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Sentences starting with pretty

Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
Pretty Elspet Zohrer, with whom she had contended for the recruiting officer, Pyramus Kogel, was standing opposite to her, by her partner's side, in the same row with charming little Mietz Schiltl, Anne Mirl Woller, her cousin, Marg Thun, and the others. [10]
Pretty Pierre's eyes were never taken off the other, whose gaze, again, was fixed upon the bottle with a terrible fascination. [11]
Pretty soon the watchman was back again, and this time he was gruff. [5]
Pretty soon it was plain that something had got to be done. [5]
Pretty Pierre's face was less pretty than usual; the cheeks were pallid, the eyes were hard and cold. [11]
Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier march. [5]
Pretty soon I was compelled to notice that a culprit's nationality made for or against him in this court. [5]
Pretty soon he was all tired out, and dropped down with his back against the door, and said he would rest a minute and then kill me. [5]
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. [5]

Sentences ending with pretty

She is fourteen years old, light-haired, blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty. [5]
I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature--not necessary, but pretty. [5]
My sister--" "Is she pretty? [10]
She was mighty red in the face for a minute, and her eyes lighted up, and it made her powerful pretty. [5]
It was very pretty. [5]
Hell, ain't it pretty! [11]
She was now plain rather than pretty. [2]
My grandmother, spite of her sixty-six years--she married before she was seventeen--was said to look remarkably pretty. [10]
After 20 months of bed-ridden solitude and bodily misery she all of a sudden ceases to be a pallid shrunken shadow, and looks bright and young and pretty. [5]
These fissures extend more than a quarter of a mile, and the long line of steam columns looks very pretty. [5]

Short sentences using pretty

You're pretty seamy yourself. [11]
Three pretty full years follow. [5]
Papa is pretty well. [14]
Pretty Pierre has told you. [11]
It was pretty to see! [10]
I'm pretty sure to come. [13]
A pretty business this! [10]
What pretty things they are! [10]
Pretty suffocating in there. [5]
Pretty Pierre watched them all. [11]

Sentences containing pretty two or more times

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]
When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous-indignation countenance at home; she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. [6]
T.] The Parisian travels but little, he knows no language but his own, reads no literature but his own, and consequently he is pretty narrow and pretty self-sufficient. [5]
Well, said I to myself this is getting pretty dull; this is getting pretty dry; there don't appear to be anything going on anywhere; has this progressive nation gone to sleep? [5]
He is handsome, taller even than the old man in his best days, and he knows how to make the most of himself when he meets a pretty face--and pretty faces are always to be met in his path . [10]
I've drawn up some pretty good papers for them, and I've won some pretty difficult suits. [9]
When she came ready dressed into the ballroom to await her father, and looking in the large mirror there saw that she was pretty, very pretty, she felt even more sad, but it was a sweet, tender sadness. [2]
The stories were pretty sizable, merely pretty sizable; yet Mr. H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait--knock off twenty-five per cent. [5]
And his brother's pretty quiet, and them four witnesses that lied so and got paid for it, they're pretty quiet. [5]
She was a pretty creature, and she and her willow bough made a very pretty picture, and one which could not offend the modesty of the most fastidious spectator. [5]

More example sentences with the word pretty in them

You're pretty, and you're young, and ye didn't know what you were doin,' I'll warrant. [9]
If--always according to your notion of the convention--if I don't get out, and haven't any chance, they tell me on pretty good authority Austen Vane will get the nomination. [9]
I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow feel that pretty much all you have been saying is in effect untrue. [4]
Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck. [5]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
I'm pretty, I'm young, and I know that now I am good. [2]
But being a young woman, and a pretty one, Stephen was angry. [9]
The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
She was very young and pretty and accommodating, and always ready to do what she could to make things pleasant. [5]
And pretty soon you'd hear a loafer sing out, "Hi! [5]
I thought perhaps you would go round with me to see a pretty bad case. [4]
Mrs. Mandel hold you up to the proprieties pretty strictly? [8]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me. [12]
I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
They have not yielded quite as much as they might have done, but pretty well--pretty well. [12]
Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
Ain't $350,000 a year a pretty real----" "Stuff! [5]
My record was writ pretty big. [11]
I suppose she wouldn't have looked at a fellah like me,--he said,--but I come pretty near tryin'. [6]
Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
Time and patience would be pretty sure to bring out new developments, and physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait as well as how to labor. [6]
I guess it would be pretty hard to get it across to you, Mrs. Pindar. [9]
Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. [5]
I wrote 4000 words to-day and I touch 3000 and upwards pretty often, and don't fall below 1600 any working day. [5]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplace contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle. [5]
A dark little woman, rather worn--must have been pretty once though. [5]
The mission of woman, about which we are pretty weary of hearing, is not accomplished by any means in her years of vernal bloom and loveliness; she has equal power to bless and sweeten life in the autumn of her pilgrimage. [4]
Oh, the pretty, withering human flower! [10]
I was trying with the help of Pretty Pierre to get out of the country"--and he waved his hand towards the half-breed. [11]
Also he hed with him the five riders who've been guardin' him pretty close of late. [13]
Nebsecht looked on with astonishment at this pretty play. [10]
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying. [5]
As the pony, with a presentiment that he was going home, or a determination that he would not go anywhere else (which was the same thing) trotted away pretty nimbly, Kit had no time to justify himself, and went his way also. [12]
Ingenious and tasteful, with a gift for cooking and an educated hand, she had made her little home as pretty as their few possessions would permit. [11]
We have often wished for a daughter and now we have found one; a pretty creature she is too. [10]
But how they will envy Pretty Pierre! [11]
I hope there will be something pretty and pleasing about her. [6]
The next generation will be pretty much what they choose to make it; and what are they doing for the elevation of young men? [4]
Every sober-minded citizen, will agree that they give us a pretty good government. [9]
The valley is wild and very pretty all the way down to Colonel Long's,--twelve miles,--but the wretched-looking people along the way live in a wretched manner. [4]
And his pretty wife and Pul--I know them all. [10]
Her sister-in-law, the widow of a magistrate, Frau Pauline Schmidt, shared the care of the pupils and the beautiful, large garden; while her pretty, bright young sons and daughters increased the charm of the intercourse. [10]
That pretty woman, who's just as nice as she looks, is Mrs. Victor Strange. [9]
Mistress Kitty Fagan, who had kept her ears pretty wide open, carried them. [6]
She looked on while the little creatures were being undressed; she heard the few words they lisped as their infant prayer, she saw them laid in their beds, and heard their pretty good-night. [6]
The little tug, which was pretty well packed with the merry company, was swift, and danced along in an exhilarating manner. [4]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
A pretty woman, whatever her airs and quality, is to be carried the same way, and a man ought never to be frightened by appearances. [9]
It's pretty well-guessed what you're goin' to say and what you know, and you take it from me, the M'Mahon mob that's behind Logan 'll have it in for you. [11]
I didn't know what to say, but I did say this after a while:--"'W-well, Mr. President, I guess I've kept you long enough--g-guess you're a pretty busy man. [9]
Of course they were pretty well tired by this time, and very glad to sit down,--having the prospect before them of being obliged to stand for hours. [6]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
I understand that went pretty far. [9]
Papa continues pretty well;--I hope I shall be enabled to bear up. [14]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
He is pretty well, better than last summer. [14]
I was pretty well satisfied with what I had already accomplished. [5]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
Folks know pretty well I'm not mixed up in 'em. [9]
We know pretty well how much of sincerity there is in the fears so clamorously expressed, and how far they are found in company with uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies of the nation. [6]
We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed. [5]
She was pretty, well educated, and possessed so much independence and keenness of mind that this alone would have sufficed to render her remarkable. [10]
It was not well chosen, for it was pretty sure to mislead. [5]
We are pretty well aware that ours is not an ideal state of society, and should be so, even if the English who pass by did not revile us, wagging their heads. [4]
He would sleep well and sound, having seen Pretty Pierre for the last time. [11]
Why, I thought we'd made that pretty clear, Captain. [9]
By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
Through the greenhouses we marched, monarchs of all we surveyed, old Porphery, the gardener, presenting Mistress Dolly with a crown of orange blossoms, for which she thanked him with a pretty courtesy her governess had taught her. [9]
A pretty mess we had made of it without my inheritance. [9]
And, by the way, what have you done about that brilliant Mr. Coombes of the 'Johnstown Ray,' who says 'the Northeastern Railroads give us a pretty good government'? [9]
She knew the way without a guide to the spring from which Paulus had brought her water at their first meeting, and she now slipped away, and went down to it with a pretty little pitcher of burnt clay in her hand. [10]
He worked his way through, and had a pretty hard time of it. [9]
Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
How pretty she was, and how sweet she was! [5]
In summer it was very pretty, with its vine-shaded veranda across the front; and even in winter, with the inevitable raggedness of deciduous vines, it had an air of refinement, a promise which the cheerful interior more than fulfilled. [4]
My only comfort was that Constantine had just quitted the pretty little hussy. [10]
Her pretty face was swollen with weeping, and it was in a voice choked with tears that she had told him that her husband, who was a centurion in Caesar's pretorian guard, would arrive to-morrow or next day at Alexandria, with his imperial master. [10]
But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! [11]
But as I was saying, we'd got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim. [5]
I thought that was pretty white, but March says the apologies and regrets are all well enough in their way, but they leave the main question where they found it. [8]
The duke's room was pretty small, but plenty good enough, and so was my cubby. [5]
You see, he was pretty old, and George's g'yirls was too young to be much company for him, except Mary Jane, the red-headed one; and so he was kinder lonesome after George and his wife died, and didn't seem to care much to live. [5]
I thought it was pretty manifest that the elderly lady was embarrassed at finding herself in such a conspicuous place arrayed in such cheap apparel; I began to feel sorry for her and troubled about her. [5]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
To me she was never anything but a pretty plaything; still, there were moments when I believed--poor soul!--I first learnt what love meant through you, how great and how sacred it is!--Now you know all; this, indeed, is the truth! [10]
But Pretty Pierre was like the death- adder, small and beautiful, silent and deadly. [11]
The East Side was left pretty much to itself, now that the winter philanthropists had gone away, and was enjoying its summer nights and its irresponsible poverty. [4]
Mena's pretty wife was however absent, and Katuti did not send for her even after he had enquired after her health. [10]
Here, he knew, was his greatest enemy where David was concerned, and yet this pretty Saint Elizabeth was wearing a fine turquoise ring with a poke bonnet, in a very worldly fashion. [11]
Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
The Ladies Gallery was full, for the matter was in all the papers, and a pretty sensation had been worked up one way and another. [11]
Here the light was dim, and the masses of people were pretty closely packed together. [5]
But Pretty Pierre was at Fort Luke when the battle occurred, and, before and after, he sifted the business thoroughly. [11]
The first prize was a most cunning half-grown silver bugle, and mighty pretty, with red silk cord and tassels. [5]

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