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Sentences starting with scenes

Scenes and occurrences which, to every appearance, are calculated to rend the heart with the profoundest emotions of trouble, do not fetter that exalted principle imbued in her very nature. [5]
Scenes that could not fail to rouse both ruth and anger were seen and heard on all sides. [10]

Sentences ending with scenes

And this is the reason why extreme, unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression of persons and scenes. [4]
Let us observe the proprieties, however; no swelling upward of the mother,--no hysterica passio, we do not like scenes. [6]
The flowers and the hedges had grown to a certain wildness; and the smell of the American roses carried me back-as odours will-to long-forgotten and trivial scenes. [9]
There were no scenes. [4]
This was a portion of the programme for the evening, as arranged behind the scenes. [6]
A painter like Paul Veronese finds a palace like this not too grand for his banqueting scenes. [6]
Those who took part in the performance were excused from study for several days before, for with the sapper's help we built the stage, and even painted the scenes. [10]
I remembered that once before I had met her and Mr. Irving behind the scenes. [6]
The old order of things had plainly passed, and I was truly thankful that my grandfather had not lived to witness those scenes. [9]
It is one of the wildest of scenes. [4]

Sentences containing scenes two or more times

Here were no scenes but summer scenes, and no disposition inspired by them but to lie at full length on the mail sacks in the grateful breeze and dreamily smoke the pipe of peace--what other, where all was repose and contentment? [5]

More example sentences with the word scenes in them

In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
Enough that they write "delightful spot" in their diaries, and hurry off to new scenes, and more noisy life. [4]
Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
They both brought with them so many reminiscences of familiar scenes and events, that it was like going back for the moment to Oxbow Village. [6]
We have no wish to live the scenes of which they are over again, the reflection is enough. [11]
We spent a whole afternoon going about here and there and yonder, and hunting up the scenes and talking of the crimes which we had committed so long ago. [5]
There are others which cause us to wish the scenes back again, with a kind of hunger; and yet they won't or can't come back. [11]
Can science tell when they depart forever from the scenes of their objective intrusion into the affairs of this world, or how long they are permitted to revisit them? [4]
In our minds we were both looking at those miserable scenes on the 'Fulvia', when Madras sought to adjust the accounts of life and sorely muddled them. [11]
Between the scenes we went behind the curtain, and saw the very curious and admirable machinery of the dramatic spectacle. [6]
In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]
For some time we continued winding along the brinks of precipices, overhung with cragged and fantastic rocks; and after a succession of such rude and sterile scenes we swept down to Carolina, and found ourselves in another climate. [4]
The glowing ruby was transformed into a dark amethyst, and at last assumed the deep hue of a violet; but the eyes of the people continued to dwell on the sacred scenes as though spell-bound. [10]
His own mind was in a perpetual state of exaltation produced by the stirring scenes in which he had taken a part, and the quickened life of the time in which he lived. [3]
With Eumedes he visited the unfamiliar scenes around him, and his newly restored gift of sight presented to him here many things that formerly he would scarcely have noticed, but which now filled him with grateful joy. [10]
The scenes were very fine, the boxes carved and gilded in excellent good taste, and both pit and gallery commodious. [9]
They appeared in various English magazines, and were written in London far from the scenes which suggested them. [11]
The doctor was used to scenes of sorrow, but the sight of this man's suffering unnerved him, and he turned from it. [9]
Of course our trip through France was not really tedious because all its scenes and experiences were new and strange; but as Dan says, it had its "discrepancies. [5]
He got in touch with a few artists and began to paint, doing little scenes in the Bowery and of the night-life of New York, and visiting the Hudson River and Long Island for landscape and seascape sketches. [11]
We cannot fail to observe how the mind brings together the scenes of to-day and those of the old Revolution. [6]
The humour appears to me such as would answer well on the stage; most of the scenes seem to demand dramatic accessories to give them their full effect. [14]
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]
Two scenes remained to look upon,--the Shawshine River and the Indian Ridge. [6]
The world seemed to be conspiring against him: the chorus of Fate was singing behind the scenes, singing of the happiness of others in sardonic comment on his own final unhappiness. [11]
From time to time I have put down in a notebook the impressions made upon me by the scenes through which I have passed. [6]
Their way lay through the same scenes as yesterday, with no variety or improvement. [12]
I have met thousands of mourners in these melancholy scenes, which, I can assure you, are the very best school for training any one who desires to search the hearts of his fellow-creatures. [10]
Then some of those ludicrous scenes on the road to London came up to me, for which the sky-blue frock was responsible. [9]
Sitting here in this winter desolation Jaspar Hume once more beheld these scenes of twenty years before and followed himself, a poor dispensing clerk in a doctor's office, working for that dream of achievement in which his mother believed; for which she hoped. [11]
And, perhaps fortunately, they were not there during court week to witness the scenes of license that were described. [4]
I know what these scenes are. [4]
He had left these quiet scenes inexperienced and untravelled, to be thrust suddenly into the thick of a struggle of nations over a sick land. [11]
What I beheld there, in field and forest, enabled me in after life, when I desired a background for my stories, not to paint stage scenes, but take Nature herself for a model. [10]
That is what the Young Doctor had; but he knew it was not easy to forget those scenes in which man carved the body of fellow-man, laying bare the very vitals of existence, seeing "the wheels go round. [11]
King, fresh from the scenes of the beach, listened a long time, expecting to hear some close counsel on the conduct of life, but he heard nothing except the vaguest emotional exhortation. [4]
In the afternoon the satanic Bishop himself took the chair and presided over the closing scenes of the trial. [5]
A few of the riff-raff, who invariably attend these public scenes, were now rather the worse for drink, from the indifferent liquor provided by the auctioneer, and they were inclined to horseplay and coarse chaff. [11]
I lived again the pleasant scenes, warped and burlesqued almost beyond cognizance, and the tragedies were magnified a hundred fold. [9]
It is not the men whose duties have made them familiar with this class of subjects who are most likely to offend by scenes and descriptions which belong to the physician's private library, and not to the shelves devoted to polite literature. [6]
He has drawn the foregoing with a very free hand, and in the Maryland scenes has made use of names rather than of actual personages. [9]
I went into the dark among the scenes again, and for an hour and a half gave myself up to the horrors, wholly unconscious of everything else. [5]
Those fires were the bulletins of the night, telling that around each of them men were sleeping, or thinking of other scenes, or wondering whether the fight to-morrow would be their last fight, and if so, what then? [11]
The veneration and the affection which some of these men felt for the scenes they were speaking of, heated their fancies and biased their judgment; but the pleasant falsities they wrote were full of honest sincerity, at any rate. [5]
I find, however, that when one is so fortunate as to get behind the scenes and see them at home and in the privacy of their firesides, they are strangely like common mortals. [5]
There were other terrible scenes when, more than semiconscious, she cried out piteously for drink, and cursed them for withholding it. [9]
Oh, Coniston, that such scenes should take place in your town meeting! [9]
They insist that such arrests shall not be made "outside of the lines of necessary military occupation and the scenes of insurrection. [7]
Extraordinary phenomenon at such a time, scenes of long ago and little cherished then, are stealing into his mind. [9]
I've seen some soul-rackin' scenes on this Utah border, but this was the awfulest. [13]
Later on the sophisticated mind, left to its own guidance in the night, wanders amid the complexities of life, calling up in confusion scenes long forgotten or repented of, images only registered by a sub-conscious process, dreams to perplex, irritate, and excite. [4]
People were very solemn as yet, many of them being new to such splendid scenes, and crushed, as it were, in the presence of so much crockery and so many silver spoons, and such a variety of unusual viands and beverages. [6]
I used to sit out under the stars at Gordon's Pride, with the river lapping at my feet, and picture her the shining centre of all the brilliant scenes I had left, and wonder if she still thought of me. [9]
The years had seen many shifting scenes in their companionship; they had been as often at war as at peace; but they had respected each other, each after her own fashion; and now they had a real and mutual regard. [11]
To herself Jasmine seemed to be moving in the centre of great events, having her fingers upon the levers which work behind the scenes of the world's vast schemes, standing by the secret machinery of government. [11]
New scenes always seem desirable to young people, and for the first time I longed to go away, though I knew nothing of my destination except that it would be a gymnasium. [10]
Was it the scent of the chemicals in my cabin, coupled with some subterranean association of things, which brought these scenes vividly before me at this moment? [11]
New costumes, new scenes, new appointments! [5]
Occasionally movable painted scenes were introduced. [4]
But all the scenes swiftly conjured up before her mental vision were very different from that just witnessed. [10]
And as familiar scenes jogged his memory, he launched into Scotch and reminiscence. [9]
A score of scenes in her great-grandfather's life came to Virginia. [9]
But its varied scenes and its manifold incidents will linger pleasantly in our memories for many a year to come. [5]
The charter was revoked in 1624 after many violent scenes, and King James was glad to be rid of what he called "a seminary for a seditious parliament. [4]
I mean the powerful influence which the interesting scenes of the Revolution had upon the passions of the people as distinguished from their judgment. [7]
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]
Sometimes, when the place is left entirely to myself, and the servants who are putting it to rights and, as it were, shifting the scenes, I get a glimpse of the reality of all the pomp and parade of the services. [4]
Here is a picture of Memphis, at that disastrous time, drawn by a German tourist who seems to have been an eye-witness of the scenes which he describes. [5]
They spoke of personal reminiscences, of amusing scenes they had witnessed during the campaign, and avoided all talk of their present situation. [2]
There were some painful scenes, of course, such as the departure of Mr. [9]
Compare Camp Jackson, or Baltimore, where a few people were shot, with some Paris street scenes after the Bastille. [9]
When people travel on the road the pictures will show them the scenes of the story. [4]
After many years of travel and home-staying observation I have found that all worth remembrance, the salient things and scenes, emerge clearly out of myriad impressions, and become permanent in mind and memory. [11]
Through the scenes of this painful history he flits here and there a lunatic! [5]
Inform the sisters of their grandmother's death, and tell them the pleasant tidings you have brought us, but reserve until the morning a description of the terrible scenes you witnessed. [10]
This sudden disclosure of the young woman's identity had upon Hodder a certain electric effect, and with it came a realization of the extent to which--from behind the scenes, so to speak--she had gradually aroused him to a lively speculation. [9]
Like the rest of the world, he thought that the reliefs of Myrtilus, representing scenes of rural life, were wonderful. [10]
In this matter of the literal reproduction of sights and scenes which our natural instinct and our better informed taste and judgment teach us to avoid, art has been far in advance of literature. [6]
His first sight of the Alhambra is given in a letter to Mademoiselle Bollviller: "Our journey through La Mancha was cold and uninteresting, excepting when we passed through the scenes of some of the exploits of Don Quixote. [4]
What unprecedented scenes of splendour had I not devised for the celebration of the victory, the triumph--nay, even the entry into Rome! [10]
What a world of shifting scenes it is! [4]
So the hours of rest are not for me the fairest scenes, but empty waits between the acts of the drama of life; and no reasonable man can find fault with me for trying to abridge them by useful occupation. [10]
There are others of his works which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and scenes even more thrilling. [5]
A high palisade of cocoanut piles shut out the cruel scenes from the vulgar multitude. [5]
The Marches had no longer the gross appetite for novelty which urges youth to a surfeit of strange scenes, experiences, ideas; and makes travel, with all its annoyances and fatigues, an inexhaustible delight. [8]
Books brought the new current; and soon she had him moving almost unconsciously among old scenes, recalling old contests of ideas, and venturing on bold reproductions of past intellectual ideals. [11]
One of the most tragical scenes is to be acted that has ever been witnessed, and one that every jealous-hearted person should learn a lesson from. [5]
He is neither moral nor immoral, but a calm and profound observer of human society and human passions, and a minute, patient, and powerful delineator of scenes and characters in the world before his eyes. [6]
Every hour, every moment that I had ever passed in Alixe's presence, with many little incidents and scenes in which we shared, passed before me--vivid and cherished pictures of the mind. [11]
I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten, but that, like everything else, they must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time. [7]
These houses, solid marble palaces though they be, are in many cases of a dull pinkish color, outside, and from pavement to eaves are pictured with Genoese battle scenes, with monstrous Jupiters and Cupids, and with familiar illustrations from Grecian mythology. [5]
It takes too long to describe these scenes where a good deal of life is concentrated into a few silent seconds. [6]
There had been little change in the state of affairs in the camp, and she again beheld scenes from which she recoiled and which made her regret that the sensitive Milcah was her companion. [10]
I seem sometimes like a sojourner here, like a spirit 'revisiting the scenes of life and time. [11]
And now, please, let us perform less trying scenes. [11]
She wrote at length, analyzing the characters, recalling the striking scenes, and praising without stint the conception and the working out of the character of the heroine. [4]
She had been keen enough to read (if a little vaguely) behind the scenes, and her mind was wakening slowly to the peculiarity of the position she occupied. [11]
What a kaleidoscope it is, this summer travel, and what an entertainment, if the tourist can only keep his "impression plates" fresh to take the new scenes, and not sink into the state of chronic grumbling at hotels and minor discomforts! [4]
As you see, it is decorated with mirrors and scenes and busts, and with gilded festoons. [9]
At all events it dealt with scenes and memories with which every reader, educated or uneducated, had associations. [4]

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