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Sentences ending with tending

This shows exactly where we now are; and partially, also, wither we are tending. [7]
I repeat, therefore, the question: Is it not plain in what direction we are tending? [7]
He had seen the look in the eyes of the Romany as he entered, and noted which way his footsteps were tending. [11]
The nobler sentiment should be that of every true American, and it is in that direction that our best civilization is constantly tending. [6]
She was not one who shrank from self-knowledge, and the question put itself to her, "Whither was this matter tending? [9]
The Government furnishes oil, and pays ten or fifteen dollars a month for the lighting and tending. [5]
Lurida was full of suggestions, plans, projects, which were too liable to run into whims before she knew where they were tending. [6]
He coughed a mild short cough, as if to point the direction in which his downward path was tending. [6]

Short sentences using tending

By tending sheep. [5]

More example sentences with the word tending in them

His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
As a hundred thoughts tending towards the solution of the problem by which he was faced, flashed through his mind, and he rejected them all, he repeated mechanically the phrase, "I suppose you are lying now. [11]
The outside pressure, therefore, is immense upon the physician, tending to force him to active treatment of some kind. [3]
Scattered here and there over the rocks, like conies, are peasants, tending a few lean cattle, and digging grasses from the crevices. [4]
The life of the river-men was exciting, hardy, and perilous; tending to boisterousness, recklessness, daring, and wild humour: that of the salmon-fishers was cheerful, picturesque, infrequently dangerous, mostly simple and quiet. [11]
The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. [5]
The fact of the feathers in widely distinct groups having been modified in an analogous manner no doubt depends primarily on all the feathers having nearly the same structure and manner of development, and consequently tending to vary in the same manner. [1]
I have said that there is evidence about the case tending to show that it was a made-up case, for the purpose of getting that decision. [7]
He is constantly tending to reflect upon and discourse about his own particular stage of life. [6]
Whither it is tending seems plain. [7]
The wakeful shepherd, tending his flocks, beholds from the mountain's top the first faint morning beam ere cometh the risen day. [5]
Looking back, he seems to me rather like a captive philosopher set to tending flocks; resigned to his destiny, but not amused with its incongruities. [6]
In the Masdakite's room the Sister coldly asked her what she wanted, and who had given her leave to assist in tending the sufferers. [10]
The worshipper is received into an ample court, but by degrees the walls on either side approach one another, the halls become less lofty, all is gradually tending towards one point. [10]
If it should prove, as it seemed likely, that there was springing up a serious attachment tending to a union between them, he knew what he should do, if he was not quite so sure how he should do it. [6]
It was the play of cognitions, of sensations, formlessly tending to the effect which can only be very clumsily interpreted in language. [8]
He brought no new piece of evidence inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece, tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition. [7]
Look at her life--how fair it was, and tending ever upward; and look at his own--how frivolous, how charged with mean vanities, how selfish, how empty, how ignoble! [5]
Organs in this latter state are not strictly rudimentary, but they are tending in this direction. [1]
People were already in the streets, and all were tending one way. [11]
He thinks that he only holds the true faith, and ought to fight for it; he calls all artistic work a heathen abomination; he never felt the purifying influence of the beautiful, and regards all pictures and statues as tending to idolatry. [10]
Rias Richardson, who had donned the carpet slippers preparatory to tending store for the day, shuffled inside. [9]
Even the scattering groups of armed shepherds we met the afternoon before, tending their flocks of long-haired goats, were wanting here. [5]
How gently it falls through the soft air, always tending downwards, but sliding softly, from side to side, wavering, hesitating, balancing, until it settles as noiselessly as a snow-flake upon the all-receiving bosom of the earth! [6]
In the old country, in a valley below the castle perched on the rack above, he had begun life by tending his father's geese. [9]
And, though I could not but perceive which way the lad was tending, I had held it but a poor return for friendship had I sought by word or deed to bring him to my way of thinking. [9]
The housekeeper had been nurse to Diodoros, and had been longing to help in tending him. [10]
Indeed she may be quite drifting away from the ideal that a woman ought to aim at if we are to have a society that is not always tending into a realistic vulgarity and commonplace. [4]
I have only arrayed the evidence tending to prove it, and presented it to the understanding of others, saying what I think it proves, but giving you the means of judging whether it proves it or not. [7]
More revolutions, wastage and bloodshed will follow, the world will be reduced to absolute chaos unless, in the more advanced democracies, an intelligent social order tending to remove the causes of injustice and discontent can be devised and ready for inauguration. [9]
She was up and around the same day, with her hands full, for she was tending both babes. [5]
He was not an organizer, but a power behind many organizers, inspiring them with lofty motive, giving breadth, to their views, always tending to become narrow through concentration on their special objects. [6]
His thoughts were always tending to revert to the almost worshipped companion from whom death had parted him a few months before. [6]
Their money was always at the service of enterprises tending to the development of our metropolis. [9]
Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species. [1]
Marcus and Dada allowed themselves to be carried onward by the throng which was tending towards the city-walls and the Canopic gate. [10]

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