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Sentences starting with round

Round about it were a few scanty rows of vegetables, such as the hand of a weak woman had time and strength to cultivate. [13]
Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
Round her neck was a golden torque, a round, cord-like chain, such as the Gaols used to wear; the "Dying Gladiator" has it. [6]
Round the house was a garden newly laid out. [2]
Round the room three times he went, and then he dropped on a divan. [11]
Round and round the circle she went in each waking period. [9]
Round shoulders,--stooping over some minute labor, I suppose. [6]
Round it stood seven large candlesticks like those used in churches. [2]
Round corners, over ruts and stones, and uphill and down, we went jolting and swinging, holding fast to the seat, and putting our trust in things in general. [4]
Round and round he went, narrowing his circle. [4]

Sentences ending with round

At length, having won back nearly all he had lost, he rose to his feet and looked round. [11]
I was struck, while waiting there, with what seemed to me a great want of care for the safety of the people standing round. [6]
I wondered mightily what tailor had thrust this garment upon him; its fashion was of the old king's time, the cuffs slashed like a sea-officer's uniform, and the shoulders made carefully round. [9]
To him they were incapable of the real business of life, and were only meant to be housekeepers to men who make the world go round. [11]
And a laugh went round. [9]
Meantime, Ruth Leigh went on her round. [4]
MacGregor said it was very likely; but we'd have to be fattened first, and that would give us time to turn round. [11]
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]
My new jailer was a man of no feeling that I could see, yet of no violence or cruelty; one whose life was like a wheel, doing the eternal round. [11]
If you simply want to enjoy yourselves, stay at this hotel--there is no better place--sit on the piazza, look at the mountains, and watch the world as it comes round. [4]

Short sentences using round

Stafford did not turn round. [11]
She looked round the room. [11]
He looked round the room. [11]
Ruffles all round the piller. [6]
We all gathered round. [11]
Three days went round. [11]
Sir Duke looked round. [11]
My head went round. [11]
Kingsley's head went round. [11]
Jaspar Hume looked round. [11]

Sentences containing round two or more times

I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
I was all wild in the head, and things went round and round, and oh, how I hated to marry Luc--then! [11]
Once more he whirled the lasso round and round over his head, and then shot it forth, as the rattlesnake shoots his head from the loops against which it rests. [6]
He studied a while, then he just went into the Details --walked round and round the hole and spied into it from every point of the compass. [5]
After a weary watching of the monotonous and clattering round and round of the swinging couples or the stumbling single skaters, the floor was cleared, and the darling of the rink glided upon the scene. [4]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
It sometimes seems to me as if there were only about a thousand people in the world, who keep going round and round behind the scenes and then before them, like the "army" in a beggarly stage-show. [6]
Injun Joe sprang to his feet, his eyes flaming with passion, snatched up Potter's knife, and went creeping, catlike and stooping, round and round about the combatants, seeking an opportunity. [5]
We had followed this ram round and round in a circle all day--a thing which was proven by the discovery that we had watered the Expedition seven times at one and same spring in seven hours. [5]

More example sentences with the word round in them

You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
It was a young woman, with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it. [6]
A self-sufficient, doughty young man, with the round head that withstands many blows, taking by nature to competition and buccaneering in general. [9]
I thought perhaps you would go round with me to see a pretty bad case. [4]
And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government. [11]
I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
Out of it you must trust her, I am afraid,--for she will not be followed round, and she is in less danger than you think. [6]
The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard,--to take everything coolly,--nil admirari,--if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing. [6]
Come round when you can; I'd like to introduce you to old March. [8]
And, oh, won't you ask Babcock to step round here? [4]
We had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about. [5]
The issue may yet have been undecided when he turned round to Jethro with a sneer which he could not resist. [9]
They had not yet formed in rank and file, but were grouped round the centurion Martialis, who had come to tell them, sadly, of his removal to Edessa, and to take leave of his comrades. [10]
In turning, the yacht came round on the seaward side of the steamer, but far behind. [4]
I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
The little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell again that story of good Miss Nell who died. [12]
I wish he would change his seat and come round and sit by our Scheherezade! [6]
Her face looked worn; there was a hectic spot on each cheek and dark circles round the eyes. [11]
They imagined the world to be flat and round, like a trencher, and they in the middest. [4]
In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death. [2]
Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
Look round the World in which you dwell Nor, Snail-like, live within your Shell; And if you see His World aright The Lord shall grant you double Sight. [10]
The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round continued his work. [2]
His round of work not consuming all his energies, he must needs cultivate the Doctor's garden, which he kept in one perpetual bloom, from the blowing of the first crocus to the fading of the last dahlia. [6]
The world of work has thickened round us beyond the hills. [11]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
At his last word Dingan, who had been standing abstractedly listening, as it were, swung round on him with a muttered oath, and the skin of his face appeared to tighten. [11]
Yet, though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, Sweet echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung. [6]
And then I wondered if it was not the disagreeable habit of some night-patrol or other to beat round the garden before the Sire went to bed for good, to find just such characters as I was gradually getting to feel myself to be. [4]
Kutuzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. [2]
I saw you with your arms round the Baas' vrouw. [11]
I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
A ceaseless swinging with the swinging earth, A never-tiring ebbing to and fro, Trenching eternal fastnesses; a girth Round mountains in their everlasting snow. [11]
The wooden clock with the round face and quaint landscape below--the family's most cherished heirloom--though long familiar, was not so bad; but the two yellowed engravings on the wall offended her. [9]
Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
At the opera, with Lord Ossory and Mr. Fitzpatrick, I talked through the round of the boxes, from Lady Pembroke's on the right to Lady Hervey's on the left, where Dolly's illness and Lady Harrington's snuffing gabble were the topics rather than Giardini's fiddling. [9]
I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
She watched Lassiter with great, round, grave eyes, but showed no fear. [13]
Guida turned round with a sharp cry. [11]
Then I waked with a cry, but my man was beside me, and his arm was round my neck; and this dream, is it not a foolish dream, my mother? [11]
A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by. [2]
He twisted his wineglass round, sipped from it pleasantly, and said: "Pardon me, madame, how were you admitted here? [11]
The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
Voila, he can wind them all round his finger! [11]
And then the wind changed, went back round the circle, reversing everything, like dragging a cat by its tail. [4]
He was a willing, lively little waiter, with his moony face on the top of his head; and he jumped round in the rain like a parching pea, rolling his head about in the funniest manner. [4]
A great reduction will be made where parties wish to make the round trip. [5]
This was a wide, wide track--for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile--but its character was still the same. [12]
He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. [2]
One big fellow who was leaning against a lamp-post growled, 'You'd better stay in your own palace, miss, and not come prying round here. [4]
The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout. [9]
His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov--a fresh arrival from the world outside--gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer. [2]
All the people who had collected round the priest, broke out into a far-sounding cry of woe, in which he himself and Rui's widow vehemently joined. [10]
It was Kutuzov, who had been riding round the position and on his way back to Tatarinova had stopped where the service was being held. [2]
First among those who crowded round her at Carillon that day were Jowett and Osterhaut, who had tried to warn her. [11]
There was a whiteness growing round the eyes, and eating up the warmth of the cheek; his admirably smooth brow was contracted into heavy wrinkles, and a foot shifted uneasily on the floor with a scraping sole. [11]
Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
The vast mob which thronged the wide space beyond the shouting circle just round us was much like that of any other fair, so far as I could see from my royal perch. [6]
The golden cord which she wore round her neck at the great party was still there. [6]
It is n't where a pawn stands on the board that makes the difference, but what the game round it is when it is on this or that square. [6]
Do you remember when we were sailing round the pond, and the boat upset, and you pulled me senseless out of the water? [10]
On the day when the last morsel of meat and biscuit had been given away the storm had not abated, and he saw with misgiving the gloomy, stolid faces of the Indians round him. [11]
At the Fete when she and Ingolby met face to face, people had immediately drawn round them curious and excited. [11]
There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
And if it were true, why didn't I go at once to the gate, and not lurk round there all night like another Clement? [4]
A riotous party were toping and reveling in the beautiful garden of the impluvium round a fire which they had lighted on the velvet turf. [10]
These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
Some of these were square, others round or polygonal, but most of them much longer than they were wide. [10]
The round ones were spinning on their axes and rolling in every direction. [6]
Dampness and darkness were round about me. [4]
Amazement and suspense were painted on every face, not a hand, not a lip moved as Theophilus rose again and cast a glance of proud and stern defiance round the assembly, which each man took to himself. [10]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
Partings all round were made, and, after some injunctions to Mrs. Falchion and Justine Caron from myself as to preventives against illness, the rest of us started for Sunburst. [11]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
Some rocks, indeed, were like vast animals round which molten granite had been poured, preserving them eternally. [11]
The sailors' songs were hushed, and the psalms of the virgin sisters, imploring the protection of the Almighty, seemed to float round the gliding boat as softly as the light of the circling moon. [10]
Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
The weary gangs were gone to rest; a bright fire still blazed in front of the house of the superintendent of the mines, and round it squatted in a circle the overseers and the subalterns of the troops. [10]
The speed they were going would easily bring her round away ahead of the steamer. [4]
Some twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between two candles. [2]
But both arms were clasped round his neck now. [4]
Between them fires were burning, round which were gathered groups of Roman soldiers and imperial servants. [10]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
Arches and poles were being put up, to be decorated against the feast- day, and piles of wood for bonfires were arranged at points on the hills round the village. [11]
The distant prospects were Anne's delight, and when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon. [14]
When the rest were all gone, he turned his chair round towards mine, and began. [6]
Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
Turning round he went to the door of the outer hall-way, opened it, and stepped into the garden. [11]
When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. [2]
Before twenty-four hours went round, a dozen people knew it. [11]
Princess Mary, too, went round to him. [2]
How grand and well-proportioned was the plan of this immense building through which the steward Keraunus, who returned with his fine curls complete all round, now led the Romans. [10]

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