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Sentences starting with setting

Setting it down abruptly, and resuming his preparations, he went on with his soliloquy. [12]

Sentences ending with setting

The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting. [4]
Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
At this he went up to her with downcast eyes, drew a small box out of the breast of his robe, and took out the emerald with the damaged setting. [10]
And Honora remembered to have seen, in a shop on Fourth Avenue, just the sideboard for such a setting. [9]
Now I have the stone and the setting; yes, that very setting. [10]
I saw the Stars and Stripes rising, the Tricolor setting. [9]
Now he could scarcely understand this; but he found it so much the easier to comprehend that these wretched surroundings no longer suited such a pearl, and that it behooved him to procure it a worthier setting. [10]
Howard, in her present whimsical fancy, even seemed a little grotesque in such a setting. [9]
The sun was now setting. [5]
Shall I confess it?--I had carefully rubbed off the discolorations on the ivory at the back, and the picture lacked now only the gold setting. [9]

More example sentences with the word setting in them

No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
Before setting to work to prepare my speeches it was necessary to make an attempt to familiarize myself with the seemingly unprecedented line of argument Krebs had evolved--apparently as disconcerting to his friends as to his opponents. [9]
Barbazon's--the horseshoe--among the wolves, just to show I could do things better than any one else--as if I had the patent for setting the world right. [11]
Pale, pale face with a golden setting, Deep, deep glow of stedfast eyes; Form of one there is no forgetting, Wandering out of Paradise. [11]
The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day. [6]
His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. [2]
Then, as we were setting out for Castle Howard, came the news of your death on the road to Upper Marlboro. [9]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
The setting sun was flaming upon it, a Summer shower was falling, and it was spanned by two magnificent rainbows. [5]
When he coolly walked into the great room, where a half-dozen of them were already assembled, drinking white "whiskey-wine," he had no intention of setting himself right. [11]
At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
What is the use of going about and setting up a flag of negation? [6]
I was setting up my own financial standard, and was forgetting the other fellows who hadn't my standard. [11]
His baggage was unpacked at once, and now he and a friend, laden with knapsacks, ice-axes, coils of rope, and canteens of milk, were just setting out. [5]
I do not understand, by the way, the pleasure of the jockey in setting up the tail of the horse artificially. [4]
Her face was turned away from me, towards the red glow of the setting sun above the hills. [9]
But Mr. Carvel took no heed of my silence, setting it down to another cause. [9]
He was prepared to wipe out the fishing-post if Mattingley did not produce Ranulph--well, "here was Ranulph duly produced and insultingly setting up a tent on this sheer rock, with some snippet of the devil," said Richambeau, and defying a great French war-ship. [11]
This she handed to the Syrian, desiring him to wrench from its setting a large emerald which hung from the middle. [10]
Some had desired to rest beneath the very ground they had trodden in their daily walks; some, where the setting sun might shine upon their beds; some, where its light would fall upon them when it rose. [12]
He was unable to procure the Greek fire, but he constructed a vicious torpedo which would have answered the purpose, but the first one prematurely exploded in his wood-house, blowing it clean away, and setting fire to his house. [5]
Well, I says to myself at last, I'm a-going to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to. [5]
The laymen have to keep setting the divines right constantly. [6]
When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar. [5]
He was surprised to find that this inner freedom, which was independent of external conditions, now had as it were an additional setting of external liberty. [2]
After setting fire to Bent-Anat's rooms, he had determined to lay a brand to the wing of the palace where, with the other princes, Uarda's friend Rameri was sleeping. [10]
In the mean time, what is the use of setting the man with the silver watch against the man with the gold watch, and the man without any watch against them both? [6]
The paper, in time, was moved into a part of the Clemens home, and the two brothers ran it, the younger setting most of the type. [5]
But we dragged through and sped away toward the setting sun. [5]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
He was never thoroughly happy unless he was taking the machine apart or setting it up again. [5]
Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
Let us lift this wondrous fact, once and for all, out of the ecclesiastical setting and incorporate it into our lives. [9]
And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
Farrar, after setting things to rights, joined Mrs. Cooke and me over the cabin. [9]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
The world, on these mornings, had a sparkling unreality, the cold, cobalt sea stretching to sun-lit isles, and beyond, the vividly painted shore,--the setting of luxury had never been so complete. [9]
She was setting there in a brown study, with it laying in her lap. [5]
Natasha threw off the shawl from her shoulders, ran forward to face "Uncle," and setting her arms akimbo also made a motion with her shoulders and struck an attitude. [2]
We had all the setting, all the illusion of that perfect ideal of domesticity, love in a cottage. [9]
At last, when the setting sun was flooding the court-yard, he stood arrayed upon the gallery, ready to venture forth to conquest. [9]
Their figures against the setting sun took on a strange burnished radiance, so that they seemed as mystical pilgrims journeying into that golden haze, which veiled them in beyond the hill, as the Angelus sounded from the tower of the ancient church. [11]
Manners, thereby setting the poor little man all a-tremble. [9]
Philostratus is setting the people crazy. [10]
It will be the inevitable result that these young ladies, setting themselves apart for a period to the intellectual life, will raise the standard of the young men, and of married life generally. [4]
You gain by the historic setting of the Church, and yet it does not absorb you. [9]
They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain. [2]
But what struck the centurion and his comrades as most remarkable in their appearance were the flash and sparkle from their slender ankles, as the setting sun suddenly shot a fleeting ray through a rift in the heavy clouds. [10]
In five minutes the boat was level full, and we was setting on the lockers buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and could hardly breathe. [5]
The reports of the ball give you the setting of the drama. [4]
At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
I always thought that,' said Quilp setting down his glass. [12]
Presently he learned that three days hence a meeting of the States of Bercy was to be held for setting the seal upon the Duke's formal adoption of Philip, and to execute a deed of succession. [11]
She only knew that a voice called her to England, to follow the footsteps of Michel de la Foret, who even this night would be setting forth in the Governor's brigantine for London. [11]
It is better than the gross obscenities of Rabelais, and perhaps in some day to come, the taste that justified Gargantua and the Decameron will give this literary refugee shelter and setting among the more conventional writing of Mark Twain. [5]
The old count, suddenly setting to work, kept passing from the yard to the house and back again, shouting confused instructions to the hurrying people, and flurrying them still more. [2]
One shop had such a display of magnificent dressing-cases that I should have thought a whole royal family was setting out on its travels. [6]
The hussars had succeeded in setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was someone to fire at. [2]
A warrior had succeeded in penetrating the hostile citadel untouched and setting his foot on the hearth! [10]
By the Anahita star, which is setting so beautifully in the east, he shall be revenged! [10]
Pretty soon a splendid young man come galloping down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier. [5]
The current of sound practice with ourselves is, I believe, setting fast in the direction I have indicated in the above proposition. [6]
The handsome young soldier who had brought the wood, setting his arms akimbo, began stamping his cold feet rapidly and deftly on the spot where he stood. [2]
I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent. [5]
The train was skirting an ancient town set on a hill, crowned with a castle and a Gothic church whose windows were afire in the setting sun. [9]
One was a singular "handiness" about doing anything and everything, from laying out a railroad or organizing a political party, down to sewing on buttons, shoeing a horse, or setting a broken leg, or a hen. [5]
The setting sun shot slanting rays on the glittering surface of the glassy waters in which the numberless masts of the Nile-boats were mirrored. [10]
It was that short time when the sun appeared to rest before setting, and silence, like a cloak of invisible life, lay heavy on all that shimmering world of sage. [13]
The setting sun shining full on the window had roused the bird, and he began to pour out a flood of delicious melody which flowed on and on, causing the people in the street to stay their steps and look up. [11]
I love, love..." she said, convulsively pressing her hands and setting her teeth with a desperate effort... She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this. [2]
At this moment she could only think of St. John's as the setting of the supreme drama. [9]
The sun was setting, and the riot of colours in the western horizon seemed like a mockery of the torturing anxiety which had mastered his soul. [10]
The sun was setting when Andreas made his way to Zeno's house--a long, white-washed building. [10]
I'll write you, setting the date, only we'd be glad to have you any time. [9]
Beyond it a setting sun gilded the corn-fields, and horses and cattle dotted the pastures. [9]
Tom had been setting quiet and thinking; but now he jumps up and says: "I bet you a thousand to one I know where we are. [5]
I imagined, on setting out, a system of strict and impartial investigation of the sources of history. [6]
I have been setting out some new raspberries, two sorts,--a silver and a gold color. [4]
The sun is setting on the sage--the last time for us till we dare come again to the Utah border. [13]
To-night, at the setting of the sun, an old man died in Syria who uttered thy name as in a dream when he passed. [11]
At last the setting moon emerged from the grey clouds, and her peaceful light silvered the heights of Baal-zephon and the shore of the bay, whose bottom was once more covered with tossing waves. [10]
The old man, setting meat before them, said: 'Eat! [5]
As I was setting forth at good speed, hand in hand with my new friend, she looked at the little maid's plain garb from top to toe, and not kindly. [10]
The sun was setting behind pleasant Aalst as he approached, and the sky looked as if it was strewn with roses. [10]
The professor was setting back there at his end, looking glum. [5]
The sun was setting above the ragged line of forest, and a blue veil was spreading over the tumbling waters. [9]
Can you not see that he tried to make compensation for Foorgat's death, by giving you your life and setting you where you are now, with power to save or kill him? [11]
I can keep--a secret too," she said, setting her lips feebly with pride. [11]
It has been said that, apart from the colour, form, and setting, the incidents of these Pierre stories might have occurred anywhere. [11]
He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn't budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn't let him. [5]
It's nearer the red-orange of a tree I remember one autumn, in the White Mountains, with the setting sun on it. [9]
Not until the rays of the setting sun were forcing their way through the pinks and rose bushes with which Pyramus kept her window adorned throughout the year, because she loved flowers, and the vesper bells were chiming, did her friend return. [10]
He did so quietly, picking out main incidents, and setting them forth, as he had the ability, with quiet dramatic strength. [11]
But now the puffs came from her walls slowly and more slowly, so that my heart sank with the setting sun. [9]
One isn't a printer ten years without setting up acres of good and bad literature, and learning--unconsciously at first, consciously later--to discriminate between the two, within his mental limitations; and meantime he is unconsciously acquiring what is called a "style. [5]
The letter that Philip Sterling wrote to Ruth Bolton, on the evening of setting out to seek his fortune in the west, found that young lady in her own father's house in Philadelphia. [5]
The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening was Boris Drubetskoy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. [2]
He had his own motives for bringing her to this determination,--and his own way of setting about it. [6]

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