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Sentences starting with still

Still another set would take it to build a monument to the memory of those heroes. [6]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
Still more satisfactory would it be if it could be shown that he had reconsidered his predictions, and declared that he could not abide by his former alarming conclusions. [6]
Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
Still another explanation when husbands and sons and brothers come back across the Channel for a few days' leave after long months in the trenches, nothing is too good for them. [9]
Still great riches were meted out to you on earth, and what were a few nuts to you! [10]
Still other gentlemen were delivering themselves of the first impressive periods of orations, only to be drowned by the cheers of their auditors. [9]
Still the knocking went on. [11]

Sentences ending with still

He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
And I owe you my life still. [11]
If I gave--that would leave me with faith still. [13]
How easy it would be for him to win hearts still! [10]
Then--then the house would be empty; then the house would be so still. [11]
And a leg would be better still. [5]
Was she not worthy to be loved, and is she not so still? [10]
Everywhere in the world where the Romanys wander they will rejoice to hear that a Druse rules us still. [11]
Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. [5]
He was not without magnanimity, and he could the more easily exercise it because his pulses of emotion were still. [11]

Short sentences using still

Still, I've heard your voice. [11]
You are still young. [9]
She was still young. [4]
Are you still willing? [9]
Do you still waylay bishops? [11]
He waited--and still watched. [5]
How still it was! [11]
Still the story was unsatisfactory. [5]
Still, her heart was heavy. [10]
Provisions were still wanting. [4]

Sentences containing still two or more times

Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
I still have wings, I still might fly, but here I creep like a snail--because it is your will. [10]
The government at Whitehall still consulted him, still relied upon his knowledge and his natural tact; but secret as his conferences were with the authorities, they were not so secret that criticism was not viciously at work. [11]
The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
The sun still warmed us, the air was still grateful and life-giving. [6]
The blood mounted to her cheeks, and her little fists were clinched, but she never took her eyes off him; for everything in his person impressed her, if not as fine, still as exceptional--if not as great, still as noteworthy. [10]
The cambric dress, to be sure, was still no longer than the tops of her ankles and the hair still hung in a heavy braid down her back. [9]
The rain and thunder were booming yet, and the anxious family were still waiting, still hoping. [5]
Believe me, directly the war is over, if I am still alive and still loved by you, I will throw up everything and fly to you, to press you forever to my ardent breast. [2]
As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still. [2]

More example sentences with the word still in them

His name was Zeb Meader, and he was still insensible. [9]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. [10]
Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
You still nurse your passion for blood. [13]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
I am still your hunter, but in a different way. [11]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
They are still young...." She bent her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, Prince? [2]
You are still young, Katharina; try to grow better. [10]
She seemed still young, but poverty had marked her with unmistakable signs. [9]
She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
I am still young, and I have the power! [10]
Because you are young yourself, and can still cope with the bear and wild boar, you like the motto, which will probably lead to new wars, and thereby to fresh renown. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
He was just young enough, and there was still enough natural health in him, to know the healing touch of a perfect decency, a pure truth of spirit. [11]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
My wives are young and charming, and when they grow old, what is to hinder me from taking others, still handsomer, and who, by the side of the faded beauties, will be doubly charming. [10]
I appeal to you, Mr. Ritchie,"--he was still talking in French--"I appeal to you, who are a man of affairs,"--and he swept me a bow,--"if a captain would risk taking a fugitive to France for eight hundred livres? [9]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different. [10]
I am sure you will excuse me for remaining in Illinois, where much hard work is still to be done. [7]
Once I thought you true, and this letter you send would have me still believe so. [11]
Comrade, how still you stepped, your bayonet thrust out before you, clearing the mists, your eyes straining, your teeth set, ready to thrust. [11]
I will give you proofs, and then if my friend here still insists, I will try to accommodate him. [5]
We talked--I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet--ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam--and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court--yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything. [5]
I still owe you my after-dinner speech, but you must let me off, for I can't speak your language fluently. [10]
From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
Many years ago you docked me on an article because the subject was too old; later, you docked me on an article because the subject was too new; later still, you docked me on an article because the subject was betwixt and between. [5]
Dead stop,--so still you could hear your hair growing. [6]
She was wonderful yet, with her white hair and straight nose, her erect figure still slight. [9]
Both were hers, yet, though the infant raised its voice still louder, she remained at the spinning wheel, dreaming on. [10]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
Still, I cannot yet be your bride, your wife. [10]
The day before yesterday, do you know, I still was not quite clear about it all. [10]
You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
I should say, yes, decidedly; but still, to make everything safe, you had better get the judgment of a sculptor. [5]
I love him, yes I love him, you cannot think how dearly; still, I cannot be his! [10]
For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. [5]
It is four years, and still there are but two in your lodge. [11]
It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
It is twenty years since 'Pierre and His People' was produced--and it still endures. [11]
But still two years passed before David came. [11]
It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
These were three years of the deepest humiliation to Rhodopis, which she still remembers with horror. [10]
Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
I was still writing it when Michael Clones came up the drive to tell me you and your mother were here. [11]
Tennyson is still writing at eighty, and Browning reached the age of seventy-seven. [6]
Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
Does he still write on his back? [10]
I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]
That Ault would wreck the market, if he could and it was to his advantage, no one doubted; but still he had a quality that begot confidence. [4]
Even if he wounded Racine only, what a wretched story to go abroad: that he had fought with a hunchback--a hunchback who knew the use of the sword, which he did not, but still a hunchback! [11]
Well, if he wouldn't consent, but should even strenuously protest and say he wouldn't serve if elected, isn't it still wise and fair to nominate him and vote for him? [5]
Try as she would to keep it trim after the manner of her people, it still waved loosely on her forehead and over her ears. [11]
Still, curiosity, one would think, might be shed with the hair and the teeth! [10]
Her stand- point would still, in the end, be the stand-point of a woman. [11]
An abundant supply would still remain, by virtue of which she might continue to sin without fearing that Cleopatra would ever part from her Charmian. [10]
The old palace would still be great if there were nothing of it but the spacious and lofty hall where the durbars are held. [5]
She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
But still I would rather you had saved me than any one else who wasn't bound, like Tynie, to do so. [11]
Still, the association would not entertain the application until the money was present. [5]
But still he would never have set me free so hastily if an evil star had not brought the Swabian Junker to the spot. [10]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
Yet her mind would linger at the Serapeum, where her lover, too, still rested his fevered head. [10]
I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true --but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still mumbling. [5]
But when he would have taken it away, the little hand still clung, though the eyes were scarce opened upon life. [11]
Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
And this game would have gone on still longer but that she remembered that the seventeen must not be included at all, and that he ought to begin with eighteen. [10]
Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
Technically, you still would have been the spy. [11]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
Sometimes the others would get up and go away and the couple, left alone, still remained silent. [2]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
Two months ahead would be still better I suppose, but I don't know. [5]
He was not worthy to touch her, but still she loved him. [9]
It was still worse when night begun to come on. [5]
I am as worn out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a very serious talk. [2]
We were a worn and bedraggled and shabby-looking troop; and still, as always, Joan was the freshest of us all, in both body and spirits. [5]
So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
With all the world conquered there is still some mystic island of which she whispers, and to gain this her votary risks all--and loses all. [11]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
He was still working on the Call when it was written, and contributing literary articles to the Californian, of which Bret Harte, unknown to fame, was editor. [5]
For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
The landscape still wore an almost wintry appearance when our travelers left Chicago. [5]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
Such, though the words but faintly describe them, were her feelings, for thoughts were still to emerge out of chaos. [9]
But not a word of the sovereign had escaped her, and, though she still lacked the power of speech, she found courage to smile and shake her head in denial. [10]
He heard the word but faintly, for her face was still turned away from him. [9]
Yet, though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, Sweet echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung. [6]

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