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Sentences ending with works

Now I'll show you how it works. [5]
And faith without works was dead simply because there could be no faith without works. [9]
It was Philippus who had persuaded his accomplished and experienced friend to come to Memphis; he had clung to him faithfully, and they assisted each other in their works. [10]
Wish we could torpedo this well, Mr. Dryfoos, and let 'em see how it works! [8]
He has been told many a time how the born-and-trained novelist works. [5]
He would, he told himself, have been forced eventually to yield when that paragon of inflexibility, Bob, dictated terms to him at the head of the locomotive works. [9]
They all allude to the envy and detraction to which he was subject, and which must have amounted to a storm of abuse and perhaps ridicule; and they all tax the English vocabulary to extol Smith, his deeds, and his works. [4]
He who wishes to see what ingenuity and knowledge can effect, may consult Prof. Haeckel's works. [1]
The letter is to Mr. George Iles, author of Flame, Electricity, and the Camera, and many other useful works. [5]
The master ought to have been well disposed towards worthy Kochel, for the latter was an enthusiastic admirer of his works. [10]

Short sentences using works

These works are most interesting. [1]
And notice how it works. [5]
Ingolby works, he doesn't loaf. [11]
Storm the works! [4]
Providence works slowly. [4]
Broke's works. [9]

Sentences containing works two or more times

The Boyne Iron Works was to become the Boyne Iron Works, Ltd., owner of various subsidiary companies, some of which were as yet blissfully ignorant of their fate. [9]
Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches all day, but because he works unconsciously. [4]
She had a repute for good works which was out of proportion to the works, as it always is, but she was really active in that way, under the vague obligation, which we now all feel, to be helpful. [8]
For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself. [4]
It works down one way or another--it all works down to this poor little devil and his kind. [11]
That he would not only be president of the Boyne Iron Works, but of a Boyne Iron Works that has exceeded Mr. Durrett's wildest dreams. [9]
By comparing the known works of his own gods with the works of those others; there is no other way. [5]
If Mrs. Horn had to choose between him and the life of good works to which her niece was visibly abandoning herself, Beaton could not doubt which she would choose; the only question was how real the danger of a life of good works was. [8]
He works all day at the shop; and then, nights and Sundays he works on his statue as long as I can keep up. [5]

More example sentences with the word works in them

Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
He was not yet at the head of the locomotive works, he hastened to add, for fear that Cynthia might think that Mr. [9]
You've had several years of useful work in the Pindar Shops and the Wire Works, to say nothing of a course in biological chemistry, psychology and sociology under Dr. Jonathan. [9]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
But the imagination works wonders truly, and Philip saw the woman and not the heiress. [4]
The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
Of the numerous works which Hermon completed in the service of the first three art-loving rulers of the new Pergamenian kingdom, Philetaerus, Eumenes, and Attalus, nothing was preserved except the head of a Gaul. [10]
One of the works was not in stock; he would send the others that afternoon. [9]
Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
But the plasterer works some hair into the mortar which he is going to lay in large sheets on the walls. [3]
In Italy, the works of mediaeval Art seem to be of yesterday,--Rome, under her kings, is but an intruding newcomer, as we contemplate her in the shadow of the Cyclopean walls of Fiesole or Volterra. [6]
There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
They were pure works of art.--Prof. [5]
Perhaps the great works of art that have endured have been so composed. [4]
Noble and beautiful works of art should not be subjected to haste; and this majestic new world is indeed a most noble and beautiful work. [5]
Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
Hence the older works come in time to have only an antiquarian interest. [4]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
Well, he began with taking off the case, and so on from one liberty to another, until he got it fairly open, and there were the works, as good as if they were alive,--crown-wheel, balance-wheel, and all the rest. [6]
Clearly, plainly, fully, with more thorough knowledge of many details than even the superintendent of the water works, she explained her design to the assembled professionals. [10]
But I work with might and main against his Immigration bill, --as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University. [5]
I nursed his wife, you know--and he started in to tell me how he was coming up to Foxon Falls to shoot Mr. Pindar because he'd closed down the works rather than recognize the union. [9]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
But as the whole subject of rudimentary organs has been discussed and illustrated in my former works (24. [1]
I have a whole set of his works, and am very proud of it, with its gray paper, and open type, and long ff, and orange-juice landscapes. [6]
An energetic woman who executed great works, and caused herself to be represented with the helmet and beard-case of a man. [10]
But this Pontius, who carried out such fine works for Herodes Atticus, the rich Sophist, met me at his house, and will certainly recognize me. [10]
That high tower which you see on the horizon is the celebrated temple of Bel, next to the Pyramids, one of the most gigantic works ever constructed by human hands. [10]
His earlier works, which were now lauded to the skies, had formerly invited censure and vehement attacks. [10]
But every problem which has life works itself out to its appointed end, if fumbling human fingers do not meddle with it. [11]
Nevertheless, I will, when I can (I do not know when that will be, as I have no access to a circulating library), diligently peruse all Miss Austen's works, as you recommend. [14]
My works showed what a despot could do with the resources of a kingdom at his command. [5]
Broke's locomotive works were; and she answered them now (but oh, how scrupulously! [9]
Her own works were praised, and praised with discrimination, and she was grateful for this. [14]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]
Of course, we went to see the houses where these old worthies lived, and the works of art they have left behind them,--things seen and described by everybody. [4]
De Morgan is well remembered as a very distinguished mathematician, whose works have kept his name in high honor to the present time. [6]
It works doubly, weakening the enemy and strengthening us. [7]
The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope. [5]
That is the way my reason works, and I can't help it. [9]
How hard it was to find the right answer, when she asked him whether he did not hope everything from the great physician's intervention, or when she inquired what were the works to which Galen owed his chief fame! [10]
One of these was Curie, now of London, whose works are on the counters of some of our bookstores, and probably in the hands of some of my audience. [3]
Her next exclamation was an odd one, showing how the mind works at such a time. [9]
But I don't want no present of Longfellow's Works, illustrated; and I don't want to taste no fine teas; but I know a policeman that does; and if you're the son of my old friend Squire Strohfeldt, you'd better get out. [8]
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause. [5]
The name of Velpeau must have reached many of you, for he died in 1867, and his many works made his name widely known. [6]
Dontchuknow, Archy could 've learnt something if he'd had the nous to stand by and take notice of how that man works the system. [5]
I preserved thy valuable works with the greatest care, laid them up in our temple, and sent a complete copy to the library at Thebes. [10]
Their minds catch up hints from all manner of works on all kinds of subjects. [6]
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling. [5]
But Francois Lagarre, under another name, works in another land. [11]
Our records of travel also explain in detail what this educator meant by the words "unity with life"; for our attention was directed not only to beautiful views or magnificent works of art and architecture, but to noteworthy public institutions or great manufactories. [10]
Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
But on turning to two works, one almost universally, and the other extensively appealed to as authority in this country, I see ample reason to overlook this objection. [3]
I must refer to this volume for a bibliography of the various works and Essays of which Emerson furnished the subject. [6]
If we submit to the will of the majority, it is because it is more convenient to do so; and if the republic or the democracy vindicate itself, it is because it works best, on the whole, for a particular people. [4]
He clings piteously to the one little shred that is left of his departed distinction--the "privilege of the floor"; and works it hard and gets what he can out of it. [5]
In the frontispiece to the fine old 'Junta' edition of the works of Galen, you may find among the wood-cuts a representation of the interesting scene, with the title Amantas Dignotio,--the diagnosis, or recognition, of the lover. [6]
Mr. Smith wishes to reprint some of Emily's and Annie's works, with a few little additions from the papers they have left; and I have been closely engaged in revising, transcribing, preparing a preface, notice, etc. [14]
As I continued to read these works, I found them suffused with religion, religion of a kind and quality I had not imagined. [9]
He had come to put the last touches to the works he had begun, and proposed to make a fresh attempt to win the favor of the man whom he now knew to be the Emperor. [10]
The only drawback to his future is that rest beyond the grave will not be much change for him, and he has no works to follow him. [4]
Facts are nothing to him, he has no use for such things; he works wholly by inspiration. [5]
He was glad to have come to some conclusion, at any rate provisionally, with regard to these matters, for six days had slipped away since the works had been begun in the palace of Lochias, and Hadrian's arrival was nearing rapidly. [10]
He eagerly listened to everything I could tell him of the high admiration I had at any time heard expressed for her works. [14]
It is easy to define this sort of untruthfulness, and to study the moral deterioration it works in personal character, and in the quality of literary work. [4]
From time to time some small organ which had escaped earlier observers has been pointed out,--such parts as the tensor tarsi, the otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies; but some of our best anatomical works are those which have been classic for many generations. [3]
These are the three cardinal doctrines of Hahnemann, as laid down in those standard works of Homoeopathy, the "Organon" and the "Treatise on Chronic Diseases. [3]
It costs five thousand dollars cash and shuts down on the incorporated company to stop the works at this point, but Sally Sellers's happiness is worth more than that. [5]
To distract her thoughts she wandered round the room, looking at the works of art that stood against the walls, feeling the stuffs with which the cushions were covered and striking a lute which was leaning against the pedestal of a Muse. [10]
I feel that this study of Irving as a man of letters would be incomplete, especially for the young readers of this generation, if it did not contain some more extended citations from those works upon which we have formed our estimate of his quality. [4]
When all of this should have been accomplished, there would be scarcely a process in the steel industry, from the smelting of the ore to the completion of a bridge, which the Boyne Iron Works could not undertake. [9]
I find that this plan works very well with guides: when I see one approaching, I at once offer to guide him. [4]
Hence works of this nature, embodying descriptions of men and manners, always retain something of the freshness which characterized them on the day of their appearance. [4]
The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
Papias works with thirty assistants at anything that is ordered of him, so long as it brings him money. [10]
You must not think of selecting any more works for me yet; my stock is still far from exhausted. [14]
Many of the things I shall put down I have no doubt told before in a fragmentary way, how many I cannot be quite sure, as I do not very often read my own prose works. [6]
Who did write these Works, then? [5]
She was executing these works of art on a wax tablet with a copper stylus, and the others were to guess for whom they were meant. [10]
If it works, then we shall have to try the rest of the experiment,--your half of it. [9]
It's absolutely wonderful the way it works. [5]
With these were the titles of novels and now and then of books of poems; but it may be taken for granted that his own shelves held the works he was most frequently in the habit of reading or consulting. [6]
History says that the temples of the Acropolis were filled with the noblest works of Praxiteles and Phidias, and of many a great master in sculpture besides--and surely these elegant fragments attest it. [5]
I will close the subject with a brief examination of some of the statements made in Homoeopathic works, and more particularly in the brilliant Manifesto of the "Examiner," before referred to. [3]
St. Paul, once the strict Pharisee who had laboured for the religion of works, himself had been reborn into the religion of the Spirit. [9]
We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge. [5]
The connection between the science of life and that of intimate structure on the one hand, and composition on the other, is illustrated in the titles of two recent works of remarkable excellence,--"the Physiological Anatomy" of Todd and Bowman, and the "Physiological Chemistry" of Lehmann. [3]
In the turnpikes, the railways, the depots, and the new boulevards of uniform houses in Florence and other cities here, I see the genius of Louis Napoleon, or rather, I see the works of that statesman imitated. [5]
Is it possible the poor thing works with her needle, too? [6]
With respect to the origin of articulate language, after having read on the one side the highly interesting works of Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood, the Rev. [1]
Himself one of the most renowned, acute and learned students and interpreters of the Bible, he was perfectly familiar with the critical works the last five years have brought to light in the domain of Old Testament criticism. [10]
I dare say the material works up faster now, and in a season or two you won't know the Dryfooses from the other plutocrats. [8]
I would extend the hospitality of these shelves to a class of works which we are in the habit of considering as being outside of the pale of medical science, properly so called, and sometimes of coupling with a disrespectful name. [3]

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