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Sentences starting with west

West Point seems to teach them that, among other priceless things not to be got in any other college in this world. [5]
West of Verdun this time. [9]
West of Cincinnati the smallest coin in use was the silver five-cent piece and no smaller quantity of an article could be bought than "five cents' worth. [5]
West how he had bought a town for them to dwell in. [4]
West India Islands, Edward B. Emerson's death, 89. [6]
West would come and settle himself there, but Capt. [4]
West the whaler, and Capt. [5]

Sentences ending with west

And I tell you,"--his jaw was set,--"I tell you that some day Eliphalet Hopper will be one of the richest men in the West. [9]
Clemens was presently writing to Redpath from Washington and points farther west. [5]
The orator's passionate words and gestures evoked wild responses from his hearers, whom the drag of an ancient hatred had snatched from the peaceful asylum of the west. [9]
It was the wild West. [11]
On Monday morning, when your friends are at breakfast, they will not suspect your departure, or even mistrust me being in town, as it has been reported advantageously that I have left for the west. [5]
Some of them were eligible enough, and all were of some position in the West. [11]
He and Wing were buying in traction stocks out West. [9]
Then two gentlemen went to Washington, and the next thing that happened was Brigadier General Lyon, Commander of the Department of the West. [9]
Victoria heard how well Mrs. Jenney's oldest son was doing in Springfield, and how the unmarried daughter was teaching, now, in the West. [9]
Yet, as the weeks passed, it seemed he must break upon this dangerous romance; and then suddenly she went to visit her sick aunt in the Far West. [11]

Short sentences using west

No, farther to the west. [10]
Wide West stock soared skywards. [5]
A West Minkville? [6]
Out West? [8]

Sentences containing west two or more times

The West is with me, and for the West I shall win the freedom of the Mississippi. [9]
Higbie knew the Wide West rock perfectly well, and the more he had examined the new developments the more he was satisfied that the ore could not have come from the Wide West vein. [5]
This morning we were in longitude 178 west from Greenwich, and 57 degrees west from San Francisco. [5]
I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east. [2]
Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. [2]
The movement of peoples from west to east was to be succeeded by a movement of peoples from east to west, and for this fresh war another leader was necessary, having qualities and views differing from Kutuzov's and animated by different motives. [2]
Our trade was in the South and West, and now the South and West cannot pay. [9]
I suppose you find that traveling in the majestic expanses of our Far West is--" "I haven't been West, and haven't been devoting myself to amusement with any sort of exclusiveness, I assure you. [5]
One of these candidates was a bright young West Pointer of mine, and with him were a couple of my West Point professors. [5]

More example sentences with the word west in them

How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
Travelling north, you would have come to the Turnagain River; west, to the Frying Pan Mountains; south, to a goodly land. [11]
What was young Worthington doing in Brampton, and his father in the West on that railroad business? [9]
After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
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]
C. E. S. Wood at West Point --an edition of 50 copies--and distributed among popes and kings and such people. [5]
Then I've finished with the West, I guess. [11]
Lord Delaware remained with the colony less than a year; his health failing, he went in pursuit of it, in March, 1611, to the West Indies. [4]
They passed one winter yachting among the islands in the eastern Mediterranean; a part of another sailing from one tropical paradise to another in the West Indies. [4]
She was at Winnipeg, and was coming west as far as Regina to meet him on his way down. [11]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
He and Hooker will so support you on the west and northwest as to enable you to look east and northeast. [7]
And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
Instinctively these men who had fought and won the West had scented the danger. [9]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
And Janet remembered when the little red book that contained the songs had arrived at Headquarters from the west and had been distributed by thousands among the strikers. [9]
He knew that what the old quack said was true--the West might shake with scandal concerning a few who, no doubt, in remorse and secret fear, had more than paid the penalty of their offences. [11]
Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
Now about the West, this week, I am willing that you shall retain all the Western engagements. [5]
Since he came West, since he came to the Sagalac, he's brought work to Lebanon and to Manitou. [11]
Away to the west, on the line of the Pacific railroad that led halfway across the state, was another camp. [9]
If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas, to Leavenworth or Atchison. [7]
He represented the West, I the East. [11]
When I went West, he fell out of my life. [9]
It faced the west, and was built half-way up Clear Mountain. [11]
These outlets, east, west, and south, are indispensable to the well-being of the people inhabiting and to inhabit this vast interior region. [7]
With folks goin' West, and all that, nobody seems to want it much. [9]
Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
I'm not going West with Bantry, but there's three other points that's open. [11]
In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
All tidings the west wind blew from distance and age he found deep in those dark-blue depths, and found them mysteries solved. [13]
Some day the west will be numerically strong enough to move the seat of government; her past attempts are a fair warning that when the day comes she will do it. [5]
A recalcitrant Middle West was the first to fill its quota of volunteers, and we witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of the endorsement of conscription: What had happened? [9]
Gun-packin' in the West since the Civil War has growed into a kind of moral law. [13]
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
Four years at West Point, and plenty of books and schooling, will learn a man a good deal, I reckon, but it won't learn him the river. [5]
The privately printed West Point edition, the first printing of the text authorized by Mark Twain, of which but fifty copies were printed. [5]
But to the west is a shore, and on it stands a fort and a few detached houses. [11]
He discovered the West Indies, which he thought were the East; and ten guns would be enough for them. [4]
The Baltic and West Indian fleets are to be intercepted. [9]
I've got the West in my hand. [11]
I've been out West here a good many years, and I know the place and the people. [11]
A Scientist out West has visited a bookseller--with intent to find fault with me--and has brought away the information that the price at which Mrs. Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. [5]
Papers East and West had copied his Alta and Tribune letters and carried his name into every corner of the States and Territories. [5]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
Go up to West Eleventh, and drive along slow on the south side; I'll show you the place. [8]
To leave the West behind, to go East to a new life full of pleasant things, as this man's wife! [11]
And miles farther west a faint green spot marked the location of Stone Bridge. [13]
These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
To the east were the dreary wastes of Labrador, to the west were the desolate plains and hills, stretching to the valley of the Saskatchewan. [11]
Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
The gallant dragoons were off to the west, across a little stream which trickled through the grounds. [9]
Some say he went east some say west, some north, some south--but all say they did not wait to notice, particularly. [5]
We thought it well to have a strong friend, and therefore we brought the foreman of the Wide West to our cabin that night and revealed the great surprise to him. [5]
I am not well acquainted with the forms of procedure in the courts of New York, but in the West, sir, in the West--" The Judge. [5]
He did not wear the sheepskin leggings so common among the ranchmen of the West, but a pair of yellowish corduory riding-breeches, with boots that laced from the ankle to the knee. [11]
Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side. [5]
In the West we don't use anything like so much slang as you seem to use in New York. [9]
Now, it's this way: you can go West with Bantry, or you can go North with me. [11]
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. [5]
The nullification battle was set; the currency conflict still raged; it was a time of inflation and land speculation; the West, every day more explored and opened, was the land of promise for capital and energy. [4]
Overhead, the sun was pouring out a flood of light and warmth, and though it was bitterly cold, life was beating hard in the bosom of the West. [11]
Her sleeping-place, happily, was not far from a window looking to the west, so that she was able to refresh her brain after the bewildering impressions which had crowded on her in the inner rooms. [10]
But the earth was moving under it, and as it rolled from west to east the plane running through the north and south poles was every instant changing. [6]
Eh, well, there was more than one devil made sometime in the North West. [11]
The soft-hearted West was made to believe that the rebellion had been solely on his account. [4]
That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
But the captain was describing West Indian life to Mrs. [9]
Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
And here it was at last, in a city west of the Mississippi River. [9]
Although its owner was a professed believer in republican simplicity, no such edifice ornamented any town to the west of the state capital. [9]
Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
The President was very sorry and all that, but that place, you see, didn't belong to the West, so there I was again. [5]
Meantime Smith, going up to the Falls to look after Captain West, met that hero on his way to Jamestown. [4]
She had lived up to it, or down to it, without any fuss, as good as any man in any phase of the life, and the only white woman in this whole West country. [11]
At this moment, unfortunately, Captain West returned. [4]
She was so unconstrained and sincerely cordial, that it made that hero of the west feel somehow young, and very ill at ease. [5]
Mr. Crewe was unable to go to the wedding, having to attend a directors' meeting of some importance in the West. [9]
It had but two rooms, the floor was of sanded earth, but it had windows on three sides, east, west, and south, and the door looked south. [11]
Then entered the twins--the handsomest, the best dressed, the most distinguished-looking pair of young fellows the West had ever seen. [5]
When she had turned down West Street and almost gained the canal, it was with a shock of surprise that she found herself confronted by a man in a long cape who held a rifle and barred her path. [9]
He was, in truth, the best rider in the country, and, so far, was the owner also of the best three-year-old that the West had produced. [11]
Of all her trials, the homesickness which she experienced as she drove through the deserted streets of the metropolis of the Middle West was perhaps the worst. [9]
They blocked the traffic, halted the clanging trolleys, surged into the mouth of West Street, booing and cursing at the soldiers whose threatening line of bayonets stretched across that thoroughfare half-way down toward the canal, guarding the detested Chippering Mill. [9]
Caniza is a town in Lower Hungary, north of the River Drave, and just west of the Platen Sea, or Lake Balatin, as it is also called. [4]
His face turned towards the prairie North and the mountain West where yet remained the hunter's quarry; and he longed to be away with rifle and gun, with his squaw and the papooses trailing after like camp- followers, to eat the fruits of victory. [11]
The sea was tossing; the sun rested, a red, rayless disk, on the sea-line in the west. [5]
West, which plot took but small effect, for in the meantime Capt. [4]
He's going West tomorrow, and won't be back for a month or so. [8]
She was anxious to write of things she had known and seen; and among the number was the West Yorkshire character, for which any tale laid among the Luddites would afford full scope. [14]
Why from east to west, from north to south in this Province of Quebec my name, my fame, have been all-conquering. [11]
We can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there. [11]
Kaskaskia was somewhere to the west and north; but how far? [9]

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