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Sentences starting with raise

Raise me! [5]

Sentences ending with raise

How much can you raise? [11]
I'm on the waw-path, and the price uv coffins is a-gwyne to raise. [5]
I have to think before I can tell where the east is in New York; and what if I should git faced the wrong way when I raise? [8]
This barkeeper thinks there hasn't been such another stir here in years, as his coming is going to raise. [5]
The market-place was a scene of high festival, the beautiful fountain was a mighty bower of flowers, the triumphal arches, methought, were such as the gods of wood and garden might have joined to raise. [10]

Short sentences using raise

Joyfully did Phips raise anchor. [11]
I'll raise it. [5]

Sentences containing raise two or more times

I see your raise, and raise it five hundred! [5]
You do not raise sugar-cane (except the new-fashioned sugar-cane, and you won't raise that long), but they do raise it in Louisiana. [7]
We know that it is the office of the university to raise the standard of the college, and of the college to raise the standard of the high school. [4]
You don't raise it in Ohio, because you can't raise it profitably, because the climate don't suit it. [7]
I understand quite as well as Judge Douglas that if we here raise a barrel of flour more than we want, and the Louisianians raise a barrel of sugar more than they want, it is of mutual advantage to exchange. [7]

More example sentences with the word raise in them

Didn't I raise your wages last January? [9]
Didn't you say you had six months to raise the money in? [5]
Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
I repeat, I would like for Col. Bayles to raise a regiment of cavalry whenever the Union men of Kentucky desire or consent to it. [7]
And you--if you would fill the position to which I intend to raise you--must first take care to leave all paltry considerations and doubts behind you. [10]
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
After his conversation with me, Mr. Marmaduke had lost no time in seeing Mr. Dix, in order to raise money on my prospects. [9]
And if the wine to lip she raise, With morsel of my bread; Then as we loved in ancient days, These lands of ours shall wed. [11]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
Poor soldier he who did not raise his sword, And, touching with his lips the hilt-cross, swear In war or peace the livery to wear Of one that blessed him with her queenly word. [11]
The ugly galoot, who dared to raise his eyes only to the pear, was Mr. Lincoln himself. [9]
Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
And these colleges, which you think above the colored people, will stimulate them and gradually raise the whole mass. [4]
Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
But at last we see him get to the professor's head, and sort of raise up soft and look a good spell in his face and listen. [5]
The only meals we are allowed to take in the society of men are on New Year's Day and the king's birthday, and then we are forbidden to speak; indeed it is not thought right for us even to raise our eyes. [10]
Because her plan was to raise the siege immediately, by fighting, while theirs was to besiege the besiegers and starve them out by closing their communications--a plan which would require months in the consummation. [5]
A single glance was sufficient, for these good people so understood each other that Mrs. Merrill had only to raise her eyes to her husband's, and this she did shortly after the supper party began; while she was pouring the coffee, to be exact. [9]
Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
While it yet was day, and we breathed in freedom and gladness, While the sun still shone, that light seemed small and dim; But now, when night has fallen, sinister, dark, portentous, Its kindly ray beams forth to raise our drooping souls. [10]
At last he was about to lay his hand on the lad's shoulder, but paused as by the moonlight he saw Ephraim raise one arm though, before he lay down, both hands were tied more firmly than before. [10]
If any one wants to see how vivid is the gratitude to Columbus, let him start out among our business-houses with a subscription-paper to raise money for powder to be exploded in his honor. [4]
It was this very future that the woman of the world was using to raise in the mind of Irene a morbid sense of her duty. [4]
He had not ventured to raise his eyes and look into her face. [10]
Now she could venture to raise herself, and to look in at the open window; the door of communication between the two rooms was closed, but a streak of light showed her that in the farther room, which was the sitting-room, a lamp was burning. [10]
Throw your spears upon the ground, and all will be well; but raise one to throw, or one arrow, or axe, and there shall be death among you, so that as a people you shall die. [11]
He would raise up in Louisiana as a monument to himself a daughter of France to curb their ambition. [9]
He seized his two-handed sword, but did not raise it, for a beloved voice he recognized, called softly: "Ulrich, Ulrich, it is I! [10]
Tom examined the turnips and the lettuce with interest, and asked what they were, and if they were to be eaten; for it was only recently that men had begun to raise these things in England in place of importing them as luxuries from Holland. [5]
As Lord Rippingdale turned to Charles to raise him, the coach-door was opened upon the other side, a light was thrust in, and over the unconscious body of the King my lord recognised John Enderby. [11]
I saw Louis Trudel raise an iron against Monsieur that day in the shop. [11]
I would have tried my best to raise it. [5]
Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
How did they transport and how raise them? [5]
Though scarcely able to speak, he tenderly called her name, but she made no reply; like Iras and Charmian, she was exerting her whole strength at the windlass in the most passionate effort to raise him. [10]
We stepped in, to see how much higher broken German would raise the price. [5]
It was enough to raise your hair to hear that variegated and enormous unanimous caterwaul burst out! [5]
No; only two: to raise the siege of Orleans, and crown the King at Rheims. [5]
Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it was whispered through the shuddering crowd that the wound bled a little! [5]
Orders were given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. [2]
It was foolish to raise his wishes so high, but he told himself that he had never beheld a woman more to be desired. [10]
Hilary even had to raise his eyes a little; he had forgotten how tall Austen was. [9]
Then she tried to raise herself and, as she constantly sank back again, Bias aided her. [10]
Now he endeavoured to raise her companion, saying reproachfully, "Charmian, was this well done? [10]
They only wanted to raise fifty thousand dollars to carry on the contract--that expended they would have city bonds. [5]
I told them to have no doubts and no fears; that they would raise the siege. [5]
No one dared to gainsay him, and he expected it least of all from her whom he designed to raise so high. [10]
I shall have to call Alice to raise your spirits; my presence seems to depress you. [5]
You would have to appear among clouds behind a transparent veil, and the people would hail you with acclamations or even raise their hands in adoration. [10]
Wake, and raise thy voice in numbers Sing to Homer, to the bard Who has given life immortal To the heroes of his lay. [10]
In comparison with those days, Phryxus, I may be called a poor man now, but Cambyses does not leave me to famish, and I can still raise a talent for your temple. [10]
Adam had noticed this himself, and gave no time to his work, for he had to assist in nursing his son, when it was necessary to raise his heavy body, and to relieve Ruth, when, after long night-watches, her vigorous strength was exhausted. [10]
If any one thinks that two cents each is high, let him try to raise them. [4]
He meditates frightful things, and if he cannot be terrified by threats of punishment from the Immortals, he will raise his hand against Mena, and perhaps--" "Against the king," interrupted Ameni gravely. [10]
As soon as they show any disposition to refuse to the old gods the respect that is due to them, or to raise a finger against them, severity must be exercised and every excess must be punished by death. [10]
At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. [7]
It would raise the--well, it would--if the other bondholders knew anything about it. [4]
From among all these parties, just at the time Prince Andrew reached the army, another, a ninth party, was being formed and was beginning to raise its voice. [2]
Do not throw these enlightenments aside, but study them, let them raise you to higher planes and make you better. [5]
I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him. [5]
When they raise their hearts, eyes, hands to it in prayer, they must be possessed by the idea of the deity which animated us while creating it, and with which we, as it were, permeated it. [10]
He could raise the veil--a dark and dangerous necromancer, with a flinty heart and a hand that had waited long to strike. [11]
Let me raise the vegetables of a nation, says Polly, and I care not who makes its politics. [4]
The rest of the spectators also kept anxious and uneasy silence while the lictors bound Zminis's hands, and, in spite of his attempts to raise his voice once more in self-defense, dragged him away and thrust him out across the threshold of the dining-hall. [10]
She'll never raise the reef on this headway! [5]
Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found to raise the voice of complaint. [7]
The lives of the mighty heathen, as his Plutarch painted them, would, he said, raise even a weak soul to their greatness and the Consolatio Philosophiae of Boetius would of a surety refresh my stricken heart. [10]
Every Mussulman in the land would raise the green flag--the Jehad would be upon ye! [11]
It will be the inevitable result that these young ladies, setting themselves apart for a period to the intellectual life, will raise the standard of the young men, and of married life generally. [4]
He kept at the governor of Virginny till he gave him twelve hundred pounds in Continentals and power to raise troops. [9]
Captain Jones was the first to raise the new flag of the stars and stripes over a man-o'-war. [9]
His love for the excitement of the frontier had finally drawn him back to the Cumberland country near Nashville, and he had actually gone so far as to raise a house and till some of the land which he had won from Darnley. [9]
Every city in the Empire shall raise an altar to Antinous, and the friend of whom you have robbed me I will make your equal and companion. [10]
In due time the doctor arrived, and while he prepared me for my departure, the little man sought, with misplaced kindness, to raise my spirits. [9]
Everywhere the will, the desire, the passion for bringing grief and ruin on others rather than to help them, raise them and heal them! [10]
The noise of the crowd was increasing, the raucous shouts were so loud that the three had to raise their voices. [11]
Hive them in the cave till they raise a ransom. [5]
When told that the Caesar was close at hand, she had only time to raise herself a little higher on her cushions, push back her hair, and let Iras, with a few hasty touches, adjust the folds of her mourning robes. [10]
Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford, and let it talk. [5]
At the time that this occurred, there were a great many persons on the street in the vicinity, and a number of them called out to Gumbert, when they saw him raise his gun, to "hold on," and "don't shoot! [5]
New York, or that strip of it which is known to the more fortunate of human beings, is a place to raise one's spirits on a sparkling day in early winter. [9]
He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and raise him. [2]
I also added that I was personally acquainted with that many there; but that was only to raise his confidence in me, for it was not true. [5]
He knew, too, that he owed it to Daphne; the matron's fingers could not be so slender and delicate, and he would have been more than glad to raise them to his lips and thank her; but he denied himself the pleasure. [10]
Some minutes passed that he did not speak, making shift to raise his glass now and again, and I knew that he was gripped by a strong emotion. [9]
Among the invitations that came was one from General O. O. Howard asking him to preside at a meeting to raise an endowment fund for a Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. [5]
It was natural that Barbara should raise her eyes unconsciously, and find him out. [12]
I'll go and tell the others about this; it will raise him a good deal in their estimation--and the public will follow their lead, of course. [5]
I'll bet Miss Tavish will raise more money for the Baxter Street Guild, yes, and do more good, than you and the priest and that woman doctor slopping about on the East Side in six months. [4]
And when a tardy justice shall arise and compel the people of this land to raise a shaft in memory of Clark and those who followed him, let not the loyalty of the French be forgotten, though it be not understood. [9]
To-morrow I will take Vaudreuil's place, put your father in Bigot's, your brother in Ramesay's--they are both perfect and capable; I will strengthen the excellent Montcalm's hands in every way, will inspire the people, and cause the English to raise this siege. [11]
They will raise surprising crops of vegetables on a sand pile. [5]
Our commerce was suffering greatly by a few armed vessels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same quarter as would sweep our trade from the sea and raise our blockade. [7]
To raise a structure without first securing a solid foundation would be an act of rashness and folly. [10]
The huge windlass stood ready to raise a masterpiece of Alexandrian art. [10]
Only when he stood quite close to her, did she raise her shrewd, twinkling eyes, and cry out: "A lucky day! [10]
They say that sometimes strikes do raise the wages, after a while. [8]
Unless you have some money on it, in the pool or otherwise, it is impossible to raise any excitement. [4]
You have just six months to raise the money in. [5]

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