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How to use rising action in a sentence

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.

Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.

Only, he argued, British soldiers would stand against the skyline during a general action.

When the quantity is very small there may be no cough, the sputum reaching the larynx by action of the bronchial cilia.

The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.

Impersonation absolutely requires the finest detail of mannerism to be represented in the action.

EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK

Rising at once he bundled up his traps, threw the line of his small hand-sledge over his shoulder, and stepped out for home.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985