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Sentences ending with pole
- Consequently, the larboard watch was ordered to lay in his pole. [5]
- They were facing the wild North, where civilisation was hacking and hewing and ploughing its way to newer and newer cities, in an empire ever spreading to the Pole. [11]
- The thunder of the supreme struggle and its reverberations will shake the continents for months, and will be felt from Pole to Pole. [4]
- The captain of the frigate tried severities; but the fisherman stuck to his tale, and the light burned on as before-- a lantern stuck upon a pole. [11]
- Once, during the summer, there was a Schutzenfest, in which a large wooden eagle was shot from the pole. [10]
- He had even seen the polar bear climb the pole. [5]
- Under the name of "Phyllis" she had earned, ere her limbs were stiffened by age, great applause by her dainty egg-dance and all sorts of feats with the balancing pole. [10]
- For, see: upon my lips I carry now A touch that speaks reveille to my soul; I have a dispensation large enow To enfold the world and circumscribe each pole. [11]
- Carriers' men were harnessing the freshly groomed bays to the pole. [10]
- A carriage that followed the escort ran into one of the carts and knocked a hole in it with its pole. [2]
More example sentences with the word pole in them
- Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
- A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow. [2]
- The yoke to which the horses were harnessed broke from the pole, and the heavy, four-wheeled carriage fell over the precipice without obstruction. [10]
- In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
- The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
- The Keilhau ones were kept in a cellar, and through the opening we thrust a pole to which the blade of a rapier was fastened. [10]
- My second friend was a young Pole who devoted himself eagerly to Egyptology, and whom Lepsius had introduced as a professional comrade. [10]
- He kept a vigilant eye on the bear, however, and his pole was pointed constantly towards it. [11]
- He had been to the North Pole, and it made him celebrated. [5]
- I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
- If they were to show you the Brazen Serpent that was elevated in the wilderness, you could depend upon it that they had on hand the pole it was elevated on also, and even the hole it stood in. [5]
- My father used to carry a chain for a surveyor sometimes, and there is a ten-foot pole in the house he used to measure land with. [6]
- It is said they are of those that lived at the Pole, before the sea swamped the Isthmus, and swallowed up so many islands. [11]
- To the north there was a great opening, the lost arc of the circle, through which the mystery of the Pole swept in and out, or brooded there where no man may question it. [11]
- This now and then lifted the pole, and as the chariot crunched backwards a few inches, the charioteer growled out a sleepy "Brrr. [10]
- These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people. [2]
- It comes from the South Pole, with nothing in the way to obstruct its march and tone its energy down. [5]
- She only carried the pole because it was customary to begin with the least difficult feats. [10]
- I'd go to the North Pole for that. [11]
- My ideas of the heroes of Polish liberty had been formed from Heinrich Heine's Noble Pole, and I met my companion with a certain feeling of distrust. [10]
- Sometimes they hoisted the half of a skeleton into the air, then slammed it down and beat it with the pole, breaking it up so that it would burn better. [5]
- We stan' at the door and look out, and all the prairie is green, and the sun stan' up high like a light on a pole, and the birds fly by ver' busy looking for the summer and the prairie-flower. [11]
- And the vine started for the pole, and began to climb it with determination. [4]
- The tree had so entirely disappeared, that he could not with a long pole touch its top. [4]
- When they first showed, last night, I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me; then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. [5]
- Firmly as ever she moved along the rope stretched through the wooden stay behind her, holding the balancing pole as she went. [10]
- Forked sticks are set at each end, and a long pole is laid on them, and on this are hung the great caldron kettles. [4]
- Midway along the rope she turned, ran back to the cross-shaped trestle at the steeple window, handed the balancing pole to Loni, and received a cage filled with doves. [10]
- Alexander de la Pole was pushed overboard or fell over, and was drowned. [5]
- He had a pole ten feet long, with a crook in the end of it, and occasionally a goose would branch out from the flock and make a lively break around the corner, with wings half lifted and neck stretched to its utmost. [5]
- Where at the Pole our valiant men were drowned? [11]
- Then, with the pole of the waterpail, I threw the dead dog across the entrance upon the paving stones, for these vermin of plainsmen will not pass where a dead dog lies, as my father knows well. [11]
- He took his pole and reached after that goose with unspeakable sang froid--took a hitch round his neck, and "yanked" him back to his place in the flock without an effort. [5]
- He was seen poking about with fish-hooks at the end of a pole, but nothing was ever heard from him about the ring. [6]
- Prince Andrew looked out of the shed and saw Pierre, who had tripped over a pole on the ground and had nearly fallen, coming his way. [2]
- She flung herself on one side, thrust her hind quarters under the pole, and kicked desperately, lifting the chariot quite off the ground; the young charioteer lost his footing and slipped. [10]
- He could expect nothing beyond a possible rectorate in the remote distance, with one of those little pony chapels to preach in, which, if it were set up on a stout pole, would pass for a good-sized martin-house. [6]
- Such cases do not disturb the average arrangement; we have Changs and Engs at one pole, and Cains and Abels at the other. [6]
- Barop made a little speech, exhorting us to fight steadily, and especially to observe all the rules and yield ourselves captives as soon as an enemy's pole touched us. [10]
- But when the king of the people of the Pole saw that the great man was fair of face, he called for the fight to stop. [11]
- And what self-denial it required when--spite of the most skilful parry--we felt the touch of the pole, to confess it, and be led off as a prisoner! [10]
- Nemu squeezed himself in between the edge of the tent and the yielding door, and found himself in an almost circular tent with many angles, and with its cone-shaped roof supported on a pole by way of a pillar. [10]
- While I was in Australia I began a series of short stories and sketches of life in Canada which I called 'Pike Pole Sketches on the Madawaska'. [11]
- As soon as I got ashore I hunted up a striped pole, and shortly found one. [5]
- The two fine horses that drew it had to be led by the bridle; they were trembling with terror and excitement and made repeated attempts to kick over the pole or to rear. [10]
- One of the horses broke the strap which fastened the yoke that rested on his withers to the pole, started aside and forced back the crowd which now began to scold and scream loudly. [10]
- On one of his foraging expeditions, in a deserted and ruined village to which he had come in search of provisions, Rostov found a family consisting of an old Pole and his daughter with an infant in arms. [2]
- I ran after him, crying out, but he leaped on the raft that was already in the stream and began to pole across. [9]
- In one hand he carried a short pole with a steel pike in it, in the other a rope fastened to a ring in the bear's nose. [11]
- The change which had taken place in the vital currents of Maurice Kirkwood's system was as simple and solid a fact as the change in a magnetic needle when the boreal becomes the austral pole, and the austral the boreal. [6]
- Eleven hundred men had fallen; John de la Pole decided to give up the struggle. [5]
- Of course we frequently manned the poles and shoved earnestly for a second or so, but every time one of those spurts of dust and debris shot aloft every man dropped his pole and looked up to get the bearings of his share of it. [5]
- He ran the flag up to its full height, swiftly knotted the cord and put his back against the pole. [11]
- Directly after dinner everybody seized his pole and the other "Bergwacht" equipments. [10]
- Under an arching elm near the house was the well, stone-rimmed, with its long pole and crotch, and bucket all green with the damp moss which clung to it. [9]
- He had voyaged eighteen times to the Mediterranean, seven times to India, once to the arctic pole in a discovery-ship, and "between times" had visited all the remote seas and ocean corners of the globe. [5]
- If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither: one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other. [5]
- He stooped and cut away a pole that was used for strengthening the runners of the sleds, fastened it firmly in the ground, and tied to it a red woollen scarf, used for tightening his white blankets round him. [11]
- I believed I could shoot the bridge myself, and I went to the forward triplet of logs and relieved the pilot of his pole and his responsibility. [5]
- On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups, the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world (when the wind blew) that his shop was on hand for business at that corner. [5]
- Two of the commanders of large parties--one a Pole and the other a German--sent invitations to Denisov almost simultaneously, requesting him to join up with their divisions to attack the convoy. [2]
- While they are busy they help each other, in idleness they bite each other, like unbroken horses harnessed to the same pole. [10]
- Zhilinski, a Pole brought up in Paris, was rich, and passionately fond of the French, and almost every day of the stay at Tilsit, French officers of the Guard and from French headquarters were dining and lunching with him and Boris. [2]
- If there had been war, he had spirit enough to carry him into it, and it would have surprised no one to hear that Jack had joined an exploring expedition to the North Pole or the highlands of Central Asia. [4]
- The pennant had been on the pole of the Ry's tent in far-off days in the Roumelian country. [11]
- Every one was aware of a dramatic incident, for which there had been no preparation save Sir William's remark that a grandson had arrived from the North Pole or thereabouts; and to continue conversation and appear casual put their resources to some test. [11]
- It was an autumn night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. [2]
- And her feats at Augsburg during the Reichstag--I tell you, Cyriax, when she ascended the rope to the belfry, with the pole and without--" "I've just heard of that from another quarter," he interrupted. [10]
- Wake up now and remember if you are Luke Allingham who went with Franklin to the silent seas of the Pole. [11]
- Sir Edward Parry and his party were going straight towards the pole in one of their arctic expeditions, travelling at the rate of ten miles a day. [3]
- She regarded with a tinge of awe the vast expanse of tent that rose before her eyes, the wind sending ripples along the heavy canvas from circumference to tent pole. [9]
- There is for a third of the year a contest between the icy air of the pole and the warm wind of the gulf. [4]
- There was evidently a little the best chance of light, air, and sole proprietorship on the pole. [4]
- One said that "true as the needle to the pole" was a bad figure, since the needle seldom pointed to the pole. [5]
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