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Sentences starting with uncle

Uncle Lem's dog--I wish you could a seen that dog. [5]
Uncle Lem's dog was there. [5]
Uncle Ben Carvel was a veritable emperor in his own domain; and the Colonel himself, had he desired to enter the kitchen, would have been obliged to come with humble and submissive spirit. [9]
Uncle Dave Hopkins used to always say, 'Turn me into John Calvin, and I want to know which place I'm going to; turn me into Mulberry Sellers and I don't care. [5]
Uncle Tom, relegated to a corner, pretended to read his newspaper, while Honora flitted from Peter's knees to his, or sat cross-legged on the hearth-rug investigating a bottomless stocking. [9]
Uncle Mumford says the libraries and Sunday-schools have done a good work in Cairo, as well as the brick masons. [5]
Uncle Tom, always the friend of young people, was surrounded by a group of bridesmaids in the hall. [9]
Uncle Jerry is the easiest person to get on with. [4]
Uncle Jerry was the calmest man in town, and his observation that Henderson knew what he was about was reassuring. [4]
Uncle Mumford said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained several colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious basis of one kind or another. [5]

Sentences ending with uncle

I only ask you to remember, Honora, that you have not explained these reasons very clearly in your letters to your aunt and uncle. [9]
How much have you had to pay for this new witness, uncle? [10]
I believe that you and I together could run this government beautifully, uncle. [5]
And then I would rather have had charge of a hospital ward than take care of that uncle. [4]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
Her first impulse was to send it back to her uncle. [9]
Next moment he was alongside of me and I was telling him all my trouble and what had been happening to Marget and her uncle. [5]
He heard the voices of Sir William and his uncle. [11]
The guide showed us the veritable armor worn by the great son-in-law and successor of Mahomet, and also the buckler of Mahomet's uncle. [5]
Thus did my uncle. [5]

Short sentences using uncle

But his uncle was writing! [5]
There is my uncle. [5]
Don't go to uncle. [5]
That's from the Uncle Abe. [5]
Was his uncle still up? [5]
Who will restore our uncle? [10]
My uncle was one. [8]
Uncle Ani comes on foot. [10]
Has uncle come home yet? [4]
You are forgetting her uncle. [5]

Sentences containing uncle two or more times

They didn't hear Uncle Silas say he would kill Jubiter; they didn't hear no blow struck; they didn't see no dead man, and they didn't see Uncle Silas hide anything in the bushes. [5]
She had an uncle once that was bald-headed and used to have fits; he wasn't our uncle, I don't know what he was to us--some kin or another I reckon--father's seen him a thousand times--hain't you, father! [5]
So, to console them, the book was brought, that they might hear Uncle Remus's Tar-Baby story from the lips of Uncle Remus himself--or what, in their outraged eyes, was left of him. [5]
And I felt that my uncle was somewhere behind him; that the two of them were plotters against me, even as Harvey had declared; albeit my Uncle Grafton was little seen in his company now. [9]
At the seance just referred to, my friend questioned his late uncle, through Mr. Manchester, and the late uncle wrote down his replies, using Mr. Manchester's hand and pencil for that purpose. [5]
Old Uncle Billy Herndon is dead, and it is said this evening that Uncle Ben Ferguson will not live. [7]
One was in Chicago years ago--an uncle of mine, just as good an uncle as I have ever had, and I had lots of them--yes, uncles to burn, uncles to spare. [5]
Why was the A self like his good uncle in bodily aspect and mental and moral qualities, and the B self like the bad uncle in look and character? [6]

More example sentences with the word uncle in them

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]
I know that you would be interested in them, Uncle Silas. [9]
Jean said: "Joan, you told us yourself that you were going to Uncle Laxart's to nurse his wife, but you didn't say you were going further, yet you did go on to Vaucouleurs. [5]
Let him take you to your Uncle Daniel. [9]
He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young. [9]
David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
Only lately he wrote to his uncle from Paris that he was minded to make me his wife. [10]
In a letter written when he was only thirty-one, to his uncle, Lord Burleigh, he said, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province. [5]
Even Uncle Jerry wouldn't do that. [4]
She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
I think it would please my uncle mightily. [9]
The great merchant would do everything for his fame-crowned nephew, and he, Hermon, was conscious that had his uncle been in his situation he would have divided his last obol with him. [10]
Jealousy!--I believe she would be capable of the worst--" "Yet," Dion interrupted, "Charmian will soften whatever injury Iras plans to do me, and, though I cannot rely much upon my uncle, Archibius is above both and favours us and our marriage. [10]
My uncle rode with us into the town. [10]
I should stay with Uncle Jethro. [9]
Barbara was familiar with this flourishing place, above which proudly towered the Trausnitzburg, for here lived her uncle Wolfgang Lorberer, who had married her mother's sister, and was a member of the city Council. [10]
I have arranged with Mr. Carroll, the barrister, to take your cause against your uncle, so that you will lose nothing when I am gone. [9]
He even disputed with his uncle on the tints of her skin, on seeing him paint it in, showing a fine eye for colour. [11]
My uncle remonstrated with him, but the man said, "I own one end of this echo; I choose to kill my end; you must take care of your own end yourself. [5]
To be again with Eva under the protection of her uncle and aunt now seemed the highest goal of her longing. [10]
I recalled now, with a shudder, that never since the spring of my grandfather's illness had my uncle questioned me upon my politics. [9]
The learned Master Windecke made haste to depart, as he could ill-endure such touching matters, while Uncle Conrad enquired of Ann what she had heard of Herdegen's end. [10]
I hope you will remember that, with the exception of your aunt and uncle, you have no better friend than I. [9]
Your Uncle Dan'l will be here this afternoon. [9]
Mr. Hays and wife, uncle and aunt of the bride. [5]
Peter Erwin, of whom we caught a glimpse doing an errand for Uncle Tom in the bank. [9]
But other men, who were not half so good as Uncle Tom, got rich. [9]
Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
The rose-bush to which Xanthe went grew on the dike that belonged in common to her father and uncle, beside a bench of beautifully-polished white marble. [10]
After the bridge which united him to his uncle and paternal friend had been so suddenly broken, it was you who rebuilt it. [10]
Now this one, which cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years ago, and is one of the sweetest things in Texas, I will let you have for-- "Let me interrupt you," I said. [5]
No one knows whether Uncle Jim could hear the cries from the torture- chamber, but, after standing for a time mumbling to himself, he wrapped himself in a heavy coat, tied a muffler about his face, and went out. [11]
But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
The next morning, when I returned from my inspection, I found the rector and Philip had decamped with two of our choice horses, and that my uncle and aunt had commanded the barge, and gone to Mr. Lloyd's. [9]
My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
Let me hear what other reasons you have for believing that your uncle tried to do away with you. [9]
And then she went to her ma and said she didn't know what would become of her uncle Sam he was too dull to learn anything--ever! [5]
As my uncle went I shall go one day. [11]
And I will wear it for you when I am rich, Uncle Jethro. [9]
As the summer waxed hot we went into the forest at the bidding of my uncle and aunt, who took great joy in seeing their favorite in right good heart and wondrous beauty, Mistress Giovanna having provided her with seemly and brave apparel. [10]
Hoped his uncle was well, and his charming cousin,--was she as original as ever? [6]
And Uncle Tom was right when he said we should have nothing but jam and bread and butter for supper: oh, yes, and cold meat. [9]
Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see --except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him. [5]
If your uncle was livin', he'd back me on that, Mr. [9]
And Uncle Remus--what was his young dream? [5]
The party that was arranged for this trip included Mrs. Cortlandt and her bevy of beauty and audacity, Miss Lamont and her uncle, Mrs. Farquhar, the artist, and the desperate pilgrim of love. [4]
That her uncle was a good man, for instance, had no such effect upon Honora, as the fact that Peter was a good man. [9]
He said she was a fine woman, and he hoped some day to bring her and his uncle together. [5]
He did not want to be an hussar or a Knight of St. George like his uncle Nicholas; he wanted to be learned, wise, and kind like Pierre. [2]
If Mr. Carvel walks out of an evening, Grafton's arm is ever ready, and my uncle and his worthy lady are eager to take a hand at cards before supper. [9]
Said he would wait for us in a little bunch of sycamores right back of Tom's uncle Silas's tobacker field on the river road, a lonesome place. [5]
All day long Virginia, assisted by Uncle Ben and Aunt Easter, toiled in the stifling kitchen, preparing dainties which she had long denied herself. [9]
The Marchesa cared very little about the library, or about the house, for that matter; a great aunt and uncle, spinster and bachelor, were living in it that winter, and they vacated for Mr. Crewe. [9]
He was a very busy man, was my uncle, and had a kind of dignified run, which he used between Marlboro' Street and the Council Chamber in the Stadt House, or the Governor's mansion. [9]
He spied Captain Vance himself on the stage, and bade Uncle Ben hold to the horses while he shouldered his way to that gentleman. [9]
Not one of us stirred, but just stood lookin', and my own heart beat so hard it hurt me, and my uncle steadyin' himself against the dresser. [11]
However, none of us knew that my uncle had become a collector, at least in anything more than a small way, for esthetic amusement. [5]
I assisted him up, the stairs, my uncle taking his arm on the other side. [9]
His uncle held up the sketch. [11]
It showed how unpopular old Uncle Silas had got to be now. [5]
It was very unlike him, this outburst, and Carmen knew that he would indulge in it to no one else, not even to Uncle Jerry. [4]
As Daphne's husband, under the same roof with the wonderfully invigorated Myrtilus, his Uncle Archias, and faithful Bias, Hermon found in the new home what had hovered before the blind man as the fairest goal of existence in art, love, and friendship. [10]
It was my uncle, whose ear was ever open, that first heard my footstep and turned upon me. [9]
She heard her uncle, the magistrate, speak of her father's unfortunate deed, and tell the Council how the name of Herr Ernst's daughters, who were held in such honour, had become innocently, through evil gossip, the talk of the people. [10]
I had another uncle, on an entirely different Fourth of July, who was blown up that way, and really it trimmed him as it would a tree. [5]
It is Polly's uncle, as I very well know, from the many times she has thrown him up to me, and is liable so to do at any moment. [4]
Mardiou and your uncle Zeno saw with their own eyes the strange swallows drive away those which had built their nest on the helm of the Antonias, and kill the young ones with their cruel beaks. [10]
Your aunt and uncle wouldn't like it at all at all if ye was to make noise in the middle of the night--and it's little better it is. [9]
No, for his uncle would not allow that--he was all-powerful and could and would crush such a movement, of course. [5]
He knew his uncle would be glad to hear that he had at last turned his thoughts to a practical matter. [5]
He left his uncle with a nod, rode quietly through the park, into the village, and on to the moor. [11]
So while my uncle was buying Jarvis's hill for three million two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, the other party was buying Bledso's hill for a shade over three million. [5]
No sooner was Uncle Tom out of the house in the morning than Anne Rory marched into the sitting-room and took command, and turned it, into a dressmaking establishment. [9]
Needless to say, Uncle Tom had taken an interest in him. [9]
One evening, when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham, who was ill, Honora further surprised her aunt by exclaiming: "How can you talk of things other people have and not want them, Aunt Mary? [9]
She laughed at Uncle Tom because she always had, but tears were shining in her eyes. [9]
It is old Uncle Thomas Campbell of Spring Creek--(Berlin P.O.). [7]
And as for Uncle Silas, it ain't any use for him to put in his oar, I wouldn't believe him under oath! [5]
I never see Uncle Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before. [5]
So he told Uncle Silas he would make him sorry. [5]
Mr. De Long, uncle on the mother's side. [4]
After him came Uncle Jim, supported between two others. [11]
And I guess Uncle Jethro will get to Boston twice a month if you're there. [9]
You know my uncle is a great railroad man. [5]
Go to your uncle in the Netherlands. [10]
I have an uncle in Richmond, Judge Wentworth, to whom I will take him in person. [9]
She teaches her uncle his book. [5]
Go with thine uncle Hertford and thy people, and come again when my body is refreshed. [5]
I had an uncle here in the East for twenty-five years, yet I knew him better than all others in the world. [11]
And here is Uncle Fenelon insane over the idea of getting the poor, innocent man into Canada. [9]
Satan said his uncle entertained a great deal, and to have a clever woman presiding over the festivities would double the attractions of the place. [5]
In the forest Uncle Conrad had bidden this noble company to the Lodge. [10]
My aunt and uncle brought me up, and my cousin, Mrs. Hanbury, Edith's mother, and Mary's, sent me here to school. [9]
Go to his uncle and tell him that he must remove himself for ever from the situation? [11]
How truly my uncle and aunt rejoiced at my brother's home-coming could be seen in their eyes, though the mother, who had banished her own son, was cut to the heart by the sight of such another well-grown youth. [10]
Your uncle was unable, on many accounts, to come here; and he thought that--that as an old friend, you might be willing to talk to me. [9]
I read in Twichell's chapel Friday night and had a most rattling high time--but the thing that went best of all was Uncle Remus's Tar Baby. [5]
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]

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