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Sentences starting with violent

Violent tempests had raged before the battle. [10]
Violent and quarrelsome men often come to a bloody end. [1]

Sentences ending with violent

I fear I was violent. [11]
All extremes are violent. [11]
When he went to her, after he was released" (here I thought it best to depart from any close resemblance to Mrs. Falchion's own story), "and was admitted to her, she treated him as an absolute stranger--as one who had intruded, and might be violent. [11]
No doubt in time he would prefer it; but he wished the process might be modified and made just a little more gradual, and not quite so pronounced and violent. [5]
For a moment there was silence, and then the Commandant said, "Your guards have brought me word, Monsieur le Capitaine, that you are violent. [11]
Her cough is the most troublesome at night, but it is rarely violent. [14]
It was not so much anger against the King, for he had great reverence for the monarchy of England; but against Lord Rippingdale his mind was violent. [11]
I know of no other reason, and I do not need any other; it is the only way we have of discovering insanity when it is not violent. [5]
After some minutes Nefert's tears grew less violent. [10]
Their movements were mysterious but not necessarily violent. [4]

Short sentences using violent

A loud and violent knocking. [12]
Her weeping grew more violent. [9]
One was violent. [11]

More example sentences with the word violent in them

On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
He thought the words violent enough, but in connection with what he remembered of the cheery, poetic, hopeful idealist, they were even more curious than lamentable. [8]
He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
It was answered, with sentiments of the highest consideration, that there were constitutional and other objections to the Nation's laying violent hands upon itself. [6]
How could the wind have set one torch in the place of another, and moved lights or lanterns in a direction opposite to its violent course? [10]
It was Mathilde who saved him from a violent illness, closing the box and leading him downstairs, and whispered something incomprehensible in his ear as she pointed him homeward. [9]
He denounces all who question the correctness of that decision, as offering violent resistance to it. [7]
The generation to which you, who are just entering the profession, belong, will make a vast stride forward, as I believe, in the direction of treatment by natural rather than violent agencies. [3]
The firing, however, which became more and more violent, was louder than any other noise; and when we saw our mother wild with anxiety, we, too, began to be alarmed for our dear, sweet Martha. [10]
Dublin and Ireland were shocked and thrilled; England imagined she had come upon one of the most violent episodes of Irish history. [11]
The slanting walls were built as firmly as if they were intended to last for centuries and defy a violent assault. [10]
On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
In another quarter we found six Italians engaged in a violent quarrel. [5]
He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
One of these was a most violent detestation of any but the best music. [9]
Don't be so violent with me. [12]
What if the violent throbbing of her heart should silence her voice? [10]
You know Cambyses' violent temper so well; how could you so wickedly disobey his express command? [10]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
And then, with violent gestures and a world of profanity, he poured out his grief. [5]
Shall invent a violent game to go with it. [5]
A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight, though neither party was entirely aware of the fact, perhaps. [5]
There was a violent break in the force of his feeling--then creeping blankness. [13]
Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it; this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into. [6]
And they are very violent, sir. [9]
The latter was vehement in his gesticulations; I expected some violent termination to my drama; but an angle of a building interfered and closed the scene. [4]
Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and family in high esteem, and believed that a reverent respect was due to his great riches. [5]
For writing we used exclusively goose-quills, for though steel pens were invented soon after I was born, they were probably very imperfect; and, moreover, had to combat a violent prejudice, for at the first school we attended we were strictly forbidden to use them. [10]
They may be unwise, violent, abusive, extravagant, impracticable, but they are alive, at any rate, and it is their business to remove abuses as soon as they are dead, and often to help them to die. [6]
Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. [5]
The second one told me where to begin the talk about a strange and violent wind that used to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o'clock and try to blow the town away. [5]
I instructed him to guide himself back by the rope, in case of failure; in case of success, he was to give the rope a series of violent jerks, whereupon the Expedition would go to him at once. [5]
Wrangle thundered on to change his pace with a violent break. [13]
At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
When, after some time, he heard his wife's voice in the dining-room, he controlled himself by a violent effort, went to the door, and slowly opened it. [10]
At the same time he was consumed by a violent thirst, for neither food nor drink had touched his lips for the same length of time. [10]
The cause of this violent and appalling seizure was but too obvious. [6]
I said these things in the kindest spirit, and yet the Secretary of the Treasury fell into a violent passion. [5]
In his eyes there was no anger, no indignation, nor sullenness--all of which he might reasonably have felt; and instantly I was ashamed of the thought which, as I came to him, flashed through my mind, that he might do some violent thing. [11]
Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. [11]
I believe that their confidence in the authenticity of Mrs. Eddy's inspirations is so limitless and so firmly established that no change, however violent, which she might make in a Bible text could disturb their composure or provoke from them a protest. [5]
The purity of the water was sadly dimmed, and the billows dashed foaming toward the sky, threatening in their violent assault to shatter the marble dike erected along the shore. [10]
The effect of the violent shock she had experienced was to change the whole nature of Myrtle for the time. [6]
In spite of the violent aching of her foot and the loud rattling in her chest, she thought it a specially favourable dispensation of Providence that she had found her way here just at this moment; for Lienhard was still speaking. [10]
Peeping cautiously over the side of his hammock, he descried Mrs Quilp, to whom, after contemplating her for some time in silence, he communicated a violent start by suddenly yelling out--'Halloa! [12]
I, too, scanned the period immediately preceding my illness, but reached the conclusion that it was due to acute colds, the first of which ran into a very violent fever. [10]
First and last, the Marches did a good deal of travel on the Elevated roads, which, he said, gave you such glimpses of material aspects in the city as some violent invasion of others' lives might afford in human nature. [8]
The attitude of the authorities gave the violent mutineers their opportunity. [11]
Now it fell that on this day, the 20th December, being my godfather's name-day, I found her not with the rest, but in her own chamber in violent distress. [10]
They told him, that he had been lying in a violent fever for weeks, and had only escaped death by the special mercy of the gods, the skill of the physicians, and the unwearied nursing of his mother. [10]
We may really thank the gods, that Cambyses did not lay violent hands on him in a fit of passion. [10]
With no violent symptoms, but with steady persistency, the disease moved on in its accustomed course. [6]
I should have supposed that the last object upon which Parisians would, in their wildest frenzy, have laid violent hands would have been the column with the figure of Napoleon at its summit. [6]
Soon after Mr. Sumner made that violent speech about the Alabama claims, and the British government was greatly offended. [6]
But a violent storm, which obliged them "to hull all night," drove them to the port desired. [4]
After the violent storm which had raged all night, the garden was looking as fresh and cheerful in the morning light as the faces of the newly-married pair. [10]
Little Doctor Eberbach started up in affright, Hans von Obernitz, the Nuremberg magistrate, grasped the hilt of his sword, but Doctor Schedel instantly perceived that the sound which reached his aged ears was nothing but a violent, long-repressed fit of coughing. [10]
These words, though spoken half in jest, put the king into a violent passion, and he almost shrieked: "So the Persians say, that the wine has taken away my senses, do they? [10]
A violent crash sounded through the silent and sacred place, and loud echoes were tossed from side to side, ringing ominously throughout the grotto. [10]
With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: "Arnauts! [2]
They are so small, and they come in such numbers only in the shower, that the supposition is not a violent one. [4]
One of the sisters was crazy, and sometimes a little violent, but not often. [5]
Sir William Gull sent him to Cannes for the winter, where he was seized with a violent internal inflammation, in which I suppose there was again the indication of the lesion of blood-vessels. [6]
The charter was revoked in 1624 after many violent scenes, and King James was glad to be rid of what he called "a seminary for a seditious parliament. [4]
He who alone remained firm when all about the king were wavering, was regarded as the embodiment of military rule, against which a violent opposition was rising. [10]
But Paula soon recovered from it; even while the governor was soothing her with kind words she mastered her violent agitation, and said gently, though her tears still quietly flowed: "Let me go to my room, I beg. [10]
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]
Barbara accepted with quiet gratitude the attention bestowed upon her, but, though she closed her eyes, the night brought no sleep, for sometimes she shivered in a chill, sometimes a violent headache tortured her. [10]
Yet he had punished only the chief of those who had been in actual rebellion, and had repressed the violent punishments of the earlier part of the conflict. [11]
At last the porter came back and announced that barricades had been built at the corner of Mauer-and Friedrichstrasse, and that a violent conflict had broken out there and in other places between the soldiers and the citizens. [10]
But as her poor body was too fragile to withstand all the trouble which had come upon her, she had a violent attack of fever, and a few hours ago death stretched its hand towards her. [10]
In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle. [7]
A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other. [9]
But, instead of pleasure and booty, I gained on this expedition nothing but discomfort and drenching, which resulted in a violent cold. [10]
A woman's grief passes in stormy and violent complaint, but the sterner character of a man cannot so soon be comforted. [10]
To add to our ill fortune, a violent current set in from the shore, and it was vain to attempt a landing. [11]
Auramazda and the other gods gave me help, because I was not swift to anger, nor a liar, nor a violent ruler, neither I nor my kinsmen. [10]
He rose on one knee after the violent fall, and pointing it at the other's head, said coolly: "I could kill you, my friend, so easy! [11]
He struggled silently on beside his master against the wind, until it suddenly subsided, and a violent storm of rain streamed in big warm drops on the thirsty earth and the belated pedestrians. [10]
A violent clanging on a cracked metal plate roused him from his meditations by its harsh clamor; the sacrament of the Last Supper was about to be administered: the invariable conclusion of the Jacobite service. [10]
The king went off into another violent fit of passion at this news, and threatened the officer of police, who prudently concealed the excitement of the crowd from his lord, with a severe punishment, if Boges were not in their hands by the next morning. [10]
Only a few of the prisoners had succeeded in controlling themselves; but they, too, shouted irritating words to their fellows, reviled the Egyptians in violent excitement, and shook their clenched fists at the disarmed foe. [10]
Really a song of the most violent sentiment! [11]
The violent death of Myrtilus had been admitted as proved by the magistrate, who had been prepossessed in Hermon's favour by his masterpiece. [10]
The violent throbbing of her heart fairly stopped her breath. [10]
All that was now needful was to protect her against agitation and violent emotions. [10]
The explorers were now assailed with violent storms, and at last took refuge for two days on some uninhabited islands, which by reason of the ill weather and the hurly-burly of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, they called "Limbo. [4]
Perhaps it was not even noticed, for our mother, in spite of her violent headache, had to make preparations for the illumination of our tolerably long row of windows. [10]
Zorrillo--perceiving that a new and violent argument was about to break forth among the men--closed the meeting. [10]
But he was never a good runner, being apt to find himself scant o' breath, like Hamlet, after violent exercise. [6]
I was beside myself with pain, and if he had been further violent I should have shot him. [11]
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. [5]
These violent awakenings must have been annoying to Oliver, but he never complained. [5]
Meanwhile the sun mounted higher and higher: she wandered from rock to rock in search of a shady spot and a spring of water, but none was to be found, and she was tormented with violent thirst and aching hunger. [10]
But under the most careful nursing her strong constitution resisted even the most violent attacks of the fever, and when June was drawing toward an end all danger seemed over. [10]
And this is more likely to be the plan adopted, because the revolution is not to be violent, and, indeed, cannot take place without some readjustment of the home life. [4]
They generally supported measures, when it was possible; but when they could not they "deprecated" violent expressions of opinion in other journalistic quarters. [5]
He was a man of unsteady habits, and gave way to violent fits of passion. [5]
This uncle had lost his life in a peculiarly violent and unusual way, half a dozen years before: a cyclone blew him some three miles and knocked a tree down with him which was four feet through at the butt and sixty- five feet high. [5]

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