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Sentences starting with receive

Receive my thanks once more! [10]
Receive him tenderly, oh, ye undying rulers of the world! [10]
Receive the sacraments of the Church? [11]
Receive this as my oath, that while I grasp your hand in my own imagination, we stand united before a higher tribunal than any on earth. [5]
Receive the deepest emotions of my heart for thy constant love, and may the power of inspiration by thy guide, thy portion, and thy all. [5]
Receive this gold chain in the meanwhile, as a token of my gratitude. [10]

Sentences ending with receive

By the bill we are to receive annually a large sum of money, no part of which we otherwise receive. [7]
I willingly do so, but with the understanding that I am to be at liberty to speak just as courteously of any other hoe which I may receive. [4]
Nor must the smallest preparation betray whom it is you receive. [10]
Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive. [2]
I am not here to ask, but to receive. [11]
Shall we plead for more at the open fount, which always pours forth more than we receive? [5]
Kutuzov, without looking at Wolzogen, gave directions for the order to be written out which the former commander in chief, to avoid personal responsibility, very judiciously wished to receive. [2]
Now two functions are involved here: one is the determination that the accused has broken the law, the other is gauging within the rules of the code the punishment that, each individual should receive. [4]
For that reason, and for that only, she longed to go far, far away, and she was hardly satisfied by the leech's assurance that her new protector would be able to keep away all visitors whom she might not wish to receive. [10]
He did not advise him, however, to break away entirely from a salaried position--at least not immediately; but one day Bynner did so, and reported the step he had taken, with some doubt as to the answer he would receive. [5]

Short sentences using receive

Did you receive the despatch? [7]
Do you receive the answers? [7]
Did you not receive them? [7]
How would she receive him? [4]

Sentences containing receive two or more times

She ought to receive him coldly, she ought to receive him kindly, she ought to receive him indifferently. [4]
I do not pretend that I receive six hundred or even sixty letters a day, but I do receive a good many, and have told the public of the fact from time to time, under the pressure of their constantly increasing exertions. [6]
There could be little doubt, it was thought by the doctor and by my father, that after a few days I should recover from this morbid sensibility and receive my cousin as other infants receive pleasant-looking young persons. [6]
It was approaching, it must come if no one--aye, if no one should be found to stand between him and the impending blow, and to receive in his own breast--in his own heart, bared to receive the wound--the spear hurled by the vengeful god. [10]

More example sentences with the word receive in them

When you receive your next 1/4 yr's salary, don't send any of it here until after you have told me you have got it. [5]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
I will thank you not to make it public until General Fremont shall have had time to receive the original. [7]
I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter to the Emperor. [2]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
I may need you in Vaucouleurs; for if the governor will not receive me I will dictate a letter to him, and so must have some one by me who knows the art of how to write and spell the words. [5]
What profit would you expect and certainly receive from the investment? [5]
I hear that you are soon to see him, and to receive his obligations from him in person. [9]
He did not yet feel that he could stoop so low as to receive a gift from this young upstart. [10]
Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
I think he would receive Rev. [5]
If her father would only receive him, he would find it no easier than she to deny him the compassion he so greatly needed. [10]
True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [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]
When the outer world came to him, perhaps he had about as much to give to it as to receive from it; probably more, in his own estimation; for there is no conceit like that of isolation. [4]
I receive it with utter scorn, and a laugh of derision. [4]
He did not wish to be understood as concurring in any intimation that they would refuse to receive such an appropriation of alternate sections of land because a condition enhancing the price of the reserved sections should be attached thereto. [7]
Many the sharp winter day I have followed the fox with him over two counties, and lain that night, and a week after, forsooth, at the plantation of some kind friend who was only too glad to receive us. [9]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
He expressed his willingness to dispose of the copyright, to publish on shares, or perhaps to receive a certain percentage on the profits. [6]
Mr. Judd, who will hand you this, is authorized to receive your answer; and, if agreeable to you, to enter into the terms of such arrangement. [7]
Fifty thousand people who have lost friends, or who have had friends crippled, receive that Fourth of July, when it comes, as a day of mourning for the losses they have sustained in their families. [5]
But the gentlemen who had come to receive us were there with their servants, and they make quick work; there was no lost time. [5]
The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased. [10]
They say that when we've finished hammering them, we're to receive double kits! [2]
At the time when we were hoping to see him it was thought that he was too ill to receive visitors, but he has since written me that he regretted we did not carry out our intention. [6]
Where was it when the blue flies were buzzing over the coffins of the unburied dead piled up in the cemetery of New Orleans, at the edge of the huge trenches yawning to receive them? [3]
And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
When we give, we will, in remembrance of you, give in all love and willingness, and when we receive, even the smallest gift, we will only ask in what spirit it was offered. [10]
Why, then, shall we suffer a severe difficulty, even though it be but temporary, unless we receive some equivalent for it? [7]
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]
Prayer means that we desire to, and will, walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and waiting patiently on the Lord, will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him. [5]
You receive your water, you make your deposit, and now what more would you have? [5]
The first night was spent at "Warraskogack," the king of which warned Smith that while Powhatan would receive him kindly he was only seeking an opportunity to cut their throats and seize their arms. [4]
Such a thing was incomprehensible to Biberli; but notwithstanding her letter--nay, even on its account--he longed still more ardently to lead her home to his mother and see her receive the blessing of the woman whom he so deeply honoured. [10]
But, unfortunately, I was from home, and unable to receive her. [14]
Could all the virgin population of ---- receive and retain these sentiments, he would continually have to veil his crest before them. [14]
I shall be very glad to receive a letter from you. [7]
To receive the vanquished Pompey kindly was to make the victorious Caesar a foe. [10]
She stood regarding us with some amusement as we rose to receive her. [9]
My blessing rest upon you, my son, and upon every Ueberhell who, on his twenty-fifth birthday--that is having reached maturity--shall receive this little bottle and regard it as the most precious of all his possessions. [10]
The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and to rest after their hard marches. [2]
He then backed up against Pompey's statue, and squared himself to receive his assailants. [5]
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. [5]
But a foule trouble there was to make him kneel to receive his Crown; he not knowing the majesty nor wearing of a Crown, nor bending of the knee, endured so many persuasions, examples and instructions as tyred them all. [4]
As a beautiful tree beside a burning house is seized by the neighboring flames, although immediately protected with cold water, Maria, in spite of her long-cherished resolve to receive him coolly, was overwhelmed by the warmth of her husband's feelings. [10]
No one is too rich to receive something, and no one too poor to give a trifle. [4]
If Paaker comes to you repentant, receive him kindly, and let me know; but if he will not yield, close your rooms against him, and let him depart without taking leave of you. [10]
I have engaged to write for the new literary paper--the "Californian" --same pay I used to receive on the "Golden Era"--one article a week, fifty dollars a month. [5]
I consecrated him to the Saviour, and as a pure sacrifice he must receive him from his father's hand. [10]
He had gone to the Palace that morning as Colonel Cumner had commanded, that he might receive the thanks of the Dakoon for the people of Mandakan; but he had tired of the great place, and had come back to play at chuck-farthing. [11]
Bring him alive to Sais, and you shall receive twenty rings of gold. [10]
She had decided to receive them, but feared lest the prince might at any moment indulge in some freak, as he seemed much upset by the Rostovs' visit. [2]
Society was eager to receive them to its bosom. [5]
But she was to receive no greeting at all from him. [10]
If she refuse to receive it, it can only be because she is willing to become the patron of privateering when aimed at our devastation. [7]
He was about to receive his young friend with a cheerful greeting, but, glancing at her face, he cried anxiously; "You look as if you had met with a ghost; your lips are pale instead of red, and there are dark shades round your eyes. [10]
When Berenike refused to receive him, the maid assured her that he was a young man, and had expressed his wish to bring an urgent request to the lady's notice in a becoming and modest manner. [10]
Her Majesty desires to receive her late visitor in the Hall of Shells. [10]
Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, syphilis, cholera, herpes, etc. [1]
She had refused to receive all three in her little castle at Prebrunn; the true reason she alone knew. [10]
I went back to lunch at the Boyne Club, and to receive the congratulations of my friends. [9]
The prince strode to his throne with the port and majesty--and the sternness--of a Julius Caesar coming to receive and receipt for a back-country kingdom and have it over and get out, and no fooling. [5]
He stood face to face with the mighty monarch of colors, listened to gracious words from his lips, and saw the nonogenarian, whose tall figure was scarcely bowed, receive the king's gifts. [10]
When we came to England her people--her mother--would not receive me. [11]
She promised faithfully to come down into the entry, when the horses approached, to receive the poor lamb, surrounded by lynxes, wild-cats, foxes, and wolves, and lead it into the safe fold--if one can call this stately house by such a name. [10]
I had thought to be there to receive his last words and blessing, to watch over him, and to Smooth his pillow. [9]
Her tomb was to be built and, if destiny was fulfilled, to receive her lover and herself. [10]
But we wish to add to words another token of appreciation, a token of more lasting duration.--Do us the favour, Marquise de Leria, to conduct this noble artist to the upper rooms, that she may receive what we intended for her. [10]
Tell me the time, and receive my blessing. [5]
To them the time had come when the reactionary forces of Manitou must receive a check. [11]
The chief ordered three cheers for "Darley, one of the finest minds on the force," and then commanded that he be telegraphed to come home and receive his share of the reward. [5]
The widow probably thought so, too, for she stroked them with her fat hand, promising, as she did so, to receive her and let her want for nothing if she proved an obedient little daughter. [10]
The remainder are those who under the law receive pensions because of relationship to Revolutionary soldiers. [7]
Doubtless some of those who are to pay and not to receive will object. [7]
When you receive this, write me a long yarn about something to amuse me. [7]
I have learned this, and if he dies here of starvation and thirst he will receive only what he deserves. [10]
I told you this yesterday as well as that you should do as you think best about Mr. Whiting's resignation, but I suppose you did not receive the dispatch. [7]
That you believe this I doubt not, and believing it, I shall still receive, for our country and myself your earnest prayers to our Father in Heaven. [7]
To have all this destroyed was a terrible thought, but even more unbearable was that of its object--to receive the body of the Queen. [10]
He must receive this before he learns of the reward placard--before he rises in the morning--lest he lose his head and fly the place penniless. [5]
If you accomplish this according to our wish, you shall receive to-day five thousand rings of gold, and the fifth part of this sum yearly, during your life. [10]
For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript--I will not say daily, though I sometimes receive more than one in a day, but at very short intervals. [6]
Now, perhaps, its theme is more timely, more likely to receive the attention it deserves, when the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared. [9]
Stay and receive them, dear, while I--(Leaving. [5]
I did receive them, and am very much obliged. [7]
The Lord chose them out to prepare the hearts of mankind for the good tidings, and make them fit to receive the gospel when the Star should rise over Bethlehem. [10]
It was scarcely the way in which a school-teacher should receive the advances of the first citizen, come to give a gracious consent to her marriage with his son. [9]
Having settled that,--though the thought of the blow she was to receive lay like a weight on his heart,--Mr. Bentley's reason for summoning Eldon Parr to Dalton Street came to him. [9]
How to cultivate the sympathy of the employers with the employed as men, and how to interest the employed in their work beyond the mere wages they receive, is the double problem. [4]
Iras had arranged the still abundant waves of her hair, now dark-brown in hue, and robed her magnificently to receive the dignitaries whom, spite of the late hour of the night, she expected. [10]
It was exactly the sort of letter an author likes to receive, critical, perfectly impartial, and with entire understanding of his purpose. [4]
They had helped the sisters to receive the first callers; but when Frau Barbara Behaim, a cousin of the late Frau Maria, had appeared, they gave up their post to her, and slipped quietly into the next room to escape the throng. [10]
An' I'll have the run uv me belt to-day, an--" he added, then stopped short as the order came from McNeill that the Berkshires should receive dinner by half-battalions. [11]
Both Archibius and the Roman Proculejus had counselled her not to receive him entirely alone. [10]
In the evening the pioneer, after he had had an interview with the Regent, went to the temple of Seti to receive Ameni's blessing on all his undertakings. [10]
As soon as the noisy cortege appeared actually in sight he would place himself in the doorway, forbid the princess to enter, and receive her with strong words. [10]
To make warm the nest which was to receive his dear nightingale he had conquered the economy which was beginning to degenerate into avarice, and also intended to accomplish other sacrifices in order to procure her the position which she deserved. [10]

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