One grows almost to like the break in the uniformity of design.
Does it not strike you as being almosttoo much of a good thing?
It was almost dark when they came to the gate of Inagh, the house usually tenanted by the Resident Magistrate of the day, and here Louise Eden took leave of her new acquaintance, again giving him her hand in its little wet glove.
Here one was almostalone with Nature and her wondrous works.
Arrived at Bowness, he found no difficulty in ascertaining the exact locality of Bon Repos, the house and its owner being known by sight or repute to almost every inhabitant of the little town.
For months he had lain in agony; and then slowly he had returned, almost from the grave.
Her heart and throat were almost bursting with agony as she spoke in those quiet tones, and he stamped away up the path with his back to her.
The train was almostin motion and we had no time to change.
The influence we had just experienced must have given us "pallid sorrowful faces," for the verger almost dropped his torch, and his keys fell to the ground and awoke mysterious echoes in the distant arches.
The interior was in semi-darkness; a gloom that almost inspired awe; a silence and repose which forbade the faintest echo of our footsteps.
In the afternoon she went out and, almost irresponsibly, bought a little present and carried it down to the Rue Louise to Madame Martin.
You will see and hear well; and when preaching, it is almost as good to watch him as to listen.
His impenetrable reserve and the strange, stern mood that came over him at times mystified and almostfrightened her.
At the end of that time she knew Rocheville almost as if she had lived her life there.
But a woman with such a voice might do almost anything, you plain and unattractive Miss Mildmay!
I had hardly begun my statement when quick steps sounded along the outer passage followed by an almost imperative knock on the door.
Clanking about alone over the tiles in great deserted corridors I grew almost frightened at my own noise until I passed out into an immense gallery, gaily decorated, and thronged with the ladies and gentlemen of the court.
The mask still hid my features, and the entire difference in my mode of dress made recognition almost impossible.
A band of unprincipled adventurers, vile Canadians and half-breeds, all too lazy to work, or even to feed themselves out of the bountiful earth which would give everything we need almost for the asking.
She seemed so brave, yet so out of place and helpless at that hour of the night, on such an unfrequented road, I almost made so bold as to address her, thinking I might be of service to a lady in distress.
The Indians had withdrawn, and the master, pacing uncertainly about the room, paused and regarded me intently, as if he almost regretted his invitation to stay.
Of a sudden my wits almost left me at a terrible outcry from one end of the great hall, a cry not of human beings but of wild beasts, muffled and menacing.
I care not for it all," the wild passion in his voice made me almost fear him.
The light which marked our almost ended journey came from a window in one of those low, square log houses, fortress-dwellings, so common in the provinces.
I hadalmost reached the door when he sprang after and again detained me.
Beneath our southern sun ice is a thing almost unknown, and the snow never comes.
I sickened almost at sight of the tongue swelling black, which seemed to consume all the fleeing color from lips and face.
It seemed almost that he had twice interrupted purposely to keep me from talking.
I marvelled at this, for the name of Louis had been held in almost Godlike reverence by us in the colonies.
XXX) were pillaged and almost entirely destroyed, the ants leaving not a fragment of the wood untouched.
The three were plundered, and their chambers filled with sand almost to the ceiling.
And all that we were able to gather from these vestiges of the actual interments was that they were of the Ptolemaic period, but almost pure Egyptian in type.
This type of necklace seems almost a necessary adjunct to the dead in the earlier periods.
Almost at the commencement of its excavation the men came across the small chamber on the east side, containing the coffin of an adult burial untouched since the time it was deposited there.
This scene, almost entirely destroyed, depicted the transport of the Tekenu to the necropolis.
This had only three intrusive interments, which were in an almost unrecognizable condition.
Mine is a fearful tale," he said, as he threw his fagot on the fire, "and I will tell it rapidly that you may all hear the marvelous and almost incredible denouement.
Betty didn't know much about the law, but she was almost certain it was against it, to scatter stuffed eggs and fruit tarts along the middle of Fifth Avenue!
This great confection was almost like a bride-cake, save that its frosting was red and chocolate instead of white.
She felt very capable and grown-up, as she settled herself in the broad seat, and noticed with satisfaction that the shower was almost over.
They waited, almost breathlessly, in the hush that always comes before the lifting of a curtain.
She almost ran back to the ferry-house, concluding, as she went, to throw away the luncheon and take a cab up to Dorothy's as quickly as she could.
The Goddess of Honor was, of course, the most desirable, and Betty almost decided to write that against her name.
An undefined sense of fear took possession of her, and she stood hesitating in the hall, almost determined to go no farther.
The costume was superb, and almost took Betty's breath away when she first saw it.
Always when Betty was embarrassed or excited she slipped back into her almost forgotten brogue.
The first touches of dawn gave her just light enough to distinguish the larger objects in the room, and by the time she was fully dressed she could see almost clearly.
The hall was almost dark, and Betty had no notion how she was to get out of the house, but at least she meant to try in every possible way.
Jeanette's high and mighty air wasalmost too much for Betty, but, as a spasm of laughter seized her, she managed to turn it into a fit of coughing.
Such humanity on the part of a Roman at such a period is to me marvellous, beautiful, almost divine; but, in eschewing Roman greed and Roman cruelty, he was unable to eschew Roman insincerity.
For them, the Roman people, he will work and watch with all his experience, with diligence almost above his strength, to repay them for their faith in him.
But there are enough of them here to make a small Joe Miller; and yet, in the midst of language that is almost divine in its expressions, they are given as having been worthy of all attention.
We have now to deal with the moral essays of this almost inexhaustible contributor to the world's literature, and we shall then have named perhaps a quarter of all that he wrote.
His praise of Pompey was almost more fulsome than that of the day before, and the same may be said of his self-glorification.
The same filled him with almost youthful energy when the final battle for the Republic came.
With these words, almost the last written by him to Atticus, this correspondence is brought to an end: the most affectionate, the most trusting, and the most open ever published to the world as having come from one man to another.
The recantation had seemed to himself to be almost base, and he had been ashamed of it.
But it is to the presence within gallant bosoms of hope still springing, though almost forlorn, of hope which has in its existence been marvellous, that the world is indebted for the most beneficial enterprises.
Plancius had shown Cicero during his banishment the affection of a brother, or almost of a son.
These letters are full of details of Roman politics, too intricate for such a work as this--perhaps I might almost say too uninteresting, as they refer specially to Lentulus himself.
The speech is full of flattery, but it is turned so adroitly that we almost forgive it.
There was a pardon for almost every Roman who had fought against him, and would accept it.
There is a wealth of delightful imagination in the legends and folk-lore of the Jews of a later period which is almost entirely unknown to children.
Abi Fressah was almost stupified with hunger, but he had to permit himself to be led through each room and to hear again the praises that had already been poured into his ears all the afternoon.
Tangled masses of creepers lay everywhere--over what were once trimly kept pathways, and almost completely hiding the lower buildings.
A huge snake and dragon were fighting, and at last the sea-serpent, which was almostas big as the whale that had destroyed the towns, swallowed the dragon.
The princess was attended by a thousand fairy bridesmaids, and the whole city was brilliantly decorated and illuminated until Bar Shalmon was almost blinded by the dazzling spectacle.
In truth, he had almost forgotten why he was aimlessly drifting from place to place, farther and farther from his home.
He almost forgot his unpleasant afternoon in the prospect of the coming feast, but Ben Maslia came not.
They were compelled to dispose of almost everything they possessed to keep the frog supplied with food, and at last they were left in a state of abject poverty.
The shipalmost leaped from the sand, and before Bar Shalmon could realize what had happened it was speeding swiftly away.
The inside of the cave was quite cosy, and Rosy-red, who was almost completely exhausted, quickly fell fast asleep.
Like a ball of fire it sank lower and lower until it almost seemed to rest on the tranquil waters beyond the harbor.
It was a flat plateau of great expanse, almost the whole of which was covered by an enormous building of massive walls and stupendous towers.
Most of the fish, however, were luminous, and Alexander was almost dazzled by the changing of the brilliant lights as the denizens of the deep swam swiftly around the bell.
At last when they emerged into the light they were almost blinded by the sun, and it was some time before they could see properly.
We are almostled to believe in the sober truth of such extreme eulogy as we find in "Lights and Shadows of the Pacific Coast," by S.
About three-fifths of our citizens are natives of slave-holding states and are almost a unit in this crisis.
Almost from the very beginning of American Settlement in California a dream of Pacific Empire, separate and independent of "the States" had fascinated many of her strongest men.
The first man to challenge the almost solid cohorts of pro-slavery Democracy in California was David C.
It would almost appear that in telling the story of "Starr King in California" we were altogether forgetting that he did not come to the State to influence its political action, or even to alleviate poverty and distress.
Almost immediately active in politics he became the most brilliant and unscrupulous leader California has ever had.
It seems almost beyond belief that the North rushed into the Civil War wholly unprepared to care for the Nation's Defenders, either in health or in sickness.
But they seem so real, they ring so true, that the conviction grows almost to a certainty that here was one who drew men to him by the incarnate sweetness and nobility of his nature.
Part III California's Hour of Decision The period that determined California's attitude during the Civil War, coincides almost exactly with the first year and a half of Starr King's residence in the State.
Well do we remember that almost at his death a minor earthquake shook the city, and men said, 'Even the earth shudders at the thought that Starr King is dead.
Plunging into the political life of the state as a loyal Democrat he was sent almost at once to the legislature in Sacramento, where he speedily became an influential member.
This condition which the government did almost nothing to remedy led to the organization of the United States Sanitary Commission.
It is almost incredible with what exulting bitterness critics and editors of Pope have tracked out and exposed his petty intrigues, exaggerated his delinquencies, misrepresented his actions, attempted in short to blast his character as a man.
In spite of his discouragement, however, and of the ill health which so constantly beset him, Pope fell gallantly upon his task, and as time went on came almost to enjoy it.
Fishes are almost deaf, while birds are very quick of hearing.
The power of instinct which is barely perceptible in the pig amounts almost to the power of reason in the elephant.
The mole is almost blind; the lynx was supposed to be the most keen-sighted of animals.
With the appearance of the 'Essay', Pope not only sprang at once into the full light of publicity, but seized almost undisputed that position as the first of living English poets which he was to retain unchallenged till his death.
The employment of the classic machinery was almost as impossible.
He was the intimate of Bolingbroke, of all men living the most detested by the court, and his noble friends were almost without exception the avowed enemies of the court party.
Accepted almost on his first appearance as one of the leading poets of the day, he rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age.
When asleep the bird stands with its body almost erect.
The Bald Eagle has an accommodating appetite, eating almost anything that has ever had life.
Woodruff, this bird was almostcompletely exterminated in Florida, the plume hunters transferring their base of operation to the Texas coast of the Gulf, and the bird is now in a fair way to be utterly destroyed there also.
His head is almost square, and what a remarkable eye he has!
You will almost always find it on the ground, near the water, and well sheltered by weeds and tall grasses.
Like the Loon it can disappear instantly and noiselessly, swim a long distance and reappear almost in an opposite direction to that in which naturally it would be supposed to go.
This bird so strange in looks and action is common in summer in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, frequenting the almost impenetrable swamps, and is a constant resident of Florida.
Almost unconsciously, however, the entire subserviency of Faller's wife gratified her, for she was a combination of friend and servant.
Lenz concealed the letter, and went out round the house; he plunged almostup to his knees in snow.
You are right, I must learn to grow old; I am almost as old as the wood in fact, for I remember that when I was a child, there were very few large trees, but all young plantation.
Annele laughed at Lenz almost every morning, for he could never reconcile himself to the Landlady of the "Lion" sending up fresh baked white bread to his house from the village.
I was almost bent double with fatigue, and often suffered miserably from hunger, and yet never could escape from my tyrant.
He loved all the human race; he loved the little birds that sung upon the treesalmost to distraction.
The lady was almost paralyzed by this proposal, and groaned in spirit!
Examples of such vicious imagery, resulting from insincerity, may be found, perhaps, in almost every page of the “Night Thoughts.
But,” he continues: “My time and pains are almost continually taken up here, and .
Young’s wit will be found in almost every instance to consist in that antithetic combination of ideas which, of all the forms of wit, is most within reach of a clever effort.
There is much mystery inalmost all his temporal affairs, as well as in many of his speculative theories.
All was quiet within, except for the ticking of the clock which stood on a bracket near the door, and which, somehow, sounded strangely clear, and almost seemed to give an ominous click with each motion of its pendulum.
I almost wonder at your willingness to trust her to me," Violet answered, smiling, yet her lips quivered slightly, for it seemed like a very sacred charge to her.
It was almost more than Lord Cameron could bear and retain his composure, while Lady Cameron wept unrestrainedly.
She was very grave, almost awe-stricken, when he concluded, and then she stood for a moment silently thinking.
Wallace, in his lonely home, was of course very sad and almost stunned by the blow that had fallen upon him so suddenly.
The change proved to be very beneficial, and Wallace began to gain strength, both physically and mentally, almost immediately.
Violet's fingers closed over his with a convulsive, almost a painful clasp.
Oh, Violet, I beg of you to be reasonable," pleaded the woman, almost in tears.
His quest for the girl whom he had so fondly loved was becoming almost a mania.
Miles, halfe dead with feare, said that it fell doune of itselfe, and that with the noyse and fire that followed he was almost frighted out of his wits.
At last, after almost one hour's tugging, I desired to be fully heard what I could say as to the person who cut Charles I.
The merchant sends out ships, and hath prosperous returns; the mechanic hath quick trading; here is almost a new world; new laws, new lords.
On one occasion he had almost completed the tincture, when the servant whom he employed to look after the furnace decamped with it, supposing that it was fit for use.
Hence it was inferred that he must have had something to do with the Great Fire which had destroyed so large a part of London, if not with the Plague, which had almost depopulated it.
Imprisonment and suffering had not quenched his activity of temper, and almost immediately upon his release he solicited the Queen's assent to a plan for the restoration and preservation of certain precious manuscripts of classical antiquity.
For about three centuries he was almost entirely forgotten, and some of his works even ascribed to purely imaginary authors.
We made no stay at the towne, but so soone as we could be provided of a guide, we made towards the Well, which we found almost two miles from the Towne.
The first is the Dropping-well, knowne almost to all, who have travelled unto this place.
The Towne it selfe standeth on a hill, having almost on every side an ascent to it; and about it are divers fruitfull valleyes well replenished with grasse, corne, and wood.
Dean's Spadacrene Anglica, which the vacillation of these distracted and ruinous times had almost lost and obliterated.
Let us adde to these the like familiar and gentle purging medicines more lately, yea, almost daily newly found out since the better discoveries of the East and West Indies.
The English glazier would almost seem to have realised abruptly the beauty of the large picture windows, and to have transferred his allegiance suddenly to this new method.
The pinnacles ofalmost all the canopies are outlined against red backgrounds.
The other windows on this side (except the westmost) are rich, almost florid examples of the elaborated canopy style.
The figures within the canopies are more varied, and occur in groups, thus differing widely from the almost monotonous similarity of the softer toned solitary figures upon the choir window.
TOURS Our glass-hunting tours will take us into almostevery part of England.
The large Tree of Jesse, rising from the loins of the patriarch, is portrayed in colours of almostbarbaric richness.
The centre three in the lower row are almost enveloped by broad written scrolls, which lend a most decorative effect.
Almost insignificant as are these sixteenth century remains when compared with the innumerable ones across the Channel, their great beauty goes far towards compensating us for their lack of numbers.
They fill almost all the embrasures not occupied by the earlier glass.
The defacing effects of an earlier restoration are being rectified by the erection of a new west front, now almost completed.
KNOLE East and west across almost the whole width of Kent run three parallel lines of low hills affording many charming views which, however, are only part of the many beauties of that picturesque county.
Young men loaded down with other people's money are almost sure to lose all they inherit, and they acquire all sorts of bad habits which, in the majority of cases, ruin them in health, purse and character.
I have smoked until I trembled like an aspen leaf, the blood rushed to my head, and I had a palpitation of the heart which I thought was heart disease, till I was almost killed with fright.
How many have almost reached the goal of their ambition, but, losing faith in themselves, have relaxed their energies, and the golden prize has been lost forever.
Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.
Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other.
Thoughtless giving is almost worse than not giving at all-- indeed, I think it's always really worse, not just almost worse.
And the noo, when the wife and I gang aboot the world, there's good folk in almost every toon we come to to mak' us feel at hame.
Almost surely, he was doing some sort of work that he could do no longer, with both legs left behind him in France.
Noawadays it's almost fashionable to think that any man that's got mair than others has something wrong about him.
My scrap book is almost full now--my second one, I mean.
Then every actor wore a coat with a fur trimmed collar--it was almost like a badge of rank.
And it's natural, tae, for them tae be almost prejudiced against anyone aboot whom sae much has been said.
I could sleep hame almost every nicht, and I'd get up early enough i' the morning to spend some time wi' him.
And I can count my friends, warm, dear, intimate friends amang them by the score--I michtalmost say by the hundred.
There it's almost always a case of starting during the nicht, after a performance.
There's a bricht side to almost a' we meet, I've come to ken.
If this were the case, the labour bestowed upon it was almost abortive.
The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself.
You would nevertheless have heard from me almost as soon as I received your letter, could I have replied to it in terms in any degree accordant to my wishes.
This is the old Law; and the course of things since has caused, as was observed above, that high office to devolve almost exclusively on Persons of large Estate, or their near connections.
At the corner of Olive Street, a young man walking with long strides almost bumped into them.
They are now blackened, almost buried in soot; empty, or half-tenanted by boarders, Descendants of the old families pass them on their way to business or to the theatre with a sigh.
Anne Brinsmade was almost the only girl left to him from among his former circle of acquaintances.
He drew a heavy line across the first, and it ran almost in the bed of the Tennessee River.
She wasalmost at the door when she came suddenly upon a sight that made her pause.
And here they sat, huddled together in dignified repose and abashed, as it seemed, by the strangeness of their surroundings; a bizarre group stained to an almost negro tint by exposure to sun and winds and rain.
He almost decided upon praying, only he could not think of appropriate words in which to appeal for this loan; it might seem to the Deity a contemptuously small sum, not worth bothering the angels about.
He sat there to be looked at--accustomed to homage almost divine; beatifically inane.
His client had fought down the temptation, the almost irresistible temptation, of appropriating the gold.
It was the first rain for many weeks, and foreign visitors, accustomed to think of Nepenthe as a rainless land, were almost as interested in the watery shower as in that of the ashes.
They were religious enthusiasts, ever increasing in numbers and led by their Master, the divinely inspired Bazhakuloff, who was then living in almost complete seclusion on the island.
And now he was almost speaking; desirous, it seemed, of formulating some truth too deep for human utterance.
I would give almost anything to the person who can satisfy me that what I hear is not a succession of unnecessary noises.
She was a tall, handsome girl with blue eyes, blonde hair, perfect teeth and complexion, and almost a perfect figure.
Almost every young mother with a child in her arms has that look or ought to have it--the most beautiful and mysterious thing in the world.
Patterson Bing, the owner of the pulp mill, celebrated for his riches; but one could almost say that its most sought for and popular folk were its hired girls.
It wasalmost as warm as midsummer and the sky was clear.
Almost twenty years, she had been lying in the old graveyard near the ash tree.
Almost all girls of quality are educated as if they were to be great ladies, which is often as little to be expected, as an immoderate heat of the sun in the north of Scotland.
Yet without dress and equipage 'tis as dear living here for a stranger, as in places where one is obliged to both, from the price of all sort of provision, which they are forced to buy from their neighbours, having almost no land of their own.
I don't perceive much distinction in regard to their merits; and when they speak sense or nonsense, it affects the parents with almost the same pleasure.
He had the pleasure of being almost deafened with applause.
I drank the water next morning, and, with a few doses of my physician's prescription, in three days found myself in perfect health, which appeared almost a miracle to all that saw me.
Indeed, he almost decided not to go, unless he could join others with the Prince in the administration and limit his authority by the most rigorous restriction.
According to her, amours and quarrels were carried on calmly and almost good-temperedly.
My time is melted away in almost perpetual concerts," she told her sister.
He trimmed me, and at last I parted, but my mind was almost altered from my first purpose, from the trouble which I foresee in wearing them also.
Then when they have done all their feats, it is a world to consider how their mowchatows must be preserved and laid out from one cheek to another; yea, almost from one ear to another, and turned up like two horns towards the forehead.
The temptation to the public is almost irresistible.
He had almost come to swearing that no manifestation or incarnation of kidney should ever again pass between his excellent teeth.
He was almost ready to forswear his former belief, and to assert positively that Helen had no sense whatever.
The Glasgow train rolled grandiosely in, and the restaurant-car came to a standstill almost exactly opposite the end of the North Stafford platform.
He stopped, and his hard old heart almoststopped too.
The chatter of the three girls had struck James as being almost hysterically gay.
It was no doubt this knowledge of what flowers are for that almost led to the spilling of milk at the very moment when milk-spilling seemed in a high degree improbable.
She laughed in almost precisely the same manner as James had heard Susan laugh thirty years previously, before love had come into Susan's life like a shell into a fortress, and finally blown their fragile relations all to pieces.
And yet he must needs go and fall in love with almost the only sensible girl in the town!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "almost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
