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Sentences starting with plain

Plain answers I will have to plain questions, or De Carteret of St. Ouen's shall have his will of you and your precious pirate. [11]
Plain and to the point! [13]
Plain unvarnished history takes the romance out of Captain Cook's assassination, and renders a deliberate verdict of justifiable homicide. [5]
Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten;-- If Nature can subsist on three, Thank heaven for three. [6]
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. [5]
Plain folks, you know--plain folks. [5]
Plain household bread is a far more wholesome and necessary thing than cake; yet who would like to see the brown loaf placed on the table for dessert? [14]
Plain fact is amply sufficient. [5]
Plain farmer people. [4]
Plain and awkward! [2]

Sentences ending with plain

The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
Tom spoke out, with lively apprehension-- "We be going to the dogs, 'tis plain. [5]
The Cure's meaning was plain. [11]
There was no use in making new contracts--that was plain. [5]
He foolishly compelled them to undergo a long, exhausting march, in the scorching sun, and then, without water or other refreshment, ordered them to encamp in this open plain. [5]
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
A third of the Pharanites were to march forward against the enemy, drumming and trumpeting, and then retreat as far as the watch-tower as the enemy approached over the plain. [10]
But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]

Short sentences using plain

Are not the tendencies plain? [7]
That was plain, she said. [5]
You made that quite plain. [9]
Let us be plain. [5]
I seen them plain. [5]
Wasn't that your plain duty? [11]
It was my plain duty. [9]
It's pretty plain, isn't it? [9]
Isn't that plain enough? [5]
She became plain enough now. [11]

Sentences containing plain two or more times

In a plain white-washed room, behind a plain oaken desk, sat Mr. Flint--a plain man. [9]
In a little while this plain lady was not plain any more, but most gorgeously dressed, and possessed with the desire to be in the height of the fashion. [4]
I suppose you think, that, because I lived at a plain widow-woman's plain table, I was of course more or less infirm in point of worldly fortune. [6]
Below, puffs of sand were breaking out of the plain in every direction, as though the plain were alive with invisible horsemen. [5]
Surely not venerable Rome--nor the green plain that compasses her round about, contrasting its brightness with her gray decay--nor the ruined arches that stand apart in the plain and clothe their looped and windowed raggedness with vines. [5]
O son of man, take heed If thou shouldst fall upon the vacant plain, The plain that no man loves, Reach out thy hand, Take heed, O son of man, strength shall be given thee! [11]
Our march now lay through the grassy plain, and those peasants made a dividing double border for that plain. [5]
If thou shouldst fall upon the vacant plain, The plain that no man loves, Reach out thy hand, Take heed, O son of man, strength shall be given thee! [11]

More example sentences with the word plain in them

It is plain your magic is weak. [5]
I am no 'young Penthesilea mediis in millibus,' but a plain country parson's daughter. [14]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
I say to you, Brice," he went on earnestly, "the importance of plain talk can't be overestimated. [9]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
As a prince you are much better than as a plain man, for princes may do what other men may not. [11]
He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
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]
Mr. Penhallow was writing hard at his table, not thinking of him, it was plain enough. [6]
The College plain would be nothing without its elms. [6]
The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
Some of the worst bores (to use plain language) we ever meet with are recognized as experts of high grade in their respective departments. [6]
Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. [10]
Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
Let's be plain with each other. [11]
That done, I will make plain why I am charged with this that puts my life in danger, which would make you blush that you ever knew me if it were true. [11]
Nothing but the wide plain of snow and the steely air. [11]
It's plain now why you were never out of my thoughts. [13]
The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! [9]
Is he one who has led a wild and struggling and isolated life,--seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? [14]
Of the causes which lead to the victory of civilised nations, some are plain and simple, others complex and obscure. [1]
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing of the dahabieh, her eyes fixed in reverie on the farthest horizon line of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand. [11]
All this plain where the silly geese feed has been marched over and fought over by armies time and again. [4]
I tell you what--it's plain that the old man an't in his right mind--' 'If you haven't got anything newer than that to say,' growled Mr Codlin, glancing at the clock, 'you'd better let us fix our minds upon the supper, and not disturb us. [12]
I am just what you see here,--a damned plain man. [9]
At last, here were the "wild, free sons of the desert, speeding over the plain like the wind, on their beautiful Arabian mares" we had read so much about and longed so much to see! [5]
Yesterday these two were strangers--to-day it was plain to be seen they were lovers, and lovers who had reached a point of confidence and revelation. [11]
The other inferences were plain enough. [6]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
Only yesterday, we were coming down a branch of the great gorge which splits the plain in two. [4]
And, when we were alone, my plain speaking did not seem to anger him, or affect him in any way. [9]
The young wife went out on the balcony with him, and he showed her in the south, where usually nothing but a green plain met the eye, a wide expanse over which a light mist was hovering. [10]
As the days went by it seemed plain that he was growing in favor with Louise,--not sweepingly so, but yet perceptibly, he fancied. [5]
Everything was looking well, and yet it was plain that one vigorous and determined enemy might eventually succeed in overthrowing all her plans. [5]
This, gentlemen, as well as I can give it, is a plain statement of our principles in all their enormity. [7]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
And so, presently we took to the hand-car and went flying down the mountain again; flying and stopping, flying and stopping, till at last we were in the plain once more and stowed for Calcutta in the regular train. [5]
Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides. [2]
Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still. [5]
A Plain gin was recommended; I took it. [5]
Yes, the case was plain to Hendon--he must lose no more time in Southwark, but move at once through Kent, toward Monk's Holm, searching the wood and inquiring as he went. [5]
Pretty soon it was plain that something had got to be done. [5]
Go he must,--that was plain enough. [6]
His flannel suit was of the lightest of grays; he wore white tennis shoes and a red tie, and it was plain, as he cheerfully bade them good morning, that he was wholly unaware of the enormity of his costume. [9]
The reason it was made is plain enough. [5]
His local knowledge was especially valuable on account of the marshes which intersected the Pelusian plain, and might, unless carefully avoided, have proved fatal to the Persian enterprise. [10]
The March night was drawing toward its end, pallid mists floated over the canal, the work of Hebrew bondmen which, as far as the eye could reach, intersected the plain, watering the fields and pastures along its course. [10]
And so it was all as plain sailing for Number Five and the young Tutor as it had been for Delilah and the young Doctor, was it? [6]
No doubt his want of advancement was partly due to want of influence, which better birth would have given him; but the plain truth is that he had a talent for making himself disagreeable to his associates. [4]
It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner. [9]
She said the very thing that was in her mind, and said it in a plain, straightforward way. [5]
This is a very simple proposition,--a very plain and naked one. [7]
They are the very same chaps, like as not, the visitors have seen in plays at the city theatres; but of course they don't know 'em in plain clothes. [6]
The way was very plain when they came on, but now he could not find it. [4]
Mr. Richard talked very plain language with himself in all these inward colloquies. [6]
He bought the very cheapest one he could find, plain wood, stained. [5]
He has held us spellbound upon the plain at the foot of the great Sphinx, and we have joined him in weeping bitter tears at the tomb of Adam. [5]
Its window looked upon a small plat of green, in the midst of which was a single grave marked by a plain marble slab. [6]
It was whipping up the sandy coating of the plain in every direction. [5]
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
I do not understand the flowers of speech, and desire plain language. [10]
The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
And so my two visitors with the aristocratic titles staggered off, and left us plain, untitled citizens, Hiram and myself, to set our posts, and consider the question whether we lived in a free country or under the authority of a self-constituted order of quasi-nobility. [6]
He had buried two companions in arms whom he had loved in that way which only those know who face danger on the plain, by the river, in the mountain, or on the open road together. [11]
Did not Mr. Tupper, that sweet, melodious shepherd of the undisputed, lead about vast flocks of sheep over the satisfying plain of mediocrity? [4]
To speak plain truth, troopers are looking for me, and --strange as it may be--for a crime which I didn't commit. [11]
And the plain truth is, that a good many people are saying one thing about it and believing another. [6]
From these old towers we looked down upon a broad, far-reaching green plain, glittering with the pools and rivulets which are the sources of the sacred river Jordan. [5]
There's some pretty tough things in it--there ain't any getting around that--but you stick to them and think them out, and when once you get on the inside everything's plain as day. [5]
You stood the torture and refused to confess; which shows plain enough to even the dullest understanding that you had nothing to confess--" "I, my lord? [5]
So Mary Jane took us up, and she showed them their rooms, which was plain but nice. [5]
Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat. [5]
The road belonged to the horsemen; on the right lay a wide, snow-covered plain, on the left rose a cliff, kept from falling on the side towards the highway by a rude wall. [10]
I therefore concluded to tell you the plain truth, being satisfied the matter would thus appear much smaller than it would if seen by mere glimpses. [7]
It was plain to see that she had long been biding her time for this full and free discourse, and she confessed that she had never shown me such love and care as were indeed my due. [10]
It is needless to say that in our general talks on the situation these personalities were not referred to, for although Margaret was silent, it was plain to see that she was uneasy. [4]
That you needed to rub against the plain men who were building up the West. [9]
It was hard to realize that this silent plain had once resounded with martial music and trembled to the tramp of armed men. [5]
This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
It was plain to me, even now, that he did not comprehend the Celebrity's attitude. [9]
It seemed plain to me that too much space was given to poetry and romance, and not enough to statistics and agriculture. [5]
It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. [5]
It is plain to me that Heaven, in its inscrutable wisdom, has seen fit to move this defendant's ranch for a purpose. [5]
It was plain to me that he was imagining himself the Prince of Wales, and was doing everything the way he thought the Prince would do it. [5]
It seemed plain to me now, that with her training, those inherited prisoners were merely property--nothing more, nothing less. [5]
It is plain to me at luncheon that you have made boil the sluggish blood of that one. [9]
Presently he said to himself: "What to do is as plain as day, now. [5]
It was plain to him that all these things were no business of his, and that he was not called on to judge concerning them and therefore could not do so. [2]
I went straight to General Grant's headquarters,--just a plain, rough slat house such as a contractor might build for a temporary residence. [9]
It was plain to be seen his business was urgent. [11]
He was referring to a plain principle in the nature of things. [7]
We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
It was plain, thought the dwarf, that he had come there, on behalf of his friend, to cajole or frighten the old man out of some small fraction of that wealth of which they supposed him to have an abundance. [12]
That Murray Bradshaw thought he was inflicting a deadly injury on her was plain enough. [6]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]

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