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Sentences ending with turns

So we just waltzed back and forth, freezing, and thawing, and stifling, by turns. [5]
I should like to see a Yankee advertisement like this!--(the Little Gentleman laughed fiercely as he uttered the words,--) --Patent thumb-screws,--will crush the bone in three turns. [6]
They thought and talked, and talked and thought by turns. [5]
Mr. Gamaliel Ives sent up his card to Miss Lucretia, and was shown deferentially into the parlor, where he sat mopping his brow and growing hot and cold by turns. [9]
On the steps of the church stood a stranger, a Burgundian priest, who was telling the people new which made them weep, and rave, and rage, and curse, by turns. [5]
Which are the more delightful to contemplate, the innumerable ships in the harbor, which communicate between this flowery land and other countries, and bless it with wealth, or the buildings which attract the eye in whichever direction it turns. [10]
I have done men good service, but no ill turns. [5]
The Neckar is in many places so narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns. [5]
We have not, however, as yet considered the main point, on which, from our present point of view, the whole question of the moral sense turns. [1]
What can equal her tact, her delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension, her quickness to feel the changes of temperature as the warm and cool currents of talk blow by turns? [6]

Short sentences using turns

And so it turns out. [2]
There it turns to dust. [5]
Kaid turns from the infidel! [11]
The Dictator turns preacher. [6]
They take turns coming in. [13]

Sentences containing turns two or more times

Laura pursued her usual course: she encouraged Mr. Buckstone by turns, and by turns she harassed him; she exalted him to the clouds at one time, and at another she dragged him down again. [5]
And what a spectacle it must have been to see this grim veteran, solitary and alone in his pride and his pluck, glowering down on his Mormon jury and Mormon auditory, deriding them by turns, and by turns "breathing threatenings and slaughter! [5]
Maybe so, maybe so; but, if I am, I'll suffer by it; I'll be a Democrat if it turns out that Shields is a Whig, considerin' you shall be a Whig if he turns out a Democrat. [7]
When the ship moves in one direction there is one and the same wave ahead of it, when it turns frequently the wave ahead of it also turns frequently. [2]

More example sentences with the word turns in them

That summer had worn away, like a monster which turns and gives hot gasps when you think it has expired. [9]
After supper a woman got in, who lived about fifty miles further on, and we three had to take turns at sitting outside with the driver and conductor. [5]
She turns up with the Pallas at six bells o' the middle watch. [9]
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]
Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops. [6]
This once we will put the matter plainly: Who can hope to win love that gives none, but turns away morosely from his fellow-creatures? [10]
And how they will pay for it when Russia turns her guns upon them again! [5]
The disfavor into which he falls with the rulers of France turns to his advantage. [2]
To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
Half the time when Nick is needed he is not to be found; then it turns out that he has been gadding around with you two. [5]
He was experiencing what one or another drowsing, geographically ignorant alien experiences every day in the year when he turns a dull and indifferent eye out of the car window and it falls upon a certain station-sign which reads "Stratford-on-Avon! [5]
If, as Barry Whalen suggested, one of those ugly turns should come, which illnesses take in camp, and she should die without a friend near her, without Rudyard by her side! [11]
I thought I was really serving my sovereign and the Fatherland, but it turns out that I am serving Barclay. [2]
Everybody believes there was only one good generous soul in this village, and now it turns out that you--Edward, why don't you tell me? [5]
It turns the war thunder against them. [7]
Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
Here is a variation of the formula with which we are familiar:-- "Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas. [6]
Ye give a value for all loss in age, When feebled eyes search for forgotten springs; Ye fan the breeze that turns the moulded page, And carry back the soul to ardent things. [11]
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. [6]
She knew the twists and turns of her uncle's temper, and how he was imperious and jealous in little things. [11]
His delicate stomach turns, at certain details of the white man's food; but he likes over-ripe fish, and brazed dog, and cat, and rat, and will eat his own uncle with relish. [5]
The gentlemen took turns, and never was their business so pressing that they missed their hour. [9]
Next thing he turns up on that little expedition we took to get Porter to sea again. [9]
By instinct it turns to where help lies, as a wild deer, fleeing, from captivity, makes for the veldt and the watercourse. [11]
When drooping pleasure turns to grief, And trembling faith is changed to fear, The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf Shall softly tell us, Thou art near! [6]
All took their turns regularly, and each one succeeded in untying only one knot each time. [5]
However, as it turns out, our confidence is abused, our hopes are misplaced. [5]
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]
Upon inquiry, it turns out that Mr. Bascom has had a front seat for the last twenty years--he has been uniformly lucky in drawing. [9]
Then scowling Hate turns deadly pale, --Then Passion's half-coiled adders spring, And, smitten through their leprous mail, Strike right and left in hope to sting. [6]
She was by turns annoyed, amused, and distrait: Peter was leaving his hotel; now he was taking the train. [9]
Now if one turns and looks up the gorge once more, he will see the Schloss Hotel on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar--a precipice which is so sumptuously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. [5]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
Several of us took turns at log-rolling in Washington, and if we had charged anything for that service, none of that $10,000 would ever have reached New York. [5]
The Royal Court, too, caught on a sudden marching in their robes, turns to and joins the cortegee, and the little birds a-tweeting-tweeting, and two parsons at the grave. [11]
And perfectly indifferent, too, as to whether it turns around or stands still. [5]
Hostile criticisms meeting together are often equivalent to praise, and the square of fault-finding turns out to be the same thing as eulogy. [6]
I repeat here to today that I never in any possible form had anything to do with that set of resolutions It turns out, I believe, that those resolutions were never passed in any convention held in Springfield. [7]
Every compliment paid to this bloated sensualist, this inflation of sack and sugar, turns to the keenest sarcasm. [4]
For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
He then turns to the crowd and explains the case. [4]
Thus poison turns to healing, and a curse to a blessing. [10]
It is not time which gives revelation, or which turns a character inside out, and exposes a new and amazing, maybe revolting side to it. [11]
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners. [9]
He had taken three turns before he perceived me. [9]
Meseems verily as though the fluttering handkerchiefs, the flying pennons, and the caps waved in the air had found voice; and Ursula turns her head to this side and that as though seeking help. [10]
And very often this "moral" is tagged on at the bottom, and the reader, not knowing that it is the key of the whole thing and the only important paragraph in the article, tranquilly turns up his nose at it and leaves it unread. [5]
They think it their duty to force on others what they themselves think right, and any one who turns a deaf ear to their questionable truths they at once set down as narrow-minded, or as hostile to what is good. [10]
I will keep the thing in mind, and if nothing better turns up I will offer to buy it. [5]
We passed through the strangest, funniest, undreampt-of old towns, wedded to the customs and steeped in the dreams of the elder ages, and perfectly unaware that the world turns round! [5]
He who turns the stone over is whosoever puts the staff of truth to the old lying incubus, no matter whether he do it with a serious face or a laughing one. [6]
He cannot see the speaker, but he turns towards the voice, and in trying to answer, falls down insensible. [12]
This one revolts the remains of my self-respect; turns my stomach. [5]
The dance answers the purpose of the revolving pedestal upon which the "White Captive" turns, to show us the soft, kneaded marble, which looks as if it had never been hard, in all its manifold aspects of living loveliness. [6]
No rocks, across the pathway lie, --No fallen trunk is o'er it thrown, --And yet it winds, we know not why, And turns as if for tree or stone. [6]
Why, my friend the Judge is not only, as it turns out, not a dead lion, nor even a living one,--he is the rugged Russian Bear! [7]
I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable. [12]
In the rain the grass does not brighten as you think it ought to, and it is only when the rain turns to snow that you see any decided green color by contrast with the white. [4]
In spite of the darkness and the zigzag turns of the stairs, Wolf was so familiar with every corner of the old house that he did not even need to grope his way with his hand. [10]
There we found the commodore himself taking skilful turns around the mizzen with the severed stays and shrouds dangling from the bowsprit, the French marines looking on. [9]
When at length the Captain has marched out, with a conscious but manly air, Mr. Hopper turns to Ford-- "Don't lose no time in presenting them vouchers at headquarters," says he. [9]
He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun. [2]
The professor turns the book over and over,--inspects it from plastron to carapace, so to speak, and looks for openings everywhere, sometimes successfully, sometimes in vain. [6]
It is evident that whenever, under the inspiration of the Deity, she turns out a book, she is always allowed to do some of the preface. [5]
And tell Irving that when luck turns with me I will make good to him what the salvage from the dead Co. fails to pay him of his $500. [5]
It turns out that they were never passed at any convention or any public meeting that I had any part in. [7]
It turns out that the man Szczepanik was not murdered at all. [5]
It turns out that the astronomical apprentice worked off a section of the Milky Way on me for the Magellan Clouds. [5]
The rector maintained that physicians contracted a squint which turns their eyes inwardly, while the muscles which roll their eyes upward become palsied. [6]
It turns out that Mr Garland has had no character with Kit, no recommendation of him but from his own mother, and that he was suddenly dismissed by his former master for unknown reasons. [12]
The next proposition that Judge Douglas puts is this: "But upon examination it turns out that the Toombs bill never did contain a clause requiring the constitution to be submitted. [7]
How it happened that "jolly" did not show itself can hardly be accounted for; no doubt it turns up two or three times at least in the postscript. [6]
How kindly she taught him what comfort the sufferer finds who not only moves his lips and turns his rosary in prayer, as he had hitherto done, but commends himself and his pain to Him who endured still worse agonies on the cross! [10]
But people you talk with every day have got to have feeders for their minds, as much as the stream that turns a millwheel has. [6]
She had hardly taken this position, when there came dancing up the street, with his legs all wrong, and his head everywhere by turns, a pony. [12]
Continue with the stream until it turns towards the east, then you must climb over the mountains, and keep ever northwards. [10]
It scares off some of the weak supporters, true, but it soon turns strong ones into stubborn ones. [5]
He is a sociable animal, yet he turns aside and hides behind his shield when his mother-in-law goes by. [5]
It marks a signal advance in democracy when liberal opinion in any nation turns for guidance and support to a statesman of another nation. [9]
In this dilemma she turns to me for help, and supplicates for my guidance and instruction with a moving eloquence that would touch the heart of a statue. [5]
Katuti remained alone; she felt as if a dead hand held her heart in its icy grasp, and she muttered to herself: "Ani is right--nothing turns to good excepting that from which we expect the worst. [10]
He remained abed several days, and his wife and daughter took turns in sitting with him and ministering to his wants. [5]
We shall never see him more until he turns up again. [5]
But I should say that if he turns up anywhere, he'll come ashore somewhere about Grinidge to-morrow, at ebb tide, eh, mate? [12]
Yet when she saw the Ry on his throne of death a moan broke from her lips like that of one who sees for the last time someone indelibly dear, and turns to face strange paths with uncertain feet. [11]
So we all rode down to Magdala, while the gnashing of teeth waxed and waned by turns, and harsh words troubled the holy calm of Galilee. [5]
One woman will ride through the snow to Nuremberg for the sake of a chat with another, and who turns his head to look at her? [10]
Our system of registration is far from infallible, and sometimes an old family settlement turns up to prove that a property which has been willed out of the direct line, as in fee simple, is in reality entailed. [9]
Her face was red and white by turns, as light and shade chase each other on the ground when at noon-day a palm-grove is stirred by a storm. [10]
You are usually paid for your trouble; consequently, your walk inland always turns out to be one of the most crooked, involved, purposeless, and interesting experiences a body can imagine. [5]
Well, it turns out, I believe, upon examination, that General Cass took some part in the little running debate upon that amendment, and then ran away and did not vote on it at all. [7]
Now, it turns out that he had got hold of some resolutions passed at some convention or public meeting in Kane County. [7]
Even poesy in our times turns from the Castalian fount whose crystal-clear water becomes an unclean pool and, though reluctantly, obeys the impulse to make its abode in the dust of reality. [10]
Rufinus' house is open to you day and night, and I, if all turns out as I expect, shall ere long be far from hence--from Memphis--from Paula. [10]
He turns over on his side at once. [5]
The minutes drift on and on and on, with not a sound but the ticking of the clock; at last the sun fires a sudden sheaf of rays into the ghostly tree and turns it into a white splendor of glittering diamonds. [5]
He gathers up old bones and turns them into manure. [5]
Then he turns off slow and dreamy towards the stairs, saying: "Well, for the life of me I can't remember when I done it. [5]
In the centre of this throng on the bandstand--reminiscent of concerts on sultry, summer nights--are the itinerant apostles of the cult called Syndicalism, exhorting by turns in divers tongues. [9]
He fell sick of the fever in my house, and it was there that Antoinette and Madame de St. Gre took turns with his wife in watching at his bedside. [9]

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