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Use set in a sentence

Sentences starting with set

Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving. [4]
Set down that thing that you said was the most striking one that was foretold to you, and happened less than a year afterward, and give it to me so I can see if Dave finds it in your hand. [5]
Set him free; they--they, they will need a protector. [10]
Set right down there, mum, and don't you be the least uneasy. [5]
Set down and stay where you are. [5]
Set in a recess of the wall and illumined with electric light was an oil-painting the show-woman seriously declared to be a lifelike and realistic picture of the Chair in which the Mother sat when she composed her 'inspired' work. [5]
Set to work on the steeds now, and when you have progressed far enough, you shall transfer these sketches to the ceiling and walls of the riding-school. [10]
Set her back on both. [5]
Set right down, Nuss, do. [6]
Set them at it if possible. [7]

Sentences ending with set

You said that your course was set. [11]
Out of her wrongs and miseries now she made a path for her future, and in that path Philip's foot should never be set. [11]
But twelve bitter white men looked down upon this scene from the scrub and rocks above, and their teeth were set. [11]
It was his way when he'd got his plans set. [5]
The joint one was that sufficient tickets to insure a good sum should be sold before the date of the performance should be set. [5]
Already his mind was engaged in scrutiny of the circumstances in which he was set. [11]
Towards sunset about twenty hay-wagons arrived and camped around the house and all the teamsters came in to supper--a very, very rough set. [5]
They drew lots to settle who should make up her set. [2]
I've no objection to his being kind to the poor thing when they meet, and doing neighborly things, but I do hope he won't get mixed up with that set. [4]
In the meanwhile the young architect from the staging inspected the stone which crowned the dome and found that it had been well set. [10]

Short sentences using set

He set to work gaily. [11]
That set them up again. [5]
It set him thinking. [9]
It set us thinking. [5]
It set him thinking. [11]
Virginia set down the tray. [9]
Will you set that down? [5]
His shoulders set square. [11]
Our stage is set. [9]
Then the sun set. [10]

Sentences containing set two or more times

Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
I had a very complete set of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences;" an entire set of the "North American Review," and many volumes of the reprints of the three leading British quarterlies. [3]
This set him thinking hard; and, as a result of it, he determined the next time Mr. Bradshaw brought her name up to set him talking. [6]
What do I think determines the set of phrases a man gets?--Well, I should say a set of influences something like these:---1st. [6]
I set down these first thoughts because they are natural--not because they are just or because it is right to set them down. [5]
When him and the old lady come down in the morning all the family got up out of their chairs and give them good-day, and didn't set down again till they had set down. [5]
Nor, indeed, had that object ever been so plainly set forth as Victoria had set it forth. [9]
They consented with thanks, and carved the beefsteak with one set of their hands while they distributed it at the same time with the other set. [5]
Dictating is nearly sure to unconcentrate the dictator's mind, when he is out of practice, confuse him, and betray him into using one set of literary rules when he ought to use a quite different set. [5]
Its height and size would represent two of the Washington capitol set one on top of the other--if the capitol were wider; or two blocks or two blocks and a half of ordinary buildings set one on top of the other. [5]

More example sentences with the word set in them

Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
When I kissed you, I set the seal upon my eternal offering to you. [11]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
Pray, what set you to asking me this? [6]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
Comrade, how still you stepped, your bayonet thrust out before you, clearing the mists, your eyes straining, your teeth set, ready to thrust. [11]
I do think you set too high a value on success. [9]
I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]
When they release you from prison, innocent and acquitted, cross the ocean and set up your tent under the Stars and Stripes. [11]
With his assistance you can set everything right with the Germans. [7]
As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Aye, I've watched ye, since the day ye first set foot in this church. [9]
But as I write, the vivid recollections are those that I set down. [9]
Some wag has writ a verse about it, which was printed, and has set the whole pump-room laughing this morning. [9]
I had him wrapped in blankets and set in a chair with holes bored in the seat. [9]
Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
Still another set would take it to build a monument to the memory of those heroes. [6]
That Tennessee village would set up a monument to Billings, then, and his autograph would outsell Satan's. [5]
But still he would never have set me free so hastily if an evil star had not brought the Swabian Junker to the spot. [10]
I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. [5]
Ah, if necessity would but make me happy too, by giving you your liberty, that on these many miseries endured we might set up a sure home. [11]
Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
Sirona is a worthy and innocent woman, and at the time when Phoebicius came out to seek her, I had never even set eyes upon her nor had my ears ever heard a word pass her lips. [10]
It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too. [5]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
I set to work with renewed pleasure, and more composure than at first. [10]
Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
I set to work right then to make a fortune for you, Miss Jinny. [9]
Come, set to work on a colossus! [10]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
One set of words was the truthful mirror of her thoughts; no others, however apparently identical in meaning, would do. [14]
Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
She had quite won the old merchant's heart, and the enquiries for her father which he had set on foot. [10]
I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was. [5]
I set that woman on to speak to you the way she done. [8]
I set my wits to work. [11]
Thus deftly, and without strain, and with an air of happiness even, did she set aside the words and the appeal which had created a storm in her soul. [11]
Shortly after this, without coming to any positive understanding with her, I set out for Vandalia, when and where you first saw me. [7]
Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
He pleased himself with the idea that he knew a man of mark at sight, and he set down Clement in that category at his first glance. [6]
Jane greeted him with surprise and warmth, set meat and bread and drink before him; and called Lassiter out to see him. [13]
The toy men-o'-war, with sails set, ranging in front of the fort. [9]
The Emperor sees with regret that the picked soldiers appointed to guard his person, who should set an example of discipline, carry disobedience to such a point that they break into the cellars and stores containing army supplies. [2]
She set herself with redoubled vigour to the work before her; and denied herself pleasure for the purpose of steady labour. [14]
You are dissatisfied with Polykarp; yesterday, before he set out for Raithu, you looked at him so--so--what shall I say? [10]
He set forth with much 'eclat' and a little innocent posturing and ritual, in which a cornet and a violin figured, together with a farewell oration by the Cure. [11]
They set up with her all night, Miss Mary Jane said, and they don't think she'll last many hours. [5]
Rumours of war with France had set his blood dancing a little, but for him most things were robbed of half their pleasure because they did not come at once. [11]
Within, a man with an eagle nose sat impassive, and I set him down for one of the king's ministers. [9]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
If then he wished to set up business for himself, he must get permission, after passing an examination. [4]
Dion had often wished to set sail with his wife for a great city in Syria or Greece, but fresh and mighty obstacles had deterred him. [10]
And if you wish to use it, will you set it up now, and send me three proofs?--one to correct for Atlantic, one to send to Temple Bar (shall I tell them to use it not earlier than their November No. [5]
Never would I wish him to set foot in it. [4]
Through the open windows I looked upon a lawn, green with close-shaven turf, set with ancient trees, and variegated with parterres of summer plants in bloom. [4]
How could the wind have set one torch in the place of another, and moved lights or lanterns in a direction opposite to its violent course? [10]
I chose to win you by personal means alone, to have you give yourself to Tinoir Doltaire because you set him before any other man. [11]
If your Majesty wills it that I be returned to France, I pray you set me upon its coast as I came from it, a fugitive. [11]
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]
And we aslant will set our spears, Our good swords dipping free; And we will ravel back the years For love of her and me. [11]
But if you will go out of your set, you might do a great deal worse. [4]
A young man will catch the whole family with this flaming message, but where is that sentiment that once set the maiden heart in a flutter? [4]
My next incident will be set aside by most persons as being merely a "coincidence," I suppose. [5]
In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
I cannot explain why I feel that you have in you elements of growth which will eventually bring you more into sympathy with the point of view I have set forth, but I do feel it. [9]
The young man whose name had set her thoughts roving was handsome, as the glance at him already given might have foreshadowed. [6]
The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
Monsters enough, on whom you cannot set your foot, throng your path. [10]
The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
She represented a whole set of new and undetermined values for which he had no precedents, and unlike every woman he had known--including his wife--she had an integrity of her own, seemingly beyond the reach of all influences economic and social. [9]
I have a whole set of his works, and am very proud of it, with its gray paper, and open type, and long ff, and orange-juice landscapes. [6]
After dinner the whole Rostov household set to work with enthusiastic haste packing their belongings and preparing for their departure. [2]
The travelling musicians who, to save a few pennies, had begun to eat bread, cheese, and radishes, instead of the warm meals provided for the others, let their knives drop and set down the wine-jugs. [10]
It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. [9]
There are people who would have sat in it, if the seat had been set with iron spikes. [4]
The silent landlady who waited on them at last brought a huge bowl of milk, and set it before him without a word. [11]
But even one who loved him could not carry through his incompleted work against the assaults of his enemies, who were powerful, watchful, astute, and merciless; who had a greed which set money higher than all else in the world. [11]
Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. [7]
He questioned everybody who could tell him anything about Maurice, and set down the answers in a little note-book he always had with him. [6]
And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
The gold with which we can set up housekeeping--" "Oh, yes," interrupted Biberli, "the zecchins and gold florins are certainly no trifle. [10]
The comfortable couch which the prefect had sent to Lochias for Pontius was carried into the Emperor's sleeping-room, and the camp-beds for Antinous and the suite were soon set up in the other rooms. [10]
The flatteries with which she had been surrounded, and the effect of all the new appliances of beauty, which had set her off so that she could not help seeing her own attractions, rendered her harder to please and to satisfy. [6]
To the objection which might be urged that these interest bonds could not be cashed, he replied that if our other bonds could, much more could these, which offered a perfect security, a fund being irrevocably set aside to provide for their redemption. [7]
The day of which I have spoken a storm had set in, the rain falling in sheets. [9]
Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
He was wondering whether, in this primitive place, such a mind and nature would be the wiser for reading; whether it were not better to be without a mental aspiration, which might set up false standards. [11]
Never a soul, whether master or man, said her nay in the lightest thing, to my knowledge, and this was a plea for the one fault which had hitherto set me against her. [10]
I scarcely know where to take you; for I never know where to go myself, and seldom do go where I intend when I set forth. [4]
And if so, where shall we set it down, and be free from the difficulty? [7]

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