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Sentences ending with standard

For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard. [9]
There also cries were heard and from a thousand lips rang the glad shout: "Jehovah our standard! [10]
I was setting up my own financial standard, and was forgetting the other fellows who hadn't my standard. [11]
They wear green twigs in their helmets, and the Eletto is marching in the van, bearing the standard. [10]
Even in the tasks allotted to each, and the opinions passed upon our physical and mental achievements, there never was any fixed standard. [10]
This is a standard--impossible to be reached perhaps, but a standard. [4]
By his own standard. [5]
Let that charter stand as our standard. [7]
Let the charter remain as our standard. [7]
Here, too, he raised the war-cry: "Jehovah our standard! [10]

Short sentences using standard

Elevate the standard of literature? [8]
Jehovah our standard! [10]

Sentences containing standard two or more times

For their standard was a standard of might the only right; but he--his whole life had been nurtured in an atmosphere of right and justice, had been a spiritual demonstration against force. [11]
Her feeling for the poor shows that she has a standard of benevolence; there she has conceded the millionaire's privilege of having a standard; since she evidently requires him to adopt her standard, she is by that act requiring herself to adopt his. [5]
We know that it is the office of the university to raise the standard of the college, and of the college to raise the standard of the high school. [4]
He could not have said by what standard he judged what he should or should not do, but the standard was quite firm and definite in his own mind. [2]

More example sentences with the word standard in them

And how have you defended the standard that it was incumbent on you to uphold and maintain? [10]
Perhaps in the world of modern reforms this is not possible; but I intend now to cultivate only the standard things, and learn to talk knowingly of the rest. [4]
It was he, who led the way for the Spaniards with the standard on his head, when they waded through the sea that stormy night, to surprise Zierikzee. [10]
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
The capital needed, when peace comes, to ensure a happy and contented democracy must be procured without encroaching on the minimum standard of life, and without hampering production. [9]
Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
And why should we presume to set up our standard of what is valuable in life, of what is a successful career? [4]
Deeply agitated, we watched during the memorable examination the touching spectacle of the greatest heart making itself the standard by which to measure what is petty and ignoble. [10]
The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
The royal standard was not floating from the tower of the castle, and everything was quiet and lonely. [6]
There is to us something pathetic in this and in the surprise of the English critic, that there can be any standard of respectable achievement outside of a seven-miles radius turning on Charing Cross. [4]
Nothing promising occurred, until one night at the Murray Hill Hotel he was introduced by Dr. Clarence C. Rice to Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil group of financiers. [5]
He was quiet, unobtrusive, and only a fair scholar according to the standard of the College authorities. [6]
They are useful, too, in keeping up the standard of dress, which, but for them, would deteriorate, and become, what some old fools would have it, a matter of convenience, and not of taste and art. [6]
But, watching them together, one who had had any standard of good life could never have hesitated between the two. [11]
Joan rode straight to the fosse where she had received her wound, and standing there in the rain of bolts and arrows, she ordered the Paladin to let her long standard blow free, and to note when its fringes should touch the fortress. [5]
It is difficult to rouse her to any sense of her duty as a standard of aspiration. [4]
I'm not trying to limit their generosity--indeed no, they may pile that Standard Oil, Helen Keller College Fund as high as they please, they have my consent. [5]
The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living. [9]
For a short time he was concealed from his eyes, then he saw the top of the standard, then the banner itself, and now his son stood on the highest part of the rampart, shouting: "Espana, Espana! [10]
These are the three cardinal doctrines of Hahnemann, as laid down in those standard works of Homoeopathy, the "Organon" and the "Treatise on Chronic Diseases. [3]
Of each of these kinds of communication Currer Bell received her full share; and her warm heart, and true sense and high standard of what she aimed at, affixed to each its true value. [14]
But for me there is only one province, and I will lift my standard there, and build a grand chateau of my happiness there. [11]
The rest of the visit went off well enough, except that the "Man of Letters," so called, rather snubbed some of the heavenly bodies as not quite up to his standard of brilliancy. [6]
With him came the standard of Seville, borne by the men-at-arms of that renowned city, and the Prior of St. Juan, with his followers. [4]
The other, in the Standard of Freedom, is written by William Howitt, a Quaker! [14]
Again, one of the standard maxims of war, as you know, is "to operate upon the enemy's communications as much as possible, without exposing your own. [7]
We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge. [5]
So he painted the Saviour on one side of the standard, the Virgin on the other. [10]
The light illuminated the red and white bars of the ensign, upheld by the standard bearer of the regiment, the smaller flags flaunted by the strikers--each side clinging hardily to the emblem of human liberty. [9]
The standard of the Poems and of the plague-spot-and-bacilli effort is exactly the same. [5]
Peter is giving the pallium to the Pope, and a standard to Charlemagne. [5]
These are, perhaps, the only things we are agreed about; but, although they are so few, they are of inestimable value, because they make an infallible standard of sanity. [5]
These are perhaps the only things we are agreed about; but although they are so few, they are of inestimable value, because they make an infallible standard of sanity. [5]
So long as the Lord is thy help and Jehovah is our standard, we need fear no foes. [10]
With respect to the latter theory the standard and the motive of conduct have no doubt often been confused, but they are really in some degree blended. [1]
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]
He believed in the gold standard, for one thing; in the tariff (left unimpaired in its glory) for another, and with a wave of his hand would indicate the prosperity of the nation which surrounded him,--a prosperity too sacred to tamper with. [9]
He believed in the gold standard, a high tariff, and eternal damnation. [9]
Will it measure the fluttering leaf by the same standard as the firmly-rooted plant? [10]
Genuine literature is the expression, we take it, of life-and truth to that is the standard of its success. [4]
It is not the English language nor its body of enduring literature--the noblest monument of our common civilization--that the writer objected to as a standard of our performances. [4]
Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. [9]
The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
Then, as if sure of her cause, she indignantly cut short his words: "You measure him according to your own standard, and do not know what depends upon it for us. [10]
For sheer hatred--as sure as man is the standard for all things--merely carried away by a hideous impulse to spite their neighbor for not thinking as they do--nay, simply for not being themselves--to hurt him, insult him, work him woe. [10]
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
At last she succeeded in persuading him to measure a queen by a different standard from a woman of the people, and inducing him to arrange the manner and time of conveying the serpent into the well-guarded palace. [10]
This shows the subtle observation of the ancients; for the hunchback whose body is bent, applies a crooked standard to things in general. [10]
Measured by this standard, it is thirteen hundred years since the world has produced any one who could reach up to Mrs. Eddy's waistbelt. [5]
There flies the standard, for he has warned the sentinels. [10]
And if the standard were false, it followed inevitably that the life was false also. [9]
He accepted the standard of the street as a final fact for to-day, like the broker's list of prices. [6]
I know the standard of morality is higher. [4]
Drooping on its staff was the standard of England. [9]
In the last set, not one body out of the thirty-six was "found totally wanting in departures from the standard descriptions of the muscular system given in anatomical text books. [1]
Her standards are set by the rules of the heart, and when she has broken these rules she has lost her standard too. [11]
Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. [2]
One could already see the soldiers' shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, and see the standard flapping against its staff. [2]
It would be scarcely too much to say that his coming into the world promised a new era, and his traits, his likes and dislikes, set a new standard in his court. [4]
We can only say that it depends on an increase in the actual number of the population, on the number of men endowed with high intellectual and moral faculties, as well as on their standard of excellence. [1]
Thousands would gather round his standard, and so marching on to Paris, the Napoleonic faith would be revived, and he would come into his own. [11]
But as a reward for gratuitous services, I confess I thought it a little below that blood-heat standard which a man's breath ought to have, whether silent, or vocal and articulate. [6]
They raised a revolt; they scared a number of people into joining their standard, and Bekuokalani, an ambitious offshoot of royalty, was easily persuaded to become their leader. [5]
The deep-dyed sinner raising the standard of piety is picturesque. [11]
Seeing this, Joan raised her inspiring battle-cry and descended into the fosse herself, the Dwarf helping her and the Paladin sticking bravely at her side with the standard. [5]
Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post-office Department. [5]
It was a public affair, and not to be judged by one's private standard. [4]
Each man's own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. [5]
There are good, patriotic men and able statesmen in the South whom I would cheerfully support, if they would now place themselves on Republican ground, but I am against letting down the Republican standard a hairsbreadth. [7]
She had no other vital standard. [11]
When a man's offered a big price for his farm, he don't care whether it's by a secret emissary from the Standard Oil or not; he's going to sell and get the better of the other fellow if he can. [8]
That the effect of this has been ruinous in English practice I cannot doubt, and that in this country the standard of practice was in former generations lowered through the same agency is not unlikely. [3]
The dreamer's valuation of the thing lost--not another man's--is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases. [5]
Without the use of some language, however imperfect, it appears doubtful whether man's intellect could have risen to the standard implied by his dominant position at an early period. [1]
The high standard of our intellectual powers and moral disposition is the greatest difficulty which presents itself, after we have been driven to this conclusion on the origin of man. [1]
Am I certain of my own standard? [5]
In his table of measurements, the stature of each man is taken at 1000, and the other measurements are reduced to this standard. [1]
By this standard of measurement, this nation, two or three generations ago, consisted of mere cripples, paralytics, dead men, as compared with the men of to-day. [5]
These non-moral enforcers of justice--as they understood it liked Jack exactly as his friends in the New York clubs liked him--and perhaps the moral standard of approval of the one was as good as the other. [4]
And we know, notwithstanding the temporary triumph of bad taste and the public lack of any taste, that there is a standard, artistic and imperishable. [4]
It is certainly not true that there is in the mind of man any universal standard of beauty with respect to the human body. [1]
But we must not judge of the tastes of distinct species by a uniform standard; nor must we judge by the standard of man's taste. [1]
But it is no matter; size is the main thing about a word, and that one's up to standard. [5]
Hence in civilised nations there will be some tendency to an increase both in the number and in the standard of the intellectually able. [1]
When in any nation the standard of intellect and the number of intellectual men have increased, we may expect from the law of the deviation from an average, that prodigies of genius will, as shewn by Mr. Galton, appear somewhat more frequently than before. [1]
It is, however, more correct to speak of the latter principle as the standard, and not as the motive of conduct. [1]
Those simple old men didn't realize her; they couldn't; they had never known any people but human beings, and so they had no other standard to measure her by. [5]
Unless she is married, and married well, according to the money standard you men have set up, she is nobody. [9]
I know a man--a prominent man --who has written a book that will go like wildfire; a book that arraigns the Standard Oil fiends, and gives them unmitigated hell, individual by individual. [5]
As surely as man is the standard of all things--if it were so, then, then folly would be truth and right.--I, I--my desire--the aim to which my life was devoted. [10]
He has not made one statement whose veracity fails to tally exactly with my own standard. [5]
But he had made for her so high a standard, that for one to be measured thereby was a severe challenge. [11]
It was gold louis abroad and silver dollars at home--that was the standard. [11]
They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning, and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant, in a flame-colored field. [4]
Determine rather to look above that standard, and to strive beyond it. [14]
But how to let one's self down from the high level of such a character to one's own poor standard? [6]
And now at last I arrive at my object and tender my petition, making supplication to this effect: that the critics adopt a rule recognizing the Belly and the Members, and formulate a standard whereby work done for them shall be judged. [5]
Don Carlos, the king's eldest brother, immediately set up the standard of rebellion, supported by the absolutist aristocracy, the monks, and a great part of the clergy. [4]

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