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Sentences starting with under

Under these circumstances you will readily see why I should not speak in detail of the course I shall deem it best to pursue. [7]
Under the circumstances yes. [9]
Under False Colours X. [9]
Under the circumstances would not both Philip and Evelyn have been justified in disregarding the prohibition that forbade their meeting or even writing to each other? [4]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
Under glass, and with a south exposure. [6]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
Under the porch, where she had sat when Heaven in its mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, she passed again; and the old church received her in its quiet shade. [12]
Under Necho they were recommenced, and possibly finished by Darius. [10]

Sentences ending with under

Becuz the dog would a seen him a coming and stood from under. [5]
His attack on Willis very probably did him good; he needed a little discipline, and though he got it too unsparingly, some cautions came with it which were worth the stripes he had to smart under. [6]
I think we were a pair in that, only I managed to keep mine, under. [9]
His last acts was to go his pile on "Kings-and" (calkatin' to fill, but which he didn't fill), when there was a "flush" out agin him, and naterally, you see, he went under. [5]
We were mounted upon very small donkeys, as a measure of safety; in time of peril we could straighten our legs and stand up, and let the donkey walk from under. [5]
They'll snow you under. [9]
He was not to think of making the journey to his own home in Bohemia during this winter season, and at this farewell drinking bout we held council as to whose roof he might find lodging under. [10]
I was surprised to see it as a tree, standing by itself, and making the most delicious roof a pair of young lovers could imagine to sit under. [6]
May I venture to contrast youth and experience in medical practice, something in the way the man painted the lion, that is, the lion under? [3]
When, at length, they went away, and locked the dreadful room behind them, and came out into the street, where people were passing, they, for the first time, realized, in the relief they felt, what a nervous strain they had been under. [5]

Short sentences using under

Under that ordinance we live. [7]
I've got you under fire. [5]
I'm up under the skylight. [9]
Under way, passing the Battery. [5]
Under surveillance for sixteen years! [4]
Shadows gathered under shelving cliffs. [13]
He sailed under Paul Jones. [9]
And that under our roof! [10]
Hale was under no illusion. [4]
She was under no illusion. [11]

Sentences containing under two or more times

Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
The States aforesaid will be respectively credited under the enrollment act for the militia services entered under this proclamation. [7]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
But he likes well that "they do not observe the confecting of the Ointment under any certain constellation; which is commonly the excuse of magical medicines, when they fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of heaven. [6]
By half-past six we were under way, and all the Syrian world seemed to be under way also. [5]
At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
Baby-carriages cumbered the way; dogs were under foot, yelping and rending the tender hearts of their owners; the porters staggered about under their loads, and shouted till they were hoarse; farewells were said; rendezvous made--alas! [4]
He, John Hodder, was to live under that cloud, to labour under it. [9]
He at first was so insubordinate under restraint that he was put under close ward from which he was not released until, instead of raging with fury he dreamed away his days in sullen brooding. [10]

More example sentences with the word under in them

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
He made various youthful proposals to me, including a duet under the landlady's daughter's window. [6]
I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and play you one of my adagio movements, and some of you say,--This is good,--play us so always. [6]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
The key is--put your hand under my pillow. [6]
You should try your fortune in London, where you shall be under my protection, sir. [9]
Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. [5]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
And what do you think it was that saved the ship, and Captain Coram, and so in due time gave to London that Foundling Hospital which he endowed, and under the floor of which he lies buried? [6]
I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
I will tell you my wicked, but half involuntary experiment on the wild heart under the faded bombazine. [6]
Had the lady you mean a large semi-circular scar just under the hair, exactly in the middle of her forehead? [10]
It is because you have married a divorced woman under circumstances that have shocked us. [9]
When they release you from prison, innocent and acquitted, cross the ocean and set up your tent under the Stars and Stripes. [11]
If I find you deserve it I'll take you under my protection and make your fame and fortune for you. [5]
Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither? [7]
Besides, I see you are laboring under a total misapprehension. [5]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
You has had yo' chance, en you has trompled it under yo' foot. [5]
They were not yet under control, but she felt them, and in so far as she had power to think, she used them. [11]
As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must not draw the inference that I have any intention of deserting any platform with which I have a legitimate connection because I do not stand on yours. [7]
For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
She was seven years old when her teacher, Miss Sullivan, under the direction of Mr. Anagnos, at the Blind Asylum at South Boston, began her education. [6]
You've had several years of useful work in the Pindar Shops and the Wire Works, to say nothing of a course in biological chemistry, psychology and sociology under Dr. Jonathan. [9]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
That--in her belief--she wrote the book under the inspiration of the Deity, but furnished the language herself. [5]
As I have written you, I have been under fire very little since coming to the staff. [9]
They were under written contract to Mr. Street, but they did not care anything for that. [5]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
But the old writer, I said to The Teacups, as I say to you, my readers, labors under one special difficulty, which I am thinking of and exemplifying at this moment. [6]
Six in a wrapper, quite easy to hide under your cloak. [10]
He and Cloud-in-the-Sky wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering the head completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone in an austere and tenantless world. [11]
The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles. [5]
As for his wound, how could it do otherwise than well under such hands? [6]
Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
I could not, would not, go under the poor-law and accept you, with the lash of a broken pledge in your hand, as my guardian. [11]
He said he would keep these things always; and that soon he would seek out these dear good friends of his and take them under his protection. [5]
I think you would have done the same under the circumstances. [7]
I suppose he would have called up his family, waked the drum-corps, sent for the Prefect of Police, put on the alert the 'sergents de ville,' ordered under arms a regiment of the Imperial Guards, and made it unpleasant for the Man. [4]
Half our navy would have anchored under the guns of these suddenly alienated fortresses, with the flag of the rebellion flying at their peaks. [6]
On enquiry he would find that they were adapted to live under widely different climates, and that they differed somewhat in bodily constitution and mental disposition. [1]
Now, under that worthy old man's roof everything was in the best order. [10]
When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan's house, where he was staying, at three o'clock in the morning, he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees. [9]
But I respect worsteds even under the name of yarn: our ladies--my own mothah and sistahs--had to knit the socks we wore--all we could get in the woe. [8]
Master Pigeon grew worse and worse under these inflictions. [6]
In Italy, the works of mediaeval Art seem to be of yesterday,--Rome, under her kings, is but an intruding newcomer, as we contemplate her in the shadow of the Cyclopean walls of Fiesole or Volterra. [6]
He went on working at the cupboard under his hand. [11]
Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
Now, not another word; and, come what may, so long as the Roman visitors dwell under this roof, beware of it! [10]
And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English! [11]
With a jesting word he leaped on to the car, and even succeeded in murmuring to Alexander, unobserved, that Melissa had placed herself under his protection. [10]
Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
And from the woodshed the shrill note of the scythe under the action of the grindstone. [4]
On the long wooden platform under the sheds Stephen caught sight of Herr Korner and Herr Hauptmann amid a group of their countrymen. [9]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
All ranks are wonderfully equalized under the fire of a masked battery. [6]
She is a wonderful woman, and we don't quite see how or when we should have gotten under way without her. [5]
It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
It is little wonder that under circumstances like these he fell down and brake his neck. [5]
I no longer wonder at the number of feather-beds at the inns, under which we are apparently expected to sleep even in the warmest nights. [4]
It takes a woman to sound a woman's heart, and she found there was still love enough under the ruffled waters to warrant the hope of peace and tranquillity. [6]
The complainants had witnesses who testified under oath what they had heard in taverns and tap-rooms from Sir Seitz Siebenburg and those who repeated his tales. [10]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
Blenker's division was withdrawn from you before you left here, and you knew the pressure under which I did it, and, as I thought, acquiesced in it certainly not without reluctance. [7]
The Newcastle Guardian, with unconscious irony, proclaimed the golden era; and declared that its columns, even in other days and under other ownership, had upheld the wisdom of Jethro Bass. [9]
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs. [2]
Its rear communicated with the bastille by a drawbridge, under which ran a swift and deep strip of the Loire. [5]
Nature is struggling with something, and I am afraid she is under in the wrestling-match. [6]
With accomplished deftness, with some sacking and two poles, a hasty but comfortable ambulance was made under the skilful direction of the river- master. [11]
Her eyes sparkled with satisfaction, and she tucked the bottle under her shawl, saying, "It's prime. [5]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
Again, I sat with Nick under the trees on the lawn at Temple Bow, and the world was dark with the coming storm. [9]
These he equips with new names, and thus we have those terrific nomenclatures which are enough to frighten the medical student, to say nothing of the sufferers staggering under this long catalogue of local infirmities. [6]
And he walked with me till mornin', carryin' the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin' on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
Come--come and say with me that we shall part no more--in spirit no more; that, whatever comes, you and I have fulfilled our great hope, though under the shadow of the sword. [11]
Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
He hurried on with his head bent, as though under a heavy burthen, and clasped his hand to his forehead with a gesture of despair. [10]
He threatened her with his ax, as if to warn her not to come further, but she paid no heed, but went steadily on, until she was right in front of him--right under his ax. [5]
She seemed dead with fear--yes, she was under his compulsion. [5]
To be again with Eva under the protection of her uncle and aunt now seemed the highest goal of her longing. [10]
They were connected with each other by colonnades, or by little bridges, under which flowed canals, that watered the gardens and gave the palace-grounds the aspect of a town built on islands. [10]
Sallow-faced, red-headed fellow, with a little scar on the side of his throat, like a splinter under the flesh. [5]
But at length, with a grunt of satisfaction, he produced a form and held it under my eyes. [9]
Many a cold winter night did the explorers endure this hardship, yet grew fat and lusty under it. [4]
And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]

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