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Sentences starting with six

Six months ago you were, apparently, one of the most orthodox rectors in the diocese. [9]
Six months ago you had a prisoner here, captured on the New England border. [11]
Six and thirty years he had been supreme in that town--long enough for any man. [9]
Six pound a year! [12]
Six days after writing his letter Shelley and his wife were together again for a moment--to get remarried according to the rites of the English Church. [5]
Six in a wrapper, quite easy to hide under your cloak. [10]
Six months later William Rufus Holly, a deacon in holy orders, journeyed to Athabasca in the Far North. [11]
Six English vessels were suddenly opposed by a Spanish convoy of 53 ships of war. [4]
Six times it was, not more. [11]
Six days ago--it was that raw day which provoked so much comment--my daughter was on her way up from New York, and at noon she telegraphed me from New Haven asking that I meet her with a cloak at Portsmouth. [5]

Sentences ending with six

To do either was plainly the labor of months; for we could blast and bore only a few feet a day--some five or six. [5]
Won't you come to-morrow at six? [11]
Gabord had promised to bring Alixe to me at six. [11]
Later we find their number fixed at six. [10]
Needless to say, the practice did not immediately begin to pour in, but the little office rarely lacked a visitor, and sometimes had as many as five or six. [9]
I would have taken you to be thirty-five or six. [5]
I took the stupid "Warranty Deed" itself and chopped it up into Hiawathian blank verse without altering or leaving out three words, and without transposing six. [5]
Or is it six? [5]
Getting up, she opened the glass door, and stood trying to estimate the hour: it must be, she thought, about six. [9]
It was a mercy he was only six. [5]

Short sentences using six

It is only six o'clock. [9]
There were six of them. [5]
I's wuth six hund'd dollahs. [5]
Nineteen twenty six Fowler Street. [9]
Two and six apiece, sir. [9]
Six months came and went. [5]
Six or seven. [5]
Six f----" Bang! [5]
Six dollars due. [5]
Six? [5]

Sentences containing six two or more times

The plantation contains two thousand six hundred acres; six hundred and fifty are in cane; and there is a fruitful orange grove of five thousand trees. [5]
Six days of the week, about six o'clock in the evening, there was a celebration in the family. [9]
In six years the tiger killed 5,000 persons, minus 50; in the same six years 10,000 tigers were killed, minus 400. [5]
In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. [7]
He was of the 'advanced' school of thinkers, and applied natural laws to the interpretation of all miracles, somewhat on the plan of the people who make the six days of creation six geological epochs, and so forth. [5]
He was of the "advanced" school of thinkers, and applied natural laws to the interpretation of all miracles, somewhat on the plan of the people who make the six days of creation six geological epochs, and so forth. [5]
Six thousand of that eight were still left, and it was concern for this six thousand which had brought Dolores to the Manor this night when Jean Jacques snored so loudly. [11]
In five or six thousand years five or six high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then faded out and disappeared; and not one of them except the latest ever invented any sweeping and adequate way to kill people. [5]
Moreover, the colossal six preceded the little six and had done the mischief before they were born. [5]
We left our six fine horses and took six mules in their place. [5]

More example sentences with the word six in them

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
This means that you have not six months to live. [5]
Didn't you say you had six months to raise the money in? [5]
All six of you at me! [5]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
During these six years I have been living a life of peaceful ignorance. [5]
Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
Moreover, my conviction would probably deprive him for six whole afternoons of my company, on which he was more or less dependent. [9]
And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece--there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar. [5]
In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts. [2]
And then anon within six strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. [5]
We were now within six leagues of the King, who was a the Castle of Chinon. [5]
We got through with this work at six in the evening. [5]
She turns up with the Pallas at six bells o' the middle watch. [9]
Her dryad-like face, with its sweet, elusive smile, seemed to peer at him now wistfully out of the forest, and suddenly a new and startling thought rose up within him--after six and thirty years. [9]
I was born with a full crop of hair, he was as bald as an egg for six months. [5]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
There ain't no whistles hereto get you out of bed at six a.m., for one thing. [9]
The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth. [11]
One autumn day when I was a little lad of eight or nine, my grandfather and I were driving back from Whitehall in the big coach, when we spied a little maid of six by the Severn's bank, with her apron full of chestnuts. [9]
Would Jethro remember what happened there almost six and thirty years before? [9]
I suppose you were with him at six o'clock last evening, instead of being here with me, as you promised. [11]
By six we were well over the line, and consulting our chart, we selected a cove behind a headland on our left, which seemed the best we could do for an anchorage, although it was shallow and full of rocks. [9]
But six months were to intervene before the beginning of my duties--how to fill that time profitably was the question. [11]
The other class were the active agents, and were termed strikers, and amounted to about six hundred and fifty. [5]
Only six chambers were in the gun, and of course one chamber was empty. [11]
Now if you were five or six feet high, and--" "Oh, come! [5]
Only a few were burned,--enough to give no cover for Hamilton and his six hundred if they came. [9]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
But in six weeks at latest I shall be here again; then real life will first begin, and Eros will make the roses bloom for us. [10]
He stayed six weeks at Bordeaux to improve himself in the language, and then set out for the Mediterranean. [4]
By half-past six we were under way, and all the Syrian world seemed to be under way also. [5]
By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
In the afternoon we went to a tea at a very grand house, where, as my companion says in her diary, "it took full six men in red satin knee-breeches to let us in. [6]
Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
They all said we had plenty of time to go and get back to Quicksands by six o'clock. [9]
In another quarter we found six Italians engaged in a violent quarrel. [5]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
Having ascertained that we can get no more information about Baddeck here than in St. John, we go to bed early, for we are to depart from this fascinating place at six o'clock. [4]
We found the way without any trouble, reached there before sundown, played three games of cribbage, borrowed a dug-out and pulled back six miles to the upper camp. [5]
Part of the way it was covered with small, loose stones--we trod on six at a time, and they all rolled. [5]
The oldest he was years not six, And the youngest only eleven months old, But often she had left them there alone, As, by the neighbors, I have been told. [5]
If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
Then the key was turned and the bolt cautiously withdrawn, and a crack of six inches disclosed her aunt. [9]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
The Persian foot was not much more numerous than the Egyptian, but they had six times the number of horse-soldiers. [10]
Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
But Janet, who was earning six dollars as a stenographer in the office of the Chippering Mill, regularly gave half of hers. [9]
The daring act was committed just at dawn, by six masked men, who sprang up alongside the coaches, presented revolvers at the heads of the drivers and passengers, and commanded a general dismount. [5]
At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
After the Diet was broken up, the Elector Frederick of Brandenburg was forced to take patience till the princes, lords, and mounted men-at-arms sent forth by the townships, five or six from each, could muster at his bidding to pursue the Hussites in Bohemia. [10]
The fourth duel was a tremendous encounter; but at the end of five or six minutes the surgeon interfered once more: another man so severely hurt as to render it unsafe to add to his harms. [5]
Jo says you want to go to Canada within a month or six weeks--I forget just exactly what he did say; but he intimated the trip could be delayed a while, if necessary. [5]
This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away by excitement, but ask calmly, how does this person feel about it in his cooler moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on top of him? [5]
He write six verses for my granmudder--hein? [11]
He write two verses for de King of Englan' and he write six verses for my granmudder--you see! [11]
Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
Perhaps most, of us, will agree that our faith in domestic prophets has been diminished by the experience of the last six months. [6]
Now, then, let us see what has been the effect of six hours' boiling. [6]
Gumbert gave himself up to the officers of justice, and was shortly after discharged by Justice Atwill, on his own recognizance, to appear for trial at six o'clock in the evening. [5]
And they use up more hair-oil than any six men. [5]
We are cut up into parties of six or eight, and by this time are scattered far and wide. [5]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
They always send up enough to satisfy six bargemen. [10]
So I get up at ten every morning, and quit work at five or six in the afternoon. [5]
It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. [6]
I could never understand why a people who have been grumbling about snow and frost for six months, and longing for genial weather, should flee from it as soon as it comes. [4]
Most species, which undergo a double moult, keep their ornamental feathers for about six months. [1]
Last, and absolutely unassailable proof, the sutures in my skull closed six months ahead of his. [5]
The captain, the two passengers, and eleven men were in the long-boat, with a share of the provisions and water, and with no room to spare, for the boat was only twenty-one feet long, six wide, and three deep. [5]
The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud. [5]
The Grandson of twenty-three referred to himself five or six times as an "old traveler," and as many as three times (with a serene complacency which was maddening) as a "man of the world. [5]
Leaving London at twenty minutes before ten in the forenoon, we arrived in Paris at six in the afternoon. [6]
We had to turn out at six in the morning and keep at it till dark. [5]
We have fewer troops in the field at the end of the six days than we had at the beginning--the attrition among the old outnumbering the addition by the new. [7]
After the first treatment, which occupied six weeks, the physician ordered an intermission of the baths. [10]
Riding through the town, we could see marks of the six Smyrnas that have existed here and been burned up by fire or knocked down by earthquakes. [5]
Yet, as Sergeant Tom often asked himself during the past six months, why should he think of her? [11]
People that want to, can go to the expense and trouble of shipping their oils to Europe and back--it's their privilege; but our firm knows a trick worth six of that. [5]
If I were to waste my breath until six o'clock, it would be no use. [9]
We have got to wait six weeks, anyhow, for a dividend, maybe longer--but that it will come there is no shadow of a doubt, I have got the thing sifted down to a dead moral certainty. [5]
Walley set out to the Six Friends to represent his case to the admiral. [11]
He had gone to the Cure every day, and the Cure had talked with him, and then had sent him to the tailor, who had, during the past six months, withdrawn more and more from the life about him, practically living with shut door. [11]
However, I went to the bookcase, and when I had been looking six or seven minutes I found I was obliged to refer to the young man. [5]
I want you to take it; I want to give it to you--the six thousand and all. [5]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
The Cephalonia was to sail at half past six in the morning, and at that early hour a company of well-wishers was gathered on the wharf at East Boston to bid us good-by. [6]
I should like to run the treasury department about six months. [5]
Preparing to go to Roanoke next day, a boat was upset and Captain Spicer and six of the crew were drowned. [4]
They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degrading vanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it. [5]
It was six to one and half a dozen to the other--both no good at all. [11]

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