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Sentences starting with names

Names everywhere!--some plebeian, some noble, some even princely. [5]
Names are so confusing in this world; but things are apt to remain pretty much the same, whatever we call them. [4]
Names aren't important; but, anyhow, it was Fate that led me here. [11]
Names are not always what they seem. [5]
Names are only air, and blow away with a change of wind; but beliefs are rooted in human wants and weakness, and die hard. [3]
Names are cheap. [6]

Sentences ending with names

We haven't told you our names. [11]
Instead of neatly written labels, living lips told us their names. [10]
What her mother would have called policy and reasonable concessions she would have given different names. [4]
Hold on, Sam,--we won't get nowhere by calling names. [9]
At first he was eyed with suspicion and disgust as he drove off to Mohair in his Hempstead cart, and was called many hard names. [9]
Then would follow two or three local worthies with Esquire after their names. [6]
Still, let us treat this poor man fairly, and not call him names. [6]
Now we propose to take you in with us, and claim the blind lead in our three names. [5]
I ask attention to all the papers, but particularly to the letters of Mr. David Mack, and the paper with the long list of names. [7]
Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king--who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]

Short sentences using names

No names were written there. [4]
They're new names, too. [6]
This was registering their names. [4]
You have heard their names. [10]
Did they call names? [9]
Hence the carved names. [5]
How thick the names were! [5]
I have their names here. [11]
Well, names will go. [5]
Name your names. [5]

Sentences containing names two or more times

Of course, it wasn't their own names, but names we give them. [5]
Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. [6]
Be sure that they contain the creditors' names, their residences, the amounts due each, the debtors' names, their residences, and the amounts they owe, also all property and where located. [7]
The names of the other two were Herve Robin and Rouge le Riche, but their master called them by other names. [11]
The names betray the latent romance-tinge in the parental blood, the parents' names indicate that the tinge was an inheritance. [5]
These foreigners with that kind of names are so delicate, and of course that kind of names are not suited to our climate--you wouldn't expect it. [5]
Science names and registers the ills of life; and yet it is a gain to know the names and habits of our enemies. [4]
There will be new names, but the things which they represent will sometimes be found to be less new than their names. [5]

More example sentences with the word names in them

You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
I'm not calling you names, I'm not talking about morality and immorality. [9]
Now, no doubt you know the names of all the twelve disciples. [5]
Arrived at New York, they went to a hotel off Broadway for dinner, and Carnac signed names in the hotel register as "Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier. [11]
We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
To make sure, write the names of the stages on my little tablet.--But wait, I must rub it smooth. [10]
Don't fail to write me instantly on receiving this, telling me all--particularly the names of those who are going strong against me. [7]
The three have wives and the wives have several names, and this increases the confusion. [5]
These he equips with new names, and thus we have those terrific nomenclatures which are enough to frighten the medical student, to say nothing of the sufferers staggering under this long catalogue of local infirmities. [6]
Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
I know not why it was, but the last three names held my eyes. [11]
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age. [6]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
This makes the whole a very gratifying result, and perhaps explains the absence of some names on your book. [6]
In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
The names under which he mentions the two personages, it will be seen, are not intended to be complimentary. [3]
However, in Normandy, when he read the names on the tombstones and saw the records in the baptismal register of other Jean Jacques Barbilles, who had come and gone generations before, his self-respect was somewhat restored. [11]
Be very careful what names you let fall before your patient. [3]
Do you know what meddling with the folks without names, as you call 'em, is like?--It is like riding at the quintaan. [6]
French names they were, but their interests and sympathies were English. [5]
The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them. [5]
If not, down went their names in a leather-bound memorandum, and they got copies in the next mails. [9]
I know full well that many readers would be disappointed if I did not mention some of the grand places and bring in some of the great names that lend their lustre to London society. [6]
Among the names we find that of Captain John Smith. [4]
Ver' well, dere was twenty men in Pontiac, ver' nice men--you will find de names cut in a stone on de church; and den, three times as big, you will find Mathurin's name. [11]
The tailor's meaning was sufficiently clear: if they had come to see him personally, then it was natural for him to wish to know the names and stations of his guests, and their business. [11]
If a likeness was recognized they were all triumphant, if not they cried the names of this or that one for whom it might be intended. [10]
I said there was divorce, and she replied I'd done it with my eyes open, and had signed our names in the book of the hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier and divorce would not be possible. [11]
We knew she was being overrun with applications for places in it, and that these applications were backed by great names and weighty influence, whereas we had nothing of the sort to recommend us. [5]
She thought they was about as pooty names as anybody had had given 'em in the village. [6]
Bitter controversies were waging in the Gazette, and names were called and duels fought weekly. [9]
They were not used to hearing these awful beings called names, and they did not know what might be the consequence. [5]
Won't you tell us the names of the first two that were appointed? [5]
It would teach us a good deal merely to consider the names he has selected as typical, and the ground of their selection. [6]
Judge Hoar has, up to this time, withheld from me the names of my benefactors, but you may be sure that I shall not rest till I have learned them, every one, to repeat to myself at night and at morning. [6]
Recent events bring up glorious names, and particularly prominent ones; but these I will not mention. [7]
The file-leaders of Unitarianism drew back in dismay, and the ill names which had often been applied to them were now heard from their own lips as befitting this new heresy; if so mild a reproach as that of heresy belonged to this alarming manifesto. [6]
Fox had me under his especial care, and I was presented to young gentlemen who bore names that had been the boast of England through the centuries. [9]
Phoebicius and Sirona--the two names sound very finely together. [10]
This is especially true when the authority of great names is fallen back upon as a defence of opinions not in themselves deserving to be upheld. [6]
This morning I took from the post office a letter from Dubois enclosing the names of sixty subscribers, and on carrying it to Francis I found he had received one hundred and forty more from other quarters by the same day's mail. [7]
The worthies who took care of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, like the Revolutionary heroes, fought (with disease) and bled (their patients) and died (in spite of their own remedies); but their names, once familiar, are heard only at rare intervals. [3]
There were other Tone-imparters attendant upon the two chiefs, but I have forgotten their names now. [5]
So at noon today Livy and I drove to the Archducal palace, and got by the sentries all right, and asked the grandly-uniformed porter for the book and said we wished to write our names in it. [5]
It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves, and defiling their honored names with slander. [5]
You give names to things--bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory. [13]
She listened earnestly to the mosaic-worker, who had come close up to her, and officiously mentioned the names of the most important personages as they went past. [10]
I asked him to tell me the names of the men that were going strong for Hardin, he said Morris was about as strong as any-now tell me, is Morris going it openly? [7]
He immediately proposed to take me all over the boat and tell me the names of her different parts, and teach me their uses. [5]
It is enough to recall the names of Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Paul, Homer, David. [4]
It is easy to recall the names of brilliant men whose fine talents have been eaten away by this habit of unveracity. [4]
Presently he said to me, handing me the pen, which he had picked from a table, "Inscribe your names here. [11]
The Colonel turned to me as he sat writing down the names of the volunteers. [9]
The hills seem to leap up against the sky as I describe that region where Cynthia Ware was born, and the very old country names help to summon up the picture. [9]
If one wishes to know the magic of names, let him visit the places made memorable by the lives of the illustrious men of the past in the Old World. [6]
I am glad to know about those friends of his, Otway and Chatterton--fresh, new names to me. [5]
She was recalled to herself by the clergyman's voice pronouncing their names, and saying: "If any of you do know cause or just impediment why these two people should not be joined together in the bonds of holy matrimony, ye are to declare it. [11]
Here Rembrandt is to be seen in his glory; here Van der Helst, Jan Steen, Gerard Douw, Teniers the younger, Hondekoeter, Weenix, Ostade, Cuyp, and other names as familiar. [4]
If at any time there was any idea that it could be controlled only by those who represented names honored for a hundred years, or conspicuous by any social privilege, the idea was swamped in popular feeling. [4]
From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again. [5]
They are like those persons whom we meet in our daily walks, with whose faces and figures, whose summer and winter garments, whose walking-sticks and umbrellas even, we feel acquainted, and yet whose names, whose business, whose residences, we know nothing about. [6]
We should denounce those people in round terms, and call them hard names. [5]
I can't recall those names, somehow. [5]
What remarkable names those diseases have! [5]
Where does all this ambition for names without realities come from? [6]
He invented the thirty-two members and their names. [5]
There were perhaps thirty people on the stage of the theatre, and I think I never sat elbow-to-elbow with so many historic names before. [5]
I can hardly think Gordon had ever looked at his figures, though he names their author, when he wrote the captious and sneering article which attracted so much attention in the pages of the "Edinburgh Review. [3]
We don't call things by the names that belong to them when we deal with celestial subjects. [6]
If they succeeded they were to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred to counties, and cities, and rivers, and mountains; and to be revered and sung, toasted through all time. [7]
Now, in fact, they did have a scuffle on two occasions, but it was not on account of names called. [5]
The names of these people were John and Audrey Malbrouck; the Man was known to the makers of backwoods history as Captain John. [11]
When I found these names a few years ago (wrong side up, for the window had been reversed), I looked at once in the Triennial to find them, for the epithet showed that they were probably students. [6]
Consider it: among these forty-seven captives there were five whose names, offenses, and dates of incarceration were no longer known! [5]
If he were then told that hundreds of similar specimens could be brought from the same countries, he would assuredly declare that they were as good species as many to which he had been in the habit of affixing specific names. [1]
I have tried them all so many times, I know all the polygamous words and all the monogamous ones, and all the unmarrying ones,--the whole lot that have no mates,--as soon as I hear their names called. [6]
I didn't hear their names, but I heard they was handy men with guns an' they looked more like rustlers than riders. [13]
One by one their names were sent up and solemnly mouthed by the footman on the landing. [9]
His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. [5]
Most names in the West were without any picturesqueness or colour; they were commonplace and almost geometric in their form, more like numbers to represent people than things of character in themselves. [11]
To what extent the Tractors were favored with the patronage of English and American ladies, it is of course not easy to say, except on general principles, as their names were not brought before the public. [6]
To while away the time he began to whistle to himself, and what with whistling, and what with winking and talking to the lantern on the table, and calling himself painful names, he endured his captivity well enough. [11]
The amount of the sums owed by the Eysvogel firm, as well as the names of its creditors in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, and Regensburg, Venice, Milan, Bruges, and other German and foreign cities, formed the most important portion of his speech. [10]
In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. [2]
They'll live like the princes of the earth; they'll be courted and worshiped; their names will be known from ocean to ocean! [5]
It happens to the princes of literature to encounter periods of varying duration when their names are revered and their books are not read. [4]
The guide-book names the preserver of the legend, and compliments his 'facile pen. [5]
Yours is of the noblest names in France. [11]
The following are the names of the subscribers to the fund for rebuilding Mr. Emerson's house:-- Mrs. Anne S. Hooper. [6]
I noticed that the names of the owners, and sometimes their coats-of-arms, were carved or painted on the backs of the seats, as if the pews were not put up at yearly auction. [4]
I send you the names of some of the V.B. [7]
We will procure the names of some of his people here, and send them to you before long. [7]
I have given the names of persons who have knowledge of these facts, in order that any one who chooses may call on them and ascertain how far they will corroborate my statements. [7]
Books, too, with the names of old college-students in them,--family names;--you will find them at the head of their respective classes in the days when students took rank on the catalogue from their parents' condition. [6]
He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the winking stars, and by and by got to talking about himself. [5]
Only don't mention the names of any diseases in English or Latin before me next time. [6]
P.S.--I have found the names and places of the men who keep the guard beneath thy window. [11]
They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave--wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as "The Drawing-Room," "The Cathedral," "Aladdin's Palace," and so on. [5]

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