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Sentences starting with sort

Sort of fruit not mentioned; their usual slovenliness in statistics. [5]

Sentences ending with sort

If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
I suppose one would take a man into the opera in London, where he cannot go in anything but that sort. [4]
While this letter with its amazing contents is on its way to astonish Joe Goodman, we will consider one of quite a different, but equally characteristic sort. [5]
I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
Even Mr. Jacques, who was sour as last year's cider over the doings of Parliament, lost his heart, and asked why we were not favoured in America with more of his sort. [9]
Wherefore, the "deal" which had been for some time working into shape in my mind was of a quite different pattern from the Cade-Tyler sort. [5]
Then came a week of what the Muncheners call hot weather, with the thermometer up to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, and the white wide streets and gray buildings in a glare of light; since then, weather of the most uncertain sort. [4]
Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort. [4]
Ay, and there was yet another sort. [9]

Short sentences using sort

No--nothing of the sort. [5]
Nothing of the sort. [4]
It is sort of lifetime. [5]
And that is my sort! [5]
Sweep of the lowest sort! [11]
That sort has gone out. [4]
I sort of expected you. [5]
Ooster----One of the best sort. [11]
He is a bad sort. [5]

Sentences containing sort two or more times

The Clemens home was a sort of general headquarters for literary folk, near and far, and for distinguished foreign visitors of every sort. [5]
As if responding to them but with a different sort of merriment, the metallic sound of the bells reverberated high above and the hot rays of the sun bathed the top of the opposite slope with yet another sort of merriment. [2]
Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
With quite one third more people than we had then, we have only half the sort of offices which are sought by men of the speaking sort of talent. [7]
It was a splendid population--for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home--you never find that sort of people among pioneers --you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. [5]
Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow --not hard and bright and bitter--to be Eugene Field's. [5]
But this sort of thing," said he, stroking the gown, "this sort of thing doesn't help the South, my dear, and only sets spies upon us. [9]
A broad sort of humour was written upon every feature; in the full, quizzical eye, in the width of cheek- bone, in the broad mouth, and in the depth of the laugh, which, however, often ended in a sort of chuckle not entirely pleasant. [11]
Just as Philip noticed without being able to explain it that his uncle was one sort of a man in his religious exercises and observances and another sort of man in his dealings with him. [4]
There would be no sort of use in it, since only one book in a hundred millions outlives the present copyright term--no sort of use except that the writer of that one book have his rights--which is something. [5]

More example sentences with the word sort in them

The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
They grate on your finer sensibilities, and all that sort of thing. [9]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
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]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
Wolf, I beg you to refrain from that sort of suggestions. [5]
Let me tell you one of my fancies, and then you will understand the strange sort of fascination she has for me. [6]
If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
I can't tell you how queerly this sort of thing affects me. [9]
I know how you feel, and I shouldn't let anything of that sort go out uncontradicted afterward. [8]
I was sure you did evil because you loved it; that to gratify yourself you would spare no one: a man without pity--" "On the contrary," he interrupted, with a sour sort of smile, "pity is almost a foible with me. [11]
I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
Upon my soul, yes, a sort of ambassador! [11]
But it was written by Parson Halleck, a great minister and a sort of Pope in this region for fifty years. [4]
Sonya said you wouldn't go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn't help going. [2]
The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
This common labor would be a sort of bond between them, a bond of charity purified from all personal alloy. [4]
Buckstone is a worldly sort of a fellow, but he has charitable impulses. [5]
That sort of words doesn't keep, in the kind of climate we have out here. [5]
You would smile--I wonder if you know what sort of wonderful, alluring thing your smile is, Ian?--and that smile would drive me to kill myself, and so hurt you still more. [11]
Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
Another sort of woman might have made him very uncomfortable. [4]
Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience a couple of times a day for about two weeks. [5]
These territories, together with the States themselves, constitute all the country over which the Confederacy then claimed any sort of jurisdiction. [7]
He was still with the Governor in all fact, though soldiering for Bigot--a sort of watch upon the Intendant. [11]
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]
He's by himself, with something of every sort in him from the top to the bottom. [11]
He found that with regard to the Grosvenor Green apartment he had not allowed for his wife's willingness to get any sort of roof over her head again after the removal from their old home, or for the alleviations that grow up through mere custom. [8]
He treated you with every sort of insolence and disrespect, and the bravest of you didn't dare to say a word. [5]
But I bowed with a sort of awed submission, and he turned and left the room. [11]
We have a winter climate of another sort from any in Europe; we have easy and comfortable access to it. [4]
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money. [5]
I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
Next summer we will put up a house there, not a very big house, just a long, low sort of a Moorish pavilion, the architect calls it. [4]
In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]
There was a wild sort of look in his face, as though he could not trust his eyes. [11]
Here were people who knew the truth about him, knew the sort of man he really was. [11]
We found many who had eaten the dorian, and they all spoke of it with a sort of rapture. [5]
The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
With the prosperity which he made attend his work he changed the character of the enterprise, and with Fulkerson's enthusiastic support he gave the public an art journal of as high grade as 'Les Lettres et les Arts', and very much that sort of thing. [8]
The best critique which has yet appeared is in the Revue des deux Mondes, a sort of European Cosmopolitan periodical, whose head- quarters are at Paris. [14]
This court week, which draws hither the whole population, is a sort of Saturnalia. [4]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
I don't know whether I am going to make this typewriting machine go or nto: that last word was intended for n-not; but I guess I shall make some sort of a succss of it before I run it very long. [5]
I now ask whether he is able to find in anything that Judge Trumbull, for instance, has said, or in anything that I have said, a justification at all compared with what we have, in this instance, for that sort of vulgarity. [7]
Like a caldron where a witch mixes all manner of strange things for a philter, each barricade consisted of every sort of rubbish, together with objects originally useful. [10]
It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling. [5]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
Now an ancient whale-ship master fell to talking about the sort of crews they used to have in his early days. [5]
We struck out westward or northwestward from Calcutta on an itinerary of a zig-zag sort, which would in the course of time carry us across India to its northwestern corner and the border of Afghanistan. [5]
Especially when the western sunshine streamed down over it all, turning even the dust of the atmosphere into gold and emblazoning the windows of the Tuileries with a sort of historic glory, his heart must have swelled within him in throbs of imperial exaltation. [4]
How surprised they were, then, to see nothing of the sort happen--how they marvelled to hear him answer up promptly, in a confident and untroubled voice, and say-- "There is nought in this riddle that is difficult. [5]
In the gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. [5]
And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
They two, indeed, were of one kind, and I of another sort who could never understand them,--nor they me. [9]
Sometimes--not too frequently--we were in the habit of going out into the country in one of her motors, a sort of landaulet, I believe, in which we were separated from the chauffeur by a glass screen. [9]
Fortunately the sailors were friendly and saved his life, and a considerable number of the better sort, seeing the malice of Ratcliffe and Archer, took Smith's part. [4]
Yet if I were but allowed candles, or a lantern, or a torch, some books, paper, pencil, and tobacco, and the knowledge that I had not killed Juste Duvarney, I could abide the worst with some sort of calmness. [11]
The discussions to-night were a sort of seeming plagiarisms of each other. [5]
As the work went on, he broke into a sort of dirge, painfully sweet. [11]
The day we went for him appeared to be an off-day, a sort of holiday with him. [4]
I bore it well enough, though, and said to myself, with secret satisfaction, "In three or four short days, my lads, you will be employing your tongues in a different sort from this--and I shall be there to hear. [5]
I thought it well enough to explain that this was a miracle of so rare a sort that it couldn't be done except when the atmospheric conditions were just right. [5]
An' as the weeks an' months went by I growed into a strange sort of a man, I guess. [13]
Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. [5]
In another place we were shown a sort of summer arbor, with a fence before it. [5]
But at last we see him get to the professor's head, and sort of raise up soft and look a good spell in his face and listen. [5]
Naturally, I say, we ought by the time of middle life to come to a conception of what sort of things are of most value. [4]
Day after tomorrow we leave for the hills beyond Elmira, N. Y. for the summer, when I shall hope to write a book of some sort or other to beat the people with. [5]
Tom knew their ways and the danger of this sort of conduct. [5]
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
This is the way the common sort of people will talk:--'You have got your ticket to the feast of life, as much as any other man that ever lived. [6]
In no other way so well as by association of this sort can be created the feeling of solidarity in our literature, and the recognition of its power. [4]
All that he was, which was different from the people she had known, she magnified, so that to her he had a distant, overwhelming sort of grandeur. [11]
Excited as she was, there was a wild sort of beauty in her face, and her figure was lithe and supple. [11]
Her moral sense was tolerant and elastic, and feminine sympathy of this sort is a grateful cushion. [4]
Half an hour was spent over Joan's apparitions--their dress, hair, general appearance, and so on--in the hope of fishing something of a damaging sort out of the replies; but with no result. [5]
I thought it was Saratoga and Richfield, and mild things of that sort. [4]
The poor relation was one of the timid sort, and was terribly uneasy to be got out of the house. [6]
You see, America was occupied a billion years and more, by Injuns and Aztecs, and that sort of folks, before a white man ever set his foot in it. [5]
The man's voice was not unpleasant; it had a rolling, crooning sort of sound, a little weird, as though he had lived where men see few of their kind and have much to do with animals. [11]
The young man was moderate in his sarcasm, and attempted to speak of national issues, but the crowd had small relish for that sort of thing. [4]
Dr. Leigh, who was laboring with a serious practical problem, heard this coldly, and with a certain contempt for what seemed to her a vague sort of consolation. [4]
Melted rubies it was indeed, of the sort which had quickened the blood of many a royal gathering at Blois and Amboise and Chenonceaux,--the distilled peasant song of the Loire valley. [9]
If this revelation was believed, it made no sort of impression in the country. [4]
We knew she was being overrun with applications for places in it, and that these applications were backed by great names and weighty influence, whereas we had nothing of the sort to recommend us. [5]
By night it was a sort of reminiscence of Paris. [5]
The Bolton house was a sort of hotel for this kind of people. [5]
Behind the fountain was a sort of cupboard--suggestive of the Arabian Nights, which Janet had never read--from which, occasionally, the fat proprietor emerged bearing Turkish coffee or long Turkish pipes. [9]
I thought that was a sort of a queer thing for Flint's daughter to do, but Austen didn't seem to look at it that way. [9]
Perhaps, too, there was a look of anger in them--not against the King, for there was a sort of eagerness or appealing in the glance she cast towards his Majesty. [11]
What sort of warrior should I make? [2]
It was a warm day in August, just the sort of day when an adventure of any kind seemed impossible. [4]
Immediately after the war of 1812, tourists began to come to America, from England; scattering ones at first, then a sort of procession of them--a procession which kept up its plodding, patient march through the land during many, many years. [5]
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]

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