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Sentences starting with speaking

Speaking of those yellow squash-bugs, I think I disheartened them by covering the plants so deep with soot and wood-ashes that they could not find them; and I am in doubt if I shall ever see the plants again. [4]
Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
Speaking like an upholsterer, it furnishes the room. [4]
Speaking generally, I think we may say that Haller's doctrine is the one now commonly received; namely, that the muscles contract in virtue of their own inherent endowments. [3]
Speaking of those thin pumpkin-pies kept in the cellar cupboard. [4]
Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books? [4]
Speaking of Indian summer, the only approach to it I have seen was in the hazy atmosphere at the West Ende Halle. [4]
Speaking of Livy reminds me that your inquiry arrives at a good time (unberufen) It has been weeks (I don't know how many! [5]
Speaking of Latin reminds me that I once taught my cows Latin. [4]
Speaking of manufactures reminds me of a talk upon that topic which I heard--which I overheard--on board the Cincinnati boat. [5]

Sentences ending with speaking

You huddle to yourselves already in all countries, but you huddle to no sufficient purpose, politically speaking. [5]
I love this young creature's rapt attention to her diminutive neighbor while he is speaking. [6]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
Of what, of whom, are we speaking? [2]
But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
And then, with what seemed a retarded rather than sudden awareness, I knew that he had stopped speaking. [9]
Van der Werff was still speaking. [10]
Not a word was spoken, not a hand moved, when he ceased speaking. [10]
Why should the two halves of a brain not show a natural difference, leading to confusion of thought, and very possibly to that instinct of contradiction of which I was speaking? [6]

Short sentences using speaking

By speaking to your sister? [11]
Comprehensively speaking, nobody traveled. [5]
Elsie nodded, without speaking. [6]
There was no speaking. [11]
Iberville had been speaking. [11]
Now he was speaking. [10]
Who were you speaking to? [11]
Pardon me for speaking so. [4]
Now you are speaking hastily. [5]
Mr. Lincoln was speaking again. [9]

Sentences containing speaking two or more times

With them he was a man speaking to his fellow-man, instead of a despot speaking with creatures whose very existence was the plaything of his own caprice. [10]
She felt that Sonya was speaking the truth, that there was such love as Sonya was speaking of. [2]

More example sentences with the word speaking in them

Will you forgive your mother, my dear, for speaking to you? [11]
Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
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]
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
While he was yet speaking, Caracalla, leaning on the table by his couch with both hands, fixed his eyes on his face, without a word. [10]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
Among his fellow- workers he is called a politician--if loud speaking and boasting can make one. [11]
Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
Crozier was speaking with the look of the man who hypnotises himself, who "sees things," who dreams as only the gambler and the plunger on the turf do dream, not even excepting the latter-day Irish poets. [11]
Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
Lassiter traveled slower, with more exceeding care as to the ground he chose, and he kept speaking low to the dogs. [13]
The younger Granvelle, with his father, had also been present at the performance of this motet of homage at Cambray, and respectfully confirmed his Majesty's remark, speaking with special warmth of the fervour and delicacy with which Jean Courtois had conducted the choir. [10]
You were speaking with enthusiasm of the splendor of the Roman Empire. [10]
He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. [2]
Indeed, it was with a well-defined feeling of antagonism that he took his seat, and this was enhanced as they flew westward, Mr. Parr wholly absorbed with the speaking trumpet, energetically rebuking at every bounce. [9]
Pentaur ceased speaking with a deep sigh, and for a minute not a scholar moved. [10]
But, on the whole, I'm glad--" Jack stopped on the verge of speaking out of his better nature. [4]
It was Euphrasia who was speaking, and unmistakable pride was in her voice. [9]
Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! [9]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, the bigwigs who guided the Club's opinion reappeared, and everybody began speaking clearly and definitely. [2]
I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire. [6]
Without moving from where he stood he began speaking in a louder tone and more hurriedly than before. [2]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness. [2]
I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
Presently, while they were yet speaking of their departing, again there were voices without; and albeit I could scarce believe my ears I mistook not, and knew the tones for Ursula's. [10]
Annette and I were speaking of how to arrange it. [2]
And, when we were alone, my plain speaking did not seem to anger him, or affect him in any way. [9]
I am--your--hunter,' he went on, speaking with slow, painful emphasis, 'and I shall make you mine. [11]
We might as well be speaking French. [9]
Wetherell writes that weekly letter for the Guardian you were speaking to me about last year. [9]
About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
As it fell, we could be alone together for a few minutes only, and had no chance of speaking to each other privily. [10]
She led the way simply, not speaking, and her silence seemed to betoken the completeness of an understanding between them, as of a long acquaintance. [9]
As yet she was used to thinking and speaking with all candour. [11]
Even while she was still speaking, the friends exchanged significant glances; but scarcely had the last words fallen from her lips when the giant figure of the freedman passed through the door, which had remained open. [10]
While the toastmaster was speaking, the members saw Mr. Clemens's eyes begin to sparkle and his cheeks to flush. [5]
The doctor I was speaking of took me to see the cemetery just outside the town, I don't know how much he had done to fill it, for he didn't tell me, but I'll tell you what he did say. [6]
She thought he was speaking of Russia, or Prince Andrew, of herself, of his grandson, or of his own death, and so she could not guess his words. [2]
But while I was speaking about the sense of smell he nestled about in his seat, and presently succeeded in getting out a large red bandanna handkerchief. [6]
Even as he was speaking a thrill of admiration ran through Cynthia, piercing her sorrow. [9]
A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out. [2]
The old sailor was pointing to the shore, and speaking in bad French. [11]
The courier (this was not the one I have just been speaking of) thought that the portier of the hotel would be able to tell us how to find our way. [5]
The preliminary speaking was in progress, but Stephen neither heard nor saw until he felt the heavy hand of his companion on his knee. [9]
After the boat was fast to the landing stage he remained watching the captain, who was speaking a few parting words to some passengers of fashion. [9]
And then there was darkness and blindness, and he stood once more before his congregation, speaking words that sounded hollow, hearing responses that mocked him, stared at by accusing eyes that knew him for a hypocrite. [4]
After hearing what was being said by one or other of these groups he generally turned away with an air of disappointment, as though they were not speaking of anything he wished to hear. [2]
I saw her walking along, hanging her head; the serving man carried the lantern before her, and the Bohemian was speaking close in her ear. [10]
Summoning these, he waited for Cynthia to have done speaking, but when she had finished--he said nothing. [9]
And, speaking of wages, reminds me of prices of merchandise. [5]
You heard his voice speaking to you sometimes; you understood what he meant to say to you? [11]
Often, speaking with vexation of some failure or irregularity, he would say: "What can one do with our Russian peasants? [2]
She went about very brightly and sweetly among them, speaking to them as if she was mother to them all, angel of them all, domestic court for them all; as indeed she was. [11]
Beside him sat Uvarov, who with rapid gesticulations was giving him some information, speaking in low tones as they all did. [2]
Will you not use thee and thou in speaking to me, always? [11]
The Reverend Mather,--I use a mode of expression he often employed when speaking of his honored brethren,--the Reverend Mather was right this time, and the irreverent doctors who laughed at him were wrong. [3]
Is this being upright and faithful, or not rather speaking with two tongues? [10]
He was pointing up to the palace, and seemed to be speaking of some alterations, to which talk the other listened impatiently. [4]
As he came up the steps she felt herself pointing to the pack, and heard herself speaking words that were meaningless to her. [13]
Trafford could not understand why Pierre was so reserved, and, when speaking, so ironical. [11]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
Are you speaking true?--honor bright, now. [5]
Felion's daughter grew towards womanhood, and her beauty was great, and she was welcome everywhere in the valley, the people speaking well of her for her own sake. [11]
David motioned them towards the great gates, and, without speaking, passed swiftly down the pathway and emerged upon the road without. [11]
While speaking, he took Hermon's hand and gave him the stone, but the artist instantly used his finger tips to feel it. [10]
Among these folk, too, there are good men as well as bad," said he, and still speaking, he turned on his knees with a supple movement, got up, coughed, and went off to another part of the shed. [2]
He had found, too, in the past that when he seemed to be really speaking to his uncle, when it seemed as though the distance between them had been annihilated, that soon afterwards there came a letter from him. [11]
It is impossible to travel through Italy without speaking of pictures, and can I see them through others' eyes? [5]
In speaking privately to these young persons, many of whom have literary aspirations, one should be very considerate of their human feelings. [6]
On the way to the hospital at Quebec, however, Jo had been so careful of her father, so respectful when speaking of M'sieu', so regardful of her own comfort, that her antagonism to him was lulled. [11]
He had been to the hanging-gardens that morning early to visit Nitetis, but had been refused entrance by the guards, and the blue lily seemed now to offer him another chance of seeing and speaking to his beloved pupil. [10]
Only it had to talk with its face alone; and such speaking eyes, such rapid alternations of feeling and shifting expressions of thought as flitted over its face, I have never seen in any other human countenance. [6]
He was about to take leave but the Mukaukas was so buried in pillows, and kept his eyes so closely shut, that no one could detect whether he were sleeping or waking; so the Arab, not wishing to disturb him, withdrew without speaking. [10]
But allow me to suggest that you should avoid speaking of this; for it probably would induce some of your friends in like manner to cast their votes. [7]
Jokingly we got to speaking of it as my office; and amused ourselves with watching "my people" daily in their small grounds and trying to make out what we could of their dress, &c., without a glass. [5]
I was about to say, Mr. Ritchie, when my son called to pay his respects, that the miniature of which we were speaking is one of the most remarkable paintings I have ever seen. [9]
She begged him to say how long he thought she might live;--not to fear speaking the truth, for she was not afraid to die. [14]
I have nothing to say about them, but I should not be speaking to you now if they were not all rather helpless people. [8]
There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
He's just speaking to Mrs. Schoonmaker. [5]
He was speaking to me on the merits of roast beef--" "It's a fine day," said Mr. Hopper. [9]
He praised her to Marget, confidentially, but speaking just loud enough for Ursula to hear. [5]
I should like to keep on speaking terms with you. [11]
Anatole went up to him and began speaking to him, looking at and indicating the Rostovs' box. [2]
Knowledge had come to her; an apprehending soul was speaking in her face. [11]
Having finished speaking to her, the Emperor looked inquiringly at Balashev and, evidently understanding that he only acted thus because there were important reasons for so doing, nodded slightly to the lady and turned to him. [2]
She was then to find and bring down the volume I had been speaking of. [6]
Cleopatra allowed them to depart without speaking a word; only to Publius she said: "Till we meet again! [10]
Clement had happened to allude to Susan, speaking very kindly and tenderly of her. [6]
At the same time, however, a man who opens oysters for a hotel, or shells a fortified town, or sucks eggs, is not, strictly speaking, a conchologist-a fine stroke of sarcasm that, but it will be lost on such an unintellectual clam as you. [5]
For a long time the friends gazed without speaking at the wonderful sight, which seemed to glide past them. [10]
About the same time he received letters from Prince Vasili and other Petersburg acquaintances speaking of his wife's debts. [2]
I was goin' through the barber shop," Mr. Hartington continued, speaking to Jethro and ignoring the railroad president, "and I heard somebody whisperin' my name. [9]
It was as though she were speaking in a trance. [11]

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