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Sentences starting with things

Things are befalling you that would make a stouter heart tremble. [10]
Things had grown worse, until the day of catastrophe, when Byng had been sent for by the leaders of both parties to the quarrel. [11]
Things went wrong with him, and he paid the price we all must pay for work ill-done. [11]
Things look reasonably well. [7]
Things must look well in the old house there. [10]
Things did not weigh on her mind! [11]
Things are as we take them--the gravest face may have a wart, upon which a jest can be made. [10]
Things went on very pleasantly. [5]
Things had become truly serious. [5]
Things were a trifle different now. [9]

Sentences ending with things

When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
But we were young, you know, and youth hopeth all things, believeth all things. [5]
I did wish you were here to see these things. [5]
It will teach you to understand the other terrible things. [10]
I wonder if you think--if you think of that: a little home away from all these wars, aloof from vexing things. [11]
I will tell you things. [11]
I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
Antonio has tormented you sufficiently with drawing lifeless things. [10]
I can show you much more amusing things. [11]
But remember that you may have to face hard things. [9]

Short sentences using things

In fact, things were imminent. [5]
Both these things were expected. [7]
But now things were changed. [5]
Foulik Pasha had upset things. [11]
But coughs are ungrateful things. [6]
The things were true. [9]
You've messed things to-day. [11]
She can see through things. [11]
I do random things? [5]
Instincts are curious things. [9]

Sentences containing things two or more times

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
There were the words: "Charity suffereth long and is kind, charity is not easily provoked;" and "Charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. [10]
And I've often wondered why, when I've seen the things you didn't give and the things you took away. [11]
I like men who have done things, who do things. [11]
And the person who has no interest in things is the person who once had a great deal of interest in things, who had too passionate an interest. [11]
But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
His was the true measure of things now; his lesson had been learned; values were got by new standards; he knew in a real sense the things that mattered. [11]
Well, well, we travel far in the world, and sometimes we see strange things, and no two strange things are alike--no; there is only one Macavoy in the world, there was only one Shon McGann. [11]
Some things are too sacred to be set forth on a printed page, and this letter is one of those things. [9]
He had come to that age when the mind is surprised to find that the things that once charmed charm less, and the things once hated are less acutely repulsive. [11]

More example sentences with the word things in them

Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
This light within your youthful hearts has beamed, Ripening the germs of all things good and fair; I also fostered them, and joyous dreamed Of future progress to repay our care. [10]
Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
Now take off your things, quick! [2]
I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. [10]
I suppose, however, your husband told you of these things, so that you were not surprised. [11]
I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
Now, don't put your faith in men and in a party that cry, 'We will make all things new,' to the tune of, 'We are a band of brothers. [11]
You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
She was very young and pretty and accommodating, and always ready to do what she could to make things pleasant. [5]
Yet to marry you, even as things are, if that might be! [11]
No; I like you, and I like your calm unruffled way of explaining things to the customers, but you see I am not used to it. [5]
Watch yourself, and you will find impulses which, but for the restraints you put upon them, would make you do the same foolish things which you laugh at in that cousin of yours. [6]
But I tell you true that though I love you better than anything in the world, if things had gone well with you I'd never have come to you. [11]
We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. [5]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
Did Gorgo teach you such things as this? [10]
Shall I tell you some things the Professor said the other day? [6]
But why did you say those sharp things at your trial? [11]
Now why do you say such things to me, especially when--when you are aspiring! [11]
Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
We talked--I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet--ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam--and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court--yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything. [5]
He is deceiving you now in small things, great Caesar, and later he will deceive you in greater ones. [10]
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. [5]
I know how you look at such things. [9]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
But of course, you know, if I went to work at those things with an ethical intention explicitly in mind, I should spoil them. [8]
I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. [11]
All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
Your anger makes you forget many things. [9]
Odd things strike you at every turn. [4]
He thinks of you as a person of convictions--and he has heard things about you. [9]
The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
Priests in their yellow robes and with bare shoulders went by, oblivious of all things. [11]
Besides, during the years of her intercourse with Massi she had heard many things about his residence--nay, every member of his household--and therefore she could now form a picture of his future life. [10]
There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
And I tell ye there are things in that Book that not one among ye can read, with all your learning! [5]
When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
In all she wrote she kept but two things back, her grandfather's death--and one other. [11]
The principle is wrong, the day is past when such things can be done--in that way. [9]
I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
If things go wrong it is because my orders are not obeyed. [11]
The man is writing to the woman, and it has things that you have said to me--in a different way. [11]
How I hate writing such things! [6]
I guess I'll write stories and things. [4]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
If he had wounded her deeply, he had a right to expect her to excuse many things in him. [10]
Many of the wounded asked them not to unload the carts but only to let them sit on the top of the things. [2]
But what security would there be for any calculations in life in a state of things in expectation of a revolution any moment? [4]
He said he would keep these things always; and that soon he would seek out these dear good friends of his and take them under his protection. [5]
No, other Indians would have noticed these things, but Cooper's Indians never notice anything. [5]
I suppose you would bring some things out into daylight questioning that I had rather leave in that twilight of half-belief peopled with shadows--if they are only shadows--more sacred to me than many realities. [6]
Then he, Argutis, would be house steward, and show that he knew other things besides keeping the workroom and garden in order, splitting wood, and buying cheaply at market. [10]
It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. [4]
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
I have witnessed worse things in this house. [10]
It is one world, mine is another; and sometimes it is lonely, and the best things are not for me. [11]
Perhaps in the world of modern reforms this is not possible; but I intend now to cultivate only the standard things, and learn to talk knowingly of the rest. [4]
It was the world in a man--personality, knowledge of life, the culture of the thousand things which make up civilization: it was personality got from life and power in contest with the ordered world. [11]
The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
We are all working for the same things, and we all believe that they must be brought about in the same practical way. [9]
I have to work on it occasionally, which I don't like a particle I don't like to work at too many things at once. [5]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
These are magnificent words; the have a force and magnitude of sound befitting the things which they describe. [5]
Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
But upon my word, Victoria, you have a delicious way of putting things. [9]
I pass the word, and things are so and so. [11]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
Honora did likewise, wondering at the facility with which Mr. Holt worded his appeal, and at the number of things he found to pray for. [9]
You've been a wonder, the way you've caught on and taken things off my shoulders. [9]
It is no wonder that he sometimes takes--a material view of things. [9]
Barbazon's--the horseshoe--among the wolves, just to show I could do things better than any one else--as if I had the patent for setting the world right. [11]
What is life without these things? [11]
As of old, without her knowledge, he did many things for her through the same Maitresse Aimable. [11]
He handled things without gloves, and this was not a good thing for any that came to him with a weak case. [11]
My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. [5]
He was familiar with the routine of the business, he had adaptability, he was a quick worker, and for a fortnight things went swimmingly. [11]
We are now, with the help of our allies, striving to banish these things from the face of the earth. [9]
I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
Hilary's grown up with that way of doing things, and in the old days there was no other way. [9]
It's in line with other things that are happening. [13]
They were troubled with no visions of better things. [9]
Mr. Burlingame went with me all the time, and helped me question the men--throwing away invitations to dinner with the princes and foreign dignitaries, and neglecting all sorts of things to accommodate me. [5]
They wearied her with long and multiplied interrogatories upon all sorts of things. [5]
It has brought with it to me a new spirit, a spirit with a scorn for things base and mean. [9]
Presently she said with incredible quietness, "Do not force me to do hard things. [11]
It is not with him pereant illi, but beati sunt illi qui pro nobis nostra dixerunt,-Blessed are those who have said our good things for us. [6]

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