Use talking in a sentence
Sentences starting with talking
- Talking seemed like the exercise of a foreign language to her, but her smiling was free and unconstrained, and it belonged to all, without selection. [11]
- Talking of one's own ails and grievances.--Bad enough, but not so bad as insulting the person you talk with by remarking on his ill-looks, or appealing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. [6]
- Talking about the mind always makes me hungry. [4]
- Talking of my family affairs he said to me, "the chief duty of a true Mason, as I have told you, lies in perfecting himself. [2]
- Talking ceased, and all began to peer through the vines. [5]
- Talking loud is a bad trick in these curious boarding-houses. [6]
Sentences ending with talking
- Langmaid exclaimed, "now you're talking! [9]
- I wish it would not talk; it is always talking. [5]
- Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
- Therefore if you will print this paragraph somewhere, it may remove the impression that I say unjust things which I do not think, merely for the pleasure of talking. [5]
- And yet there were times when he had an intolerable longing for a confidant, for some one to whom he could relieve himself of part of his burden by talking. [4]
- A rude table was set there under a great tree, and around it three gentlemen were talking. [9]
- Dear me, it was like a bird or a flute, or something, talking. [5]
- He knew it was better to let a man have his fling and come a cropper over his own work than to have him unoccupied, excited, and troublesome, especially when he was an Englishman and knew about what he was talking. [11]
- Being insane, he was allowed to go on talking. [5]
- But what's the use of talking? [2]
Short sentences using talking
- Who's been talking to you? [9]
- They were not talking. [9]
- I was only talking. [5]
- Gaston was still talking. [11]
- Do your very-ablest talking, now. [5]
- No talking, no talking! [2]
- Were you not talking yonder? [12]
- We got to talking together. [5]
- It grew by talking through. [4]
- What were we talking about? [9]
Sentences containing talking two or more times
- And the first thing I knew I was talking about your mother, and I'd forgot who I was talking to. [9]
- Myrtle had exercised the customary privilege of young ladies at parties, and had turned from talking with one to talking with another,--that was all. [6]
- But besides the reading there is now and then some talking, and persons talking in an arbor do not always remember that latticework, no matter how closely the vines cover it, is not impenetrable to the sound of the human voice. [6]
- I seem to be talking quite freely about this neighbor; but in talking to the public I am but talking to his personal friends, and these things are permissible among friends. [5]
- Remember, these witnesses are not talking about two or three days, they are talking about a tedious long procession of days: They asked her profound questions, but she extricated herself quite well. [5]
More example sentences with the word talking in them
- So, you see, you've kept me here talking when there's no need and while my business waits. [11]
- The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
- I appeal to you, Mr. Ritchie,"--he was still talking in French--"I appeal to you, who are a man of affairs,"--and he swept me a bow,--"if a captain would risk taking a fugitive to France for eight hundred livres? [9]
- Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
- I minded that you were talking to her yesterday in the lab'rat'ry, before the telegram came about Mr. George. [9]
- Oh, yes, once you were talking to Auguste de St. Gre about money. [9]
- I'm not calling you names, I'm not talking about morality and immorality. [9]
- I am talking, you know, as a poet; I do not say I deserve the name, but I have taken it, and if you consider me at all it must be in that aspect. [6]
- I feel as you do about it; but I wish I felt easier about him--sure, that is, that we're not doing wrong to let him keep on talking so. [8]
- Now, Evelyn, haven't you any curiosity to see what this world we are talking about is like? [4]
- I glanced through yonder letter while talking with the Exegetus; now I will dictate the answer. [10]
- He was not yet aware of her arrival for, completely absorbed in the subject of their conversation, he was talking with his private secretary Escovedo. [10]
- It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
- But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
- The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
- Everybody began talking with the person sitting next at hand. [6]
- You've been talking with that old reprobate Whipple. [9]
- I was talking with Ruth yesterday about her father, and she reminded me of his favorite saying, which I had forgotten long ago. [10]
- That one talking with rapid gestures was General Sherman. [9]
- She received him with quite the old Hawkeye openness and cordiality, and fell to talking at once of their little acquaintance there; and it seemed impossible that he could ever say to her what he had come determined to say. [5]
- Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
- We were talking with old Phelps, the guide. [4]
- I've been talking with mamma about the world and about society, and what is expected and what you must live up to. [4]
- Suddenly, in conflict with her desire to remain indefinitely talking with this strange man, Janet felt an intense impulse to leave. [9]
- Gaston had acted with coolness and common-sense; and when he sat down and began talking of the Englishman's picture again as if nothing had happened, the others followed, and the meal went on cheerfully. [11]
- She was a willing servant to Stephanus because as often as she went to him, she could hear his son's name from his lips, and he rejoiced at her coming because she always gave him the opportunity of talking of Hermas. [10]
- And your one wife, Bartja, is really not worth talking about. [10]
- There is Hadrian's wife Sabina talking out there to your mother. [10]
- Not quite certain why he stayed, but talking on reflectively, Gaston at last said: "You will be coming to us to-night, of course? [11]
- He has a whole lot of assurance, an air of knowing what he's talking about, and apparently he doesn't give a continental whether he's popular or not. [9]
- We spent a whole afternoon going about here and there and yonder, and hunting up the scenes and talking of the crimes which we had committed so long ago. [5]
- Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
- It struck me when you were talking to Mr. Bentley the other day. [9]
- Even Jack Delancy, when the crushing news was brought him at the club, where he sat talking with Major Fairfax, although he saw his own ruin in a flash, said, "It wouldn't have happened if Henderson had lived. [4]
- And since then, when talking to him, Hodder had had a feeling that Mr. Engel was not unconscious of the aura--if it may be called such--of his vestry. [9]
- But--don't kiss me when I am talking, it makes me forget what I was going to say. [5]
- And after dinner, when he started talking with a ridicule that was a thinly disguised bitterness about the Citizens Union and their preparations for a campaign I left him and went to bed. [9]
- It's only talking, when all is said and done, and if she talks of me in the stocks, why I can talk of her in the stocks, which is a good deal funnier if we come to that. [12]
- Do you know what you are talking about? [4]
- To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring. [2]
- But that wasn't what we were talking about. [9]
- I cannot tell what power you hold over me, whether of life and death, or of wealth and poverty; but after talking to me of love, I should not have thought you would have wronged me by suggesting any meaner motive. [6]
- Did I know what I was talking about, or didn't I? [5]
- Now an ancient whale-ship master fell to talking about the sort of crews they used to have in his early days. [5]
- All around them were well-dressed, well-fed, prosperous-looking people, talking and laughing in subdued tones as they ate. [9]
- Mandeville and I were talking of the unknown people, one rainy night by the fire, while the Mistress was fitfully and interjectionally playing with the piano-keys in an improvising mood. [4]
- On what we were talking about,--the carnival feeling, the levity, on the unbelief of the age. [9]
- Natasha guessed they were talking about the old prince and planning something, and this disquieted and offended her. [2]
- I don't say we're right; I only tell what you must often find to be the fact, right or wrong, in talking with doctors. [6]
- When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
- The three soldiers were eating and talking among themselves, taking no notice of him. [2]
- Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when Vera entered. [2]
- I remember," she went on, simply, dreamily, and as if talking to herself, "the day when we first came to the Bridge House. [11]
- At last, as we sat talking, a servant appeared at the door, with a frightened look. [4]
- Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
- By and by we got talking again.--Does a poet love the verses written through him, do you think, Sir?--said the divinity-student. [6]
- The next morning we got talking a little on the same subject, very good-naturedly, as people return to a matter they have talked out. [6]
- This morning as we came up I was talking all the way with your cousin. [4]
- By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
- He had a way of talking with people about what they were interested in, as if it were the one matter in the world nearest to his heart. [6]
- The earl and Washington started on the sorrowful errand, talking as they walked. [5]
- Meantime, whilst he was talking with the protonotary, the bolder guests ventured to move about more freely, and of them all Cordula imposed the least restraint upon herself. [10]
- Afterwards, as I was talking with Mr. Singleton, the rector came up. [9]
- The young person was talking earnestly with the captain, and, on his turning round, Mr. William Murray Bradshaw had the pleasure of recognizing his young friend, Mr. Cyprian Eveleth. [6]
- If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
- A sixth group was talking absolute nonsense. [2]
- All the world was talking about it. [5]
- Natasha knew he was talking about her and this afforded her pleasure. [2]
- The handsome Anatole was smilingly talking to a partner on his arm and looked at Natasha as one looks at a wall. [2]
- Jake as usual, was kicking his heels in front of the store, talking to Rias and others about the coming Fourth of July celebration at Brampton. [9]
- The big room was full of red-vested farmers (the Gemeindrath of the district, with the Burgermeister at the head,) drinking beer and talking public business. [5]
- At first I was for talking with them, but this Dorothy would not allow. [9]
- If a shell was bursting close over us, we stopped talking and stood still;-- uncomfortable, yes, but it wasn't safe to move. [5]
- But Lord Jermyn was always talking politics. [9]
- He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with. [5]
- What a man wants to do, in talking with a stranger, is to get and to give as much of the best and most real life that belongs to the two talkers as the time will let him. [6]
- Wolf had not waited long; it was just striking eleven when Barbara met him at the door talking with Herr Lerch, the owner of the house. [10]
- At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio. [9]
- The rest of us had been soberly sipping our tea, and when the Doctor and the Annexes stopped talking there was one of those dead silences which are sometimes so hard to break in upon, and so awkward while they last. [6]
- In Soolsby's hut upon the hill David sat talking to the old chair-maker. [11]
- I have called upon him for the proof, and he does not at all meet me as Trumbull met him upon that of which we were just talking, by producing the record. [7]
- When Stephen caught up with him in the little country street, he was talking earnestly to Mr. Hill, the young reporter of the Press and Tribune. [9]
- Polly Ann went up it like a bird, talking all the while to Riley, who blew like a bellows. [9]
- He's been sitting up and talking to us--of course he's pale and weak and wasted, but in spite of that, Asher, he seems to have a strength, a force that he didn't have before he went away. [9]
- The Singers got up and stood--the talking and glass jingling went on. [5]
- I sat there until ten o'clock talking to the real Mr. Cheyne, a human Mr. Cheyne unknown in the lecture-room. [9]
- When they had undressed, but without washing off the cork mustaches, they sat a long time talking of their happiness. [2]
- Pierre did not understand what his benefactor was saying, but he knew (the categories of thoughts were also quite distinct in his dream) that he was talking of goodness and the possibility of being what they were. [2]
- We were lying under the hut of spruce-bark, on fragrant hemlock-boughs, talking, after supper. [4]
- Janet possessed all unconsciously the New England reverence for learning, she was stirred by the sight of this distinguished-looking person who sat on the painted stage, fingering his glasses and talking to Antonelli. [9]
- We belong to two different civilizations, and, until we recognize what separates us, we are talking like Pyramus and Thisbe, without any hole in the wall to talk through. [6]
- And after them trooped others, and still others were heard in the street beyond, not whispering, but talking in the unmistakable tones of people who had more coming behind them. [9]
- We left the trolley-car and tramped through the mud a hundred yards or so to the school, talking about the time we and Warner walked out there years ago, and the pleasant time we had. [5]
- Why the whole town is talking about the war already, and do you think that if Psamtik knew he'd got such splendid game in his net, he would let you loose? [10]
- Sonya was there too, tormented by curiosity as to what Prince Andrew and Natasha were talking about. [2]
- And we theorized, too, but there was never a theory that would account for our driver's voice being out there, nor yet account for his Indian murderers talking such good English, if they were Indians. [5]
- The thought of Tom's treatment of her when she was talking about her picnic came scorching back and filled her with shame. [5]
- He's walked, I'm told, over every foot of New England, talking to the farmers and their wives and--all sorts of people. [9]
- He himself had told his tale to the soldiers: how he had heard the baker and the Frenchman talking at the shop in the Rue d'Egypte. [11]
- I've heard it told by old Shearton at King's House, who speaks as if he'd stepped out of Shakespeare, and somehow I seem to hear him talking, and I tell it as he told it last year to the governor of the Company. [11]
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