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Sentences starting with what

What will be yours if you defeat--" "Revenge--my rights--the law! [11]
What is that you're working? [8]
What has been your work in life? [11]
What shall be your reward? [5]
What has spoiled your reputation? [11]
What happened to your poor father? [10]
What is in your mind? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]

Sentences ending with what

And I tell you what! [5]
Once more, if you touch the Urania again I warn you, you shall learn--" "Well, what? [10]
You'll take her where--to what? [11]
In the evening, when Prince Andrew had left, the countess went up to Natasha and whispered: "Well, what? [2]
The issue of what? [9]
Save me from what? [9]
And if any, what? [7]
Amend it for what? [7]
To hell with what? [5]
Now I wonder what? [5]

Short sentences using what

He's doing what you've done. [11]
Is that what you're thinking? [9]
And what about your mother? [2]
But what about your excellency?... [2]
What color are your carriage-horses? [6]
What was Stockton's young dream? [5]
What was Cable's young dream? [5]
What is it you'll tell? [5]
What can trouble you? [9]
And what have you? [9]

Sentences containing what two or more times

Can you put yourself in the man's place and tell me what he felt and what he thought? [5]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
Well, what do you, what do you feel in your soul, your whole soul--shall I live? [2]
It will tell you, too, what it means to me, and what I see before us. [11]
She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
But what madness you were guilty of, what cruel madness! [11]
I cannot tell you that I am sorry for what I have done--for what I am going to do. [9]
Take care what you say, and consider well what punishment awaits perjurers. [10]
Call it what you please, I know that what happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune. [2]
And how happy you ought to be with him!--a man who knows what is in books, and who has seen for himself, what is in men. [6]

More example sentences with the word what in them

And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
Let the inquiring youth read the whole Introduction, and he will see what they mean. [3]
But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration? [6]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Land, the room's yours to do what you please with! [5]
You're pretty, and you're young, and ye didn't know what you were doin,' I'll warrant. [9]
While it lasts you're rich, and you're young, and you don't care what happens. [11]
Is that what you're here for? [2]
I get what you're driving at, doctor. [9]
I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
Is that what you're coming at? [5]
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
And what is your warrant here? [11]
Now it is your turn again: In what city of my home did you meet the signorina? [10]
But what was your steward seeking among the soldiers? [10]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
But what is your 'pretty conspiracy,' Duke? [11]
Is that what your president does? [11]
If Zminis searches your premises he will certainly go into the cellar; for what can he not do in Caesar's name? [10]
You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
And what are your objections, Minnie? [9]
I knowed what your notions of right and wrong was--your--your mother had them. [9]
But it is your 'noble lady Damia'--that old woman, who has told you what to say. [10]
In my judgment, your Mr. Vanderbilt knows what he is about. [5]
Then recall to your memory again what this night of the full moon means--you are well aware of it--to me. [10]
Madame, you loved your Jean; if he were living now, what would you do to keep him. [11]
Never fall below your ideals--that is what I heard a speaker say at the Town and Country Club, and that is my notion. [4]
I tell you, your honour, it means the way out--that's what it means. [11]
Go now to your homes, and tell those who are awaiting you what I have said. [9]
But what is your highness's idea for racking the prisoner? [5]
It would sear your heart and spirit, it would spoil all that makes you what you are. [11]
She says, "Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making! [5]
But you hold your grip, and we'll see what can be done. [5]
If you keep your eyes open, things'll happen that'll bring what you want. [11]
This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]
You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
I recognize in your arguments that which smacks of his tongue, despite what he says of your reading the public prints and of forming your own opinions. [9]
You always have your appetites too, and what a comfort that is. [12]
With regard to your alliance with the Arabs, and whether it becomes you--being what you are--to take service with them, we will discuss it at a future day. [10]
Scorn trifles, lift your aims; do what you are afraid to do. [6]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
What did the young, joyous-hearted fellow who was wooing Eva know of such cares? [10]
What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
You are too young to decide what is best for yourself. [11]
She is so young that she does not yet understand what life is. [4]
What are the young men of the villages and the cities doing meantime? [4]
Lurida and her young man--Gabriel is what she calls him--were naturally the objects of special attention. [6]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
Yes, it is young Lord Berkeley, who perished so heroically in the awful conflagration, what is the matter? [5]
I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
What does the Young Doctor say? [11]
What a remorseless young destroyer he was, to be sure! [6]
She was very young and pretty and accommodating, and always ready to do what she could to make things pleasant. [5]
My wives are young and charming, and when they grow old, what is to hinder me from taking others, still handsomer, and who, by the side of the faded beauties, will be doubly charming. [10]
What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
I don't believe you'll think much about what I did n't do,--because I couldn't,--but remember that at any rate I tried honestly to serve you. [6]
Now, I suppose you'll think I'm insolent, for I'm younger than you are, Marmion, but you know what a rough-and-tumble fellow I am, and you'll not mind. [11]
What provocation had you? [11]
I may trust you; and never betray to Antinous what you compelled me to do? [10]
But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
And I wrote you, too, that I would not be true to myself if I told you that what you have done was right in my eyes. [9]
Ack, what are you, to turn your back on me? [11]
I'm sorry for you, Timothy, but I don't see what I can do. [9]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
Oh, I warn you, my dear, there's a good time coming, and it'll be right along before you know what you're about, too. [5]
What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships? [2]
What ails you, you, miserable hunchback!--Who gives you a right to toss our cloaks into a corner? [10]
See you, see you, Iberville: what of the lady Puritan's marriage with the fire-eating Englishman? [11]
The trouble with you, Honora, is that you want something badly very badly--and you haven't yet found out what it is. [9]
Now I tell you, Doctor dear, I tell you the truth, what I know! [11]
I also authorize you, by an order, or in what form you choose, to suspend all operations on the Treasury trade permits, in all places southeastward of the Alleghenies. [7]
I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the Opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
Get out, d-n you, all of you, and don't come back until you've got some notion of what you're a-goin' to do. [9]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
What remains for you yet to learn? [3]
I acknowledged to you yesterday what you already knew without words. [10]
If I thought you would not understand what I feel, I could not love you as I do. [9]
If you had, you would have known what it was I adored in you. [9]
An' may be you won't believe it, but after that you never see a cat so prejudiced agin quartz mining as what he was. [5]
What is it you wish to know--to hear? [11]
What is it you wish to know? [10]
I know what you wish to express; I know that you consider it a sin to take one's life, even in 'the high Roman fashion. [11]
That is what you will say, Thomas--and you wouldn't take any money for those two thousand verses--no indeed you wouldn't. [5]
So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
That is what you will get for pretending to be a member of Congress. [5]
Who knows what you will find up in the midst of all the muddle yonder? [10]
What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
Now, I'll tell you what, I'm going to have another moose to take back to Marigold Lake. [11]

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