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Sentences starting with present

Present my respects to him, and ask him to write me fully on the subject he has in contemplation. [7]
Present my greeting to all. [7]
Present Sarah and George Grenfell, Agatha and Victor Strange, Gerald Shorter, Lord Kylie--" Honora looked up. [9]
Present your duplicate at the Call Office. [6]
Present halberds! [10]

Sentences ending with present

To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
See him if you can, and read this to him; but charge him not to make it public for the present. [7]
Still, the association would not entertain the application until the money was present. [5]
I am done with official life for the present. [5]
He was living with a past which had been everlasting distant, and had now become a vivid and buffeting present. [11]
He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
All the requisites were present. [5]
Archibald and Henry were both present. [7]
Past and future were blotted out, and he lived only in the present. [9]

Short sentences using present

Mrs. Eversly Bennett was present. [5]
This present opera was "Parsifal. [5]
Good-bye then for the present. [10]
What is the present? [10]
Goodbye for the present. [5]
Good-bye for the present, youngster. [10]
The money was present, too. [5]
But not at present salaries! [5]
Send us your present positions. [7]
Several of those present laughed. [2]

Sentences containing present two or more times

The Regent Ani was present, and sat on Ameni's right at the top of the centre high-table at which several places were unoccupied; for the prophets and the initiated of the temple of Amon had excused themselves from being present. [10]
According to this view, their present manner of nesting was acquired before their present colours. [1]
Thanking them for their kind companionship, and hoping that I may yet meet them in the now and then in the future, I bid them goodbye for the immediate present, then in the future, I bid them goodbye for the immediate present. [6]
Now, admitting for the present that the Rio Grande was the boundary of Louisiana, what under heaven had that to do with the present boundary between us and Mexico? [7]
Shakspeare is always present when one reads his book; Macaulay is present when we follow the march of his stately sentences; but the Old Testament writers are hidden from view. [5]
It included the present States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. [7]
Isn't it reasonably possible that in our schools many of the questions in all studies are several miles ahead of where the pupil is?--that he is set to struggle with things that are ludicrously beyond his present reach, hopelessly beyond his present strength? [5]
Although the present is the same Congress and nearly the same members, and without questioning the wisdom or patriotism of those who stood in opposition, I venture to recommend the reconsideration and passage of the measure at the present session. [7]
First, this box is at present in my hands, and though I am generally accustomed to respect the rights of property, I must assure you that, in the present instance, I shall not return the box until its contents have served my purpose. [10]
For the past I am responsible, and for the past I will speak from the past; but for the deeds of the present I will speak only from the present. [11]

More example sentences with the word present in them

Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now..." "I cannot accept your praise," he interrupted her hurriedly. [2]
Now I suppose your present idea is, to leave us a little more in the dark. [5]
Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
But you, Olympius, you who are the very soul of the revulsion we hope for, you must not be present at the festival. [10]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
But I promise you that one of these days I will present to you the very finest comedy imaginable. [11]
And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go? [4]
For the services you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged, I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country. [7]
For the present you are required in Syria almost as soon as you have got home. [10]
In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us. [9]
More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
The man who wrote these beautiful lines: 'Inconstancy in a woman, because of the present social conditions, is sometimes pardonable. [9]
A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
In explanation I would say that 'The Lane that Had no Turning' was written after the present book was finished. [11]
This presented (or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. [7]
And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
It bore these words: "Miss Ogle, Past, Present, and Future. [6]
Cloud-in-the-Sky's thoughts were with the present, and his "Ugh! [11]
I am satisfied with the nominations that have been made--every gentleman present is, I believe--and I, for one, do not see why we should not proceed at once to elect one or more of them. [5]
Agreements entered into with the government by union leaders will not hold him if at any time he fails to be satisfied that the present world conflict will not result in a greater social justice. [9]
With her as with most present, the deepest feeling in the agitated suspense was not so much that the prisoner should go free, as that the prisoner's counsel should win his case. [11]
You must stay with me for the present, and not go to your mother till I have settled everything that is necessary. [10]
We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarterdeck and view this one from a distance. [5]
The younger Granvelle, with his father, had also been present at the performance of this motet of homage at Cambray, and respectfully confirmed his Majesty's remark, speaking with special warmth of the fervour and delicacy with which Jean Courtois had conducted the choir. [10]
He explained his wish to be present at the battle and to see the position. [2]
His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the "true prince," this --scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty--he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. [5]
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]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
The present one will contain 180,000 words--130,000 are done. [5]
Your wedding present will be the ranch and a hundred thousand dollars," she added. [11]
Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay. [4]
The same remark will apply to all offices here, now, and no doubt will, till the close of the present administration. [5]
Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day. [6]
Some of those who were present at Mrs. Grainger's that evening remember her entrance into the drawing-room. [9]
The priest Pentaur, who is now present, has been appointed speaker at the festival to-morrow. [10]
Breakfast time approached while I mused these musings and called these ancient happenings back to mind; so I got me back into the present and went down the hill. [5]
The systematic method which, up to the time of Pestalozzi, prevailed in Germany, and is again embodied in our present mode of education, seemed to him objectionable. [10]
In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring. [2]
I enjoyed everything which I had once seen all the more from the blending of my recollections with the present as it was before me. [6]
The fundamental principles which have dominated this rare creature's life and character to the present day are two ceaseless desires: first, to surpass every one, even in the most difficult achievements; and, secondly, to love and to be loved in return. [10]
When the public which has been present reads the inaccurate report, it loses confidence in the newspaper. [4]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
I was present when you mounted your guns and manned your fleets for the war of 1812--when the South fired upon Sumter--when Richmond fell--when the President's life was taken. [5]
We were present when the telegram was put in his hand. [5]
Was she present when the deed was done? [11]
I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
The last time when Edith was present it was Steele. [4]
Please ascertain fully what was done, and what is the present condition, as near as you can, and advise me at once. [7]
Both these books were written to present that side of life in Canada which is not wintry and forbidding. [11]
But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
If such convention were to ask my views, I could present little else than what I now say to you. [7]
The "relating circumstances" were these: At the abovementioned dinner there had been a roll-call of the distinguished guests present, and each name had been duly applauded. [5]
About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov. [2]
His sisters, who were present, expressed considerable regret. [5]
Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. [5]
All those that were present had been well drilled within the hour to remember that the prince was temporarily out of his head, and to be careful to show no surprise at his vagaries. [5]
The men present were old gray Pacific-coasters whom I knew when I and they were young and not gray. [5]
Clemens and Webster were often at the house of General Grant during these early days of 1885, and it must have been Webster who was present with Clemens on the great occasion described in the following telegram. [5]
When the men were engaged in consultation, Maria was permitted to fill their glasses and be present at their conferences. [10]
While the attendants were disrobing him, he remembered his brother's present, had the box fetched and opened, and then desired to be left alone. [10]
These men present were Catholics, and held religion in superstitious respect, however far from practising its precepts. [11]
His two sons were at present absent on their travels. [10]
Incoherent though it were and incomplete, in her present state of mind she was able to add but a few words as a postscript. [9]
Once when he went into the Louis Quinze every man present stole away in silence, and the landlord himself, without a word, turned and left the bar. [11]
It is as well to leave him, at present, in blissful ignorance of his future. [9]
De Morgan is well remembered as a very distinguished mathematician, whose works have kept his name in high honor to the present time. [6]
He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. [7]
And what do we gain by our present method? [4]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
Only in this way, according to our present methods, could one expect to accomplish anything in regard to this foreign-felt want. [4]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
Self-centered as Lise was, absorbed in her own trouble and present physical discomfort, this unaccustomed word from her sister and the vehemence with which it was spoken surprised and frightened her, brought home to her some hint of the terror in Janet's soul. [9]
Since this chapter was written Sir J. Lubbock has published his 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, in which there is an interesting chapter on the present subject, and from which (pp. [1]
A Le Moyne was to present himself, and a Le Moyne has done so. [11]
Enough for him was the present also. [5]
In this manner was the great tragedy and glory of the world made to the people a present thing, transforming them to the body of the Life that hath neither spot nor blemish nor . [11]
And then there was the ever present question of money. [9]
When the vote was taken upon it, a majority of all present in the Congress of the Confederation voted for it; but there were so many absentees that those voting for it did not make the clear majority necessary, and it was lost. [7]
Even my father was symbolized with unparalleled audacity as a watchful government which had, up to the present, no inkling of our semi-piratical intentions! [9]
Once the succession was secure beyond the imbecile Leopold John, then he would certainly declare against the present fiendish Government and for the overthrown dynasty. [11]
Once our mother was present, though the cause of her coming was not exactly a joyous one. [10]
The Cure, who was present, shrugged his shoulders. [11]
And when none was present, she was forced to listen to Mrs. Colfax's prattle about the fashions, her tirades against the Yankees. [9]
But that vote was present at church next Sunday the same as ever, and as unconscious of its perfidy as if nothing had happened. [5]
But the doctor was not in a happy frame of mind, and seemed willing to forget the present in the past: things went wrong, somehow, and the time was out of joint with him. [6]
Somewhat later it was mentioned that Tom was to study no more at present, whereupon her little ladyship exclaimed-- "'Tis a pity, 'tis a pity! [5]
But his time was limited, for the misguided youth's faithful German heart held firmly to one resolve; he must present himself to Coello at the end of the appointed time. [10]
Every man's color was known, and it was against the rules to be present and fail to vote. [9]

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