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Sentences starting with to

To renew my youth, if I could. [9]
To my mad youth her gentle surveillance Was like a watch-fire on a rock-bound coast. [11]
To be in your place when you sing to the Emperor Charles again! [10]
To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
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]
To be sure, you'll hardly find me before ten o'clock. [10]
To men like you, work is as the breath of life. [11]
To please her, you would deceive her son. [10]
To escape fear, you will thrust your wife from the house; fear, you say, would undermine your strength. [10]

Sentences ending with to

I'm not as young as I was I shall be sixty-four in October--and I can't work right along as I used to. [4]
This is for you, and such others of tender age as you may tell it to. [6]
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
You can if you want to. [9]
Go,--ruin yourself if you want to. [9]
What use can you put it to? [5]
What else have you or I to look forward to? [11]
But where are you off to? [2]
I can't pay you for your kindness to me, and I don't want to. [11]
You don't know, you can't know, what temptations you subject me to. [9]

Short sentences using to

Love to all, yrs. [5]
Go--get ye to your work. [5]
Remember me to your sisters. [10]
By speaking to your sister? [11]
My respects to your sister. [7]
She went to your house. [9]
Come now to your father. [10]
That belongs to your boss. [9]
How near to you? [7]
Who wrote to you? [11]

Sentences containing to two or more times

But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
He crawls after Zeno; he submits to authority, and requires more independent spirits to do the same. [10]
Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [10]

More example sentences with the word to in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
Captain and Quartermaster Zorrillo, remained behind to hold the citizens in check. [10]
He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
I haf to zit for the young ladties. [8]
Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
In industry and zeal he was said to resemble the celebrated and lamented Mr. Rand, of the Peach Nectar. [9]
With his usual zeal he had gathered facts concerning the scene, which put my fictions all to flight. [4]
Ye won't get y'r pigs to market to-day, Mr. Bridshaw, no, nor to-morrow, nayther, Mr. Bridshaw. [6]
Never Mind how y'r Extravigancies are come to my Ears Sir. [9]
He had hurt you--you went to him.... Good! [11]
As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands. [11]
It's human nature you've got to deal with, not theories about law and justice. [4]
I don't believe you've got any more sense than to do it. [9]
It's remarkable how you've come to understand, and in such a short time. [9]
Sellers about Napoleon, you've always told me so," answered Laura, with a look intended to contradict her words. [5]
Did he to you--to any of you? [11]
I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
Instantly the fickle youth's dreams forsook the magic eye-water and flew back to the Tennessee Land. [5]
He made various youthful proposals to me, including a duet under the landlady's daughter's window. [6]
As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
But the rash youth went on in the same tone: "I would worship her gladly, though I have forgotten how to pray. [10]
But while the youth was embracing his great-grandfather, who hugged and caressed him, Nun, with youthful vivacity, was issuing orders to the shepherds and servants: "Let the tent fall, men! [10]
He hoped this youth to whom she was attached would make her life happy. [6]
He commanded the youth to betake himself to the camp. [5]
A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
Youth answering to youth had claimed its own; love springing from the dawn, brave and bright-eyed, had waved its wand towards that good country called Home. [11]
The roll the youth had brought to the camp contained two letters. [10]
A noble, promising youth had addressed them to her sister, his betrothed bride. [10]
At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
Here the persecuted youth changed his name, Horus, to its Greek equivalent, and henceforth he was known at home and in the schools as Apollo. [10]
You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by him. [10]
You huddle to yourselves already in all countries, but you huddle to no sufficient purpose, politically speaking. [5]
You said so yourself--that you didn't want, any one to know, now. [9]
But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
You can see, yourself, that there isn't anything more to be reported--invention is exhausted. [5]
You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
But you've said yourself, Mr. Crewe, that we've got to deal with this thing practically. [9]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Try to amuse yourself while I am gone. [10]
You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. [10]
You must prepare yourself to hear a short story. [10]
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]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
Not Tardif but yourself is open to the law. [11]
Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Do you find yourself disposed to take a special interest in Elsie,--to fall in love with her, in a word? [6]
You must get yourself carried to the 7. [5]
Picture it to yourself as you will! [10]
Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
Do you adapt yourself and your surroundings to him, or insist that he shall adapt himself to you? [4]
But, to guard yourself and another from misinterpretation, you must hear me. [10]
You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
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]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
Land, the room's yours to do what you please with! [5]
You don't mean you're trying to arrest me again, after letting me go? [11]
And you say you're not sick, and so I don't see why we shouldn't come to business. [8]
I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
But, Lassiter, now you're here I'm glad to see you. [13]
You're so sure you're going to win that I'd disappoint you, monsieur--only to do you good. [11]
But I'm glad you're going to the Old Mother of all. [6]
Don't you think you're going to marry him? [11]
I suppose, if you're determined to continue this life of--(she catches herself) I can't stop you. [9]
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]
I will carry your young mistresses to their father and home again. [10]
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]
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]
You're false to your womanhood an' true to your religion. [13]
We must conceal your wish, to save Nitetis and Atossa from a possible disappointment. [10]
Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
It is not your will to watch and hear; it is because you love the lady. [11]
You can forgive your wife, and take her back, or you can say to both, Go! [11]
Take leave of your wife, and (I speak by the king's command) be ready to start before dark. [10]
It will make your whole night miserable, and to no good; for we will hope--" "But it isn't a presentiment--it is a fact. [5]
And this being your whole duty, return and report to me. [7]
If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
You were on your way to be married. [11]
You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
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]
Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you! [5]
I will keep your verses to tell me dat my French subjects are all loyal like M. [11]
You carried out your undertaking well to the end, though by somewhat overpowering means. [10]
After I left your uncle's house my father took me to Charlestown. [9]
I would that your uncle were here to listen to them," he added dryly. [9]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
And I need your true soul to help me to shake off the burden which is crushing me to the earth and choking me. [10]
The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. [6]

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