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Sentences ending with source

The horse could win, it would win; I had it from a sure source. [11]
And yet he was a very entertaining person, and I doubt if some of the information he gave us could have been acquired from any other source. [5]
And the light upon her face was of the same source. [9]
I--perhaps I was too hasty in locating its source. [5]
We were able to detect him among the crowd of arrivals at the hotel-counter by his correspondence with a description of him which had been furnished us from a trustworthy source. [5]
At any other time the invitation would have pleased me mightily; for, apart from the other two, Hungerford's brusque and original conversation was always a pleasure--so were his cheroots; but now I was under an influence selfish in its source. [11]
It is in their hearts that the "sentimental" religion some people are so fond of sneering at has its source. [6]
Enlightenment as to the identity of these disturbing persons came, the next day, from an unexpected source. [9]
We have learned that criticism is good for us, and we are grateful for it from any source. [4]
Care has been taken to so shape the document as to avoid embarrassments from this source. [7]

Sentences containing source two or more times

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention--there is no source that is humble enough for that. [5]
The source of blessedness is not without us but within...." Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. [2]

More example sentences with the word source in them

It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska Bill are like the poisoned source from which they come. [7]
The colored people, who are a conspicuous part of the establishment, are a source of never-failing interest and amusement. [4]
The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
The lofty ambition which had inspired her noblest and most praiseworthy deeds had more than once been the source of acts which she herself regretted. [10]
Was it this which agitated Cleopatra so violently that her voice lost its bewitching melody, as she went on in a harsh, angry tone?--"So that is the source of all this misfortune. [10]
For the source whence the Thug tales mainly came was a Government Report, and without doubt was not republished in America; it was probably never even seen there. [5]
If two languages were found to resemble each other in a multitude of words and points of construction, they would be universally recognised as having sprung from a common source, notwithstanding that they differed greatly in some few words or points of construction. [1]
It had so well deserved to live that its death was a surprise and a source of regret. [6]
She explained as well as she could the social destitution of these opulent people, and she had of course to name Beaton as the source of her knowledge concerning them. [8]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
A grave motive was the source of the mirth by which she affected to be moved at the sight of her enemy's cloak. [10]
Thus her presence was a source of peril to Alexander, and she must at any cost avert that. [10]
The churches know very well, he maintains, that the fear of everlasting punishment more than any or all other motives is the source of their power and the support of their organizations. [6]
Very well; the very source, the very center of hypnotism is Paris. [5]
A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
A person accustomed to watch the faces of those who were ailing in body or mind, and to search in every line and tint for some underlying source of disorder, could hardly help analyzing the impression such a face produced upon him. [6]
But you close to the intimate source of the events must know all. [11]
It presently occurred to him that there might be some local source of infection which had brought on the complaint, and was still keeping up the symptoms which were the ground of alarm. [6]
It seemed as though he feared his ear might miss a note of this song, his eye a movement of this source of melody. [10]
The letters of this summer (1862) most of them bear evidence of waning confidence in mining as a source of fortune--the miner has now little faith in his own judgment, and none at all in that of his brother, who was without practical experience. [5]
The revenue from this source is not large. [5]
For some of them held these grants, and others Virginia grants--a fruitful source of quarrel between them. [9]
But it was the untamed enthusiasm which is the source of all great thoughts and deeds,--a beautiful delirium which age commonly tames down, and for which the cold shower-bath the world furnishes gratis proves a pretty certain cure. [6]
The shortness of the time at their disposal was a still greater source of anxiety, and to this was added the information that one hundred and twenty thousand workmen had perished during the restoration of the canal which Pharaoh Necho nearly completed. [10]
The King is the source of all estate and honour, and I am loyal to the King. [11]
And such is the primal source of our government! [5]
The portion of the Papyrus Ebers just mentioned is now the only Egyptian source from whence we can obtain instruction concerning this important branch of ancient medicine. [10]
The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: "The public lands have ceased to be a source of revenue. [7]
In that lies the freshness and the interest of life, and it is the source of every endeavor. [4]
The source of the false tidings is discovered later. [10]
Now then," said the earl, with the light of triumph in his eye, "the inexorable logic of the situation narrows us down to this: our feeling has its source in the money-loss involved. [5]
Whatever may be the development of affairs, we are and shall remain the source whence Rome draws the largest share of the knowledge which enriches her brain. [10]
He guessed well; the book has been a great source of instruction and entertainment to me. [6]
Of course in the beginning there is a good deal of revenue from this source, but the revenue diminishes as the club improves, so that we have the anomaly of its failure to be self-supporting in proportion to its excellence. [4]
The alliance of the associated press with the telegraph company is a fruitful source of news of an inferior quality. [4]
Mr. Bain states, that, "sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathiser"; and he accounts for this through reciprocity. [1]
A portion of that soul, which dwelt in all created things, had its abode in each human being, to return to the divine source after death. [10]
On the chance that she knew more, from some source, I changed my tactics. [9]
If any thought that now, in that solemn hour when all transgressors repent and confess, she would revoke her revocation and say her great deeds had been evil deeds and Satan and his fiends their source, they erred. [5]
The source of that extraordinary power of penetrating the meaning of the events then occuring lay in the national feeling which he possessed in full purity and strength. [2]
Pythagoras too, whose teaching is not new to you, worships one god only, whom he calls Apollo; because, like the Greek sun-god, he is the source of light and of those harmonies which Pythagoras holds to be higher than all else. [10]
It recognizes and supports the belief that a series of cases may originate from a single primitive source which affects each new patient in turn; and especially from cases of Erysipelas. [3]
This comparison naturally suggests the recollection of that other source of danger which was an element in the every-day life of the Rockland people. [6]
The source of such a gift could not long be kept secret. [6]
This subconscious self stretches down, as it were, into the depths of the universe and taps the source of spiritual power. [9]
Why stop its spread in one direction, and cut off its source in another, if they did not look to its being placed in the course of its ultimate extinction? [7]
But whatever its source, it gave Mahommed Seti his life. [11]
What was the source of that serenity which shone on the face of his friend? [9]
This was a source of pleasure, for since Wolff had extorted his consent to the betrothal with Els Ortlieb, and thus estranged him from the Vorchtels, he had seriously feared that he had ceased to love him. [10]
This was the source of much talk and speculation among parties directly interested. [5]
He was the source of it. [9]
It is a source of honest pride to his descendant that his bill, which was honestly paid, as it seems to have been honorably earned, amounted to the handsome total of seven pounds and two shillings. [3]
It was the source of her revolt at Jasmine's conduct and character. [11]
He was a source of Government revenue. [5]
He was a source of genuine aggravation and annoyance. [5]
There was a source of fear in Kilby. [11]
They receive their soul from the heights of heaven, the seat and source of light; their material body is of the earth; and the appearance or outward form by which one human being is distinguished from another at sight--his phantom or shadow--belongs to the depths. [10]
Rather will I shelter him from thy revenge, knowing as I do the impure source from which it springs. [10]
Over all was self-infatuation, the bane of princes, the curse of greatness, the source of wide injustice. [11]
They will be scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange, that I, the very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them. [5]
He did not say that Douglas was among them, but we prove by another source that about the same time Douglas comes into the Senate with that provision stricken out of the bill. [7]
The master looked round and saw the young butcher's arm in an attitude which pointed to it unequivocally as the source from which the projectile had taken its flight. [6]
And when the rector came to dine and read to Mr. Carvel, my uncle catechised him so searchingly on my progress that he was pushed to the last source of his ingenuity for replies. [9]
What does the reader suppose was the source of the most ominous thought which forced itself upon my mind, as I walked the decks of the mighty vessel? [6]
Many rivers are quite different in color at their source and at their mouth, and so it was often with her tears; she began to weep for sorrow, and then found it difficult to dry her eyes for sheer overflow of mirth. [10]
Of course, the profession reacts on its source with variable energy.--But there never was a guild of dealers or a company of craftsmen that did not need sharp looking after. [6]
It is the principal source of the Abana river --only one-half mile down to where it joins. [5]
This practice has prevailed a good deal in America, and was doubtless the source in some measure of the errors I combated. [6]
How was it possible to refuse her, when she said to Old Sophy, that she should like to have her minister come in and sit by her, even though his presence might perhaps prove a new source of excitement? [6]
By consequence, all political power has reverted to its original source, the people of the nation. [5]
You have a perpetual source of enjoyment denied to some people. [9]
We must get over the habit of transferring the limitations of the nervous temperament and of hectic constitutions to the great Source of all the mighty forces of nature, animate and inanimate. [6]
When you've found out the source of a disease, you've also found out what remedy is required--just as in this case. [5]
I know several other trades and the argot that goes with them; and whenever a person tries to talk the talk peculiar to any of them without having learned it at its source I can trap him always before he gets far on his road. [5]
There is no other source for any impulse. [5]
Long devotion to other pursuits had left little time for literature, and the waifs and strays gathered from the old Portfolio had done little more than keep alive the memory that such a source of supply was still in existence. [6]
Within a year or two past, a still higher honor has been awarded him from the same source. [6]
It is not only, therefore, a pleasure to recall Mr. Warner; it is a necessity if one would discover the secret of his charm, the source of his authority. [4]
It is not only that literature is the source of inspiration to youth and the solace of age, but it is what a national language is to a nation, the highest expression of its being. [4]
But there was one source of profound satisfaction,--the catamount had been killed. [4]
There is but one recognized source. [5]
Thus, as Kit often said, his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity. [12]
Medicine, sometimes impertinently, often ignorantly, often carelessly called "allopathy," appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anybody who is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause. [3]
It was part of the fascination she exerted that every one felt compelled to gaze at her, to discover the source of the charm which emanated from her whole person. [10]
Though by reason of that bounty she was what she was, she could not live and thrive on it longer, coming as it did from such a source. [9]
Contrast the sense of taste, as a source of suggestive impressions, with that of smell. [6]
If one end of religion is to make men happier in this world as well as in the next, mankind lost a great source of happiness when the priest was reduced to the common level of humanity, and became only a minister. [6]
If the source of power lies neither in the physical nor in the moral qualities of him who possesses it, it must evidently be looked for elsewhere--in the relation to the people of the man who wields the power. [2]
The first source of pleasure varies of course with our condition and the state of the surrounding circumstances; the second with the amount and kind of power, and the extent and kind of action. [6]
Though the source of M. Michaud's chagrin must have been different from that which caused Russians to grieve, he had such a sad face when shown into the Emperor's study that the latter at once asked: "Have you brought me sad news, Colonel? [2]
The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. [5]
It was part of his punishment that Junia was the source of his undoing where Luzanne was concerned. [11]
If the consciousness of freedom were not a separate and independent source of self-consciousness it would be subject to reasoning and to experience, but in fact such subjection does not exist and is inconceivable. [2]
Barbara heard nothing of all these things; her recovery was slow, and every source of anxiety was kept from her. [10]
You were the occasion; the thing I did had only one source, my own heart and mind. [11]
And it is not very far from being the solitary confidant, and the single source of inspiration, to the growth of a livelier interest, where a young man and a young woman are in question. [6]
That both the noblest impulses and the basest proceed from that one source? [5]
Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this stream of unholy adjectives and choice expletives. [5]

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