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Sentences ending with piece

There was fourteen yards in the piece. [5]
He always remembered with satisfaction that once when the Cure was absent and he was supposed to be dying, a priest from another parish came, and, the ministrations over, he had made an offering of a gold piece. [11]
I do not wish to work upon this scandalous job by the piece. [5]
During this the wife's teeth held together as though they were of a piece. [11]
I'll tell you what, Farrar," said I, "the truth is, that this fellow never embezzled so much as a ten-cent piece. [9]
I have no use whatever for this piece. [10]
It is a two-sous piece. [4]
Are you going to split the Ohio down through, and push your half off a piece? [7]
I feel at this moment as if time had moved backwards a good piece. [10]
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. [5]

Short sentences using piece

It was a fruit piece. [10]

Sentences containing piece two or more times

It was a wonderful piece of luck, a splendid piece of luck; the glory of it made him dizzy. [5]
When I went through with each and every piece, Judge Douglas did not dare then to say that any piece of it was a forgery. [7]
You see that piece that's got the blood on it will keep drawing and drawing, trying to fetch the other piece to it, and so that helps the blood to draw the wart, and pretty soon off she comes. [5]
He brought no new piece of evidence inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece, tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition. [7]
We can identify it by a piece which is broken out; and the piece is in Notre Dame in Paris. [4]
Freed of these encumbrances, he went on to divest himself of his other clothing, which he folded up, piece by piece, and ranged in order on the trunk. [12]
Bessie had eaten a piece of roast pigeon, the first morsel for several days, and there was as much rejoicing over it in the Van der Werff household, as if some great piece of good fortune had befallen the family. [10]

More example sentences with the word piece in them

You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
You would give your last copper piece to hear her again. [10]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
The portier also wrote down each day's journey and the nightly hotel on a piece of paper, and made our course so plain that we should never be able to get lost without high-priced outside help. [5]
He had a wound, which had been a bad one, evidently got from a piece of shell. [9]
In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
Satan said we would have a storm now, and an earthquake, if we liked, but we must stand off a piece, out of danger. [5]
Dinner is serious work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labor, and he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef. [4]
The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
She was at work on a piece of embroidery. [6]
It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
I will deal with them without presents; and if I had the gold of the Bank of England stored in the garrison there, they should not touch a piece of it. [9]
We tried him with all sorts of lines and a piece of pork, but he declined to take hold. [5]
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. [6]
He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
This evening I will bring in a lump of clay and a good piece of modelling wax. [10]
But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
If Mr. Percy, who was a volunteer in this expedition, and a man of high character, did send this information, it shows that he sympathized with him, and this is an important piece of testimony to his good character. [4]
As to the whiskers, as I have never worn any, do you not think that people would call it a piece of silly affectation were I to begin wearing them now? [7]
He gazed a while through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged,--it's a raft! [5]
The boat in which Carmen had been placed was swamped not far from shore, but she managed to lay hold of a piece of drifting wreckage, and began to fight steadily and easily landward. [11]
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
You can see what a piece of work it would make of their sympathies. [6]
And when they were through they said that portrait, fine as it is, that work, beautiful as it is, that piece of humanity on that canvas, gracious and fine as it is, does not rise to those perfections that exist in the man himself. [5]
And how fair were the visions that rose before her young fancy as she broke off one piece after another and hastily eat them after slightly moistening them with the fresh oil. [10]
Even if that were not possible, there was plenty of gold on the ship, and every piece of it was good money. [11]
After supper he went, as usual, to sit on the steps of his porch, and to cut his piece of Honey Dew, which never varied a milligram. [9]
When Mrs. Mavick went to her daughter's apartments she found Evelyn reading aloud and Miss McDonald at work on an elaborate piece of Bulgarian embroidery. [4]
I don't think we got lost exactly, but we wandered four hours over the steepest, rockiest and most dangerous piece of country in the world. [5]
And when, presently, we came to an open plot whence we might see a long piece of the forest path, and yet saw nought but a little charcoal burner's cart, meseemed as though a cold hand had been laid on my heart. [10]
To be sure, we broke many a piece of bread together in war and peace in the same service. [10]
Beaten their cause was, and hunted down, Like to a moose in the chase full blown, Panting they stood; and a Judas sold Their hiding-place for a piece of gold. [11]
The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. [5]
Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean-to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch. [5]
I think it was said that if you want such a hole bored in a piece of jade now, you must send it to London or Amsterdam where the lapidaries are. [5]
The last extremity was reached when the collection-plate began its rounds; the moderate people threw in pennies, the nobles and the rich contributed silver, but she laid a twenty-mark gold piece upon the book-rest before her with a sounding slap! [5]
W-wondered what I was goin' to eat--wahn't nothin' but a piece of bread on the table. [9]
They have, also--which was far more interesting to me--a piece of the true cross, and some nails, and a part of the crown of thorns. [5]
I understood he was awful mad at the way the thing started off, and wanted to give you a piece of his mind, when he got at you. [8]
Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figured in pencil. [5]
On the porch was a loom, with a piece of cloth in process. [4]
Going to the wardrobe and opening a drawer at the bottom she searched among her clothes until she discovered the piece of tissue paper in which she had wrapped the rose rescued from the cluster he had given her. [9]
In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike a piece of road at its time for being shady. [5]
You bent that wall back like a piece of steel, and broke it. [11]
You've selected the very most difficult piece of railroad in Australia for your experiment. [5]
The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
The same effort used to introduce a novelty will be much better remunerated by pushing the sale of an acknowledged good piece of literature. [4]
Then he give us a piece of his mind, but it didn't do no good. [5]
Paaker has given us a good piece of arable land, and thinks, perhaps with reason, that he has done his part. [10]
The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias, since it was not possible that any other artist, of any epoch, could have copied nature with such faultless accuracy. [5]
She lifted him up, kissed him, and then asked the mother, who also greeted her, for a piece of bread, for her hunger was becoming intolerable. [10]
And Weld ran up to me, and though I was a good piece of a lad, swung me lightly onto his shoulder. [9]
Then I took up the pig and held him to my breast with my jacket (so he couldn't drip) till I got a good piece below the house and then dumped him into the river. [5]
I've just called up the Department in Washington and given them a piece of my mind--told 'em they'd have to conscript labour. [9]
You take me up de country a piece, en sell me on a farm; dem people ain't gwine to ask no questions if I's a bargain. [5]
And you"--he held up a piece of paper--"see that," he broke off. [11]
Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and welcome piece of work in front of it. [5]
You transform this uninteresting piece of domesticity into an ideal woman, ennobling her surroundings. [4]
It was the twins, knocking out a classic four-handed piece on the piano in great style. [5]
I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. [5]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
It was in total silence that they made their way along the short piece of road to the house of Clemens. [10]
So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, and then turned in. [5]
His own heart too grew lighter while engaged in designing or executing many an artistic piece of work. [10]
He had come to settle up accounts for a clever piece of court-room work on the part of Burlingame. [11]
The credit belongs to Rias Richardson for hawing been the first to piece these three facts together, causing him to burn his hand so severely on the stove that he had to carry it bandaged in soda for a week. [9]
As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table. [11]
Occasionally he tried to piece together the several stages of strange experience and to make a whole. [13]
I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table. [5]
You have only to make play with a gold piece and I can obtain you an audience at once through Sebek, the house-steward he is my cousin. [10]
And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her. [5]
There came back to him mechanically the remembrance of a piece of silver on the butt of one of the highwayman's pistols! [11]
We are indebted to Herr Dr. Walther, in Alexandria, for an excellent photograph of this remarkable piece of sculpture. [10]
He came up to her quietly, and put a piece of paper in her lap. [11]
This he promised to do and did; though in place of the somewhat more formal piece he was asked to write, he sent what he called an introductory letter. [4]
Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. [5]
I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long--always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed--but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. [5]
They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. [11]
I looked several times at Juste Duvarney, who sat not far away, on the other side of the table, behind a grand piece of silver filled with October roses. [11]
Up to this time this coin had been a wee little gold piece worth about a third of a dollar. [5]
And after a time she was calm again, and went to her bureau drawer and took from a hiding place a little piece of paper, yellow with age. [5]
During all this time I had but one piece of money--a silver ten cent piece--and I held to it and would not spend it on any account, lest the consciousness coming strong upon me that I was entirely penniless, might suggest suicide. [5]
Little Jacob applauded till his hands were sore; Kit cried 'an-kor' at the end of everything, the three-act piece included; and Barbara's mother beat her umbrella on the floor, in her ecstasies, until it was nearly worn down to the gingham. [12]
Through Silas Whipple, through his mother, Virginia knew that she was woven of one piece with Stephen Brice. [9]
After he went through all this, he was hit by a piece of mortar shell, while sitting at his dinner. [9]
He gazed awhile through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged--it's a raft! [5]
Wandering with her thoughts she did not notice the spruce bushes set up for signal, until she had stepped on a thin piece of ice. [11]
She no longer thought of the harm a piece of news might do her empty stomach, and, while mentally seeing the flutter of a matron's beautiful blue garment and the flash of Xanthe's rich dowry, eagerly asked the welcome messenger: "Does she speak the truth? [10]
Two years before this time I saw him lift a load from the back of a peasant woman and carry it home for her, putting into her hand a gold piece on leaving. [11]
Having given him this piece of moral advice for his trouble (which, as he wisely observed, was far better than half-pence) the Perpetual Grand Master of the Glorious Apollos thrust his hands into his pockets and sauntered away: still pondering as he went. [12]
I cut out this little piece about him from the paper on purpose to show you,--for genius loves genius,--and you would like to hear him read his own poetry,--he reads it beautifully. [6]
Being satisfied with this effort I looked around for other worlds to conquer, and it struck me that it would make good, interesting matter to charge the editor of a neighboring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and "see him squirm. [5]
He seemed to think that if he were at home, and could get a bit of fried bacon, or a piece of pie, he should be all right. [4]
In one instance they sold a man a gallon of rum worth two dollars for a piece of property which was sold some years later for $100,000. [5]
She wrote on these bits of paper in a minute hand, holding each against a piece of board, such as is used in binding books, for a desk. [14]
Then, in addition thereto, he brought in a new piece of evidence. [7]
Under the gun there was some shade, for she threw over it a piece of tarpaulin and some ragged, blood-stained jackets lying near--jackets of men whose wounds their comrades had tried hastily to help when the scythe of war cut them down. [11]
The people say there isn't enough of him in the piece. [5]

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