Use rid in a sentence
Sentences starting with rid
- Rid of Napoleon, we had another despot in Metternich. [9]
- Rid your heart of Paula. [10]
- Rid me of my enemy, and I will call you my friend and benefactor. [10]
Sentences ending with rid
- But she wrote on, struggling against her own feelings of illness; "continually recurring feelings of slight cold; slight soreness in the throat and chest, of which, do what I will," she writes, "I cannot get rid. [14]
Short sentences using rid
- Get me rid of Buffalo! [5]
Sentences containing rid two or more times
- These hard-working veterans will not let one get rid of them until he drops in his harness, and so gets rid of them and his life together. [6]
- In the first place you get rid of the noxious emanations which poison so many country localities with typhoid fever and dysentery, not wholly rid of them, of course, but to a surprising degree. [6]
- A flight to Marienbad to get rid of fat; a flight to Carlsbad to get rid of rheumatism; a flight to Kalteneutgeben to take the water cure and get rid of the rest of the diseases. [5]
More example sentences with the word rid in them
- I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
- I have not yet got rid of the pains in my chest and back. [14]
- In that fatal year I had my first attack of authors' lead-poisoning, and I have never got quite rid of it from that day to this. [6]
- A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
- The regents, leagued with Arsinoe, spread the rumour that Cleopatra would deliver Egypt up to Pompey, if the senate would secure to her the sole sovereignty of the new province, and leave her free to rid herself of her royal brother and husband. [10]
- But, during the whole of her recital, she could not rid herself of the apprehension that he was thinking her interference unwarranted, her coming an indelicate repetition of the other visit. [9]
- Had the men who hounded her hidden in her grove, taken to the rifle to rid her of Lassiter, her last friend? [13]
- It was he who had fired the opportune shot that rid me of one foe. [11]
- The manner in which he had attempted to rid himself of the rival seemed criminal enough, yet the nocturnal attack had scarcely concerned him personally, and he would not condemn the man who was usually so calm and sensible without having heard him. [10]
- You thought you were rid of me? [5]
- The men who were determined that that amendment should not get into the bill, and spoil the place where the Dred Scott decision was to come in, sought an excuse to get rid of it somewhere. [7]
- And, as we went southward, our hands and faces became blotched all over by the bites of mosquitoes and flies, and we smothered ourselves under blankets to get rid of them. [9]
- And I was well content to be rid of Philip's company. [9]
- By this concentration we shall be able as one man or one woman to reach the human limit of cultivation, and get rid of all the aberrations of individual assertion and feeling. [4]
- There are other ways of getting rid of this man. [10]
- To Philip it was the first time in his life that a picnic had ever seemed a defensible means of getting rid of a day. [4]
- The dinner itself was more like a ceremony than a meal, and as it proceeded, Honora found it increasingly difficult to rid herself of a curious feeling of being on probation. [9]
- Watching the tempest-swept valley, the tortured forest, where wild life was in panic, there came upon him the old impulse to put his thoughts into words, "and so be rid of them," as he was wont to say in other days. [11]
- As he sat upon the veranda, King could not rid himself of the impression that this must be a mocking dream, this appearance of emptiness and solitude. [4]
- Pierre did not understand and was not interested in any of these questions and only answered them in order to get rid of these people. [2]
- The Egyptians will try to get rid of me quietly. [10]
- This has been true of the Athanasian creed, in the Anglican Church, for two centuries more or less, unless the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tillotson, stood alone in wishing the church were well rid of it. [6]
- A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
- As she walked toward Coniston, the thought came to her that she was rid of the thing she had stirred up, perhaps forever, and the thrush burst into his song once more. [9]
- Things grew quite too bad to bear, Paying such sums to get rid of the chair! [6]
- We painted away together with all our might, piling up stock, piling up stock, but very seldom getting rid of any of it. [5]
- Frau Lerch continued to urge her, and now advised her to persuade the Emperor to rid her of the old tormentor. [10]
- It bid fair to take as long to get rid of the remains of the great party as it had taken to make ready for it. [6]
- Caesar's desire was to rid you of adversaries even against your will. [10]
- It was impossible to rid myself of the picture of Mrs. Falchion as I had seen her by the precipice in the storm. [11]
- Some are said to have been cured immediately on the very touch, others did not so easily get rid of their swellings, until they were touched a second time. [6]
- And I tried to get rid of the fool; but no, he clung to me, imploring me to save him from the assassin. [5]
- Give him time to get rid of it, you know. [12]
- When the day-laborer threw his hoe over his shoulder, the poor rascal was rid of toil and anxiety; but they pursued him everywhere, night and day. [10]
- But while he thought this, and while he could justly blame Fulkerson for Lindau's presence at Dryfoos's dinner, which his zeal had brought about in spite of March's protests, still he could not rid himself of the reproach of uncandor with Lindau. [8]
- And even Paul, though not consciously inconsistent, could not rid himself completely of that ancient, automatic, conception of religion which the Master condemned, but had on occasions attempted fruitlessly to unite the new with the old. [9]
- In the Vaterland those who seek for higher and better things--for liberty, and to be rid of oppression --are so called. [9]
- Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. [5]
- 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]
- But at last the work was partially got rid of, and Clement was coming; yes, it was so nice, and, oh dear! [6]
- Some fell by the wayside and was picked up by the idlers who went to the lecture-room to get rid of themselves. [6]
- The Egyptian Chello, the Tennis goldsmith, who had assisted the artists in the preparation of the noble metal, and one of the police officers who had been summoned to rid the old house of the rats and mice which infested it, both knew the way. [10]
- It was called the Serpent Island, though the inhabitants had long since rid it of these dangerous guests, which lived in great numbers in the neighbouring cliffs. [10]
- When he allowed the ram to get up it fell to plunging around, trying to rid itself of the rope, and this was the signal which we had risen up with glad shouts to obey. [5]
- It requires, in the first place, an entire new terminology to get rid of that enormous load of prejudices with which every term applied to the malformations, the functional disturbances, and the organic diseases of the moral nature is at present burdened. [6]
- The fiat of the first citizen had gone forth that the ward of Jethro Bass must be got rid of; the designing young woman who had sought to entrap his son must be punished for her amazing effrontery. [9]
- It was, probably, the energy the General got rid of at Gettysburg. [9]
- And while abusing the Daney, those papers did not forget to urge the public to get rid of all their silver stocks and invest in, sound and safe San Francisco stocks, such as the Spring Valley Water Company, etc. [5]
- These masters of the art of healing were once as ready with their answers as you are now, but they have got rid of a great deal of the less immediately practical part of their acquisitions, and you must undergo the same depleting process. [3]
- It was not the almost superhuman sacrifices required by his duties;--it came of the unfortunate infatuation of his heart, of which he could not rid himself. [10]
- It is said that under a general law, whenever a R. R. Co. gets tired of its debts, it may transfer fraudulently to get rid of them. [7]
- It was evident that practical New England was not sorry to be rid of such visionaries and was not in the least inclined to hire any body to bring them back to her. [5]
- I am afraid that it is a good plan to get rid of old Professors, and I am thankful to hear that there is a movement for making provision for those who are left in need when they lose their offices and their salaries. [3]
- It is probable that his features or tones betrayed some impatience at having thus been foiled of his purpose, for Mrs. Hopkins thought he looked all the time as if he wanted to get rid of her. [6]
- We are no sooner rid of one hero than we are ready for another. [9]
- It makes me shudder to this day, to remember that I once came near not getting rid of my stock at all. [5]
- It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. [6]
- Where else could she hope to rid herself of the nightmares that oppressed her except where she was permitted to see the man from whom nothing could separate her, no matter how cruelly he repulsed her? [10]
- In her Manual, she has provided a prodigality of ways and forms whereby she can rid herself of any functionary in the government whenever she wants to. [5]
- It will be selling a good thing--for somebody; and it will be getting rid of a load which we are clearly not able to carry. [5]
- After that he seemed plainly anxious to be rid of us. [9]
- And don't I see that that idiot had eyes only for Bourienne--I shall have to get rid of her. [2]
- He would rather save the life of a poor mother of a family than that of half a dozen old gouty millionnaires whose heirs had been yawning and stretching these ten years to get rid of them. [6]
- But now she said, with this in mind: "Nothing seems simpler than to get rid of people if you don't want them. [8]
- When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. [7]
- When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. [7]
- And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. [2]
- Some had got rid of them. [9]
- We must get rid of the superstition that value is given to an unimportant "item" by sending it a thousand miles over a wire. [4]
- He must get rid of that propensity for tumbling down, though, for when we get fairly started here, I don't think we shall have time to pick up those who fall..... That is Stoughter's house, I expect, that Cousin Jim has moved into. [5]
- I have got rid of something my mind could not keep to itself and rise as it was meant to into higher regions. [6]
- While I get rid of my superfluous clothing, will you go and ask the high-priest if I have leave to quit the temple. [10]
- So I got rid of Marco, by sending him off to invite the mason and the wheelwright, which left the field free to me. [5]
- But he got rid of interference from that day forth. [9]
- So I got rid of him at last; and now, after half an hour spent in getting my train of political-economy thoughts coupled together again, I am ready to go on once more. [5]
- The desire to rid himself of troublesome debts had only hastened the Emperor's resolution. [10]
- She could not rid herself of the feeling that they were laughing at her. [9]
- The charter was revoked in 1624 after many violent scenes, and King James was glad to be rid of what he called "a seminary for a seditious parliament. [4]
- She could never quite get rid of that feeling. [11]
- Although she has provided so many ways of getting rid of unsatisfactory members and officials, she was still afraid she might have left a life-preserver lying around somewhere, therefore she devised a rule to cover that defect. [5]
- Through all the profanity, whisky-guzzling, "old sledge" and quarreling, his monotonous song meandered with never a variation in its tiresome sameness, and it seemed to me, at last, that I would be content to die, in order to be rid of the torture. [5]
- He wants to produce a sensation, and he leaves a permanent disgust not to be got rid of. [6]
- Then the two policemen beat off the dog with small clubs, and a comfort it was to be rid of him, though I was just rags and blood from head to foot. [5]
- In the first place, the persons who seek the aid of the physician are very honest and sincere in their wish to get rid of their complaints, and, generally speaking, to live as long as they can. [3]
- Not a day passed without our meeting; and after my heart had moved me to tell Cousin Maud all that had happened, and Herdegen had given his consent, we were rid once for all of the mystery which had at first weighed on our souls. [10]
- Some are in pain, and want to be rid of it, even though the anodyne be dropped, as in the legend, from the sword of the Death-Angel. [6]
- There is only one way to get rid of them: that which an old sea-captain mentioned to me, namely, to keep one's self under opiates until he wakes up in the harbor where he is bound. [6]
- When pressed again on other grounds to get rid of Grant, he declared, "I can't spare that man, he fights! [7]
- I know why old Timothy Prescott fought in the Revolution--it was to get rid of kings, wasn't it, and to let the people have a chance? [9]
- There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character. [5]
- To rid himself of them he closed his eyes. [2]
- I got rid of the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in. [5]
- People are afraid of the mere name, though we rid the island of the vermin long ago. [10]
- The brilliant success of the few good plays that have been written out of the rich life which we now live--the most varied, fruitful, and dramatically suggestive--ought to rid us forever of the buskin-fustian, except as a pantomimic or spectacular curiosity. [4]
- We'll be rid of regrets for a life upon which we have turned our backs forever. [9]
- To get rid of rats and "pusley," he said, was a necessity of our civilization. [4]
- I'm getting rid of my cattle. [11]
- I got rid of it one summer when she was at the sea, and I think she never forgave me. [9]
- The months of November and December did, in some way or other, get rid of themselves at last, bringing with them the usual events of village-life and a few unusual ones. [6]
- What subterfuges were not used to get rid of their evidence! [6]
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