness she flung her arms mound his neck--a method which at times had succeeded marvellously--and pleaded coaxingly: "Only a quarter of an hour, Peter. [9]
And sometimes when she sat reading of an evening under the maple, her book would fall to her lap and the advent of this personage become so real a thing that she bounded when the gate slammed --to find that it was only Peter. [9]
Irving's first literary publication was a series of letters, signed Jonathan Oldstyle, contributed in 1802 to the "Morning Chronicle," a newspaper then recently established by his brother Peter. [4]
Twenty-five days of pitiless starvation have followed, and now we have this curious record: 'All the men are hearty and strong; even the ones that were down sick are well, except poor Peter. [5]
She shrank from opening it again, as she laid the beloved mementoes back into the box, yet her breast heaved as she thought of Peter. [10]

Short sentences using peter

Then Peter began to speak. [10]
And Peter thanked them. [9]
Poor Meister Peter, poor Maria! [10]
It read: Mr. Peter Erwin. [9]
Peter remained a moment. [9]
Peter glanced at his watch. [9]
Peter Kirilych, for heaven's sake! [2]
Peter, the eternally dependable. [9]
Father Peter is coming. [5]
And Peter was a lawyer. [9]

Sentences containing peter two or more times

To look at Peter was to wonder whether there could be such a thing as a well-groomed combatant; and until to-day she had never thought of Peter as a combatant. [9]
He suspended Father Peter indefinitely, though he wouldn't go so far as to excommunicate him on the evidence of only one witness; and now Father Peter had been out a couple of years, and our other priest, Father Adolf, had his flock. [5]
Peter--even Peter had no power to share such a faith, though what he had said of Chiltern had wounded her--wounded her because Peter, of all others, should misjudge and condemn him. [9]
It was Peter, but a Peter who has changed some since perambulator days, --just as Honora has changed some. [9]

More example sentences with the word peter in them

Show Bound was written by Peter Cooper. [5]
The news was worth a good deal, for instance, to Mr. Peter Pardriff (brother of Paul, of Ripton), who refrained, with praiseworthy self-control, from publishing it in the State Tribune, although the temptation to do so must have been great. [9]
She heard Dunyasha's words about Peter Ilynich and a misfortune, but did not grasp them. [2]
If they have, won't the complices get away with that bag of gold Peter Wilks left? [5]
Of a sick woman He said that Satan had bound her; and to Peter He said, "Thou art an offense unto me. [5]
Herr Peter replied with sincere kindness; his sister with equally well-meant chilling displeasure. [10]
She now felt with joyous gratitude, that she could look Peter frankly in the eye, grant him love, and ask love in return. [10]
I am Peter Wilks' brother Harvey, and this is his brother William, which can't hear nor speak--and can't even make signs to amount to much, now't he's only got one hand to work them with. [5]
Let every one, who is not oppressed with such burdens as Peter, thank the Lord. [10]
How little Peter, who drummed on the table to the tune of: "Give three cheers and one cheer more For the hearty captain of the Pinafore," imagined what was going on beside him! [9]
Once in a while, as he found a way for them through the crowd, Peter glanced down at her, and something like a smile tugged at the corners of a decidedly masculine mouth, and lit up his eyes. [9]
And after breakfast, while Aunt Mary occupied herself with that immemorial institution,--which was to lure hitherwards so many prominent citizens of St. Louis during the day,--eggnogg, Peter surveyed the offerings which transformed the sitting-room. [9]
Barbara had retired when Peter at last appeared, so weary that he could scarcely touch the meal that had been kept ready for him. [10]
Peter, tell me what has happened. [10]
The forces that were gathered by Peter Stuyvesant for the expedition to avenge upon the Swedes the defeat at Fort Casimir, and their appearance on the march, give some notion of the military prowess of the Dutch. [4]
So Peter Quatgelat welcomes his guests. [10]
Susan, like Peter, was taken for granted. [9]
And their appearance was something of a shock to her; they did not, somehow, "go with the house," and they dressed even more carelessly than Peter Erwin. [9]
When the table was laid, Peter returned home for a moment. [10]
And while she was gone to--remove her veil and hat, Peter looked around it. [9]
That her uncle was a good man, for instance, had no such effect upon Honora, as the fact that Peter was a good man. [9]
While ordering the waiter to bring him a mug of beer, Captain Allertssohn appeared with Junker von Warmond, who had taken part in the consultation at Peter Van der Werff's, and bravely earned his captain's sash two years before at the capture of Brill. [10]
The elder Herr von Nordwyk agreed with him, exclaiming: "With all due respect to your dignity, Herr Peter, your three companions in office belong to the ranks of bad friends, who would willingly be exchanged for open enemies. [10]
Prince Peter Mikhaylovich Volkonski occupied the position, as it were, of chief of the Emperor's staff. [2]
The older Herr Van der Does clapped Peter on the shoulder and then struck the palm of his hand with his fist, as if to say: "I won't question that! [10]
Tradition had its value when it did not deteriorate into superstition, into the mechanical, automatic transmission characteristic of the mediaeval Church, for the very suggestion of which Peter had rebuked Simon in Samaria. [9]
Just as one used to take for granted that third horse which pulled the car uphill, so Peter was taken for granted. [9]
To-day she summoned up her courage, stood opposite to it, and gazed steadily at the youthful features of the woman, with whom Peter had been happy. [10]
Finally she looked up and saw Pierre Maurice, who had come in with the Bishop, and she said to him: "Master Peter, where shall I be this night? [5]
Above it, and under the big trees, shone a thousand glittering lights: there was a crowd at the gate, and instead of saying, "Open, Sesame," Peter slipped two bright fifty-cent pieces to the red-faced German ticketman, and in they went. [9]
Master Peter himself, under pretence of exercising himself in the Italian tongue, would often wait upon Dame Giovanna. [10]
She was by turns annoyed, amused, and distrait: Peter was leaving his hotel; now he was taking the train. [9]
Father Peter claimed trial by the ecclesiastical court, but our other priest, Father Adolf, said an ecclesiastical court hadn't jurisdiction over a suspended priest. [5]
Then he motioned towards Peter, and exclaimed to the assembled guests: "Will you excuse the burgomaster for a moment? [10]
But Father Peter took no stock in the astrologer. [5]
If he died to-night, he could not say to St. Peter, when he arrived at Heaven's gate: "See, I have saved a soul! [11]
It is needless to say that I stood before St. Peter, who sits at the Celestial Gate. [4]
It never occurred to Honora that had it not been for Peter those evenings would have been even less bearable than they were. [9]
Peter Erwin appeared to her more than once, and he was strangely real. [9]
For a long time she has been unwilling to share my poverty, and if Herr Peter had remained loyal to our holy religion, I would persuade her myself. [10]
Often had she thought of Peter Erwin, and it is not too much to say that he had insensibly grown into an ideal. [9]
She would tell this to Master Peter with all honesty, and she was sure that he would be content with her friendship and warm goodwill. [10]
Peter commanded, that they should have shelter for the night in the town-hall and the guard-house at the gate. [10]
Peter Bulkeley was therefore one of Emerson's sixty-four grandfathers at the seventh remove. [6]
At any rate, there were Protestants among her visitors and, unfortunately, they included Herr Peter Schlumperger, whom De Soto knew as an active promoter of the apostasy of the Ratisbon burghers. [10]
Without waiting for their aid, the daring Peter dashed, sword in hand, into the thickest of the foe. [4]
Peter sat at the writing-table in full official uniform, with his hat still on his head. [10]
Adrian ran to the workshops and told the men, Peter went to the town-hall with a more upright bearing, and Maria, who was obliged to go out, undertook to tell Wilhelm's mother of the good results produced by her son's gift. [10]
It is not the sight of a Peter Cooper and his wealth that discontents him, nor the intellectual pursuits of the scholar who uses the leisure his fortune gives him for the higher pleasures of the mind. [4]
The group represents the Saviour, St. Peter, Pope Leo, St. Silvester, Constantine and Charlemagne. [5]
Yes, he was the same Peter, but her absence from him had served to sharpen her sense of certain characteristics. [9]
Peter is giving the pallium to the Pope, and a standard to Charlemagne. [5]
They keep green the memory of the men who fell at the Eureka Stockade, and Peter Lalor has his monument. [5]
Its settlement under the lead of Emerson's ancestor, Peter Bulkeley, was effected in the midst of many difficulties, which the enterprise and self-sacrifice of that noble leader were successful in overcoming. [6]
To her astonishment the hitherto pliant Peter, who only existed in order to do her will, became transformed into a brusque masculine creature which she did not recognize. [9]
When he heard the day before that he would find her among Peter Schlumperger's guests in Prufening, he had joined them, as if by accident, toward evening, and Barbara had danced with him twice. [10]
Peter, who was the complement of all who loved and served her, of Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom and Catherine, and who somehow embodied them all. [9]
She saw, in the chancel, tall and grave and pale, Peter Erwin standing beside the man with the flushed face who was to be her husband. [9]
Do you suppose, that when the disciples heard from the lips of their Master the play of words on the name of Peter, there was no smile of appreciation on the bearded faces of those holy men? [6]
In the summer, that season of desolation for Honora, when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis, Peter Erwin came to his own. [9]
Then she saw that it was Peter Erwin. [9]
The monk said that angels came and liberated Peter from prison by night, and he started away from Rome by the Appian Way. [5]
Peter Fontaine says that "when they heard that Rolfe had married Pocahontas, it was deliberated in council whether he had not committed high treason by so doing, that is marrying an Indian princesse. [4]
Was there any such mark on Peter Wilks' breast? [5]
In her sensitive state she tried to evade the contrast thus suddenly presented to her between Peter and the man she had promised, that very morning, to marry. [9]
The bewildered Swede staggered with the blow, and the wary Peter seizing a pocket-pistol, which lay hard by, discharged it full at the head of the reeling Risingh. [4]
When he had spoken of Peter to Maria, it was always with expressions of the warmest admiration and love. [10]
A. I am sorry to have to say this, but just as I had finished and was restoring the bag to its place, I looked up and there stood Father Peter behind me. [5]
In the bar-room some early traveller was talking to Peter Galbraith. [11]
The bay has shorter legs than that tall camel; and Peter never rides out at this hour. [10]
For it was she, and not the confidential gentlemen, who showed Peter Paris: not the careless, pleasure-loving Paris of the restaurants, but of the Cluny and the Carnavalet. [9]
Comforted and strengthened, she went her way homeward, scarcely noticing that Peter Schlumperger and his sister, whom she met, looked away from her with evident purpose. [10]
Again and again she repeated the prayer, but when Bessie's dim eyes no longer met hers and her hands fell into her lap, she could not help thinking of Peter, the assembly, the fate of the city, and the words: "Leyden saved, Holland saved! [10]
Who was to sew the tops to his shoes, Peter or Hackspann? [10]
It had been separated from the city in those days by an endless country road, like a Via Claudia stretching towards mysterious Germanian forests, and it was deemed a feat for Peter to ride thither on his big-wheeled bicycle. [9]
Latin: Peter Bulkeley's scholarship, 7; translation, 24, 25; Emerson's Translations, 43, 44. [6]
Wolf, Herr Peter Schlumperger, Frau Kastenmayr, his estimable sister, and the party of Ratisbon excursionists, upon whom he had scarcely bestowed a passing glance, all played a large and by no means enviable part. [10]
As I was saying, the Bearer's recommendations were all from American tourists; and St. Peter would have admitted him to the fields of the blest on them--I mean if he is as unfamiliar with our people and our ways as I suppose he is. [5]
It is, to say the least, doubtful, and it certainly cannot be proved historically, that Peter ever was in Rome. [9]
The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside his plate, and proposed a toast, "To the health of the hero of our last campaign, Prince Peter Ivanovich Bagration! [2]
Then the carriage rolled on again, and turned into the magnificent park of a palace, which belonged to the royal governor, Prince Peter Ernst von Mansfeld. [10]
The sister of rich old Peter Schlumperger, who was paying court to Barbara, had dismounted from the former. [10]
His son, the Reverend Joseph Emerson, minister of the town of Mendon, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Edward Bulkeley, who succeeded his father, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, as Minister of Concord, Massachusetts. [6]
She could not remember the time when she had been away from Peter, and it was natural that he should be stricken at the news. [9]
Although he had received considerable sums from his books, and perhaps enough for his own simple wants, the responsibility of the support of his two brothers, Peter and Ebenezer, and several nieces, devolved upon him. [4]
The singers were ready early on the birthday morning, but Peter had risen before sunrise, for there was a proposition to be arranged with the city clerk, which must be completed before the meeting of the council. [10]
Peter, when he read that letter, seemed to see Mr. Howard Spence in the flesh; or arrayed, rather, in the kind of cloth alluringly draped in the show-windows of fashionable tailors. [9]
Peter had assigned quarters to the English soldiers outside, and after a consultation with the new commandant, Jan Van der Does, gave them officers. [10]
Then we saw poor old Father Peter wandering along back, with his head bent down, searching the ground. [5]
He accepts as poetical subjects all things alike, common and unclean, without discrimination, miscellaneous as the contents of the great sheet which Peter saw let down from heaven. [6]
An' if your pity's 'urtin' yer, think of 'im as 'adn't no wife nor kid to say when 'e's dead, 'Poor Peter Macnamara, 'e is gone. [11]
What man, even Peter, would not have married her if he could? [9]
And, according to Peter, this fact accounted for all the good fortune which had followed. [9]
The ashes of Peter, the disciple of the Saviour, repose in a crypt under the baldacchino. [5]
The idea of Peter wishing such a house was indeed ridiculous. [9]
He had sought Peter in vain at the town-hall, and hoped to find him at home. [10]
A little later Peter Galbraith and Pretty Pierre went to the sitting- room, and the old man drew from the Sergeant's pocket the envelope which Jen had seen. [11]
At these tidings, Peter dashed his mug of beer angrily on the table, sprang from his seat, and left the room before the nobleman. [10]
Peter Dick threw pepper in Charles Roads's eyes; Roads demanded an apology; Dick refused to give it, and it was agreed that a duel was inevitable, but a difficulty arose; the parties had no pistols, and it was too late at night to procure them. [5]
In the storm people know the pilot, and Peter was always greatest, when things were going worst. [10]

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