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Sentences starting with saying

Saying that reconstruction will be accepted if presented in a specified way, it is not said it will never be accepted in any other way. [7]
Saying as she was commanded, she then took the head, and cast it as far from her as she could. [5]
Saying nothing aloud, she sat with her hands in her lap; now and then she clasped them, then unclasped them, then tapped the ends of the fingers together; sighed, nodded, smiled--occasionally paused, shook her head. [5]
Saying that on certain terms certain classes will be pardoned with rights restored, it is not said that other classes or other terms will never be included. [7]

Sentences ending with saying

And what are you saying! [2]
Mammy Easter is with him, trying to make out what he is saying. [9]
What are the wild waves saying? [11]
I'm telling you what they're saying. [9]
Can you understand what they are saying? [10]
We cannot hear what Mr. Weed is saying. [9]
He scarcely realised what Lacey was saying. [11]
His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying. [2]
Only her hands were busy; her eyes were elsewhere, and suddenly they brightened again, for the couple on which she kept them fixed were coming back, straight towards the hedge, and she would soon be able again to hear what they were saying. [10]
When I go upon the witness stand I will repeat under oath the things which I am now saying. [5]

Short sentences using saying

What are you saying? [9]
What am I saying? [9]
What were they saying? [4]
What was I saying? [10]
What am I saying? [10]
It goes without saying. [5]
But you were saying, Mr. [4]
What were you saying, Darius? [10]
But that is saying everything. [4]
I am not saying anything. [5]

Sentences containing saying two or more times

In fact, Joan went but little into detail herself, usually merely saying, "That is not true--passez outre"; or, "I have answered that before--let the clerk read it in his record," or saying some other brief thing. [5]
It doesn't matter to a woman what a man's saying or doing, or whether he's so much cleverer than she is, if she knows that under everthing he's saying, 'I love you. [11]
We know when she is saying, "I have laid an egg"; we know when she is saying to the chicks, "Run here, dears, I've found a worm"; we know what she is saying when she voices a warning: "Quick! [5]
There is a saying that if a stranger will pass over the drawbridge and walk across the court to the castle front without saying anything, he can made a wish and it will be fulfilled. [5]
The lawyer was saying his last words; and while he was saying them Satan began to melt into Wilhelm. [5]
That is to say, if a man gets the habit of saying "I should have liked to have known more about it" instead of saying simply and sensibly, "I should have liked to know more about it," that man's disease is incurable. [5]
He is very much in the habit, when he argues me up into a position I never thought of occupying, of very cosily saying he has no doubt Lincoln is "conscientious" in saying so. [7]
If what one has to say is worth saying, he need not beg pardon fur saying it. [6]
I wish to consider that you represent the nation, and that in saying good-bye to you I am saying good-bye to the nation. [5]
Thomas Beecher's saying "Damn that Atwater," or my saying "I wish Atwater was three hundred million miles in----! [5]

More example sentences with the word saying in them

I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
I consent to your saying "blood horse," if you like. [6]
I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow feel that pretty much all you have been saying is in effect untrue. [4]
Jasmine cares for you--no, no, don't mind my saying it. [11]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
The saying is, you mustn't judge a man by his clothes, and I'm believing it now. [5]
Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
How I worship you for saying them! [5]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
The article was written by Mr. George W. Stevens, and he was right in saying that I had not probed deep enough. [11]
This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
After saying those words, Clement had turned very courteously to him, and they had spoken with each other. [6]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
Without saying a word in reply, or giving them a look of reproach, he followed the old woman who had summoned him (and who had now rejoined them) into another room, where his infant friend, half-dressed, lay stretched upon a bed. [12]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
I hope you won't mind my saying so in my stupid way. [11]
She called no witnesses, saying she would content herself with examining the witnesses for the prosecution. [5]
If Eva had witnessed his death she would have perceived the aptness of the saying that a monk's life is bitter, but his death is sweet. [10]
And it goes without saying that its successful solution, in a reformatory for criminals, depends upon the character of the man who administers the institution. [4]
Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off, and the entire machine was out of service. [5]
He sat still without saying a word. [6]
He got up without saying a word and went downstairs to his own room. [2]
But Countess Cordula withdrew hers with visible dislike, saying in a tone of chilling repulse: "Remember me to your wife, Sir Knight. [10]
He wasn't charged with saying it in the pulpit, where all the congregation could hear and testify, but only outside, in talk; and it is easy for enemies to manufacture that. [5]
Her eyes sparkled with satisfaction, and she tucked the bottle under her shawl, saying, "It's prime. [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]
Having sat awhile with her visitors without understanding anything of what they were saying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery. [2]
Dicky was dining with Fielding at the Turf Club, when a telegram came saying that cholera had appeared at a certain village on the Nile. [11]
Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
She congratulated me with apparent frankness, and asked for Miss Treherne's address, saying she would write to her. [11]
I was racked with anxiety about Farrar; at last, when I had all but given up hope, I received a telegram from him dated at Detroit, saying he would arrive with the doctor that evening. [9]
Fulkerson," said Beaton, with a return to what they were saying, "has managed the whole business very well. [8]
She gave the wine back to her daughter, saying good-humoredly: "I have tasted sweeter, but acid is refreshing in this heat. [10]
If I cannot win her here, he was saying to himself, the Meigs is in it. [4]
I hope that will cure her of saying what she thinks of people. [9]
The major-domo to whom these entreaties were addressed, though he was sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he dare not even mention the matter to the count. [2]
With a calmness which seemed to the servant incomprehensible, though it filled him with delight, he turned to the monk, saying earnestly and simply: "Appearances may be against me, Pater Benedictus. [10]
Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind. [2]
On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
In the room where he awaited the verdict of the expert, he kept saying to himself: "She would have made everything else look cheap--if it could have been. [11]
I know that whenever I have said most, and felt most, something in me kept saying all the time: 'You're lying, you're lying, you're lying! [11]
Listen to them, when there is only a light breath stirring, and you will hear them saying to each other,--"Wait awhile! [6]
She knew that when he thought aloud in this way he would sometimes ask her what he had been saying, and be vexed if he noticed that she had been thinking about something else. [2]
He now knew what people were saying about her. [10]
Please read again what Lord Campbell and the other great authorities have said about Bacon when they thought they were saying it about Shakespeare of Stratford. [5]
I'm not saying what I've got, mind you. [9]
She grasped exactly what he would say, and made him say things he would never have thought of saying to any one else. [11]
He forgot that what he was saying about Natasha could have been applied word for word to himself in relation to his wife. [2]
I'm not saying we won't need a little--powder," he added--which was one of the matters we had come to talk about. [9]
By and by we told her he was getting well, and then she didn't come, but stayed at home, just saying his name over to herself. [11]
As it was, we stopped what might have been our murder by saying it would be wiser to hold us as hostages, and that we were Americans. [11]
That is saying we cannot empty an empty cup. [5]
Which is another way of saying, that between us and the front door of our happy homes there are rattlesnakes that can sting--Nahoum's arm is long, and his traitors are crawling under the canvas of our tents! [11]
Brent sat silently watching her, for she had raised her veil in saying good-by to Mrs. Kame, and--as the chauffeur was proceeding slowly--had not lowered it. [9]
As the King was walking upon the battlements one day, "a woman cried out, saying, Help, my lord, O King! [5]
The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look. [2]
A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear. [2]
But, as I was saying, when the sheet-bath failed to cure my cough, a lady friend recommended the application of a mustard plaster to my breast. [5]
But as I was saying, we'd got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim. [5]
Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean-to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch. [5]
But, as I was saying, to change quarters here as late as November is a little difficult, for the wise ones seek to get housed for the winter by October: they select the sunny apartments, get on the double windows, and store up wood. [4]
Yes, as I was saying, there's only St. Albans, Buccleugh and Grafton ahead of us on the list--all the rest of the British nobility are in procession behind us. [5]
But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
Well, as I was saying, it was just at the time when the great Persian embassy came over to Sais to fetch Nitetis, and made everybody stare at them as if they were monsters or prodigies, that this shameful thing happened. [10]
Well, as I was saying, it is the fashion to write descriptions of Vesuvius; and you might as well have mine, which I shall give to you in rough outline. [4]
And as I was saying, he--' 'But was this the trip she sunk, or was--' 'Oh, no!--months afterward. [5]
What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]
A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out. [2]
Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
The Chief Factor was intent on what Shon was saying, while Lazenby drummed his fingers on the table, his nose in the air. [11]
Now, Miss Sadler was going about among them in the school parlor saying good-by, sending particular remembrance to such of the fathers and mothers as she thought worthy of that honor; kissing some, shaking, hands with all. [9]
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. [5]
Then he approached warily, and adopted conciliation; pursed up his lips and tried to whistle, but failed; still approached, saying, "Poor dog!--doggy, doggy, doggy!--poor doggy-dog! [5]
Myrtle Hazard Lindsay walked up to the bust and kissed its marble forehead, saying, "This is the face of my Guardian Angel. [6]
There came a voice to a citizen of Damascus, named Ananias, saying, "Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas, for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prayeth. [5]
It was a victory for conservatism and established order against sensationalism and anarchy--Mr. Ridout had contrived to make that clear without actually saying so. [9]
What is the use of saying good morning, when the morning is not good! [11]
What is the use of my saying what some of these opinions are? [6]
There is no use in saying to us that we are stubborn and obstinate because we won't do some such thing as this. [7]
Mr. Parr made us, as the saying goes. [9]
Tom rained cuffs upon the head and its shield, saying no word: the victim received each blow with a beseeching, "Please, Marse Tom!--oh, please, Marse Tom! [5]
It was not until the second morning after her departure that I received a telegram giving the name of her Boston hotel, and saying that there was to be a consultation that day, and as soon as it had taken place she would write. [9]
Pierre did not understand what his benefactor was saying, but he knew (the categories of thoughts were also quite distinct in his dream) that he was talking of goodness and the possibility of being what they were. [2]
Natasha did not understand what he was saying any more than he did himself, but she felt that his incomprehensible words had an improper intention. [2]
She could not understand them, but tried to guess what he was saying and inquiringly repeated the words he uttered. [2]
I don't quite understand Mr. Ruskin's saying (if he said it) that he couldn't get along in a country where there were no castles, but I do think we lose a great deal in living where there are so few permanent homes. [6]
I do not understand half of what you are saying. [10]
Above it, and under the big trees, shone a thousand glittering lights: there was a crowd at the gate, and instead of saying, "Open, Sesame," Peter slipped two bright fifty-cent pieces to the red-faced German ticketman, and in they went. [9]
I have been unable at any time to find a man in an audience who would declare that he had ever known of anybody saying so five years ago. [7]
This I repeated two or three times; and then I dropped it, without saying anything more on the subject for weeks--perhaps a month. [7]
I have sent two letters to General Steele, and three or four despatches to you and others, saying that he, General Steele, must be master, but that it will probably be best for him to merely help the convention on its own plan. [7]
He knew the two first very well, and not a word of what they were saying escaped his keen ear. [10]
I am not trying to justify it; I'm only saying that I was mad, and _anybody_ would have done it. [5]
And the plain truth is, that a good many people are saying one thing about it and believing another. [6]
If you make trouble, he will get out by saying it was not himself who made the bargain with you, but his brother, "who went out in the country this morning. [5]
As we climbed towards the Gap, I recalled with strange aptness a quaint saying of my father's that Kaintuckee was the Garden of Eden, and that men were being justly punished with blood for their presumption. [9]
I at once took command of the enterprise, saying firmly at the same time that I would shoot the first man who disobeyed my orders. [11]
Is it not too true that many religious sectaries think of the last tribunal complacently, as the scene in which they are to have the satisfaction of saying to the believers of a creed different from their own, "I told you so"? [6]
I've said things to you that I've never said to any one in the world, and I don't regret saying them. [11]

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