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Sentences starting with three

Three days before you came I got a packet of letters, not by the usual yearly mail. [11]
Three pretty full years follow. [5]
Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
Three mendicant friars, with overflowing pouches, pressed past them, and two others were still standing with the men and the maidservants assembled in the light of the lanterns. [10]
Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only. [10]
Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
Three years ago, when they made it fifty-six hours, we were fools to keep up the pay. [9]
Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him. [4]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
Three nights ago when she fainted and went ill to bed, I stayed with her, slept in the same room, in the bed beside hers. [11]

Sentences ending with three

I will give you till I count three. [11]
Pity me, then, who had to endure three. [5]
These were written when I was twenty and twenty-one years of age, and the sonnet sequence of 'A Lover's Diary' was begun when I was twenty- three. [11]
Ohio largely for us, with all the members of Congress but two or three. [7]
He made it two hundred and three. [5]
He'll be gone two days, perhaps three. [11]
He is prosperous, too, I hear; has been a doctor a year, now, and has had two patients--no, three, I think; yes, it was three. [5]
If there'd been three--But never mind about that, there warn't three. [5]
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]
We can prove this by four hundred witnesses--we shall call but three. [5]

Short sentences using three

Consider the three years sped. [5]
Three more breast-pins were promised. [5]
I went--we three went. [11]
In three hours we start. [10]
Suddenly all three vanished. [5]
It came about three o'clock. [11]
First time in three months. [9]
There are only three left. [10]
There will be three funerals. [5]
She died in three days. [11]

Sentences containing three two or more times

You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
In three different years I have written three stories annually: that makes thirty-three. [6]
A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles. [5]
If the truth will permit, I propose that you sustain me in the following manner: copy the inclosed scrap in your own handwriting and get everybody (not three or four, but three or four hundred) to sign it, and then send it to me. [7]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
Here's only three weeks of the three months gone, and it seems like three years. [5]
Yet, May 30, 'we have now left: one can of oysters; three pounds of raisins; one can of soup; one-third of a ham; three pints of biscuit-crumbs. [5]
The man who uses trust-money for three days, to acquire in those three days a fortune, certain as magnificent, would pull up short beforehand if the issue of theft or honesty were put squarely before him. [11]

More example sentences with the word three in them

Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
Who was this young man of three and thirty to agitate him so? [9]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
I said that you would leave England within twenty-four hours, and that you would not return within three years. [11]
On the Sahbath you will be able to attend divine service three times, which is expected of our teachers. [6]
Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality. [4]
I have watched you these three years; I do not, nor ever will, doubt you, dear friend of my heart. [11]
I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
I says: "Oh, you needn't be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough. [5]
Here or anywhere you must scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. [5]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! [2]
I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
She told how you had followed a fox over one of your rough provincial counties, which means three of Hertfordshire, with your arm broken, by Heaven! [9]
I know that you gave the order that only three of the five ships which brought the contents of your winelofts should be unloaded. [10]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
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]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
I will read you a written statement upon the subject that I wrote three years ago to read to the Sabbath-schools. [5]
Are those three yonder that to my disordered eyes are starveling swine-herds--" "The ogres, Are _they_ changed also? [5]
It was not yet dawn, however, for the clocks were only striking three as the assembly, in winter coats and soft wraps, fluttered out to its carriages, chattering and laughing, with endless good-nights in the languages of France, Germany, and Spain. [4]
Been dead three years--how could it cry? [5]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
Again, another three years, and now he writes me that he is going to be married to Clare Hazard on the twenty sixth of this month. [11]
During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
For over three years they had let society talk. [11]
Well, 'tis three years since--" "Three years! [11]
Thus, after seven years of vicissitudes, ended a "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada which had originally been intended to occupy only three months. [5]
These were three years of the deepest humiliation to Rhodopis, which she still remembers with horror. [10]
Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar --and not all o' them would make you happy to hear. [11]
But for three years I was at Cordon's Pride winter and summer alike. [9]
For thirty long years he had been in one sense homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. [11]
For three long years have I taken patience and with a right good will. [10]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
He spent three years at the University of Aleala, and nothing but good news of him reached her. [10]
Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
Two or three years ago I had an appointment to meet Mr. Daly on the stage of this theatre at eight o'clock in the evening. [5]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
That was a year after you left, now about three years gone. [11]
Help, Hapi and Ye three holy ones! [10]
Joan walked two yards behind the Count, we three walked two yards behind Joan. [5]
It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
On she went, writing incessantly for three weeks; by which time she had carried her heroine away from Thornfield, and was herself in a fever which compelled her to pause. [14]
He used to write communications to the weekly newspaper in Moffitt--they've got three dailies there now--and throw cold water on the boom. [8]
Long ago something would have been done to commemorate them but that three of them were Protestants, and difficulties had been raised by the bigoted. [11]
He said it would be a good preparation for going on the bridge at three o'clock in the morning. [11]
Jim said he wou'dn't 'a' missed it for three dollars, and I felt the same way. [5]
There was a worthless vine that (or who) started up about midway between a grape-trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet from each, but a little nearer the trellis. [4]
When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan's house, where he was staying, at three o'clock in the morning, he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees. [9]
I'll know the worst or the best of it before three months are out. [11]
His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
There were three worlds here--that of Jack, to which Edith belonged by birth and tradition and habit; that of which we have spoken, to which she belonged by profound sympathy; and that of Father Damon, to which she belonged by undefined aspiration. [4]
Of the numerous works which Hermon completed in the service of the first three art-loving rulers of the new Pergamenian kingdom, Philetaerus, Eumenes, and Attalus, nothing was preserved except the head of a Gaul. [10]
He had been working three shifts of men. [5]
And now the work was complete, and on board the Bridgwater Merchant was treasure to the sum of three hundred thousand pounds, and more. [11]
We want to work three days more; if we don't find anything, we won't bring in no bill against you. [5]
He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived in clover; and his last act (like a choleric old gentleman) was to kick his doctor. [12]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. [5]
But the Three Words are not the Great Secret I mean. [6]
At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house. [9]
After supper a woman got in, who lived about fifty miles further on, and we three had to take turns at sitting outside with the driver and conductor. [5]
The three have wives and the wives have several names, and this increases the confusion. [5]
I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
When they were within three hundred yards he deliberately led Wrangle out into the trail. [13]
It is quite within the possibilities that two or three nights like that night of mine could drive a man to suicide. [5]
The opera alternates with the theater two or three times a week. [4]
And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
He was furnished with the French word 'est', and was told it was second in a sentence of three words. [5]
Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
I've seen us with pearls on board worth a thousand quid, and not a drop of water nor three square meals in the caboose. [11]
They lasted me, with occasional intermissions, I should say, three or four years. [6]
They burdened her with long interrogatories of two or three hours, from which the judges themselves went forth fatigued. [5]
The Honourable Hilary, with his bag, was halfway to the door, when Mr. Flint crossed the room in three strides and seized him by the arm. [9]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
And then added with an oath and a nod and a vile remark: "Married three times to my knowledge. [9]
He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. [5]
They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
And if you wish to use it, will you set it up now, and send me three proofs?--one to correct for Atlantic, one to send to Temple Bar (shall I tell them to use it not earlier than their November No. [5]
In only one window was there a light at three o'clock. [11]
Between Salisbury and Wilton, three miles and a half distant, is the little village of Bemerton, where "holy George Herbert" lived and died, and where he lies buried. [6]
Then upon call, Wilson went to the window, made his examination, and said: "This is Count Luigi's right hand; this one, three signatures below, is his left. [5]
Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
After this you will not be frightened by the thought of paying three hundred dollars for a little quarto giving an account of the Virginia Adventurers. [6]
He signed the will in three places. [5]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
Perhaps three months will "let us out. [5]

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