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Sentences ending with hook

Meantime, did you try commanding your mind to wait for orders from you, and not do any thinking on its own hook? [5]
But there seems to be a party that would go further --have Australasia cut loose from the British Empire and set up housekeeping on her own hook. [5]
The practitioners of the Pseudo-sciences know that common minds, after they have been baited with a real fact or two, will jump at the merest rag of a lie, or even at the bare hook. [6]
On the 19th the captain called up the quarter-boats and said one would have to go off on its own hook. [5]
The extremity is tendinous and contains no vertebrae; this is succeeded by five rudimentary ones, so minute that together they are only one line and a half in length, and these are permanently bent to one side in the shape of a hook. [1]
R. R.], Camden Station: You say telegraphic communication is re-established with Sandy Hook. [7]
He is off Sandy Hook. [5]
And that his mind works automatically and is independent of his control--carries on thought on its own hook? [5]
He reached out his hand and pulled the hook. [11]
Wherever in the counties the Whigs had held conventions and nominated candidates for the Legislature, the aspirants who were not nominated were induced to rebel against the nominations, and to become candidates, as is said, "on their own hook. [7]

Sentences containing hook two or more times

He rose encouraged, convinced himself that his granddaughter was progressing towards recovery, bid farewell to his wife, took his flint knife and his bronze hook, [The brains of corpses were drawn out of the nose with a hook. [10]

More example sentences with the word hook in them

If the Rowens woman should hook Dudley, she felt as if she should gnaw all her nails off for spite. [6]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
There were days when he and I never touched a hook, both being out of humour for study, when he told me yarns of Frederick of Prussia and his giant guard, of Florence and of Venice, and of the court of his Holiness of Rome. [9]
In one corner was an ivy-covered well, with an antique iron gate, and the bucket, hanging on a hook inside the fern-grown hood, was an old wine-keg-- appropriate emblem for a smuggler's house. [11]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
The driver pointed to one of these ancient fortresses, and said, (I translate): "Do you see that great iron hook that projects from the wall just under the highest window in the ruined tower? [5]
It was Ruth's suggestion that the coats would be improved by a single hook and eye sewed on in the small of the back where the buttons usually are. [5]
Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions. [6]
The trout, as soon as he felt the prick of the hook, was off like a shot, and took out the whole of the line with a rapidity that made it smoke. [4]
Why, there were some things about it that made you think what a nice kind of world this would be if people ever took hold together, instead of each fellow fighting it out on his own hook, and devil take the hindmost. [8]
Well, what does Sandy Hook say about operations of enemy and of Sigel during to-day? [7]
She had a right of dower (that is, the use of one-third for life) in the other two forties; but, it seems, she has already let you take that, hook and line. [7]
Next, as before remarked, it must bait its hook with some new and attractive advantages over the baits offered by the other religions. [5]
Next, as before remarked, it must bait its hook with some new and attractive advantages over the baits offered by its competitors. [5]
Just you lay quiet here and watch the stuff till I run and hook Benny Taylor's little wagon; I won't be gone a minute. [5]
He came back quickly to the table, put down the candle, took his seat, stroked his chin with his hook, and chuckled. [11]
A rusty hook projected from one of the joists a little higher than a man's head. [6]
It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. [4]
I will find out by hook or by crook at what time Galen is to visit the cubicles. [10]
The hook caught once, and Harris started up it hand over hand, but the hold broke and if there had not happened to be a chaplain sitting underneath at the time, Harris would certainly have been crippled. [5]
In his government on the Nerbudda he made a brave attempt on the 28th of March, 1828, to put down Suttee on his own hook and without warrant from the Supreme Government of India. [5]
Twichell, who went on his own hook, had no such difficulties. [5]
But he struggled on and on, and at last reached a sort of flying pinnacle of rock, like a hook for the shields of the gods. [11]
When he took off his cowl, he looked for a hook on which to hang it, and while so doing, perceived on the shelf a row of boards. [10]
While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. [2]
It was hardly necessary: when anything or anybody wishes to be caught, a bare hook and a coarse line are all that is needed. [6]
Now it no more plays to my hook than an August chub. [11]
In danger, he knew, he would feel and think of nothing except what duty required of him, so with renewed strength he took his hat from the hook and left the house with a steady step. [10]
The artist, who kept his flies a good deal of the time out of the boat, frankly confessed that he would prefer an honest worm and hook, or a net, or even a grappling-iron. [4]
The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man. [2]
Whether one hide in some secluded Nook --Whether at Liverpool or Sandy Hook --'Tis one. [5]
She felt the hook now, and her spines were rising, partly with apprehension, partly with irritation. [6]
There was a hook in the wall, which the landlord said the terrific old Goetz used to hang his iron hand on when he took it off to go to bed. [5]
Each intent upon his own business or pleasure, and striving the while by hook or crook to keep the ground from slipping beneath his feet. [9]
Where his left hand had been was an iron hook, but not obtrusively in view, nor did it give any marked grimness to his appearance. [11]
I'll hook a gown from Aunt Sally. [5]
Then suddenly the good creature was his old good self again--the comfortable shrewdness, the buoyant devil-may-care, the hook stroking the chin pensively. [11]
How could I, for instance, have written in my original "copy" for the printer about the fisherman baiting his hook with a giant's tail instead of a dragon's? [6]
To chip a flint into the rudest tool, or to form a barbed spear or hook from a bone, demands the use of a perfect hand; for, as a most capable judge, Mr. Schoolcraft (68. [1]
And in three days they found the reef once more; for it had curved like the hook of a sickle, and the first arc of the yellow circle had dropped down into the bowels of the earth. [11]
But Mr. Quaritch comes among us like that formidable angler of whom it is said, His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale. [6]
He, holding on, brought the fish to with a jerk, and snap went the line, hook and all. [5]
When Morris came back, he was holding his wine with one hand while he hummed a snatch of song and drummed lightly on the table with the hook. [11]
As late as August, at the time, of our visit, a hundred people were camped in tents on the Marjorie, wiling the salmon with the delusive fly, and leading him to death with a hook in his nose. [4]
A short time ago I reminded him of the fishing party when your Majesty had a diver fasten a salted herring on his hook. [10]
When the last agent--that was Cort--was sacked I went to Boston on my own hook and tackled the old gentleman--that's the only way to get anywhere. [9]
She also saw a rosary on a little hook beside the bed. [11]
Shon McGann was a fine fool, but he did something at last, truly yes: Tim Macavoy, perhaps, will do something at last on his own hook. [11]
The government pays a bounty for the shark; to get the bounty the fishermen bait the hook or the seine with agreeable mutton; the news spreads and the sharks come from all over the Pacific Ocean to get the free board. [5]

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