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Sentences starting with this

This weak, cowardly youth was her brother! [11]
This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
This house is yours from to-day. [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]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
This place is your home, and dearer to you than any other, so build yourself a snug nest here with the person you have in mind. [10]
This is for your general purification. [5]
This warrant's on your father. [9]
This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]

Sentences ending with this

The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
Handily situated, at your very elbow, is opportunity for this. [5]
We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
Good to see you, Captain, on a day like this. [9]
If he asks you where the heroic deed was done, name any house you please, only not this. [10]
Pray, what set you to asking me this? [6]
Did Gorgo teach you such things as this? [10]
I don't believe you studied this. [4]
I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this? [12]
And now do you know who gave you all this? [10]

Short sentences using this

And this is your husband! [9]
This is our young church-keeper? [12]
This will disgust you. [5]
This is absurd, you know. [5]
Was this all wrong? [7]
This is all wrong. [7]
This is a wretched business. [5]
Is this Mr. Worthington? [9]
This fact is worth remembering. [7]
This concealed my worst bruises. [5]

Sentences containing this two or more times

I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
But I tell you this, gentlemen, that you will live to see the day when you will bitterly regret this injustice to an innocent and a noble woman, and Isaac D. Worthington will live to regret it. [9]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
This is where you begin, this is where you revel. [5]
This should bring you a barony,--Sir John," my lord added, half graciously, half satirically; for the honest truth of this man's nature vexed him. [11]
This was all; yet even in this subdued attire she was divinely beautiful. [5]
He was young, yes; but he would never be any older than this, could never love again like this. [9]
Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]

More example sentences with the word this in them

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
If ever a youth was cordially admired and hated by his comrades, this one was. [5]
He hoped this youth to whom she was attached would make her life happy. [6]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
Take these cakes--for yourselves--and give him this one, from his mother. [5]
But you've said yourself, Mr. Crewe, that we've got to deal with this thing practically. [9]
I suppose, if you're determined to continue this life of--(she catches herself) I can't stop you. [9]
If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
My bride is your wife, but with this arrow I will win Mena's widow. [10]
And this being your whole duty, return and report to me. [7]
Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
After this, consult your taste and convenient. [6]
But this time your suspicions happen to be misplaced. [10]
If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
Have you lost your senses, to take a woman into Kentucky this year? [9]
You were dismissed your place by the mistress of this Manor. [11]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
Please give me your opinion in writing on this question. [7]
I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
Now go to your mistress, and carry to Katuti this letter which has arrived for her. [10]
Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
You'd made up your mind to murder somebody this mornin'--I knowed it perfectly well. [5]
Then recall to your memory again what this night of the full moon means--you are well aware of it--to me. [10]
I bow to your masculine secrecy--but why did my worldly-wise brother mingle a petticoat in this delicate business if he wishes to keep it hidden? [10]
You have mistaken your man this time. [11]
You will have your lifetime to reckon with it, free from any interference on my part; for, if I can help it, we shall never meet again in this world--never. [11]
The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
It is in your honor, and not in his, that we have no music this evening; you said that you did not particularly like it at a banquet. [10]
And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
I have seen your face by the light, and that is enough for this time. [10]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
See, my Sheila, your drunken, reckless lover pulls this sweet offering from his garden and offers it to you. [11]
Your arguments and your conversations have shown you to be intimately conversant with every detail of this national quarrel. [5]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
You cannot help your company in this matter --nobody can help them. [5]
In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
I have called your attention to this movement in order to say that it was neither accidental nor isolated. [4]
I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses. [10]
When old Col. Youngs talks this way, I think it time to get a fine office. [5]
Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
This was the young man who had made the faux pas which had caused Mrs. Ferguson so much consternation, and who had so manfully apologized afterwards. [9]
I looked this young man steadily in the face for about thirty seconds. [6]
Who was this young man of three and thirty to agitate him so? [9]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it..." He threw it on the table. [2]
This alarmed the young fellow, and he was going to make a noise; but I said: "Save your wind; if you open your mouth you are dead, sure. [5]
How thoroughly this young diplomat understood men! [10]
I love this young creature's rapt attention to her diminutive neighbor while he is speaking. [6]
This is Thursday; you'll be back here Saturday afternoon. [5]
I appeal to you--is this quite respectful? [12]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
But you bet you, this is the business! [5]
Then come forward, you, the youngest of us all, who are so highly trusted by this holy assembly. [10]
I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of your own Greek cities to him. [10]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
They belong to you, not to me, and this very day I will send them to the noble Julia, that she may give them to you. [10]
Now go--and mind you, not a word of this to anybody. [5]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
But I pray you, do not accept this law upon my say-so; but diligently examine for yourself. [5]
Here Epagathos, and you, Claudius--go at once to Timotheus; carry him this sword. [10]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
This is for you, and such others of tender age as you may tell it to. [6]
In that case you would not have obliged me to give this refusal. [2]
More than this you would not ask me to say. [6]
We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
And you, maiden, you will not belie this hope? [10]
For certain reasons you will next go and do homage at this well. [5]
In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. [5]
I beg that you will forget this absurd thing. [5]
What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
I never told you why I came to this country--I didn't want to sadden you with my troubles--but now I want you to understand me better. [4]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
Let this console you when the bread fails. [5]
I once thought you were this and that--I won't say what I thought you. [11]
I noticed that you were quite upset this morning in the cave. [9]
If I knew you were not, I should not have troubled you with this letter. [7]

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