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Sentences ending with position

But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. [11]
Not for worlds would she have been seen in the house; and knowing, as she did from her games with Mary, every nook and corner of it, she began to consider her position. [10]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
He could deal with those millions virtuously, and withal with ability, too--but of course you would rather he had a salaried position? [5]
A spy, mingling with the crowd, had laid hands on him, and the captain of the watch had forthwith hurried to the Serapeum to boast of a success which might confirm him in his yet uncertain position. [10]
He explained his wish to be present at the battle and to see the position. [2]
They are noble when shaped of solid marble blocks, each carefully beveled for its position. [6]

Short sentences using position

What was his position? [11]
We turned the position. [5]
Think of our position. [11]
This established Roscoe's position finally. [11]
Napoleon's position is most brilliant. [2]
The position was intolerable. [11]
It was a difficult position. [11]
The insular position. [4]
Position? [11]
But position. [4]

Sentences containing position two or more times

Mr. Dickens's position was unassailable, possibly; the people's position was certainly unassailable. [5]
From this position the enemy could be driven from their main position on the summit, because they could be swept now by artillery fire from a point as high as their own. [11]
It struck Venters that Card had changed his position, or the position of the horses. [13]
If news was received one day that the enemy had been in a certain position the day before, by the third day when something could have been done, that army was already two days' march farther on and in quite another position. [2]
Some discussed the position that had been chosen, criticizing not the position itself so much as the mental capacity of those who had chosen it. [2]
The harder his position became and the more terrible the future, the more independent of that position in which he found himself were the joyful and comforting thoughts, memories, and imaginings that came to him. [2]
He'll accept me on my own terms, he won't interfere with me, I shan't be disillusionized,--and I shall have a position which I could not hope to have if I remained unmarried, a very marked position as Hambleton Durrett's wife. [9]
Kutuzov alone would not see this and openly expressed his opinion that no fresh war could improve the position or add to the glory of Russia, but could only spoil and lower the glorious position that Russia had gained. [2]
And the Russians, not having time to begin a general engagement, withdrew their left wing from the position they had intended to occupy and took up a new position which had not been foreseen and was not fortified. [2]
Pierre did not know that these troops were not, as Bennigsen supposed, put there to defend the position, but were in a concealed position as an ambush, that they should not be seen and might be able to strike an approaching enemy unexpectedly. [2]

More example sentences with the word position in them

I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to occupy the position and prepare for an attack. [2]
I can offer you the position of the wife of a man with a public career--for which you are so well fitted. [9]
And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
They say that you have ability, that you have acquired a practice and a position which at your age give the highest promise for the future. [9]
I herewith send you a copy of that letter, which perhaps shows my position as distinctly as any new one I could write. [7]
In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
If carried, it would recast the international position in the Orient, necessitating new adjustments in Europe, with cession of territory and gifts for gifts in the way of commercial treaties and the settlement of outstanding difficulties. [11]
There, his talents would make him an admiral, and doubtless give him the social position he secretly coveted. [9]
And you--if you would fill the position to which I intend to raise you--must first take care to leave all paltry considerations and doubts behind you. [10]
Nicholas' position became worse and worse. [2]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
They comb their wool up to a peak and keep it in position by stiffening it with brown-red clay--half of this tower colored, denotes engagement; the whole of it colored denotes marriage. [5]
Wheresoever you place woman, sir--in whatever position or estate--she is an ornament to the place she occupies, and a treasure to the world. [5]
Indeed, with a woman of her fearlessness and honesty--and above all, her intuition,--he felt the cruelty of his position keenly. [9]
The great position, without the means of respectably maintaining it--there could be no wisdom in that. [5]
His editorial connection with the magazine naturally led to his contributing to it numerous articles besides those which were demanded by the requirements of the position he held. [4]
The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
The secretarial position with Senator Stewart was short-lived. [5]
Since Fabian's marriage with Junia Shale's sister, Sybil, he had become discontented with his position in his father's firm. [11]
He made friends with and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and who could therefore be of use to him. [2]
If Judge Kelly will say in writing he wishes to so have him, I am willing for him to be discharged from his present position, and be so appointed. [7]
Many of them will do so not because they like his position on this question, but because they prefer him, being wrong on this, to another whom they consider farther wrong on other questions. [7]
The queen mother, whose position, in the eyes of the people, is nearly as high as that of the monarch himself, will do nothing to thwart the happiness of her youngest and favorite son. [10]
In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
And going the whole figure, I have no doubt, would be more popular with some thoughtless people than that which has been done, But I cannot assume this reckless position, nor allow others to assume it on my responsibility. [7]
It was Kutuzov, who had been riding round the position and on his way back to Tatarinova had stopped where the service was being held. [2]
The only man who could have controlled the position was blind and helpless. [11]
From position in which horse lies, think elephant traveled northward along line Berkley Railway. [5]
Various other structures, which appear connected with man's erect position, might here have been added. [1]
In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon Grabern. [2]
More than once when David's plans had had a set-back, Higli had contrived a meeting with Nahoum, to judge for himself the true position. [11]
An hour afterwards, when Count Frontenac entered upon him, he was still in the same position. [11]
He knew well what the old chair-maker had come to say, but, in the prologue of the struggle before him, he was unwittingly manoeuvring for position. [11]
At this time what impressed me most was the absurdity of my position looked at in the light of modern civilization and all my advantages and acquirements. [4]
The members of what had once been an army--Napoleon himself and all his soldiers fled--without knowing whither, each concerned only to make his escape as quickly as possible from this position, of the hopelessness of which they were all more or less vaguely conscious. [2]
If the stone were now tipped over, it would slide into its place, and could be easily raised from its slanting position to the perpendicular. [6]
His own men were now between the position and Ali Wad Hei's shouting fanatics. [11]
Few of them were in a position whence they might cast stones at Eldon Parr . [9]
Some of them were eligible enough, and all were of some position in the West. [11]
When the captain went out and he was left alone, suddenly he came to himself and realized the position he was in. [2]
It is a well-known fact that Mr. Bijah Bixby came over from Clovelly, to request the place of superintendent of the funeral, a position which had already been filled. [9]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on. [11]
Mr. Dodd knew well enough that this was not ignorance on the part of Mr. Graves, whose position in the matter dad been very well defined in the two sentences he had spoken. [9]
Indeed, as days, weeks and months went on, his position became less valuable to himself, and his financial affairs suffered from his own and his agent's bad management. [11]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
The man said we were now on the Feil-Stutz, above the Schwegmatt--information which I was glad to get, since it gave us our position to a degree of particularity which we had not been accustomed to for a day or so. [5]
No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. [5]
On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino. [2]
Seeing the position we are in, I think there is little need for discussion. [2]
In no other way was the position definable. [11]
The judge's position was very fine, no doubt for the judge. [9]
For now he was sure that Mrs. Falchion meant to make his position as a clergyman impossible; to revenge herself on him for no wrong that, as far as he knew, he ever did directly to her. [11]
His mental make-up was such that it was difficult for him to hold any position long. [5]
Then the shade was pulled down, abruptly; and Janet, overcome by a sense of horror at her position, took to flight.... [9]
The driver's beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, sometimes; and so, but for the grandeur of his position his would have been a sorry life, as well as a hard and a wearing one. [5]
Our right flank was posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. [2]
That the position was one which was in many respects most agreeable to him cannot be doubted. [6]
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]
To the right was Mars Hill, where the Areopagus sat in ancient times and where St. Paul defined his position, and below was the market-place where he "disputed daily" with the gossip-loving Athenians. [5]
The October Fest was instituted for the people by the old Ludwig I. on the occasion of his marriage; and it has ever since retained its position as the great festival of the Bavarian people, and particularly of the peasants. [4]
Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the unaccustomed position of having to maintain a not too familiar and not too distant line of deportment. [4]
Even when I was in proper position and carefully balanced upon the balls of my feet, there was no comfort in it, on account of my nervous dread that they were going to slip one way or the other in a moment. [5]
Now, however, she was in a position where she must either tell him that Kitty had opened that still sealed letter from herself to him which he had carried all these years, or else tell him an untruth. [11]
The position itself was ignoble, if it were disclosed. [4]
I thought he was creeping down that way, but I was not prepared for a leap spanning such a tremendous parenthesis of boarders as this change of position included. [6]
To this Bigot was by no means averse, for his own position had danger. [11]
Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. [2]
Ah, I also wanted to ask you where our position is exactly? [2]
But if you want to ride round the position, come along with us. [2]
Everett Constable coughed, Wallis Plimpton shifted his position, the others sat like stones. [9]
They were all waiting for Bennigsen, who on the pretext of inspecting the position was finishing his savory dinner. [2]
Prince Peter Mikhaylovich Volkonski occupied the position, as it were, of chief of the Emperor's staff. [2]
Is not eternal vigilance the price of position? [4]
She is doing very well as it is, and if the young man succeeds, as I have little question that he will, I think it probable enough that she will retire from her position as the head of a boarding-house. [6]
Only in the very highest circles were attempts made to keep in mind the difficulties of the actual position. [2]
It is a very hard thing to say, and I did not say it even to my wife, but I had a painful impression that she was valuing people by the money they had, by the social position they had attained. [4]
It is not very good soil, still I think she can grow enough for one table and I am in a position to select the table. [5]
None save a very few conspirators knew how great a part it played in the plan to break the government of Ireland and to ruin England's position in the land. [11]
It is not very becoming for one in my position to make speeches at length; but there is another subject upon which I feel that I ought to say a word. [7]
He did not venture to repeat what he had said at his first examination, yet to disclose his rank and position was dangerous and embarrassing. [2]
There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
Assuming that you, upon the ground, could better judge of the necessities of your position than I could at this distance, on seeing your proclamation of August 30 I perceived no general objection to it. [7]
I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands. [5]
Slow to make up his mind in some things, as every eligible man must be, he was now coming rapidly to the notion that he might eventually decide upon Victoria as the most fitting mate for one in his position. [9]
The countess took up a position in one of the front rows of that crowd. [2]
That position is untenable--I may say ludicrously untenable. [5]
She realised how unprotected her position would be when death came knocking at the door again. [11]
Accomplishments rarely do unless they are translated into visible position or into the currency of the realm. [4]
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
She, however, perfectly understood her position, and knew that the sweet friends, who exchanged with her, whenever they met, the conventional phrases of affection commented sarcastically upon her ambitions for her daughter. [4]
They could not understand that I have not the necessary qualifications for it--the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness necessary for the position. [2]

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