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Sentences ending with sake

I should think you would be willing to undergo a little inconvenience for your brother's sake. [5]
And the same with duty for duty's sake? [5]
He loved to win for winning's sake. [11]
Behind the moss-hut, wherein I had found my Herdegen with the dancing hussy, the Swabian Junker and Ritter Franz had fought, without any heed of the law and order of such combat--fought for life or death, and for my sake. [10]
He wished he were in power for your sake. [11]
Sirona knew what was happening; she started and cried out, pointing to the senator's door, "For all the gods' sake! [10]
When the death-moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder-arms, and so, as on dress-parade, with their flag flying and the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty's sake. [5]
I can give up much, bear much, and it will all seem easy for your sake. [10]
Paula told the truth, and never, never told a lie, not even for Hiram's sake. [10]
Felion's daughter grew towards womanhood, and her beauty was great, and she was welcome everywhere in the valley, the people speaking well of her for her own sake. [11]

Short sentences using sake

For Ulrich's sake, spare him! [10]
For her own sake? [11]
Wait, for heaven's sake. [2]
Well, for the land's sake! [5]
All is for her sake. [12]
I sinned for her sake. [11]
Peter Kirilych, for heaven's sake! [2]
I conspired for Egypt's sake. [11]
Grant that for argument's sake. [7]

Sentences containing sake two or more times

For conscience sake you ask that, and I for conscience sake say I will not, Monsieur. [11]
I've needed one thing to make me do my best for some one's sake beside my own; you will make me do it for your sake. [11]
Do a great thing now; help it to be done for your own honour, for England's honour--for a good man's sake, for your country's sake. [11]
For your own sake, as well as for the sake of others, you ought to go into society oftener. [5]
For the sake of the country's dignity and for the sake of her advantage commercially, we should have ambassadors, not ministers, at the great courts of the world. [5]
In a paroxysm of fear, joined to emotional excitement, he fell upon his knees, and pleaded for mercy--for the sake of one chance in life, for the family name, for Kathleen's sake, for the sake of everything he had ruthlessly dishonoured. [11]
You know I love Monsieur de la Foret, for whose sake I am here in England--for whose sake I still remain. [11]
For your sake I took them up; for your sake I lay them down. [5]
For her sake I began this war, and for her sake I grant you now the life of your son--she loved him. [10]
Howells wrote that even if he hadn't wanted to read the book for its own sake, or for the author's sake, he would still want to do it for Mrs. Clemens's. [5]

More example sentences with the word sake in them

If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
For his sake your beautiful Eva, with her saintly gaze, might easily forget to pray. [10]
I have avoided your bait, as you call it, for your sake, not mine own. [11]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
For conscience sake, you would crush out evil. [11]
I fear for you Vastly & I beg you not Riske y'r Life Foolishly & this for the Sake of one who subscribes herself y'r Old Playmate & Well-Wisher Dolly. [9]
I don't ask you for my own sake alone. [11]
Briefly, then, if you are here for Countess Cordula von Montfort's sake, your errand is vain; she will sleep at Kadolzburg to-night. [10]
For her sake you are bold enough to try now and then to quell the stormy sea of my passions. [10]
I have told you all this for Philip's sake, not for my own. [10]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
For humanity's sake, would you not keep alive such a man? [11]
For my sake would he deign to grant them life--and liberty? [10]
Your exposition was worthy of an antique sage, and it struck me--for the sake of Rufinus here I will not say convinced me. [10]
Before this radiant witness he was ashamed to carry out his dark purpose, and he said, addressing the sun: "For thy sake, Phoebus Apollo, I spare the man. [10]
Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
He might plead with her in the name of duty, for the sake of her friends, for the good name of the family. [6]
It's because you wish me to have faith in you for my own sake, not for yours. [9]
She did not wish it for her own sake, she said she was fearing others might suffer more if her decease occurred where she was. [14]
I cannot and will not neglect my duty for the sake of the wretched woman. [10]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
But out of wilful idleness, the mere flattery of the senses, a vampire feeding upon the spirits and souls of others, for nothing save emotion for emotion's sake --that was shameless, it was the last humiliation of a woman. [11]
The man for whose sake the woman he loved had given him up must be Baron Malfalconnet. [10]
The mother, Matter, whom for the sake of the verse I called by her Greek name Hyle, was also invested with a shade of comedy as a dissatisfied wife and the mother-in-law of Intellect. [10]
But presently, they who would be gracious for the family's sake, were gracious for the man's. [11]
The only thing which we old folks do not willingly relinquish is personal comfort, and I thank you for enduring annoyances so patiently for the sake of securing mine.--It is a terrific summer! [10]
He would know what my pursuits had been; for my father's sake, what were my ambitions? [9]
As if people were obliged to be shapely or picturesque for the sake of a wandering artist! [4]
That is the way it was, so he said, except in the last sad times, when your father, for the sake of Don Carlos and his rights, near lost his life--ah, I can understand that: to stand by the thing you have sworn to! [11]
My poor father was of course condemned and thrown into prison, where he was beginning to doubt the justice of the gods, when for his sake the greatest wonder happened, ever seen in this land of wonders since first the Greeks ruled in Alexandria. [10]
But to try was my duty, and I tried with all my might; almost, for Alixe's sake, with all my heart. [11]
His heart, too, was heavy, for he wished the Queen the best fortune, not only for her own sake, but because with her and her successful resistance to the greed of Rome was connected the liberty of Alexandria. [10]
I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
Who the man was for whose sake she had dishonored him, he knew not, for Miriam had said nothing more than, "Go home, your wife is laughing with her lover. [10]
No doubt it was for my sake that he behaved so generously! [10]
All her life was but labour and pain; and she never threw down the burden for the sake of present pleasure. [14]
At last he was brought before the count, who restored him to liberty "for the sake of Florette's beautiful eyes. [10]
She had a warm heart--that he knew; and he felt for her sake that he had no right to wish for more than the note expressed. [9]
He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. [5]
Barop, though usually very strict in the observance of religious duties, never demanded anything for the sake of mere appearances. [10]
And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. [2]
I did not value my life, as you know well, for it has been flung into the midst of dangers for Egypt's sake, how often! [11]
I must pack up my small possessions, and for your sake I will say a few words of farewell when I take the account-books to your mother. [10]
She no longer understood her darling Kasana; for she was sacrificing purity and honor for the sake of a man whom--she knew it--her soul abhorred. [10]
They were standing under that which, for courtesy's sake, had always been called the chandelier. [9]
He stated a truth, and did it in such a pleasant way, and salved over my sore spot so gently and so healingly, that I was rather glad I had committed the crime, far the sake of the letter. [5]
His devotion to truth for its own sake and his feeling about science would have kept him out of both those dusty highways. [6]
For Heaven's sake train him in something, so that he can handle himself, and have free and confident use of his powers. [4]
A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. [5]
Now I have told you enough; for the sake of Philippus we will let the rest pass. [10]
But you want to win for the sake of winning. [4]
I beg you to remember this, not merely for my sake, but for yours. [7]
Did Charles desire to rear it there to the grandeur and splendour for whose sake she had yielded him? [10]
She is willing to pay something for the sake of injuring the woman who stands between us, or the old man who has the good or evil fortune of being her rival's grandfather. [10]
I have sworn to one who loves her, and for my dead chief's sake, that I will serve her and be near her until better days be come and she may return in quietness to France. [11]
I was going to make one last effort for his sake. [11]
I am going to Hartford this afternoon for a day or two, but as soon as I get back I will go to John Elderkin very privately and say: 'Remember the veteran and confer distinction upon him, for the sake of old times. [5]
The noise seemed to grow louder and come nearer; and, just as our mother cried, "For Heaven's sake, Martha! [10]
It was impossible to give further orders for the sake of killing time, for the orders had all been given and were now being executed. [2]
It is hard to draw the line between scientific curiosity and the desire for the patient's sake to learn all the details of his condition. [6]
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]
I am willing to bury my abhorrence of a relic of barbarism, for the sake of union and peace. [9]
Then they began to ask themselves why they had joined in the acclamations, and had been so wildly excited; how it was that they had so promptly surrendered their self-possession and dignity for the sake of this wicked little man. [10]
At the same time I do not think that he, or any of us whose conversation I think worth reporting, says anything for the mere sake of saying it and without thinking that it holds some truth, even if it is not unqualifiedly true. [6]
For the first time he, the Jacobite, dared to confess so much to himself; and not solely for Paula's sake. [10]
For the first time he was anxious about the woman for her own sake. [11]
For _my_ sake, thy true friend. [5]
Her blood was throbbing in her temples, she could not reason, but she knew that the appeal for the sake of which she had stooped must be delivered now. [9]
Many birds, especially those which live much on the ground, have undoubtedly been obscurely coloured for the sake of protection. [1]
Without entering upon this question at length, I will suggest that the convict should, for his own sake, have the indeterminate sentence applied to him upon conviction of his first penal offense. [4]
And we ask this not for the sake of the moral lesson, but because not to do it is, to our deep consciousness, inartistic and untrue to our judgment of life as it goes on. [4]
Dr. Mathys regretted this for the sake of the beautiful neglected creature, who had won his sympathy, but it did not surprise him, for duty after duty now filled every hour of Charles's day. [10]
I've come here this evening as your friend, without authority from anybody," he added significantly, "to see if this thing couldn't somehow be adjusted peaceably, for your sake as well as others'. [9]
For Daphne's sake this decision had undoubtedly been welcome to the matron, and it pleased him also; for he still felt so ill physically, and so agitated mentally, that he shrank from meeting his numerous acquaintances in the capital. [10]
The man of thirty-nine beliefs holds the man of one belief a pauper; he is not going to give up thirty-eight of them for the sake of fraternizing with the other in the temple which bears on its front, "Deo erexit Voltaire. [6]
There is the third way, but I will not take it--for your sake and for my own. [11]
The habit of thinking you would shoot somebody some time-- somebody you had injured--might become too much for you to-day, and then I should have to kill you, and for your wife's sake I don't want to do that. [11]
I do not think many persons are aware of the existence of this mark,--little having been said about the story in print, as it was considered very desirable, for the sake of the Institution, to hush it up. [6]
And here and there some simple soul, more gifted than his comrades, may touch off the meaning of it all, as it appears to those who hold their lives in their hands for a nation's sake, by a stroke of mordant comment. [11]
I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
He invariably declined them, and said he would take one of the others from the tea-box --my very best, kept in tea for sake of dryness. [11]
Continue to preach them for the sake of the lethargic peace of which you speak? [9]
No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
It is on the whole a splendid display for the sake of four sleepy men, banging along in a coach,--an insignificant little vehicle with two horses. [4]
No one takes the state turnpike nowadays except crazy tourists who are willing to risk their necks and their horses' legs for the sake of scenery. [9]
It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you. [12]
It is for the sake of Egypt as you think--if I understand you rightly--that you now offer me the services you have hitherto devoted to my brother's interests? [10]
Go on; for the sake of ease and convenience, stick to habit: speak in the first person, and tell me what your Master thinks about it. [5]
She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. [6]
Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of reviewing this message in the least possible time, as well as for the sake of distinctness, I have analyzed its arguments as well as I could, and reduced them to the propositions I have stated. [7]
Early that morning the news had reached the prefect that Antinous had sought his death in the Nile, and it had shocked him greatly, less on account of the hapless youth than for Hadrian's sake. [10]
He was not the man, for the sake of a brawl and luck at play, to break friendship with the faithful companion, who had shown distinctly enough how fondly he loved his darling. [10]
You are not the less welcome, friend, for her sake, or for this old man's; nor the worse teacher for having learnt humanity. [12]
If you leave the key in the door for convenience' sake, they will carry it down to the office and give it to the clerk. [5]
Some members of the heron family offer a still more curious case of novelty in colouring having, as it appears, been appreciated for the sake of novelty. [1]
I swear, by the eternal gods, that but for Cambyses' sake that shameless Lydian had not seen the light of another day. [10]
You will endure the dress for the sake of the wearer, won't you, ladies? [10]
The thought tortured, the desire to save her from herself obsessed him; with true clairvoyance she had divined him aright when she had said that he wished her to have faith in him for her own sake. [9]
She had realised the consternation of the people, and she knew that, for her sake, and because the Cure had commanded, all the obsolete claims he had made were responded to by the people. [11]

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