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Sentences ending with acts

See how the young vagabond acts. [10]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
To him words were like nails--of no use unless they were to be driven home by acts. [11]
What is the use of hunting down and holding to bitter account people who are responsible for other people's innocent acts? [5]
They were allowed to come in in that shape, because in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included half-a-dozen acts. [7]
Why were all these acts? [7]
We may concede the unity of all forms of force, but we cannot overlook the fixed differences of its manifestations according to the conditions under which it acts. [3]
Every day it rang for an instant at the beginning of each of the five acts. [11]
How far each man values the appreciation of others, depends on the strength of his innate or acquired feeling of sympathy; and on his own capacity for reasoning out the remote consequences of his acts. [1]
Besides, he gave himself up to unbridled indulgence in brandy, and, when drunk, he was capable of the most brutal acts. [10]

Short sentences using acts

It acts not the Pharisee. [7]
But her acts are consistent. [5]
They say Semenova acts marvelously. [2]
He acts like a colonel. [9]
Buckstone acts . [5]

Sentences containing acts two or more times

He never interfered with the acts of his fellow-servants, except in so far as those acts affected his master's comfort; and he paid no attention to their words except where they affected himself. [11]
Here they were who, without words or acts, had been to each other what Adam and Eve were in the Garden, without furtiveness, and guiltless of secret acts which poison Love. [11]
We have a thousand proofs of this in the colossal character of their personal acts and the acts of ordinary men to whom they have given supernatural qualities. [5]
We agree that his words and his acts clearly interpret his character to us, and that they never leave us in doubt as to the motives whence the words and acts proceeded. [5]
Finding Zaida, had he not told her of the voice, and had she not said: "In the desert all men are safe--safe from themselves and safe from others; from their own acts and from the acts of others"? [11]
Hamilton's act was compelled by the inborn necessity of contenting his own spirit; in this it was like all the other acts of his life, and like all the acts of all men's lives. [5]

More example sentences with the word acts in them

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]
I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
When anything goes wrong, his perception of it is like a lightning flash,--and he acts as quickly. [9]
Mine is a world apart, where one acts and lives and sings the passion and sorrows and joys of others--all unreal, unreal. [11]
I am delighted with Young, who acts with great judgment, discrimination, and feeling. [4]
Has he personages whose acts and talk correspond with their characters as described by him? [5]
The acts to which I have referred were a part of a general system of Compromises. [7]
The lofty ambition which had inspired her noblest and most praiseworthy deeds had more than once been the source of acts which she herself regretted. [10]
The left wing, which acts as the bow, lies over the right wing which serves as the fiddle. [1]
All these things were put together, and, though passed in separate acts, were nevertheless, in legislation (as the speeches at the time will show), made to depend upon each other. [7]
His last acts was to go his pile on "Kings-and" (calkatin' to fill, but which he didn't fill), when there was a "flush" out agin him, and naterally, you see, he went under. [5]
How strange it was that one should read so truly without words spoken, or through seeing acts which reveal. [11]
She put the vile side of him out of her mind, and dwelt only on recollections of his occasional acts of kindness to her. [5]
Jowett was often very critical of Osterhaut's acts, words and views, but on this occasion they were of one mind. [11]
It was made up of other people's acts and words. [11]
Such acts were unusual with her. [11]
But you must understand that I cannot share the responsibility of my acts with any one. [9]
They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
Goodness, it seems to me, acts more slowly. [10]
The By-laws seem to hunt him from pillar to post all the time, and turn all his thoughts and acts and words into sins against the meek and lowly new deity of his worship. [5]
Her dauntless determination to accept the consequence of her acts, her willingness to look her future in the face, cried out to him in challenge. [9]
It acts sometimes through the senses, sometimes through the imagination, sometimes through an unknown channel. [6]
With civilised nations this primary check acts chiefly by restraining marriages. [1]
Do not let this generous proposition disturb your rest --but do write the other 3 acts, and then it will be valuable to managers. [5]
The manner of these acts and the generous courage with which she defied opinion appealed to him so strongly that his heart was beating faster than Pepper's hoof-beats on the turf of the pasture. [9]
They are by their acts at war upon it, and are outlaws. [4]
Between the acts the two brothers walked up and down together, at peace once more, and there was a suspicious moisture in the Seigneur's eyes. [11]
One acts as the spur, the other as the bridle. [6]
Kneeling reverently on the solitary furniture of the room--a prayer-rug from Medina--he lost himself as completely in his devotions as though his life were an even current of unforbidden acts and motives. [11]
Air is at the same time swallowed, and the oesophagus thus becomes much swollen; and this probably acts as a resonator, not only with the hoopoe, but with pigeons and other birds. [1]
Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. [1]
The chin of the little man with beardless face and hollow cheeks had even begun to tremble, and this was usually the precursor of an outburst of sudden wrath which sometimes overpowered him to such a degree that he committed acts which he afterwards regretted. [10]
The legislation of the last session of Congress has beneficially affected the revenues, although sufficient time has not yet elapsed to experience the full effect of several of the provisions of the acts of Congress imposing increased taxation. [7]
No sooner had the Compromise Acts of 1850 resulted in a temporary peace, which everybody said must be final and perpetual, than new outbreaks came. [7]
The record of The Acts of the Apostles, if at all trustworthy history, shows that they, too, healed the sick. [5]
Was it conceivable that she loved him, after having wounded him, as if intentionally, by acts which she knew were detestable to him? [10]
She was always surprising him; but her solicitation concerning them was a balm, and he found all such instinctive acts refreshing. [9]
He learned that such vile acts come home at last. [11]
They are not subtle enough for the unexpected acts of honesty in the life of a true man. [11]
In their far-off splendor they rose upon our imaginations dim and huge, shadowy and awful, and it was a fearful thing to hear them spoken of as if they were mere men, and their acts open to comment and criticism. [5]
Virginia," he added, soberly, "it is such acts as yours to-day that give us courage to live in these times. [9]
By these acts she became a dead person in the eye of the law, and excluded from her caste forever. [5]
I had never seen this two-minute business between acts but once before, and that was when the "Shaughraun" was played at Wallack's. [5]
But Detricand was safely hidden, and Fouche's men came too late to capture the Vendean chief or to forbid those formal acts which made Philip d'Avranche a prince. [11]
When a man risks his life to save that of a fellow-creature, it seems also more correct to say that he acts for the general good, rather than for the general happiness of mankind. [1]
Hitherto her austere reserve had been invincible, and during the greater part of their interviews he had been compelled to exert all his influence to soothe, appease her, and atone for imprudent acts which he had committed. [10]
There is no reporting in the world so exact, so perfect, as that in a woman's mind, of the words, looks, and acts of her lover in the first days of mutual confession and understanding. [11]
The stairways are records of acts of piety; the crowd of costly little temples are tokens of money spent by rich men for present credit and hope of future reward. [5]
She knows me quite as well as I know her, but when I am face to face she acts as though I was air. [9]
Discretion is a quality of the heart--solely a quality of the heart; it acts upon us through feeling. [5]
I suppose the President often acts just like that: goes and makes an impossible promise, and you never find it out until it is next to impossible to break it up and set things straight again. [5]
Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime? [6]
She stands there painted by her acts, and decorated by her words. [5]
By voting for our opponents, such of us as do it in some measure estop ourselves to complain of their acts, however glaringly wrong we may believe them to be. [7]
I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every, language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. [5]
Is it your opinion that men's acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impulses? [5]
To skip any one of the billion acts in Columbus's chain would have wholly changed his life. [5]
We that are old love little acts of kindness. [6]
She now thought of these and many similar acts, and that he had never promised her anything, only placed the finished article before her as a matter of course. [10]
In every office of the palaces is a Bible, or book of acts of the church, or chronicle, for the use of whoever comes in, so that the court looks more like a university than a palace. [4]
Since the Organization of the government, Congress has enacted some 5000 acts and joint resolutions, which fill more than 6000 closely printed pages and are scattered through many volumes. [7]
So the hours of rest are not for me the fairest scenes, but empty waits between the acts of the drama of life; and no reasonable man can find fault with me for trying to abridge them by useful occupation. [10]
What is it, of all your experiences, of all your thoughts, of all your misdoings, that lies at the very bottom of the great heap of acts of consciousness which make up your past life? [6]
He's a back number, one of the few remaining disciples and imitators of Jethro Bass: talks like him and acts like him. [9]
This and a number of similar aggressive acts aroused the mill-owners and their agents to appeal with renewed vigour to the public through the newspapers, which it was claimed they owned or subsidized. [9]
The Washington act not only differs vitally from the Utah and New Mexico acts, but the Nebraska act differs vitally from both. [7]
I certainly am not going to advocate or shield them; but they and their acts are but the necessary outcome of the Nebraska law. [7]
This Department has no information of the reasons or proofs on which General Hunter acts, and I do not therefore feel at liberty to suspend or interfere with his action except under your direction. [7]
No, sir; the Nebraska Bill finds no model in the acts of '50 or the Washington act. [7]
No act of nature is obscene in itself--but when such words and acts are dragged in for an ulterior purpose they become offensive, as everything out of place is offensive. [5]
Of course you must admit that there are some acts which-- O.M. [5]
A study of Mr. Ford's mental processes and acts illustrates the true mind of America. [9]
If I have misinterpreted any of her acts, it was not done intentionally. [5]
In men's hearts love is commonly extinguished when pity begins, while admiration acts like sunshine on the budding plant of a woman's inclination, and pity is the glory which radiates from her heart. [10]
His mission in life was not merely that of a liberator, but his natural goodness led him to perform a hundred acts of kindness to make as comfortable as possible the purgatory of the unfortunates under his charge. [9]
An officer still less often acts directly himself, but commands still more frequently. [2]
Yet one must learn to see deeper, to find motive, not in acts that shake the faith, but in character which needs no explanation, which--" He paused, disturbed. [11]
I seem to know just by the shape of the creature and the way it acts what animal it is. [5]
With or without justification, most of the President's political acts invited his caustic sarcasm and unsparing condemnation. [5]
Speaking of chess, Joan's great acts may be likened to that game. [5]
They don't need it: the acts themselves reveal the golden impulse back of them. [5]
These bills, it is true, carried no appropriation, and, were, respectively, the acts to incorporate the State Economic League and the Children's Charities Association. [9]
The tougher neighbor is the gainer by these acts of kindness; the generosity of a sea-sick sufferer in giving away the delicacies which seemed so desirable on starting is not ranked very high on the books of the recording angel. [6]
You have put into language what I think of Mr. Bentley, --that has acts are sacraments . [9]
It is an interlude, a pause between the acts which were to fill out the complete plan of the "Eighty Years' Tragedy," and of which the last act, the Thirty Years' War, remains unwritten. [6]
He had seriously intended to make the insolent intruder feel his strong arm, but since he had learned the identity of the Swiss his acts and nature appeared in a new light. [10]
You are unfriendly in all your acts, for when our brown hen flew over to you yesterday she was driven away with stones. [10]
Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. [1]
The body of illustrious men named by the late King as his executors appeared, to ask Tom's approval of certain acts of theirs--rather a form, and yet not wholly a form, since there was no Protector as yet. [5]
He acts as if he thought we--shucks, I wish he had come out like a man and told us what hotel he--" "Now you've struck it! [5]
The other acts I think are all right, now. [5]
During that period I had committed an hundred silly acts, and incidentally learned the letter by heart. [9]
His sense of humour saved him from words and acts which might possibly have made the matter a pure tragedy after all. [11]
And if our heroine be somewhat rudely tossed from one boulder to another, if we fail wholly to understand her emotions and her acts, we must blame the canon. [9]
For instance, its hero, Appelles, young, handsome, vigorous, in the first act, remains so all through the long flight of years covered by the five acts. [5]
But in all her former acts of self-sacrifice she had been happily conscious that they raised her in her own esteem and in that of others, and so made her more worthy of Nicholas whom she loved more than anything in the world. [2]
Like Tarquin, however, he had been deposed--one of those fatuous acts which the wisest will commit. [9]
The best results have often followed my most reckless acts. [10]
The cases I have mentioned are the only acts of the "thirty-nine," or of any of them, upon the direct issue, which I have been able to discover. [7]
Like those who have done noble acts since the world began, Stephen that night was both a hero and a fool. [9]

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