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Sentences starting with second

Second by second they gained on us, relentlessly. [9]
Second by second it was becoming more and more difficult and seemingly more ungracious to return a gift so graciously given, a gift of no inconsiderable intrinsic value. [9]
Second Mate and four deck hands took the sounding boat and shoved out in the ice to hunt the channel. [5]
Second Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E. V. Sumner. [7]
Second reading, July, 1858. [9]
Second edition, enlarged, 1622. [4]
Second corner turned. [6]
Second the motion! [5]
Second platoon! [2]
Second engineer. [5]

Sentences ending with second

The Cure's hand was on the arm of the first wife and the Avocat's upon the arm of the second. [11]
Oh, don't stare--it was a slip, and no crime; customs of a life-time can't be dropped in a second. [5]
The inflammable, restless Van Hout took the first part, the slow, steadfast Van der Werff, with mighty impressiveness, the second. [10]
She had been two different persons in her life, and the first was only a memory to the second. [11]
Yet a temper, too--so quick, and then all over in a second. [11]
But she's dead to you--dead to the life you made her lead--dead as you will be in one second! [13]
Why, she seemed to whiz out of sight in a second. [5]
There was no time to think, he would be lost in another second. [6]
To note all this, occupied but a second. [5]
During the evening there was an intermission of three-quarters of an hour after the first act and one an hour long after the second. [5]

Short sentences using second

Emerson received the second prize. [6]
What's your second place? [5]
The second column marches... [2]
Ward's second letter here follows. [5]
It's the second floor! [11]
No second will existed. [4]
Concord, Second Centennial Discourse, 84-86. [6]
At 11.20, Second Concert. [6]
The other beneficiaries come second. [5]
Essays, second series, 183. [6]

Sentences containing second two or more times

We will say that the contest was to begin with the first and third Bergwacht pitted against the second and fourth, and be followed by another, with the first and second against the third and fourth. [10]
Despite Denisov's request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostov agreed to be Dolokhov's second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for the duel with Nesvitski, Bezukhov's second. [2]
He had two rooms in the second and third stories of this old wooden building: his study in the second, his sleeping-room in the one above it. [6]
We make five pen-strokes in writing an m. Thus: [Figure 5] a stroke down; a stroke up; a second stroke down; a second stroke up; a final stroke down. [5]
The houses were of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the third sticking its elbows out beyond the second. [5]
Here is a Latin Psalter with the Canticles, from the press of Fust and Schoeffer, the second book issued from their press, the second book printed with a date, that date being 1459. [6]
The third interrogatory is answered by the answer to the second, it being, as I conceive, the same as the second. [7]
Then Lincoln's second inauguration came, and with it his second inaugural address. [7]
There is table-room for only half of the passengers, therefore they have to set a second table for the second half. [5]
And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. [5]

More example sentences with the word second in them

Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
Meanwhile, I thank you, noble lady, and also in the name of my brother, who is my second self. [10]
The second, that you reveal the whereabouts of Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
I was busy yesterday and I did not intend to go, knowing I should have another "Tannh:auser" opportunity in a few days; but after five o'clock I found myself free and walked out to the opera-house and arrived about the beginning of the second act. [5]
In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
Here I finished writing the second draft of the preliminary proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and it was published on the following Monday. [7]
And as I write these words, after the Italian retreat, a second revolution seems possible. [9]
But the second would weep bitter tears to think what a rayless and barren life that must be which could extract enjoyment from the miserable flimsy wand that has such magic attraction for sauntering youths and simpering maidens. [6]
Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
A casual glance would have passed by these little dents; if Venters had not known what they signified he would never have bestowed upon them the second glance. [13]
The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it. [6]
A second one would be at the countess's disposal. [10]
A second term would be a great honor and a great labor, which, together, perhaps I would not decline if tendered. [7]
Perhaps--perhaps, the business would always be his in spite of the second will! [11]
There was no work to do; that was all finished; this was but the second session of the last winter's Congress, and its action on the bill could have but one result--its passage. [5]
Use the right word, not its second cousin. [5]
They drop a word or a phrase--they do not know how cruel it is--or give a look--they do not know how cold it is--and are gone without a second thought about it; but it sinks into the woman's heart and rankles there. [4]
Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
He was furnished with the French word 'est', and was told it was second in a sentence of three words. [5]
And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. [6]
Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
Second, he spoke with all the weight of the then accepted science and philosophy. [9]
The correct case will then stand: the quotas of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth districts fixed at 2200 for the first draft. [7]
Second, those who will take the oath and be discharged and whose homes lie safely within our military lines. [7]
You see, it will take nearly twice as long to do the first set as it will to do the second, and that will give you a marked sense of the difference in length of the two reigns. [5]
When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
The white-cap student who won the second fight witnessed the remaining three, and talked with us during the intermissions. [5]
No doubt those who signed the document understood that the second clause limited the first, and that men are created equal only in respect to certain rights. [4]
The second Elder who had spoken was he who had once heard Luke Claridge use profane words in the Cloistered House. [11]
Here's the second Whig has got in on you within the week! [9]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
The fiery ambition which consumes you will not suffer you to be the wife of a man who is second to any other. [10]
After these reflections, which again reminded him of the second appointment and of Ledscha, the sculptor turned away from his work and went to the window to look across at Pelican Island, where she must not await him in vain. [10]
And I marvelled where the Swabian, who was so slow of speech, found the words for retort and answer, till at length it was too much for him and he laid his hand on his hanger as a second and a sharper tongue. [10]
From the landing where Pierre stood there was a second staircase leading to the back entrance. [2]
It is only when the second midnight comes that, with conscious, but pensive and far-off, eyes, he says to her: "Angelique, my wife. [11]
The second match, when struck, would shine and smell, and fizz a little, and then go out. [4]
The second time, when Holgate came below to his engine, Dicky was there playing with a Farshoot dog. [11]
Ay, I know what you would say: that Sir Joshua's portrait hangs above, executed but the year after, and hung at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy. [9]
What a noise, what a clatter was storming in the hall by the second hour after midnight! [10]
In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals. [2]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
The old people were proud of Aaron, too; but all their love was lavished upon Eleasar, their grandson, whom they beheld growing up into a second Moses. [10]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
Moment after moment went, and though I had danced beyond reasonable limits, I still seemed to get new strength, as I have heard men say, in fighting, they 'come to their second wind. [11]
Sometimes he also wears a fluffy and voluminous white turban, and this adds a second accent. [5]
As soon as we were released from our burden we returned for the second victim. [10]
I trust that we shall be allowed to retire to second place now. [5]
Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes. [5]
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. [5]
The Koh-i-noor, as we named the gentleman with the diamond, left us, however, soon after that "little mill," as the young fellow John called it, where he came off second best. [6]
The second day, we made the acquaintance of Mr. Street (since deceased) and put on white shirts and went and paid a state visit to the king. [5]
The second day we camped at Bora Bora Creek. [11]
That was the way in which the second Portfolio found its way to my table, and was there opened in the autumn of the year 1857. [6]
He knew every watchman and foreman in the mill, and many of the second hands. [9]
And thus it was, that with the most friendly feelings on both sides, Mr. Emerson left the pulpit of the Second Church and found himself obliged to make a beginning in a new career. [6]
The second letter was, in some way, mislaid and not mailed; and it was not until after the writer of it was dead that it was found and forwarded. [5]
In October I was well enough to go out with two sorties, and in the second one, on the 23d, I was wounded again. [5]
Its natural course was to try for admission into some one of the popular magazines: into "The Sifter," the most fastidious of them all; if that declined it, into "The Second Best;" and if that returned it, into "The Omnivorous. [6]
The second effect was to show her--and this was what this little dinner emphasized--that she had put limitations upon herself and taken on unthought-of responsibilities. [4]
Now the letter was to say that they had both played him false; the former in obedience to the stern behest of his father, the town-councillor; the second by reason that his Duke commanded his attendance. [10]
My first impulse was to crack his head with a billiard cue; but my second was to refrain from this attention, because he was between me and the cue rack. [5]
His second wife was the widder Billings--she that was Becky Martin; her dam was deacon Dunlap's first wife. [5]
If Judge Driscoll was the recognized first citizen of Dawson's Landing, Pembroke Howard was easily its recognized second citizen. [5]
The second fact was the following. [6]
The second order was that Poniatowski, moving to the village through the wood, should turn the Russian left flank. [2]
Today, when there was so much rejoicing on account of Barine, I thought directly, 'Sorrow follows joy, and the second misfortune won't be spared us. [10]
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
Mr. Ridout's place was second in this invaluable volume, he being preceded only by a harmless patriarch. [9]
When the bridge was repaired and the boats were a second time confined to the draw it was provided that this record should be kept. [7]
Sir Kenelm Digby was playing his fantastic tricks with the Sympathetic powder, and teaching Governor Winthrop, the second, how to cure fever and ague, which some may like to know. [3]
The second impulse was plainly the soundest, so I refrained, and proceeded to compromise. [5]
But the second was more successful. [4]
The second hinderance was more serious. [10]
Samuel Checkley, Junior, was minister of the Second Church, and his successor, Rev. [6]
His second speech was made at Bloomington, in which he commented upon my speech at Chicago and said that I had used language ingeniously contrived to conceal my intentions, or words to that effect. [7]
Besides, his case was hopeless unless the knight obtained a pardon for him from the Emperor Rudolph, for his persecutors would not cease their pursuit of him, and he could not endure the torture a second time. [10]
My second husband was from Illinois. [4]
Regret, of course, was expressed that the second will had never been executed, but with this regret was the confidence that the widow would carry out, eventually, Henderson's plans. [4]
The young officer was evidently exercising his duties for the first or second time and therefore treated both his superiors and the men with great precision and formality. [2]
I thought it was dropped with the Second Empire; but you have started a new dispensation--evidemment, evidemment. [11]
When young Enderby was driven from his father's house by Cromwell, he determined to join the Scotch army which was expected soon to welcome Charles the Second from France. [11]
One of them was dead; the other was his second son--he would live. [11]
Its first boss was Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings. [5]
To do this was become second nature to them. [5]
At first I was angry, and said I should like to have caught the urchin in the act; but, on second thought, I was glad I did not. [4]
The little tablet was accompanied by a second, which, in the Regent's name, authorized the bearer to have the harbour chains raised anywhere, to go out into the open sea and return without interference. [10]
My second friend was a young Pole who devoted himself eagerly to Egyptology, and whom Lepsius had introduced as a professional comrade. [10]
The second day was a repetition of the first. [13]
Had not the war taken him away, Antony's second visit would certainly not have been his last. [10]
I did not want to wake Harris a second time, but the gnawing continued until I was compelled to throw the other shoe. [5]
When the two wags returned to the front street of Askatoon, they were just in time to see the second meeting of Orlando and Mazarine. [11]
Thus the second waggon likewise had come to hurt by the sudden stopping of the first, and it was but hardly saved from turning over into the ditch. [10]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
And what a voice she has; though she's my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she'll be a singer, a second Salomoni! [2]

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