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Sentences starting with verses

Verses such as these might very well have been written by Callimachus or some other poet of the circle of the early members of the Museum of Alexandria. [10]
Verses of the old song are still preserved: "Qui vive! [11]

Sentences ending with verses

What are those verses? [2]
And so on--fourteen verses. [5]
Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to "get his verses. [5]
Motley by that time had arrived at talking German fluently; he occupied himself not only in translating Goethe's poem "Faust," but tried his hand even in composing German verses. [6]
I don't bullieve," the unlettered applicant says to himself, "I don't bullieve it took him ten minutes to write them verses. [6]
Someone obligingly took the dish from Bagration (or he would, it seemed, have held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his attention to the verses. [2]
Some one in the crowd turned to him and asked him to say the verses. [11]
Do you know that you feel a little superior to every man who makes you laugh, whether by making faces or verses? [6]
He loved the study of Greek; was fond of reading history and given to the frequent writing of verses. [6]
Kaysarov recited.... Kutuzov smilingly nodded his head to the rhythm of the verses. [2]

Short sentences using verses

There were the verses also. [11]
There are two more verses. [11]
Plenty of verses. [5]

Sentences containing verses two or more times

Sixty years ago verses made a local reputation, which verses, if offered today to any of our first-class magazines, would go straight into the waste-basket. [6]
He write two verses for de King of Englan' and he write six verses for my granmudder--you see! [11]
Not verses so much as the stuff that verses are made of. [6]
Tom bent all his energies to the memorizing of five verses, and he chose part of the Sermon on the Mount, because he could find no verses that were shorter. [5]
A young man can get rid of the presumption against him afforded by his writing verses only by convincing us that they are verses worth writing. [6]

More example sentences with the word verses in them

Those verses were youth, and youth was gone, with all its flushed and spirited dalliance and reckless expenditure of feeling. [11]
I will keep your verses to tell me dat my French subjects are all loyal like M. [11]
I remember in your letter you mentioned the remark of some friend of yours that the verses, "Take, O take those lips away," were not Shakspeare's; I think they are. [6]
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]
For the verses you send me, I will not say they are hopeless, and I dare not affirm that they show promise. [6]
In the previous year he had made a journey to Arizona with Jowett, to see some railway construction there, and at a ranch he had visited he came upon some verses which had haunted his mind ever since. [11]
Those verses she wrote --they were to show that she had conquered herself. [11]
The verses are written, and you must have them. [6]
Arrianus had even written these verses on the gigantic sphinx near the Pyramids. [10]
Also Herdegen had written out many verses of Homer's great song from a precious written book, and had learned to master them well from the teaching of the doctor of Feltre. [10]
These verses were written in the first leaves of the locked volume. [6]
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous. [10]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
I finished off with reading some verses of my friend the Professor, of whom you may perhaps hear more by and by. [6]
These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
The following verses were found in the urn, or sugar-bowl. [6]
Once, when we were first married, he wrote me some verses, and he called them, 'My Star, Lucile. [11]
When the verses were finished Prince Andrew went up to Speranski and took his leave. [2]
You know very well that I write verses sometimes, because I have read some of them at this table. [6]
By and by we got talking again.--Does a poet love the verses written through him, do you think, Sir?--said the divinity-student. [6]
These verses are very well for a beginning, but a man of promise like you, Mr. Hopkins, must n't throw away his chance by premature publication! [6]
When the following verses were taken out of the urn, the Mistress asked me to hand the manuscript to the young Doctor to read. [6]
Were no reinforcing verses to be found in the present case? [5]
I wrote some verses once myself, but I had been sick and was very weak; hadn't strength enough to write in prose, I suppose. [6]
In the opening verses of this Gospel the Incarnation is explained, not by a virgin birth, but in a manner acceptable to the educated and spiritually-minded, in terms of the philosophy of the day. [9]
The last two verses of the song kept drowning his sense of the actual, and he was swayed by the superstition of bygone ancestors: "Whereaway goes my lad--tell me, has he gone alone? [11]
Yet have certain verses of the Scripture, or some wise and verily right noble maxim from the writings of the Greeks or Latins dropped on my soul now and again as it were a grain of good seed. [10]
I've always written verses more or less--I write a good many advertisements in verse," he added cheerfully. [11]
If I wrote verses I would try to bring it in, and I suppose people would start up in a dozen places, and say, "Oh, that bee-hive simile is mine,--and besides, did not Mr. Bayard Taylor call the snowflakes 'white bees'? [6]
Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
Those who write verses have no special claim to be lovers of trees, but so far as one is of the poetical temperament he is likely to be a tree-lover. [6]
He write six verses for my granmudder--hein? [11]
Of the other verses ["Good-by proud world," etc] I send you a corrected copy, but I wonder so much at your wishing to print them that I think you must read them once again with your critical spectacles before they go further. [6]
I had begun to write, and every strong emotion was uttered in verses, which I showed to the companions from whom I could expect sympathy. [10]
I was seasoned to that kind of poetry in my early days by the verses of Tate and Brady, which I used to hear "entuned in the nose ful swetely," accompanied by vigorous rasping of a huge bass-viol. [6]
Do you dare to say those verses don't fit me--except for the Titian hair and heavenly shadows? [11]
Poets who come to recite their verses and reformers who come to explain their projects are among the most formidable of earthly visitations. [6]
When they came to recite their lessons, not one of them knew his verses perfectly, but had to be prompted all along. [5]
She had determined to keep her word to learn to speak, write, and compose verses in the Aeolian dialect of the Greek tongue. [10]
I should like to hear him read some of his verses himself, and I think some of the other boarders would like to. [6]
At the same time I thought that the verses I had addressed to various beauties and the answers which I had received ought not to be seen by other eyes. [10]
However, they worried through, and each got his reward--in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation. [5]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
Now our friend, there, knows verses that are salable and unsalable as well as you do brown sugar.--Keep quiet now, and I will go and get your manuscript for you. [6]
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]
And when, between the verses, he went through the agonies of a Huron war-dance, the assembled regiment howled with delight. [9]
She will show the verses to him, and they will both have a good laugh over them. [6]
I had seen the verses in her book; the melody was new to me. [6]
Don't you remember the verses I cut out of the magazine: "'Time, the ruthless idol-breaker, Smileless, cold iconoclast, Though he rob us of our altars, Cannot rob us of the past. [11]
A youth from the school of poets, attired as the goddess of Fame, bewailed in well-rhymed verses that for a long time no one had given her so much to do as the Emperor Charles. [10]
I was at the same time wholly unconscious of ever having met with the discourse or the sentence which the verses were most like, nor do I believe I ever had seen or heard either. [6]
Before Pollux left the room the Emperor gave him the tablets with the verses and begged him, with a meaning smile, to desire the gate-keeper at the Caesareum to give them to Annaeus Florus the Roman. [10]
Just so with the rhyming fellow,--he pounds away on his verses and they warm up a little. [6]
Besides, it attracted the new head-master's attention to my poetical tastes, for a number of verses had been left by mistake in an exercise-book. [10]
In "The Test," the Muse says:-- "I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find; All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted good and true ... Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. [6]
The verses of the lament kept singing in his brain. [11]
Both halves of the book, in which ever since the wedding at Delft he had written a succession of verses to Maria, lay in his hand. [10]
We wrote for that, and sometimes verses in the corner of a paper called 'The Anti-Masonic Mirror,' and in which corner was a woodcut of Apollo, and inviting to destruction ambitious youths by the legend underneath,-- 'Much yet remains unsung. [6]
Myrtle's silence showed that the impression his verses had made was deep. [6]
There's some danger that it will take all the sense out of you, if you keep writing verses at this rate. [6]
Everyone rose, feeling that dinner was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the rest, went in to dinner. [2]
The evening before that anniversary my father took out the phial, showed it to me, and asked me what I thought of the verses that he had written on a label and attached to the bottle. [10]
Not many more than to you here These verses hapless flung, Yet of the Long Ago they seem To me who am yet young. [11]
Never mind; I'll tell you the verses, to show you what a queer thing memory is. [11]
I owe the suggestion of some verses which were written at that time to the memory of a dream. [10]
No startling headlines such as we see now, but a continued novel among the advertisements on the front page and verses from some gifted lady of the town, signed Electra. [9]
Mademoiselle George looked sternly and gloomily at the audience and began reciting some French verses describing her guilty love for her son. [2]
Ursula made her speech, her voice so loud at the last that it might have seemed that the honeyed verses were words of reproof. [10]
You will find some verses to that effect at the end of these notes. [6]
Well, it had some verses on just such a picture as that. [11]
Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps. [2]
Gifted Hopkins wrote some beautiful verses one day on "A Maiden Weeping. [6]
But there is so much difference of character in the verses which are produced at our table, without any signature, that I feel quite sure there are at least two or three other contributors besides myself. [6]
The only time she ever cared to listen-- at school, though quick and clever, she had never cared for the printed page--was when, by chance, poetry or verses were read or recited. [11]
He marched in sanctimonious as you please, with his mouth full of salvation and Bible verses. [9]
When a person reads the noble verses about the cloud-cap'd towers, he ought not to follow it immediately with Good friend for Iesus sake forbeare, because he will find the transition from great poetry to poor prose too violent for comfort. [5]
Reading those verses put hope into me. [11]
Now, Frederick of Prussia and England defeat the allies, France, Russia, and Austria; now, they, as Monsieur Doltaire says, "send the great Prussian to verses and the megrims. [11]
So when some professional friends of his called him up, one day, after a feast of reason and a regular "freshet" of soul which had lasted two or three hours, he read them these verses. [6]
My friend, the Poet, says you must not read such a string of verses too literally. [6]
A poet on Pegasus, reciting his own verses, is hardly more to be dreaded than a mounted specialist. [6]
So I am only one of the Voiceless, that I remember one of you singers had some verses about. [6]
In reading aloud, omit, if you please, the sixth and seventh verses. [6]
Puss accused him of writing verses to you. [9]
And knowing many of the verses by heart, she would watch Janet's face, framed in the soft dark hair that fell in two long plaits over her shoulders. [9]
Across the front of the house, and up the spreading eaves and along the fanciful railings of the shallow porch, are elaborate carvings--wreaths, fruits, arabesques, verses from Scripture, names, dates, etc. [5]
He even thought of the chief idea for the verses to accompany the gift. [10]
The broken circle of stones, some in their original position, some bending over like old men, some lying prostrate, suggested the thoughts which took form in the following verses. [6]
I remember some of his verses, if you want to hear them.--You, Sir, (addressing myself to the divinity-student,) and all such as have been through college, or, what is the same thing, received an honorary degree, will understand them without a dictionary. [6]
In the course of a week I had not merely read the manuscript, but had copied a great deal of what seemed to me best worth preservation, including the verses. [10]
And therefore I noticed what Mr. Birrell said--I was so glad to hear him say it--something that was in the nature of these verses here at the top of this: "He lit our life with shafts of sun And vanquished pain. [5]
Old Betta could not hear the verses too often, and cried with joy, not at the poem, but at the wonderful change it had produced in her darling. [10]
All that miserable night those ancient verses went floating back and forth through my brain: And when, in exile wand'ring, we Shall fainting yearn for glimpse of thee, Oh, rise upon our sight! [5]
Though he himself never wrote verses, he had some qualities which his friend the poet may have undervalued in comparison with the talent of modelling the symmetries of verse and adjusting the correspondences of rhyme. [6]
How many of my readers would have the industry and application to memorize two thousand verses, even for a Dore Bible? [5]
The praise of my hero had come from my heart, so the poem found favour, and in circles so wide that the most prominent man in the neighbourhood, Prince Puckler-Muskau, sent for my verses. [10]
Don't make too much of his talent, and particularly don't let him think that because he can write verses he has nothing else to do in this world. [6]
No matter how much more bunting they had cut up in honour of the Saxon duke than of the Emperor, how bombastic were the verses composed and repeated in praise of Maurice, this paean of homage put all their efforts to shame. [10]
Who would print Mr. Kendricks's little society verses and short stories? [8]
There had been moments of abandonment to the alluring dream, such as when he wrote the verses which Lacey had sent to Hylda from the desert; but they were few. [11]

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