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Example sentences for "this sort"

  • But, as I was saying, there is a good deal of difficulty in this sort of knowledge, and therefore we had better leave the question open until we have heard both sides.

  • They were not used to this sort of thing: it was neither just nor courteous.

  • I told her that she must not allow her mind to dwell upon things of this sort; being wholly against the last commandment set up in our church at Oare.

  • Lorna, looking up at me, and blushing now a far brighter blush than when she spoke of Charlie; 'I thought that you were much too simple ever to do this sort of thing.

  • The best example of this sort of thing would be the perception of assault and battery.

  • In my ``Manual'' I have discussed a series of cases of this sort, and show how the memory might come into play.

  • Questions of this sort, however, deal with the generality of human nature, and do not directly concern us.

  • I expect, in truth, that the procedures here described will be doubted to be even possible, but doubters are recommended to examine a few cases for the presence of this sort of thing.

  • This sort of thing would end by shattering the poor little man's nerves.

  • For that matter, it was raining in torrents; and it seemed as though the lovers of this sort of show would not be very numerous.

  • But, tush, this sort of business has to be carried through with a high hand!

  • Why did a woman of this sort live on Egdon Heath?

  • This sort of thing would have an odd look if known.

  • To Yeobright any possibility of this sort was a serious matter; and he almost felt troubled at the thought of it.

  • Here the conversation ceased, Eustacia's moral training never exceeding in severity a dialogue of this sort, which, if it ever became profitable to good works, would be a result not dear at the price.

  • I anticipated no overflowings of fraternal tenderness; Edward's letters had always been such as to prevent the engendering or harbouring of delusions of this sort.

  • I thought you had sounder sense than to get mixed up in foreign hodge-podge of this sort.

  • A besom of this sort is to be seen in Sir Ashton Lever's Museum.

  • Romance and sentiment cannot long survive this sort of discouragement; so the singing and talking presently ceased; which so delighted the parrot that he cursed himself hoarse for joy.

  • I had to make the best of this sort of treatment for the time being, but I had comforting daydreams of a future when I should be a great and honored pilot, with plenty of money, and could kill some of these mates and clerks and pay for them.

  • There was an old negro woman of this sort.

  • But when gleaming objects dense, As chiefly mirrors, have been set before it, Nothing of this sort happens.

  • In things of this sort, much must be made sure Ere thou account of the thing itself canst give, And the approaches roundabout must be; Wherefore the more do I exact of thee A mind and ears attent.

  • Besides, he had seen men panic-stricken by a sudden attack of this sort.

  • This led to an acquaintance: it could hardly be otherwise, for little Tergou had never held so many as two zealots of this sort before.

  • This sort of penitence is not rare, and has the merit of being sincere.

  • So after that sort--thing--this sort thing is heaven.

  • But the truth is that Plato subjects himself to no rule of this sort.

  • Numerous fictions of this sort occur in the Dialogues, and the gravity of Plato has sometimes imposed upon his commentators.

  • And if he is sceptical about them, and would fain reduce them one after another to the rules of probability, this sort of crude philosophy will take up a great deal of time.

  • This sort of happiness in the absolute and everlasting is what we find nowhere but in religion.

  • An intimate friend of mine, one of the keenest intellects I know, has had several experiences of this sort.

  • It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour; though enough appearances of this sort are on record, by way of miraculous exception, to merit our attention later.

  • I felt suddenly that “this sort of thing” would kill me.

  • It was no longer a question of “this sort of thing” killing me.

  • The intimacy of this sort of attendance helped the growth of my authority.

  • As for your doctrine that like loves like, it is as wrong as possible in matters of this sort.

  • Everybody knows that Killdeer seldom misses; and ought we to make a trial of this sort when we all know what must be the result?

  • I should think your uncle here would like an expedition of this sort, where we shall go with sails, and have a look at an inland sea?

  • Poetry of this sort must be small in amount; a few hundred lines contain it all; but they alone shrine the original grandeur, not so much of the American landscape, as of wild nature when first felt in the primitive American world.

  • Nor is there any ground for supposing that marriages are to any great extent influenced by reflections of this sort, which seem unable to make any head against the irresistible impulse of individual attachment.

  • I perceive, I said, that you have or have had experiences of this sort, and I agree.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    followed him; large sum; this argument; this coast; this committee; this continent; this country; this date; this extraordinary; this field; this first; this good; this light; this measure; this moment; this nation; this point; this portion; this practice; this same; this sense; this ship; this situation; this tale; this very; this war