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Sentences starting with strong

Strong opposition, however, was roused by this mad uproar. [10]
Strong and manly they were, with plenty of praises for the Southern defenders of Vicksburg. [9]
Strong trait, very strong trait. [5]
Strong circumstantial evidence of insanity. [5]
Strong on the larboard! [5]
Strong measures deemed indispensable, but harsh at best, such men make worse by maladministration. [7]
Strong impulse urged him away from the studio, away from Art and his betrothed bride; for he had forfeited all the best things in life. [10]
Strong as was her inward grief, this wound to her vanity intensified her misery. [2]
Strong and passionate effort of will, surprising to him, held back the poison from piercing his soul. [13]
Strong faith alone could have withstood the continued contact with such a determined fatalism as Aunt Mary's, and yet it is interesting to note that Honora's belief in her providence never wavered. [9]

Sentences ending with strong

The habit of years is strong. [9]
I saw him with my father's eyes, and with my mother's, and as my grandfather had seen him in the old days when he was strong. [9]
I am pressed with a difficulty not yet mentioned--one which threatens division among those who, united, are none too strong. [7]
So, at first, while yet the memories of Washington were much with her, the appeal of the millions was strong. [11]
In his eyes was purpose definite, strong. [11]
To jump plain--this was his strong. [5]
To jump plain-this was his strong. [5]
Yet the picture was bold, open, and strong. [11]
The temptation was very strong. [5]
He was looked up to as possessing qualities superhuman in their nature, and so was competent to be the stay of the weak and their defence against the strong. [6]

Short sentences using strong

How strong he was! [10]
The temptation was too strong. [5]
International influences are too strong. [11]
They are thirty thousand strong. [5]
Constitutions crumble before the Strong. [9]
Hew and be strong! [11]
It is a strong word. [5]
Gaston was a strong swimmer. [11]
His strong heart quailed. [11]
I am strong now. [11]

Sentences containing strong two or more times

You are strong, you are brave, and I come of a family that have been strong and brave. [11]
It very certainly was strong enough once; the presumption is that it is strong enough now. [6]
I asked him to tell me the names of the men that were going strong for Hardin, he said Morris was about as strong as any-now tell me, is Morris going it openly? [7]
The ant is strong, but we saw another strong thing, where we had not suspected the presence of much muscular power before. [5]
There was a strong rum party and a strong anti-rum party. [5]
With Baker and some strong man from the Military tract & elsewhere for Morrison, and we and some strong man from the Wabash & elsewhere for Mr. E, it was not possible for either to succeed. [7]
You're strong again--oh, so cruelly, coldly strong! [13]
She felt calm, slightly cold, strong as she had not been strong since the first shadow fell upon her. [13]
And yet I say: the bulwarks raised by men However strong, compared to Thy great works Are but vain shadows, and no human aid Avails against the foe--but Thy strong hand. [10]
Better a strong robber with a strong robber's honour to perch there in the Palace, than Boonda Broke and his cut-throats--" "Honour--honour?--Pango Dooni! [11]

More example sentences with the word strong in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
You may thank your Scotch blood and your strong constitution. [9]
I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
Let Paulus be your captain, for he is strong, cautious and brave. [10]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
Many of the young ladies and some of the University students were strong in defence of all the "woman's rights" doctrines. [6]
Thank you, my young friend--you have strong arms, and you may lift me a little higher yet. [10]
Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved. [2]
Society is inspecting you, and it finds undisguised surfaces and strong lights a convenience in the process. [6]
If you think you are strong enough to bear what I am going to say, --I replied,--I will talk to you about this. [6]
If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to try just now. [7]
I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
Oh, tell me, ye strong spirits, or ye dark and fleeting clouds, that I yet have a friend. [5]
For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
Whether right or wrong, her feeling was strong on this point. [14]
Don't fail to write me instantly on receiving this, telling me all--particularly the names of those who are going strong against me. [7]
A strong heave would start it. [13]
I got sick worryin', and when I was strong enough to be around they'd filled my job at the grocery, and it wasn't long before we had to move out of our little home in Alder Street. [9]
Heart of the World be strong, Tongues of the World be wise! [11]
He began his work, but the attractions of the place were too strong for him, and he got up and went drifting about, fascinated; also amazed. [5]
The nurse, a woman of estimable character and strong will, would faithfully protect her whatever might happen. [10]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
She rules us with a strong hand, dispenses justice, settles disputes, and--sometimes indulges in them herself. [9]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
Occasionally he would wish to be in it all again, out in the wild woods and on the river and in the shanty, free and strong and friendly and a bit ferocious. [11]
I don't know why I loved him, it wasn't because he was fine, like Mr. Insall, but he was strong and brave, and he needed me and just took me. [9]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
But--to spring the whole twenty-two on a person unprepared and not very strong anyway--' 'Oh, it was a crime! [5]
Her fingers, her whole body, trembled; but there was no mistaking the strong will, the indignant purpose. [11]
Mr. William Everett, who was then in England, bears strong testimony to the effect these letters produced. [6]
Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. [2]
The Young Girl who sits by me has, I know, strong religious instincts. [6]
Kitty--it was she who had so thoughtfully served him; Kitty, with the instinct of strong, unselfish womanhood, with the gift of the outdoor life, with the unpurchasable gift of friendship. [11]
The highest class white men Who lived among the Maoris in the earliest time had a high opinion of them and a strong affection for them. [5]
A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
Even this prospect, which only yesterday had terrified her, began now to smile upon her, for it opened to her the possibility of proving independently the strong energy which she felt in herself. [10]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
The military instinct, which is the special mark of barbarism, is strong in him. [4]
An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad. [2]
At other times, when the light was perfectly clear and not too strong, and the village side of the crag was brighter than the other, more accurate relations of The Stone to its pedestal could be discovered. [11]
It swings out when the housewife wants to hang on the tea-kettle, and it is strong enough to support a row of pots, or a mammoth caldron kettle on occasion. [4]
From the time when he set out for France in his fifteenth year, with the exception of a short sojourn in Willoughby seven or eight years after, he lived by his wits and by the strong hand. [4]
Some day the west will be numerically strong enough to move the seat of government; her past attempts are a fair warning that when the day comes she will do it. [5]
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
I thought you were such a strong woman, not faintish like that. [13]
These two ambitions were strong upon me. [5]
The aboriginal passions were strong in him. [11]
Brains and books were one thing, but the strong arm, the quick eye, and the deft lunge home with the sword or dagger were better; they were of a man's own skill, not the acquired skill of another's brains which books give. [11]
But the mandibles were not strong enough to pinch my finger so as to cause actual pain. [1]
The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
But the eyes were clear, resolute, and strong, never wavering--and I never saw them waver--yet in them something distant and inscrutable. [11]
As the inquest went on, he had again and again looked at the hands and arms of Orlando, and it had seemed impossible that, strong as he was, his fingers had the particular strength which could have done this thing. [11]
We thought it well to have a strong friend, and therefore we brought the foreman of the Wide West to our cabin that night and revealed the great surprise to him. [5]
In England as well as in France, as we have said, it was the period of the classic revival; but in England the energetic reality of the time was strong enough to break the classic fetters, and to use classic learning for modern purposes. [4]
To attach much weight to the few but strong differences is the most obvious and perhaps the safest course, though it appears more correct to pay great attention to the many small resemblances, as giving a truly natural classification. [1]
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size. [5]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
But no matter; weak or strong, it suited Stavely. [5]
How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
That's our justification--if we needed one--it's been too strong for us. [9]
The next time we meet I hope you will be strong enough to call on me. [6]
It isn't because we haven't anything else to talk about, but because nothing else has so strong an interest for us. [5]
For at last we have chosen a man who is strong enough, --who does not fear your fire-eaters,--whose electors depend on Northern votes alone. [9]
He knows that we are before an audience having strong sympathies southward, by relationship, place of birth, and so on. [7]
There's a weak way of looking at it, and a strong way. [9]
Meanwhile he had watched every movement of the bay, and at the right instant his strong hand had grasped its nostrils and forced it to stand. [10]
While the doctor was trying to compel him to obey and enter the litter which stood waiting for him, he beat him back with his strong young fists. [10]
My fat envelope was thrown by a strong hand, and fell on board all right, and my victory was a safe thing. [5]
The vagabond instinct was strong upon me. [5]
The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. [2]
The last blast was peculiarly strong one, and after the small rubbish was done raining around us and we were just going to shake hands over our deliverance, a later and larger stone came down amongst our little group of pedestrians and wrecked an umbrella. [5]
For myself, it was nothing--I am a strong man and a great swimmer. [11]
But Emperor Charles was not the man to allow matters which aroused his wrath and strong disapproval to pass unpunished. [10]
This good Samaritan was not only taking me into his home, but would fight for my rights with the strong brain that had lifted him out of poverty and obscurity. [9]
But that there was no denying the fact that the railroad had a strong thing of it, and a good lawyer into the bargain. [9]
The strong man was my brother Straton. [10]
If the rock was moderately promising, we followed the custom of the country, used strong adjectives and frothed at the mouth as if a very marvel in silver discoveries had transpired. [5]
The waxing moon was mirrored like a silver column, now wavering and tremulous, now rent by the waves tossing under a strong southeast wind, and illumined the warm autumn night. [10]
So strong, indeed, was his pleading, so well did his stout courage stand by him, that had Count Frontenac balanced in his favour he might have been quit of the charge of spying. [11]
A floating beam was held out to sinking men, and they would no longer wait for the life-boat that was approaching to rescue them, with strong hands at the oars and a trusty pilot at the helm. [10]
When the tale was finished the Milesian did not attempt to conceal his strong disapprobation, and told Zopyrus that his most unseasonable love of fighting might be followed by the saddest consequences. [10]
I thought that was drawing it a little strong, about the turtles, any how, but I asked Mr. Church if it was so, and he said it was, and what Mr. Church tells me, I believe. [5]
And indeed it was a noble and joyful sight as they stood there, the old man and the young one, both of powerful and stalwart build, both grown strong in wind and weather, and true and trustworthy men. [10]
Another lady, who was a friend of hers, and a strong believer in Perkinism, was very anxious to try the effects of tractoration upon this unfortunate blemish. [6]
A bold headland--precipitous wall, 150 feet high, very strong, red color, stretching a mile or so. [5]
Before the approaching wagon came alongside, she knew from the grey and the darkbrown horses who was driving them, and she made a strong effort for composure. [11]
For the barrister's voice was not as strong as it once was, and the cold would not seem to lift from his chest. [9]
His clear strong voice rang down the table: "Will you let me come and see your canvas some day soon, Mr. Bagshot? [11]
The tourist should visit that ice-cavern, by all means, for it is well worth the trouble; but I would advise him to go only with a strong and well-armed force. [5]
However strong the villains may be that Euergetes has bribed, I am man enough to defend myself. [10]
You are the vile scum of the earth,"--he determined to take a strong line now, since he had made a powerful impression on the creature before him--"and you will do what the Baas likes, not what you like. [11]
It was a very venerable structure, very strong, and very ornamental. [5]
Susy Clemens, never very strong, had been struck down. [5]
The current was very strong, and he battled fiercely as Billy Rufus, not far above, moved down toward them at an angle. [11]
You have a very strong personality. [9]

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