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Sentences starting with took

Took every prize, they say, and led the school, though there was plenty of fuss because they let you do it, and let you stay there, being half-Indian. [11]
Took into Cynthia's suddenly exalted consciousness and see the picture, actual and potential, unroll itself in all its details of the natural, the ridiculous, the selfish, the pitiful, the human. [6]
Took it just in time, too; he was starting to ask me why I didn't fetch out these facts the moment I was arrested. [5]
Took the train for Curepipe at 1.30--two hours' run, gradually uphill. [5]
Took Will Wetherell along with him. [9]

Sentences ending with took

If I could you would say you were nearly paid for the trouble you took. [5]
An aide-de-camp approached with gliding steps and offered him a gold snuffbox, which he took. [2]
The more of simplicity that she sensed in him the greater the advantage she took. [13]
That it was not literature alone that inflated his dreams was evidenced by the direction his walks took. [4]
But he was none the less chagrined, and not a little angry at the turn the affair took. [5]
One day, some months afterwards, we were sitting in our little salon in a Paris hotel when a card was sent up, which Marian took. [9]
She was, paradoxically, his kind of a person--such was the form the puzzle took. [9]
One of the gentlemen spoke of the knowledge of something else found in Sweden, a treatment which I took. [5]
You've got no feeling against me; and I can say with truth that I don't want your life for the life you took. [11]
They went straight ahead, then, until they came to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took. [5]

Short sentences using took

He took Shadrach with him. [9]
I took a walk. [5]
Mr. Maker took two. [9]
My brother Joshua took it. [9]
And I took to religion. [9]
She took a timid step. [9]
He took the ticket. [5]
He took us there. [5]
Ingolby took it there. [11]
The defense took the witness. [5]

Sentences containing took two or more times

Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said-- 'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors. [5]
Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
When De Soto took his fleeting glimpse of the river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot--the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. [5]
By and by to the elephant stables, and I took a ride; but it was by request--I did not ask for it, and didn't want it; but I took it, because otherwise they would have thought I was afraid, which I was. [5]
Now I took this well-meant warning as it was intended; and albeit Ann and I were heartsick with longing to see Herdegen and to release him from his hiding, we nevertheless took patience. [10]
In the end the fines ate up our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. [5]
I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. [5]
He took chances that no other horse ever took and survived, but he always came out safe. [5]
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. [5]
Mary joyfully took possession of the ring; but presently, when the warder appeared to fetch her, her satisfaction suddenly turned to no less vehement grief, and she took leave of Orion as if they were parting for ever. [10]

More example sentences with the word took in them

After I left your uncle's house my father took me to Charlestown. [9]
With a "by your leave, ma'am," to her, Mr. Allen took the chair abreast me. [9]
The Lord took your father to himself as a martyr; your mother has dedicated herself to Heaven. [10]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late. [6]
Post-horses took the young couple in the most magnificent weather to the distant Prussian capital. [10]
They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
I say that you took your hat off your head, and you prove me a liar by putting it on your head. [7]
As a youth, you took this love across the Alps to Padua and Bologna. [10]
Ah'm so glad you took mah sahde. [8]
I always thought you took after old Major Gideon Withers. [6]
At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
Now what would you say, Cleopatra, if I myself took a part in my procession--I say mine, since it is to be in my honor; that really would be for once something new and amusing. [10]
On the raft, you remember, he took off his hat to death. [11]
So long as you had a grievance you would talk and talk and talk, and you never were so astonished in your life as when I took that five dollars. [11]
Arrived in New York he took lodgings near old Washington Square, where there were a few studios near the Bohemian restaurants and a life as nearly continental as was possible in a new country. [11]
It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
It feared him; yet, as he travelled with it, he scarcely ever took his eyes off it, and he never trusted it. [11]
He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
In his tenderer years, Honora even fired George, and riots occurred which took the combined efforts of Cousin Eleanor and Mammy Lucy to quell. [9]
It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
Five and sixty years are gone since Mr. Calvin Brinsmade took his bride there. [9]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
It's nearly a year now since you took me in. [9]
When I went wrong, she treated me as if I were dead, and took her old name. [11]
The most original writer of his time, he took no credit for pure invention and allowed none to others. [5]
I had been wounded lately, and was not able to ride without help; but the good Dwarf took me on behind him, and I held on to him and was safe enough. [5]
He said he would not be in town; so I risked it and took my dinner instead of the stock. [5]
I said I would make it all right, and so took my leave. [5]
I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
There's few that would have took the pains with you that I have. [5]
Not what you would call two notes in the same key, she and Crozier," he reflected as he told her she need not trouble about her luggage, and took charge of the checks for it. [11]
It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
She took the world as she found it, and made the best of it. [8]
She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance. [5]
Few people took work into their calculations--or outlay of money either; except the work and expenditures of other people. [5]
As the afternoon wore, desire to see these toilers once more took possession of her. [9]
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]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
On hearing these words, Bartja and Sappho each took one of her hands, and gazed entreatingly into her face. [10]
Then, without a word, he took from his pocket the little phial that he had carried so long, rolled it for an instant in his palm, felt its worn, discoloured cork musingly, and threw it out of the window. [11]
Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
But it was wonderful to see how Mahommed Seti took the kourbash at the hands of Fielding, when he shied from the medicine bottles. [11]
You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
And I've often wondered why, when I've seen the things you didn't give and the things you took away. [11]
But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars. [10]
While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
There is no woman who can say I used her ill or took from her what I did not--" "Atone for, Lord Mallow? [11]
True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
How the good woman of the house took them in and kept them has been briefly mentioned. [6]
And then a woman in deep mourning emerged from a tiny shop and took her bicycle from against the wall and spoke to me. [9]
Negroes and farmers' wives took to the woods when the buggy came upon them suddenly, and altogether the drive was pleasant and animated, and a refreshment all around. [5]
It took my wits clear away, for an instant. [5]
But the one witness to McGilveray's adventure was dead, and that was why no man knew wherefore it was that McGilveray took an oath to drink no more till they captured Quebec. [11]
Gazing into vacancy with wild eyes and chattering teeth, she tried to make cakes and mould dumplings out of the snow, which she probably took for flour. [10]
We took them with us and marched into Orleans next day through the usual tempest of welcome and joy. [5]
He bore it with unflinching fortitude; then took the rusty-looking document and handed it to some great officer or other, to be filed away among the archives of Russia--in the stove. [5]
They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
Tom staked him with marbles to play "keeps" with, and then took all the winnings away from him. [5]
He took post with Judge Short at the foot of the stair, where, in spite of the protests of the Celebrity and of other well-disposed persons, the two favored the parting guests with an occasional impromptu song and waved genial good-byes to the ladies. [9]
He took it with him from the Southern Hotel, when he went to walk, and read it over and again in an unfrequented street as he stumbled along. [5]
She took me with her, of course. [5]
She took Angers with her now. [11]
She took turns with her beside his sofa, and did not cry any more, but prayed continually, turning in soul to that Eternal and Unfathomable, whose presence above the dying man was now so evident. [2]
Jack Brinsmade bowed with great ceremony, and took his departure. [9]
It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: "To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
The widow, kneeling with clasped hands, never took her eyes off the face of the youth, nor moved for fear of disturbing the deacon who, as she knew, was praying--praying for the salvation of the heathen soul snatched away before it could repent. [10]
He said this with an honesty which took away the breath of the House. [11]
Presently, as if with an effort, he rose to his feet, took the red fez from his head, and fanned himself with it for a moment. [11]
Indeed, it was with a well-defined feeling of antagonism that he took his seat, and this was enhanced as they flew westward, Mr. Parr wholly absorbed with the speaking trumpet, energetically rebuking at every bounce. [9]
I took it, with a sigh of relief. [9]
Ermolov came forward with a frown on his face and, hearing what the officer had to say, took the papers from him without a word. [2]
She took it with a curious contracted look and put it on the finger again, then pulled off the other glove quietly. [11]
Following Mr. Bernard's wishes, Abel at once took off the high-peaked saddle and the richly ornamented bridle from the mustang. [6]
Delilah took the wisdom of the seventeenth century in her arms, and departed on her errand. [6]
But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
Justinus and his wife were Melchites, and he knew that both these friends--for whom he had a particular regard--would be enchanted with his scheme if he took them into his confidence. [10]
Receiving from the wife of this immaculate man, a direction to Mr Garland's, he took the box upon his shoulder and repaired thither directly. [12]
He asked her why she took her, then--why she did not give her up at once; and she answered that it would be inhuman to give her up just in the edge of the winter. [8]
I don't know why I loved him, it wasn't because he was fine, like Mr. Insall, but he was strong and brave, and he needed me and just took me. [9]
I don't know why I did it, but I suppose I took it up so that Rudyard should not see it; and then I didn't say anything to Jasmine about it at once. [11]
And this was why harried cats and outlawed dogs that knew him confidently took sanctuary under his chair in time of trouble. [5]
Being a woman, whose ways are unaccountable, the older man took no notice of her. [9]
Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
North took a whole week to screw up His courage, h-s M-j-sty pricking him every day. [9]
Whatever happens and whoever may stand at the head of affairs, the theory can always say that such and such a person took the lead because the collective will was transferred to him. [2]
In my opinion, whoever hove those things in here caught a sight of us and took us for ghosts or devils or something. [5]
Lastly, several halberdiers, who were coming from the Lindenplatz and had heard the screams in the garden, appeared, chained the prisoner, and took him to the Prebrunn jail. [10]
At last Darius, who was famous for his skill in archery, took the bow. [10]
Captain Stanwix's wife, who was a good, motherly person, took charge of the little orphan, and arriving at Carvel Hall delivered her to my grandfather, who brought her up as his own daughter. [9]
But the Ethiopian, who usually came to meet her with words of welcome, took her veil and wraps, and removed her shoes, was absent. [10]

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