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Sentences starting with third

Third stone, fourth row. [5]
Third in the list of special pleasures is the tour of the harbor in a fine steam pleasure-launch. [5]
Third Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General S. P. Heintzelman. [7]
Third corner turned. [6]

Sentences ending with third

Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
They were always together; it seemed to happen so, and King could hardly admit to himself that Mrs. Glow was de trop as a third. [4]
I'll read the third! [2]
He took up the third. [6]
No, he put the farm into the hands of an agricultural expert to be worked on shares--out of every three loads of corn the expert to have two and the pilot the third. [5]
One is not startled by it at a first reading of it; nor at the second, nor the third. [5]
Dwell upon the second sentence (particularly the close of it) and the beginning of the third. [5]
Barrow placed the second portrait beside the first, and stole another glance while reaching for a third. [5]
Angelo made a print of his fingers on another glass, and Luigi followed with a third. [5]

Short sentences using third

It's the third time. [11]
Rhodopis called a third time. [10]
This created a third party. [5]
They were the third couple. [2]
The third was Jack. [9]
But the third day--ah! [4]
The third man captured us. [5]
No third person. [10]
Third. [7]

Sentences containing third two or more times

We will say that the contest was to begin with the first and third Bergwacht pitted against the second and fourth, and be followed by another, with the first and second against the third and fourth. [10]
The Second Auditor sent me to the Third, and the Third sent me to the First Comptroller of the Corn-Beef Division. [5]
These were three in number, and I thought that each of them was about as long as three street cars placed end to end, though of course they are a third wider and a third higher than a street car. [5]

More example sentences with the word third in them

But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either. [12]
I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
This epigram he would praise, the next he would disparage, a third condemn. [10]
Though tattered, hungry, worn out, and reduced to a third of their original number, the French entered Moscow in good marching order. [2]
At every third word his breath fails. [10]
Unfortunately, yonder poor woman's third day will end tomorrow. [10]
However, as the woman seemed likely to die with the convulsions that were tearing her, they concluded that the third could do no more than put her out of her misery with a happy dispatch. [5]
When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
In a line with that you may see two others: the coral fan, as I always called it from its resemblance in form to that beautiful marine growth, and a third a little farther along. [6]
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe. [9]
One of you will die to-morrow week; another of you will die to-night; the third has but five minutes to live--and yonder is the clock! [5]
By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]
The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
I got the whole story from the third mate and two of the sailors. [5]
A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow. [2]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
Only think, Mandane, where could the third ear grow? [10]
It was only when Shangois was a third of the way across, that he knew the mare's rider. [11]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
The crippled rider went one way; the one frustrated in his attempt to get the carbine rode another, Venters thought he made out a third rider, carrying a strange-appearing bundle and disappearing in the sage. [13]
About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. [14]
The third year we could, easily sell 1,000,000 bottles in the United States and----" "O, splendid! [5]
The third order was: General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification. [2]
Plainly the book was written under the mental desolations of the Third Degree, and I feel sure that none but the membership of that Degree can discover meanings in it. [5]
The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, apparently trying to recollect something. [2]
The other patient was seized with a rigor the third morning after delivery. [3]
A third joke was played upon Nicodemus a day or two later--he walked up the middle aisle of the village church, Sunday night, with a staring handbill pinned between his shoulders. [5]
The third blade was of better temper; or perhaps the thick of the work was already over. [5]
Column after column was occupied, a third of its way down, with glaring head-lines, which it made my heart sick to read. [5]
A third case was needed and servants had gone to fetch it. [2]
The third storey was lower than the others, separated from them by a distinct line. [9]
A third servant was handing him the crosier, the insignia of his dignity as a prelate, when a priest entered and announced the scribe Pentaur. [10]
The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. [2]
This third trial was ended at last. [5]
The third, I was doing tin roofs; the forth, common signs; the fifth, statuary to stand before cigar shops. [5]
The third damsel was but fifteen year of age--" Billows of thought came rolling over my soul, and the voice faded out of my hearing! [5]
A third line was at once furnished-- "Corruptibles far from Hadleyburg are--" The house roared that one too. [5]
This third storm was accompanied by a raging wind. [5]
Two fell in war, the third was killed by the machinery while at his work. [10]
The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him. [2]
All who could walk went together, and after the third stage Pierre had rejoined Karataev and the gray-blue bandy-legged dog that had chosen Karataev for its master. [2]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
Only the first volume originally contained much more Egyptian material, and the third I lengthened beyond my primary intention. [10]
Quite the best view, she declared, had been obtained from the third tier of places. [10]
On another reclined Verus, at full length, and as usual, crowned with roses; the third was for Plutarch, but was unoccupied. [10]
The entertainment which Verus was giving on the eve of his birthday seemed to be far from drawing to an end, even at the beginning of the third hour of the morning. [10]
At the third verse he started up, and an eager, sun-burned face peered from the half-darkness at the singer. [11]
In order to verify his statement, Professor Mitchell (then in his sixty-fourth year) made a third ascent in June, 1857. [4]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
Just as one used to take for granted that third horse which pulled the car uphill, so Peter was taken for granted. [9]
What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle? [2]
His every interest urged him now to believe in the prophecy made to him by Serapion, to-day for the third time, which foretold that he, the prefect, should mount the throne of the Caesars, clad in the purple of Caracalla. [10]
So the Catachoobee University had its splendid new building--as great a contrast to the shanties from which its pupils came as is the Capitol at Washington to the huts of a third of its population. [4]
A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning--a sort of deceptive semblance of it --whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would disappear. [5]
And from the two propositions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on doing their part to maintain our common government and country, despite the folly or wickedness, as they may conceive, of any administration. [7]
The third kills two daughters and keeps one, as also her three sons. [1]
But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! [2]
Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
Now in James Towne they were all in combustion, the strongest preparing once more to run away with the Pinnace; which with the hazard of his life, with Sakre falcon and musketshot, Smith forced now the third time to stay or sinke. [4]
This third and totally-unexpected shaking-up had caused him to feel somewhat deranged internally, though it had not altered the opinions now so firmly planted in his head. [9]
A third newspaper took up the subject in a different tone. [5]
The conversation which took place in the hearing of the invisible third party began in a singularly free-and-easy manner on Mr. Bradshaw's part. [6]
The third mate told me that the boots were old and full of holes; then added thoughtfully, 'but the holes digested the best. [5]
The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. [5]
He went over to Third Avenue and took the Elevated down to Chatham Square. [8]
Then going swiftly to the third story, he waked Dr. Mathys, the Emperor's leech. [10]
I am responsible to the Third House only, and I hope to be permitted to make it exceedingly warm for that body, without caring whether the sympathies of the public and the Church be enlisted in their favor, and against myself, or not. [5]
I saw enough to teach me that, after the third skirmish. [5]
In order not to take up their time he asked: therefore, that it be immediately put on its second and third reading and allowed to pass. [9]
Twice he paused to stare at Mr. Hopper, who sat calmly on, and the third time stopped abruptly before him. [9]
Then Macnamara turned, to see Mahmoud and the third dervish on the ground, struggling in each other's arms. [11]
To-day we changed to one meal, and that at about noon, with a small ration or water at 8 or 9 A.M., another at 12 A.M., and a third at 5 or 6 P.M. [5]
He was treated to much liberal staring before the oily salesman arranged his wits to grapple with the third factor. [9]
You were about to further explain the good results proceeding from the erosions and disintegrations effected by the Third Degree. [5]
The agitatores had to exert all their strength to hold in the startled and eager teams, and make them stand even for a few short minutes; then Cynegius signalled for the third time. [10]
Dodging from bush to bush, he passed the mouths of two canyons, and in the entrance of a third canyon he crossed a wash of swift clear water, to come abruptly upon the cattle trail. [13]
This is supposed to be his third wife, though there is no note of his marriage to her nor of the death of his first. [4]
He was not to be daunted, attacked them too, split the skull of one, wounded another in the arm and was taking aim for a third blow, when he felt a cord round his neck. [10]
What was he to appoint for a time which the words of a third person might render unendurable? [10]
Been married three times; buried two husbands, divorced from the third, and I hear she is getting ready to marry an old fellow out in Colorado somewhere. [5]
In ten years' time, the water fell again, and a third knot was made. [12]
But the third time we had to fix it there was a better chance. [5]
Up to this time this coin had been a wee little gold piece worth about a third of a dollar. [5]
During the same time they paid out $1,000,000,000 in pensions--a third of it unearned and undeserved. [5]
For the third time the busy magistrate was not at home, but he had been informed that the syndic expected him that afternoon, as he wished to discuss a matter of importance. [10]
For the third time in my life, and in the greatest crisis of all, I was feeling the need of Something, of some sustaining and impelling Power that must be presented humanly, possessing sympathy and understanding and love.... [9]
And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep. [5]
And the third time appeared that number again, all in bright armour, and encountered one another, and so vanished away. [4]
With two or three exceptions he copies none of those devotional poems which have attracted devout souls.--His poetical sympathies are shown in the fact that one third of the selections are from the seventeenth century. [6]
The conclusion of this third volume is still a matter of some anxiety: I can but do my best, however. [14]
To throw off this burden as quickly as possible, on the third day after his arrival he went, angry and scowling and without answering questions as to where he was going, to Mitenka's lodge and demanded an account of everything. [2]
In the orang this appendage is long and convoluted: in man it arises from the end of the short caecum, and is commonly from four to five inches in length, being only about the third of an inch in diameter. [1]
There is the third way, but I will not take it--for your sake and for my own. [11]
Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. [2]
Most of the third volume is given to the development of the 'crabbed Professor's' character. [14]
This was his third visit to the old philosopher's house. [10]
Now, for the third time, the bright steel of the axe flashed in the sunshine, and immediately after trumpet-calls sounded and were repeated at short intervals, which still, to her, seemed intolerably long. [10]

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