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Sentences ending with select

The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather's congregation was not large, but select. [6]
For a daring and dangerous enterprise of a similar character you would to-day be the man of all my acquaintances whom I would select. [7]
When he had a mind to add to his harem he seems to have had the ancient oriental custom of sending into all his dominions for the fairest maidens to be brought from whom to select. [4]

More example sentences with the word select in them

After all, as you are a gentleman or a lady, you will probably select gentlemen for your bodily and spiritual advisers, and then all will be right. [6]
All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
I should not wish to see any more of it, unless I might select the parties. [5]
It is worth while to journey around the globe to see anything which can truthfully be called a novelty, and the diamond mine is the greatest and most select and restricted novelty which the globe has in stock. [5]
A few Thugs were privately detached and sent forward in the dark to select a good killing-place and dig the graves. [5]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
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]
It is not very good soil, still I think she can grow enough for one table and I am in a position to select the table. [5]
A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention. [2]
It would enable us to teach them that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean more than we say. [7]
We must get up a select party of the boarders to hear him read. [6]
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling. [5]
The farm continued under the expert direction of a superintendent who was a graduate of the State Agricultural College, and a select clientele, which could afford to pay the prices, consumed the milk and cream and butter. [9]
I wish you to understand that we have a rather select company at the table of our boarding-house. [6]
She permitted him to take her, however, to Gruber's Cafe, to the movies, and one or two select dance halls, and to Slattery's Riverside Park, where one evening she had encountered the rejected Mr. Wiley. [9]
He was anxious to select the most suitable one; the master who had created this work of art had been his friend, and had closed his eyes in death shortly after its completion. [10]
How are we to select the few capable men that are to rule all the rest? [4]
And in order to satisfy reasonable human curiosity, the proprietors of the flume have been obliged to select a bowlder and label it as the one that was formerly the shrine of pilgrimage. [4]
Immigrants soon began to pour into the region of Adelaide and select town lots and farms in the sand and the mangrove swamps by the sea. [5]
I cannot promise to do more than to select a few of the points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge which present particular interest in the existing state of our physiological acquisitions. [3]
In our limited time we must select one only. [4]
Out of this throng in the streets I like to select the meek, patient, diminutive little donkeys, with enormous panniers that almost hide them. [4]
Why not banish these spies and select servants from the military caste, for instance? [10]
It is in the select circle of vegetables. [4]
Every guest at the 'Olympian table' was allowed here to select the meat, fruit, asparagus, fish, or pasty which he desired to have cooked for him. [10]
It affords me the highest pleasure to select from among these gentlemen, Marjolin, Amussat, and Breschet. [3]
Next day, overtaking the army, he went in a carriage to the Niemen, and, changing into a Polish uniform, he drove to the riverbank in order to select a place for the crossing. [2]
Mr. Russell said that if it took time to buy a horse, it ought to take at least equal time and care to select the fodder that was to make a human being wretched or happy. [4]
Taking it as settled, then, as no one appears to answer for it, that Perkinism is entirely dead and gone, that both in public and private, officially and individually, its former adherents even allow it to be absolutely defunct, I select it for anatomical examination. [6]
We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius. [4]
A poet must select, and if he stoops too low he cannot lift the object he would fain idealize. [6]
At length I select two oranges, and again demand the price. [4]
There are some select souls who sit apart in calm endurance, waiting to be translated out of a world they are almost tired of patronizing, to whom the whole thing seems, doubtless, like a cheap performance. [4]
We were to select our horses at 3 P.M. At that hour Abraham, the dragoman, marshaled them before us. [5]
Its disappearance in select circles is no test. [4]
I shall not select a new home till the book is finished, but we have little doubt that Hartford will be the place. [5]
No, I am saying too much--he does stick to his literary and legal aspirations; and he naturally would select the very two things which he is wholly and preposterously unfitted for. [5]
How well I remember that dear ancient lady, who lived well into the last decade of her century, as she repeated the verse which, if I had but one to choose, I would select from that string of pearls, Gray's 'Elegy'! [6]
A person of refinement and sensibility and intelligence, cast into the company of the select, the country-house, the radiant, twelve-button society, has been struck with infinite pity for it, and asks the Drawer to do something about it. [4]
This first select reception took place at a cabinet minister's--or rather a cabinet secretary's mansion. [5]
Some of their questions he cannot answer; some he does not choose to answer; some he is not yet ready to answer, and when he is ready he prefers to select his own organ of publication. [6]
These statements look pretty honest, and would seem hard to be explained away, but it is calmly said that he "did not know enough of the method to select the remedies with any tolerable precision. [3]
With her helpful presence and support he ventured from time to time to read a paper before a select audience. [6]
It is often possible, also, under extraordinarily favorable conditions, to select a company congenial and varied and harmonious enough to dine together successfully. [4]
Washington is drained of its foreign diplomats, the heavy part of the cabinet is moved over to represent the President, who sent a gracious letter, the select from Boston, the most ancient from Philadelphia, and I know that Chicago comes in a special train. [4]
Of the immense number of indications accompanying every vital phenomenon, these historians select the indication of intellectual activity and say that this indication is the cause. [2]
Henderson found it not easy to select topics equally interesting to Mrs. Delancy and Mrs. Blunt, and finally fell into geographical information to the latter about Mexico and Honduras. [4]
It is merely necessary to select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation--as criticism has every right to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected. [2]
He said the mightiest military genius must fail and come to nothing if it have not the seeing eye--that is to say, if it cannot read men and select its subordinates with an infallible judgment. [5]
It is here manifestly impossible to select the more sterile individuals, which have already ceased to yield seeds; so that the acme of sterility, when the germen alone is affected, cannot have been gained through selection. [1]
The duty's very light and genteel, the company particularly select, the exhibition takes place in assembly-rooms, town-halls, large rooms at inns, or auction galleries. [12]
Blessed, then, be La poussee, which renders possible such a high society and such select and entertaining conversation! [4]
Let no local interests divide you, but select candidates that can succeed. [7]
The guides serve in rotation; you cannot select the man who is to take your life into his hands, you must take the worst in the lot, if it is his turn. [5]
It seemed as if we had taken care to select the finest-looking people in the congregation,--much to the injury of the congregation, of course, as seen from the platform. [4]
One reason, as I said, for the gulf between the majority and the select few to be educated is, that the college does not seldom disappoint the reasonable expectation concerning it. [4]
When I see how unerringly they did select and occupy the eligible places, I think they were moved by a sort of inspiration. [4]
He lay in his bed, sometimes arranging plans to meet the various difficulties already mentioned, sometimes getting into a paroxysm of blind rage in the perplexity of considering what object he should select as the one most clearly in his way. [6]
The Emperor expected him to select only a loyal, trustworthy, and vigorous nobleman who had taken the oath of fealty to his Majesty. [10]
The process would have been like that followed by man, when he does not intentionally select particular individuals, but breeds from all the superior individuals, and neglects the inferior. [1]
At a certain green age young gentlemen are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and Philip's associates had not always been the most select, such as these historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a later, period he would have chosen for himself. [5]
It is a great risk--a great risk to select and decide upon the date, in this state of uncertainty. [5]
It was the Government's intention to push the Ausgleich through its preliminary stages in this one sitting (for which it was the Order of the Day), and then by vote refer it to a select committee. [5]
You might select from what comes in and make up a sort of pictorial variations to the literature without any particular reference to it. [8]
The select body entitled First Members are the aristocracy of the Mother-Church, the Charter Members, the Aborigines, a sort of stylish but unsalaried little College of Cardinals, good for show, but not indispensable. [5]
He was bright enough, and more select in his choice of recreations, at least during school hours, than my late homicidal neighbor. [6]
The laws of England and America do take it away, do select but one class, the people who create the literature of the land. [5]
Out of the endless opinions as to the significance and final outcome of Emerson's religious teachings I will select two as typical. [6]
It would be easy to select a score of pointed sayings, striking images, large generalizations. [6]
He not merely did nothing of the kind, but on the contrary he used his power to select the most foolish and ruinous of all the courses open to him. [2]
I have no dictionary, and I do not want one; I can select words by the sound, or by orthographic aspect. [5]
After very brief consideration it was decided to select Mark Twain to preside at this Third House assembly under the title of "Governor," and a letter of invitation was addressed to him. [5]
Were I indeed compelled to select any one word which would best give the impression, both social and literary, of Warner's personality, I should be disposed to designate it as urbanity. [4]
Into this select circle it was difficult to gain admission. [5]
But the branch Church cannot select the lecturer. [5]
In Carriage Row carriages had been left in the shops, and generals flocked there to select caleches and coaches for themselves. [2]
Our part has been rather to select varied specimens of style and power. [6]
You will, therefore, be willing to run your eyes over a few pages read, of course by request, to a select party of the boarders. [6]
This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry. [2]
I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. [5]
He would let all the judges but a handful go, but he would select the handful himself, and he did. [5]
We should select a grave which will not merely be in the right place now, but will still be in the right place 500 years from now. [5]
Tickets to this "Social Ball" were soon circulated, and, being accessible to all at a moderate price, admission to the "Elegant Supper" included, this second festival promised to be as merry, if not as select, as the great party. [6]

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