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Sentences starting with unless

Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
Unless you are willing to tell me who this lady is for whom you are buying silk dresses, and what your relationship is to her, I shall leave you. [9]
Unless a thing was really interesting, stood out, as it were, he had no use for it--nor for man nor woman. [11]
Unless this operation was performed successfully the sufferer would die--he might die anyhow. [11]
Unless he were very greatly mistaken, he could now walk the course; the plate was his, no matter what might be the entries. [6]
Unless you put up the cash within the four days left, they'll put it through without you. [11]
Unless it was training-day, or Fourth of July, or the circus was coming, it was a little difficult to find anything big enough to fill our anticipations of the fun we would have in the day or the two or three days we had earned. [4]
Unless you wish to blind yourself, your Eminence, you will admit that I have seen correctly the most powerful motives for this unequalled act. [10]
Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
Unless the whole thing were a joke! [9]

Sentences ending with unless

It would appeal to him on some grand scale, with real danger and, say, a few scores of thousands of pounds at stake--not unless. [11]
The wrong one may be killed unless. [11]

Short sentences using unless

He rarely spoke, unless questioned. [10]

Sentences containing unless two or more times

I was reading this morning in the diary of old John Ward of Stratford-on-Avon this sentence: 'It was a saying of Navisson, a lawyer, that no man could be valiant unless he hazarded his body, nor rich unless he hazarded his soul. [4]
That is, they say that when a question comes up upon another person, it will be so decided again, unless the court decides in another way, unless the court overrules its decision. [7]
Petya could not return unless his regiment did so or unless he was transferred to another regiment on active service. [2]
Unless pressure is put on him, unless some one takes him by the throat and says: If you don't relieve Claridge Pasha and the people with him, you will go to the crocodiles, Nahoum won't stir. [11]
An item is of no use unless it speaks of some person, and not then, unless that person's name is distinctly mentioned. [5]

More example sentences with the word unless in them

I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour, and force it. [7]
Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government. [11]
Didn't I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever it might be, was your own free property? [5]
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. [7]
Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
He said he would let Harris go for two francs; and that unless we were unusually timid, he should consider guides and porters unnecessary; it was not customary to take them, when going by telescope, for they were rather an encumbrance than a help. [5]
But how long would it take to turn that circle into a polygon, unless some mighty counteracting force should prevent it? [6]
A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. [5]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
A blow-out ain't worth anything as a blow-out, unless a body has company. [5]
Look at these woodcuts,--the first anatomical pictures ever printed, Doctor, unless these others of Jacobus Berengarius are older! [6]
And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. [6]
I should not wish to see any more of it, unless I might select the parties. [5]
You can only win your way on the frontier unless you are willing to live there. [9]
Consider that Philometor will not confirm the donation of the land unless he quits the temple deeply penetrated by the greatness of our god. [10]
I guess he will have to unless he can borrow. [4]
As for thy wife, I shall treat her as a stranger unless, as a prophetess, she summons me to announce a new message from the Lord. [10]
The gracious young wife was overwhelmed with horror, which had doubtless prevented her return, unless her absence was due to departure from the city. [10]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
Once in a while I heard Weldon's answering shot, but I remembered my promise to Tom not to waste powder unless I were sure. [9]
There are operations which no surgeon should be willing to undertake unless he has paid a particular, if not an exclusive, attention to the cases demanding such operations. [6]
Jerry Card, that's what you've done unless I'm drunk on the smell of sage. [13]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
I shan't know what to do with them; unless I raffle them off. [5]
I don't know what it is made of, unless it's made of gold. [4]
To him words were like nails--of no use unless they were to be driven home by acts. [11]
It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
Why, then, shall we suffer a severe difficulty, even though it be but temporary, unless we receive some equivalent for it? [7]
Why struggle, unless we struggle for something definite? [9]
Now and then we step on a rat in a hotel, but we have had no rats on shipboard lately; unless, perhaps in the Flora; we had more serious things to think of there, and did not notice. [5]
But those who watched him as he retired from the window saw plainly that the idyl, which he had promised them should begin to-day, would assuredly not do so for the next few hours at least, unless some miracle should occur. [10]
His characteristic answer was: "I place no value on these forms unless they depend upon and express the inner self. [10]
Besides, his case was hopeless unless the knight obtained a pardon for him from the Emperor Rudolph, for his persecutors would not cease their pursuit of him, and he could not endure the torture a second time. [10]
His local knowledge was especially valuable on account of the marshes which intersected the Pelusian plain, and might, unless carefully avoided, have proved fatal to the Persian enterprise. [10]
He believed Boyne was a servant of the French; but unless the facts came out in the trial, they should not have sure origin in himself. [11]
Anything, she said, was a relief from the piano; and then, between the guitar and the banjo, one must really choose the banjo, unless one wanted to devote one's whole natural life to the violin. [8]
Hence, as Mr. Wallace remarks, "distastefulness alone would be insufficient to protect a caterpillar unless some outward sign indicated to its would-be destroyer that its prey was a disgusting morsel. [1]
Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe. [5]
You handle yourself very carefully, all the time, under the silly impression that if it is not falling, your trifling weight will start it unless you are particular not to "bear down" on it. [5]
Roscoe's depression had vanished; but there was an amiable seriousness in his manner which, to me, portended that the faint roses in Ruth Devlin's cheeks would deepen before the day was done, unless something inopportune happened. [11]
Master Ralph Waldo used to _sit on this wall_,--but we cannot believe he ever got off it on the wrong side, unless politely asked to do so. [6]
She had completely upset his life, increasingly distracted his mind until now he could imagine no peace unless he possessed her. [9]
I should prefer, unless your vanity leads you irresistibly in that direction, something with mature life and amusement; or, at least, life and incident, and good sport--if you do not dwell on the horrors of killing. [11]
For our factions, unless you would have me run away and leave the country, I cannot prevent them; because I do make many stay that would else fly away whither. [4]
We cannot succeed unless you obey me. [10]
Now, old man, unless you have great confidence in Mr. X's judgment, you ought to make him submit his article to you before he prints it. [5]
What is wealth unless you buy things that give pleasure to life? [11]
Accomplishments rarely do unless they are translated into visible position or into the currency of the realm. [4]
No Bishops appointed unless they agree to hand in 90 per cent. [5]
These reckless songs, unless she was mistaken, had also been by no means pleasing to his Majesty. [10]
Nothing would happen unless she made it happen. [9]
That is impossible, unless he was reaching for the driver. [5]
For all time, unless he should chance upon this note and reveal himself. [5]
A weak man, unless he be a good hunter, and well-beloved, is seldom permitted to keep a wife that a stronger man thinks worth his notice. [1]
She did not understand why Cassy, who had earned so much money all these years, should be so poor now, unless it was that she hadn't saved--that she and George hadn't saved. [11]
I could not understand this, unless it was that he wished to practise moving about deftly, that he might be at least disadvantage in the cafes and public resorts. [11]
And then Master Ulman had sworn to Gotz that he would keep his daughter locked up as a captive unless the youth pledged himself to cease from seeing Gertrude till he had won his parents' consent. [10]
A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
The question that Trumbull has made is that Judge Douglas put it in; and he don't meet Trumbull at all unless he denies that. [7]
This has been true of the Athanasian creed, in the Anglican Church, for two centuries more or less, unless the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tillotson, stood alone in wishing the church were well rid of it. [6]
Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
They could only tremble and pray, for they knew from experience that a threatening disaster never turned to a good end unless it had been expected with real dread. [10]
Our brother Philip, too, lives with his heart in bonds to that one alone, unless a demon has cheated his senses. [10]
Els resolved not to utter a word about the Swiss unless compelled to do so. [10]
To restore unity to the Church, to make the crowns which he wore the hereditary possessions of his house, were two aims worthy of the hardest struggles, but, unless he deceived himself, he could not hope to attain them. [10]
How are they to take their place in the world unless they know life as men know it? [4]
I never failed to take such noates by wrighting out of his doctrine as my capacity could comprehend, unless some raynie day hindred my endeavor. [4]
I try not to take away all hope, unless the case is clearly desperate, and then to direct the activities into some other channel. [6]
I was going to ship these through by express; but at the last moment an order went throughout Germany forbidding the moving of any parcels by train unless the owner went with them. [5]
No one goes to see any one else unless he wants to make use of him. [10]
Then it occurred to me that none of these salvation-notions that were whirl-winding through my head could be examined or made available unless at least a month's time could be secured. [5]
I want you to maintain your dignity always with such persons, and I beg you not to go to the study of this clergyman, unless some older friend goes with you on every occasion, and sits through the visit. [6]
It was clear to him that unless a miracle happened he would see his beloved Chicago no more; for the stream behind them was rapidly widening. [11]
She was dearer to him than all the rest of the world; and he had in his hand what kept them apart--a sentence of death, unless he escaped from the wanton calling him to fulfil duties into which he had been tricked. [11]
So it seemed to him advisable, unless his majesty wished to reveal this sweet secret to the world, to part from his beautiful friend, at least for a short space. [10]
Give them money to fight with; and the ghost of an excuse, and they: would manage to postpone anything in this world, unless it might be the millennium or something like that. [5]
What he had to do with Milly's fate was beyond all hope for me to learn, unless my guidin' spirit led me to him! [13]
Love prefers twilight to daylight; and a man doesn't think much of, nor care much for, a woman outside of his household, unless he can couple the idea of love, past, present, or future, with her. [6]
She would go to Coniston unless she perished on the way. [9]
We may happen to be very dull folks, you and I, and probably are, unless there is some particular reason to suppose the contrary. [6]
I am not to be held back then, unless I change my mind when I see him. [11]
It was not to be expected, as Leicester had said, that Elizabeth, save for the whim of the moment, would turn aside to confer benefit upon Angele or to keep her in mind, unless constrained to do so for some political reason. [11]
It is bad to be a fatalist unless one has an incontrovertible belief in one's destiny,--which Hannah had not. [9]
You ought never to "sass" old people unless they "sass" you first. [5]
At the same time no one could be sure of his affairs being settled out of hand unless he could get at the governor himself. [10]
At the same time he must remind counsel that the examination must discontinue unless something more relevant immediately appeared in the evidence. [11]
People will say: Those fellows are not fools; they wouldn't go and rejoice over their magazine unless they had got a big thing in it. [8]
He was never thoroughly happy unless he was taking the machine apart or setting it up again. [5]
Beastly slow place, this, unless one is a deacon or a doctor of divinity. [9]
And there was this unfortunate deserted sick man lying between life and death, beyond all help unless some unexpected assistance should come to his rescue. [6]
He would naturally think twice before he gave an emetic or cathartic which evacuated his own pocket, and be sparing of the cholagogues that emptied the biliary ducts of his own wallet, unless he were sure they were needed. [3]
I do not think this worthy and economical personage will have much to do or to say, unless he marries the Landlady. [6]

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