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Sentences starting with raising

Raising human beings under glass I take to be a metaphorical rather than a literal statement of your meaning. [6]
Raising his voice to a very loud tone, though he still maintained an extremely humble manner, he began to give the reasons which induced him, spite of his deep regret, to remove his wards from the Ortlieb house. [10]
Raising the sash, she held it, and he looked out. [11]
Raising his head, one of the Elders said: "Thee will stand up, friend. [11]
Raising herself a little she called her maid, who was sitting up in the adjoining room; and as the woman looked alarmed at her mistress's fixed stare, she stammered out: "A priest--quick--I am dying. [10]
Raising a spear, he saluted the French leaders, and then pointed towards the shore, where there was a space clear of trees, a kind of plateau. [11]
Raising his hat, he said: "Back to the firing-line, Miss Shale! [11]
Raising his voice, he said: "Stand back, and hear what I've got to say. [11]
Raising a rifle, he fired, then again and again. [11]
Raising himself, he clasped Valmond's knee, and, looking up, said gaspingly: "Adieu, sire! [11]

Sentences ending with raising

Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him--a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. [5]

Short sentences using raising

The Raising of the Siege. [5]
Henderson stood raising his hat. [4]

More example sentences with the word raising in them

Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. [2]
Here he remained, with his head bowed upon his breast for some time, and then suddenly raising it, said, 'Once, and once for all, have you brought me any money? [12]
Do your best with Carnegie, and don't wait to consider any of my intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000 ourselves. [5]
Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were destroyed? [4]
When you two were in the sick-room raising that riot, what would you have done if you had known I was coming? [5]
Some said they were firing in the hope of raising the corpse; but many who heard the bells ringing their crazy peals guessed what had happened. [6]
I supposed it was merely to do something toward raising the flag. [7]
All day I waited, until the forest light grew gray, when a buck came and stood over the water, raising his head and stamping from time to time. [9]
It strikes me very oddly that good and wise men at Cambridge and Boston should think of raising me into an object of criticism. [6]
He came heavily up from the barn-yard, mopping his red face and forehead, and now and again raising his hand to shade his eyes, concerned to see the unknown visitors, whose horse and buggy were in the stable-yard. [11]
It could not truly be said that they had lost heart, but faction was raising its head. [7]
The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. [5]
I have come to Washington to get the tariff raised on steel rails; and Watling and other senators we send down there are raising it for us. [9]
Presently I drew to the trap-door of my loft, and, raising it gently, came down the ladder to the little hallway, and softly opened the door of the room where Labrouk's body lay. [11]
Valmond appeared not to see the little coterie, but presently turned, when just opposite the gate, and, raising his hat, half paused. [11]
Then, clearing his throat, he drew himself up, and, raising his voice, asked how she dared to assail this gallant nobleman with such abominable, arrogant, and insulting words. [10]
But mind, Euphrasia, this is a secret," said Tom, raising a warning finger. [9]
The slight noise they made in raising the latch of the wicket-gate, caught his attention. [12]
But Zorrillo interrupted these declarations, exclaiming, not without dignity, while raising his baton still higher. [10]
He laughed at theoretical treatises on estate management, disliked factories, the raising of expensive products, and the buying of expensive seed corn, and did not make a hobby of any particular part of the work on his estate. [2]
Wasn't Clark even then on the Ohio raising a great army with authority from the Commonwealth of Virginia to rid them of the red scourge? [9]
Only now and then a tremor of the mouth, as he slowly chewed his food, or a slight raising of the eye-brows, betrayed that one shaft or another had not wholly missed its mark. [10]
As he held the tassels, lifted the gold- fringed curtain, and invoked Allah's blessing, a half-naked sheikh ran forward, and, raising his hand high above his head, cried shrilly: "Kaid, Kaid, hearken! [11]
A part of the Stormfield estate had been a farm, which he had given to Jean Clemens, where she had busied herself raising some live stock and poultry. [5]
At one and the same moment came the sound of an explosion, a whistle of splinters as from a breaking window frame, a suffocating smell of powder, and Prince Andrew started to one side, raising his arm, and fell on his chest. [2]
She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. [6]
Boris came to the Rostovs' box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natasha and Sonya his fiancee's invitation to her wedding, and went away. [2]
Nain, famous for the raising of the widow's son, and Endor, as famous for the performances of her witch are in view. [5]
The supes started the panorama grinding along again, and he says: "'Ladies and gentlemen, this exquisite painting represents the raising of Lazarus from the dead by our Saviour. [5]
Remarkable documents,' added the lawyer, raising his eyes to the ceiling, 'most remarkable documents. [12]
Everything was similar: the ladies' subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and the tea cakes; only one thing was lacking that he had always seen at the evening parties he wished to imitate. [2]
Just before raising the knocker he had been singing cheerfully to himself. [10]
The conversation of the hostess and her guests turned upon details of the kitchen and the laundry; upon the best mode of raising bread, whether with "emptins" (emptyings, yeast) or baking powder; about "bluing" and starching and crimping, and similar matters. [6]
Orlando slid to the ground beside the figure which was slowly raising itself from the ground. [11]
At last, raising the flute to his lips, as the eyes of Luke Claridge closed with very trouble, he began to play. [11]
The thought that the emperor could care about her good opinion greatly pleased her; it even had the effect of raising the hope in her inexperienced mind that Caracalla would moderate his passion for her sake--when old Adventus came into the room. [10]
Hamor gives him the distinction of being the first in the colony to try, in 1612, the planting and raising of tobacco. [4]
It might be that there was no precise justice in raising the price of the reserved sections to $2.50 per acre. [7]
He told us that a man named Maisonville, with a party of Indians, was in pursuit of him, and the next piece of news he had was in the way of raising our despair a little. [9]
Which reminds me that a campaign club in Jersey City wrote a few days ago and invited me to be present at the raising of a Tilden and Hendricks flag there, and to take the stand and give them some "counsel. [5]
It does not take a great man to soon discover that, in raising anything, the greater part of the plants goes into stalk and leaf, and the fruit is a most inconsiderable portion. [4]
Here,' said Mr Swiveller raising his voice to a high pitch, and looking sleepily round, 'is a miserable orphan! [12]
Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. [5]
The figure had stopped before the door and now, raising its head, gazed with wide eyes upward at the moon, and--he was not mistaken--it was no spectre of darkness; it was she for whom every pulse of his heart throbbed--Eva! [10]
After Monsieur de St. Gre had explained to me the horrors of the indigo pest and the futility of sugar raising, he turned to his daughter. [9]
He had no sooner, however, plunged his good sword into a soft part of the monster, and seen the blood flow from the wound, than his opponent changed itself into a griffin, and raising itself from the ground swooped upon him. [10]
I have had so much experience in the raising of fowls that I cannot but think that a few hints from me might be useful to the society. [5]
Along the upper side was a thin line of bushes, and, pushing these aside, the observer was always startled at the unexpected scene--as it were the raising of a curtain upon another world. [4]
Dorcas really thinks she raised George, and that is one of her prides, but perhaps it was a mutual raising, for their ages were the same--thirteen years short of mine. [5]
Then, raising the shawl, he continued inquisitively: "Do you know him? [10]
We had already seen "The Descent from the Cross" and "The Raising of the Cross" by Rubens, in the cathedral. [4]
A hastily erected scaffold, which was to support the pulleys for raising the statues, had collapsed. [10]
In spirit she saw the heavy man incapable of raising himself, dying perhaps where he had fallen. [10]
Yes, sir, he sat there, disgusted, on his horse, smoking a cigar, with the Rebs raising pandemonium all around him. [9]
Herr Berthold, smiling sadly, watched the conduct of the masterless servants; then raising his cap, bowed with the utmost respect to the disconcerted revellers, and said courteously, "I hope it will agree with you all. [10]
Prince Andrew without replying took out a notebook and raising his knee began writing in pencil on a page he tore out. [2]
Captain John Smith released and kneeling before Pocahontas, whose hand is extended in the act of raising him and presenting him to her father. [6]
Whenever they are ready to go to raising poultry, let them call for me any evening after eleven o'clock. [5]
He went on reading to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the sound of footsteps. [2]
Detricand stooped and ran an arm round his shoulder, but raising himself up Mr. Dow gently pushed him back. [11]
What I beheld raising you to the stars, as though with eagles' wings, was a clogging weight; what seemed to me at a distance the bright sunshine irradiating your path, was a Will-o'-the-wisp luring to destruction. [10]
The deep-dyed sinner raising the standard of piety is picturesque. [11]
General Butler proposes raising in New England six regiments, to be recruited and commanded by himself, and to go on special service. [7]
Yes, he is raising his hand. [10]
Rapidly and timidly raising his fingers to his forehead by way of greeting, he asked Pierre whether the soldier Platoche to whom he had given a shirt to sew was in that shed. [2]
He succeeded in raising her high out of the waves, but when he tried to pull her fairly out of her watery bed, the weight, all on one side of the boat, was too great; it turned over and Antinous was in the sea. [10]
The bill for raising additional military force for limited time, etc., was reported from Committee on judiciary; similar bills had been reported from Committee on, Public Lands and Military Committee. [7]
The Frenchman, having pushed his head and hands through, without raising his eyes, looked down at the shirt and examined the seams. [2]
I had not provided the flag; I had not made the arrangements for elevating it to its place; I had applied but a very small portion of even my feeble strength in raising it. [7]
In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism. [7]
Pauline remained silent, placing a little bottle of cordial before their visitor, with which he presently regaled himself, raising his glass with an air. [11]
A few Moorish pillars, brought from Algiers for the decoration of the entrance, had necessitated the raising of the roof, and then all had to be in proportion, and the cottage became like an appanage to a palace. [11]
Phelps and the other guides once succeeded in raising her to the top of Marcy; but the feat of getting a hogshead of molasses up there would have been easier. [4]
Then, raising himself on his elbow, he drew his features together in such a way as to lead me to believe he was about to impart some valuable information. [9]
In the case of the other method mentioned for raising poultry, your friend takes along a covered vessel with a charcoal fire in it, and you carry a long slender plank. [5]
With the object of raising the spirits of the troops and of the people, reviews were constantly held and rewards distributed. [2]
He had thought of raising the parish, of condign punishment of many sorts, but not this. [11]
Was the Duke of Pomerani; wrong when he told me of a heap of gold----" "No, Your Majesty," Heinz here interrupter without raising his eyes. [10]
James H. Lane, of Kansas, a brigadier-general of United States volunteers in anticipation of the act of Congress, since passed, for raising such volunteers; and I have no further knowledge upon the subject, except as derived from the papers herewith enclosed. [7]
In the case of his raising any difficulties, but not otherwise, shall Zoe make the attempt. [10]
To an accompaniment of barbarous noises the actors stepped out one after another and began to spin around with immense swiftness and vigor and violence, chanting the while, and soon the whole troupe would be spinning and chanting and raising the dust. [5]
Cries and gestures of assent accompanied the last sentence; but Berthold Vorchtel recognised the demonstration by remarking that it showed him that the Council, in the name of the city, would be disposed to do its share in raising the amount still lacking. [10]
The entire front of a tall four-story brick building in Third street sprung outward like a door and fell sprawling across the street, raising a dust like a great volume of smoke! [5]
And Krool was now bending over Rudyard's body, raising his head and still murmuring, "Baas--Baas! [11]
The mouse is not caught while the trap is closed, and she is just raising her little hand to open it. [10]
They stopped, and Monsieur Vigo, raising his hand for silence, made a speech in French to the people. [9]
Rhodopis hesitated a moment; then raising her hands as if in prayer, she cried: "Leave me my Sappho, the consolation and beauty of my old age. [10]
He spoke to me, but I pretended not to understand, hastily took the change from the toll-keeper, and, raising my hat, shouted, "Drive on! [10]
Love me little, love me long," he added, again raising his glass to her, as the men behind suddenly moved forward upon the bar. [11]
At Courtrai, we looked into Notre Dame, a thirteenth century cathedral, which has a Vandyke ("The Raising of the Cross"), and the chapel of the Counts of Flanders, where workmen were uncovering some frescoes that were whitewashed over in the war-times. [4]
Then, raising her little clinched hand menacingly, she muttered through her set teeth: "Let him try even to touch my veil with his fingers! [10]
See, there's the light," she added cheerily, raising her head towards the hut. [11]
Sellers in his letter turned out to be the raising of mules for the Southern market; and really it promised very well. [5]
When she had left the room the prince again began speaking about his son, about the war, and about the Emperor, angrily twitching his brows and raising his hoarse voice, and then he had a second and final stroke. [2]
After he had left the Hiltners Frau Sabina bent down to her mother-in-law's ear--though she had lost her quickness of hearing, she had retained her sight perfectly--and, raising her voice, told her the name of the young lady who had just left them. [10]
You come to know that the least (and rarest) part of the pleasure of raising fruit is the vulgar eating it. [4]
I do not know that I shall ever again have so good an opportunity of being useful as was granted me by the raising of the question which produced this Essay. [3]
At this point, just as he was raising his hand to fling another rich largess, he caught sight of a pale, astounded face, which was strained forward out of the second rank of the crowd, its intense eyes riveted upon him. [5]
Then, suddenly raising it, he rushed to the door, and without heeding the upper garment which Helena still held in her hand, tore it open, shouting, "But things must and shall be changed! [10]

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