Use reflect in a sentence
Sentences starting with reflect
- Reflect before acting, and remember, whatever thou mayst meditate against Phanes, not a hair of Rhodopis' head shall be touched. [10]
Sentences ending with reflect
- The judge appeared to reflect. [9]
- Then I began to reflect. [5]
- I began to reflect. [5]
- At the edge of the meadow Kuni paused to reflect. [10]
- Both these facts might be a serious hindrance to her scheme; yet she would not now stop to reflect. [10]
- Moreover, she had learned what she had come for, and the obvious thing to do now was to go home and reflect. [9]
- Without undressing, he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. [2]
- Ere he swung himself into the saddle again, however, he paused to reflect. [10]
- But before acting he must reflect. [10]
- As this operation created strange motions, and did not interest the Major, he said he would go below and reflect. [4]
Short sentences using reflect
- Gorgo, pause, reflect. [10]
Sentences containing reflect two or more times
- If you don't reflect when you commit a crime then that crime is of no use; it might just as well have been committed by some one else: You must reflect or the value is lost; you are not vaccinated against committing it again. [5]
- A reprieve was all she craved,--a reprieve in which to reflect, for she was in no condition to reflect now. [9]
More example sentences with the word reflect in them
- I still reflect with pride, however, that even at that early age I washed when I got up. [5]
- I could have wished that you both had taken longer to reflect, but I hope with all my heart that you will be happy. [9]
- Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
- Exercise now a wider compassion, and reflect that Fate has called you to take care of a hapless creature raving in fever and hard to deal with. [10]
- When I reflect what a complex and sophisticated being I am, I'm afraid I can never come to anything in art. [8]
- Peter Van der Werff did not follow her, but went quietly into his study and strove to reflect upon many things, that concerned his office, but his thoughts constantly reverted to Maria. [10]
- Yet that man was so heedless as not to reflect that all the social customs of civilised peoples are entitled to respectful observance, and that no man with a right spirit of courtesy in him ever has any disposition to transgress these customs. [5]
- It is a very expensive country, especially so in the matter of education, and one cannot but reflect whether the result is in proportion to the outlay. [4]
- Pretending to reflect upon these things, but in reality watching the blue-jays, who are pecking at the purple berries of the woodbine on the south gable, I approach the house. [4]
- He will not trust that secret with any one; he will reflect that it could be revealed in sleep, in the hearing of some Portuguese guest's servant some time or other. [5]
- These literatures are true in so far as they reflect the characteristics of the nations from which they spring. [9]
- Then I began to reflect, and took out my powder gourd and loaded the pistol. [9]
- It is incredible to reflect that things as familiar all over the world to-day as household words, belong in the history and in the shadowy legends of this silent, mournful solitude. [5]
- It comforted her to reflect that she was not better as she had formerly imagined, but worse, much worse, than anybody else in the world. [2]
- It revolted her to reflect that he might in some ways possibly resemble Ditmar. [9]
- It is curious to reflect how history repeats itself the world over. [5]
- The lift stops to reflect between floors. [5]
- I don't have to reflect a moment; the right name comes out instantly, just as if it were an inspiration, as no doubt it is, for I am sure it wasn't in me half a minute before. [5]
- It is gratifying to me to reflect that we traveled in considerable style; we went in the Pioneer coach, and my friend took all his baggage with him, consisting of two excellent silk handkerchiefs and a daguerreotype of his grandmother. [5]
- For by that time you have begun to reflect that you are a person who deals in exaggerations--and exaggerations are lies. [5]
- She had done this with entire devotion, and endeavoured to reflect upon what had happened and what obligations she must meet. [10]
- But in taking this step the Government does not in the least reflect upon your efficiency or patriotism; on the contrary, have the fullest confidence in your ability to perform any duty required of you. [7]
- If any one thinks meanly of Penelope for counting upon the heroism of Irene to effect her unhappiness, let him reflect of how little consequence is the temporary happiness of one or two individuals compared with the peace and comfort of a whole social order. [4]
- Swift's account of the Struldbrugs is not very amusing reading for old people, but some may find it a consolation to reflect on the probable miseries they escape in not being doomed to an undying earthly existence. [6]
- I can't find the rest of Rob Roy, I can't stand any more Mannering--I do not know just what to do, but I will reflect, and not quit this great study rashly. [5]
- And because of the response his need aroused in her she did not reflect whether he could fulfil her own need, whether he could ever understand her; whether, at any time, she could unreservedly pour herself out to him. [9]
- In view of the general amelioration of the conditions of life this seems unreasonable and illogical, but it may seem less so when we reflect that human nature is unchanged, and that which has to be satisfied in this world is the mind. [4]
- She told herself that, had he lacked ambition, she could not have loved him, and did not stop to reflect upon the completeness of her satisfaction with the Viking. [9]
- O father, reflect that though as thy son I may be hateful in thine eyes, yet as Egypt's future I ought to be near thy heart. [10]
- It was not that she wished to reflect, in the ordinary meaning of the word, that she had sought seclusion, but rather to give her imagination free play. [9]
- His eyes at that moment seemed to reflect the sea,--they made the gaunt face suddenly beautiful. [9]
- When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. [5]
- But more beautiful than the fall is the stream itself, foaming down through the bowlders, or lying in deep limpid pools which reflect the sky and the forest. [4]
- He is constantly tending to reflect upon and discourse about his own particular stage of life. [6]
- You walked to study life and to reflect and to enjoy your intimacy with nature, but also to see our friend Zoe and her home. [11]
- He did not stop--strangely enough--to reflect how far they had gone, to demand by what right she brought him to the bar, challenged the consistency of his life. [9]
- He did not stop to reflect that Jethro did not act like a discredited boss, as a keener man might have done. [9]
- She did not stop to reflect that it was the rarest of occurrences for Aunt Mary to spill the coffee. [9]
- I did not stop to reflect how recently she must have acquired the word; it summed up precisely the self-estimate at which I had arrived. [9]
- The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving. [5]
- The Young Doctor seemed to reflect, and his face became urbane, because he saw he must proceed warily, if he was to be of service to his new patient. [11]
- But you must see yourself, when you reflect, that Mrs. Fletcher could not take this from you. [4]
- I should almost say supernatural when I reflect how I have run across this man again and again, and always opposing him. [9]
- The minute I saw it was green I was sorry, and began to reflect --reflection is the beginning of reform. [5]
- Recklessness does not reflect, it plunges fearlessly in with a hurrah, and takes the risks, whatever they may be, regardless of expense. [5]
- He began to reflect what conduct he must observe towards the princess. [10]
- The more I reflect upon those days, the more surprising does it seem that I was not in love with her. [9]
- The more I reflect upon this matter, the more probable as true does this horrible interpretation become. [5]
- To those who reflect upon the means and end of popular government, nothing seems more stupid than in grand generalities to deprecate party spirit. [6]
- I did not reflect then, as I have since and often, how great was the knowledge and resource Tom practised that day. [9]
- I did not reflect then that this stern old man must have throbbed once; nay, fire and energy still remained in his bowels, else he could not have continued to dominate a city. [9]
- I did not reflect then that it would have been more in the interest of civilization if the woodchuck had killed the dog. [4]
- Nor did she reflect that only a month ago such an occurrence would have shocked and terrified her. [9]
- I did not reflect that it would cost me three days. [5]
- If he would reflect over what had happened as dispassionately as usual, he could not fail to see that Antony must be free and in a position to guide his own future, since he directed the palace in the Choma to be put in order. [10]
- Should he afterwards reflect over his own conduct, he would feel that there lies within him an impulsive power widely different from a search after pleasure or happiness; and this seems to be the deeply planted social instinct. [1]
- Humor makes me reflect now to-night, it sets the thinking machinery in motion. [5]
- I began to reflect how novel all this was in a political speech--although what I have quoted was in the nature of a preamble. [9]
- Why should she reflect and consider longer? [10]
- But the sagacious reader--and he need not be very sharp-sighted--will very certainly see something more than a mere historical significance in some of the passages which I shall cite for him to reflect upon. [6]
- After he had reached this determination he began to reflect more quietly. [10]
- I have been punished many and many a time, and bitterly, for doing things and reflecting afterward, but these tortures have been of no value to me; I still do the thing commanded by Circumstance and Temperament, and reflect afterward. [5]
- It was a proud thing to be where we were, yet it caused us a pang to reflect that but for that ram we might just as well been two hundred thousand feet higher. [5]
- This is high praise, but by no means the highest, and when we reflect we see how immeasurably inferior, in fiction, the analytic method is to the dramatic. [4]
- But if you're poor--" She had made a discovery--to reflect upon his business success was to touch a sensitive nerve. [9]
- It is not pleasant to reflect that some day one's own folly might place one in alike situation. [9]
- And it was pleasant also to reflect that this was not an obscure, back country desert, but a very celebrated one, the metropolis itself, as you may say. [5]
- I did not pause to reflect that the Colonel's attitude, from his point of view (yes, and from mine,--had I not adopted it? [9]
- He did not pause to reflect on the maxim, that platforms are made to get in by and inaugurals to get started by. [9]
- The room, like others in the house, seemed to reflect the decorous character of its owner. [9]
- Remonstrance on behalf of the horse was in vain, and it was only on the return home that this specimen Cape Breton driver began to reflect how he could erase the welts from the horse's back before his father saw them. [4]
- I was ashamed of my performance at the time, but now that I reflect upon it I see that it was rather fine and difficult. [5]
- As a man of affairs, I think you will admit, if you reflect, that the return of St. John's, considering the large amount of money invested, is scarcely worth considering. [9]
- Moreover, they did not reflect that a great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so; and here was the greatest soul in the universe; but how could they know that, those dumb creatures? [5]
- And is it not appalling to think of the 'large constitution of this man,' when you reflect on the acres of canvas which he has covered? [6]
- The man was no doubt quite right, but did he reflect on the public loss of his valuable conversation the next night if his newspaper should chance to fail? [4]
- It was still more uplifting to reflect that the millions of harassed people on shore behind us were suffering just as usual. [5]
- While it is melancholy to reflect that the war has filled so many graves and carried mourning to so many hearts, it is some relief to know that, compared with the surviving, the fallen have been so few. [7]
- And when we look at it in one particular aspect, it is still magnified, and grows brighter and brighter the more we reflect upon its eternal duration. [5]
- I wonder whether it ever occurred to you to reflect upon another horror there must be in leaving a name behind you. [6]
- Of course, there is much excellent reporting, and there are many able men engaged in it who reflect the highest honor upon their occupation. [4]
- The last letter is from Philadelphia and seems to reflect homesickness. [5]
- And now there is a disaster to report: think of it, reflect upon it, and try to understand how much it means, when you sit down with your family and pass your eye over your breakfast-table. [5]
- A pointer dog, if able to reflect on his past conduct, would say to himself, I ought (as indeed we say of him) to have pointed at that hare and not have yielded to the passing temptation of hunting it. [1]
- And at last I made up my mind to go away, to-day, to a quiet place where I might be alone, and reflect, when by a singular circumstance I was brought into contact with this man, Garvin. [9]
- Still, I should hold that Mrs. Walker considered that there was no occasion for concealment; that "motive" implied a deeper mental search than she expended on the matter; that it doesn't reflect the attitude of her mind with precision. [5]
- Again and again his wife had to make him reflect that his depression was not prophetic. [8]
- He would remove his hill, and then there would be nothing to reflect my uncle's echo. [5]
- For she threw herself into her new labours with the desperate energy that seeks forgetfulness, not daring to pause to think about herself, to reflect upon what the future might hold for her when the strike should be over. [9]
- The language of her day is a mirror whose uneven surface might easily reflect the fairest picture in blurred or distorted out lines to modern eyes. [10]
- And for my help, a sharp resentment rises in me when I reflect that he who committed that odious crime is the only one who has not suffered by it. [5]
- How stupid we have been not to reflect that the guilty one would never again wear his own name after that fiendish deed! [5]
- Mercifully, however, she had little leisure to reflect on that tragedy, else her own sanity might have been endangered. [9]
- Tommy would never give up the war, but he has had a realistic taste of it, and his songs reflect his experience. [9]
- And as they gazed up at him now they seemed to reflect, without disclosing the flitting thoughts behind them. [9]
- I've got room for her in my buggy--and room for her in any place that belongs to me," he hastened to reflect with a curious, bashful smile. [11]
- It was, in fact, humiliating to reflect that it would now be profitable to exchange all my possessions for the woods instinct of the most unlettered guide. [4]
- That which is evil can never more be fair, and however lovely the face there may look to you, it looks quite as repulsive to me when I reflect that it probably smiled still more fascinatingly on some strolling beggar. [10]
- True, she opposed every statement hostile to the old beliefs; but her extremely expressive features soon betrayed to him that he was stirring her to reflect, shaking her opinions, and winning her to his side. [10]
- It was an effort for him to reflect upon their new situation as poor tenants to a wealthy family. [9]
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