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To each of these chairs was added a footstool, curiously carved and inlaid with ivory, which mark of distinction was peculiar to them.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mark
 n.  stain, spot, line, etc., especially one that spoils the appearance of something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  You mark my words, when this case comes to be cleared up you will find that a woman named Rachel has something to do with it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
5  When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
6  No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
8  To cut the matter short, Sir, my brother Bob left all he died possessed of to his only child Flavinda; with this proviso, mark ye.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
9  But mark you, our rule don't end there.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  She slipped the letter from Scarborough between the pages to mark the end of the chapter, rose, smiled, and tiptoed silently out of the room.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
11  It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer's way.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
12  You are altogether backward, and below the mark.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
13  They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
14  It had been lying there some days, for rain and dew had stained it, and the mark of its shape was on the grass where it had fallen.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
15  To each of these chairs was added a footstool, curiously carved and inlaid with ivory, which mark of distinction was peculiar to them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  You don't study hard, thence no good mark.
17  A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark.
18  One or two songs on the album are interesting, but most fall short of the mark.
19  About three thousand people held a rally to mark international human rights day.
20  The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.
21  The spilt coffee has left a mark on the table cloth.
22  He used a rope to mark off the circle.
23  The Queen unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of the hospital.
24  He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.
25  Make a mark at the bottom of the page.
26  He folded the corner of the page over to mark his place.
27  The ability to perform well under pressure is the mark of a true champion.
28  The president gave a radio broadcast to mark the end of the war.
29  This is the mark of her real genius as a designer.
30  You can sell it to them at a set wholesale price, allowing them to mark it up for retail.