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Sentences starting with sentence

Sentence of death would have been more welcome to him than this supercilious check to a hazardous attempt, which he had looked upon as daring and heroic. [10]
Sentence was pronounced, and as the Vekeel Obada passed close to Orion--who was led back to his cell pale and hardly master of himself--he said, mocking him in broken Greek: "It will be your turn to-morrow, Son of the Mukaukas! [10]
Sentence of Deserters. [7]

Sentences ending with sentence

With a final word he delivered her over to the secular arm for judgment and sentence. [5]
I asked you to speak with me now because I thought that if you would go away--far away-- promising never to cross my father's path, or my path, again, I could get him to withdraw the Sentence. [11]
I don't want to see her name in the paper again, alongside of that" (She did not finish the sentence. [6]
As he prepared to return to the city, he said to the unwounded pasha: "Thou wert to die at sunset; it was thy sentence. [11]
The latter, bound to posts, awaited their sentence. [10]
Didymus, however, had the key to the last sentence. [10]
The application of the English ticket-of-leave system was one of these efforts; it was based upon the notion that, if any criminal showed sufficient evidence of a wish to lead a different life, he should be conditionally released before the expiration of his sentence. [4]
He clung to the couch like a shattered wretch; and when his father turned his eyes on him and gasped out: "Then the Court--our Court of justice pronounced an unrighteous sentence? [10]
Sandlip told me that--" The Staff Officer broke the sentence. [11]
It was thus that Jethro Bass accepted his sentence. [9]

Short sentences using sentence

Misdral, hear thy sentence! [10]
That sentence is Dr. Jonathan's. [9]
To-morrow, sentence will be pronounced. [5]
Their sentence stands. [10]

Sentences containing sentence two or more times

I would compose the story, and learn it by heart, sentence by sentence, as I so composed it. [11]
I therefore approve the finding and sentence of the military commission, and direct that the major-general in command of the department including the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. [7]
Taken sentence by sentence it asserts nothing against anybody or in favor of anybody, pleads for nobody, accuses nobody. [5]
It may be said in passing that the indeterminate sentence would be in itself to any man a great stimulus to reform, because his reformation would be the only means of his terminating that sentence. [4]
After you get over your scare, read it over again, sentence by sentence, and tell me honestly what you think of it. [7]
He proposed that one gentleman should give him one word of a foreign sentence, and tell him its place in the sentence. [5]
That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. [5]
As to the general effects of the indeterminate sentence, I will repeat here what I recently wrote for the Yale Law Journal: It is unnecessary to say in a law journal that the indeterminate sentence is a measure as yet untried. [4]

More example sentences with the word sentence in them

At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]
He was furnished with the French word 'est', and was told it was second in a sentence of three words. [5]
Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony. [11]
So he escaped with a sentence of exile from the city for five years. [10]
It was Royce who, in one illuminating sentence, solved for him the puzzle, pointed out whence his salvation had come. [9]
The secular judge who should have delivered judgment and pronounced sentence was himself so disturbed that he forgot his duty, and Joan went to her death unsentenced--thus completing with an illegality what had begun illegally and had so continued to the end. [5]
The commanding generals, who have power to act on proceedings of courts-martial in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited. [7]
Once in a while a sentence like a flaming brand was flung out. [9]
Every sentence with which he dismisses a refractory subordinate is a nut of which the shell must be cracked in order to get at the kernel. [10]
But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
An illustration of what can be done in this direction is furnished by the Elmira Reformatory, where the experiment is being made with most encouraging results, which, of course, would be still better if the indeterminate sentence were brought to its aid. [4]
And if I were--" He did not finish the sentence, for he felt her trembling. [9]
If the sentence were very severe, he might perhaps be able to delay its execution. [10]
She knew they were unaware that the Sentence had been passed, else they would not have been with Jethro. [11]
Not less peculiar were Mrs. Falchion's words to Hungerford the evening before, recorded in the last sentence of the preceding chapter. [11]
The right words were easy to the master, and with them he had given the clumsy sentence meaning and significance. [10]
Finally the Kadi went up to Paula, whose heroic composure as she heard the sentence of death had filled him with admiration. [10]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
He has a way of letting it rise as his sentence goes on, or when he is opposed in argument, or wishes to mount above other voices in the conversation, until it dominates everything. [4]
The first sentence was, however, a surprise to every one, and not the least to his own party, excepting Lord Faramond. [11]
Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
When his sentence was told her as a good joke by a chattering lamp-lighter, she went off into the strangest excitement, and astonished the poor man so much by kissing his robe, that he thought she must be crazed, and gave her an alms. [10]
That one thing was this: How is the last sentence of the prophecy to be understood? [5]
Yet the King was still ill-disposed to the merchant, for while he destroyed Archias's death sentence which had been laid before him for his signature, he said to Philippus: "The money-bag whose life I give you was the friend of my foe. [10]
In that letter was a sentence which rang like a cry in my ears: "Oh, Hugh, I think these doctors know now what the trouble is, I think I know. [9]
The old Moslem was a just man, who would agree to a mitigated sentence under the circumstances; besides, the culprit was not in strict fact a member of the household, but in the service of a relation. [10]
The Ten-----" The voice died out in a whisper; the sentence was never finished. [5]
Sulivan's father, he used to add to the " good morning" a short sentence, which was never once repeated after his father's death. [1]
As he looked up at the gable of his old home against the stars, he did not find the next sentence any easier. [9]
It seemed to unravel that puz--" He landed in the middle of the floor at a bound, without finishing the sentence, and ran and turned up his light and seized his "records. [5]
It is an unfortunate sentence, for it could mislead a hasty or careless reader for a moment. [5]
A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning--a sort of deceptive semblance of it --whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would disappear. [5]
A sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. [6]
The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly what it is. [7]
He could be trusted to go and say, 'My lord, the carriage waits,' but if they ventured to add a sentence or two to this, his memory felt the strain and he was likely to miss fire. [5]
But now his trial came on, to his great gratification, and he thought he could welcome any sentence provided a further imprisonment should not be a part of it. [5]
I should like to underscore this last sentence, my dears, in view of what comes after. [9]
Gaston now turned to his grandfather, who had heard a sentence here and there, and felt that the young man carried off the situation well enough. [11]
She was dearer to him than all the rest of the world; and he had in his hand what kept them apart--a sentence of death, unless he escaped from the wanton calling him to fulfil duties into which he had been tricked. [11]
Now I come to a sentence in the admiral's report which he dropped carelessly from his pen, no doubt, and never gave the matter a second thought. [5]
She felt as though she could willingly sentence this man to death as her father had done Jethro Fawe that very morning. [11]
Act then as those who have to pronounce a sentence, and hear both sides before deciding. [10]
He concluded with this telling sentence, which drove the whole argument home to all our hearts: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. [7]
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]
A. I'll skin this Meisterschaft to the last sentence in it! [5]
Every sentence that this master has produced may be likened to a perfect set of teeth, white, uniform, beautiful. [5]
It is from this law that the public notion of an indeterminate sentence is derived. [4]
Every time I think I have got one of these four confusing "cases" where I am master of it, a seemingly insignificant preposition intrudes itself into my sentence, clothed with an awful and unsuspected power, and crumbles the ground from under me. [5]
I knew how things were going, and what the chances were of the sentence being carried out on you. [11]
They easily make themselves understood, but it is next to impossible to word an English sentence in such away as to enable them to comprehend it. [5]
Not one of them, he remembered suddenly, had uttered a sentence of the political claptrap of which he had heard so much. [9]
Miss Virginia in the very midst of a sentence paused, and then stopped. [9]
This very day the unworthy son of the great Rameses had covered his face and trembled like a timid fawn at the bare mention of the sorcerer's name, and to-morrow he might curse him and pronounce a death sentence upon him. [10]
The sentence about the time which should be fulfilled for each was ringing in her ears, and it seemed to her that she heard for the second time the lady Berenike's warning. [10]
I have reached the time of life which I have dreamed, nay even ventured to hope, might be the limit of the sentence which was pronounced upon me in my infancy. [6]
Sooner or later the Sentence would reach every Romany everywhere, and Jethro would pass into the darkness of oblivion, not in his own time nor in the time of Fate. [11]
One hour later the sentence was submitted to the king for ratification. [10]
Edward had heard the sentence pronounced, but he had not realised the half that it meant. [5]
The rest of the sentence is also merely a phrase; the man has no friend as yet, and of course has had no chance to try him, or win back his admiration, or disturb him in any other way. [5]
For even as the sentence had been pronounced a new idea had come into his mind. [11]
Freddy Tarlton finished the sentence for him: "For an inner sorrow is a consuming fire. [11]
I was at the same time wholly unconscious of ever having met with the discourse or the sentence which the verses were most like, nor do I believe I ever had seen or heard either. [6]
The sentence which the Ry had passed was worse than death (and it meant death, too), for it made him an outcast from his people, and to be outcast was to be thrown into the abyss. [11]
We therefore, by the royal Will and command, pronounce sentence, that both the ears of Gaumata be cut off, for the honor of the righteous and shame of the impure. [10]
The road to the rampart of a hostile city lies over corpses, and I, as general and king--" Euergetes suddenly broke off in his sentence, for a loud noise and vehement talking were heard outside the door. [10]
Ere she entered the Queen's anteroom she had mentally pronounced sentence of death on her enemy. [10]
But there are the quarries--" Petrus did not let his companion finish his sentence, but interrupted him with all the warmth of youth, exclaiming: "And do you mean to say that fame cannot be won by the arts of building? [10]
It is worth the price of admission to hear the guide tell the story nine times in succession to different parties, and never miss a word or alter a sentence or a gesture. [5]
Joan had damaged the preacher's cause more with one sentence than he had helped it with a hundred; so he was much put out, and had trouble to get a good start again. [5]
Take care that the phrase or sentence you commend is not one that is in quotation-marks. [6]
Paulus collected all the overflow of the old man's heart in one sentence, and called out his blessings through his two hands as a speaking-trumpet, after his friend's son as he departed to battle. [10]
The sentence of the oracle weighed heavily upon him, as well as on Archon's son, who loved his mother, and the homeward journey became to the blind man by no means a cheerful but rather a very troubled dream. [10]
Yonder gives it the necessary space, yonder can one a noble long German sentence elaborate, the bridge-railing along, and his whole contents with one glance overlook. [5]
I would only the language method--the luxurious, elaborate construction compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. [5]
I see, in the judge's speech here, a short sentence in these words: "Our fathers, when they formed this government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than, we do now. [7]
The introduction of the indeterminate sentence into our criminal procedure would be a radical change in our criminal legislation and practice. [4]
She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. [5]
Orion ordered that the execution of the sentence should be postponed; he did not go back into the house, however, but had his most spirited horse saddled and rode off alone into the desert. [10]
And this is the end of the story, the close of which we were all expecting, when Atossa, as I lay under sentence of death, sent me a rose, and made me the happiest of mortals. [10]
She only heard the closing sentence, as, with raised voice, he shouted to the soldiers; and from it she gathered that he thanked his companions in arms for their anxiety, but that he still felt strong enough to share all their difficulties with them. [10]
He is of the blood, and I pray that Jethro has escaped the sentence which my father passed," answered Fleda. [11]
Hence it comes that, in the scraps of paper covered with her pencil writing which I have seen, there will occasionally be a sentence scored out, but seldom, if ever, a word or an expression. [14]
Her defender, seeing that sentence was about to be pronounced against his client, suddenly tore away the garment which covered her bosom. [10]
He didn't suspect that his careless words were being weighed, and so he often delivered sentence of death when it would have been just as handy and all the same to him to pronounce acquittal. [5]
It was a task distinctly to his taste, and one might have thought he was reading the sentence of a Hastings. [9]
Some drove away striving to bite from their lips the tell-tale smile which arose in spite of them; others tried to look happy, despite the sentence of doom to which they had listened. [9]
After sixty the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. [6]
We are not speaking of the execution of a judicial sentence, but of the success or failure of an attempt at personal revenge. [10]
Once more the speaker started, and was in the midst of the sentence when he was interrupted again, and the result was that the lecture was not delivered. [5]
She did not speak further, but finished the sentence by pointing to the body. [11]
He would no sooner get an inkling of what his opening sentence was to be than the flames of his anger would rise and sweep it away. [9]
She tried to soften its effect in her next sentence. [9]
The despatch is so vague that there is no means here of ascertaining whether or not the execution of sentence of one or more of them may not already have been ordered. [7]
I never was so tired of any one phrase as the sailors made me of the opening sentence of the Address to the Emperor of Russia. [5]
She touches everything so daintily, she hits off a character in a sentence, she gives the pith of a dialogue without tediousness, she mimics without vulgarity; her narration sparkles, but it does n't sting. [4]
I went to sleep thinking of that sentence, beside my client beneath the trees. [9]
She was soon sitting with her back to the window, and unrolled the gospel of Matthew till she came to the first sentence which Euryale had marked for her with a red line. [10]
Honour among--among gentlemen, Sir,' returned the other, who seemed to have been very near giving an awkward termination to the sentence. [12]

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