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Sentences starting with true

True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
True a flatboat will float faster than an egg shell and the egg shell might be blown away by the wind, but if under the same influence they would go the same way. [7]
True love is true till the death, Though it bear aloes and myrrh; Try me and judge me, O Past, Have I been true unto her? [11]
True to him through all those numb years of waiting, this was a little thing--that they should face death together. [9]
True to themselves, they will not ask where a line of separation shall be, but will vow rather that there shall be no such line. [7]
True knowledge of the nature of silver mining came fast enough. [5]
True to herself, the Church symbolizes the union of her members, the reborn. [9]
True to her temperament, she did not look for the downfall of the forces opposed to him. [9]
True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man. [10]
True love leads many wandering souls into the better way. [6]

Sentences ending with true

By this time, you see, I had gotten used to expecting everything Joan said to come true. [5]
Young man, do you know it to be true? [5]
He used to write out what he called "short-faced descriptions" of his comrades in the woods, which were never so flattering as true. [4]
I wish you would tell me frankly, as a friend, if you think the charge is true. [4]
Albeit it had worn another aspect than this brand new flame, which I now felt burning and blazing up from the early-lighted and long smouldering fire, nevertheless it had been of the best, and faithful and true. [10]
Not for the world would he have questioned his sagacious old medical friend as to the probability or possibility of their being true. [6]
I mark these words because, notwithstanding their common use, they involve so much that is not true. [6]
That done, I will make plain why I am charged with this that puts my life in danger, which would make you blush that you ever knew me if it were true. [11]
Is the story which is told of you here true? [10]
That arbitrary measures were resorted to is true. [7]

Short sentences using true

And not one was true. [13]
I suppose it was true. [12]
Could it be true? [9]
Are angels more true? [6]
What part is true? [5]
Is not this true? [5]
Can that be true? [5]
Was it all true? [4]
Can it be true? [2]
Shall I be true? [11]

Sentences containing true two or more times

But a true word, fresh from the lips of a true man, is worth paying for, at the rate of eight dollars a day, or even of fifty dollars a lecture. [6]
Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
Statements which were true then are not necessarily true now. [6]
This is supremely true of Shakespeare, and almost equally true of Jonson and many of the other stars of that marvelous epoch. [4]
Now, what is true of others is true of you, and if you had not been in immediate need of money you would hardly have offered me these things. [10]
That which is true of every subject is especially true of the branch of knowledge which deals with living beings. [3]
If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
Yes, what was true eight hundred years ago, is just as true today: "Few there be that can keep a hotel. [5]
I was true to myself before I married George, and I was true to George after, and all I earned he shared; and I've got little left. [11]
I've been true to my convictions,--you, who belong to the new generation, must be true to yours. [9]

More example sentences with the word true in them

You're false to your womanhood an' true to your religion. [13]
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]
Come back to your own people; be a true daughter of the Ry of Rys; live with your Romany chal. [11]
True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
And I wrote you, too, that I would not be true to myself if I told you that what you have done was right in my eyes. [9]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
I know that you will be true to it because I have tried your strength. [9]
Once I thought you true, and this letter you send would have me still believe so. [11]
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]
I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
And how glad you should be that you are able to make true friends, without an effort. [11]
I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
I have found you my true and faithful friend, and I had been in danger of believing those over-anxious counsellors who spoke evil of you. [10]
But how little you know what true people think or feel! [11]
He said: "If you know that to be true, you have not lost your time, Captain. [5]
It's true that you have always supported me in luxury,--that might have been enough for another woman. [9]
It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip--still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
But, madame, as you are a true woman, believe what I say; for, I repeat, it is the truth. [11]
I know that you are a good woman, and a true woman, that you will be the best wife any man could have. [9]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
But fear gives you a watchful eye and keen, and I read the true name through the scratches, and fled like a deer. [5]
True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. [10]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
Perhaps there is yet a pheasant in the house, a roast fowl or something of the kind--but the hour, it is true, is late. [10]
True, the hastily written sentences presented some difficulties even for Biberli, but after glancing through the whole letter, he exclaimed with a satisfied smile: "Just as I expected! [10]
This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
I determined to write to my dear Alixe the true history of my life, even to the point--and after--of this thing which now was bringing me to so ill a pass. [11]
A true Egyptian would rather starve, than eat out of the same dish with one of us. [10]
I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true --but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still mumbling. [5]
True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
And if true, would Chiltern resist, even as she, Honora, had resisted, loyally? [9]
The thought was worthy of a gentleman of breeding; he had the true thing in his heart. [11]
This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
Something in her words had ruled him to her own calmness, and at that moment he had the first flash of understanding of her nature and its true relation to his own. [11]
She has a woman's heart; and what talent of mine is to be named by the love a true woman can offer in exchange for these divided and cold affections? [6]
My friend's true womanly nature was never carried away by it. [10]
True, the old woman, her mother, is worse still; she scolds and screams. [10]
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]
But a true woman can always show kindness to everyone whom she does not scorn, so though she blushed deeply at the sight of the man whose kiss she had returned, she received him cordially, and with sympathetic questions. [10]
Drawing keeps us within the bounds assigned to what is true and beautiful. [10]
True, they fought with unequal weapons. [10]
He carried himself with true appreciation of the incident, acknowledging more by look than by sign this courtesy. [11]
True, she began with the tongue of the conquerors, not the conquered. [10]
It is true with the Supreme Court who pronounced it. [7]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
She lay trembling with the horror of the dream-spell upon her, still more than half convinced that the siren was Ditmar's voice, his true expression. [9]
I know that, with reference to the Lecompton Constitution, I may be misunderstood; but when you understand me correctly, my proposition will be true and accurate. [7]
Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
They will rejoice with me in the new evidences which your proceedings furnish that the magnanimity they are exhibiting is justly estimated by the true friends of freedom and humanity in foreign countries. [7]
How many readers will smile before the rest of this true incident is told? [9]
I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent. [6]
I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
I became, as will be seen, anything but a practical man in the true sense, though the world in which I had been brought up and continued to live deemed me such. [9]
In all his wild life he had been true to me, and he had clung to me stanchly in this, my greatest peril. [9]
She became his wife, but only a year later entered that other world which she had regarded as her true home even while here. [10]
True, his clever wife shared her husband's enthusiasm, and both understood how to attract the right advisers. [10]
True, the simpletons who were so madly in love with her, and with whom she played so cruelly, would have believed her capable of anything sooner than such kindness. [10]
And the man who had ruined her life and had poisoned her true spirit was come back broken and battered. [11]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
Principal Silas Peckham, who had been called from his slumbers by a message that Master Langdon was shot through the head by a highway-robber, but had learned a true version of the story by this time. [6]
It was Ralph who detected the true cause of my discontent. [9]
Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
If the true Whigs come forward and join these new friends, they need not have a doubt. [7]
To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. [7]
True, the cough which had tormented her all winter attacked her in the shady cloister, but she had learned to use her wooden foot, and with a cane in one hand and her little bundle in the other she moved sturdily on. [10]
She was wondering whether he could ever love a woman as he loved this man of whom he had spoken, whether he could be as true to a woman. [9]
It is that wherever Texas was exercising jurisdiction was hers; and wherever Mexico was exercising jurisdiction was hers; and that whatever separated the actual exercise of jurisdiction of the one from that of the other was the true boundary between them. [7]
It is noon when we set out from Visp, in true pilgrim fashion, and the sun is at first hot; but as we slowly rise up the easy ascent, we get a breeze, and forget the heat in the varied charms of the walk. [4]
Now, I thought, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Hermon will believe that this is the true, and therefore the right, ideal; nay, I was deceived myself while gazing. [10]
True, Barbara came when she was in a particularly happy mood, because a letter from Wolf stated that he already felt perfectly at home in Quijada's castle at Villagarcia, and that Dona Magdalena de Ulloa was a lady of rare beauty and kindness of heart. [10]
More than once when David's plans had had a set-back, Higli had contrived a meeting with Nahoum, to judge for himself the true position. [11]
Is it true what you say? [9]
It was true what you said, that I was wild and utterly useless, I had never served or pleased any but myself,--and you. [9]
That much of what they said is true, and the rest is lies. [5]
And now, if what Philip said was true (and I doubted it not), here at last was the chance come again to win her without whom I should never be happy. [9]
She will say what may appear to be true, but what she knows in her own heart to be false--false and bad. [11]
He knew that what he read was the true interpretation of her speech, for in some manner--he guessed not how--she had begun to idealize him, to feel that the touch of these things defiled him. [9]
It's quite true what foreigners say about our men,--that they live in a groove, that they haven't any range of conversation. [9]
He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
And if it were true, why didn't I go at once to the gate, and not lurk round there all night like another Clement? [4]
Yes, if it were true, but I do not believe it. [2]
If only that were true which Zoe was reading yesterday, that the souls of men were destined to visit the earth again and again in new forms! [10]
But if it were true that frost-bites were cured by cold and burns by heat, it would be subversive, so far as it went, of the great principle of Homoeopathy. [3]
If this assumption were true it would be none the less disagreeable to the new-comers. [4]
True, the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period, and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not discomfort; for there is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities. [5]
The current reports were not true. [6]
If true, it were no great harm to suspend the law this one time--any would say that. [5]
If the Gospel were indeed true, and if all it promised could ever find fulfilment, it might perhaps be prudent to admit the sinfulness of man and to give up the joys and glories of this world to win the eternal treasure that it described. [10]
We know they were generally, perhaps universally, as good and true Whigs as we ourselves claim to be. [7]
I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in the rights which we have inherited. [10]
I liked this well enough, and I whispered in her ear: "Tell me, Cousin Maud, are you not my real, true mother? [10]
Then, white-faced and weak-voiced, Sally asked: "Is it true? [5]
Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true. [5]
If you say we shall not control it, because it is only part, the same is true of every other part; and when all the parts are gone, what has become of the whole? [7]
In our profession we know something of human nature, and take my word for it, that the feller that came back to work out that shilling, will show himself one of these days in his true colours. [12]
It is true we have had nothing thus far to mar the pleasure of the trip. [7]
The declaration that we have always opposed the war is true or false, according as one may understand the term "oppose the war. [7]
In America to-day we are trying--whatever the cost--to regain the true axis established for us by the founders of our Republic. [9]
It is true we are not rich--but still you are not sorry---you haven't any misgivings about the additions? [5]

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