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Sentences starting with strain

Strain every nerve to open communication with him by James River, or any other way you can. [7]

Sentences ending with strain

It was Cowan's voice that snapped the strain. [9]
I can do this miracle; I shall do this miracle; yet I do not try to conceal from you that it is a miracle to tax the occult powers to the last strain. [5]
The beauty of the scene was but a mechanical impression, to be remembered afterward when thousands of miles away, for the American Correspondent now at last lit his cigar and took up the strain. [11]
You see, David the Saadat is great on moral suasion--he's a master of it; and he's never failed yet--not altogether; though there have been minutes by a stop-watch when I've thought it wouldn't stand the strain. [11]
On this point the present rebellion brought our government to a severe test, and a presidential election occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain. [7]
Therein I hear the Parcae reel The threads of man at their humming wheel, The threads of life and power and pain, So sweet and mournful falls the strain. [6]
I am not sure that we shall ever be strong enough to endure that strain. [5]
Would the Constitution stand the strain? [9]
As he began slipping down, his head and arm wavered still more with the strain. [2]
In short, if my head had not been so heavily laden with other matters, it might well have become light under the strain. [9]

Sentences containing strain two or more times

There is, however, the Celtic strain, the Irish blood, immediate of the tang, as it were, and no doubt a sympathy between the Celtic and the Gallic strain is very near, and has a tendency to become very dear. [11]
Of course they had a Sellers strain in them--a big strain of it, too--but being a Bland dollar don't make it a dollar just the same. [5]

More example sentences with the word strain in them

See, we strain you to our bosoms, And we kiss your lip and brow; Human hearts must have some idols, And we shrine you idols now. [11]
The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
He was also wondering how much right he had to put the strain upon the woman in her desperate hour. [11]
Thus deftly, and without strain, and with an air of happiness even, did she set aside the words and the appeal which had created a storm in her soul. [11]
We were panting with the strain and the excitement. [5]
Presently he said, with something of hope in his voice-- "Perchance he is but mad upon this one strain, and hath his wits unmarred as toucheth other matter. [5]
We did not wish to strain it. [5]
It is not wise to strain a situation. [11]
The fall it will be his; and though I strive and strain, One blow will close my eyes, and I shall never waken. [11]
But you--oh, why, why is it I feel now, suddenly, that you have the strain of the coward in you! [11]
He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
As the weeks went on, the strain became intense. [11]
As she got well her help diminished the strain on her two friends, and in the beginning of March a call came to the widow which, if she followed it, must give their simple existence a new aspect. [10]
Mrs. Clemens, herself, was not in the best of health at this time, but devotion to her father took her to his bedside, where she insisted upon standing long, hard watches, the strain of which told upon her severely. [5]
At times I was afraid he was going to rupture his invention; but it always stood the strain, and he pulled through all right. [5]
This will strain us, but let us try it. [5]
The question was unnecessary, and she knew it was so; but she could not bear the strain of the silence. [11]
He was bowing under the strain of injuries, of the ride, of his burden. [13]
He could be trusted to go and say, 'My lord, the carriage waits,' but if they ventured to add a sentence or two to this, his memory felt the strain and he was likely to miss fire. [5]
It struck her, too, now and then, that the strain had a ring as of thanksgiving. [10]
The strain became too great at last. [11]
One ought not to subject his faith to too great a strain at first in Europe. [4]
The cat began to strain herself. [5]
His heart seemed to strain and burst, and just as he felt the end was come, he heard something crash on the murderer's skull, and the great creature fell with a gurgling sound, and lay like a parcel of loose bones across his knees. [11]
He even desired to show it to me, but an epicurean strain in my nature held me back. [9]
When he goes to Lawrenceville, as he will, I will strain every nerve to be with you and him. [7]
At the same time, she could not help foreboding the worst from it; she was afraid that Margaret's health would give way under the strain, and that if she did not go into a sisterhood she would at least go into a decline. [8]
But instead of this, the strain of anxiety was universal and heart-rending. [4]
At first, and this was not usual, he spoke about himself in a strain of sincere humility, taking blame upon himself for his inability to do effectively the great service his Master had set him to do. [4]
She heard at this moment the selfsame strain which they had then sung so joyfully, in spite of its solemn mode. [10]
Tracy, don't put this kind of a strain on me. [5]
I hope you think I was justified in making the effort I did, not without a considerable strain upon my feelings, as well as her own, to get hold of the papers? [6]
When, at length, they went away, and locked the dreadful room behind them, and came out into the street, where people were passing, they, for the first time, realized, in the relief they felt, what a nervous strain they had been under. [5]
If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention. [12]
This trait gives them a large theatrical strain, and sometimes brands them as adventurers. [9]
The quiver of their leg as the foot was planted and the strain exhibited by their bodies showed what a tax upon their strength the load was. [5]
Yet, man of the world as he was, he had a strain of asceticism which puzzled me. [11]
It would strain the Unabridged Dictionary to hold them. [5]
When he began the strain of thoughts which follows, a curious look went round The Teacups. [6]
There would be the strain of suspense upon me all the time. [5]
She never complained: the strain of asceticism, which mysteriously exists in us all, and makes us put peas, boiled or unboiled, in our shoes, gave her patience with the snub which the Leightons presented her for her aunt. [8]
The strain of the situation was a little painful for them both. [11]
His face expressed the relief of relaxed strain felt by a man who means to rest after a ceremony. [2]
It appeals to the old Covenanter strain in me--like a voice of pre-existence. [8]
It might strain the nickel some, but I judged it could stand it. [5]
He had in the highest degree a practical tenacity which Pierre lacked, and without fuss or strain on his part this set things going. [2]
The strain of the event was too much; he winced. [11]
He begged them that they would go at once, that she might know, and not strain her eyes to blindness, and be sick at heart because he came not. [11]
It is possible that there was in him also a strain of cruelty, undeveloped but radical. [11]
He didn't inherit that strain, but your grandfather and your great-grandfather had it--sportsmen both, afraid of nothing, with big minds, great eyes for seeing, and a sense for a winner almost uncanny. [11]
They were eyes that haunted one like a remembered strain of music. [4]
The strain was telling on his nerves. [11]
I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. [5]
The suspense and strain were immeasurable. [11]
My intellect might strain to penetrate the secrets of your sages, but my heart and mind can never be at home in a creed which views life as a short pilgrimage to the grave, and death as the only true life! [10]
He knew the strain that was in her, got from her brilliant and rather plangent grandfather. [11]
Such was the strain of the pent-up force. [9]
A rich, full strain of the divinest melody streamed forth from a remote part of the hall the nightingale's voice! [5]
That was the strain of romance in him which came from his mixed ancestry. [11]
He carried this strain of conviction all through his syndicate letter, which he now took out of his desk and finished, with an increasing security of his opinions and a mounting severity in his judgments. [8]
With the long strain gone, I am in a sort of physical collapse today, but it will be gone tomorrow. [5]
They stood every strain easily --until the Interdict. [5]
We got the strain direct, and we was all right on her side. [11]
No, sir, 'twould strain de jug. [5]
Except--yes, we must strain a point there--one must do as one would wish to be done by--he must have it. [5]
Come, you must strain a point in my favor. [5]
My reason has stood the strain of one of your agricultural articles, and I know that nothing can ever unseat it now. [5]
Just as we stepped across the threshold the executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry from both the prisoner and the woman; but I shouted, and the executioner released the strain without waiting to see who spoke. [5]
Noticing that this statement seemed to be a good deal of a strain on us, he modified it a little: said he might have been mistaken, as to that particular, but knew he had seen them around the polls 'canvassing. [5]
Some throats cannot stand this strain long; they become rasped and sore, and the voices break; but this adds to the excitement and enjoyment of those who can scream with less inconvenience. [4]
And will it stand the strain now that the once remote haven of the oppressed has become a world-power? [9]
Miss Nealy, in spite of the "glare of publicity" she deplored, had borne up admirably under the strain, and evidently had been able to consume three meals a day and give some thought to her costumes. [9]
There was no special strain of manner or of speech. [11]
He remained talking so long after dinner in the same strain as he had painted and written in that he could not finish his letter that night. [8]
Can such a slight little body endure the ordeal of the preparation for, or the strain of, the practice of the profession? [5]
Come to me!--thou shalt feed on honied words, Sweeter than song of birds;-- No wailing bulbul's throat, No melting dulcimer's melodious note, When o'er the midnight wave its murmurs float, Thy ravished sense might soothe With flow so liquid-soft, with strain so velvet-smooth. [6]
But I didn't see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any. [5]
It was a relief to his sick soul to wrench and strain, and propel and twist and force onward, step by step, to the door opening on the river, this creature who had left his Carmen to die alone. [11]
But what had put the severest strain upon the modesty of Pontiac was the fact that, on the morrow of Madelinette's first triumph in Paris, she had married M. Louis Racine, the new Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
Then came the priest, for Iberville, battered as he was, would not stir until the abbe had gone up--a stout strain on the rope. [11]
Pity, that was; pity to put that kind of a strain on us, because there was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business. [5]
This mental and physical strain for sixteen consecutive hours, with scant sleep, so demoralized him that he was obliged once in two or three months to hire a substitute and go away to sleep. [4]
She thought that perhaps he felt the strain of the situation, and that a little absence would be good for both. [11]
For the most part, his letters seemed those of an ardent lover who knew his duty and did it gladly, but with a self-conscious and flowing eloquence, costing but small strain of feeling. [11]
Only he brings out the head and front of Mr. Motley's offending by italicizing three very brief passages from his conversation at this interview; not discreetly, as it seems to me, for they will not bear the strain that is put upon them. [6]
There was not one sensual strain in him, but with a sensuous mind he loved the vital thing. [11]
In the quietness of the face there was that strain of the Quaker, descending to her through three generations, yet enlivened by a mind of impulse and genius. [11]
I have spoken of the exalted strain into which Mr. Emerson sometimes rises in the midst of his general serenity. [6]
It's a kind of obsession, and it often means life or death, whether the mascot can stand the strain of the situation. [11]
But the shame of it was for his wife, who had dissipated a certain selfish and envious strain in him. [11]
The idea could of course occur to her wise head, for she would know that a seven-stanza break might well be a calamitous strain upon a soloist, and that he might therefore avoid it if unwatched. [5]
The long strain of a long fight, in which he had risked much for which he had labored a life to gain, had told on him, and there were crow's-feet at the corners of, his eyes, and dark circles under them. [9]
Now, because that odour of alcohol Lise exhaled had destroyed in Janet the sense of exhilaration, of life on a higher plane she had begun to feel, and filled her with degradation, she hated Lise, felt for her sister no strain of pity. [9]
We'll be through, now, in 3 or 4 months, I reckon, and then the strain will let up and we can breathe freely once more, whether success ensues or failure. [5]
The boat had now reached a point opposite the mudirieh, its stopping-place; and the raw- bone, reeking with sweat and blood, stood still and trembled, its knees shaking with the strain just taken off them, its head sunk nearly to the ground. [11]
Say if one note of happier strain This worn-out harp afford, --One throb that trembles, not in vain, Their memory lent its chord. [6]
The centurion was nearly sixty years of age, and his frame, originally a powerful one, was now broken by every sort of dissipation, and could no longer resist the effects of the strain and excitement of this night. [10]
The great man naturally rose to the situation and dealt with it coolly; but he paid the price afterwards in his sleep when, night after night, he performed the operation over and over again with the same strain on his subconscious self. [11]
Was Philip, the narrow-chested philosopher, capable of bearing the strain which had so often proved fatal to stronger men? [10]
He felt every movement of her supple figure and the strain upon the slender arms, but this could not be transferred to the book. [4]

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