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Sentences starting with romance

Romance indeed it was; so remarkable that the master-musician might easily have found a theme for a comedy--or tragedy--and the philosopher would have shaken his head at the defiance it offered to the logic of things. [11]
Romance walks with parted lips and head raised to the sky; and let us follow her, because thereby our eyes are raised with hers. [9]
Romance is an incident to a man; he can even come through an affaire with no ideals gone, with his mental fineness unimpaired; but it is different with a woman. [11]
Romance was his deadly foe; it made him do a stupid, if chivalrous, thing. [11]
Romance had spent a whole day in Boston! [9]

Sentences ending with romance

This is the way to live; this is like the Swiss Family Robinson, and all the rest of my delightful acquaintances in romance. [4]
His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although--like himself --a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. [5]
It was like unto nothing we had ever seen, nor can I give an adequate notion of how it affected us,--such a mixture it seemed of dirt and poverty and wealth and romance. [9]
The favorite had told his master a lie, and the suicide of the steward's daughter was a pure romance. [10]
She never betrayed to me the excitement that filled her at being the accomplice of our romance. [9]
I have tried to give a true history of Clark's campaign as seen by an eyewitness, trammelled as little as possible by romance. [9]
Who speaks of the wonders of romance? [5]
But now, with the story told by the Avocat himself in his mind, he saw the end of the long romance. [11]
Who can forget the smell that comes through the opened door;--a mingling of fresh earth, fruit exhaling delicious aroma, kitchen vegetables, the mouldy odor of barrels, a sort of ancestral air,--as if a door had been opened into an old romance. [4]
To our tourists the place was saturated with his presence, but the new generation cares more for its smart prosperity than for all his romance. [4]

Short sentences using romance

Too much romance is deadly. [11]
What is patriotism but romance? [11]
It is quite a romance. [2]
Shades of romance! [9]
Romance? [11]
Romance! [6]

Sentences containing romance two or more times

He was not so blind that he had not caught at her romance, in which he was the central figure--a romance which had not vanished since the day he declared in the court-room that he was married, or had been married. [11]
Into the life of a steamboat clerk, now dead, had dropped a bit of romance--somewhat grotesque romance, but romance nevertheless. [5]
It was as interesting as a romance, but the romance of the past grew pale before the red light of the terrible present. [6]
But this figure cannot be continued, for there is no romance in a bargain of any sort; and what we should most fear in a scientific age is the loss of romance. [4]

More example sentences with the word romance in them

Not that she would have understood the romance, but she would have comprehended me. [9]
I wish she would furnish us with the romance which, as I said, our tea-table needs to make it interesting. [6]
The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife. [2]
Indeed, the Island Wilderness is the very home of romance and dreams and mystery. [5]
The New Englander, whose climate is at once his enemy and his tonic, always longs for the tropics, which to him are a region of romance, as Italy is to the German. [4]
It was he who induced me to give to my first romance, which I had intended to call Nitetis, the title An Egyptian Princess. [10]
Before Shiel Crozier was taken ill their romance began; but it grew in volume and intensity after the trial and the shooting, when they met by the bedside of the wounded man. [11]
And fortunate it was for Philip that his romance was left to grow in the wonder-working process of his own mind. [4]
Sometimes on these walks--especially if the day were grey and sombre--Janet's sense of romance and adventure deepened, became more poignant, charged with presage. [9]
The play is vulgar melodrama, out of which has escaped altogether the refinement and the romantic idealism of the stirring romance of Dumas. [4]
Of what use to write a romance, when they unfolded themselves so beautifully in real life! [9]
It seemed plain to me that too much space was given to poetry and romance, and not enough to statistics and agriculture. [5]
It takes time to develop a character, and to throw the glamour of romance over what may be essentially commonplace. [4]
In the mean time I have contrived to make out the person and the story of our young lady, who, according to appearances, ought to furnish us a heroine for a boarding-house romance before a year is out. [6]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
The result of this modern investigation has been to discredit much of the romance gathered about Smith and Pocahontas, and a good deal to reduce his heroic proportions. [4]
Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [11]
Now and again there came some message that brought back the old days--the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn days--or the romance of the river that he never recalled other than with tenderness and a tone of regret that it was gone. [5]
Who says that the world is not full of romance and pathos and regret as we go our daily way in it? [4]
I have been the victim of romance, not its interpreter. [11]
The locality of the romance, the scenery as we say of the drama, I have copied as faithfully as possible from the landscapes I beheld in Goshen and on the Sinai peninsula. [10]
All had heard the romance of the Beauty and Castle Yard, and some had listened to Horry Walpole tell that foolish story of Goble at Windsor, on which he seemed to set such store. [9]
A first visit!--ah, the romance of it! [5]
It was like the magic glow which poetry and romance have shed over this enchanting place. [4]
I alternated between the horror and the romance of the story I had heard, supplying for myself the details he had omitted: I beheld the signals from the windows, the clandestine meetings, the sudden and desperate flight. [9]
To glance at the genuine son of the desert is to take the romance out of him forever--to behold his steed is to long in charity to strip his harness off and let him fall to pieces. [5]
Billfinger stepped to the door to call a carriage, and then the doctor said: "Well, the guide goes with the barbershop, with the billiard-table, with the gasless room, and may be with many another pretty romance of Paris. [5]
Below us, round the curving bay, lies white Chillon; and at sunset we row down to it over the bewitched water, and wait under its grim walls till the failing light brings back the romance of castle and prisoner. [4]
I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains. [4]
The novel is the common recreation of ladies of rank, and where is the young woman in this country who has not tried her hand at a romance or made a cast at a popular magazine? [4]
Could this be the Cape May about which hung so many traditions of summer romance? [4]
Away they go, the big red-and-yellow arks, swinging over the hills and along the well-watered valleys, past the twin lakes to Otsego, over which hangs the romance of Cooper's tales, where a steamer waits. [4]
But he knew that if his novel ever got published the critics would call it a romance, and not a transcript of real life. [4]
Here is one that exhibits the still fresh romance in the heart of forty-four years: "Last evening, at your house, we had one of the most lovely tableaux I ever beheld. [4]
She had more than her rightful share of practical good sense, but still she was human; and to be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. [5]
The incident had tended further to detract from the romance of the country. [9]
Plain unvarnished history takes the romance out of Captain Cook's assassination, and renders a deliberate verdict of justifiable homicide. [5]
The Government has taken away the romance of our calling; the Company has taken away its state and dignity. [5]
It was not surprising that she, with the spirit of dreams and romance deep in her, should be sympathetic, even carried away for the moment. [11]
Her mind had, suddenly flown back out of her dark discontent to the days when all life was before her, and, with her Gonzales, she had moved in an atmosphere of romance, adventure and passion. [11]
He always welcomed such letters--they came as from a lost land of romance, recalled always with tenderness. [5]
Here, too, we strolled; and here I could not resist the temptation to lie an unheeded hour or two, soaking in the benignant February sun, above every human concern and care, looking upon a land and sea steeped in romance. [4]
That was the strain of romance in him which came from his mixed ancestry. [11]
There was some story of an old romance in which the Beauty had played her part. [6]
But I couldn't stand it, and about two o'clock I got up and thought I would give it up and go out in the square where there was one of those tinkling fountains, and sit on its brink and dream, full of romance. [5]
It seems a sort of sacrilege to disturb the glamour of old romance that pictures her to us softly from afar off as through a tinted mist, and curtains her ruin and her desolation from our view. [5]
He was, maybe, somewhat sensational; his career had, even in its present restricted compass, been spectacular; but romance, with its reveries and its moonshinings, its impulses and its blind adventures, had not been any part of his existence. [11]
That takes away some of the romance of the thing. [5]
You've turned a shooting-excursion into a mediaeval romance. [11]
I did not see much romance, but I saw plenty that was half-barbaric. [11]
In depicting this scenery in the present romance, I have endeavored to reproduce the reality as closely as possible. [10]
On a bright Saturday afternoon we steamed into the wide mouth of the Gironde, a name stirring vague memories of romance and terror. [9]
The lofty tales sang in his veins: of primitive man, adventure, mysterious and exalted romance. [11]
Not much was said in the boat, but the impression of such a night goes far in the romance of real life. [4]
Her own absurd romance, her ancient illusion, had taught her to know when love lay behind another woman's face. [11]
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. [14]
So much for romance when the test comes. [9]
There was the romance under Miss Duncan's nose, and she did not see it. [9]
Most books were romance to her, for most were of a life to which she had not been educated. [11]
Monsieur Soury says romance is the mortal enemy of history; but this sentence may have no more justice than the one with which I think myself justified in replying: Landscape painting is the mortal enemy of botany. [10]
What heroine of romance are you running after now? [4]
It took the romance all out of the campaign, and turned our dreams of glory into a repulsive nightmare. [5]
Just beyond are Richmond Hill and Hampton Court, and five or six centuries of tradition and history and romance. [4]
Take the pathetic relics, and weave about them the romance of the dungeon's long-vanished inmates as best you can. [5]
It must be quite a romance in itself to live all the year round in such a beautiful place and to make your own clothes. [9]
There is undeniable power in many of his scenes, notably in the descriptions of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, found in the romance of "Arthur Mervyn. [4]
So that my poor heroine found her origin, not in fable or romance, but in a physiological conception fertilized by a theological dogma. [6]
It is a pity to destroy any pleasing story of the past, and especially to discharge our hard struggle for a foothold on this continent of the few elements of romance. [4]
For the early part of his career--before he came to Virginia--there is absolutely no authority except Smith himself; but when he emerges from romance into history, he can be followed and checked by contemporary evidence. [4]
They were sweating out a romance in an English court in Bombay a while before we were there. [5]
It, and some other things together, have knocked all the romance out of it. [5]
I could write Orion's simple biography, and make it effective, too, by merely stating the bald facts--and this I will do if he dies before I do; but you must put him into romance. [5]
It was Arras, one of those few magic names, eloquent with suggestions of mediaeval romance and art, intrigue and chivalry; while upon their significance, since the war began, has been superimposed still another, no less eloquent but charged with pathos. [9]
Tarboe had gone on for many a year till his trade seemed like the romance of law rather than its breach. [11]
You've got that old, barbaric taste, romance, and you'll find your metier in Paris. [11]
How the experiences of this old man's eventful life shame the cheap inventions of romance! [5]
Yet undeniably something of the romance of adventure in a visit to the White Hills is wanting, now that the railways penetrate every valley, and all the physical obstacles of the journey are removed. [4]
While adverse reviews of the book were few if any, it cannot be said that this romance is a companion in popularity with, for instance, 'The Right of Way'. [11]
For the romance of that journey, it concerned only the man and woman to whom it was as wine and meat to the starving. [11]
But the vein of romance he opened was not followed up. [4]
The usual process of romance had been reversed. [11]
Yet a kind of romance gilds for me the sober tableland of that cold New England hill where I came in contact with a world so strange to me, and destined to leave such mingled and lasting impressions. [6]
A certain air of romance and tradition hangs about the French Broad and the Warm Springs, which the visitor must possess himself of in order to appreciate either. [4]
The old touch of romance and imagination which had been the governing forces of her grandfather's life, the passion of an idea, however essentially false and meretricious and perilous to all that was worth while keeping in life, set her pulses beating now. [11]
Whatever there was of romance and folklore in Uncle Tom's library Honora had extracted at an early age, and with astonishing ease had avoided that which was dry and uninteresting. [9]
We are all, of course, watching them, and curious to know whether we are to have a romance or not. [6]
The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance, nothing of romance, nothing of Oriental splendor. [5]
I guess the novelists are too near to see the romance of it. [4]
In fact, the name of "Mercury" has given a mythological air to Smith's narration and aided to transfer it to the region of romance. [4]
The heroine of my romance was neither young nor handsome; she had no lover; she had entered the convent of her own free will, as a respectable asylum, and was one of the most cheerful residents within its walls. [4]
Herodotus has been my guide too in the leading features of Cambyses' character; indeed as he was born only forty or fifty years after the events related, his history forms the basis of my romance. [10]
The historical romance must be enjoyed like any other work of art. [10]
She had not much brains, but she had some shrewdness, and she felt her romance askew. [11]
In the Captain's modest epitome of the terrible romance you detect the fine old hero through it. [5]
Eight years after 'Michel and Angele' was written and first published in 'Harper's Weekly', I decided to give it the dignity of a full-grown romance. [11]
It seems to me that this situation is new in romance. [5]
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time? [6]
Of course I made a romance out of this, at once. [6]
P. S. Our little romance in real life is happily and satisfactorily completed. [5]
Ah, it was like a novel, sir--it was like a romance. [5]

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