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Sentences ending with sting

Then scowling Hate turns deadly pale, --Then Passion's half-coiled adders spring, And, smitten through their leprous mail, Strike right and left in hope to sting. [6]
An atheist in their midst was like a scorpion in a flower-bed--no one could tell when and where he would sting. [11]
She touches everything so daintily, she hits off a character in a sentence, she gives the pith of a dialogue without tediousness, she mimics without vulgarity; her narration sparkles, but it does n't sting. [4]
But my tongue rebelled at the very sight of my uncle ('twas bred into me, I suppose), and his fairest words seemed to me to contain a hidden sting. [9]
They can't bite or sting. [6]
But she is no more than a blind and loathsome worm, that cannot see to sting. [5]
And indeed, with many of us, it is humiliation and not conscience which makes the sting. [9]
I might have lived here in New York, secure, defiant of a veering public opinion that envied while it strove to sting. [9]
In past years I have certainly tasted its bitterness, and served it like a wasp, which, though it knows that in stinging it must die, yet uses its sting. [10]

Short sentences using sting

The sting went deep. [9]

Sentences containing sting two or more times

Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me. [5]

More example sentences with the word sting in them

But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
A common bee will sting any one or anybody, but a royalty stings royalties only. [5]
A common bee will sting and kill another common bee, for cause, but when it is necessary to kill the queen other ways are employed. [5]
Next instant there was a sharp sting in his right shoulder. [11]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
Fate had only to make his foot slip one little inch or decree that a wasp should sting him on the finger to put an end to his existence. [10]
Associated insects have thus acquired many remarkable structures, which are of little or no service to the individual, such as the pollen-collecting apparatus, or the sting of the worker-bee, or the great jaws of soldier-ants. [1]
Every second I thought the sting of his sword was between my ribs. [9]
Lord, how those things sting, and burn, and gnaw--the things which we did against the innocent dead! [5]
The wind died, the sun beat down with a moist and venomous sting, and northeastward above the edge of the bluff a bank of cloud like sulphur smoke was lifted. [9]
The sting of the slight had gone deep, but the apology was so prompt, and so evidently sincere, that the hurt was almost immediately healed, and a forgiving smile testified to the kindly judge that all was well again. [5]
When I say that no genuine young poet will apply it to himself, I think I have so far removed the sting that few or none will complain of being wounded. [6]
They do not sting, but crawl away from danger. [2]
He had a sting, a rush in his blood. [11]
She felt the sting in spite of herself, and she saw the point. [11]
She expected to sting her, and she did astonish and she did grieve her, for the breaking-up of her world could not do otherwise; but it was for her mother and not for herself that Evelyn showed emotion. [4]
Remember wasps and spiders can sting in their own way, and that dogs can bite. [11]
The morning was sparkling with life--the life and vigour which a touch of frost gives to the autumn world in a country where the blood tingles to the dry, sweet sting of the air. [11]
Then, one day she would have married, and no sting from my going would have remained. [11]
When you have once laughed at a misfortune, its sting loses its point. [10]
He was conscious of the sting of jealousy. [5]
I am dying of a serpent's sting as it was foretold at my birth; and if I had not gone out to seek Klea a serpent would have slipped into my cage, and have ended my life there. [10]
One little incident occurred about a week ago, to sting us to life; but if it gives no more pleasure for you to hear, than it did for us to witness, you will scarcely thank me for adverting to it. [14]
But it would not do; he was continually overpowered by the feeling that under the enthusiastic homage of the intriguing Queen Arsinoe's favourite lurked a sting which he should some day feel. [10]
She had the nettle to sting Roscoe to death, and yet she hesitated to use it. [11]
They must use neither dagger nor lance, but they will easily achieve their end with slings and hooks and poisoned needles, which leave wounds that resemble the sting of an adder. [10]
These ideas sting me keenly sometimes; but, whenever I consult my conscience, it affirms that I am doing right in staying at home, and bitter are its upbraidings when I yield to an eager desire for release. [14]
When Wrangle's long mane, lashing in the wind, stung Venters in the cheek, the sting added a beat to his flying pulse. [13]
But even if it angered me such words as those of Professor Phelps would take the sting all out. [5]
It was the irony of penalty that the one person in the world who could really sting him was this unacknowledged, almost unknown woman. [11]
The sting lies in unmerited censure--in the falsehood which does no one any good. [5]
The waves dashed in ruby foam at our feet, and even the tall, frowning pines at our backs were softened; the sting was gone out of the keen night wind from the north. [9]
Must they begin in blind faith, then be plunged into the darkness of disillusion, shaken by the storm of emotion, taste the sting in the fruit of the tree of knowledge--and go on again the same, yet not the same? [11]
Against Rudyard, against Ian Stafford; but most of all, a thousand times most against a dead man, who had been swept out of life, leaving behind a memory which could sting murderously. [11]
Only one thing I do know; the serpent is already sharpening its fangs to sting the heel of Him who shall tread upon it. [10]
The charm of his imagination and the music of his words took away all the sting from the thoughts that penetrated to the very marrow of the entranced listeners. [6]
There is nothing harder to forgive than the sting of an epigram. [6]
Everything about this hard, cold face appeared as sharp as a sting, and ready to destroy her. [10]
It is as hard reasoning with them as it would have been reasoning with Io, when she was flying over land and sea, driven by the sting of the never-sleeping gadfly. [6]
I was so glad there was not a single sting and so many good praiseful words in the Atlantic's criticism of Deukalion. [5]
And after the first sharp sting of it was deadened, I noticed a marked reserve in her intercourse with me. [9]
Then a little faint breeze struck us, and then it come harder, and grains of sand begun to sift against our faces and sting like fire, and Tom sung out: "It's a sand-storm--turn your backs to it! [5]
How bright his eyes were, how radiant with satisfaction and gladness!--She only wished she were a viper to sting them both in the heel!--At the same time Paula had lost none of her proud and noble dignity--and he? [10]
But for the epigrammatic sting the sentiment would have been unnoticed as a harmless overstatement at the very worst. [6]
The sting of despair had somehow been taken out of it, and it remained poignant! [9]
It cut him deep, but her eyes only had a distant, dreamy look which conveyed nothing of the sting in her words. [11]
Jean gave a curious cackle, and continued: "Ah, those wasps--they have a sting so nasty! [11]
Howbeit, I presently called to mind the honest eyes of my new heart's beloved, and that brought me peace; and how I was struck with horror to think that I had known the sting of that serpent whom men call jealousy. [10]
Have you no blood and bones, no sting of life in you? [11]
She was proud and she felt the sting of poverty. [5]
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience-money, as my books will show: then what becomes of the sting when that term is applied to Mr. Rockefeller's gift? [5]
He had been able to escape from its sting so entirely while he was writing that the notion of making his life more and more literary commended itself to him. [8]
She had, like a literary artist, polished and refined and stippled the effect, till something of personal touch had gone, and there remained classic elegance without the sting of life and the idiosyncrasy of its creator's imperfections. [11]
She had endured a good many social rebuffs in her day, this tolerant little woman, and the sting of their memory could only be removed when the people who had ignored her had to seek social favors she could give. [4]
And they have a curved sting, shaped like a scimitar, while the others have a straight one. [5]
If we take a cold-blooded creature into our bosom, better that it should sting us and we should die than that its chill should slowly steal into our hearts; warm it we never can! [6]

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