Use reply in a sentence
Sentences starting with reply
- Reply in Italian. [4]
Sentences ending with reply
- Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me; and seem to have sermonised her, to judge from her reply. [14]
- Because he has written his chiefs and asked with high confidence for an answer that will confound these questioners--and the chiefs did not reply. [5]
- It was a woman's reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him--every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
- They complimented me with a toast, and I made some kind of a reply. [6]
- He is getting what he wants now," she added, with such obvious meaning that I found no words to reply. [9]
- Yet Charley Steele was to reply. [11]
- You have to use firm methods here," Sheila said in reply. [11]
- But Hilary appeared unaware of the implication, and made no reply. [9]
- He had written to Mavick after the newspaper report that that government officer had been in the city on Henderson's affairs, and had received a very civil and unsatisfactory reply. [4]
- She also began to feel a misgiving about the cause of the visit, but she managed to say something polite in reply. [9]
Short sentences using reply
- What could he reply? [4]
- She made no reply. [9]
- Maude did not reply. [9]
- I did not reply. [9]
- Honora did not reply. [9]
- Kutuzov did not reply. [2]
- He did not reply. [2]
- Dolokhov made no reply. [2]
- There was no reply. [11]
- That was his reply. [11]
Sentences containing reply two or more times
- Am I seeming to say that your Reply is not a reply at all, M. Bourget? [5]
- It is obvious that a minute reply cannot be made in one column to everything that can be said in six; and, consequently, I hope that expectation will be answered if I reply to such parts of the General's publication as are worth replying to. [7]
- That leaves something for the other person to take hold of: he has a chance to reply to the Reply, he has a chance to refute the refutation. [5]
More example sentences with the word reply in them
- If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
- When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
- Because then it would have replied--and that is really what a Reply is for. [5]
- Without saying a word in reply, or giving them a look of reproach, he followed the old woman who had summoned him (and who had now rejoined them) into another room, where his infant friend, half-dressed, lay stretched upon a bed. [12]
- Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
- As the servant, without further words, turned and left her, she knocked, opened the door without awaiting a reply, and stepping into semidarkness, said softly: "Michel! [11]
- Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
- After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him. [2]
- Fortunately for Victoria, who would not in the least have known what to reply, steps were heard on the porch, and Euphrasia opened the door. [9]
- It was she who tenderly prepared the body for burial, who telegraphed to Gaston at Audierne, getting a reply from Jacques that he was not yet back from London. [11]
- The dissenting minister who argued some theological point with one of the established church was always met with the reply, "I can't see it so. [7]
- But before the whip could reply, the hare, scenting the frost coming next morning, was unable to rest and leaped up. [2]
- Perhaps, after a while, you may come to feel differently --I didn't mean to startle you," she heard him reply gently. [9]
- Descartes was asked where was his library, and in reply held up the dissected body of an animal. [3]
- In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
- I knew not what might occur, for I saw danger in her eyes in reply to the beseeching look in his. [11]
- She asked him what ailed him; he made no reply, but put his hand to his head, so she led him aside into the public garden that lay to their right between the little Stadium and the Maeandrian circus. [10]
- If that man weren't an infant in swaddling clothes, his only reply to our petition would have been, "It has been in print. [5]
- The sergeant's reply was: "Sire, how can a non-commissioned officer dine with a general? [11]
- His one reply was, "No, pardon, no! [11]
- Dicky's invariable reply was that we couldn't, and that things weren't moving very much towards a higher civilisation in Egypt. [11]
- Mark Twain's reply was prompt and heartfelt. [5]
- The charming creature was opening her lips to speak in reply, when the door was hastily opened too, and the head of Sampson Brass was thrust into the room. [12]
- To this I was only able to reply that on one point at least she must change her mind, for that I knew for certain that old grand-dame Pernhart loved her truly. [10]
- The Louvre even was not neglected, and as they entered it first she recalled with still unaccustomed laughter his reply to the proffered services of the guide. [9]
- Miss Russell's reply was not as direct as usual. [9]
- And the reply was no more satisfactory to Miss Forsythe than the remark that provoked it. [4]
- Perhaps no offense was intended, but the reply enraged Jack. [4]
- A cable inquiry was immediately sent, but the reply when it came was not satisfactory, and Mrs. Clemens and Clara sailed for America without further delay. [5]
- While the address was handed in, and until the reply was received, the ambassadors of the people were to remain quietly assembled in the Schlossplatz. [10]
- That his letter was a tissue of vile calumnies, shameless fabrications, and unblushing and contemptible falsehoods, --by whomsoever uttered,--I have stated in a reply to what ought never to have been an official letter. [6]
- For reply there was a scratching at the door. [11]
- But the Judge walked past him without reply, and into the office. [9]
- He could not wait to turn the insult over in his mind, to weigh the exact amount of affront in each question, to take counsel, to sleep over it, and reply to it with diplomatic measure and suavity. [6]
- Paulina did not wait for her reply, but signed to Hannah to follow her to join the congregation now assembled at the evening meal. [10]
- All Pere Savry ventured to say in reply was: "Upon your head be it, M. Jean Jacques. [11]
- Will you do us the favor to reply at once, at your earliest convenience. [5]
- Kitty saw and understood, but she did not hasten to reply, or to set things right. [11]
- Count Rostopchin was unable to reply and, turning obediently, went in the direction indicated. [2]
- One of the Ulema, or holy men, present had said in reply to Diaz: "It is the look of one who hath walked with Death and bought and sold with Sheitan the accursed. [11]
- Then came Miss Trevor's reply, and it seemed to shake the very foundations of my wits. [9]
- Galbraith's eyes strained towards the soldier till the reply came: "And I don't know that; not wan o' me. [11]
- Miss Monflathers only tossed her head in reply, and the great gate closed upon a bursting heart. [12]
- Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
- Ditmar's reply was to wink at her. [9]
- For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
- The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
- He was about to reply, when a lady came into view, leaning on the arm of an Agency Secretary. [11]
- He was about to reply, but, at the instant, a reveller pushed him with a foot behind the knees so that they were sprung forward. [11]
- Pierre was about to reply, but there came the sound of footsteps through the open door, and presently Wendling entered slowly. [11]
- I should scorn to reply, but that you are the wife of the man who, till you set him against me, was glad to call himself my friend and protector, and who is also related to me. [10]
- But she hesitated to reply, and ere he could win from her even the faintest shadow of consent, Ernst Ortlieb, who had been talking with other members of the council in the room where the wine was served, interrupted him to take his daughter home. [10]
- She was about to reply when he added, with a sneer: "Avarice is a debasing vice--Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house! [11]
- He was about to reply to the chief, when the trader entered the room hurriedly with a newspaper in his hand. [11]
- Balashev knew how to reply to each of Napoleon's remarks, and would have done so; he continually made the gesture of a man wishing to say something, but Napoleon always interrupted him. [2]
- Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might have been as good as Weyrother's, but for the disadvantage that Weyrother's had already been approved. [2]
- He said it to Mrs. Gregory Thorne, whose reply was: "Dear me, and when things are irritating and painful to you do you never think of suicide? [11]
- His reply, handed to Mr. Duneka, who was visiting him at the moment, is full of interest. [5]
- I was about to make a tart reply, and then thought better of it. [9]
- She was about to make a quiet, severe reply, but something overcame her, and her eyes, her face, suddenly glowed. [11]
- An eternity seemed to elapse before he had a reply, heard his coin jangling in the bog, recognized the voice of the great doctor's secretary. [9]
- In his reply to Clemens's letter, Aldrich declared that he was glad now that, for the sake of such a letter, he had accused him falsely, and added: "Mem. [5]
- The party supposed to be interested in the remark was, however, carrying a large knife-bladeful of something to his mouth just then, which, no doubt, interfered with the reply he would have made. [6]
- She had written to a publisher about one of her manuscripts, which she had sent him, and, not receiving any reply, she consulted her brother as to what could be the reason for the prolonged silence. [14]
- He had never till now beheld Ann close at hand, and how gladly did I reply that this was the daughter of Pernhart the town Councillor and she to whom Herdegen had plighted his faith. [10]
- A thought darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and without hesitation he drew the ring from the hand of his astonished daughter, whispering curtly, yet tenderly, in reply to her anxious cry, "What are you doing? [10]
- Mr. Crewe evidently thought this a negligible suggestion, for he did not reply to it, but presently asked for the political news in Ripton. [9]
- What the French thought of the coming of the Ariadne was shown by the reply they made presently to her firing. [11]
- You should have thought before you mutinied," was the sharp reply. [11]
- A reply to those simple words of his was impossible. [9]
- In spite of this, however, his grey eyes were nervously fixed on Charley, and his voice was shaky as he said, in reply to a question as to his finances: "That's my own business, Charley. [11]
- By help of this text I will do the best I can to publicly answer this correspondent, and also the others--at the same time apologising for having failed to reply privately. [5]
- Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom. [2]
- His reply to this generous offer was almost brusque, but it did not deceive the priest. [9]
- Not long after this came the trunks marked R. V. which he had sent before him, forerunners of his advent: he was not going to wait for a reply or an invitation. [6]
- Before I could think of an effective reply Nancy was being carried off by the young man from the East, who was clearly infatuated. [9]
- I shall see they have some comfort," was the reply. [11]
- Without such justification there would be no reply to the simplest question that presents itself when examining each historical event. [2]
- But what is there to oblige him to reply? [2]
- The guide said then--and he mentioned it casually, in reply to our inquiries about ascending the mountain--that there was a cave high up among the precipices on the southeast side of Nipple Top. [4]
- When standing in the wings with Terry he ventured to apologise playfully for the joke, but Terry made no answer; and once again he had whispered good-naturedly as they stood together on the stage; but the reply had been a low, scornful laugh. [11]
- The steward led the van with Herse, talking freely in reply to her enquiries. [10]
- As soon as the telegraph office opens tomorrow morning we will send a message to our friends in Philadelphia, and get a reply, doubtless, which will settle the whole matter. [6]
- The captain of the steamer raised his hat gravely in reply to the little cheer from the yacht, when Carmen and Miss Tavish fluttered their handkerchiefs towards him. [4]
- I waited for the reply, and it bore but the one word--"Yes. [11]
- Surely it was the reply he himself would have made. [11]
- In reply to the question where the fire was and where they going, they answered: "To the Fischbach, to help. [10]
- The next day the police questioned Tookaram, and he, too, gave a similar reply. [5]
- The reply of the mutineers was to row into Sheerness harbour and take away with them eight gunboats lying there, each of which fired a shot at the fort, as if to announce that the mutineers were now the avowed enemies of the government. [11]
- In reply to the leech's anxious, long drawn "Dead? [10]
- The reply of the leader was almost immediate. [11]
- He well remembered the last interview he had had with the old prince at the time of the enrollment, when in reply to an invitation to dinner he had had to listen to an angry reprimand for not having provided his full quota of men. [2]
- In reply to the last interrogation, the small servant, with a look of infinite cunning mingled with fear, screwed up her mouth very tight and round, and nodded violently. [12]
- Without waiting for the king's reply he left the tent, hastened to the banqueting tent, and, as we know, Rameses and the princess had at once attended to his summons. [10]
- The reply of the judge was in favour of the lawyer. [11]
- The reply of the Judge was impatient, almost peevish and rough. [11]
- At the reply the inspector of taxes bowed profoundly, and signed to the Spanish officer behind him. [10]
- In reply to the house-keeper's excited questions, he related that Protarch had sold his master's oil at Messina for as high a price as his own, bought two new horses for his neighbor Cleon, and sent Mopsus himself forward with them. [10]
- In reply to the gentleman from Adams, he said that it was not to enrich the State. [7]
- That you lose the game," was the reply. [11]
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