I prefer to shop in a store that has a one-price policy because, whenever I haggle with a shopkeeper, I am never certain that I paid a fair price for the articles I purchased.
In those halcyon days, people were not worried about sneak attacks and bombings.
After a brief illness, he was soon hale.
She was laid to rest in hallowed ground.
I think you were frightened by a hallucination that you created in you own mind.
Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.
The minority party agreed not to hamper the efforts of the leaders to secure a lasting peace.
In his poem hap, Thomas Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives.
His haphazard reading left him unaquainted with the authors of the books.
This hapless creature had never known a moment's pleasure.
In her lengthy harangue, the principal berated the offenders.
When he could not pay his bills as quickly as he had promised, he was harrassed by his creditors.
The crocus is an early harbinger of spring.
The church harbored illegal aliens who were political refugees.
We asked the gardening expert to recommend particularly hardy plants that could withstand our harsh New England winters.
After he had reminded me several times about what he had done for me I told him to stop his harping on my indebtedness to him.
I don't want to harrow you at this time by asking you to recall the details of your unpleasant experience.
The guerrilla band harried the enemy nightly.
The latch on the hatch failed to catch, so the hatch remained unlatched.
I resent his haughtiness because he is no better than we are.
Your occupation is too hazardous for insurance companies to consider your application.
In hazy weather, you cannot see the top of this mountain.
The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.
Because she refused to marry the man her parents had chosen for her, everyone scolded Minna and called her a foolish, headstrong girl.
The heckler kept interrupting the speaker with rude remarks.
hedonism and asceticism are opposing philosophies of human behavior.
He drove on, heedless of the warnings that the road was dangerous.
As one Eastern European nation after another declared its independence, commentators marveled at the sudden breakdown of the once monolithic Soviet hegemony.
Hitler's heinous crimes will never be forgotten.
Some herbivorous animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.
He was threatened with excommunication because his remarks were considered to be pure heresy.
She was punished by the Spanish Inquisition because she was a heretic.
After these bandages are sterilized, they are placed in hermetic containers.
It is strange to consider that modern chemistry originated in the hermetic teachings of the ancient alchemists.
Even in his remote hermitage he could not escape completely from the world.
As a boy, Indiana Jones had a traumatic experience involving snakes; sensibly enough, he studies to be archaeologist, not a herpetologist.
To those who upheld the belief that the earth did not move, Galileo's theory that the earth circled the sun was disturbingly heterodox.
In a heterogeneous group, we have an unassorted assemblage, while in a homogeneous group we have people or things that have common traits.
The cavalry rushed into melee and hewed the enemy with their swords.
In their heyday, the San Francisco Forty-Niners won the Super Bowl two years running.
Except for a brief two-year hiatus, during which she enrolled in the Peace Corps, Ms. Clements has devoted herself to her medical career.
Bears prepare for their long hibernal sleep by overeating.
Bears are one of the many species of animals that hibernate.
It was difficult to step out of one's place in this hierarchy.
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone enabled scholars to read the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.
The coward could always be found in the hindmost lines whenever a battle was being waged.
Stalled cars along the highway are a hindrance to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay.
They seldom had visitors, living as they did way out in the hinderlands.
In a matter of such importance, I do not wish to deal with hirelings; I must meet with the chief.
He was a hitsute individual with a heavy black beard.
He was proud of his histrionic ability and wanted to paly the role of Hamlet.
Whenever there are rumors of a food shortage, people are tempted to hoard food.
The man was hoary and wrinkled when he was 70.
Embarrassed by the hoax, he reddened and left the room.
Citizens of San Francisco remember that the destruction of the city was caused not by the earthquake but by the holocaust that followed.
Even when he was not in uniform, he carried a holster and pistol under his arm.
In her speech she tried to pay homage to a great man.
A breakdown of the body's immune system severely undermines the body's ability to maintain homeostasis.
homespun wit, like homespun cloth, was often coarse and plain.
His speeches were always homilies, advising his listeners to repent and reform.
Many educators try to put pupils of similar abilities in the same class because they believe that his homogeneous grouping is advisable.
To make shaving easier, he honed his razor with great care.
Having been hoodwinked once by the fast-talking salesman, he was extremely cautious when he went to purchase a used car.
Just before Christmas the stores are filled with hordes of shoppers.
The crowd listened to his hortatory statements with ever-growing excitement; finally they rushed from the hall to carry to his suggestions.
When he bought his house, he beganto look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.
He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.
The police helicopter hovered above the accident.
The marketplace was a scene of hubbub and excitement.
Filled with hubris, Lear refused to heed his friends' warnings.
The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.
When her purse was snatched, she raised such a hue and cry that the thief was captured.
His humane and considerate treatment of the unfortunate endeared him to all.
After years of adventure, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.
She could not stand the humid climate and moved to a drier area.
He spoke with a humility and lack of pride that impressed his listeners.
The ascent of the hummock is not difficult and the view from the hilltop is ample reward tor the effort.
In order to improve his garden, he spread humus over his lawn and flower beds.
The runaway train hurtled toward disaster.
He accumulated his small fortune by diligence and husbandry.
Mendel's formula explains the appearance of hybrids and pure species in breeding.
A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydrophobia.
This salesman is guilty of hyperbole in describing his product; it is wise to discount his claims.
You are hypercritical in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.
The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypocondriac.
I resent his hypocritical posing as a friend for I know he is interested only in his own advancement.
Why do we have to consider hypothetical cases when we have actual case histories that we may examine?
Jacques Cousteau's rpograms about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyology.
The icons on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.
George Bernard Shaw's iconoclastic plays often startled more conventional people.
That ideology is dangerous to this country because it embraces undemocratic philosophies.
I could not understand their idioms because literal translation made no sense.
One of his personal idiosyncrasies was his habit of rinsing all cutlery given him in a restaurant.
Such behavior is idiosyncratic, it is as easily identifiable as a signature.
Such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the excessive enthusiasm of youth.
Far from the city, she led an idyllic existence in her rural retreat.
Lava, pumice, and other igneous rocks are found in great abundance around Mount Vesuvius near Naples.
When Desi crooned, "Baby, light my fire," literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ignite.
