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Sentences starting with promise

Promise me that you'll never yield the least point to him in a matter of right and wrong! [8]
Promise me that you will not forget me if I am--unfortunate. [9]
Promise me that you will bring him. [10]
Promise me, as you value me as an ally, that you will not attempt his life. [10]
Promise that," she urged. [11]
Promise you won't stand on the platform, and won't get off while the train is in motion, and all the rest of the directions," she said, laughing a little with him; "and you will be careful? [4]
Promise me--" "I promise you this," he interrupted, in stern passion that thrilled while it terrorized her. [13]
Promise and live! [5]
Promise me that. [11]
Promise me. [11]

Sentences ending with promise

Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
For the verses you send me, I will not say they are hopeless, and I dare not affirm that they show promise. [6]
He said you were a young man of great promise. [5]
It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
At last I tuk the pledge--an' her on promise. [11]
I will indeed try to deserve your love and kindness; and you--you will be to me all that your loving countenance seems to promise? [10]
They belonged not to the life moving round her, but were shining in a land of their own, a land of promise. [11]
I want you to make me a promise. [5]
You ought not to have come; you have broken your promise. [11]
If I was to die now, I'd have kept that promise. [9]

Short sentences using promise

But I'll promise to try. [9]
Will you promise this, Bartja? [10]
Will you promise secrecy? [10]
Promise, and be redeemed! [5]
Manners soon, I promise you. [9]
Do not betray my promise. [10]
Will you promise me, Philip-dear? [11]
It was a long-standing promise. [11]
My promise was literally fulfilled. [7]
Philippus had kept his promise. [10]

Sentences containing promise two or more times

You can charge what you please; I promise the public no amusement, but I do promise a reasonable amount of instruction. [5]
Now promise me that--will you promise me? [11]
If a principal could dissolve his promise as innocently as he can dissolve his written order unguarded by his promise, I would send you a copy of the Memoirs instantly. [5]
Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career. [2]

More example sentences with the word promise in them

If it fails, young master, you will not live a whole minute after, I promise you that. [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]
That's the sound you'll hear every day of your life, if you break the promise you've got to make to me now. [11]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
And I promise you you shall not lack for opportunity. [9]
There, I wanted you to see where I stand with Di; and now I want you to promise me that you'll not leave these rooms till I see you again. [11]
I can give you this, at least, and I can promise to protect and cherish you. [9]
But I promise you that one of these days I will present to you the very finest comedy imaginable. [11]
And I promise you that if any such proposition shall hereafter come, it shall not be rejected and kept a secret from you. [7]
We cannot, as you say, promise to love for life. [9]
Say the word--say you promise it! [5]
But first, as you have promise just now, you must give up dese poor men, who have fight for what dey tink is right. [11]
You die because you have not kept your promise, but have returned to your sins. [5]
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]
You promise her, you break her life, you spoil her, and then you fly away --ah coward you! [11]
I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
Yes, and more would have implied a promise or a concession. [9]
He must, he would forget--and he knew, that he could only succeed if he found a task which might promise to give some new occupation to his bereaved soul. [10]
The convent, too, would be ready to receive her--the abbess had told him so--if Herr Groland, of Nuremberg, kept his promise of paying her admission dues. [10]
Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
The education of woman and the development of her powers hold the greatest promise for the regeneration of society. [4]
I will reckon with you all, I promise you that! [5]
You came hither with the assurance of your favour; but the flattering words of promise which you bestowed upon the unhappy woman were probably only the drops of poppy-juice given to soothe the ravings of fever. [10]
I look forward with pleasure to the fulfillment of the promise made in the former to visit Washington the following winter and to "call. [7]
Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
But--but see, I will forgive; yes, I will follow thee with good wishes, if thee will promise to help David, whom thee has ever disliked, as, in the place held by thee, thee can do now. [11]
Now, a man who has saved your life once may do it again; one favour is always the promise of another. [11]
Once in a while I heard Weldon's answering shot, but I remembered my promise to Tom not to waste powder unless I were sure. [9]
The last words which he addressed to her before leading her back to the others contained the promise to make her patron saint, St. Clare, his own. [10]
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. [7]
There were times when I should have gone away if I hadn't made a promise to stay in Ripton. [9]
Well, O. T., when he went, made a solemn promise to two of us. [6]
A hundred guns were instantly leveled at him; whereupon he turned and fled; but, being brought back, he was compelled to resume his coat, and to give a promise of future peaceable demeanor. [5]
The Duke d'Alencon went to him and got his promise again, which he broke again. [5]
We believe that we may promise him as warm a welcome among ourselves as he will receive even in America; that his place will be at once conceded to him among the first historians in our common language. [6]
Well, sometimes when we have met since, I have told you the same story, and you've kept your promise and listened. [11]
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]
At first he was silent, but as she was stepping into the skiff he repeated his promise of meeting her here the following night. [10]
The nullification battle was set; the currency conflict still raged; it was a time of inflation and land speculation; the West, every day more explored and opened, was the land of promise for capital and energy. [4]
Before the sun was quite down, Joan's forever memorable day's work was finished, her banner floated from the fortress of the Tourelles, her promise was fulfilled, she had raised the siege of Orleans! [5]
Meanwhile my life was full, and gave promise of becoming even fuller, more absorbing and exciting in the immediate future. [9]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
These verses are very well for a beginning, but a man of promise like you, Mr. Hopkins, must n't throw away his chance by premature publication! [6]
It is not up to my hopes, it is not up to the promise of the recommendations, still it is English, and I understand it. [5]
He was a trifle more robust than when he came to Brampton in the summer, but perhaps she doubted his promise to pay. [9]
But before the trial Iberville had had solitary talk with Frontenac, in which a request was repeated and a promise renewed. [11]
At last Paula took leave of her, bound by a promise not to pledge herself irrevocably to Orion till his return from Doomiat, and till the abbess had informed her by letter what opinion she had formed of him in the course of their flight. [10]
Her character corresponded to the promise of her gracious aspect. [6]
You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. [5]
The resolutions promise to support me in every constitutional and lawful measure to suppress the rebellion; and I have not knowingly employed, nor shall knowingly employ, any other. [7]
You have but to summon one of the rascals, promise him a bit of war interest, and he will leave you as much as you desire, and nothing spoken. [9]
She took Richemont to Sully-sur-Loire and made her promise good. [5]
He implored March to promise that it should never happen again; he said their only hope was in the immediate cheapening of the whole affair. [8]
I was obliged to promise Neithotep with an oath, not to tell tales out of school. [10]
I want you to promise me that you will let others lead the assaults, if there must be assaults, and that you will take better care of yourself in those dreadful battles. [5]
I promise not to preach," he added. [9]
I won't promise to obey them all, though. [6]
For she wrote to Miss Lucretia about her life and her reading, as that lady had made her promise to do. [9]
They are friendly to me, and, if they keep their promise, the journey here will be blessed. [10]
Clemens, still urged to lecture, finally agreed with George Dolby to a week's engagement, and added a promise that after taking his wife and daughter back to America he would return immediately for a more extended course. [5]
I certainly meant to keep that promise, but I find I can not do it. [5]
It was counted to him as a devil's incantation, the music that he played that night, remembering his promise to Dicky Donovan. [11]
Did you come to hear whether the spirits still intend to keep the promise they made then? [10]
We were glad to have seen that land which had an enlightened religion with future eternal rewards and punishment in it, while even Israel's religion contained no promise of a hereafter. [5]
I will promise to go into court and swear I think him capable of stealing pea-nuts from a blind pedlar. [5]
You will promise to embalm my body and ornament it with amulets? [10]
I cannot promise to do more than to select a few of the points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge which present particular interest in the existing state of our physiological acquisitions. [3]
Had the promise to bestow their charms upon a goddess been made to them also? [10]
And they hope to beguile that out of your pockets, and you will find affixed to the programme an opportunity, that little blank which you will fill out and promise so much money now or to-morrow or some time. [5]
His name began to be known in a small circle who are interested in the business, and it was not long before he had offers from editors, who were always on the lookout for new writers of promise, to send something for their magazines. [4]
He also secured three thousand pounds of the Khedive's borrowings from Europe, on Kingsley's promise that it should be returned five-fold. [11]
He felt as though a brutal foot had trampled down the promise of future joys on which he had counted; his sister's revelations had spoiled not merely his life on earth, but all eternity beyond the grave. [10]
To thy fellow-countrymen thou shalt preach the gospel of the New World, that here, here in our America, is the home of man; that here is the promise of a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded. [6]
To think of those dear babes having a fund--if that's the right name--on purpose for 'em, and a promise of a legacy, I hope they won't get that till they're a hundred year old! [6]
In return for this service another might perhaps soon be requested from the friend of Octavianus, who greeted his promise with grateful warmth. [10]
The news of this promise gave Els the first happy hour after long days of discomfort and the most arduous mental conflict. [10]
But here in this novel is one which seems to promise. [5]
Yes, I will think it over--I promise you. [11]
All of these things, and more, Cynthia might have had if she had only accepted that promise to pay! [9]
Too many times they have breathed the word of promise to our ear and broken it to our hope. [5]
In one corner they found a closet that promised mystery, but the promise was a fraud--there was nothing in it. [5]
To discover what these qualities are that have insured permanence and promise indefinite continuance is to have a means of judging with an approach to scientific accuracy our contemporary literature. [4]
I promise you, therefore, so soon as possible to visit Jerusalem and the land of your fathers. [10]
The sky lifted, there was a promise of fair weather, the storm, for him, had indeed cleared the air. [4]
You ask if there is promise enough there to justify the Hartford folk in going to an expense of training this young man. [5]
Keep thy promise then,--hold fast thy love, but prepare to renounce thy lover. [10]
She also made them promise that they would give him no news of her at all, save that she was well. [11]
If they stake their lives for us they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. [7]
It was to their home that Buonespoir the pirate--faithful to his promise to the Queen that he would harry English ships no more came wounded, after an engagement with a French boat sent to capture him, carried thither by Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. [11]
I have called the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of War, and General-in-Chief together, and submitted it to them, who promise to do their very best in the case. [7]
The beauty of the season is but half developed, so that while there is enough to yield present delight, there is the flattering promise of still further enjoyment. [4]
She looked at the seal of the letter and said: "This is a lucky day; it has brought us great things, and the promise of greater things in the future. [10]
The promise of the red sky the evening before was fulfilled in another royal day. [4]
But if Rameses--if the real king would promise me--then my poor old body--Yes, that is the thing, that is what I will do. [10]
And one of the pure pleasures I promise myself in the months to come is to make you two gentlemen know each other. [6]
It is true, the promises I have made are unknown to any but Ambulinia, and I think it unnecessary to here enumerate them, as they who promise the most generally perform the least. [5]
In return for the promise that she would let the Eysvogels know as soon as she received any tidings of her lover, which Els gave unasked, Siebenburg, who had always treated her repellently or indifferently, thanked her so humbly that she was surprised. [10]
The day followed the promise of the dawn. [9]
The king reproved the preceptor, and said, "You have broken your promise, and not acted faithfully. [4]

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