Use stir in a sentence
Sentences starting with stir
- Stir yourself as much as possible, and lay up $100 or $15,000, subject to my call. [5]
- Stir 'em up and get the money. [9]
- Stir it all a little; now put out the fire, "Take the jug and fetch some water--make haste, here comes a stranger. [10]
Sentences ending with stir
- For a space, while his spell was upon them, they did not stir. [9]
- If you wanted to trample my heart under your feet, I would not stir. [10]
- It was the time between the sowing and the hay-time, and there was a feeling of alertness in everything that had life, while even the rocks and solid earth seemed to stir. [11]
- Ceaseless, alert, silent, they had watched and waited, and at last the beggar knelt with his eyes fixed on the sleeper, and did not stir. [11]
- Natasha lying on the sofa, her head hidden in her hands, and she did not stir. [2]
- They disappeared by the hunter's cottage, but he stood still, breathing painfully, spell-bound to the cliff by which he stood--a long, long time--and did not stir. [10]
- Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir. [2]
- They presently achieved the distinction of being denounced by names from the pulpit--which made an immense stir! [5]
- Virginia did not stir. [9]
- He would not stir. [11]
Short sentences using stir
- He did not stir. [11]
- But Eliphalet did not stir. [9]
- Still the bear not stir. [11]
- However, I did not stir. [10]
- Don't you stir nor budge. [5]
- Never stir up litigation. [7]
- It made a great stir. [5]
- See how its feathers stir! [11]
- Don't stir, sir. [5]
- No one stir. [11]
More example sentences with the word stir in them
- She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity. [11]
- The artist nature, yearning to create, began to stir within more ceaselessly than ever before. [10]
- Not a step would she stir, though Mr. Marmaduke whined and coaxed and threatened. [9]
- I thought he would never stir again, he look so long. [11]
- Such an event would naturally stir Mark Twain to comment on human nature in general. [5]
- Out in the woods of Beedon he had attuned his flute to the stir of leaves, the murmur of streams, the song of birds, the boom and burden of storm; and it was soft and deep as the throat of the bell-bird of Australian wilds. [11]
- Her eyes, red with tears, were fixed on the shells with which the path was strewn, and she was using her long ruler, at first to stir them about, and then to write the words: "Paula," and "Paula, Mary's darling," in large capital letters. [10]
- She shall live with me: I will spread the cedar branches and stir the fire. [11]
- Let come what will, I owe my first duty to you, though all the world chatter; and I will not stir from that. [11]
- If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
- There is a wild creature under that long yellow pin which serves as brooch for the bombazine cuirass,--a wild creature, which I venture to say would leap in his cage, if I should stir him, quiet as you think him. [6]
- The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
- But even those who have felt the silence and the stir that prefaces the clamorous applause of the thousands could not know the thrill that swept her under his tribute. [9]
- Here, in Egypt, where she had first felt the stir of life's passion and pain and penalty, here, now, she lost herself in a beautiful, buoyant dream. [11]
- Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
- But presently they were altogether roused, the gun was put away, and both were on their feet; for after the pigeon arrived there was a stir at the Post, and Hilton could be seen running from the store to his house, not far away. [11]
- As the night went on, however, a feeling began to stir which it is not good to rouse in frontier lands. [11]
- You remember perfectly well what a stir it made; you remember perfectly well that even the Charleston Courier stigmatized the act as being unpleasant, of questionable propriety, and scarcely justifiable, and likewise that it would not be matter of surprise if retaliation ensued. [5]
- One might as well reason with a bee as to the form of his cell, or with an oriole as to the construction of his swinging nest, as try to stir these creatures from their own way of doing their own work. [6]
- Never mind, when we go back to town I'll stir round; you'll see. [4]
- After all, what was your Chevy Chace to stir blood with like a trumpet? [6]
- The admiration which was universally excited by his beauty gave him no pleasure, and many a time he felt as though it was not worth while to stir a limb or draw a breath. [10]
- But presently there was silence; for the sheriffs of London, in their official robes, with their subordinates, began to make a stir which indicated that business was about to begin. [5]
- Something more powerful was required to stir him. [10]
- The sick man was given something to drink, there was a stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service continued. [2]
- Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
- Everybody in our ward of the city was in a great stir about a certain election, and I thought I might as well begin with that as anything. [6]
- We did not want to stir him up just then. [6]
- It caused a visible stir of surprise, it being brand new and a sumptuous article of deal. [5]
- In every little village there is this intellectual stir and excitement; why, even in New York, readings interfere with the german;--['Dances', likely referring to the productions of the Straus family in Vienna. [4]
- But still the village seemed noisy, and, although it was dusk, I could make out much stir in the one street along which the cottages and huts ambled for nearly a mile. [11]
- Why not give up the adventure, and come to this quiet, and this good peace, so shutting out the stir and violence of the world? [11]
- Rostov received his tumbler, and adding some rum to it asked Mary Hendrikhovna to stir it. [2]
- A couple of trips made her wonted and easygoing at the work, and infatuated her with the stir and adventure and independence of steamboat life. [5]
- By the subtle transmission of thought, of feeling which is characteristic at dramatic moments of bodies of people, she knew that he had already contrived to stir them to the quick. [9]
- The broncho seemed to understand, for he did not stir, and had not done so for hours;--they could tell that. [11]
- He is going to stir up trouble against the tailor. [11]
- If it begins to stir too covetously, remember your duty as watcher--sound the horn and set the packs upon her. [10]
- It was enough to stir the dead. [10]
- Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
- When he began to stir about among his affairs, he was faced by the fact that the law stood in his way. [11]
- The wind began to stir a little, and there was a moaning on high. [4]
- He'd been aout to Spraowles's party,--there wa'n't anything to hender him why he shouldn't stir raound l'k other folks. [6]
- It was hard to people this solitude with rushing columns of cavalry, and stir its torpid pulses with the shouts of victors, the shrieks of the wounded, and the flash of banner and steel above the surging billows of war. [5]
- If I go to Meeting at all I like best to sit in the quiet old house in Germantown, where the windows are all open and I can see the trees, and hear the stir of the leaves. [5]
- Augustus Twain, seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. [5]
- Augustus Twain seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. [5]
- Your mother desired to have him moved to her house, but he is difficult to stir from his ways, and he would not leave his little room. [9]
- The stone seemed to groan, to stir, to grate, and then to move. [13]
- It said no to every stir of feeling that was vexing me, to every show of love or remembrance. [11]
- To go back to Cadiz?--oh, anywhere, anywhere, so that her blood could beat faster; so that she could feel the stir of life which had made her spirit flourish even in the dangers of the far- off day when Gonzales was by her side. [11]
- When she came to bed he did not stir, and he did not answer her when she spoke. [11]
- It was high time to stir now, and the King did it. [5]
- Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness,--as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water? [6]
- But don't stir till aw gie you the word, or aw'll choke the breath o' life out o' ye. [11]
- V Many of those picturesque features of the older England, that stir us by their beauty and by the sense of stability and permanence they convey, will no doubt disappear or be transformed. [9]
- And she--was not this delirious atmosphere of light and music just the influence to which he would wish to subject her before trying the last experiment of all which can stir the soul of a woman? [6]
- Do you not think so, and does not the acclamation of so many thousands stir your soul? [10]
- Is war a thing to stir the blood? [9]
- Like ghostly vessels they passed on, until at last they could hear the stir and murmur of life along the banks of the stream. [11]
- He well knew there was no man in the Cabinet or among his colleagues that would stir to help him--he had stirred to help no man in all the years he had served the public. [11]
- At that moment there was a stir in the doorway, and in came Mr. Carroll, the barrister, and Mr. Bordley and Colonel Lloyd. [9]
- This barkeeper thinks there hasn't been such another stir here in years, as his coming is going to raise. [5]
- Women gossiped in their doorways, but there was no stir anywhere. [11]
- Power--power, that is the thing of all," she said, her eyes shining and her small fingers interlacing with eager vitality: "power to set waves of influence in motion which stir the waters on distant shores. [11]
- Another stir in the street--occasioned by the appearance of the Honourable Giles Henderson,--of the blameless life. [9]
- Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
- As soon as the refreshing evening breeze came up from the river after the heat of the day there was a stir in the great court-yard. [10]
- For a moment the murderer did not speak or stir, for a struggle was going on in his breast also; then he stooped quickly, caught his companion's hand, and kissed it. [11]
- It occurred to the members of the Society that a little fresh blood infused into it might stir up the general vitality of the organization. [6]
- Nothing can stir the massive pier but the shocks that shake the solid earth itself. [6]
- The effect of the look was that of a visual effort to harmonize the man with the deed he had done, the stir he had created in the city and the diocese; to readjust impressions. [9]
- If I gave the letters up, she would not stir, and the disputed territory between us should be by articles conceded by the French. [11]
- The spirit of the frontier--of Mark Twain--was beginning to stir him. [5]
- The creatures of the deep which gather around sailing vessels are perhaps frightened off by the noise and stir of the steamship. [6]
- The words stir the dead heart of me, and throw a glow of color into a life which sometimes seems to have grown wholly wan. [5]
- It seemed to the count that things were beginning to stir in the French camp, and his keen-sighted adjutant confirmed this. [2]
- You will remember that Virginia Carvel came back from Europe; and made quite a stir in a town where all who were worth knowing were intimates. [9]
- They were not ten feet from him, and swords flashed before his eyes, but still he did not stir a hair's breadth. [11]
- The bank would tell you so, and then you'd stir those leadsmen up a bit. [5]
- Now you must take me to your own house, and I won't stir out of it as long as we are in this land of Typhon. [10]
- The subject of sweeping appeared to weary him; fire-building failed to stir him; scrubbing and scouring awoke no enthusiasm. [5]
- He had been surprised at Jethro's complaisance, and he wondered whether, after all, he had done well to help Chester stir people up at this time. [9]
- David Gray spent Sunday here and said we could but little comprehend what a rattling stir that thing would make in the country. [5]
- He had no sugar and no milk--not even a spoon to stir the ingredients with. [5]
- There was a sudden stir behind the screens which enclosed the sculptor and the work in progress. [10]
- There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
- The evolutions were such as to stir the blood of the most sluggish. [4]
- But it has struck me that the real Mr. Allen might turn up here, or some friend of his, and stir things a bit. [9]
- They have always stood for public spirit, and this Mr. Summer, although he is little over thirty, was chairman of that Vice Commission which made such a stir in New York a year ago. [9]
- But while we stood close by it would not stir, and the look in its eyes became wilder. [11]
- She did not stir, that she might not disturb the sleep he sought and needed, and twice held her breath, for he was talking to himself. [10]
- Shangois did not stir, nor show by even the wink of an eyelid that he recognised the laughter, or thought that he was being laughed at. [11]
- It made no stir, it attracted no attention. [5]
- It did not stir, however, and he soon found that it was only a stuffed skin. [5]
- Elise did not stir, did not courtesy or bow, but stood silent--entranced. [11]
- Voban did not stir, but stood rooted to the spot, his eyes, however, never moving from Doltaire. [11]
- Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
- He did not stir, but kept drumming till he knew that Gering was aboard, and heard his footsteps, with the captain's, coming. [11]
- She did not stir, but her breath came quicker and quicker, and her eyes seemed to grow keener. [10]
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