Sentence Examples

1. But it was soon made plain to me that to hope for even a moderate popularity for Shelton was vain.
2. There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
3. They continued together with unabated regard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr.
4. Was surprised at finding the rim of ice at a very moderate distance, and an immense field of the same material stretching away off to the horizon in the north.
5. The blood had hardly commenced flowing when I experienced a sensible relief, and by the time I had lost about half a moderate basin full, most of the worst symptoms had abandoned me entirely.
6. This is a moderate altitude, even when compared with the eighty miles in question and I could not help thinking that the subject admitted room for doubt and great latitude for speculation.
7. Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
8. He might, perhaps, reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours, in Europe, where the distances were relatively moderate but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task?
9. It was a small two-story sitting liked a tilted crown, above two moderate sets of cracked concrete stairs, on a dirt berm to the right.
10. He carried no arms whatever, nothing but a rosary of beads bigger than fair-sized filberts, each tenth bead being like a moderate ostrich egg his bearing, his gait, his dignity and imposing presence held me spellbound and wondering.