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Sentences starting with argument

Argument upon the question is already exhausted by the abler, better informed, and more immediately interested sons of Maryland herself. [7]
Argument with this class of minds is a lever without a fulcrum. [6]

Sentences ending with argument

I do not wish to question unduly the intellects of those members of this House who by their votes will prove that they have been convinced by the gentleman's argument. [9]
That is the whole force of Douglas's argument. [7]
For Eldon Parr well knew that his will needed no reenforcement by argument. [9]
Damia and Porphyrius took a vain pleasure in their eager discussions, and clapped with delight, as though it were a game of skill, when Gorgo laughingly checkmated her excited opponent with some unanswerable argument. [10]
He rose simply to protest against the doctrine which the gentleman from Indiana had avowed in the course of what he [Mr. Lincoln] could not but consider an unsound argument. [7]
If his appointed time had been come, the river would have ended him then--that had been his argument. [11]
I must conceive thus of the argument. [11]
But I don't think it degrades or endangers us, for this reason, that, while it makes us charitable to the rest of mankind, our own sense of freedom, whatever it is, is never affected by argument. [6]
To deny these things is to deny our national axioms,--or dogmas, at least,--and it puts an end to all argument. [7]
When I want them I'll go to them with a pocketful of rocks--knock-down argument. [8]

Short sentences using argument

This is merely sentimental argument. [5]
Your argument interested me. [9]
That's your argument, isn't it? [11]
There is argument for it. [5]
What is the argument? [5]
I attempt no argument. [7]
Whence had the argument come? [9]
And her argument! [9]

Sentences containing argument two or more times

We can do that without being subjected to the jibes and sneers that are so readily thrown out in place of argument where no argument can be found. [7]
He said afterward that he was cut off in the midst of what he was saying--in the midst of an argument by which he could have proved that he could not let Joan pass--an argument which Joan could not have answered. [5]
But this argument strikes me as not a little remarkable in another particular--in its strong resemblance to the old argument for the "divine right of kings. [7]
So intent was I on overcoming her objections, that I resorted unwittingly to the modern argument I had more than once declared in court to be anathema-the argument of the new reform in reference to the common law and the constitution. [9]
The little licks I got in in the course of my argument before the jury--" "Your argument! [5]
The argument brought forward about the damage accruing to American national literature from the present piratical system, Is a good and sound argument, but I am afraid the publishers--honest men--are not yet mentally prepared to give such reasoning due weight. [14]
That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says, You work, and I eat; you toil, and I will enjoy the fruits of it. [7]
There is still another argument for a rational diplomatic dress--a business argument. [5]
But there was a detestable argument to fit that likewise, and in the light of this argument it was most natural that she should return to Les Iles. [9]

More example sentences with the word argument in them

The next argument you will all appreciate. [6]
When I wrote you before, I did not intend, nor do I now, to engage in an argument with you on military questions. [7]
I believe there would be physical resistance to it which could neither be turned aside by argument nor driven away by force. [7]
Before setting to work to prepare my speeches it was necessary to make an attempt to familiarize myself with the seemingly unprecedented line of argument Krebs had evolved--apparently as disconcerting to his friends as to his opponents. [9]
This argument seems wonderful to me. [7]
I have done with this mighty argument of self-government. [7]
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
In it you will find a brief argument in favor of conventions--and although I wrote it myself I will say to you that it is conclusive upon the point and can not be reasonably answered. [7]
But the Judge, whose mind was on the argument, continued to mutter defiantly until his eye fell upon Stephen. [9]
No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constitution to enact a Fugitive State law. [7]
They were shocked when they heard him cap an argument upon grave affairs of state with a story about "a man out in Sangamon County,"--a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lacking in dignity. [7]
This argument, from what looks like cause and effect, whether it be so or not, is what you will have to meet wherever you go, and you need not think you can answer it. [3]
And these gentlemen were frequently in argument, but political discussion is Greek to a lad. [9]
He has a way of letting it rise as his sentence goes on, or when he is opposed in argument, or wishes to mount above other voices in the conversation, until it dominates everything. [4]
No time is wasted, no argument is used. [7]
My father's argument was this: If men are deprived by violence of one kind of property which they hold under the law, all other kinds of property will be endangered. [9]
What was interesting was the open-mindedness with which, on both sides, the argument was conducted, and the fact that it could seriously take place then and there. [9]
It is no virtue in me to plead patriotism--it is a mere argument, a weapon that I use; but my heart is behind it, and it is a means to that which you will thank me for one day. [11]
Ruth's course was vindicated now, and it certainly did not become Philip, who had nothing to offer but a future chance against the visible result of her determination and industry, to open an argument with her. [5]
There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea--namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. [5]
It is a very delicate matter to postpone the draft in one State, because of the argument it furnishes others to have postponement also. [7]
Virginia, on the verge of leaving, stayed on, fascinated by the turn the argument had taken. [9]
This argument he used in his circular before the election. [7]
But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
I had sat up half the night before with him in restless argument and indecision, and even when he had left for Rotherhithe, early that morning, my mind had not been made. [9]
It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
This could be twisted into a plausible argument that the traffic ought to be squarely abolished. [5]
They will prove to you by convincing argument that yonder lion is a rabbit. [10]
Let us attend to that argument for a little while and see if it be sound. [7]
This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
I don't want to have a fight with Judge Douglas, and I have no way of making an argument up into the consistency of a corn-cob and stopping his mouth with it. [7]
Address that argument to cowards and to knaves; with the free and the brave it will effect nothing. [7]
She felt that this was something she could not tell her father, nor could she answer his argument with what Tom Gaylord had said. [9]
He concluded with this telling sentence, which drove the whole argument home to all our hearts: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. [7]
After solemn argument, this point (with others of a technical nature, whose humorous extravagance it would be difficult to exaggerate) was referred to the judges for their decision, Sampson being meantime removed to his former quarters. [12]
Curiously enough, in this mental argument of justification, I left out all consideration of the size of the probable profits to Mr. Scherer and his friends. [9]
So far from this being the case on this subject, an argument against the bank might be based on precedent. [7]
In both cases they flowed in ruts worn deep by time and habit, and the man who should have proposed to divert them by reason and argument would have had a long contract on his hands. [5]
Major Sherman paid them no attention, and the Judge, once launched in an argument, forgot his surroundings. [9]
The doctors of the University had to see those creatures in order to know; and if Joan was deceived, it is argument that they in their turn could also be deceived, for their insight and judgment were surely not clearer than hers. [5]
And this is the staple argument of both the Chief Justice and the Senator for doing this obvious violence to the plain, unmistakable language of the Declaration. [7]
His argument to the local authorities was that I had no rights, that I am a murderer and a mutineer, and confined to the island, though not on parole. [11]
He feels that the improvements of this broad and goodly land are a mighty interest; and he is unwilling to confess to the people, or perhaps to himself, that he has built an argument which, when pressed to its conclusions, entirely annihilates this interest. [7]
The dispute and the hot argument are usually the bane of conversation and the death of originality. [4]
Then he opened the book of Genesis at the eighteenth chapter and read that remarkable argument of Abraham's with his Maker in which he boldly appeals to first principles. [6]
Adams again adduces the argument, that he could not have forged the assignment, for the reason that he could have had no motive for it. [7]
Do you remember the argument you used when you had got me out of the sponging-house? [9]
When I closed the argument on my part, a large package was handed me, which proved to be the plat you sent me. [7]
The course of the argument against them is very briefly and effectively stated by Mr. Emerson: "This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. [6]
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind; the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. [5]
It is argument that other mothers are made in like mould. [5]
There seems argument that it may come true. [5]
It is argument that it is the same old mind in both cases, and never needs your help. [5]
It is argument that it could do the like awake without help or suggestion from you--and I think it does. [5]
So if, as that gentleman said, a book does consist solely of ideas, that is the best argument in the world that it is property, and should not be under any limitation at all. [5]
When he realised that all his reasoning was wasted, that all worldly argument was vain, he made one last attempt, a forlorn hope, as though to put upon record what he believed to be the truth. [11]
Was it possible that a reasonable argument could be made against that man's desolating speech? [5]
Then more poignant than all other argument was the fact that he did not want to take her away from Surprise Valley. [13]
He was unpleasantly struck, too, by the excessive contempt for others that he observed in Speranski, and by the diversity of lines of argument he used to support his opinions. [2]
This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being. [1]
It is the strongest Abolition argument ever made. [7]
His courage, his stone-cold strength, the disdain which was coming into his voice, impressed them, apart from his argument or its bearing on the previous debate. [11]
Dan don't never stand any chance in an argument with me. [5]
Plainly enough now,--the speaking out then would have damaged the "perfectly free" argument upon which the election was to be carried. [7]
I was to speak that of which I was full, and the heart's argument needs no logic to defend it. [9]
And not only so, but every moral prop should be taken from whatever argument might rise in his mind to lure him to his backsliding. [7]
If I have so far manifested neither, it is well to stop here, and leave the rest to those younger friends who may have more stomach for the dregs of a stale argument. [3]
Withal, a logical simplicity governed his argument. [11]
Hurrying thither in shocked anxiety, he found a curled gentleman of the guard, resplendent in red velvet and gold chains, in peevish argument with a boisterous Seigneur of a bronzed good-humoured face, who urged his entrance to the presence-chamber. [11]
Then came reproaches: she would not trust him; they could not be married at once; she must understand that!--an argument so repugnant as to cause her to shake with sobs of inarticulate anger. [9]
In both cases she had not remained quiet and, at the second audience which the duke gave her, her hot blood, though it had grown so much cooler, played her a trick, and she became involved in a vehement argument with him. [10]
What contrariness has set you so intense against your own argument? [9]
But the good sense and patriotic instincts of the plain people gradually marshalled themselves on Lincoln's side, and he lost no opportunity to help on this process by personal argument and admonition. [7]
It really does seem to me too simple for argument. [6]
This man could see to the bottom, through every specious argument. [9]
Now, I don't see that there is any real argument about that. [5]
Then he would saunter slowly down to the Planters' House bar, which served the purposes of a club in those days, in search of an argument with other prominent citizens. [9]
Mr. Douglas has said that we (the Whigs) have not dared to meet them (the Locos) in argument on this question. [7]
It may be said that the facts are too generally known and acknowledged to require any formal argument or exposition, that there is nothing new in the positions advanced, and no need of laying additional statements before the Profession. [3]
But in his reply to me he renewed it as a serious argument. [7]
I will not reopen the argument upon this point. [7]
He had always recognized the futility of arguments, if argument on this point ever arose between them. [9]
If I have reasoned to a false conclusion, it is the vocation of an able debater to show by argument that I have wandered to an erroneous conclusion. [7]
It was a rather slender argument, but the farmers did not seem to detect it. [5]
I do not propose, in regard to this argument drawn from the history of former times, to enter into a detailed examination of the historical statements he has made. [7]
To exchange one prison for another is in itself something of a feat, and an argument that the thing may be done again. [9]
There was one portion of the argument of the gentleman from Indiana, the chairman of the Committee on Territories [Mr. Smith], which he wished to take occasion to say that he did not view as unsound. [7]
There is a point of mental saturation, beyond which argument cannot be forced without breeding impatient, if not harsh, feelings towards those who refuse to be convinced. [3]
Who are the persons that use this argument? [6]
I notice a person 'most always does that's got laid out in an argument. [5]
Passing over such parts of the article as have neither fact nor argument in them, I come to the question asked by Adams whether any person ever saw the assignment in his possession. [7]
In regard to our protectorate in the island of San Domingo, our "semi-protectorate" in Nicaragua, the same argument of intention may fairly be urged. [9]
He assumes that our party is altogether sectional, that the party to which he adheres is national; and the argument is, that no party can be a rightful party--and be based upon rightful principles--unless it can announce its principles everywhere. [7]
If it and other property are equal, this argument is entirely logical. [7]
The Indian is open to prophecy at all times; argument may fail to convince him, but not prophecy. [5]
You know that one part of my message is but this--to move the Dauphin by argument and reasonings to give me men-at-arms and send me to the siege. [5]
We were having, one evening, a "religious" argument, Cinibar, Laurens and myself and some others. [9]
The argument founded on this occasional good would be as applicable in justifying the counterfeiter and giving circulation to his base coin, on the ground that a spurious dollar had often relieved a poor man's necessities. [6]
There was argument on his side--and the bulk of the advantage --so I judged it best to humor him. [5]

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