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Sentences starting with twain

Twain if published without his privity, we judged it but fair to submit them to him and give him an opportunity to defend himself. [5]
Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up. [5]
Twain or any other foreigner who did such a thing in Jerusalem would be mobbed, and would infallibly lose his life. [5]
Twain said--] I like that gown. [5]
Twain has made his brilliant and permanent ascent--become a man of mark. [5]

Sentences ending with twain

I am, sir, with great respect, Mark Twain. [5]
In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
Yet the years were not unkindly to Mark Twain. [5]
In their place we have to-day that American institution and apostle of wide humanity--Mark Twain. [5]
Some years later we have the illustrious John Morgan Twain. [5]
The Clemens and Warner families were constantly associated, and The Gilded Age, published in 1873, resulted from the friendship of Warner and Mark Twain. [5]
Burlingame and Van Valkenburgh were on their way to their posts, and their coming to the islands just at this time proved a most important circumstance to Mark Twain. [5]
Howells and Aldrich used it as their half-way station between Boston and New York, and every foreign notable who visited America made a pilgrimage to Hartford to see Mark Twain. [5]
Be interposes 'twixt us Twain. [5]
Be interposer 'twixt us Twain. [5]

Short sentences using twain

By Mark Twain. [5]
Twain! [5]
Quarter twain! [5]
Mark Twain. [5]
Half twain! [5]

Sentences containing twain two or more times

Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
Apparently Mark Twain relished it, for as Bernard DeVoto points out, "The book is always Mark Twain. [5]
She was sure it was Mark Twain, because Mark is in the Bible and Twain is in the Bible. [5]
He added that he had a private room down-stairs, where Mark Twain might establish headquarters, and that he would assign his colored servant, Neal, of long acquaintanceship with many of the members, to pass the word that Mark Twain was receiving. [5]

More example sentences with the word twain in them

There, now, Can't you say-- "In a letter to Mr. Howells of the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain describes the reception of the new comedy 'Ali Sin,' and then goes on to say:" etc. [5]
Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
Mark Twain was writing a great deal at this time. [5]
Such an event would naturally stir Mark Twain to comment on human nature in general. [5]
Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering. [5]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]
Even Joseph Goodman, who had a fine literary perception and a deep knowledge of men, intimately associated with Mark Twain as he was, received at this time no hint of his greater powers. [5]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
In the letter which follows the medicine which Twichell was to take was Plasmon, an English proprietary remedy in which Mark Twain had invested--a panacea for all human ills which osteopathy could not reach. [5]
He asked March whether he thought Mr. Depew could be got to come; Mark Twain, he was sure, would come; he was a literary man. [8]
In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
The privately printed West Point edition, the first printing of the text authorized by Mark Twain, of which but fifty copies were printed. [5]
Train and Twain were sometimes confused by the very unlettered; or pretendedly, by Mark Twain's friends. [5]
All the family were anxious to get home--Mark Twain most anxious of all. [5]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
Perhaps Mark Twain was too busy at this time to write letters. [5]
Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass-meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time! [5]
George W. Cable was there at the time, and we may believe that in the company of Mark Twain and Osgood those Southern authors passed two or three delightful days. [5]
If Mark Twain was tempted, we get no hint of it in his answer. [5]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
Naturally Mark Twain was one of its favorite members, and his contributions never failed to arouse interest and discussion. [5]
Slocum" (no, it was one "Carl Byng," I perceive) "Carl Byng" for Mark Twain, and that it was the former who wrote the plagiarism entitled "Three Aces," I think that would do a fair justice without any unseemly display. [5]
If Mark Twain was hard up in search of, a French "chestnut," I might have told him the following little anecdote. [5]
Mark Twain himself was full of the Sellers optimism, and it was bound to overflow, fortify as he would against it. [5]
Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
While Mark Twain was a journalist in San Francisco, there was a middle-aged man named Soule, who had a desk near him on the Morning Call. [5]
When Mark Twain visits a garden does he smell the violets, the roses, the jasmine, or the honeysuckle? [5]
The boat came up to the surface, broken in twain, splintered, a load of firewood for those who raked the river lower down. [6]
In the next unmailed letter Mark Twain relieves himself to a misguided official. [5]
Mark Twain was twenty-eight years old. [5]
Which of us twain, this ruin-starred queen or I, is of higher stature? [11]
Cut it in twain, and the product is enormous, far transcending any previous developments of our racy Territory. [5]
To Howells, Mark Twain wrote the adventures of this athletic and strenuous exponent of the gospel. [5]
Now would Mark Twain remark to this: 'An American is not such a fool: when a creditor stands in his way he closes his doors, and reopens them the following day. [5]
Certainly, to Mark Twain Orion Clemens was a trial. [5]
In 1873 Mark Twain led the van of the debunkers, scraping the gilt off the lily in the Gilded Age. [5]
He says "Mark Twain is not merely a great writer, a great philosopher, a great man; he is the supreme expression of the human being, with his strength and his weakness. [5]
Another thing Mark Twain did that winter was to buy some land on Farmington Avenue and begin the building of a home. [5]
The National Mark Twain Association did not surrender easily. [5]
In 1882 Mark Twain and Joe Twichell visited their friend Lieut. [5]
Yet even this triumph was a misfortune to Mark Twain, for it led to scores of less profitable book ventures and eventual disaster. [5]
No form of travel or undertaking could discountenance Mark Twain at thirty. [5]
But it is too amusing, too characteristic of Mark Twain, to be omitted. [5]
It was easy to understand the Beecher family's robust appreciation of Mark Twain. [5]
It seems incredible to those who knew Mark Twain in his later years--dreamy, unpractical, and indifferent to details--that he could have acquired so vast a store of minute facts as were required by that task. [5]
From Mark Twain to the Public: Nov. 16, '04. [5]
Mark Twain decided to spend his vacation in pocket-mining, and soon added that science to his store of knowledge. [5]
I was going to say Mark Twain, his literary title, which is a household phrase in more homes than that of any other man, and you know him best by that dear old title. [5]
Mark Twain loved to make fiction of his mishaps, and to show himself always in a bad light. [5]
It was attached to himself as well as to the letters; heretofore he had been called Sam or Clemens, now he became almost universally Mark Twain and Mark. [5]
Augustus Twain, seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. [5]
Augustus Twain seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. [5]
He went up to Hartford one day to interview Mark Twain. [5]
This letter happened to be over-weight, which gave Mark Twain a chance for some amusing exaggerations at his expense. [5]
Mark Twain, not to be outdone in cordiality, joined vigorously, and kept his hands going even after the others finished. [5]
During the next three years he was distracted by the financial struggle which ended in April, 1894, with the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. Mark Twain now found himself bankrupt, and nearly one hundred thousand dollars in debt. [5]
Mark Twain, by this time in London, naturally had a different opinion. [5]
In return for this slight favor the manager sent an invitation for Mark Twain to come and see the play --to be present on the opening night, as it were, at his (the manager's) expense. [5]
Mark Twain, on this long tour, was accompanied by his wife and his daughter Clara--Susy and Jean Clemens remaining with their aunt at Quarry Farm. [5]
The story of this duel, which did not come off, has been quite fully told elsewhere, both by Mark Twain and the present writer; but the following letter--a revelation of his inner feelings in the matter of his offense--has never before been published. [5]
Some of these things, signed by nom de plumes, were charged to Mark Twain. [5]
Troubled in conscience thereby, yet I did marry the twain gladly, for I think a worthier maid never lived than this same Mistress Guida Landresse de Landresse, of the ancient family of the de Mauprats. [11]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, then editor of Every Saturday, had not met Mark Twain, and, noticing the verses printed in the exchanges over his signature, was one of those who accepted them as Mark Twain's work. [5]
The end of the year 1898 found Mark Twain once more in easy, even luxurious, circumstances. [5]
Exquisitely, reverently, as the story was told, it had in it the, touch of quaint and gentle humor which could only have been given to it by Mark Twain. [5]
It was exactly the story to appeal to Mark Twain, and the kind of thing he could write. [5]
In this picture the presiding genius of the paper is offering to Mark Twain health, long life, and happiness from "The Punch Bowl. [5]
The idea of the overthrow of the Russian dynasty was pleasant to Mark Twain. [5]
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness. [5]
The great hall, the largest in London, was thronged at each appearance, and the papers declared that Mark Twain had no more than "whetted the public appetite" for his humor. [5]
One may imagine the joy of Howells and the others in this ludicrous extravaganza, which could have been written by no one but Mark Twain. [5]
Twain, you are the fourth in twenty-four hours--and I'm going to move; I ain't suited to a littery atmosphere. [5]
The reference in the first paragraph of the letter that follows is to the Bermuda chapters which Mark Twain was publishing simultaneously in England and America. [5]
Mark Twain, to the end of his life, loved all that Howells wrote. [5]
A correspondence between the author and the dramatist followed, leading to a friendly arrangement by which the latter agreed to dispose of his version to Mark Twain. [5]
At the Farm that year Mark Twain was working on The Prince and the Pauper, and, according to a letter to Aldrich, brought it to an end September 19th. [5]
It is said that Mark Twain never really recovered from the tragedy of his brother's death--that it was responsible for the serious, pathetic look that the face of the world's greatest laugh-maker always wore in repose. [5]
It is better than the gross obscenities of Rabelais, and perhaps in some day to come, the taste that justified Gargantua and the Decameron will give this literary refugee shelter and setting among the more conventional writing of Mark Twain. [5]
The Uncle Remus tales of Joel Chandler Harris gave Mark Twain great pleasure. [5]
If they spent Sunday in a town, Cable was up bright and early visiting the various churches and Sunday-schools, while Mark Twain remained at the hotel, in bed, reading or asleep. [5]
It has been stated that Mark Twain loved the lecture platform, but from his letters we see that even at this early date, when he was at the height of his first great vogue as a public entertainer, he had no love for platform life. [5]
The two men, so widely different, became firm friends at sight, and it was to Howells in the years to come that Mark Twain would write more letters, and more characteristic letters, than to any other living man. [5]
The Howells incident so amusingly dramatized will perhaps be more appreciated if the reader remembers that Mark Twain himself had at intervals been a mind-healing enthusiast. [5]
The escape-pipes belched snowy pillars of steam aloft, the boat ground and surged and trembled--and slid over into---- "M-a-r-k twain! [5]
That Mark Twain should feel and privately report something of his triumphs we need not wonder at. [5]
It would be seven years more before Mark Twain would return to the river, and then not with Howells. [5]
Authors were always sending their books to Mark Twain to read, and no busy man was ever more kindly disposed toward such offerings, more generously considerate of the senders. [5]
It will be seen that their tramp did not confine itself to pedestrianism, though they did, in fact, walk a great deal, and Mark Twain in a note to his mother declared, "I loathe all travel, except on foot. [5]
Mark Twain now seemed to have his affairs well regulated. [5]
Altogether, the outlook seemed bright to Mark Twain and his wife, during the first months of their marriage. [5]
For when people seem very sordid and mean and stupid (and it seems as if everybody was) then the thought will come like a little crumb of comfort "well, Mark Twain isn't anyway. [5]
Goodman declined the salary, but extended his visit, and Mark Twain at last seems to have found himself working under ideal conditions. [5]
It should be said that Mark Twain and Whitelaw Reid were generally very good friends, and perhaps for the moment this fact seemed to magnify the offense. [5]
Mark Twain once said he could live a month on a good compliment, and from his reply, we may believe this one to belong in, that class. [5]
Mark Twain, in Roughing It, has described that glorious journey and the frontier life that followed it. [5]
Cable was as rigidly orthodox as Mark Twain was revolutionary. [5]
This letter I read myself, and I plainly saw that these twain had sadly marred their best joy in life by over-hasty ire. [10]
There is a quality in this letter more suggestive of the later Mark Twain than anything that has preceded it. [5]
Mark Twain, now provided with money, decided to pay a visit to his people. [5]

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