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Example sentences for "soul"

Lexicographically close words:
soughed; soughing; sought; soughte; soughtest; sould; souldier; souldiers; souldiors; souldiour
  1. Some recurring brightness which is to the human soul what the sunlight is to the earth--a thousand harmonies spring from the one source.

  2. It widened the gulf between herself and her husband, and fed her discontent from the perennial springs of regret which occasionally submerge the barren woman's soul in bitter waters.

  3. Taking the hand of the poor dying fellow tenderly in his own, Stiles knelt right down by him on that wet, bloody ground, and, in a fervent prayer commended his soul to God.

  4. The very next moment he gave a violent start, looked wildly about him, turned the colour of cold veal, and muttering, "Lord bless my soul .

  5. Hardly a soul is now to be seen in the streets of London.

  6. You alone can waken my soul to sorrow, You alone can mend all the broken music: Subtler tones of thought than this shattered singing Words have divided!

  7. I don’t think looks matter so much,” said Letty practically, “if you keep your soul all nice and clean inside you.

  8. Her little woman’s soul took as thriftily to household duties as the boy’s instinct turned to sport.

  9. But after she told me that, I knew it was just her angel soul looking out through her eyes.

  10. We’ve kept the secret splendidly and not a soul knows anything except those who are in it,” went on Jane importantly.

  11. Stayton, a man whose whole soul seemed to be permeated with Navy atmosphere, and who is always to be depended upon in Navy matters.

  12. When I regained consciousness the play was at the other end of the field, not a soul was near me or thinking of me.

  13. It stirred something within me, and down deep in my soul there was born a desire to go to college.

  14. This man put his whole soul into his work and was never found wanting.

  15. There is in all things referring to man's soul a secret influence which does not necessarily require the fire of man's heart to make it effective.

  16. My soul grows faint with fear, Even as if angel steps had mark'd the sod; I tremble when I move--the voice of God Is in the foliage here.

  17. The soldier's head bowed; he felt he could not, he dare not, meet the soul he had ruined; the thought of the terrible record against him broke down his spirit.

  18. The scene in Hubert's room had urged him to be more earnest in his Master's cause, and his soul was full of prayer that a heavenly ray might illume Hubert's darkened heart and bring him to the feet of Jesus.

  19. When you came in the Virgin’s blessed shrine Fell from its nail, and when you sat down here You poured out wine as the wood sidheogs do When they’d entice a soul out of the world.

  20. It is only the soul that can suffer no injury.

  21. There soon will be no man or woman’s soul Unbargained for in fivescore baronies.

  22. When you were telling how A man may lose his soul and lose his God, Your eyes lighted, and the strange weariness That hangs about you vanished.

  23. But you must sign, for we omit no form In buying a soul like yours; sign with this quill; It was a feather growing on the cock That crowed when Peter dared deny his Master, And all who use it have great honour in Hell.

  24. O maker of all, protect her from the demons, And if a soul must needs be lost, take mine.

  25. The demons give a hundred crowns and more For a poor soul like his who lies asleep By your great door under the porter’s niche; A little soul not worth a hundred pence.

  26. What matter if the soul be worth the price?

  27. Oh, who has dared meddle with a soul that was in the tumults on the threshold of sanctity?

  28. Do not, do not; the souls of us poor folk Are not precious to God as your soul is.

  29. Leap, feathered, on the air And meet them with her soul caught in your claws.

  30. I come to barter a soul for a great price.

  31. The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

  32. Nothing but prayer can reach a soul that is so far beyond the world as his soul is at this moment.

  33. An incursion such as we made seemed to pain her correct soul acutely.

  34. It was like a hoarse rumbling cry, now soft and almost plaintive, again louder and like a shriek of a damned soul in the fires of the nether world.

  35. I wondered if even they, by some magic intuition, might not pierce the very soul of man and uncover a lying heart.

  36. Florent meantime remained the leader, the soul of the conspiracy.

  37. As for the Quenus, who play such prominent parts in the narrative, the husband is a weakling with no soul above his stewpans, whilst his wife, the beautiful Lisa, in reality wears the breeches and rules the roast.

  38. His thoughts were chiefly upon Kingsley and Nansie; what he had heard concerning them had touched him nearly; it had, as it were, opened a window in his soul which had been darkened all his life.

  39. Small forests of straight and stately trees are there, full of solemn visions, lifting one's thoughts heavenward, and attuning the soul to more than earthly glory.

  40. For this labor she was paid in coin one shilling a day, and a share of his bread and cheese or bread and meat, as well as of the sundry pots of beer his thirsty soul demanded in his peregrinations.

  41. He knew that Kingsley possessed a soul of frankness and honesty, and he could not readily bring himself to believe that it was cunning and duplicity which had induced his son to seek this interview.

  42. I cannot now recall all that he said, but I know that his last dear conversation with me left me better than I had been, and that with all my heart and soul I thank him for his gentle teaching.

  43. The crime would be his, not his father's; upon his soul would rest the sin.

  44. Teddy did not hear the sweet sounds; he had answered the call, and his soul was with God and the angels.

  45. Uncle, he is the soul of honor, truth, and unselfishness.

  46. There had been no resignation in his soul to soften his sufferings, and he had not sought the consolation which charity or religion would have shed upon him.

  47. No soul regards him, or attends his yelp.

  48. Day had dawned with an incomparable loveliness; it was the feast of Noël, and an extraordinary blitheness of soul was hers.

  49. His habit of mind was far too methodical to allow him the luxury of doing anything so unaccounted for as abandoning himself to another; but there were certainly three things in his soul which took a distanced precedence of all others.

  50. I can help you," he said, "and it is pleasure to my soul to do so.

  51. Germanos received him immediately with kindness and courtesy, though the little Mitsos, remembering the affairs at Tripoli, was as stiff as the soul of a ramrod.

  52. The little well of tenderness and humanity, which had so long been choked by the salt and bitter sands of the soul in which it rose, suddenly swelled and overflowed.

  53. But in the storm of her soul she heeded not, and that chill and windy rain played but a minor part in the wild and bitter symphony of her thoughts.

  54. Should the deceased be more than ten years of age, candles or oil lamps are burned during eight days over the spot where the body was bathed in order to lighten the way of the soul into the beyond.

  55. Upon the death of a person "Grogh" conducted the soul of the departed before his master, who opened the great book, and balancing the good and evil deeds, assigned a reward or punishment.

  56. For example, Armenians generally bathe the bodies of their dead in blessed water, and wash the clothes of the deceased on the day following burial for the purification of the soul so that it may arrive spotless at its destination.

  57. In order to possess a bright soul one must have performed good works, of which giving alms to the poor is considered the most important.

  58. Since the soul has been cleansed of all sin through the symbolic washing of the body and clothes, no more covering is required for the body than a large white cloth.

  59. The people imitate by throwing three handfuls of dust, and the ceremony completed, all return to the home of the deceased where they partake of steaming broth prepared by the neighbors and friends, and recite prayers for the soul of the dead.

  60. Then there arose the idea of facilitating the journey of the departed into the beyond, and of making the future life of the soul a happier one.

  61. It is the story of an unconquerable soul even more than of an unconquerable ship.

  62. His ballads are the ballads of a brilliant dilettante, not of a man who is expressing his whole heart and soul and faith, as the old ballad-writers were.

  63. To say this is not to deny the spiritual content of Dostoevsky's work--the anguish of the imprisoned soul as it battles with doubt and denial and despair.

  64. The Confessions of a Fool is less a revelation of the soul of his first wife than an attack on her.

  65. Typhoon was, I fancy, not consciously intended as a dramatization of the struggle between the soul and the Prince of the power of the air.

  66. In each of them the soul of man challenges fate with its terrors: it dares all, it risks all, it invades and defeats the darkness.

  67. He always sought to bring peace to his soul by means of ritual.

  68. It is a parable of trial--a chant of the soul that has "emerged out of the iron time.

  69. His symbols were not wings to enable the soul to escape into a divine world of beauty.

  70. He is rather a tragic satirist with the soul of a lyric poet.

  71. Yet he knew only too well that there had been change in the unchanging and in his soul dwelt a sickening certainty that the eternal would be the transient.

  72. She came into touch with the intimate problems of the most wonderful social organism the world has ever seen, and was confronted with stupendous works of nature and illimitable solitudes wherein the soul stands appalled.

  73. Sypher again looked at him sharply, as a man does who thinks he has caught another man's soul secret.

  74. It lay in her hand like a bit of destiny, inexorable, unquestionable, silently compelling her forthwith to the human soul that stood in great need of her.

  75. That's why my soul refuses to grasp facts and figures.

  76. During these spring days there began to dawn in the girl's soul a knowledge of the deeper meaning of things.

  77. To live in the same atmosphere as that exquisite delicacy of soul is enough to make one good.

  78. The meal over, he loitered palely about the busy station, jostled by frantic gentlemen in silk hats rushing to catch suburban trains, and watched grimly by a policeman who suspected a pocket-picking soul beneath his guileless exterior.

  79. Not a soul can call my commercial honesty in question.

  80. The Mediterranean met the horizon in a blue so intense that the soul ached to see it.

  81. Thank heaven I'm not dyspeptic enough in soul to be a philosopher and I'm grateful for my aspirations.

  82. She slept happier that night; and afterwards, whenever the devils entered her soul and the pains of hell got hold upon her, she recalled the tears, and they became the holy water of an exorcism.

  83. He stopped at a café on the Boulevard Saint-Michel, called for the wherewithal to write, and like a poet in the fine frenzy of inspiration, poured out his soul to her over the heels of the armies of the world.

  84. This soothed the soul but further inflamed the ankle.

  85. His soul was having its adventure while mystery filled the outer air.

  86. She is crazy about them, but she has got them so they don't dare call their soul their own.

  87. It is the embodiment of family, the soul of mother, father, and children.

  88. Sometimes they spoke to one another; but the most of each man's soul was given to basking.

  89. Did a still pitying soul bend above his wild-eyed and reckless plunging through whirls of water, comprehending that he had been startled into assassination; that the deed was, like the result of his marriage, a tragedy he did not foresee?

  90. They sung the power of the man and the tenderness of the young sister whose soul followed her brother's, and they called from that ark on the waters for saints and angels to come down and bless the beds of the two.

  91. There was nothing Mrs. Otway desired to say which the sternest Censor could have found fault with in either country, but the poor soul did not know that.

  92. Deliver my soul from the sword: my darling from the power of the dog.

  93. No soul the difference can see 'Twixt chico-rye and chicoree.

  94. High legends of immortal praise, Brows of world heroes bound with bays, The crownéd majesties of Time Rise visioned on my soul sublime.

  95. Egad, I believe he does visit every soul of his flock--keeps them straight.

  96. When you agree to clothe the body, Expand your soul and flee from shoddy.

  97. St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life.

  98. So they blasphemed him till he left Judas, and then returned, and carried off that wretched soul with great rushing and howling.

  99. The old Roman soul was dead within, the body of it dead without.

  100. But afterwards, when he had received greater grace from on high, he did not want even that help: but stood for the forty days, taking no food, but strengthened by alacrity of soul and divine grace.

  101. But the scene which his master-hand has drawn is not merely the drama of his own soul or of these two young officers, but of a whole empire.

  102. There's not a soul in there but the one I speak of.

  103. There's not a soul in the place but is wild for the reward; and I dare say they will look for you by night more than by day.

  104. Not a soul on our side had thought of King; and the college boys were too excited to see what the big Frog was about, or they'd perhaps have granted him grace to pass unmolested.

  105. The country postman was Lee: a trustworthy old soul with shaky legs.

  106. Whilst he was doing this, the curate died: and thenceforth Thomas would have to make his own way in the world, with not a soul to counsel him.

  107. One or the t'other of 'em is always a sidling sheepfaced up to the house, as though he didn't dare to say his soul was his own.

  108. I'll vow not a soul was there, man or woman, when I came up the path.

  109. She appeared to be smiling in face and gentle in accent as ever, but she overruled every soul in the house: no one but herself had a will in it.

  110. On the most modest computation, reckoning seven kopecks a soul and five souls a family, one needs three hundred and fifty roubles a day to feed a thousand families.

  111. No art nor science was capable of producing so strong and so certain an effect on the soul of man as the stage, and it was with good reason that an actor of medium quality enjoys greater popularity than the greatest savant or artist.

  112. I had no sensation in my body that suggested my immediate death, but my soul was oppressed with terror, as though I had suddenly seen a vast menacing glow of fire.

  113. But for some reason my soul refuses to recognize these questions, though my mind is fully alive to their importance.

  114. And he concerned himself with the salvation of his soul in a substantial, gentlemanly manner, and performed deeds of charity, not simply, but with an air of consequence.

  115. And again: “In the Epistle to the Romans Saint Paul hath written: ‘Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.

  116. Through His power, born of Almighty God, the eyes of the blind were opened and the soul of the sinner sanctified.

  117. I'm so heart and soul in it myself, I shan't know when to stop talking about it.

  118. There was no soul in that village who did not know what a forest-fire meant.

  119. Kneeling there, day after day, she had seen many another young, troubled soul fleeing from its own thoughts.

  120. It was indeed his duty, for it concerned the destiny of a human soul that was soon to pass from time into eternity.

  121. The overjoyed, yet afflicted mother, was welcome to whatever comfort or happiness her prophetic soul foresaw as a recompense to all this endless worry and trouble.

  122. Until then I must consider myself as set aside, not rudely, nor coldly, but with a negative intimation of my altered circumstances which has quite sufficient force for any soul so keen and sensitive as mine.

  123. Not a soul was visible anywhere, it was long and narrow and dirty, with deep ruts in the mud that lay in a thick covering over the road.

  124. Since you are not satisfied with all the good things the gods have provided so far, I know only one other that can infuse a soul into your vapid and savor less comforts.

  125. I veiled the sorrow that dwelt in my young heart with the shadows of a borrowed playfulness, and I sullied the baby innocence of my unsuspecting soul with a smiling lie.


  126. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afflatus; anima; ardor; article; axiom; being; bloke; blood; body; bones; bosom; bottom; breast; breath; cat; center; chap; character; core; cove; creativity; creature; critter; customer; daemon; differentiation; distillate; distillation; duck; ecstasy; ego; elixir; entity; esprit; essence; essential; excitement; exemplar; existence; fabric; fellow; fervor; fire; flower; focus; fundamental; furor; fury; genius; gist; gravamen; gusto; guts; guy; hand; head; heart; heartbeat; heat; homo; human; hypostasis; identity; individual; individualism; individuality; inside; inspiration; integer; integrity; interior; intern; internal; inward; item; joker; kernel; life; lifeblood; liveliness; man; marrow; material; matter; meat; medium; mind; module; monad; mood; mortal; nominalism; nonconformity; nose; nucleus; object; one; oneness; organism; party; passion; person; persona; personage; personality; pith; pneuma; point; postulate; prana; principle; quick; quid; quiddity; quintessence; quintessential; recess; relish; root; savor; self; shade; shadow; single; singularity; somebody; someone; something; soul; spirit; stuff; substance; talent; thing; unit; vehemence; verve; viscera; vitals; warmth; wholeness; zeal


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    soul and; soul from; soul hath; soul loveth; soul shall