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Sentences ending with stress

He believed that with H. H. Rogers as his financial pilot he could weather safely any storm or stress. [5]
Joshua found his people in sore stress. [10]

Short sentences using stress

What a stress and tumult! [10]

More example sentences with the word stress in them

His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
You are right when you accuse me of having laid too much stress upon vain trifles. [10]
To this end we are placed under the stress of circumstances. [5]
Secondly, Prince Andrew was no longer as young as he had been and his health was poor (the old man laid special stress on this), while she was very young. [2]
Twilight ages of war and scourge and stress and storm--and faith. [9]
I should like to tell with what swiftness, under the stress of battle, the wounded are hurried back to the coast and even to England itself. [9]
Moses had seemed to lay the utmost stress upon this privilege, and according to the existing law, no one was permitted to cross the narrow fortified frontier on the east without the permission of the government. [10]
Her mind seemed to have suffered under the stress of grief. [10]
And at length, tired out by stress of thought, he fell asleep. [13]
Veer lightly from the stress of all great wrongs, And lisp of peace 'mid battle-flags unfurled? [11]
With respect to the absence of fossil remains, serving to connect man with his ape-like progenitors, no one will lay much stress on this fact who reads Sir C. Lyell's discussion (19. [1]
The mechanical marvel that had cost so much time, mental stress, and a fortune in money, stood complete, responsive to the human will and touch --the latest, and one of the greatest, wonders of the world. [5]
During the latter ten years of this period he had been a most effective and forcible leader-writer on political and social questions, never more so than during the storm and stress of the Civil War. [4]
He lays much stress, in the case of plants, on the nature of the soil. [1]
The storm and stress period, during which my effervescent youthful spirits led me into all sorts of follies, was the only time in my life in which this close connection threatened to be loosened. [10]
I lay great stress on Lincoln's career as a lawyer--much more than his biographers do because in America a state of things exists wholly different from that which prevails in Great Britain. [7]
He knew the stress of spirit which had turned Carnac from the opportunity lying at his feet. [11]
Amid so much stress and anxiety Clemens had little time or inclination for work. [5]
He must not stop with advertising for the owner of that money, but must put it where he could not borrow from it himself, meantime, under stress of circumstances. [5]
That is to say, that stress and trial have welded us into an indestructible nation; and not of less consequence is the fact that the life of the Union is in the life of the States. [4]
It was a rare good fortune for Italy, the stress of weather that drove her to break from this prison-house. [5]
But she also provided most carefully for the outward life; nay, perhaps she laid a little too much stress upon our manners in greeting strangers, at table, and elsewhere. [10]
No one was permitted to help except white-haired Nickel, the old head packer, who often let a whole day pass without opening his lips; for Herr Ernst seemed to lay great stress upon keeping the moon's influence on Eva a secret. [10]
At such times of stress some of my paternal Scotch crept into my speech. [9]
In this hour of stress lay the sword out of your hand, and leave the steed----" "I shall ride forth, rely upon it, holy Father," Heinz burst forth afresh. [10]
Once, in stress of circumstances, I ate part of a barrel of sardines, there being nothing else at hand, but since then I have always been able to get along without sardines. [5]
It is not necessary to lay too much stress upon this phase of American life abroad, but the careful observer must notice its reflex action at home. [4]
The mistake you make, and men like you, is the stress which you lay on that word material. [9]
I intended to lay most stress upon the state of civilization, the intellectual and religious life, art, and science in Egypt, Greece, Persia, Phoenicia, etc., and after most carefully planning the arrangement I began to write with the utmost zeal. [10]
If one may judge from various articles which have been published lately, the greatest stress seems to be laid on the supposed entire absence in animals of the power of abstraction, or of forming general concepts. [1]
Mr. Clemens was in great stress of mind when I first saw him, but a few hours later I found him writing steadily. [5]
She had married, hoping that she might love thereafter; he in choler and bitterness, and in the stress of a desperate ambition. [11]
These last were having an argument of some stress, for they pulled at each other's arms and even caught at the long cloths of their headdresses. [11]
Blue eyes are gray in certain unusual lights; but they resume their natural color when that stress is removed. [5]
We meant to go to San Miguel, but were driven here by stress of weather. [5]
What she did for us in America in our time of storm and stress we shall not forget, and whenever we call it to mind we shall always remember the wise and righteous mind that guided her in it and sustained and supported her--Prince Albert's. [5]
Your beauty would fade and pass under the stress and meanness of it; your heart would reproach me even when you smiled; you would learn to hate me even when you were resting upon my hungry heart. [11]
Nor was his exquisite delicacy in laying stress upon the locality lost upon her. [9]
In fact he did not lay so much stress upon the articles as did his readers and friends. [4]
At last, one day, under stress of circumstances, the darling of the house sullied her lips with a lie--and confessed it, with tears and self-upbraidings. [5]
Nor did he by any means forget grammar, but in explaining the classics he always laid most stress upon the contents, and every lesson of his was a clever archaeological, aesthetic, and historical lecture. [10]
Later, when it became increasingly difficult to pay the five dollars, Orion took his brother into partnership, which perhaps relieved the financial stress, though the office methods would seem to have left something to be desired. [5]

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