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Sentences starting with progress
- Progress of Culture, The, 244, 288. [6]
- Progress was very slow, for many peasants and hogs were coming toward them from the Schweinemarkt at their right. [10]
- Progress was slow. [4]
Sentences ending with progress
- She was examined with the stethoscope, and the dreadful fact was announced that her lungs were affected, and that tubercular consumption had already made considerable progress. [14]
- But he contended with an alert and suspicious enemy; and so at the end of two hours it was manifest to him that he had made but little progress. [5]
- The Chicago company who was trying to build the machines made little progress. [5]
- The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
- A serious ceremony was evidently in progress. [4]
- I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
- His convalescence was very slow and gradual, but no further accident interrupted its even progress. [6]
- You would give us justice and make us rich by what you call progress. [11]
- Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. [5]
- One of the two weekly half-holidays was required for the catechism, and the only relaxation from the three church services on Sunday was the reading of "Pilgrim's Progress. [4]
Short sentences using progress
- No farther progress was possible. [10]
- It clogs our progress. [9]
- They don't want progress. [11]
- She had made progress. [11]
- A "debate" was in progress. [9]
- Promising progress made in Chicago. [5]
- He jubilantly reports his progress. [5]
- Democracy, for progress, demands peace. [9]
- That constitutes progress. [5]
- People always progress. [5]
Sentences containing progress two or more times
- What troubled Mr. Worthington infinitely more was the progress of his suit; for it had become a snit, though progress is a wrong word to use in connection with it. [9]
- Not long ago Mr. James Anthony Froude published an essay on Progress, in which he examined some of the evidences upon which we rely to prove that we live in an "era of progress. [4]
- There seems to me to be a progress, or an intention of progress, in the world, independent of individual men. [4]
- It can no doubt be easily shown that the colleges have contributed the intellectual part of this progress, and that that part is vast; but that the material progress has been immeasurably vaster, I think you will concede. [5]
- Well, the 19th century made progress--the first progress after "ages and ages"--colossal progress. [5]
More example sentences with the word progress in them
- This light within your youthful hearts has beamed, Ripening the germs of all things good and fair; I also fostered them, and joyous dreamed Of future progress to repay our care. [10]
- For a hundred years we have reckoned it progress, that the people were taking part in government. [4]
- To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience to reject all progress, all improvement. [7]
- Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
- Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
- You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
- Besides, your recovery will progress without my professional aid; and, moreover, I shall leave Ratisbon with my illustrious master in a few days. [10]
- A mighty work which was in progress there in my day is finished now. [5]
- Yet the tranquillity, which formerly exerted so beneficial an effect, had departed, and the measures of precaution he now felt compelled to adopt, like everything else that brought him into connection with the world, interrupted the progress of his work. [10]
- And I wonder what they think of us, making this gorgeous progress through their midst. [8]
- And, as though we were still in the pastoral times of peace, in the square of one of these villages a horse-fair was in progress, blue-smocked peasants were trotting chunky ponies over the stones. [9]
- If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives. [2]
- The court room was packed on the morning on which the verdict of the jury was expected, as it had been every day of the trial, and by the same spectators, who had followed its progress with such intense interest. [5]
- While the meal was in progress, their host remarked that the old man seemed much fatigued, and evidently stood in need of rest. [12]
- The preliminary speaking was in progress, but Stephen neither heard nor saw until he felt the heavy hand of his companion on his knee. [9]
- Even while the war is in progress has that internal democratic process of evolution been going on, presaging profound changes in the social fabric. [9]
- When the Deity wants a thing, and after working at it for "ages and ages" can't show even a shade of progress toward its accomplishment, we--well, we don't laugh, but it is only because we dasn't. [5]
- Never, since his very first visit to a circus, had Caracalla left unnoticed for so long a time the progress of such a battle as this. [10]
- He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
- You have made valuable progress and can make more. [5]
- As we progress up the river habitations become more frequent, but are yet still miles apart. [5]
- Since I grew up I have attended to our sick, and I cannot tell you how many fractures, wounds, hurts, and fevers I have cured or seen progress to a fatal end. [10]
- Had they remained until Sunday, they might have read an amusing account of their visit,--of Jethro's suppers of crackers and milk at the Astor House, of their progress along Broadway. [9]
- What was painfully uncertain then is much better defined and more distinct now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direction. [7]
- When the carriage turned towards the left and approached the Paneum, progress for the first time became difficult. [10]
- If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
- He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
- Now we are told by the most accomplished English essayists that this is a mistake, that it is change, but no progress. [4]
- Then he continued to this effect: The essayist contrasted the America of to-day with the America of bygone times, and certainly the result is the exhibition of a mighty progress. [5]
- It legally belonged to the progress of the investigation, and how many who had by no means recovered from the last exposure to the rack were constantly obliged to enter the torture chamber? [10]
- It's easy enough to make a brilliant catalogue of external achievements, but I take it that real progress ought to be in man himself. [4]
- Do you want to know why that name is given to the men who do most for the world's progress? [6]
- I have stuck to it as well as my wandering, Bohemian nature will permit, and while I do not expect you necessarily to feel any pride in such progress as I have made, I have hoped--that you might feel an interest. [9]
- Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country. [2]
- She said this to herself while she was intently watching the progress of the solemn ceremonial. [10]
- It is impossible to get out of a draught, and the progress is so slow that variety enough is not presented to the eye to keep one from ennui. [4]
- Tell her not to be impatient, it will take me several days, but it will all come out right, and I will come over and report progress as I go along. [5]
- Now they seemed to be almost upon her, and presently they emerged into view from the right, where their progress had been hidden by the hospital-building. [11]
- It is near three years since a letter came to me from you, and in the time I have made progress. [11]
- Such men, well-intentioned though they might be, were hindrances to progress. [9]
- We might pursue this general subject of progress by a comparison of the society of this country now with that of fifty years ago. [4]
- Even in England this cult has made considerable progress, and now that it is favored by the two great Universities, the time is not far away when Ballarat English will come into general use among the educated classes of Great Britain at large. [5]
- Politics being what they were, progress and protection had to be obtained in accordance with them, and there was a duty to the holders of bonds and stocks. [9]
- Such benefactions as these compensate the temporary harm which Bonaparte and the Revolution did, and leave the world in debt to them for these great and permanent services to liberty, humanity, and progress. [5]
- The manuscript had therefore been put in the graveyard of manuscripts, from which there is commonly no resurrection except in the funeral progress of the manuscript back to the author. [4]
- During its progress there came and went a missionary from China, a pianist, an English lady who had heard of the Institution, a Southern spinster with literary gifts, a youthful architect who had not built anything, and a young lawyer interested in settlement work. [9]
- The life of their progress seemed to be slowly hushed, and something death-like to usurp its place. [12]
- The progress of the war was eagerly followed, and only the reports most flattering to our army were circulated. [2]
- His progress up the river, however, was marked by incidents whose significance he did not at once see. [11]
- As I marked the progress of their damnable orgy I cast about for some plan to take advantage of their condition. [9]
- Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens abroad. [7]
- And what is the progress he achieves? [5]
- Please tell me the progress and condition of the movement in that direction. [7]
- It will grind the people and debase them and clog their progress a hundred times more than Jethro Bass has done. [9]
- In regard to the moral qualities, some elimination of the worst dispositions is always in progress even in the most civilised nations. [1]
- In offering you the fruit of my garden, which has been gathered from week to week, without much reference to the progress of the crops or the drought, I desire to acknowledge an influence which has lent half the charm to my labor. [4]
- Through openings in the foliage we glimpsed picturesque scenery that revealed ceaseless changes and new charms with every step of our progress. [5]
- If you pass the examinations with credit, you may go to college, but if at any time you fail to make good progress, you come home, and go into business again. [9]
- On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
- We must remember that progress is no invariable rule. [1]
- It appears, then, that progress has, after all, been with the shifting world, that has been all this time going to pieces, rather than with the world that has been permanent and unshaken. [4]
- I was saying that nothing had been so slow in its progress in the world as domestic architecture. [4]
- The progress of that look had granted Philip an instant's time to recover his composure. [11]
- Once she saw that he had a building completely torn down which divided a burning granary from some other storehouses that had been spared, and she understood the object of this order; it cut off the progress of the flames. [10]
- The priest saw that for the present he could make no progress, and after a little silence the conversation went back to the family they were about to visit. [4]
- The other is that doubt of any divine intention in development, in history, which we call progress from age to age. [4]
- I am most thankful if my labors have seemed to conduct to the preservation of those institutions, under which alone we can expect good government and in its train sound learning, and the progress of the liberal arts. [7]
- Nast, you more than any other man have won a prodigious victory for Grant--I mean, rather, for civilization and progress. [5]
- They had but ten days' short allowance of food; the long-boat was towing the others; they could not depend on making any sort of definite progress in the doldrums, and they had four or five hundred miles of doldrums in front of them yet. [5]
- She stayed to talk on the progress of the war, relating the gallant storming of Stony Point by Mad Anthony in July, and the latest Tory insurrection on our own Eastern Shore. [9]
- At each little table was a drama in progress, light or serious--all the more serious for being light at the moment and unconsidered. [4]
- Railways were the symbol of progress in his mind. [11]
- You can not swim on your back and make any progress of any consequence, because your feet stick away above the surface, and there is nothing to propel yourself with but your heels. [5]
- Nor was his surprise at the progress made during seventeen years less than his delight in it. [4]
- There was a sudden stir behind the screens which enclosed the sculptor and the work in progress. [10]
- Even when the struggle with Germany and her allies was in progress it was quite apparent to the discerning that the true issue of the conflict was one quite familiar to American thought, of self-determination. [9]
- The 'primo tenore' statue of Garibaldi had already taken possession of the place in the name of Latin progress, and they met Italian faces, French faces, Spanish faces, as they strolled over the asphalt walks, under the thinning shadows of the autumn-stricken sycamores. [8]
- I submit a statement of the proceedings of commissioners, which shows the progress that has been made in the enterprise of constructing the Pacific Railroad. [7]
- The prisoners of state who were being transported to the mines made slow progress. [10]
- And in this stage of her progress in the world she showed that she did, though not in the way Carmen would have showed her love, if she had loved, and if she had a soul capable of love. [4]
- As to Jack's speculations, she made little more progress. [4]
- The progress of society now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corporations; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the transferred property, legislation and adjudication begin to be necessary. [7]
- The book has so many friends--this has been sufficiently established by the very large sale it has had in cheap editions--that I am still disposed to feel it was an inevitable manifestation in the progress of my art, such as it is. [11]
- He crawled along so hidden that he could not use his eyes except to aid himself in the toilsome progress through the brakes and ruins of cliff-wall. [13]
- Our progress was slow when we came at last to the belvedered plantation houses amongst the orange groves; and as we sat on the wide galleries in the summer nights, we heard all the latest gossip of the capital of Louisiana. [9]
- But they made slow progress through the crowd, whose yells, hisses, and catcalls pursued them to the entrance of the neighbouring Town Hall. [10]
- We had a skilled trainer, and under his instructions we were getting our legs in the right condition for the contemplated pedestrian tours; we were well satisfied with the progress which we had made in the German language, [1. [5]
- Nothing is more significant of our progress than the good-humored deference of the world to this sort of success. [4]
- Without it we should be mere inert images, corpses; no one would do anything, there would be no progress, the world would stand still. [5]
- Then, some morning, she would waken up, and the progress of her tale lay clear and bright before her, in distinct vision. [14]
- But here also she made little progress, for the abbess led Eva up the stairs, and the two old family servants, Martsche representing the guiding mind and Endres the rude strength, made common cause. [10]
- Rameses had not seen Mena since his struggle with Paaker, but he listened anxiously to the news which was brought him of the progress of his sorely wounded officer. [10]
- After all, it seems to be a law of Providence, that progress should be by a spiral movement; so that when it seems most tortuous, we may perhaps be going ahead. [6]
- What Dyck now saw was good evidence of the progress of the agitation. [11]
- The world never saw such a spectacle before, so vast a territory informed with one uniform spirit of energy and progress, and people tumbling into it from all the world, eager for the fair field and free opportunity. [4]
- There is the same sort of truthfulness in Hawthorne's allegory of "The Celestial Railway," in Froude's "On a Siding at a Railway Station," and in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress. [4]
- The desire to revisit this earth is, I think, based upon a belief, well-nigh universal, that the world is to make some progress, and that it will be more interesting in the future than it is now. [4]
- It was a relief to be again in motion, although our progress was slow, and it was a question every rod whether the guide could go on. [4]
- And when the rector came to dine and read to Mr. Carvel, my uncle catechised him so searchingly on my progress that he was pushed to the last source of his ingenuity for replies. [9]
- If some statistics recently published are correct, Homoeopathy has made very slow progress in Europe. [6]
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