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Sentences ending with preparation

It is impossible to begin a story which must of necessity tax the powers of belief of readers unacquainted with the class of facts to which its central point of interest belongs without some words in the nature of preparation. [6]
At twenty-seven years the best life is only preparation. [6]
David's life had suddenly come upon problems for which his whole past was no preparation. [11]
Hawkins was to stand by with the bottle, calculate the doses, watch the effects, make notes of results, and otherwise assist in the preparation. [5]
They had him scheduled for a speech, however, which he made without notes and with scarcely any preparation. [5]
Just such rain, said my officer-guide, as had drenched this country through the long winter months of preparation. [9]
On the driver's perch before him are arranged his attractions,--a box of notions, a grinning skull, with full teeth and jaws that work on hinges, some vials of red liquid, and a closed jar containing a most disagreeable anatomical preparation. [4]
Various groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displacement of peoples was in course of preparation. [2]
A little change of circumstance often hastens on a movement that has been long in preparation. [6]
But far away in Oxbow Village other events were in preparation. [6]

Short sentences using preparation

Does preparation advance at all? [7]

Sentences containing preparation two or more times

The summer--or what we call summer in the North, which is usually a preparation for warm weather, ending in a preparation for cold weather --seemed to me very short--but I have noticed that each summer is a little shorter than the preceding one. [4]

More example sentences with the word preparation in them

Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
He said it would be a good preparation for going on the bridge at three o'clock in the morning. [11]
But on the whole there was a certain exhilaration in the preparation and the going, and her spirits rose as they had not done in months before. [4]
You spoke, a while back, of trying to start it up again as a preparation to disposing of it, but we are not in shape to venture that, I think. [5]
As the sun went down and the evening chill came on, we made preparation for bed. [5]
A new commission was about to be issued, and a great supply was in preparation under Lord De La Ware. [4]
The Weapon Ointment was a preparation used for the healing of wounds, but instead of its being applied to them, the injured part was washed and bandaged, and the weapon with which the wound was inflicted was carefully anointed with the unguent. [6]
Now we come upon some more McClintockian surprise--a sweetheart who is sprung upon us without any preparation, along with a name for her which is even a little more of a surprise than she herself is. [5]
He also made up his mind that Tom should be allowed a reasonable time for spiritual preparation, and then be hanged, drawn and quartered, according to the law and usage of the day in cases of high treason. [5]
So Lincoln, at twenty-one, had just begun his preparation for the public life to which he soon began to aspire. [7]
I sniffed preparation, too, on his followers, and I was sure they were getting ready for some new deviltry. [9]
I had occasion to read the whole volume, not long since, in preparation for a new edition, and was rather more pleased with it than I had expected to be. [6]
I can call to mind no specialized annual day, in any country, whose approach fires the whole land with a conflagration of conversation and preparation and anticipation and jubilation. [5]
He notified Launcelot to get him thence, and make swift preparation, and look to be soon attacked. [5]
Fielding had dreaded this, had tried to make preparation for it, had begged of the Government this reform and that--to no purpose. [11]
And yet, for the time being, it had seemed attractive to him, this simple vegetable existence, whose only object was preparation for death by the extinction of all passion and desire. [4]
The Egyptian Chello, the Tennis goldsmith, who had assisted the artists in the preparation of the noble metal, and one of the police officers who had been summoned to rid the old house of the rats and mice which infested it, both knew the way. [10]
The Syrian saluted the startled young beauty with a formal bow, but Iras, without a greeting or even a single word of preparation, delivered the Queen's command, and then read aloud, by the light of the lantern, what Cleopatra had scrawled upon the wax tablet. [10]
The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. [7]
From a distance the prevailing colour of the steep slope is ochre; it gives the effect of having been scraped bare in preparation for some gigantic enterprise. [9]
The Queen of the Netherlands had made ready a house for us, and personally superintended every preparation for his reception. [6]
Bedford was on the march against us with his new army by this time, and on the 25th of July the hostile forces faced each other and made preparation for battle; but Bedford's good judgment prevailed, and he turned and retreated toward Paris. [5]
Farrar put into the little cove, where we dropped anchor, and soon had the chief sufferers ashore; and a delicate supper, in the preparation of which Miss Thorn showed her ability as a cook, soon restored them. [9]
As soon as the fact was ascertained, seven of them had seceded and had seized upon the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property of the United States within their boundaries, and were making every preparation for war. [7]
I told him that this was a sort of miracle that required a trifle of preparation, and that it would be sudden death to ever talk about these preparations to anybody. [5]
Its preparation and that of more minute plots of the new city consumed the valuable time of Sellers and Harry for many weeks, and served to keep them both in the highest spirits. [5]
There is a surprising deliberation about the preparation of the sun for rising, as there is in the movements of the boatman. [4]
Nor must the smallest preparation betray whom it is you receive. [10]
Can such a slight little body endure the ordeal of the preparation for, or the strain of, the practice of the profession? [5]
The invitations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation. [5]
This is the right condition of mind and body, the right and due preparation for the solemn event which closed the day--stepping with metaphorically uncovered head into the presence of the most impressive mountain mass that the globe can show--the Jungfrau. [5]
But still the reader ought to have been better made to feel this preparation towards a change of mood. [14]
He had been preparing himself for the worst, but after all his preparation the bare suggestion of the possibility of such a verdict struck him cold as death. [5]
The noise of preparation was in the city--in the land. [9]
There was no preparation to resist the onset. [11]
Women require more preparation to go visiting, and Mrs. Clemens and Mrs. Howells seem to have exchanged visits infrequently. [5]
At noon the preparation of the dead was finished, and in the coffin lay the fair young form, beautiful, and in the sweet face a great peace. [5]
Recipes for its preparation have been preserved in the papyrus of Ebers, in the laboratories of the temples, and elsewhere. [10]
The sort of preparation going on indicated the kind of crowd expected. [4]
How grand its preparation for souls, souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions and applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element. [6]
The cares of preparation and giving orders, for which everyone came to her, occupied her all day. [2]
They were so pleased that they gave the regulation thirty days' notice, the required preparation for citizenship, and resolved to finish their days in this pleasant place. [5]
My passage is paid, and if the ship sails, I sail in her--but I make no calculations, have bought no cigars, no sea-going clothing --have made no preparation whatever--shall not pack my trunk till the morning we sail. [5]
The work of packing and making ready went briskly on, and by daybreak every preparation for the journey was completed. [12]
And there are other instances of sagacious preparation for a felicitous closing remark. [5]
I suppose all other days were but a preparation for this golden autumn day on which we went to church and returned to the wedding-breakfast. [4]
When he went off to college the lad had not a good preparation, but he knew a great deal that would not count in the entrance examinations. [4]
During the hours of the night which followed these evening visits I often succeeded in working earnestly for two or three hours in preparation for the examination. [10]
In the years of student life and preparation they had not often met, but they were constant and painstaking correspondents. [4]
Everywhere were signs of preparation, for the roads are getting dry, and the General preparing for a final campaign against Lee. [9]
What a mystery of preparation there is in the preceding days, what planning and plottings of surprises! [4]
Three empty bottles of Mrs. Allen's celebrated preparation, each of them asserting, on its word of honor as a bottle, that its former contents were "not a dye," were all that was left to us of the Koh-i-noor. [6]
In the place of a school and university training fortune substituted these trials, hardships, and struggles as a preparation for the great work which he had to do. [7]
The "Pilgrimes" did not appear till 1625, a year after the "General Historie," but was in preparation long before. [4]
Modern civilization offers no such test to the temper and to personal appearance as this early preparation to meet the inspection of society after a night in the stuffy and luxuriously upholstered tombs of a sleeping-car. [4]
It had had no preparation for the situation now upon him, and its accustomed capacity was suddenly paralyzed. [11]
There would be no preparation for that war which rages most violently at a fireside and in the human heart. [11]
Then, remembering how much was to be done to make fitting preparation for the young suitor Leonax, she called loudly: "Dorippe--Chloris! [10]
Fate had great matters in preparation for him. [5]
As she was making no preparation to break camp--" "She certainly was not when I saw her last. [5]
While Psamtik was making every preparation for the capture of Phanes, Croesus, accompanied by his followers, had embarked on board a royal bark, and was on his way down the Nile to spend the evening with Rhodopis. [10]
The Yankees have made no secret of this vast preparation for an attack on Charleston, and we may well anticipate a desperate conflict. [7]
Never in my life have I been able to make a speech without preparation, and I assure you that this position in which I find myself is one totally unexpected. [5]
And so she led him past the low, crooked outbuildings at the back, where he saw old Uncle Ben busy over the preparation of his dinner, and frisky Rosetta, his daughter, playing with one of the Colonel's setters. [9]
Here besides the law of retrospection, which regards all the past as a preparation for events that subsequently occur, the law of reciprocity comes in, confusing the whole matter. [2]
The province of labour was found, but with each step forward the conviction of my utter lack of preparation for the new science grew clearer. [10]
With no small labor of preparation he was at last got to the house, and crept with his son's aid up to the little room over the water, where his patient was still lying. [6]
In view of its great length, and the known time and apparent care taken in its preparation, I did not doubt that it contained your full case as you desired to present it. [7]
For its preparation it required a special study of the man and the period, and the more time he spent upon the preliminary work, the more the humorous element tended to recede. [4]
The whole story is centered on the murder and the trial; from the first chapter the movement is straight ahead without divergence or side-play to the murder and the trial; everything that is done or said or that happens is a preparation for those events. [5]
Almost always there is a preparation made by Nature for unearthing a soul, just as on the smaller scale there is for the removal of a milktooth. [6]
This profound and increasingly impressive stillness endured for some time--the best preparation for music, spectacle, or speech conceivable. [5]
Practically in command, Iberville advised watchfulness and preparation for attack. [11]
Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, pudding-headed clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right one? [5]
On the fourth I was permitted to begin, and now, with mature judgment and thorough previous preparation, I attended the academic lectures, and profited by the treasures of knowledge and rich collections of the capital. [10]
Nell immediately applied herself with great assiduity to the decoration and preparation of the room, and had the satisfaction of completing her task, and dressing herself neatly, before the beloved of the Royal Family came down to breakfast. [12]
Philip was there; he was a partner with Mr. Bolton now in the new coal venture, concerning which there was much to be arranged in preparation for the Spring work, and Philip lingered week after week in the hospitable house. [5]
Another dish--looks like greens or a tangle of fine seaweed--is a preparation of the deadly nightshade. [5]
If he were good enough he would attach himself to that company of young men in the Theological Seminary, who were seeing New York life in preparation for the ministry. [5]
No one should go there without careful preparation beforehand. [6]
Well, when this gentleman got knifed they communicated with the proper authority; the coroner, and they laid, the corpse out in the coroner's office--our front sitting-room--in preparation for the inquest the next morning. [5]
A moderate reservation from the interest on the bonds would compensate the United States for the preparation and distribution of the notes and a general supervision of the system, and would lighten the burden of that part of the public debt employed as securities. [7]
He never shrank from any of the drudgery of preparation, but I think his own part of the work was sheer pleasure to him. [6]
This is intended for his preparation and is final. [7]
To spend a few weeks at the capital, in preparation for Lent, has become a part of the program of fashion. [4]
The fatigues and excitements of the evening and the preparation for it were followed by a natural collapse, of which somnolence was a leading symptom. [6]
I resolved to devote my first evening in Zermatt to studying up the subject of Alpine climbing, by way of preparation. [5]
But when we come to call to mind the last words of parties who took the trouble to make the proper preparation for the occasion, we immediately notice a happy difference in the result. [5]
There was a collision, but it was the agreeable collision of preparation for a fight, for it was ordained that the Berkshires and the Sikhs should go shoulder to shoulder to establish a post in the desert between Suakim and Tamai. [11]
She carried two carronades, for war with France was in the air, and it was Jean's whim to make a show of preparation, for, as he said: "If the war-dogs come, my pups can bark too. [11]
With their slow camels and asses, it was about a seven days' journey from Dan to Beersheba---say a hundred and fifty or sixty miles--it was the entire length of their country, and was not to be undertaken without great preparation and much ceremony. [5]
He was taken by surprise, you see, and it is not likely that he could tell the truth without preparation. [5]
There was much buzzing and preparation for a long time previously, and it culminated in a wild excitement at the appointed time. [5]
But it should be said that before the country can attract and retain travelers, its inhabitants must learn something about the preparation of food. [4]
But it should be remembered that the best preparation for a practical and useful life is in the high development of the powers of the mind, and that, commonly, by a culture that is not considered practical. [4]
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]
Work had come at the right moment to save her from the wild consequences of a nature maddened by a series of misfortunes and penalties, for which there had been no warning and no preparation. [11]
Only the marquise at his side and Malfalconnet, who had joined the attendant nobles, perceived that he ate more rapidly than usual, and paid no attention to the preparation of the viands. [10]
Apparently there was an absence of preparation, of specific orders from high sources in the event of having to cede ground. [9]
Many, but not all, of my readers remember that famous man's famous preparation. [6]

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