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Sentences starting with ruth

Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
Ruth advanced, and with a not very steady hand lifted the white covering from the upper part of the figure and turned it down. [5]
Ruth Devlin's heart was all out, all blossomed--beside Mrs. Falchion's like some wild flower to the aloe. [11]
Ruth resolutely insisted upon accompanying him, and he well knew what urged her to risk safety and life as freely as he did himself. [10]
Ruth Leigh looked up quickly. [4]
Ruth far outstripped Ulrich in her desires and wants, thus luring him to follow her. [10]
Ruth only went to town twice a week to attend lectures, and the household was quite to Mr. Bolton's taste, for he liked the cheer of company and something going on evenings. [5]
Ruth turned slightly to meet him as he came. [11]
Ruth was glad to hear that Philip had made a push into the world, and she was sure that his talent and courage would make a way for him. [5]
Ruth wept for the poor little horse, and Marx sat as if utterly crushed beside his old friend's stiffening body, heeding nothing, least of all the snow, which was making him whiter than the miller, with whom he had expected to rest that evening. [10]

Sentences ending with ruth

Before the week was over Philip thought he had a new light on the character of Ruth. [5]
I dare not think of where you might be called to follow me, Ruth. [11]
The count could tell him a great deal about Ruth. [10]
And he did talk to her, by the hour, about Ruth. [5]
As she now rose and thoughtfully approached the window, he could no longer contain himself, and exclaimed in a low tone: "Ruth, Ruth! [10]
The summer went on without much excitement for Ruth. [5]
The family consisted of the Squire and his wife, a son and a daughter married and not at home, a son in college at Cambridge, another son at the Seminary, and a daughter Alice, who was a year or more older than Ruth. [5]
An elderly man in the costume of a merchant was just holding out his hand in farewell, and he heard him say: "You've bought too cheap again, far too cheap, Jungfer Ruth. [10]
Ulrich had told him about the word, and often indulged in wishes with him, as he had formerly done with Ruth. [10]
Here was the fortune the Eletto needed, to build the palace in which he intended to place Ruth. [10]

Short sentences using ruth

Perhaps Ruth saw this. [5]
I heard from Ruth yesterday. [5]
Ruth was still living, then. [5]
Ruth Devlin came. [11]
Ruth remained calm. [10]
Come here, Ruth. [10]
And Ruth, Ruth! [10]
Ruth. [10]
And Ruth? [10]

Sentences containing ruth two or more times

Ruth was as pale as the white sheet, and her comrade whispered, "Come away, Ruth, it is awful. [5]
If Ruth was ever in the city he should be happy to place his box at the disposal of Ruth and her friends. [5]

More example sentences with the word ruth in them

But, Ruth, do you think you would be happier or do more good in following your profession than in having a home of your own? [5]
But what, Ruth wrote, could a woman do, tied up by custom, and cast into particular circumstances out of which it was almost impossible to extricate herself? [5]
And yet, how would it have been if Ruth Leigh had not had a moment of reserve, of prudent repulsion! [4]
Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
I was talking with Ruth yesterday about her father, and she reminded me of his favorite saying, which I had forgotten long ago. [10]
Roscoe walked ahead with Ruth Devlin. [11]
He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering. [5]
The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
I think, Ruth, when I die," said Philip, intending to be very grim and sarcastic, "I'll leave you my skeleton. [5]
What Boldrick thought when he saw the two ascending towards him, he expressed to Mr. Devlin later in the day in vigorous language: what occurred at his but Ruth Devlin told me afterwards. [11]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
At first he wept softly, for he now clearly realized, for the first time, that he had lost his father and should never see Ruth, the doctor, nor the doctor's dumb wife Elizabeth again. [10]
Meantime, Ruth Leigh went on her round. [4]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
We made our way slowly to the mill, and found Mr. Devlin, Ruth, and Roscoe, with Ruth's sister, and one or two other friends, expecting us. [11]
The awful point was that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling hands, the unnerved limbs, the fading eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health. [14]
Her natural heart was struggling against her old bitterness towards Galt Roscoe and her partial hate of Ruth Devlin. [11]
Though Ruth Devlin was sitting not far from her, she scarcely looked that way. [11]
How distant Ruth was now from him, now, when she might need him most. [5]
But Ruth Leigh was not an ordinary woman. [4]
Perhaps, also, Ruth wanted to test her own nerve, and to see whether the power of association was stronger in her mind than her own will. [5]
If the reader visits the village to-day, he will doubtless be pointed out the Montague dwelling, where Ruth lived, the cross-lots path she traversed to the Seminary, and the venerable chapel with its cracked bell. [5]
Roscoe's depression had vanished; but there was an amiable seriousness in his manner which, to me, portended that the faint roses in Ruth Devlin's cheeks would deepen before the day was done, unless something inopportune happened. [11]
But Ruth looked up, and there was a light in her eyes that quickened Phil's pulse. [5]
His crooked mouth twisted to and fro in strange contortions, not a muscle of his coarse face was till, and this looked so odd and yet so horrible, that Ruth could not help laughing, and the smith asked what ailed him. [10]
As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
Count Philipp undertook to tell Ruth that Ulrich had found his mother again. [10]
Alice was loyal to Ruth, and if she knew anything she did not betray her friend. [5]
In her letter to Ruth she had poured out her heartiest blessings upon them both, with her dear love forever and forever. [5]
Presently she turned to Mr. Devlin, having, as it seemed to me, made Roscoe and Ruth sufficiently uncomfortable. [11]
You have Ruth to live for. [11]
Little Ruth nestled to him, asking: 'Well, father? [10]
And when, some time after, he bade Ruth good-bye, as she went with her father, it came to him with appalling conviction that his life had been a mistake. [11]
While Ruth was thus absorbed in her new occupation, and the spring was wearing away, Philip and his friends were still detained at the Southern Hotel. [5]
Latterly he never thought of her without thinking of Ruth, and if he gave the subject any attention, it was probably in an undefined consciousness that, he had her sympathy in his love, and that she was always willing to hear him talk about it. [5]
You must wear this necklace, Ruth, as my first gift. [10]
Adam had noticed this himself, and gave no time to his work, for he had to assist in nursing his son, when it was necessary to raise his heavy body, and to relieve Ruth, when, after long night-watches, her vigorous strength was exhausted. [10]
To Ruth Leigh this experience of love was as unexpected as it was to the priest. [4]
What I saw there I did not think necessary to disclose to the other members of the party; but, as unconcernedly as possible, for Ruth Devlin's eyes were on me, I used it to light a cigar--inappropriately, for lunch would soon be ready. [11]
It opened, and then Ruth Leigh heard a cry, "Father Damon! [4]
It therefore suited the wishes of all concerned, when autumn came, that Ruth should go away to school. [5]
He showed them the sweet young Ruth, lying down in her innocence at the feet of the lord of the manor. [6]
A woman, (of the right kind,) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of the wheat. [6]
Philip stood upon the platform and watched for the Boltons' house, fancied he could distinguish its roof among the trees, and wondered how Ruth would feel if she knew he was so near her. [5]
But custom and the fixed order are stronger than the most enthusiastic and rebellious young lady, as Ruth very soon found. [5]
He often thought the end had come, and gave himself up without resistance to his grief; Ruth, on the contrary, never lost hope, not even in the darkest hours. [10]
Suppose everybody on the East Side should become as industrious, as self-denying, as unselfish as Ruth Leigh, and yet without belief, without hope! [4]
These words affected the convalescent like a strengthening potion, and when the hammers again moved in the smithy, Ulrich was no longer satisfied with his idle life, and began with Ruth to look forward to and discuss the future. [10]
The smith pulled the cart, and Ruth pushed, Hans Eitelfritz, with his sword-bearer, walking by her side. [10]
It was like the breaking up of life; he was struggling in the consciousness of coming death: when Ruth stood by his side, clothed in white, with a face like that of an angel, radiant, smiling, pointing to the sky, and saying, "Come. [5]
He now possessed the best gift Ruth had asked him to beseech of the "word. [10]
But Ruth confessed that she was tired of them, and also of the Mint. [5]
So Ruth rejoiced that it chanced to be the Sabbath, and while she passed her hand over his doublet, he stroked her silk dress. [10]
Ruth assisted the surgeon with the utmost coolness and with skillful hands helped to dress Philip's wounds. [5]
Ruth sat quite still for a tine, with face intent and flushed. [5]
It was a spring morning, and perhaps it was the influence of it that made Ruth a little restless, satisfied neither with the out-doors nor the in-doors. [5]
Did Ruth ever speak of him? [5]
A light heart soon will bring to the top again what ruth, at this hour, is bearing to the deeps. [10]
There was always some butterfly or another flitting about, and when Philip showed by his manner that he was not pleased, Ruth laughed merrily enough and rallied him on his soberness--she declared he was getting to be grim and unsocial. [5]
Ruth felt that she was of less consequence in the household, now that Philip had found Coal, and perhaps she was not sorry to feel so. [5]
Ruth, saying that she hoped the father wouldn't mind, began to put in order the front room, which the incidents of the night had somewhat disturbed. [4]
Amusing as this Shaker caricature of the Friends was, it oppressed Ruth beyond measure; and increased her feeling of being stifled. [5]
Every living creature seemed to be holding its breath in anxious suspense, but Ulrich once more laughed joyously, then bracing his bare knee against a bundle of faggots, cried: "Give me that stick, Ruth, that I may tie it up. [10]
Ruth was now seated at the desk, but instead of looking over the open account book, her eyes were gazing dreamily into vacancy, and the Eletto now saw her beautiful, calm, noble face. [10]
Presently Ruth Devlin said: "Would it not be better to wait till to- night, when the place is lighted, before the whistle is blown? [11]
The fondness of Ruth, which was scarcely disguised, for the company of agreeable young fellows, who talked nothings, gave Alice opportunity for no end of banter. [5]
You don't know, Ruth, what art is! [10]
Bowing courteously to Ruth, the soldier said: "Take pity on this poor creature, fair maiden, and wash its wound with a little wine. [10]
Neither Alice nor Ruth were much elated with the prospect of Philip's renewal of his mining enterprise. [5]
It happened that Ruth was one evening deep in a line of investigation which she could not finish or understand without demonstration, and so eager was she in it, that it seemed as if she could not wait till the next day. [5]
His love for Ruth was no secret to Mrs. Bolton, and he felt almost sure that he should have no opposition in the family. [5]
The story that Ruth was "engaged" to a young gentleman of fortune in Fallkill came with the other news, and helped to give point to the little satirical remarks that went round about Ruth's desire to be a doctor! [5]
He should meet Ruth unexpectedly, as she was walking alone from the school, perhaps, or entering the room where he was waiting for her, and she would cry "Oh! [5]
To be sure, Ruth said, thy people shall be my people, and where thou goest I will go, and all that, and this beautiful sentiment has touched all time, and man has got the historic notion that he is the head of things. [4]
Mr. Devlin and Ruth rode away towards Sunburst. [11]
Philip, wrote to Ruth rather a comical account of the bursting up of the city of Napoleon and the navigation improvement scheme, of Harry's flight and the Colonel's discomfiture. [5]
Philip wrote to Ruth of the new acquaintance they had made, Col. [5]
Adam, Marx and Ruth had gazed first down one and then the other, to look for the wagon, but nothing was to be seen or heard. [10]
Did she think Ruth cared for him? [5]
It was to Ruth Bolton that Philip wrote last. [5]
He wrote to Ruth as if his fortune were already made, and as if the clouds that lowered over the house of Bolton were already in the deep bosom of a coal mine buried. [5]
Last of all Ruth appeared; she led him into the forest to a juniper-bush, and showed him a nest full of young birds. [10]
Better informed than Ruth and with a much more varied culture, and bright and sympathetic, he was never weary of her company, if he was not greatly excited by it. [5]
Ruth held the rudder firmly, and her young sister and Mrs. Revel sat perfectly still. [11]
Ruth and old Rahel had remained behind, under the protection of the brave foreman. [10]
Then came the quiet, beautiful wife and Ruth in bonds, and behind them Marx and Rahel. [10]
He remembered how proudly he had watched his father and mother, when they went to church together on Sunday, how he had carried Ruth in his arms on their flight; and now he was to see and experience all this again. [10]
Had Ruth a premonition of Philip's intention, in his manner? [5]
It was Philip's plan, who had engaged the seats, and promised himself an evening with Ruth, walking with her, sitting by her in the hall, and enjoying the feeling of protecting that a man always has of a woman in a public place. [5]
Elizabeth, the shady pine-woods of his home, its murmuring brooks and luxuriant meadows, again rose before his mind; he saw Ruth and himself listening to the birds, picking berries, gathering flowers, and beseeching beautiful gifts from the "word. [10]
Ruth replied to Philip's letter in due time and in the most cordial and unsentimental manner. [5]
He didn't fancy Philip's banter, and when the latter had gone out, and Ruth asked, "Why don't you take up medicine, Mr. [5]
Dr. Longstreet told Philip that the fever had undoubtedly been contracted in the hospital, but it was not malignant, and would be little dangerous if Ruth were not so worn down with work, or if she had a less delicate constitution. [5]
The letter that Philip Sterling wrote to Ruth Bolton, on the evening of setting out to seek his fortune in the west, found that young lady in her own father's house in Philadelphia. [5]
When lunch was over, and we had again set forth upon the Whi-Whi, I asked Ruth to sing an old French-Canadian song which she had once before sung to us. [11]
The Holy Virgin once more wore his lost mother's features; his father, Ruth, Pellicanus, Moor looked kindly at him. [10]
Immediately after sunset of this night, a storm swept suddenly down the mountains, and prevented Ruth and her father from going to Viking. [11]
On the result of this duel, if Ruth Devlin but knew it, depends her own and another's happiness. [11]
He was thinking of Ruth Leigh. [4]

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