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Sentences starting with ten

Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
Ten thousand toadstools, with the right purchase, could lift a man, I suppose. [5]
Ten minutes later, with a receipted bill in his pocket, Tom McMahon made for the barber's shop which Mazarine had entered. [11]
Ten days ago, when I was in the Holston settlements, Major Ben Logan came in. [9]
Ten times I went to the bedroom door, and as many times drew away again, my heart leaping within me at the peril which she faced. [9]
Ten solidi, full weight, shall be yours if you will take Agatha home with you, or safe across the lake again, and pretend to have saved her from mystics or magicians who have decoyed her to some evil end. [10]
Ten minutes afterwards we stood beside the flag-staff, and at our feet lay a moaning, mangled figure. [11]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
Ten hours from Wanganui by the Fly. [5]

Sentences ending with ten

All the quality were in the country, of course, save only four gentlemen of the local Patriots' committee, of which Captain Daniel was a member, and with whom he had an appointment at ten. [9]
You, and Josh way, an' Will, an' Sam, an' the Cap'n, an' the four Beaver brothers, will all sleep in number ten. [9]
I'll be there, to-morrow morning at ten. [9]
Wilhelm, who, according to his friend's advice, appeared in the uniform of an ensign of the city-guards, seated himself at the empty board just after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. [10]
When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he heard the clock strike ten! [5]
He was intended to be nineteen feet high, no doubt, if his foot was made first, but he didn't get there; he was only five feet ten. [5]
The clock in the steeple struck ten. [10]
One whispered to the next Teacup, "More than nine out of ten! [6]
We drove from the lecture-hall together about half-past ten. [5]
He looked at the clock--it was five minutes to ten. [11]

Short sentences using ten

For ten thousand years. [5]
He looks ten years older. [11]
It was ten yards away. [5]
The ten fell to him. [2]
Ten or twelve thousand crowns. [5]
Threescore years and ten! [5]
Looking after those ten millions. [4]
He said yes--for ten francs. [5]
One hundred and ten dollars! [4]
Little Grapnel in ten days! [11]

Sentences containing ten two or more times

By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. [7]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
They said we would not go ten miles, and I most solemnly believe that no one but "Uncle Billy" and an army organized and equipped by him could have gone ten miles. [9]
Kamehameha went to war, and in the course of ten years he whipped out all the other kings and made himself master of every one of the nine or ten islands that form the group. [5]
From October, 1821, to May, 1822, he eat ten rations a day in Michigan, ten rations a day here in Washington, and near five dollars' worth a day on the road between the two places! [7]
He says: "Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst us could either go, or well stand, such extreme weakness and sicknes oppressed us. [4]
There were one thousand five hundred Patricians; from these, three hundred Senators were chosen; from the Senators a Doge and a Council of Ten were selected, and by secret ballot the Ten chose from their own number a Council of Three. [5]
At first I thought there were about ten pillars to support the roof, but my impression before I left was that there were about ten thousand. [11]
So I paid the bill, and the very next day the alarm went to buzzing like ten thousand bee swarms at ten o'clock in the morning. [5]
Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the forest, it was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they. [2]

More example sentences with the word ten in them

When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
To be sure, you'll hardly find me before ten o'clock. [10]
Values are artificial: you will not be able to get ten cents of the year 1799 for a dime. [6]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
Need I tell you that amongst the dancers in the foreign quarter nine out of ten are the daughters of outlawed parents? [10]
I will give you something in my room which will pay the Nabathaean's charges ten times over. [10]
Do exactly as you please with the land--always remember this--that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
Eef you say you not care a dam to go to jail, so you can put him there, too, becos' you have not'ing, an' so dam seeck of everyt'ing, he will t'ink ten t'ousan' dollar same as one cent to Nic Dupont--ben sur! [11]
Did I tell you I had an offer from Bobbett and Fanshaw to go into their office as confidential clerk on a salary of ten thousand? [5]
All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
I exist--to see you for ten minutes a day. [9]
I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. [11]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
It is ten years, and he t'ink it is all right. [11]
Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
It's ten years--ten years since I saw you, and you were only fifteen, but a fifteen that was as good as twenty. [11]
He looked ten years older, and she felt with him the keen suffering which every step must cause. [10]
At about ten years of age I began going to what we always called the "Port School," because it was kept at Cambridgeport, a mile from the College. [6]
And now, ten years later, he did not regret that he had stayed his hand. [11]
And for ten years Bishop Dyer had been the closest friend and counselor of her father, and for the greater part of that period her own friend and Scriptural teacher. [13]
This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the Constitution. [7]
We skip ten years and this history finds certain changes to record. [5]
It was ten years ago in Montana on the night of her birthday. [11]
Ah, yes, ten years-- Abroad, John Marcey! [11]
The Dutch and Yankees outnumber them ten to one, and they haven't any powder and bullets. [9]
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. [5]
And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes. [5]
Ah, it was worth ten years of a man's life to be dead then! [5]
It should be worth ten times the other, and the world called the other the work of a genius, dog. [11]
The pearls were worth over ten thousand dollars--in all, there would be eleven thousand, enough to secure Rosalie from poverty. [11]
But I was working ten hours a day packing tools in your shops, and all you gave me when the whistle blew was--Jesus. [9]
There isn't one woman out of ten thousand that would have stood the test as your wife has stood it; injured at the start, constant neglect, temptation--" he paused. [11]
I was dressed within the ten minutes, and came out. [5]
This town ain't within ten miles of the railroad. [9]
He came up within about ten or fifteen feet of Reeder, and called out to those with him to "look out! [5]
A kindly note, withal, if non-committal,--to the effect that he had received certain communications, but that his physician would not permit him to return for another ten days or so. [9]
She describes 100,000 with one word --a 'lahk'; she describes ten millions with one word--a 'crore'. [5]
Were his thoughts with his heart, ten thousand miles away, beyond the billowy wastes of the Pacific? [5]
But, see: you will meet me here at ten o'clock to-night, and I will make it, I swear to you, so clear, that the woman is vile. [11]
But before I will make a deed, the money must be had, or secured beyond all doubt, at ten per cent. [7]
A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work. [4]
One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. [5]
Men were wondering why it was that the Postmaster and the Little Milliner, who went to Magari ten days before, to get married by the parson there, had not returned. [11]
And the other who will play--the wife of Francois Rives shall see if she will wait; but she must be patient, more patient than her husband was ten years ago. [11]
There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
I know people who have seem it ten times; they know the most of it by heart; they do not tire of it; and they say they shall still be quite willing to go and sit under its spell whenever they get the opportunity. [5]
I know one who has to paste all sorts of little scraps from the newspapers into a scrapbook--sometimes as many as eight or ten scraps a day. [5]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
They could go whither they pleased, but must not take arms against France again under ten days. [5]
There was silence while one might count ten --the master was gathering his wrath. [5]
Once in a while in the evenings, after ten, he would run across me on the porch of the inn, or drift into my rooms. [9]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
There's one thing which makes it difficult for me to soberly realize that my ten year dream is actually dissolved; and that is, that it reveries my horoscope. [5]
On the pilgrimage which he made to Loretto he had distributed more than ten thousand ducats among the poor. [10]
The hut in which he lived with his wife on another hill, ten miles from Shaknon, had but two rooms, and their little farm and the garden gave them only enough to live--no more. [11]
Now this one, which cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years ago, and is one of the sweetest things in Texas, I will let you have for-- "Let me interrupt you," I said. [5]
At a place where there was a standin' stone I broke loose from three of 'em and come here over the mountains, and I ain't had nothin', stranger, but berries and chainey brier-root for ten days. [9]
Augustine, p. 246) where he recounts having captured one hundred Sarmatian virgins, and unmaidened ten of them in one night, together with the happenings subsequent thereto. [5]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
He discovered the West Indies, which he thought were the East; and ten guns would be enough for them. [4]
Sixty prominent "disloyalists" were to be chosen and assessed to make up a sum of ten thousand dollars. [9]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi. [2]
Councils of war were held over the advisability of seizing Mr. Carvel's house at Glencoe, but proof was lacking until one rainy night in June a captain and ten men spurred up the drive and swung into a big circle around the house. [9]
In 1621 there were as many as ten thousand strangers in London, engaged in one hundred and twenty-one different trades. [4]
That night we went down the lightning-rod a little after ten, and took one of the candles along, and listened under the window-hole, and heard Jim snoring; so we pitched it in, and it didn't wake him. [5]
Still another group went and brought away ten thousand pounds, and lost it in fighting with Spanish buccaneers. [11]
There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise. [2]
How could a week or ten days with Jerry possibly affect my newborn, resolve? [9]
The next morning we were up and dressed at ten o'clock. [5]
About ten o'clock we stopped somewhere, and a large Englishman of official military bearing stepped in. [5]
So again, "when we speak of three-score and ten, we are counting by the vigesimal system, each score thus ideally made, standing for 20--for 'one man' as a Mexican or Carib would put it. [1]
When they camped, we camped right over them, ten or twelve hundred feet up in the air. [5]
We made our way very slowly; and it was ten o'clock before we reached what appeared to be the summit, a ridge deeply covered with moss, low balsams, and blueberry-bushes. [4]
There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
But there it was, she died when I was ten, and there was no one to mould me. [11]
I thought she was worth a good deal more to me than the ten thousand dollars. [11]
I thought I was well, about ten days ago, so I sent for a short-hand writer and dictated answers to a bushel or so of letters that had been accumulating during my illness. [5]
His only excitement was to trudge ten miles to Dorset and listen to a three hour sermon on everlasting fire and brimstone by a man who was supposed to know. [9]
The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
His brother Orion was ten years older, but he had not the gift of success. [5]
One day he was summoned ashore, but declined to go, and requested an interview with ten gentlemen. [4]
Yesterday (Monday) I was sent for at ten to breakfast with Mr. Rogers, the patriarch-poet. [14]
He said he was paying me ten dollars a week, and thought it a good round sum. [5]
This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide. [5]
The concession road was blocked before day had well set in; no horse could go ten yards in it. [11]
When the animal was at length ready to go, Davie took him by the bridle, ran by his side, coaxed him into a gallop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed him into a run, which had little respite for ten miles, uphill or down. [4]
His whole existence was a venture of life, and, had he had ten to lose, they would not have been too dear a price to him to win Ledscha. [10]
In this village was a family of ten young men--brothers. [5]
All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
Her mobile mind wandered swiftly from lofty to petty things; she seized the cards to see whether fate would unite her to Zorrillo or to Ulrich, and the red ten, which represented herself, lay close beside the green knave, Pasquale. [10]
They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high. [5]
I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
I broke my vow, I perjured my soul, I bought your wife with ten kegs of rum! [11]

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