Use pierre in a sentence
Sentences starting with pierre
- Pierre hated him; Young Aleck admired in him a quality lying dormant in himself--decision; Mab Humphrey spoke unkindly of no one. [11]
- Pierre had a wonderful tongue. [11]
- Pierre went on with the soldiers, quite forgetting that his inn was at the bottom of the hill and that he had already passed it. [2]
- Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat. [2]
- Pierre measured him with his eye, and chuckled to himself. [11]
- Pierre gazed now with dazed eyes at these sharpshooters who ran in couples out of the circle. [2]
- Pierre exchanged glances with Countess Mary and Nicholas (Natasha he never lost sight of) and smiled happily. [2]
- Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
- Pierre watched him with a furtive humour for a time, then he said languidly: "Never mind your clothes, give yourself. [11]
- Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. [2]
Sentences ending with pierre
- Someone said that you were bad, Pierre. [11]
- How many do you believe I climbed, Pierre? [5]
- One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
- And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
- Then, as if with sudden thought: "To whom were the letters addressed, Pierre? [11]
- The Trader sat with eyes fixed humbly as a dog's on Pierre. [11]
- But how they will envy Pretty Pierre! [11]
- He looked from Wiley to the impassive Pierre. [11]
- Now his look was occupied with Pierre. [11]
- The old prince was in a good temper and very gracious to Pierre. [2]
Short sentences using pierre
- McGann and Pierre were nervous. [11]
- Pierre guessed it was Borotte. [11]
- It's a woman's voice, Pierre. [11]
- Pierre drove on toward Gorki. [2]
- Pretty Pierre has told you. [11]
- Pierre was obliged to wait. [2]
- Pierre rode up to them. [2]
- Pierre pondered over these broadsheets. [2]
- Pretty Pierre watched them all. [11]
- Pierre thrust forward the tobacco-bag. [11]
Sentences containing pierre two or more times
- Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
- Count Rostov's mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre, but Pierre wanted to speak himself. [2]
- He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and genuinely grateful to Pierre for saving his life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the parlor--the first room they entered. [2]
- He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up. [2]
- Pierre was about to rise, but Macavoy suddenly pinned him to his seat with this question: "Did y' iver have a wife, thin, Pierre? [11]
- As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide something as she whispered: "I can't bear the sight of that woman. [2]
- Pierre dined with them and would have spent the whole evening there, but Princess Mary was going to vespers and Pierre left the house with her. [2]
- Sokolov, one of the soldiers in the shed with Pierre, was dying, and Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him. [2]
- When Pierre saw the Emperor he was coming out accompanied by two merchants, one of whom Pierre knew, a fat otkupshchik. [2]
- At this, Pierre's pistol was thrust in his face, and Pierre bade him cease, which he did; but the other came down with a pistol showin', and Pierre, seein' they were determined, fired; and the man that clutched at me fell from his horse. [11]
More example sentences with the word pierre in them
- To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
- He spoke of you even at the very last," she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant. [2]
- With apparent absent-mindedness, yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, Prince Vasili did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. [2]
- But presently Pierre yawned, and was ready to return. [11]
- Then he had worked a little, afterwards more, and now, lastly, since he had seen what they had done to Pierre, with the hot but firm eagerness of an avenging giant. [11]
- Pierre, answering Natasha's words, told her how intolerable it had been for him to meet ladies at dinners and balls in Petersburg. [2]
- Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
- The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
- Prince Pierre dines with us to-night. [11]
- I was trying with the help of Pretty Pierre to get out of the country"--and he waved his hand towards the half-breed. [11]
- She approached Pierre with slow, quiet steps. [2]
- After her talk with Pierre, Anna Mikhaylovna returned to the Rostovs' and went to bed. [2]
- Shon McGann was with me; Pierre with Vandewaters. [11]
- Only Pierre sat with masterful stillness, his eyes never moving from the face of the player; his arms folded; his feet firmly wedded to the floor. [11]
- After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the drawing room. [2]
- A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
- I became familiar with all the intrigues, the designs of the Bonapartes; and what I did not know was told me by Prince Pierre, who was near my own age, and who used me always more like a friend than a servant. [11]
- Princess Mary turned with absent-minded questioning look to Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her after the old prince had gone out and they were left alone in the drawing room. [2]
- Sometime the glove will be too hard and cold on a man's shoulder, and then!--Well, I should like to be there," said Pierre, showing his white teeth. [11]
- Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
- As Pierre said, whose wisdom was more to be trusted than his general morality, "It is strange that most men think not enough of themselves till a woman shows them how. [11]
- Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. [2]
- The old magnates, whom Pierre knew, sat and turned to look first at one and then at another, and their faces for the most part only expressed the fact that they found it very hot. [2]
- After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him. [2]
- A dozen persons who had business with Pierre were awaiting him in the drawing room. [2]
- I have asked," whispered Natasha to her little brother and to Pierre, glancing at him again. [2]
- Everywhere were receptions, which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the depth of his heart. [2]
- The conditions under which Pierre and Shon McGann lived practically ended with the advent of the railway. [11]
- The Frenchman's chatter which had previously amused Pierre now repelled him. [2]
- From the landing where Pierre stood there was a second staircase leading to the back entrance. [2]
- Pierre felt, moreover, what the accused always feel at their trial, perplexity as to why these questions were put to him. [2]
- They talked of what Pierre had told them. [2]
- But to judge what is best--conscription or the militia--we can leave to the supreme authority...." Pierre suddenly saw an outlet for his excitement. [2]
- But where they were to take him Pierre did not know: back to the coach house or to the place of execution his companions had pointed out to him as they crossed the Virgin's Field. [2]
- While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time alone with Helene in the little drawing room where they were sitting. [2]
- Before her words were out, Pierre had sprung up and with a frightened expression seized Princess Mary's hand. [2]
- All their faces were now shining with that latent warmth of feeling Pierre had noticed the day before and had fully understood after his talk with Prince Andrew. [2]
- Even if Pierre were not a Frenchman, having once received that loftiest of human appellations he could not renounce it, said the officer's look and tone. [2]
- Natasha and Pierre were living in Petersburg at the time and had no clear idea of Nicholas' circumstances. [2]
- But though they were kindly they did not look at Pierre and did not know him. [2]
- Twenty, twenty-five cards were drawn, and then Pierre paused. [11]
- He and Pierre were borne along lightly and joyously, nearer and nearer to their goal. [2]
- The members who were assembling for dinner were sitting about in groups; they greeted Pierre and spoke of the town news. [2]
- While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, Pierre sat down with his little partner. [2]
- The king himself went to bed in the Fort that night, Pierre and his bodyguard--by name Noel, Little Babiche, Corvette, Jose, and Parfaite --its only occupants, singing joyfully: "Did yees iver hear tell o' Long Barney, That come from the groves o' Killarney? [11]
- Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. [2]
- Pierre knew quite well that this was a bull caribou, travelling wildly till he found another herd. [11]
- Pierre felt particularly well disposed toward them all, but was now instinctively on his guard for fear of binding himself in any way. [2]
- He would sleep well and sound, having seen Pretty Pierre for the last time. [11]
- The stake was weighty, and Pierre loved the game more than he cared about the stake. [11]
- We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole," said Pierre, and he pointed to the sky. [2]
- Pierre pushed his way into the middle of the group, listened, and convinced himself that the man was indeed a liberal, but of views quite different from his own. [2]
- What marshal this was, Pierre could not learn from the soldiers. [2]
- And though it was too dark for Pierre to see, he felt that a suppressed smile of kindliness puckered the soldier's lips as he put these questions. [2]
- Pierre continued: "I was to have met Tom Liffey here--to-night. [11]
- The general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife's thumb, which was really true. [2]
- There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up--head and all--with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew. [2]
- But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! [11]
- A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out. [2]
- Without understanding what was said to him, Pierre got up and went with the soldiers. [2]
- The other Indian was promptly handled by Pierre himself. [11]
- The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. [2]
- While the marshal was passing, the prisoners had huddled together in a crowd, and Pierre saw Karataev whom he had not yet seen that morning. [2]
- When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
- And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
- Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before. [2]
- And that, perhaps, was not greatly to Wendling's credit; for in the eyes of many Pierre was an outcast as an outlaw. [11]
- Pierre, he knew, was no peril to any woman. [11]
- But Pretty Pierre was like the death- adder, small and beautiful, silent and deadly. [11]
- When the pipe was lighted, Pierre said: "Now! [11]
- Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health. [2]
- Painful as that was it was not that which tormented Pierre at the moment. [2]
- Fastidious as he was in appearance, Pierre was not vain. [11]
- Pierre, the outlaw, was her husband. [11]
- Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
- The footman, who was distributing leaflets with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the principal guests. [2]
- And so Pierre was delighted with his visit to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his "brother-instructor" as he called the Grand Master. [2]
- Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
- But Pretty Pierre was at Fort Luke when the battle occurred, and, before and after, he sifted the business thoroughly. [11]
- Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. [2]
- Willie Haslam's funeral was a public function: he was young, innocent-looking, handsome, and the people did not know what Pierre would not tell now--that he had cheated grossly at cards. [11]
- When Pierre himself wanted to change his mind she would fight him with his own weapons. [2]
- He did not want to be an hussar or a Knight of St. George like his uncle Nicholas; he wanted to be learned, wise, and kind like Pierre. [2]
- And should you want a name to call me, Pretty Pierre will do, though my godfathers and godmothers did different for me before they went to Heaven. [11]
- All who could walk went together, and after the third stage Pierre had rejoined Karataev and the gray-blue bandy-legged dog that had chosen Karataev for its master. [2]
- These two American volumes succeeding Pierre were published under the title of An Adventurer of the North and A Romany of the Snows respectively. [11]
- All this was vivid, majestic, and unexpected; but what impressed Pierre most of all was the view of the battlefield itself, of Borodino and the hollows on both sides of the Kolocha. [2]
- This officer began visiting Pierre, and the princess used to make fun of the tenderness the Italian expressed for him. [2]
- They say it's very strong," said Pierre. [2]
- Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. [2]
- I should like very much to see her," said Pierre. [2]
- Pierre Carrier was very dark; this skull was his, and this felt hat. [5]
- And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. [2]
- I pity Prince Vasili but am still more sorry for Pierre. [2]
- Natasha was so used to this kind of talk with her husband that for her it was the surest sign of something being wrong between them if Pierre followed a line of logical reasoning. [2]
- Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. [2]
- Count Pierre never used to forget us. [2]
- Pierre offered the use of his carriage, which had overtaken him, to a wounded general he knew, and drove with him to Moscow. [2]
- Again Pierre worked upon him adroitly, and again he became loud in speech, and grandly patronising. [11]
- Pierre took him up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here and that daredevil after her! [2]
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