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Sentences starting with rent

Rent in two pieces, the strip of papyrus fluttered to the ground. [10]
Rent a house on Bellevue Avenue--any thing in reason. [9]

Sentences ending with rent

It was I who insulted them by naming that rent. [9]
Mr Richard, you'll remember, if this gentleman should be found to have hung himself to the bed-post, or any unpleasant accident of that kind should happen--you'll remember, Mr Richard, that this ten pound note was given to you in part payment of two years' rent? [12]
All but the nominality of the rent. [8]
That's the reason it's for rent. [9]
We can easily find some one who is going South for the winter and will be glad to give up their flat 'to the right party' at a nominal rent. [8]
I made another effort and tore the glove from the base of the thumb into the palm of the hand--and tried to hide the rent. [5]

Short sentences using rent

The rent is the worst. [4]

Sentences containing rent two or more times

The eastern forty acres I intend to keep for Mother while she lives; if you will not cultivate it, it will rent for enough to support her; at least it will rent for something. [7]

More example sentences with the word rent in them

Col. Youngs says you must rent Kinkead's room by all means--Government would rather pay $150 a month for your office than $75 for Gen. North's. [5]
But on the whole I was occupied with more trivial matters a letter I had forgotten to write about a month's rent, a client whose summer address I had mislaid. [9]
The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch. [10]
A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear. [2]
For the Almighty was offended at them and their strength was rent like a cobweb. [5]
The waxing moon was mirrored like a silver column, now wavering and tremulous, now rent by the waves tossing under a strong southeast wind, and illumined the warm autumn night. [10]
The disrespect he was able to show the whole apartment by means of this joke strengthened him to say boldly to the superintendent that it was altogether too small; then he asked carelessly what the rent was. [8]
He turned angrily upon the Prince, and said-- "The morrow must we pay two pennies to him that owns this hole; two pennies, mark ye--all this money for a half-year's rent, else out of this we go. [5]
I also intend to notify the church treasurer that I will not any longer rent a pew, or take any further interest in the affairs of St. John's church. [9]
But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. [6]
He besought Nemesis to be content, and not add to blindness new tortures to augment the terrible ones which rent his soul, and he did so with all the ardour of his passionate nature. [10]
And it was then he made the determination to write for the newspapers in order to pay the rent on Mr. Brinsmade's house. [9]
Then, going to the Seigneur and Cure, he asked them to buy the shop and tools for him, and let him pay rent until he could take the place off their hands. [11]
Ariabignes, chief of the Secretaries' "I had scarcely placed these lines in the sleeve of my robe, when the king's mother, with her garments rent, and led by Atossa, pressed hastily into the hall. [10]
All agreed that the robbers had made that rent only to mislead the detectives. [5]
The rent of the furnished house they had taken was such that if they failed their experiment would be little less than ruinous. [8]
Several times during the day she was on the point of telephoning Brent not to try to persuade Howard to rent the house, and once she even got so far as to take down the receiver. [9]
When at last the Captain spoke, his voice was rent with feeling. [9]
Why, it was that very supernumerary fish, which we held of so little account, but which had wedged itself into the rent of the yawning planks, and served to keep out the water until the leak was finally stopped. [6]
He has noticed that usually when a person gets comfortably established in a summer cottage he wants to rent it. [4]
Yet he would take rent for the house he owns. [4]
These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday. [5]
A broad rippling stream flowed toward him, and at the back of the canyon waterfall burst from a wide rent in the cliff, and, bounding down in two green steps, spread into a long white sheet. [13]
The water, usually so placid, rose in high waves, and the beacon on the lighthouse of Sastratus sent the rent abundance of its flames with hostile impetuosity towards the city. [10]
Will Jacob Van Sloten rent you the meadow? [10]
The sun was sinking when suddenly the great brazen gong was loudly struck, and the hard, blatant clatter rent the air of the temple-hall. [10]
Sid, you must see Alfred down town the first thing in the morning and ask him what's the least he'll rent it for. [9]
At the head rode a grey-headed old man; his robes were brown, and rent, in token of mourning, the mane and tail of his horse had been shorn off and the creature colored blue.--It was Hystaspes, coming to entreat mercy for his son. [10]
You can always rent, father says. [4]
Unafraid, his heart rent with pity, he walked unharmed amid such tumult as I have rarely seen. [9]
The air was rent with applause, and everybody cried for joy. [5]
The first lightning rent the sky and the storm came up in haste, bursting above our heads, and as the thunder roared closer and closer after the flash I was more and more frightened. [10]
In California they rent little patches of ground and do a deal of gardening. [5]
About 1840 it rent its overburdened stomach and sent a broad river of fire careering down to the sea, which swept away forests, huts, plantations and every thing else that lay in its path. [5]
Find out the rent in the morning, Sid, and we'll all four go down on Sunday and look at it, and lunch at the Quicksands Club. [9]
An' Lou paid rent for both of us wiv that, an' 'ad brekfist; an' sure enough the lydy come next dy an' took her off. [11]
He was to rent a house, or get rooms at a hotel. [11]
You forgot to recall that when he turned you out for being six months behind with your rent and making no effort to pay up! [11]
A crowd of presentiments rushed into her innocent and, till then, unsuspecting heart, and they were all so alarming that it was a relief to her when a shout of joy from the panoplied breasts of several thousand armed men rent the air. [10]
Wooden stuff was plenty, but a good farmer would not have above four pieces of pewter in his house; with all his frugality, he was unable to pay his rent of four pounds without selling a cow or horse. [4]
And an older person than John might envy the free life of these wanderers, who paid neither rent nor taxes, and yet enjoyed all the delights of nature. [4]
But when precipitated on the sea Of human feeling was the incident That caught their wonder; then the skies were rent With quivering sound, with passion's liberty. [11]
The immutable principles of justice are to make way for party interests, and the bonds of social order are to be rent in twain, in order that a desperate faction may be sustained at the expense of the people. [7]
A few days of continuous suffering begotten by a cataclysm, which had rent asunder walls of life enclosing vistas he had never before seen; these had transformed him. [11]
By the exertion of all his innate strength of will, he succeeded in concealing the grief which rent his faithful heart. [10]
It doesn't matter now that the rent was never paid, but it does that you recall the smallpox debt. [11]
The lightning had not, as usual, rent the darkness with long, jagged flashes, but had fallen to the ground as great fiery balls which, however, had set nothing aflame. [10]
But she could not bring herself, in Brent's presence, to declare that the argument of the rent seemed decisive. [9]
Here, at a nominal rent, the cottager could grow his vegetables; a little spot of the great acre of England, which gave the labourer a tiny sense of ownership, of manhood. [11]
When she could no longer pay her rent, they turned her out of doors. [5]
And the rent must not be over eight hundred for the winter. [8]
The first fatalist must have been a woman, and the vision of rent prison bars drove her mad. [9]
Fate owes to Love a deathless grudge, --The barbed fang has rent a heart Which--which "judge--judge,--no, not judge. [6]
At first Cambyses looked angrily at him and his rent garments, and then asked with a bitter smile; "What do you want? [10]
What with one job and another, there's lodging--and good lodging too--pretty well all the year round, rent free, and a weekly allowance besides, Kit, that would provide her with a great many comforts she don't at present enjoy. [12]
Ask Bliss how it would be to ship our furniture to Hartford, rent an upper room in a building and unbox it and store it there where somebody can frequently look after it. [5]
Sit and dream in the Rent Tower under the lindens that grow in its top? [4]
One lady, who, I take it, was rich and well brought up, advertised a dwelling or so to rent, with baths and all the modern improvements, and several hundred shops, stipulating that the dwellings should not be put to immoral purposes. [5]
Nay, meseems that I had of intent rent it only in twain, to the end that I might the better join it again. [10]
We could see how the cooling crust had been lifted and split and turned over by the hot stream underneath, which, continually oozing from the rent of the eruption, bore it down and pressed it upward. [4]
Some of these houses were quite small, and imaginably within their means; but, as March said, some body seemed always to be living there himself, and the fact that none of them was to rent kept Mrs. March true to her ideal of a fiat. [8]
It hurried up house rent, bills payable, and such things, in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it. [5]
Do not go home to your own country any more--you would not reach there; make no business or pleasure engagements which require you to go outside your gate at night--you cannot afford the risk; do not rent or sell this place--it would be injudicious. [5]
Then he collects his rent and leaves again. [5]
Jane leaned against him, as if some pent-up force had rent its way out, she fell into a paroxysm of weeping. [13]
I am waiting here, trying to rent a better office for Orion. [5]
The agent's been here twice this week for the rent, and I was kind of desperate for a square meal. [9]
Fifty cents will help pay the rent of the rat-holes where you live. [9]
She knew that he thought of this; and, too, that his heart was rent at leaving her. [9]
Houses within this hallowed precinct naturally bring a higher rent than those of the unsanctified and unprotected region outside of its walls. [6]
The troops mounted guard with rent banners and muffled drums. [10]
I rent the fragments to bits. [5]
The Wagram, the Esmeralda, the Jacinth, advertised them for forty dollars and sixty dollars, "with steam heat and elevator," rent free till November. [8]
The rent was eight thousand dollars, which Mr. Cuthbert thought extremely reasonable. [9]
He would have destroyed the house but that John Rupert, the beggared gentleman came to him, and wished to rent it for a dwelling. [11]
The sky was dark with snow, which was not permitted to fall peacefully like a blessed mantle, as it sometimes does, but was blown and rent and tossed like the split canvas of a ship in a gale. [4]
I wish we could go back and live in it and get the rent, too! [8]
But on the contrary, my papa and mamma are now provided for--I have arranged that rent for them in the Baltic Provinces--and I can live in Petersburg on my pay, and with her fortune and my good management we can get along nicely. [2]
Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and--now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it--set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning. [2]
Every rent and chasm of time, every mouldering tint and weather-stain, is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance, we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale. [4]
But no response came; and we wondered if his spirit had been rent away, or if some evil genius had sought it, and then, baffled by his serene and philosophic spirit, had shot off into the void in rage and disappointment. [4]
When we first came to this hotel, a couple of weeks ago, I pointed to a house across the river, and said I meant to rent the centre room on the 3d floor for a work-room. [5]
King Psamtik himself came out to Cambyses, accompanied by his principal nobles, in rent garments, and with every token of mourning. [10]
We were visited by so many people who had chambers to rent, that we were impressed with the idea that all Munich was to let; and yet, when we visited the places offered, we found they were only to be let alone. [4]
But again they brought trouble to the mother; for they were stirred by fierce passions, under whose influence they attacked and rent each other. [10]
I saw her before she sailed, and she begged me to rent it. [9]
Little Nicholas cried because his heart was rent by painful perplexity. [2]
But the Egyptian assailants had advanced majestically only a few ships lengths towards the Roman foe when another signal rent the air. [10]
Then he said, as if still in doubt, "It has ten rooms, and the rent is twenty-eight hundred dollars. [8]
Foiled, he tore and rent me.... One morning I rode up through the shady canon, fragrant with bay, to the open slopes stained smoky-blue by the wild lilac, where the twisted madrona grows. [9]
The sun strove, and his very striving called up new vapors; the wind rent away the clouds, and brought new masses to surge about us; and the spectacle to right and left, above and below, changed with incredible swiftness. [4]
All at once and by acclamation the fierce war-whoops of our men rent the air, and some toppled in sheer terror and fell the twelve feet of the stockade at the sound of it. [9]
That was, that although the rear of my building was torn out and the only door remained locked, the elephant had not been removed through the rent, but by some other (undiscovered) outlet. [5]
He found Madelinette alone in the great dining-room, mending a rent in the British flag, which she was preparing for a flag-staff. [11]
Therefore (suiting the action to the word) they stamped on the bloody belt, and rent in pieces the emblems of the White King across the water. [9]
But I know Aarsu the Syrian, and if I see aright, the time will come when he will himself strive, in distracted Egypt, rent by internal disturbances, for the power which, through his mercenaries, he aided others to grasp. [10]
You can rent a whole block of these pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month. [5]
But see what a scandalous rent you asked for it. [8]

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