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Sentences starting with were

Were you to write Ewing I fear the President would never hear of your letter. [7]
Were his sympathies with the daughter? [9]
Were his thoughts with his heart, ten thousand miles away, beyond the billowy wastes of the Pacific? [5]
Were the tears which filled Eva's eyes caused by the smoke that poured from the fire more and more densely into the street, or to disappointment and bitter anguish? [10]
Were it otherwise, were you not from first to last unworthy, would you have--but no, your worst crime need not be judged here. [11]
Were it not well to pause in time, and go back to your wild North? [11]
Were it not well to leave Michel de la Foret to his fate, what ever it would be? [11]
Were it not well that I should be satisfied for my friends? [11]
Were no reinforcing verses to be found in the present case? [5]
Were there not vast fields of human effort, effort such as his, where he could ease the sorrow of living by the joy of a divine altruism? [11]

Sentences ending with were

She had seen you yesterday morning, and fancied she had noted how great and severe your sufferings were. [10]
Shall I tell you what they were? [9]
She told me you were. [9]
I didn't mean you were. [8]
People asked where you were. [11]
How many do you suppose there were? [7]
Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
I am sure you are not married; I should have felt it in my bones, if you were. [11]
But even while yielding to these thoughts Barbara felt how sinful they were. [10]
And now, a year later, when I read the cablegrams I seem to be reading of what I myself partly saw--saw before it happened--in a prophetic dream, as it were. [5]

Short sentences using were

How near were you? [5]
C. Where were you? [5]
They were cautious, you see. [5]
You were, were you not? [12]
What brigade were you in? [9]
We were both wrong. [11]
His calculations were wrong again. [5]
No names were written there. [4]
There were few words. [11]
We were soon with them. [5]

Sentences containing were two or more times

We were approaching Zermatt; consequently, we were approaching the renowned Matterhorn. [5]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
When you were young you were not taught the truth--neither was I. [9]
For we were young then, yes, we were very young. [5]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
Evidently these two young men were unfamiliar with the dueling ceremonies, though they were not unfamiliar with the sword. [5]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
Why, some of you were surprised when a friend of mine told you there were fifty-eight separate pieces in a fiddle. [6]
You were right--yes, you were right, old Ewie Gal. [11]

More example sentences with the word were in them

We marched into Zermatt the next day, and were received with the most lavish honors and applause. [5]
He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
Those verses were youth, and youth was gone, with all its flushed and spirited dalliance and reckless expenditure of feeling. [11]
But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
You've told me yourself, how the Hebrews were persecuted in your dead father's day. [10]
Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
You're pretty, and you're young, and ye didn't know what you were doin,' I'll warrant. [9]
You were on your way to be married. [11]
I would that your uncle were here to listen to them," he added dryly. [9]
The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
You were dismissed your place by the mistress of this Manor. [11]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
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]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
Madame, you loved your Jean; if he were living now, what would you do to keep him. [11]
You were given your instructions and put to work. [5]
I suppose, however, your husband told you of these things, so that you were not surprised. [11]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
If I were your age and able to drag myself to the street, I should be at the Arsenal now. [9]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
When we were younger we could stand it; we could give way to it and take the consequences. [8]
Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
But we were young, you know, and youth hopeth all things, believeth all things. [5]
You are so young, that nobody would imagine you were entrusted with a secret mission. [10]
We were again young, once more united. [10]
When we were young--" "Younger," he put in. [8]
I was not young when you were born. [9]
You were too young to remember. [9]
They were all young then, and laughed easily. [5]
The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. [5]
These were two young men from Stamford, Connecticut--brothers: Samuel and Henry Ferguson. [5]
He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
Later, when the young ladies were asleep, he carried his manuscript to the Democrat office, and delivered it into the hands of his friend, the night editor, who was awaiting it. [9]
Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
Many of the young ladies and some of the University students were strong in defence of all the "woman's rights" doctrines. [6]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
There were handsome young fellows on the Pontine coast, and we captured them. [10]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
But I was young and a fool; you were older. [11]
I should think you'd be scandalized, mamma, if you were a really feminine person. [8]
I never told you--but you remember the day the old Duke died, the day we were married? [11]
Didn't something tell you?--didn't you feel that you were sent? [5]
If it were you, you'd be in hysterics. [11]
If I were you, I'd let the matter stand. [11]
If I were you, I would begin with Demeter, whom you honoured by so marvellous a work. [10]
If I were you, De Conte, I would name the emotion; it's nothing to be ashamed of. [5]
I didn't tell you, because I knew you were afraid to be left alone. [13]
But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different. [10]
By the way, you wouldn't object to telling him you were a friend of mine, would you? [9]
If I could you would say you were nearly paid for the trouble you took. [5]
We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
But see, if you will let a poor man speak his mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. [11]
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]
Six months ago you were, apparently, one of the most orthodox rectors in the diocese. [9]
He heard where you were, and he hired with my company to come out here as a foreman. [11]
How he discovered you were with us I know not. [9]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
From the first you were too untrue ever to love a woman. [11]
I believe, if you were to see her, your impression would be that there is no hope. [14]
I once thought you were this and that--I won't say what I thought you. [11]
I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues. [11]
What was that you were telling about Charles Lamb, the other day, Mandeville? [4]
I minded that you were talking to her yesterday in the lab'rat'ry, before the telegram came about Mr. George. [9]
Oh, yes, once you were talking to Auguste de St. Gre about money. [9]
I see how you were situated--another familiarity of Providence and wholly wanton intrusion--and of course we could not help ourselves. [5]
I was railing, you were serious. [11]
We knew that you were rich. [10]
I noticed that you were quite upset this morning in the cave. [9]
That distressed me--but you were only watching Helios rise. [10]
If I knew you were not, I should not have troubled you with this letter. [7]
People would say you were not quite disinterested. [11]
I would rather you were not of the number either. [14]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
It wasn't because you were not likely to get elected, was it? [9]
In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin. [9]
You were right: you were my star, and I was so blind with selfishness and vanity I could not see. [11]
While I thought you were making your fortune (as you said you were) you were making yourself a beggar, eh? [12]
That's your temperament, you were made that way, and I shouldn't be satisfied if you weren't. [9]
I didn't think you were interested. [9]
I do wish you were in Rome to do my sightseeing for me. [5]
I said that you were in love with her once, Davy, when I saw you looking at the portrait. [9]
I was afraid you were in Boston. [9]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]

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