At the best we can frame some sort of tentative answer--a hope rather than a promise; and we are justified in this course because those who attack the policy have no better argument to offer.
A general profit tax on the earnings of both companies and individuals may become feasible in time, but we must first await the return of normal conditions of life.
But I was growing sleepy, and after the formal introductions I began to drowse.
Instead a rumour began to spread that all British Batteries were leaving Italy and going East.
Then suddenly all our artillery, as it seemed, began to go off, and for about five minutes there was a deafening burst of fire from guns of all calibres.
He then laid aside his hunting-dress and accoutrements, and soon after both his feet began to turn black, so that he could not move.
Hearts began to beat fast, and faces to turn pale.
When this ceremony was concluded they began to speak.
While lying in jail, his healthbegan to fail, and he was threatened with consumption.
The poet was sitting some little distance away; and presently he began to speak--about the moon.
This is what was said of him-- He began life poor and without education.
By and by, when the fog began to clear off, I noticed that the reflection of a tree in the smooth water of an overflowed bank, six hundred yards away, was stronger and blacker than the ghostly tree itself.
The stream beganto murmur by the door, and the fragrance of growing herbs and flowers came softly on the vernal breeze.
While the Garrison party continued to depend solely upon moral agitation and opposed all political effort, a numerous and powerful body in the antislavery ranks began to look to the ballot-box as the instrument of reform.
The general distribution of Bibles in our day makes it difficult to appreciate the limited supply, the high cost, and the consequent rarity of the Bible when this society began its work.
But the people at large began to calculate the value of this Union for which so many sacrifices had been made.
Candid and cautious thinkers began to take alarm at the disregard for law which seemed to be spreading through the country.
As opposition diminished and their path became easier, abolitionists began to differ among themselves as to the best means to attain their ends and as to the fundamental principles of their cause.
The South, recognizing the growing strength of antislavery opinion, began its appeals to the North to save the Union by suppressing the abolitionists.
On the other hand, the opposition beganto organize.
Jay began by an exposure of the Colonization Society.
Thus, in 1826, when William Jay began his labours, the line between freedom and slavery was not yet drawn.
After graduation Jay went to Albany and began the study of the law in the office of John B.
The public mind became confused and began to associate abolitionism with a variety of novel and unpopular opinions.
When we got off the road on to the turf my horsebegan to kick and plunge.
The good nuns, after taking possession (perhaps they were inland nuns, and did not know what they were coming to when they came to a shore), began to be in great fear of the sea and Sarrasin sails.
It seems to me, therefore, that the dear belief that Homer's heroes began the world may coexist even with the bicycle.
After eating, they began to dance round the fire to their own singing with an astonishing energy.
We began to talk about the Mask, and then diverged to Kaspar Hauser, finally ending with Eleazer Williams, of "Have we a Bourbon among us?
This was the mental condition of a lady who last winter, on a Nile boat, suddenly began to sew.
We now began to ascend, passing between the high walls of villa gardens along a smooth, broad, white road.
The cooks around that little child Stood waiting in a ring; And every time that Maggie smiled, Those cooks began to sing-- Shouting the Battle-cry of Freedom!
When Alice began to shrink again, she went suddenly splash into that immense pool of tears she had shed when she was nine feet high.
His busy day began at a quarter past six, with breakfast at seven, and chapel at eight.
Misch-Masch had a short but brilliant career, for magazines with a wider circulation than Croft Rectory began to claim his attention.
When the music boxes began to pall, he would get up from his chair and look at me with a knowing smile.
Finally, after many attempts, she reached the wished-for spot, and found herself among a talkative cluster of flowers, who all began to criticise her in the most impertinent way.
There are scores of others--so many that their very names would mean nothing to us unless we knew the circumstances which began the acquaintance, and the numerous incidents which could only occur in the company of Lewis Carroll.
Here and there some one began in hope--and ended in reverence.
About twenty-five of them stopped in the street about nine o'clock, and began to bellow at the moon.
A girl with russet, purple-shadowed hair mounted to her table-top and began to dance thereon.
Here now," he began as if called upon to deal with some petty dispute between children.
Caroline began the matter by seizing a book on insects and sending it whizzing, and finally crashing through the glass partition that housed Mr. Moonlight Quill.
He had lost his way when riding in the hills, and after a day without food he began to grow hungry.
Well, it's a family failing I guess, for his father did the same, only he began with his farm and let the roads alone.
Becky was sure now that Emily was going to read something of her own after this artful introduction, and began to smile as the paper was produced and the first four lines read in a tone that was half timid, half triumphant.
You never need fear to lose it; we will see to that if you will let us," began Mrs. Spenser, who was both a rich and a generous woman.
Becky sunk upon the red cushion prepared for her, and sat looking down at the animated speaker, as Emily, perched on a mossy stone before her, began the performance.
He began a confused complaint against the wizard, who had vanished behind the curtain on the left.
He kept repeating it in all kinds of tones, and those about him began to laugh also.
But now the green of the glass began to fade; and it seemed to become opaque and misty.
Ere long the butchers began yawning and quarrelling betwixt themselves; and Robin artfully persuaded them, by setting one against the other, to a free fight.
The captain wound his horn to such purpose that the bridge was soon lowered, and the whole party began to trot over it into the wide courtyard before the hall.
Indignation gave Middle the advantage, and he fought with such fury that Robin's sidesbegan to ache.
It was a royal procession, and soon as Little John was able to join with it his bagbegan to swell rapidly.
The little ex-tumbler would have liked to have done tricks and shown his cleverness in the business, had there been time for it: as it was, Will dropped beside Robin lightly and easily, and instantly the two began to cross the court.
Again the robbers laughed, as the clerk began explaining very volubly to them that they were welcome to all that Mother Church could on this occasion offer.
The dogs within Gamewell beganto bark and growl, and presently they heard sounds of approach.
The little mare, shaking herself suddenly to a gallop, understood; and now began a race between bow and beast.
The Squire began now to believe Ford's tale that young Fitzooth was of the outlaw band, and at once withdrew all support of Robin so far as the Rangership of Locksley was concerned.
Geoffrey may have some reasonable excuse, brother mine," began the dame, anxious to make peace.
Warrenton and most of the men began forthwith to dance; and Stuteley, seizing the Bishop by one hand, commenced to hop up and down.
Then Edward began to reform many abuses; many good laws were made, and trade was encouraged with other nations.
At last her strong health beganto fail; she had survived parents, husbands, and her only son, but when those around her saw she could not live "it pierced their hearts like a spear.
When the dukes found he was not likely to live long, they began to scheme for his successor.
He began to repair an old church in Canterbury, which is the present Canterbury Cathedral.
He had paid her many visits, when one day she began to talk to him on many interesting subjects.
Then her father beganto teach her drawing; he showed her how to mix the colours, and lay them on; he explained to her about light and shade, and gave her models to copy.
To occupy her mind, Mrs. Somerville began to write another book.
But their position of King and Queen of Bohemia was not secure; jealousybegan to show itself in the princes round them, and Frederick felt that at any moment the threatened storm might burst.
So, Lee began straight shooting--normal enlargement and reduction of straight copy.
He began working under me and I began the process of teaching him how to use our equipment.
Then, we'll say his personality began to come out.
From that moment began an estrangement between Weed and the Buffalo statesman which was to last until both were grown gray and civil war had obliterated differences of political sentiment.
It is not easy to pierce the fog which shrouds the division of the party; but it is clear that when Seward became governor and Weed dictator, trouble began in respect to men and to measures.
A beam of light shot through the darkness, and I began to get glimpses of the question at issue.
Weed beganthe publication of the Manlius Republican in June, 1821.
Anti-slavery societies began to form in every county and in most of the towns of some counties.
Gradually the truth began to dawn as men talked and compared notes, and before three months had elapsed Jefferson's estimate of Burr's character corresponded with Hamilton's.
At the age of fourteen, he began sweeping an office and running errands for a country attorney, who taught him the law.
Like the strokes of a fire bell at night, it alarmed the people, whose confidence began to waver and finally to give way.
He began to drink too freely even for those days of deep drink.
When Seymour began co-operating with the Barnburners, ambition prompted him to modify his original canal views so far as to oppose the Whig law authorising a loan of nine million dollars to enlarge the Erie canal.
The Whigs became enthusiastic, and, as the United States Bank now began relieving the commercial embarrassment by extending its loans and giving its friends in New York special advantages, the party felt certain of victory.
Poussatin performed wonders before the queen; but as he danced with great sprightliness, she could not bear the savour which his violent motions diffused through the room; the ladies likewise began to pray for relief.
They began with Béziers, although the viscount was known to be a Catholic.
When he was gone the inhabitants returned and began to restore their wrecked and gutted houses and to repair the walls.
She offered them an asylum, and listened to their harangues without the impatience shown by her husband, who, when they began to preach, retired to his bottle and his cards.
She began by studying the patois and worked at it so diligently that she was herself astounded at the progress she made.
She began by confiscating Church property and appropriating to herself monastic lands.
During the meal they shook off their despondency, and began to be merry over their cups, when, at a signal from Montgomery, soldiers entered and butchered all the barons about the table where they had been feasting.
At length the English reached the top of the hill, and, pursuing the enemy, began to move along the narrow ridge which stretched from S.
On the farther side of the stream is another villa, which I began to dig out, but found the pavements nearer the surface and not so well preserved.
The Hundred Years’ War began through the attempt of Philip of Valois (1337) on the Aquitanian dominions of Edward III.
By this time a vague rumour had reached the town that something had happened to the Count, and the townsmen began to assemble in the streets.
O yes,' he replied, 'I have learnt to read, and I beganwith the most difficult subjects.
It was the clergyman with some boors from the village, who immediately began to make search all over in the house.
At these words the chief rabbi fell back upon his chair, and began to lament over my lost soul.
It was only after everything had become quiet again, and the family had returned to the house, that the maid remembered having lost me in the flight, when she began to lament and wring her hands.
He began by entering into correspondence with my father on the subject, and left it to him to prescribe the conditions of the union.
Then I crept out again, and began to pinch her cruelly; and after a while I slipped silently back to bed.
As he could effect nothing with me by such disputation, he adopted the style of mere sermonising; but when this also was of no avail, he began to cry aloud, "Shophar!
They even began at last openly to manifest their enmity.
There began the feud which to-day continues to divide our language, though the descendants of the primitive stocks are inextricably mingled.
And now began that life of thought and feeling so conspicuous to the end of his too brief career.
I began also to have my own doubts, as I perceived that an "affinity" was gradually being developed between Stilton and Miss Fetters.
Soon after this, circlesbegan to be formed in my native town, for the purpose of table-moving.
She "had began to learn how to find life in every-day work, just as she saw a new sun rise every day.
This I was almost led to believe, from the way in which he began to speak to me.
Disordered health soon began to appear, and a too rapid determination of blood to the brain often deprived him of the power of much mental labor.
Auguste, receiving no invitation to be seated, began by taking a chair and stretched out his legs, already looking with disfavor upon the gentleman who was not courteous enough to offer him a seat.
This conversation suggested an idea to our hare-brained youth; he wrapped his head in his handkerchief, and began to cough and spit, imitating the decidedly nasal notes of the marquis.
Bertrand began again on his campaigns; Schtrack smoked four cigars, and it was nearly midnight when our friends were informed that it was closing time.
He began by changing his too vulgar name for that of La Thomassinière.
With another glance at Auguste, he began once more: "I received a superficial education; but I was to have twenty thousand francs a year, and I was assured that I knew quite enough.
It is certain, lieutenant, that there are a great many people who began with much less.
My first thought was to go and question Schtrack; he hadn't seen you and he didn't know mademoiselle's address; we began to walk the streets trying to find you.
The peasants bowed low to the great ladies; some young gallants of the village, in order to win favor with the strangers at once, began to push one another and exchange fisticuffs, and yelled with delight when one of them fell to the floor.
Afterward, when he began to be careless in his dress, and the fashion of serenading had passed away, the commoner people dared to shorten the title to "'Sieur George.
Some one dragged a chair out toward the railing, then seemed to change his mind and began to pace the veranda, his footfalls resounding on the dry boards with singular loudness.
She pulled from her pocket a wad of dark cotton handkerchief, from which she began to untie the imprisoned note.
The father's face--he thought of but one way to settle a quarrel--began instantly to brighten.
Two days later, signs and rumors of sickness began to find place about the Café des Réfugiés, and the Mexican physician made three calls in one day.
She was here a moment ago," said Di, and she began to sort the flowers all over again.
People said that he bore a charmed life, and they began to say something more, namely, that it was an object to somebody that it should be wiped out.
Towards nine o'clock in the evening carriage after carriage began to drive up to Overleigh in the moonlight.
That Archie should have been out all night was not surprising, but that he should be still out now in his evening clothes in the daytime, began to be incomprehensible.
And one if not two persons, perhaps even a third old enough to know better, began the unprofitable task of counting days.
For at that moment the alarm-bell of the Castle began to toll.
There was a sharp report, a momentary puff of light in smoke, and John staggered, and began scratching and scraping the ice with his skates.
When Colonel Tempest began to dwell on "the goodness and the grace that on his birth had smiled," shall we blame Di if she put on the clock half an hour, and rang for the nurse?
Presently she got up, and, opening the corner cupboard, beganto put them away; but the impulse of tidying was forgotten as she caught sight of John's robin mug on the top shelf.
He began to fit them together with the pleased interest of a child.
As she looked, the others raised something between them in a fur rug, something heavy, and began to move slowly to the bank.
There were lights and a fire in the music-room, and she went in there, and began absently to take off her hat and long crepe veil.
Other consequences of that letterbegan to dawn on Di's awakening consciousness.
Onward we went, our old engine puffing and wheezing like a heavy horse, for by this time the engines on Southern railroads began to show the need of the mechanics who had been driven north by the war.
Soon he began to talk incoherently, then to mutter something about home and food.
As the money beganto circulate, trade began to flourish.
The stragglers from the regiment began to come in and the brigade was soon together again, but we did no more fighting that day.
As the train pulled out of Danville that morning, our hopes began to rise in proportion to the distance we placed between ourselves and our late prison.
They began to die off in a few days after their arrival, they seemed never to have recovered from their first shock.
Word was passed around and all who had valuables began to secrete them.
Collins left me I began to look for some safe place and seeing a twenty-four pounder battery, with a Union flag, I started toward it.
Very soon webegan to hear the sharp “fizt and ping” of bullets, a sound already familiar to our ears for we were veterans of two years service, and then we began to take the Johnies in “out of the wet.
I began to think that it was all up with me, but thanks to the kindness of my “pards”, Rouse and Ole, I pulled through and from that day began to get better of dysentery and scurvy with which I was afflicted.
All went lovely for a time but after running a few hours they began to meet wild trains which had been frightened off from the M.
But the news we did get after Sherman and Grant began the advance, was of a cheering kind, and we had strong hopes of the ultimate success of the Union cause.
I then began to look around among the prisoners for those with whom I was acquainted.
About 8 o’clock in the morning Wirz came in accompanied by a squad of soldiers, and a gang of negroes armed with shovels, who beganto dig up the tunnel.
The result of all this gambling and trading, together with another cause which I will mention, was, that the Pilgrims were soon relieved of all their money, and then began to trade their clothing.
For all that, and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had vanished, I made my way to the side of the burn, and had a plunge in a deep whirling pool.
And then all of a sudden I was in quiet water, and began to come to myself.
A little farther on, and I was told I was in Cramond parish, and began to substitute in my inquiries the name of the house of Shaws.
But his face went against me; it seemed dark and dangerous and secret; and presently, as we began to go on alongside, I saw the steel butt of a pistol sticking from under the flap of his coat-pocket.
Alan, besides, had an odd look, like a man not very well content; and I began to have a strong misgiving.
He had no sooner seen me than he began to dance some steps of the sea-hornpipe (which I had never before heard of far less seen), snapping his fingers in the air and footing it right cleverly.
As the morning went on, and the fires began to be kindled, and the windows to open, and the people to appear out of the houses, my concern and despondency grew ever the blacker.
The soldiers beganto spread, some of them to run, and others to put up their pieces and cover me; and still I stood.
At last we were clear of the houses, and began to go along the side of the haven and towards the Hawes Inn and the Ferry pier, the scene of my misfortune.
Yet nearer, and there began to come to our ears a great sound of mourning, the people on board and those on the shore crying and lamenting one to another so as to pierce the heart.
But it was necessary to hold a tight rein, and John's hands soon began to feel tortured and twisted with the strain upon them biting through their numbness like screws of pain.
Swathed and bundled as they were, the girls very soonbegan to feel the deadly chill in the icy air.
So down-town they went, and Miss Blake not alone bought the jelly, but so many other things as well, that presently Nan began to have a feeling that for such a poor woman the governess was inclined to be extravagant.
Then without another word she turned her head away, and slowly, slowly the carriage moved and began its snail's-pace journey townward.
I guess she comes of nice folks," said Delia, as she began to peel the potatoes.
Her father--again the hot tears came surging up, and her breastbegan to heave.
Miss Blake placed the hat she held gently upon a table and began to examine the others carefully, Nan standing by in sullen silence.
I think it must have been the first real experience I ever had," began Miss Blake, musingly.
Well, once upon a time," began the governess in a gentle monotone, "there lived two girls and they were friends.
Carpets were taken up, some of them never to go down again, curtains were unhung, cleaned and folded carefully away, and when the coast was clear the work of remodelling began in earnest.
The governess roused herself with a smile and an apology and began at once to chat briskly again.
You remember," he began at length, in a hesitating sort of way, "that I told you some time ago that I had some reason to fear that affairs were not prospering at Bombay.
And she took up the paper and began searching for the editorial page.
It began with that eclipse of the soul which preceded and commenced the present state of man, and was occasioned by the intervention of a foreign body between it and the sun which gave it light.
On the whole it began even there with the cognition of man--of his diseases and their cure.
I will say I began to give reasons for my faith in the laws of life as given to men, worlds and beings by the God of nature, June, 1874, when I began to talk and propound questions to men of learning.
But should he ring to call the cook and her bell keep on ringing and she and clerk could not stop it, and they summon an electrician, what would you think if he began at the parlor bell to adjust a trouble of the kitchen bell?
Though it is but a short time since I beganto treat by this method, it has proven good with the young and old.
No doubt their religion was better than ours, before they began to fight about their gods and governments.
I began to think more about the dry wax that is always found in cases of croup, sore throat, tonsilitis, pneumonia, and all diseases of the lungs, nose and head.
Some understanding of her began to creep upon him; he dropped the child's hand, and came a step nearer.
So Amelia and the guest began their meal, while little Rosie climbed, rather soberly, into her higher chair, and held out her plate.
She brought out the mixing-board, and began to put her bread in the pans, while the tin kitchen stood in readiness by the hearth.
She began stepping back and forth as if she moved to the measure of an unheard song, and the pleasant hum of her spinning broke delicately upon the ear.
I'm sorry to have her lose so much of your visit," began the parson courteously, but still perplexing himself over the whimsies of an old lady who flew on from the West, and made nothing of flying back.
There is something in your Bible," began the schoolmaster hesitatingly, "about a box of precious ointment.
Then she and the schoolmaster, by one accord, began to laugh.
The old lady began to seem to him a thought too discursive, if not hilarious.
She gave herself no time to think, but went up to her flower-stand and began to cut the geranium blossoms and the rose.
She adjusted a roll to the spindle, and, quite forgetting aunt Ann, began stepping back and forth in a rhythmical march of feminine service.
Hattie began rocking, in a rapid staccato, to punctuate her speech.
We marveled over her guessing how keenly she was needed; but since she never explained, it began to be noised abroad that some wandering peddler told her.
III Luncheon over, the passengers, many of whom had been continuously in their berths, began to crowd the decks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "began" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
