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Sentences starting with takes

Takes his leave with a bow and a scrape fit to honor majesty withal! [5]
Takes more to satisfy 'em. [4]
Takes a lot of it--melts fast. [5]
Takes after his father. [2]

Sentences ending with takes

That's the form his remnant of the intellectual curiosity of his ancestors takes. [9]
What a good draught the nag takes! [4]
Physical and nervous activity is one of the forms which shattered force takes. [11]

Short sentences using takes

Harriet takes a wet-nurse. [5]
This, however, takes time. [4]
I presume she takes snuff. [5]
Hugh always takes long rides. [9]
It takes a little time. [8]
His resignation takes effect to-day. [9]
It takes the chromo. [5]
It takes brains. [9]

Sentences containing takes two or more times

I did not know at the time that the most of the tailor shops had the same sign out, and that whereas it takes nine tailors to make an ordinary man, it takes a hundred and fifty to make a prince. [5]

More example sentences with the word takes in them

If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
Whichever side the young man takes, he goes to destruction. [4]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
He said: "Aunt, you don't whack Sid when he takes it. [5]
With us what you call time is a spacious thing; it takes a long stretch of it to grow an angel to full age. [5]
It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
The wolfish Catherine writes to England for her lost Camisard, with much fool's talk about 'dark figures,' and 'conspirators,' 'churls,' and foes of 'soft peace'; and England takes the bait and sends to Sir Hugh Pawlett yonder. [11]
I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. [7]
A very few words may be a convenience to the reader who takes up the book and wishes to know what he is likely to find in it. [6]
It takes a woman to sound a woman's heart, and she found there was still love enough under the ruffled waters to warrant the hope of peace and tranquillity. [6]
And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
Fate is always with me, and I will be the gift of the gods to the woman that takes me. [11]
He takes the whole crop in advance, be it big or little. [5]
And Miss Hood, who takes us out walking and teaches us composition, is such a ridiculously strict old maid--you would laugh at her. [9]
Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
I don't know who she takes after. [9]
This great marvel which we have just witnessed, fellow-savants (it almost takes my breath away), is nothing less than the transit of Venus! [5]
These dreadful chromos which he takes for old masters; these villainous portraits--which to his frantic mind represent Rossmores; the hatchments; the pompous name of this ramshackle old crib-- Rossmore Towers; and that odd assertion of his, that I was expected. [5]
It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling. [5]
Willis kicked hard when it came to painting the oriel yellow, but an architect always takes it for granted he knows it all, and a--" "Fenelon," said Mrs. Cooke, "luncheon is waiting. [9]
To understand in what this dependence consists it is necessary to reinstate another omitted condition of every command proceeding not from the Deity but from a man, which is, that the man who gives the command himself takes part in the event. [2]
You know as well as I do what a complete possession any ruling idea takes of her whole nature. [6]
It is the way of the world: to-day one gives a blow and to-morrow takes one. [10]
Of course Sydenham was much abused by his contemporaries, as he frequently takes occasion to remind his reader. [3]
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
It takes a very moderate amount of erudition to unearth a charlatan like the supposed father of the infinitesimal dosing system. [6]
It takes a very masculine man for that--a man who combines the most subtle and refined sympathies with the most forceful purposes and the most ferruginous will-power. [8]
But it takes very little to spoil everything for writer, talker, lover. [6]
The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. [5]
I wonder Dudley Veneer takes to him so kindly. [6]
Yet we do vaguely and hazily wonder why she takes the trouble to say it; why she wastes the words; what her object can be--seeing that that emergency has been in so many, many ways, and so effectively and drastically barred off and made impossible. [5]
The railway journey up the mountain is forty miles, and it takes eight hours to make it. [5]
The gentleman descends, unchecks the horses, wipes his brow, takes a drink at the spout and looks around, evidently remarking upon the lovely view, as he swings his handkerchief in an explanatory manner. [4]
To tell the truth to none but you, I cannot endure to be away from the old place a longer space than it takes to go to Alexandria and back. [10]
Perhaps it is true that the commonplace needs no defense, since everybody takes it in as naturally as milk, and thrives on it. [4]
Pessimism is perhaps too strong a word, and takes no account of the continued unimpaired morale and determination of the greater part of the British and French peoples. [9]
The next letter to Twichell takes up politics and humanity in general, in a manner complimentary to neither. [5]
He takes them to the Park in the cars on Saturday afternoons. [9]
The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. [5]
It takes money to make way beyond Sterling. [13]
It takes two to make a colonel of dragoons. [5]
But they were to learn, now, that a sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. [5]
No use trying to hold your breath until the first ballot is announced; it takes time to obtain the votes of one thousand men--especially when neither General Doby nor any one else knows who they are! [9]
It is nothing to him how unkind he is, so long as he takes the bloom off. [5]
It takes them to give the most effective "little digs;" they know how to stick in the pine-splinters and set fire to them. [4]
I am glad to find that Professor Huxley ('Critiques and Addresses,' 1873, p. 287) takes the same view on this subject as I do. [1]
It takes Boston to do that thing, Sir! [6]
It takes time to develop a character, and to throw the glamour of romance over what may be essentially commonplace. [4]
It takes much to convince the average man of anything; and perhaps nothing can ever make him realize that he is the average woman's inferior--yet in several important details the evidences seems to show that that is what he is. [5]
It takes time to change our ideas, to learn to see things as they are. [9]
It takes ages to bring forth a Shakespeare, and some more ages to match him. [5]
It is difficult to attain this, and theory says that it takes three generations for a man to separate himself thus from his display. [4]
They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly. [2]
What a long time it takes to put one stone on another! [10]
We are going through with our task, so far as I am concerned, if it takes us three years longer. [7]
He had passed through the sympathetic and emotional stages in his new experience, and had arrived at the philosophical and practical state, which takes things coolly, and goes to work to set them right. [6]
The service takes three of the best years of a young man's life. [4]
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. [5]
It takes quality, though; she's such a woman as Jack's mother. [4]
John likes it, though; it soothes him, he takes about two dozen whiffs, and then rolls over to dream, Heaven only knows what, for we could not imagine by looking at the soggy creature. [5]
Leave it to those who are no longer fit for anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our ill luck takes us. [2]
Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
He entered those things in his note-book without suspicion, he takes them out and delivers them to the world with a candor and simplicity which show that he believed them genuine. [5]
He takes a thing in as the ocean mouths a river. [11]
He takes the thick and thin as it comes, as to pie, for instance. [4]
But I suppose there have to be just such cranks; it takes all kinds to make a world. [8]
But Cynthia watched them, as was her duty, and gradually absorbed many things which are useful if not essential--outward observances of which the world takes cognizance, and which she had been sent there by Uncle Jethro to learn. [9]
And it takes them weeks and weeks and weeks, and for ever and ever. [5]
That is just the way in this world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. [5]
I suppose that the sun, going through a man, as it will on such a day, takes out of him rheumatism, consumption, and every other disease, except sudden death--from sun-stroke. [4]
He takes up the statement of Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians, which he thinks, all things considered, ought not to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists. [6]
No one takes the state turnpike nowadays except crazy tourists who are willing to risk their necks and their horses' legs for the sake of scenery. [9]
Dr. Gruber takes the same view, and has shewn that rudimentary teeth are commonly found on the inferior surface of the right wing. [1]
She gazes around the room, and then goes resolutely to the bench and takes up several test tubes in turn, holding theme to the light. [9]
It takes all the nonsense out of everybody, or ought to do it, to see how fairly the real manhood of a country is distributed over its surface. [6]
So he takes the next one without inquiring whether it is right or wrong. [7]
The election of the Lower House of the Bavarian parliament, whose members have a six years' tenure of office, which takes place next spring, excites uncommon interest; for the leading issue will be that of education. [4]
Taylor's nomination takes the Locos on the blind side. [7]
After the tanning, the leather takes a new name--which I have forgotten--I only remember that the new name does not indicate that the kangaroo furnishes the leather. [5]
You see, Austen's the kind of man who doesn't care what anybody thinks, if he takes it into his head to do a thing. [9]
Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, she inevitably takes the next step to her share in power. [6]
But Plato takes the first place in Emerson's gallery of six great personages whose portraits he has sketched. [6]
Observe, too, how the drying process takes place in the stuff of a poem just as in that of a violin. [6]
So uncertain is the climate in Summer that a lady who goes out visiting cannot hope to be prepared for all emergencies unless she takes her fan under one arm and her snow shoes under the other. [5]
It is that the author who produced that book has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes a profit which does not belong to it and generously gives it to the 88,000,000 of people. [5]
The difficulty is, that the alcoholic virtues don't wash; but until the water takes their colors out, the tints are very much like those of the true celestial stuff. [6]
It's being scared that takes the flesh off me. [11]
And a holiday that takes on such proportions that the Express companies and the Post-office cannot handle it is in danger of a collapse. [4]
The president knows that it is money fraudulently got, that really belongs to somebody else; and the gambler would feel that if the president takes it, he cannot think very disapprovingly of the manner in which it was acquired. [4]
And figure you that he takes Daniel, him opens the mouth by force and with a teaspoon him fills with shot of the hunt, even him fills just to the chin, then he him puts by the earth. [5]
A humorist says that he must have a great deal of mind, it takes him so long to make it up. [4]
It takes all that ever was and makes it new. [11]
I am afraid that a lightsome disposition and a relish for humor are not so common in those whose benevolence takes an active turn as in people of sentiment, who are always ready with their tears and abounding in passionate expressions of sympathy. [6]
So Mr. Bernard thanked Helen for her interest without the aid of the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet,--the love labial,--the limping consonant which it takes two to speak plain. [6]
In less time than it takes me to write these words he had dragged a hideous, naked warrior out of the brambles, and with an avalanche of crumbling earth they slid into the waters of the creek. [9]
For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks. [5]
The artist who takes your photograph must carry you with him into his "developing" room, and he will give you a more exact illustration of the truth just mentioned. [6]
A Monthly Magazine takes up the critic's critic. [6]

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