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Sentences ending with suggestion

Crozier caught the undertone of suggestion. [11]
However, I have to thank him for a good suggestion. [10]
Here is the theatre list for Saturday, May 7, 1898, cut from the advertising columns of a New York paper: [graphic here] Now I arrive at my project, and make my suggestion. [5]
They were not the ordinary gossipers; in the faces of some were the marks of furtive design, of sinister suggestion. [11]
The trustees recognized the justice of this suggestion. [6]
The candlesticks, with the dozens of candles, the elegant silver dishes, the whole manner of the reception, led her to make the suggestion. [10]
Which was all the attention that was paid to his suggestion. [5]
It was agreed that we had fallen into Logan's Pond from a raft: my suggestion. [9]
But he saw that the Senator was wounded by the suggestion. [5]
He threw out that suggestion. [5]

Short sentences using suggestion

You like the suggestion? [10]
He took the suggestion. [9]
This is my suggestion. [7]
It was Fred's suggestion. [12]
It was full of suggestion. [11]
I have made my suggestion. [5]
This is but a suggestion. [7]
The suggestion was a shock. [4]
What suggestion! [8]

Sentences containing suggestion two or more times

If it was because I felt the slightest personal interest in the infernal land that I ever made a suggestion, the suggestion would never be made. [5]

More example sentences with the word suggestion in them

She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. [11]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
They were men whose opinions were their own property and not subject to revision and amendment, suggestion or criticism, by anybody, even their friends. [5]
Mr. Brad, to whose nineteenth-century and newspaper eye Philip had shrunk from confiding his modest creation, but who was consulted in the business, consoled him with the suggestion that this was a sure way of getting his production read. [4]
Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic. [2]
The deep blush which crimsoned Euthymia's cheek at Lurida's suggestion was in a strange contrast to her own undisturbed expression. [6]
Mingled with these were occasional remarks of skeptics shaken, in human fashion, by the suggestion of the inevitable end that never fails to sober and terrify humanity. [9]
As the song went on, however, she felt the inherent suggestion in it, so that when she had finished it required all her strength to get up calmly, come among them again, and listen to their praises and thanks. [11]
The group had welcomed the suggestion eagerly, for on this side of the question they were not so well equipped as on others. [11]
There was no weakness in the face, no meekness, no suggestion of the conception of the sacrificed Lamb, no hint of a beatific vision of opening heavens--and yet no accusation, no despair. [9]
And Mr. Plimpton was the more hurt since the happy suggestion was his own, and he had had no little difficulty in getting Mr. Beatty to agree to it. [9]
That in itself was terrible enough, yet it was not the drunkenness alone that had sickened Janet, but the suggestion of something else. [9]
John Brown shivered--there was something so cold-blooded in the suggestion that he might have found arsenic a good thing. [11]
She flushed, then was cool again, for she was put upon her mettle by the suggestion of his glance. [11]
In truth, it was at the Judge's suggestion that a blue provost's guard was called in later to protect the seized property. [9]
Tradition had its value when it did not deteriorate into superstition, into the mechanical, automatic transmission characteristic of the mediaeval Church, for the very suggestion of which Peter had rebuked Simon in Samaria. [9]
He remarked, somewhat unsteadily, that to prolong the controversy would be useless and painful to all concerned, and he infinitely regretted the necessity of putting his suggestion that the rector resign in the form of a resolution . [9]
She learned all unconsciously (by suggestion, as it were) to take delight in them; a delight that was to last her lifetime, a never failing resource to which she was to turn again and again. [9]
Twichell, during a trip South about this time, had called on Harris with some sort of proposition or suggestion from Clemens that Harris appear with him in public, and tell, or read, the Remus stories from the platform. [5]
They are connected together and harmonized by the help of suggestion, conjecture, innuendo, perversion, and semi-suppression. [5]
I must return to the scene where I found myself when the suggestion of the broken circle ran away with my imagination. [6]
And your suggestion to take him to the Institution was not a bad one. [9]
He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. [5]
Then he turned to me, and said, with a suggestion of severity in his tone: "Have you considered, sir, what would be the inevitable result of such a meeting as this? [5]
If I went to her with such a suggestion, I, who yesterday--No, no! [10]
Would be glad to have your suggestion as to supplying your place of military governor. [7]
The suggestion as to form has been adopted bit many of our religious, literary, and special weeklies, to the great convenience of the readers, and I doubt not of the publishers also. [4]
The doing good to another person where no shadow nor suggestion of benefit to one's self can result from it. [5]
The simple suggestion to a few friends of Mr. Emerson that an opportunity was now offered to be of service to him was all that was needed. [6]
Meantime, if you thought well of it, you might write her and arrange a meeting, telling her it is by my suggestion and that I gave you her address. [5]
Mr. Crewe evidently thought this a negligible suggestion, for he did not reply to it, but presently asked for the political news in Ripton. [9]
He had only thought it was not the treasure, however--he had not known that it wasn't--and so the suggestion of a captured bundle was too much for his self-possession. [5]
But when I thought I had borne about enough of this kind of talk, I threatened to make Harris tramp back to the summit and make a report on that scenery, and this suggestion spiked his battery. [5]
It frightens people, though, to hear the suggestion that worlds shape themselves from star-mist. [6]
It was during this time that some good Catholics came to him with an heretical Protestant suggestion to carve a couplet or verse of poetry on the tombstones they ordered. [11]
But even in this suggestion she was conscious of a twinge of disloyalty to her former self. [4]
Bent-Anat well knew this gesture of her father's; it was the omen of some kindly, often sportive suggestion, such as he loved to surprise his friends with. [10]
What do you think of that suggestion, Cleopatra? [10]
Thank you for the suggestion, Fulkerson. [8]
Mr. Dickinson accepted the suggestion eagerly, wondering why he hadn't thought of it himself. [9]
Here we have the smooth and placidly-complaining sea at our door, with nothing between us and it but 20 yards of shingle--and hardly a suggestion of life in that space to mar it or make a noise. [5]
The suggestion in the proclamation as to maintaining the political framework of the States on what is called reconstruction is made in the hope that it may do good without danger of harm. [7]
At Maude's suggestion the night before we had placed my presents, pieces de resistance, at a distance from the tree, in the hope that they would not be spied at once, that they would be in some sort a climax. [9]
And she was the more resentful because she felt, instinctively, that the memory of this suggestion would never be completely eradicated: it would persist, like a canker, to mar the completeness of her enjoyment of these clothes. [9]
The suggestion of the mask always made Venters remember; now that it was gone he seldom thought of her past. [13]
Had she heard the dry and subtle suggestion of Gaston's talk, she would, however, have justified her mother. [11]
This suggestion, under the circumstances, might not have been a happy one, but its lack of appropriateness did not strike Jethro either. [9]
There is in the cap and gown a subtle suggestion of the union of learning with womanly charm that is very captivating to the imagination. [4]
This suggestion pleased the architect, who joined in the conversation to urge the freedman's request. [10]
After lingering till the 29th, without any suggestion of ascending the James, he sailed northward and made the lucky stroke of river exploration which immortalized him. [4]
The theory is that, fly-fishing being a high art, the fly must not be a tame imitation of nature, but an artistic suggestion of it. [4]
But your suggestion that you and your family found humor in it twenty-eight years ago moved me to look into the matter. [5]
It was herself that she did not know, and she would have repelled as nonsense the suggestion that her own restlessness and her own changing experiments in occupation were due to the unsatisfied longings of a woman's heart. [4]
It is argument that it could do the like awake without help or suggestion from you--and I think it does. [5]
Not one suggestion that he look at his own record --and she could have made, oh, so many, and such blistering ones! [5]
It was she that had suggested the crippled M. Evanturel to the Seigneur when the office of postmaster became vacant, and the Seigneur had acted on her suggestion, henceforth taking greater interest in Rosalie. [11]
The suggestion was that each one of them should send a request for Mark Twain's autograph, timing it so that it would arrive on the 1st of April. [5]
A suggestion of tenseness in her pose betraying an inner attitude of alertness, of defiance, conveyed to him sharply and deliciously once more the panther-like impression he had received when first, as a woman, she had come to his notice. [9]
But all the sweet odors of the night could not take from the room a faint suggestion of mortality. [5]
She repudiated the suggestion, yet it persisted as she glanced at Rolfe's red lips and compared him with Ditmar. [9]
Lincoln accepted the suggestion, and the proclamation was postponed. [7]
I think the suggestion you make, of discontinuing proceedings against Mr. McKee, a very proper one. [7]
I make this suggestion upon the ground that a comity which ought to be reciprocated exempts our consuls in all other countries from taxation to the extent thus indicated. [7]
At Miss McDonald's suggestion they turned in and found a secluded seat. [4]
It was Ruth's suggestion that the coats would be improved by a single hook and eye sewed on in the small of the back where the buttons usually are. [5]
I thought this suggestion seemed to act rather unfavorably upon the ladies of our circle. [6]
There was a suggestion of Sunday, and sanctity too, in the odor of caraway-seed that pervaded the room. [4]
I owe the suggestion of some verses which were written at that time to the memory of a dream. [10]
No vestige or suggestion of self-seeking can be found in any word or deed of hers. [5]
The nomination, the suggestion of Daniel Webster, Tyler's Secretary of State, was cordially approved by the President and cabinet, and confirmed almost by acclamation in the Senate. [4]
There isn't a suggestion of coarseness or vulgarity in it anywhere. [5]
I leave my suggestion of borrowing a hint from French practice to your mature consideration. [3]
He gave no suggestion of a man whose days were nearly ended. [5]
The vulgar political suggestion might have crept into a more trivial mind than Mr. Crewe's that Mr. Painter was being, "put to bed," the bed being very similar to that of Procrustes. [9]
At your kind suggestion I think I will meet you to-morrow. [7]
At the Colonel's suggestion I had laid in a liberal supply of cigars and whiskey. [9]
A weird, painful suggestion crept into his brain: he was not responsible for her, and he was responsible for a woman up there by the hospital, whose home was the valley of the Chaudiere! [11]
I wish his suggestion could be adopted. [5]
Suddenly a new suggestion came to her: there was one remaining proof. [11]
A very slight suggestion brings the tears from Marlborough's eyes, but they are soon over, and he is smiling again as an allusion carries him back to the days of Blenheim and Malplaquet. [6]
Some power of suggestion bound his fleeing footsteps, drew him back from the Brink. [11]
To make my suggestion available I should have to go over and see Arnot, and I don't want to until I can mention Carnegie's name to him as going in with us. [5]
It was a sudden and bold suggestion, and it was not lost on the Duke. [11]
The difference was staggering in its suggestion of that blindness of which he had accused her. [13]
Generals on the staff, excited by the memory of the easy victory at Tarutino, urged Kutuzov to carry out Dorokhov's suggestion. [2]
And if she spoke, the impertinence of the suggestion might send back to the fierce Medici that same lover, to lose his head. [11]
One may properly speak of it as "going on," for it is full of the suggestion of activity; the light pours down with energy, with visible enthusiasm. [5]
I suggest one sou as a fair price, a suggestion which he only receives with a smile of slight pity, and, I fancy, a little disdain. [4]
He had always some thing to say to the ethical sense, a word for the conscience; but his approach was always through the mind, and his enforcement of the moral lesson was by suggestion rather than by commandment. [4]
It was like some imp of Satan to drop into his ear the suggestion that princes, ere this, had been known to have two wives-- one of them unofficial. [11]
Madelinette was not so heroical as to undervalue the suggestion. [11]
There was a sinister droop to the eyelids, a suggestion of cruelty about the mouth; but there was more of good-nature and passive strength than either in the general expression. [11]
He shrugged his shoulders at that, he insisted that his lawyer should not reply to the foolish and insulting suggestion. [11]
Duvarney shrugged a shoulder, stiffened; for, oblique as the suggestion was, he did not care to have his daughter hear it. [11]
At his suggestion she then assumed a variety of attitudes; she stood as Hebe, offering nectar to the gods--as Nausicae, listening to the tale of Odysseus--and as Sappho, singing to her lyre. [10]
She shrank, for she saw in his nod and his smile that suggestion of knowing all about everything and everybody, and thinking the worst, which had chilled her so often. [11]
Here, if anywhere, she now hoped once more to find comfort, some happy suggestion, and perhaps some definite assistance. [10]

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