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Sentences starting with string

String beans. [5]

Sentences ending with string

But the soldiers were in no great haste; so when matters were going too far, I stepped into the breach myself, called down to tell them my name, and also showed my crossbow with an arrow on the string. [10]
And while we was lookin' and tossin' pennies like as to his chances out there, a grey New Zealand mare nips out across the veld stretchin' every string. [11]
For a while the tune held its mad pace, and ended with a shriek and a snap on a high note, for Zeron had broken a string. [9]
But he repelled the thought and merely sunned himself in the pleasurable consciousness--the first during this cruel hour-of holding Kasana and her royal lover in his hand as one holds a beetle by a string. [10]
He had no sooner seen Mr. Clement comfortably installed, therefore, than he presented himself at the door of his chamber with the book, enveloped in strong paper and very securely tied round with a stout string. [6]
Toward noon he rose, uncovered his unconscious ward--a section at a time--and took his measure with a string. [5]
They could not resist the lively wiggle of the worm before their very noses, and we lifted them out one after an other, gently, and very much as if we were hooking them out of a barrel, until we had a handsome string. [4]
If there is one spectacle that is unpleasanter than another, it is that of an elegantly dressed young lady towing a dog by a string. [5]
You get a new combination every time you pull a string. [11]
The flush of hope was bright in Gifted's eye and cheek, and the good man knew that young hearts are apt to be over-sanguine, and that one who enters a shower-bath often feels very differently from the same person when he has pulled the string. [6]

Short sentences using string

Ex-desperado--nineteen scalps on his string. [5]

Sentences containing string two or more times

As we came near the end of the string, I felt as I did when I was looking at the last dash of Ormonde and The Bard at Epsom.--Twenty feet, and a long piece of string left.--Twenty-one. [6]

More example sentences with the word string in them

It is accomplishing wonders before us every day, such as Arabian story-tellers used to string together in their fables. [3]
I must speak with proper deference to the lady who is scrubbing my floors, when I remember that her husband, who saws my wood, carries a string of high-sounding titles which would satisfy a Spanish nobleman. [6]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
Don't you know we're as much as a mile up in the air, and that that string of crawlers is two or three miles away? [5]
Yet when she was dressed--in pure white, with only a string of pearls, the smallest she had, round her neck--she was like that white flower which had been placed on her pillow last night. [11]
As the bottle was being opened the Pasha took up his string of beads and began to finger them, for the blue eyes in the poke bonnet were disconcerting. [11]
A string of wagons drawn by oxen was lumbering along. [13]
I do not use a string to help me write or speak, but I must have its equivalent. [6]
He slipped it upon the string, and was about to haul it up, when the drunken orator on the platform caught him by the arm with fiery courage. [11]
If I get up," he added, "I'll let a string down for a rope you must get for me. [11]
Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again. [5]
It provides that under certain conditions she can pull the string and land the property in the cherished home of its happy youth. [5]
I remembered this tree well, as we measured the string which was to tell the size of its English rival. [6]
A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them;-- Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! [6]
They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution. [5]
It is easy to scribble local rubbish, with the facts all before you; it is easy to clip selections from other papers; it is easy to string out a correspondence from any locality; but it is unspeakable hardship to write editorials. [5]
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? [6]
You young scribblers think any kind of nonsense will do for the public, if it only has a string of rhymes tacked to it. [6]
In the act the string of her hat, slung over her arm, came loose, and the hat fell to the floor. [11]
Next, their Excellencies the Governors of Oahu, Hawaii, etc., and after them a string of High Sheriffs and other small fry too numerous for computation. [5]
He dropped it the full length of the staff, whipped it off the string, and put his foot upon it. [11]
Natasha looked in the direction in which her father's eyes were turned and saw Julie sitting beside her mother with a happy look on her face and a string of pearls round her thick red neck--which Natasha knew was covered with powder. [2]
For I knowed the commodore was the lad t' string 'em to the yard-arm an' he had the say on it. [9]
When he persisted, the Chinaman opened his loose blue jacket and showed a ten-dollar gold-piece on a string around his neck. [11]
You haul down the British flag, and string up your tricolour in this British village while there is one Britisher to say, 'Put up that flag again! [11]
One string of the animal nature has been taken away, but this gives only a greater predominance to the intellectual chords. [6]
There descended from that train of which we have heard the whistle a lady with features of no ordinary moulding, with curls and a string bonnet and a cloak that seemed strangely to harmonize with the lady's character. [9]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel,-- As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel,-- As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
At the time that Mrs. Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt. [5]
Then I saw that I had been sold--that I had been made a victim of a swindle in the way of a string of plausibly worded sentences that didn't mean anything under the sun. [5]
And she saw that he held in his hand a string of great, glistening pearls. [9]
I'm going to tell you, though, two things; and--where's your string of beads? [11]
Just the weeny, teeny string of pearls, like a young under-secretary's wife, to show what she might do if she had a fair chance. [11]
And best can teach its Delphian chord How Nature to the soul is moored, If once again that silent string, As erst it wont, would thrill and ring. [6]
They tie a string to the shrouds --stand with back against it walk three steps (eyes shut)--turn around three times and go and put finger on the string; only a military man can do it. [5]
Having unwound the string that tied the band on one leg, he carefully coiled it up and immediately set to work on the other leg, glancing up at Pierre. [2]
He had a string of legends, in place of our Gospels. [6]
You pulled that string as tightly as you could, but your very generous and worthy expectations were not quite fulfilled. [7]
With a little stick, or maybe his flute under his arm, he'll smile and string these heathen along, when you'd think they weren't waiting for anybody. [11]
He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament. [11]
They were, however, so confused that a pull at one string tangled them all. [11]
With eager fingers she undid the string and sat staring at the regular script without taking in, at first, the meaning of a single sentence. [9]
The string of self-interest answers with its chord to every sound; it vibrates with the funeral-bell, it finds itself trembling to the wail of the De Profundis. [6]
Mr. Stevens shot round the corner of the chateau, just as the departing sentinel disappeared, and attached a bundle to the string, and I drew it up. [11]
They seemed to ripple and string tense. [13]
Sixthly, I would require a speaker to stop when he is done, and not hang a string of those useless "haven sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden seins" to the end of his oration. [5]
How well I remember that dear ancient lady, who lived well into the last decade of her century, as she repeated the verse which, if I had but one to choose, I would select from that string of pearls, Gray's 'Elegy'! [6]
He had a red beard, an eye that glinted red also, and fat, smooth fingers which kept playing with a string of beads as though it were a rosary. [11]
When all seemed quiet, Myrtle lighted her lamp, stood before her mirror, and untied the string that bound her long and beautiful dark hair, which fell in its abundance over her shoulders and below her girdle. [6]
A string was procured and carefully carried round the trunk, above the spread of the roots and below that of the branches, so as to give the smallest circumference. [6]
I wish, said Polly, "that my uncle in India would send me a camel's-hair shawl, or a string of pearls, each as big as the end of my thumb. [4]
My friend, the Poet, says you must not read such a string of verses too literally. [6]
Whether they were playing the ring and string game or the ruble game or talking as now, Nicholas did not leave Sonya's side, and gazed at her with quite new eyes. [2]
And she stood passively, her eyes half closed, while he clasped the string around the lace collar that pressed the slender column of her neck and kissed her. [9]
I showed the part Judge Douglas had played in the string of facts constituting to my mind the proof of that conspiracy. [7]
Sometimes I run over a string of rhymes, but generally speaking it is strange what a short list it is of those that are good for anything. [6]
Mr. Arnold made one string of his epithets familiar to all of us,--"This great, intelligent, sensual, and avaricious America. [6]
In the middle of the stream waded a long string of packed burros driven by three superbly mounted men. [13]
But the sort of man that Beaton was could not do this; he put up the dummy into the wrapper he had let drop on the floor beside him, and tied it round with string while Colonel Woodburn was talking. [8]
Upon the thumb of every adult was a ring in which a string was tied that went through a pulley above and communicated with a bell in the attendant's room. [4]
What I want now is a sort of safety-ring to string 'em on and keep 'em safe; for I haven't a good memory, and I get mighty rattled sometimes. [11]
Pierre's attire by now consisted of a dirty torn shirt (the only remnant of his former clothing), a pair of soldier's trousers which by Karataev's advice he tied with string round the ankles for warmth, and a peasant coat and cap. [2]
That evening, about nine o'clock, which was the hour the guard changed, he was to tie this bundle to a string which I let down from my window, and I would draw it up. [11]
I had seen many a salmon in the kitchen, and resolved to fish for one from the steamer; so I tied a bit of candy to a string and dropped it from the deck. [10]
I's a-gwine to make you walk as straight as a string, Chambers, en so I's bown, you ain't gwine to git no bad example out o' yo' mammy. [5]
I've got to make some great plunge, or in a few years more I'll be a middle-aged peeress with nothing left but a double chin, a tongue for gossip, and a string of pearls. [11]
If you will look at the map,[1] you will see, dotted along the bottoms and the bluffs beside the great Mississippi, the string of villages, Kaskaskia, La Prairie du Rocher, Fort Chartres, St. Philip, and Cahokia. [9]
He held a long string in one hand, which he drew through the other band incessantly, as he spoke, just as a shoe maker performs the motion of waxing his thread. [6]
It was a long journey, in a bumping car with had springs that rattled unceasingly, past the string of provost guards. [9]
Widow Leech, a kind of relation, who had to be invited, and who came with her old, back-country-looking string of gold beads round her neck, seemed to feel very serious about it. [6]
It still keeps its strong fortifications drawn around it, to which the broad and deep Scheldt is like a string to a bow, mindful of the unstable state of Europe. [4]
The fact is, it is just a sort of polished-up court of Comanches, and there isn't a squaw in it who doesn't stand ready at the dropping of a hat to desert to the buck with the biggest string of scalps at his belt. [5]
That same question is the highest compliment a man can pay a woman, and a woman does not mind having a dozen or more such compliments to string on the rosary of her remembrances. [6]
When the key is raised higher and higher the string snaps, and we want to avoid that. [10]
When the string is cut you can be where you wish to be,--not merely a part of you, leaving the rest behind, but the whole of you. [6]
A string of imitation pearls gleams against her ruddy skin. [9]
What is more, I think they are as detestable a string of rhymes as I could wish my worst enemy had written. [6]
While one hand hung up the first string the other was already unwinding the band on the second leg. [2]
I can't help hoping we shall put something into that empty chair yet which will add the missing string to our social harp. [6]
Dick found in his trunk a string of gold beads, such as are manufactured in some of our cities, which he had brought from the gold region of Chili,--so he said,--for the express purpose of giving them to old Sophy. [6]
This was evidently his game; but I untangled it, and only lost a breast button or two by the swiftly-moving string. [4]
He forgot that he was man; music had lost its charms for him; whenever he attempted to carry his part, the string of the instrument would break, the bow became stubborn, and refused to obey the loud calls of the audience. [5]
In one hand he held a gold-headed stick, a large tall hat of which the silk nap was a little rubbed, a string sustaining a parcel, the brown paper wrapping of which was soaked: in the other, a manila bag containing lemons. [9]
But here I have related, at length, a string of trivialities. [6]
Patrin----small heaps of grass, or leaves, or twigs, or string, laid at cross-roads to indicate the route that must be followed. [11]
In an evening gown, with a string of large pearls testing on her firm and glowing neck, she appeared a concrete refutation of the notion of rebirth, the triumph of an unconscious philosophy of material common-sense. [9]
But presently she got to her feet again, and, going to the door of the lodge, fastened the horseshoe above it with a great needle and a string of buckskin. [11]
The trout-fishing was good, and many a fine trout was broiled for our evening meal; and many a fine string of trout found its way to the tables of Roscoe's poorest parishioners, or else to furnish the more fashionable table at which Ruth Devlin presided. [11]
And here we go, now, just as straight as a string for Hallelujah--it's a beautiful angle --handsome up grade all the way --and then away you go to Corruptionville, the gaudiest country for early carrots and cauliflowers that ever--good missionary field, too. [5]
He never let go the string of his balloon. [6]
In order to get a chance to fly his kite on Sunday he used to hang a key on the string and let on to be fishing for lightning. [5]
And to descend from history down to my own poor chronicle, Mr. Cooke's railroad case, my first experience at the bar of any gravity or magnitude, had tied to it a string of consequences then far beyond my guessing. [9]
So I have found a very common result of their method to be that the string slipped, or that a piece only of the creature was broken off, and the worm soon grew again, as bad as ever. [6]
I have clean forgot the string of adjectives she used,--but she would have had me know he was as handsome as Apollo, and so dashing and diverting as to put Courtenay and all our wits to shame. [9]
They made me feel as if there might be constituted a creature with such a chord in her voice to some string in another's soul, that, if she but spoke, he would leave all and follow her, though it were into the jaws of Erebus. [6]
Otherwise it would fall apart like a bundle of arrows when the string that bound them is broken. [10]
When you stand expecting the overstrained string to snap at any moment, when everyone is expecting the inevitable catastrophe, as many as possible must join hands as closely as they can to withstand the general calamity. [2]
There was music every where--choruses, string bands, brass bands, flutes, every thing. [5]
He always comes down to winter at Fort o' Comfort, with his string of half-breeds, an' Injuns, an' the dogs. [11]

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