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Example sentences for "genie"

Lexicographically close words:
geni; genial; geniality; genially; geniculate; genies; genii; genio; genital; genitalia
  1. The Genie of the Lamp was at work: the life-giving power of Gold was being pumped from her own into the poor old woman's poverty-shrunken veins.

  2. The chill of possible desertion suddenly crept over her, (The Genie is often unmindful of others, especially the poor.

  3. This work may be regarded as the argument of the Genie du christianisme thrown into an objective form.

  4. Rene had appeared in 1802 as an episode of the Genie du christianisme, and was published separately at Leipzig without its author's consent in the same year.

  5. Atala, ou les amours de deux sauvages dans le desert, used as an episode in the Genie du christianisme, appeared separately in 1801 and immediately made his reputation.

  6. Chateaubriand's thoughts turned to religion, and on his return to France in 1800 the Genie du christianisme was already in an advanced state.

  7. The Eloa of Alfred de Vigny, the Harmonies of Lamartine and even the Legende des siecles of Victor Hugo may be said to have been inspired by the Genie du christianisme.

  8. Startling Appearance of an Oriental Genie in the City.

  9. You don't think it has a genie inside, like the sealed jar the fisherman found in the 'Arabian Nights'?

  10. Much as if a grim old genie had planted them together, the lovers found themselves alone.

  11. Nancy read the following words on a little white card: "From a genie to a good fairy, with compliments.

  12. Nancy looked just as sweet as the genie thought she would when he selected her dress.

  13. And if a little girl has a genie for a friend, why, anything may happen to her.

  14. Is it not wonderful to have a genie for a friend?

  15. When all was ready the genie grasped a great lever and shouted, "Ho, Menuhkesen!

  16. In fact, he did whatever the genie ordered him to do, without an instant's delay or any demur.

  17. Then the genie stood on the bank overlooking the falls and shouted: "Ho, afrits!

  18. When they had dug down a hundred feet, the genie commanded them to tunnel under the falls.

  19. O my betrothed, what shrieks and roars were those: with which the Genie awoke, finding himself bare of the Identical!

  20. Now, when the Genie had done my bidding, he returned to me joyfully.

  21. Oolb heard them, and the sea foamed like the mouth of madness, as the Genie sped thunder-like over it, following me in mid-air.

  22. But the Genie said, 'Nay, there will come a time for that, traitress!

  23. Meantime, I uncharmed the youth and bade him retire quickly; but as he was going, he said, 'Beware of the Genie Karaz!

  24. Then the Genie lifted me into the air, and ceased not speeding rapidly through it, till I was on the roof of the house of Ravaloke.

  25. And the Genie Karaz came slanting down the night air, like a preying bird, and stood among them.

  26. Immediately the genie appeared, more gigantic and terrible-looking than ever.

  27. The genie had grown so transparent now that it was only by straining her eyes that Ellen could still see his shape as one sees an empty glass.

  28. Did you say that if you held that lamp and rubbed it a genie would come?

  29. The genie struck his foot upon the ground and muttered some magic words.

  30. Ellen and the others looked at each other while the gander craned its neck this way and that, as if to make sure that the genie had really gone.

  31. And now farewell, and remember if thou shouldst ever wish to have that castle thou needst only clap thy hands three times and call upon the genie of the lamp to fulfil his promise and it shall be thine.

  32. He must have been terribly afraid all the time that enemies would get it and make the genie destroy him and his castle.

  33. She still held the lamp in her hands, and the genie was still with her.

  34. Then the thing for you to do is to rub the lamp and when the genie comes to tell him to set you free.

  35. She told him of its being a magic lamp, and of how, if any one rubbed it a great genie would appear who would do whatever he was told to do by the one who held the lamp.

  36. She was afraid if she summoned the genie in there it would frighten the busy people around her.

  37. I have heard of a genie in a bottle, but never of a castle in a jar," he cried.

  38. Illustration] Immediately, and with a sound like a thunder-clap a terrible black genie appeared before her.

  39. La connaissance de la methode qui a guide l'homme de genie n'est pas moins utile an progres de la science et meme a sa propre gloire, que ses decouvertes.

  40. It was not for the pen of mortal to unlock the heart of the true prince, unless the genie willed it.

  41. It seemed disloyal to deny such a friend for such a reason; but he had learned that the genie who now accompanied him day and night wherever he went, had one very sinister quality.

  42. A life of unimaginable squalor and hardship had not been able to slay the genie sleeping in that elemental soul.

  43. The strange tale grew at the back of the genie who tended the lamp, and with it grew the soul of Henry Harper.

  44. The genie who lived in the wonderful lamp in his brain had taught him already that he knew nothing about whole stellar spaces in this strange cosmos that he, the thing he called himself, inhabited.

  45. And this morning, alas, the genie was not amenable.

  46. The voice of the genie was no longer heard.

  47. The Marchioness is a Genie and having had a wager with another Genie about who is the handsomest young man alive, and the worthiest to be the husband of the Princess of China, has brought me away, room and all, to compare us together.

  48. The Genie crossed arms and grabbed something for us out of both his bags at the same time.

  49. Just as I was looking up, surprised at his tone more than his words, there came a burst of music, and part of the wall, with the platform on which the Genie and his Lamp had been standing, rolled away.

  50. While it was being rubbed the magic lamp flared up, and gave out the bright red light we'd seen at a distance, and simultaneously the Genie took something from a huge sequin covered bag he had looped over one of his arms.

  51. Her reformation by the genie Clair-Obscur would not be bad if it were cut a great deal shorter.

  52. The genie has discovered his Lady's little ways, and has resolved to avenge himself on her by strict custody, and by a means of delivery which, if possible, might not have entirely displeased her.

  53. The Genie du Christianisme embodied a commentary on her contention, more arresting than any she could herself have furnished.

  54. The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan's.

  55. Whereupon the genie took the vizir's son out of bed, leaving Aladdin with the princess.

  56. The magician thanked him who spoke, and having seen the palace knew that it had been raised by the genie of the lamp, and became half mad with rage.

  57. Aladdin, knowing that their task was vain, bade them undo their work and carry the jewels back, and the genie finished the window at his command.

  58. He then went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China.

  59. The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine.

  60. He rubbed it, and the genie appeared, saying: "What is thy will?

  61. The genie appeared, and at the magician's command carried him, together with the palace and the princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.

  62. When they had eaten all the genie had brought, Aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on till none were left.

  63. Aladdin then went to his chamber, where, sure enough at midnight the genie transported the bed containing the vizir's son and the princess.

  64. The genie gave such a loud and terrible shriek that the hall shook.

  65. Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied that my prince surpasses your princess?

  66. He left her and rubbed the lamp, and when the genie appeared commanded him to bring a roc's egg.

  67. At the appointed hour the genie fetched in the shivering bridegroom, laid him in his place, and transported the bed back to the palace.

  68. Instantly a hideous genie appeared, and asked what she would have.

  69. Immediately an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying: "What wouldst thou with me?

  70. The genie of the cart, the hewer of wood and drawer of water, is a tall, wiry, bronze-colored Hindu.

  71. No sooner had the words left his lips than the Genie gave a great cry of rejoicing, so piercing that it made Abdallah’s flesh creep, and then, fetching the black casket a kick that sent it flying over the tree tops, vanished instantly.

  72. Then there came a great troop of horsemen with shining armor and with music, sent by the Genie to escort Jacob Stuck and the princess and the king and the prime-minister to Jacob Stuck’s new palace.

  73. It was in vain that the Genie begged and implored for mercy, it was in vain that he reminded Abdallah of all that he had done to benefit him; the great emperor stood as hard as a rock--into the casket the Genie must and should go.

  74. To hear is to obey,” said the Genie of Good Luck; and, as soon as he had made everything ready, away he flew to fetch the princess again.

  75. Hardly were the words out of his mouth when the Genie snatched Abdallah up, and, flying swifter than the lightning, set him down in the middle of the highway on the outskirts of the forest before he had fairly caught his breath.

  76. Instantly there stood the Genie before him.

  77. Well, Jacob Stuck could hardly wait for the night to come to summon the Genie of Good Luck.

  78. He pulled his piece of blue glass out of his pocket and breathed upon it and rubbed it with his thumb, and instantly the Genie was there.

  79. Then, hiding it under his cloak, he bore it out into the garden and to a deep well, and, first making sure that nobody was by to see, dropped casket and Genie and all into the water.

  80. He stepped into the thicket beside the way, where he might be out of sight, and there pressed the stone in his ring, and at his bidding the Genie stood before him.

  81. Then, before she had time to think, the Genie of Good Luck snatched the princess up once more and flew back to the palace more swiftly than the wind.

  82. Tis the turn of yonder old gentleman,” said the Soldier who cheated the Devil, and he pointed with the stem of his pipe to the Fisherman who unbottled the Genie that King Solomon had corked up and thrown into the sea.

  83. Then the Genie flew back again whence he had come.

  84. Then twelve o’clock sounded, the lights went out, and the Genie took the princess home again.

  85. The Genie himself aided Abdallah to dress, and when he looked down he felt, for the time, quite satisfied.

  86. And here came in the genie to supply the link which led to the formation of my plan.

  87. I say it was a good genie that suggested the idea to me, for, looking back upon it, I can account for it in no other way.

  88. Yet it was during one of these concerts that some good genie flashed upon my invention a plan which promised (if it could be carried out) to solve the very difficulty I had almost given up as insoluble.

  89. When Aladdin was left alone in the hall, after the workmen had gone to the sultan, he took the lamp which he carried about him and rubbed it till the genie appeared.

  90. Then for the second time the genie brought a tray and dishes of silver loaded with appetizing food, all as fine and valuable as those of the first gift.

  91. Taking some water and sand, she began to rub the lamp, when in an instant a genie of gigantic size and hideous appearance stood before her and called out in a voice of thunder: "What wouldst thou have?

  92. The genie led Aladdin through all the apartments, where were officers and slaves, clothed according to their rank.

  93. A moment after the genie had set the couch down in the chamber of the palace, the sultan came to the door to offer his good wishes to his daughter.

  94. In doing so, he happened to rub the ring which the magician had put upon his finger, and immediately a genie of frightful aspect appeared.

  95. Aladdin then told her how the genie had explained these facts, and how narrowly she had escaped destruction through the treacherous suggestion which had led to her request.

  96. The genie made no reply, but with the assistance of his fellows the slave of the lamp transported the magician and the palace and every one in it to that spot in Egypt where the sorcerer wished to be.

  97. All this was placed upon the carpet before Aladdin, and then the genie disappeared.

  98. At break of day, the genie appeared bringing back the bridegroom, whom he had entranced and left motionless outside the door of Aladdin's chamber during the night.

  99. At that summons the genie appeared to him as he had to Aladdin and said, "What wouldst thou have?

  100. At any other time, so hideous a figure as that of the genie would have frightened Aladdin, but the danger was so great that he cried out to the spirit, "Whoever thou art, deliver me from this place.

  101. Instantly the same genie that he had seen in the cave appeared before him and said, "What wouldst thou?

  102. The genie executed all these difficult commands in a moment.

  103. In a very short time after Aladdin had retired to his apartment and conversed again with the genie of the lamp, a train of forty black slaves led by the same number of white slaves appeared opposite the house in which Aladdin lived.

  104. I wish some old genie would take it into his head to hunt me up, and try the same sort of a dodge with me.

  105. To attempt to put this electronic genie back in the bottle was flatly impossible.

  106. As soon as they again wanted money they sold the golden plates and dishes, and when these were all gone Aladdin ordered the Genie to bring more, and so they lived in comfort for several years.

  107. Instantly the Genie of the Ring stood before him.

  108. Then he rubbed the magic lamp, and when the Genie appeared, he bade him provide the forty golden basins filled with jewels, and all the slaves which the Sultan had demanded.

  109. Fetch me something to eat," he said in a trembling voice, for the terrible Genie was glaring down upon him.

  110. Immediately the Genie stood before him and asked what was his will.

  111. With these words the Genie vanished, and.

  112. He rubbed it joyfully, and when the Genie appeared, ordered that the palace should be carried back to China, and set down in its own place.


  113. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.