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Sentences ending with platform

About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. [5]
No local official was on the platform. [11]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
And behind it was a platform. [9]
Senator Peleg Hartington walked up the aisle, and the judge rose and shook him by the hand, and as Deacon Hartington he was invited to sit on the platform. [9]
There was a waiting pause; then, at a signal, a triumphant peal of music burst forth, and Tom Canty, clothed in a long robe of cloth of gold, appeared at a door, and stepped upon the platform. [5]
A policeman, looking very sleepy and tired, lounged on the platform. [8]
We agreed then upon a platform for the party throughout the entire State of Illinois, and now we are all bound, as a party, to that platform. [7]
Twichell, during a trip South about this time, had called on Harris with some sort of proposition or suggestion from Clemens that Harris appear with him in public, and tell, or read, the Remus stories from the platform. [5]

Short sentences using platform

Cannot interfere about platform. [7]

Sentences containing platform two or more times

But I wish you to understand that, though I am unwilling to go upon this platform, you are not at liberty to draw inferences concerning any other platform with which my name has been or is connected. [7]
It has been stated that Mark Twain loved the lecture platform, but from his letters we see that even at this early date, when he was at the height of his first great vogue as a public entertainer, he had no love for platform life. [5]
Why must he look farther than their platform when he claims himself to stand by his platform? [7]

More example sentences with the word platform in them

As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must not draw the inference that I have any intention of deserting any platform with which I have a legitimate connection because I do not stand on yours. [7]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
Clemens's enthusiasm for work was now such that he agreed with Redpath to return to the platform that autumn, and he began at once writing lectures. [5]
On the long wooden platform under the sheds Stephen caught sight of Herr Korner and Herr Hauptmann amid a group of their countrymen. [9]
Squire Asa Northcutt, with his arms fanning like a windmill from the edge of the platform, at length shouts down everybody else--down to a hum. [9]
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier --but do not dare to say so. [5]
The old antagonism, which had had its sharpest expression the last time they had met on the platform at Heddington, came back. [11]
An hour later, when the room was in darkness save for the bar of light that streamed in from the platform chandelier, Senator Whitredge entered. [9]
I refused, but when I went out on the platform Osgood and the stenographer agreed to accept a section. [5]
And now they were standing on the platform, and the train might start at any moment. [9]
I worked my way by the suite of packed drawing-rooms, and at the corner of the house I found a window open where there was a roomy platform decorated with flags, and carpeted. [5]
I made my way along the wall, finally reaching a side aisle, whence I could get sight of the platform and the speaker. [9]
She promised and waved at him from the platform as he stood motionless, staring after her. [9]
The curtain of water covering this entrance was blown back and forth by the wind, now leaving the platform dry and now deluging it. [4]
After the dinner was the ball, and that ended, they took their places at the windows of a roam that looked out upon a square, where a platform was raised and a vast crowd was assembled to see the king's bears fight with greyhounds. [4]
The moment Joan was seated on the platform she closed her eyes and allowed her chin to fall; and so sat, with her hands nestling in her lap, indifferent to everything, caring for nothing but rest. [5]
When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
When the lecture was ended, Mr. Thackeray came down from the platform, and making his way towards her, asked her for her opinion. [14]
Above all, there was a sculptor's revolving stand, supporting a bust which Beaton was modelling, with an eye fixed as simultaneously as possible on the clay and on the head of the old man who sat on the platform beside it. [8]
By Charles Dudley Warner Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Wednesday, June 26, 1872 Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. [4]
As we stood waiting on the platform, a telegraphic message was handed in silence to my companion. [6]
His feelings found vent even as he came to the foot of the platform where he was to make his last stand, and the guards formed a square about the great pillars, glooming like Druidic altars. [11]
He slipped it upon the string, and was about to haul it up, when the drunken orator on the platform caught him by the arm with fiery courage. [11]
Mr. Watling climbs up on the platform and shakes his fist in General Doby's face, and General Doby tearfully appeals for an honest ballot--to the winds. [9]
The vast audience under the canopy directed its eyes to a man on the platform, who was violently gesticulating and shouting at the top of his voice. [4]
Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to "expression" and punctuation. [5]
She looked away, towards the red uniforms of the Hungarian band on the raised platform at the end of the room. [9]
Mrs. Merrill had told him that she might take that place, but he had little imagined she was already there on her platform facing the rows of shining little faces at the desks. [9]
If you wish to visit one of those mines, you may walk through a tunnel about half a mile long if you prefer it, or you may take the quicker plan of shooting like a dart down a shaft, on a small platform. [5]
These went on to the pontoon, to its farthest end, and took their place on one side of the platform whence the Bride was to be cast into the river. [10]
They were conducted to the platform by Buckstone--Tom Driscoll still following--and were delivered to the chairman in the midst of a prodigious explosion of welcome. [5]
Gen. Grant bowed to the people two or three times, then approached my side of the platform and the mayor pulled me forward and introduced me. [5]
He turned quickly to the crowd, for some had sprung towards the platform to pull him off. [11]
Sometimes Honora went to the corner with him, and he waved her good-by from the platform as he felt in his pocket for the nickel that was to pay his fare. [9]
At this moment, to the astonishment of all, there appeared at the back of the platform between Jowett and Halliday the lawyer, the man with a tragic history who had been as one buried for weeks past, who had vanished from their calculations. [11]
As a parallel to that platform, one can think only of the Ten Commandments. [9]
I never intend to stand up on a platform any more--unless by the request of a sheriff or something like that. [5]
I never expect to stand on a lecture platform again after Thursday night. [5]
Permit me, fellow-citizens, to read the tariff plank of the Chicago platform, or rather have it read in your hearing by one who has younger eyes. [7]
Again, in reference to our platform: On the 16th of June the Republicans had their Convention and published their platform, which is as clear and distinct as Judge Douglas's. [7]
How were they to know that the fate of the United States of America was concealed in that Question, --was to be decided on a rough wooden platform that day in the town of Freeport, Illinois? [9]
He went on to his platform at eight in the morning, and left it at twelve at night, sixteen hours of continuous labor every day in the week. [4]
We were forbidden to go on the platform in front of the Neuenkirche where they were placed, but the spectacle must have produced a strange yet deeply pathetic impression. [10]
She requires me to drop the lecture platform out of my mind and go straight ahead with Joan until the book is finished. [5]
A vision came through his fancy of himself as standing on a platform, and having persons who wished to look upon him and shake hands with him presented, as he had heard was the way with great people when going about the country. [6]
Somewhat dazed by this interview which had been so suddenly forced upon her, Janet remained seated on the platform. [9]
Without a word they went upon that platform, shaped like an altar, and Pierre at once drew out a pack of cards, shuffling them with his mittened hands. [11]
I didn't make these reflections there--there wasn't time--made them on the platform. [5]
Although she loved them, every one, she whispered something to Bob when she caught sight of that group on the platform, and he spoke to the trotters. [9]
This does constitute their platform, and it is because Judge Douglas claims it is his platform--that these are his principles and purposes--that he has a right to declare he speaks his sentiments "frankly and manfully. [7]
The Democrats, in their national convention, declared the war a failure, demanded, substantially, peace at any price, and nominated on such a platform General McClellan as their candidate. [7]
Well, we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there. [5]
The lamps of the station were being lighted five minutes before the express arrived, and as the lights flared up, Orlando entered the waiting-room of the station, with a lady on his arm, and presently showed at the platform doorway, smiling and cheerful. [11]
The platform at the station was crowded. [4]
Mr. Wakeman took the stand and swore that he saw the twins kick the plaintiff off the platform. [5]
The head of the procession now passed beyond the Corner of the Muses and came within view of the platform. [10]
And breaking for the platform, Thompson got suffocated and fell; and before I got him dragged out, which I did by the collar, I was mighty near gone myself. [5]
He came on the platform, held his manuscript down, and began with a beautiful piece of oratory. [5]
The singers on the platform, all handsome and well dressed, distract our attention from the minister, and what he is saying. [4]
His appearance on the platform was a surprise to the audience, and when they recognized him there was a tremendous demonstration. [5]
She hastened down the platform still with keen eyes scanning the passengers, who were mostly alighting to stretch their legs and get a breath of air. [11]
He came on the platform dressed as he had entered the city, with heavy, home-made coat and trousers, and moccasins, and a red woollen comforter about his neck--but this comforter he took off when he began to sing. [11]
Philip stood upon the platform and watched for the Boltons' house, fancied he could distinguish its roof among the trees, and wondered how Ruth would feel if she knew he was so near her. [5]
I went to the platform and signaled to turn the current on to the two inner fences. [5]
It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole--bearing the legend, "Hotel. [5]
The shouts of the people on the little platform interrupted the account, and the engine staggered off with its load. [9]
A woman in the pathway was beckoning frantically and calling to a man who stood on the platform, entirely unconscious of danger, looking up to the green curtain and down into the boiling mist. [4]
Again they crossed the North River, and he led her through the wooden ferry house on the New Jersey side to where the Rivington train was standing beside a platform shed. [9]
Monday came, and the new schoolmaster was in his chair at the upper end of the schoolhouse, on the raised platform. [6]
Nondescript, likewise, seemed the new minister, Mr. Randlett, as he prayed unctuously in front of the flowers massed on the platform. [9]
As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other. [9]
I've been studying the history of---er--a--let me see--a [then he stopped in confusion, and walked over to Gen. Fred D. Grant, who sat at the head of the platform. [5]
A conference in the corner of the platform, while the fourth ballot is progressing, is held between Senators Whitredge and Greene, Mr. Ridout and Mr. Manning. [9]
The throne occupies the centre of the platform, and is raised above it upon an elevation of four steps. [5]
As she left the car Janet was aware of the presence on the platform of an unusual number of people; she wondered vaguely, as she pushed her way through them, why they were there, what they were talking about? [9]
We see also the ample area or platform, carpeted with rich stuffs, whereon the throne stands. [5]
They adopted at that time what, in political language, is called a platform. [7]
It is unlikely that there is any other platform record to match it. [5]
My colleague admits that the platform declares against the constitutionality of a general system of improvements, and that General Cass indorses the platform; but he still thinks General Cass is in favor of some sort of improvements. [7]
One stretch of that platform, two hundred feet long, is composed of blocks of stone as large, and some of them larger, than a street-car. [5]
The very notice that I was going to take him down to Egypt made him tremble in his knees so that he had to be carried from the platform. [7]
For instance, in that end of it which you have called the "parlour," the raised platform for the accommodation of guests and the family at meals is the largest you have ever seen in any house--is it not so? [5]
So I got ten of the initial letters by heart in their proper order--I, A, B, and so on--and I went on the platform the next night with these marked in ink on my ten finger-nails. [5]
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]
At last a sudden hush fell upon the house, and in the same moment St. John appeared upon the platform, and held the Great Seal aloft in his hand. [5]
Hunt, who can subscribe and say amen to every plank in that platform. [9]
It is a subject that a good many persons, especially ladies, take an interest in and have a curiosity about, but I have no right to turn this tea-table into a lecture platform. [6]
Beyond the platform stretch the two wings, one of which is itself a mosque of great architectural merit. [5]
Suddenly the car stopped with so quick a turn of the brake that he was half thrown from his seat, and the policeman jumped down from the platform and ran forward. [8]
I alighted, and stood on the platform as the train pulled out. [9]
He climbed the steps of the platform alertly, and the chairman welcomed him with nervous pleasure. [11]
Mazarine's wagon and steaming horses were tied up outside the station, and inside on the platform Moses-not-much, as Mazarine had been called by Jonas Billings, marched up and down, his snaky little eyes blinking at the doorway of the station reception-room. [11]
As the horses started off at a quick trot, Honora saw that the group on the station platform had with one consent swung about to stare after them. [9]
Promise you won't stand on the platform, and won't get off while the train is in motion, and all the rest of the directions," she said, laughing a little with him; "and you will be careful? [4]
Yet on that spot had also been erected the wooden platform from which Althea had showed him the transformation into the spider, and the recollection of the foolish error into which the Thracian had drawn him disagreeably clouded the pleasant thought of Daphne. [10]
A large and splendid barge had drawn up close to the platform, and shouts were heard from the tribune and from the mob which had till now looked on in breathless suspense and profound silence: "Susannah's barge! [10]
Straw of all sorts might be expected to be found here, not only on the wooden platform but on the floor, in the yard, and everywhere else, as surely as leaves upon the ground of a wood in the autumn. [10]
Young Jake Wheeler, son of the village spendthrift, was driving a lean white horse round in a ring: to the horse was attached a beam, and on the beam a huge round stone rolled on a circular oak platform. [9]
He was nearly sixty years old, and time had not lessened his loathing for the platform. [5]
Not caring to sit out the meeting on the platform, he made his way down the side of the crowded hall, and ran into (of all people) big Tom Catherwood. [9]

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