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Sentences starting with pieces

Pieces of board were nailed over the defective spots in the floor, and the lines where the walls met rarely showed a right angle. [10]

Sentences ending with pieces

In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
His first impulse was to have Dicky seized and cast to the crowd, to be torn to pieces. [11]
Little infants were torn in pieces. [5]
Her words seemed to shake him all to pieces. [11]
When he goes to pieces--" "Monsieur--to pieces! [11]
Don't you try to land by yourself, or you'll smash everything to pieces. [5]
Perhaps you'd like to doubt it to the music of a couple of gold five-dollar pieces. [6]
I was forced to climb the main rigging in order to escape being hacked to pieces. [9]
Shattered into a thousand pieces. [10]

Short sentences using pieces

Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces, 242. [6]
A million pieces. [5]

Sentences containing pieces two or more times

Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
You must then cut the carcass into pieces, yes, into small pieces, and scatter them to the four winds; for, unless you do this, he will again revive. [5]
Jethro took it, and absently tore it into little pieces, and threw the pieces on the floor. [9]
Provisions reached such a figure that "an ass' head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. [5]

More example sentences with the word pieces in them

Why, some of you were surprised when a friend of mine told you there were fifty-eight separate pieces in a fiddle. [6]
Fancy yourself, that you have broken it, and that the pieces are lying at the bottom of the sea. [10]
I move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces, and give the result to the right man--the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward Richards. [5]
The poorest even would have glass, but home-made--a foolish expense, for the glass soon went to bits, and the pieces turned to no profit. [4]
It can't; it would go to pieces, if people acted from unselfish motives. [8]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
Meanwhile she inquired whether it might be possible to get four horses at the next change, and she offered five gold pieces to a man who would ride on ahead of them and secure the team. [11]
There were moments when the pattern of it appeared to have fallen apart, resolved itself into pieces that refused to fit into each other. [9]
With what pleasure, when again permitted to go out in the evening, I witnessed the performances of Plautus's pieces given by Professor Geppert's pupils! [10]
The separate pieces were made of ebony and ivory, some being curiously inlaid with sentences, in hieroglyphics of gold and silver. [10]
The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling. [5]
He took the watch all to pieces while I waited, and then said the barrel was "swelled. [5]
But, as it was, he cut the face off the work with a knife, and deliberately trod the pieces under foot as they lay on the ground. [10]
Besides, when I was in Petersburg I felt (I can say this to you) that the whole affair would go to pieces without me--everyone was pulling his own way. [2]
The stout gentleman was counting out big gold pieces in his hand and giving them to Mr. Riddle. [9]
Jack's and Edith's wardrobes, and some pieces of ancestral furniture that he pointed out as belonging to his wife, were removed before the auction flag was hung out. [4]
Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. [6]
That is all very well so long as old pieces of stuff are all they call for, but it is a different matter to ask for clippings out of new and uncut rolls of cloth. [6]
When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
Then he took up the pieces of paper, and, going to the fire, which was still lighted of an evening, thrust them inside. [11]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
Venters, sighing, gathered up an armful of pottery, such pieces as he thought strong enough and suitable for his own use, and bent his steps toward camp. [13]
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]
They were quartered under the arches of the town-hall, but many also lay in the smithy, for their helmets, breast-plates and other pieces of armor required plenty of mending. [10]
We only found two pieces of statuary, and this was another blessing. [5]
Which of these two pieces of news rendered her the happier, she could not have determined. [10]
The sight of two gold pieces made the thing possible in the landlord's eyes, and Madame Marie urged no more, but found some refreshment, of which she gently insisted that Madelinette should partake. [11]
This is in truth the natural and genuine feeling of a self-governing citizen of a commonwealth where thrones and wigs and mitres seem like so many pieces of stage property. [6]
It is a trephine, a surgical implement for cutting round pieces out of broken skulls, so as to get at the fragments which have been driven in, and lift them up. [3]
Streets in some towns have a litter of pieces of paper, and odds and ends of one sort or another lying around. [5]
Presently, however, I took the knife which I had hidden a year before, and cut pieces of the meat and laid them by the bread. [11]
Long before eleven, too, the chiefs over tens and the chiefs over hundreds had gathered their men and marched them into the state-house; and Mr. Tooting, who was everywhere that morning, noticed that some of these led soldiers had pieces of paper in their hands. [9]
I know Italy too, for I've been in Brescia, looking for good steel sword-blades for the Prince and other nobles, I crossed the rugged Apennines and went to Florence to see fine pieces of armor. [10]
She knew that Tom had a whole candle and three or four pieces in his pockets--yet he must economize. [5]
It led also to the composition of other books on the West, which were more or less mere pieces of book-making for the market. [4]
Jethro had begun to sweep the finer pieces of bark toward the centre. [9]
Not being able to see where they are going, these poor creatures dash themselves to pieces against the rocks or are precipitated over the cliffs and thus many valuable lives are lost annually. [6]
He is smaish to pieces, but his head is all right. [11]
We're all going to pieces here, every one of us. [11]
I have pulled to pieces all the persons I am acquainted with, and put them together again in my characters. [6]
But just listen to me: We are sure you see of a hundred gold pieces at least. [10]
Antyllus had intended to bestow the goblets; but he advised the youth to let him pay their value in money, for among them were several ancient pieces of most artistic workmanship, which Antony, the extravagant young fellow's father, might perhaps be unwilling to lose. [10]
This he repeated, till it seemed like a mass of brains, while the others, as quick as possible, cut him into very small pieces, which they then scattered in every direction. [5]
The fraud went through some more mummery, and then made grave announcement: "The high and mighty Emperor of the East doth at this moment put money in the palm of a holy begging friar--one, two, three pieces, and they be all of silver. [5]
Upwards of two thousand were either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners; and the two pieces of ordnance were brought off as trophies of the victory. [4]
How many of those mahogany pieces, so ruthlessly tumbled about before the public eye, meant a heartache! [9]
Upon the floor, this place and that, is a card, and pieces of paper, and a scarf, and a broken glass, and something that shine by a small table. [11]
He sent with this letter a purse well-filled with gold pieces. [10]
We cannot do this if we see the author set them up as if they were marionettes, and take them to pieces every few pages, and show their interior structure, and the machinery by which they are moved. [4]
A band of thirty pieces furnished the music, and in the opinion of the jackies one feature alone was lacking to make the entertainment a complete success--the new drop-curtain had failed to arrive from London. [9]
Now I am thinking of it, I will give you one or two pieces of advice. [6]
The threepenny pieces they get are to help their starving mother to heat the attic room in those winter days which, cold though they are, may warm the heart. [10]
In one of these long Pompeiian halls the skeleton of a man was found, with ten pieces of gold in one hand and a large key in the other. [5]
As he stood there, his face half turned to me for a moment, this came to my mind, and I said to him, "Voban, you look like some wicked gun which would blow us all to pieces. [11]
And think of the wash-bill--(excuse these tears)--nine hundred and eighty-four pieces a week! [5]
If anywhere, in the two pieces of the Compromise organizing the Territories of New Mexico and Utah. [7]
The peddlers and the shopkeepers take such pieces occasionally, and sell them, sometimes for five or ten cents, to young collectors. [6]
Then she recollected the severe punishment she had once suffered, because, when she was still quite little, and without meaning any harm, she had taken her father's water-clock to pieces, and had spoiled it. [10]
It was almost the same as breaking pieces from the hearts of those old Arabs. [5]
Trying to save the pieces, Asher. [9]
One looking through the pages of contemporary periodical literature is apt at any moment to light upon pieces, and sometimes upon series of them, which the author never took the trouble to collect. [4]
Then I ask the original question, if each of the pieces of testimony is true, how is it possible that the whole is a falsehood? [7]
At Maude's suggestion the night before we had placed my presents, pieces de resistance, at a distance from the tree, in the hope that they would not be spied at once, that they would be in some sort a climax. [9]
I never saw the like--and yet looking as beautiful as Satan, too--and couldn't seem to do anything but paw bread crumbs, and pick flowers to pieces, and look fidgety. [5]
As soon as the king and his retinue had departed, the priests selected, for themselves, the best pieces of the flesh which had been offered in sacrifice, and allowed the thronging crowd to take the rest. [10]
It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
The woman of the house, to whose care Philip was passed over by Damour, had tired of watching, and had gone to spend one of his gold pieces for supper with her friends. [11]
It was not the house of the disciple who sold the Master for thirty pieces of silver. [5]
The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostov, being the richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. [2]
Cassian had seen the gold pieces which had been placed in Erasmus's hand, to pay his travelling expenses, glitter in the rosy light of dawn. [10]
To glance at the genuine son of the desert is to take the romance out of him forever--to behold his steed is to long in charity to strip his harness off and let him fall to pieces. [5]
The fire of the forge, by whose means pieces of worthless iron were transformed into swords and ploughshares, should use its influence upon her also. [10]
White-robed magi fed the fire with pieces of daintily-cut sandal-wood, and stirred it with bundles of rods. [10]
The people awaited the enemy unconcernedly, did not riot or become excited or tear anyone to pieces, but faced its fate, feeling within it the strength to find what it should do at that most difficult moment. [2]
It has reached the bottom, smashed into a thousand pieces, and I am thankful that you preferred to follow me rather than that false support. [10]
The army of the Bashaw was cut to pieces and he himself captured. [4]
It appears, then, that progress has, after all, been with the shifting world, that has been all this time going to pieces, rather than with the world that has been permanent and unshaken. [4]
The rest was that one night he found himself in debt to the sharper eight thousand pieces of gold!--an amount so prodigious that it simply stupefied him to think of it. [5]
I only wonder that I did not melt away and fall to pieces in the warm water like a wheaten loaf. [10]
We all admit that certain pieces of literature have become classic; by general consent there is no dispute about them. [4]
Perhaps she knew that a bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces. [4]
Before entering the tent he asked for some pieces of meat, and gave them with his own hand to his lions, who let him stroke them like tame cats. [10]
Will the cracked Teacup hold together, or will he go to pieces, and find himself in that retreat where the owner of the terrible clock which drove him crazy is walking under the shelter of the high walls? [6]
Then the missionary takes hold of this explanation and pulls it to pieces, and dances on it, and damages it beyond recognition. [5]
I wanted to take the book from him, but he fled with the roll, sprang out of window, let himself down to the edge of the well, and tore and rubbed the manuscript to pieces in a rage. [10]
John took two sweet-cakes and broke each in fine pieces into a saucer, and after sugaring and eulogizing the dry messes, called for two small darky volunteers from the audience to come up on the platform and devour them. [4]
In the principal street of the city, it had received more attention; for hogs; great and small, rooted about in it and wallowed in it, turning the street into a liquid quagmire which could only be crossed on pieces of plank thrown here and there. [5]
These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. [6]
The machine was still breaking the types now and then, and no doubt Paige was itching to take it to pieces, and only restrained by force from doing so. [5]
It is his steady purpose to find the cave some time when he has leisure, and capture the chair, if it has not tumbled to pieces. [4]
It grieved the soul of the economical manager and lover of rare works of art to have this ancient and also very valuable family heirloom broken to pieces. [10]
Only a few solitary fragments of the splintered stone remained in the setting; the king's name had fallen to pieces, and disappeared. [10]
But an English soldier broke a stick in two and crossed the pieces and tied them together, and this cross he gave her, moved to it by the good heart that was in him; and she kissed it and put it in her bosom. [5]
The fine powdery snow was driven past us in the clouds, penetrating the interstices of our clothes, and the pieces of ice which flew from the blows of Peter's ax were whisked into the air, and then dashed over the precipice. [5]
The whole captures since the army started out will not amount to less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery. [7]
She selected what she needed, but many of the pewter, glass, and silver articles did not please her; for they did not match, and she found scratches and cracks on numerous pieces. [10]
Listen, rascal, if she keeps it you may swallow cakes to-day out on the Grand Square till you burst--and yet I have only just paid five gold pieces for you. [10]
In these months she could not quite be sure, and she tried to shut her eyes when the little pieces fell off, to remind herself that she must make allowances for the severity of his disappointment. [9]
The old man shared the fate of the first, for they now heard his cries as he was torn in pieces. [5]
It is worth seven hundred pieces of gold; but by auction it will go for little or nothing. [5]

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