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Sentences starting with straw

Straw of all sorts might be expected to be found here, not only on the wooden platform but on the floor, in the yard, and everywhere else, as surely as leaves upon the ground of a wood in the autumn. [10]

Sentences ending with straw

Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
The mossless spots were places where repairs had been made by the insertion of bright new masses of yellow straw. [5]
He withdrew into the twilight of the farther end of the barn, where he found the earthen floor bedded a foot deep with straw. [5]
Smith's attitude was that of a priest who puts up for the worship of the vulgar an idol, which he knows is only a clay image stuffed with straw. [4]
Is that a stem or a straw? [6]
Now it would roll on its back, yelping with delight, now bask in the sun with a thoughtful air of importance, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw. [2]
Katterle had been present when the tortured man was brought out and laid upon his couch of straw. [10]
Ha'n't been daown on his straw. [6]
His presence and example diffused such alacrity among the persons employed, that, in a few hours, the house was emptied of everything, but pieces of matting, empty porter-pots, and scattered fragments of straw. [12]
They stood no chance; they turned tail and scattered, we plowing through them as if they had been men of straw. [5]

Short sentences using straw

Urania displays her straw openly. [10]

More example sentences with the word straw in them

Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
A straw hat with an old faded ribbon. [6]
And all this while the poor lie in London streets upon pallets of straw, or else in the mire and dirt, and die like dogs! [4]
But if they were of stone, I vow the flock could find their own straw to sit on. [9]
The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
Most of them were already asleep on heaps of straw, which were raised at the head by chairs turned upside down. [10]
The young ladies were all in dark blue dresses, touched up with a red ribbon here and there, and wore light straw hats. [6]
He brought some water in his straw hat to refresh him. [11]
A muffled head was suddenly thrust out from under the straw, a voice cried: "A hospital on wheels! [10]
His straw hat was pushed back on his head, his scythe was over his shoulder. [11]
Presently the straw was in a blaze, and from this the fire extended to the furniture, to the stairway leading up from the cellar, and was working its way along the entry under the stairs leading up to the apartment where Maurice was lying. [6]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
The tramp had used his matches disastrously: he had set his straw bed on fire, and the oaken sheathing of the room had caught. [5]
Papias will make us one of straw, rags and gypsum--I know his magic hand--and in order that the others may not be too unlike their new-born sister they shall be whitewashed. [10]
A woman was up and about, but the man was still asleep, on a straw shake-down, on the clay floor. [5]
Certain guttural sounds, too, which from time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of security. [12]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
The seniors tried to collect straw and potatoes and, in general, food for the men. [2]
Thus many a time our souls ached to see want and pain lying in darksome chambers on wretched straw, though we earned thanks and true joy when we saw that healing and ease followed in our steps. [10]
As for servants, they were lucky if they had a sheet over them, for there was nothing under them to keep the straw from pricking their hardened hides. [4]
In their youth they lay upon hard straw pallets covered only with a sheet, and mayhap a dogswain coverlet over them, and a good round log for pillow. [4]
There, yes, there they cherish the heresy that makes the gods into puppets of straw, and the majesty of the throne into an owl for pert and insignificant birds to peck at. [10]
No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed, In that poor cell the Lord of Life was laid! [6]
Hours after all the others were asleep, Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw, engaged in earnest conversation. [10]
Glancing in at the door, Rostov saw that the sick and wounded were lying on the floor on straw and overcoats. [2]
The object in the body and the heating apparatus is the same; to increase the extent of surface.--We mix hair with plaster (as the Egyptians mixed straw with clay to make bricks) so that it shall hold more firmly. [6]
Then it was that the Chambertin or the Clos Vougeot came in, slumbering in its straw cradle. [6]
Was it possible that my Captain could be lying on the straw in one of these places? [6]
It missed his temple, but caught the rim of his straw hat, carrying it off his head, and crashed into a lantern hanging against the wall, putting out the light. [11]
He was too tall, his shoulders were too high, his nose too prominent, his eyes too deep-set; and he wore a straw hat with the brim turned up. [9]
Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of Congress. [5]
It has a straw through it; you pull this out, and it leaves a flue, otherwise there would be no draught, not even as much as there is to a nail. [5]
This was "the straw that broke the camel's back. [5]
A very light straw color is their commonest tint. [5]
Before each one stood a long-necked bottle wound with straw, cups were filled, emptied, waved aloft or clinked. [10]
Her head seemed smaller, her features had become more delicate and, in spite of the straw hat which protected her from the dazzling sunshine, he perceived that her severe illness had cost her her magnificent golden hair. [10]
At home I slept on a bundle of straw, and very uncomfortable it was when I was shaken by the fever. [10]
He was very simply dressed and was just taking off a straw hat as we entered. [5]
But I was sick of doing nothing, thinking with horror on a long winter in the citadel, and I caught at the least straw of freedom. [11]
This lad in short trousers, torn shirt, and a frayed straw hat above his mobile and cheerful face, might be only another sort of animal, a lover like themselves of the beech-nut and the hickory-nut. [4]
In the large shed lay the chests and cases, the hemp, linseed, straw and matting that had been used in packing the vessels and works of art with which the palace had been newly furnished. [10]
Surrounding Victoria were several clean-looking, freckled, and tanned young men of undergraduate age wearing straw hats with coloured ribbons, who showed every eagerness to obey and even anticipate the orders she did not hesitate to give them. [9]
Nell had scarcely settled herself on a little heap of straw in one corner, when she fell asleep, for the first time that day. [12]
It was the Seigneur's groom, with a straw in his mouth. [11]
The soldiers, on seeing him, lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur! [2]
Opposite to him rose a heap of loose straw, beneath which something stirred from time to time, and from which at short intervals a slight cough was heard. [10]
As the wheels rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. [2]
To take his reprobate father-in-law to his lonely home would have brought him trouble in any case; but as things were, the Spaniard became only the last straw which broke his camel's back. [11]
Before the litters reached the little castle a gust of wind rose, driving large drops of rain, straw, and withered leaves-Barbara could not imagine whence they came in the month of May--into her face. [10]
There were the racks where he put the fodder for cattle and horses, and there was the cutting-machine for the hay and straw and for slicing the frozen turnips on cold winter mornings. [4]
With this resolve quieting his mind, he turned over on his straw and went peacefully to sleep. [11]
She had a pretty straw hat, tied under her chin with a pink ribbon, and looked like some little woodland nymph, just turned out by spring and fine weather. [4]
Had it been possible she, who was of no importance to any one, would willingly have lain down on the heap of straw in the place of the mother upon whom two young lives depended. [10]
Or as you pass a roadside ditch or pool in springtime, take from it any bit of stick or straw which has lain undisturbed for a time. [6]
On the straw pallet, and with the incompetent nursing at the hospital, he would have died very speedily, and what would have befallen his poor mangled toes and fingers in the hands of the barbers who managed affairs there? [10]
Boards were laid over the tops of the pews, on these some straw was spread, and on this the wounded lay, with little or no covering other than such scanty clothes as they had on. [6]
There was no one to hew down (as he had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the other soldiers. [2]
They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words. [5]
But while, when on the road with Loni's band, if they could reach no town, she had often slept soundly and sweetly on a heap of straw, here she spent one restless night after another. [10]
When they entered on him, wasted and ragged he lay asleep on his bed of rotten straw, his fingers between the leaves of a book of meditations. [11]
I visited the old house on Witch Hill in Salem a year or two ago, and there I found the walls coated with clay in which straw was abundantly mingled;--the old Judaizing witch-hangers copied the Israelites in a good many things. [3]
So, many weeks of the winter went on, and at last I was not able to rise from my bed of straw, and could do little more than lift a cup of water to my lips and nibble at some bread. [11]
Come to think of it, she too had been working in the "power-house" and had been mangled also; for she was but a thread of what she was then, but a wisp of golden straw to the sheaf of the then young golden wheat. [11]
By the orders of Doctor Bontius and the sick lady's attorney, a mixture of straw and sand lay on the cause-way before it. [10]
This roof was of ancient mud-colored straw thatch a foot thick, and was covered all over, except in a few trifling spots, with a thriving and luxurious growth of green vegetation, mainly moss. [5]
The viscous intelligence of a country-village is not easily stirred by the winds which ripple the fluent thought of great cities, but it holds every straw and entangles every insect that lights upon it. [6]
It was of no more weight than chaff, and its whole mass was like a heap of straw, which flew up as soon as Polykarp laid his love--a hundredweight of pure gold, in the other scale. [10]
They became extremely nervous; so that when a wooden ball, with which they were familiar as a plaything, was accidentally moved in the straw, under which it was partly hidden, they all instantly started away. [1]
Sitting silent and motionless on a heap of straw against the wall, Pierre sometimes opened and sometimes closed his eyes. [2]
As if the matter were some easy task, she begged the countess to excuse her, and remained beside the wretched straw pallet. [10]
Silence pervaded the little castle in Prebrunn; nay, there were days when a thick layer of straw in the road showed that within the house lay some one seriously ill, who must be guarded from every sound. [10]
He wore a light gray, loose-fitting suit and a straw hat, and she could not but acknowledge that there was something stalwart and clean and altogether appealing in him. [9]
Some of the liberated bondsmen, furious with rage, had heaped straw, wood, and faggots against the gate of the courtyard into which the Egyptians had been forced. [10]
Pretty straw mats lay on the floor, and pots of plants, filling the little room with fragrance, stood on the window-sill and in a corner of the room where a clay statuette of the Good Shepherd looked down on a praying-desk. [10]
A cracked mirror lay on an old straw mattress, the contents of which were airing themselves through wide rips and rents. [6]
Instead of cushions, it was covered with a thick layer of straw, the beds of the patients who were nursed here. [10]
The man of iron had been changed into a man of straw once at least in his lifetime. [11]
I was shoved into a dark and narrow cell in a dungeon, with some scant remnants for dinner, some moldy straw for a bed, and no end of rats for company. [5]
I'll break ye in two, ye wisp o' straw, if ye doubt me word to a lady. [11]
Never before was I so forcibly reminded of Carlyle's description of the work of a newspaper editor,--that threshing of straw already thrice beaten by the flails of other laborers in the same field. [6]
Most of the humbler guests had already left their straw beds. [10]
Some built little houses of the tufts in the plowed ground, or plaited baskets from the straw in the cornfield. [2]
I bowed to his words, and said, "Mine was the last straw, sir. [11]
Left alone in his cell with his straw and bread and water, he looked round mechanically. [11]
He drove over his brother as he would over straw and apple-parings in the dust; and his wheel broke my thigh. [10]
Billy quivered, yet his adroit senses caught at a straw in the words, "as rob me! [11]
This voice tortured him on the soft down beds in the town, on the straw in the camp, over his wine and on the march. [10]
He lay down here, drew straw over himself in lieu of blankets, and was soon absorbed in thinking. [5]
Beneath them she has had corridors made for the pitch and straw which, if the worst should come, are to be lighted. [10]
Despite the jingling harnesses of Bellevue Avenue and the background of Mr. Chamberlin's palace wall; despite the straw hat and white trousers and blue double-breasted serge coat in which he was conventionally arrayed, he was the sea fighter still--of all the ages. [9]
The burning stump happened to fall among the straw of an old mattress which had been ripped open. [6]
He cleansed his hand on the straw, and cleaned most of the smut from his face. [5]
The straw it had eaten, so many ages gone by, was still in its body, undigested--and even in its legs. [5]
Her long hair had come undone, and once more got entangled with the straw of her humble couch. [10]
The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair. [2]
Or if I had a cudgel between my teeth instead of a tongue, I would exercise it on you till it was as tired as that of a preacher who has threshed his empty straw to his congregation for three mortal hours. [10]
In the Zoological Gardens, a monkey, which had weak teeth, used to break open nuts with a stone; and I was assured by the keepers that after using the stone, he hid it in the straw, and would not let any other monkey touch it. [1]
When he was four miles out on the lonely road and was walking his horse over a wooden bridge, his straw hat blew off and fell in the creek, and floated down and lodged against a bar. [5]
At length, they found, one day, that he had risen early, and, with his knapsack on his back, his staff in hand, her own straw hat, and little basket full of such things as she had been used to carry, was gone. [12]

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