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Example sentences for "another instant"

  • In another instant he had passed and was hidden by the tree, but a moment later his shaggy head again appeared before the opening formed by the diverging stems.

  • The ship came round, and in another instant we were on the eastern or lee side of the floe, and gliding smoothly on in calm water through a broad passage, leading amid the main body of the polar ice.

  • His paws were stretched out, and in another instant he would have had me in his deadly clutch, when Andrew dashed at him with his spear.

  • The taller masts and spars followed, dragged down by the sinking hull; and in another instant, as we gazed where our ship had just been, a black obscurity was alone before us.

  • I had some notion that bars and bolts were being withdrawn, and in another instant a lantern was flashed in my face.

  • In another instant he seized the dingy in his immense jaws, and the crash of splintered wood betokened the complete destruction of my favourite boat.

  • In another instant he is chasing Uraga across the camp-ground, the latter running like a scared hound.

  • But, in another instant, he divined the intent of this sudden change in the tactics of his fellow fugitive.

  • No one tried to stop him, and in another instant he had thrown his powerful well-knit limbs so completely around him, that the negro, tall and strong as he was, was entirely unable to help himself.

  • The boat lifted on the summit of a roller, and rushing on with the dark rocks and hissing foam on either side of us, in another instant we found ourselves calmly floating in a reef-surrounded lagoon or bay.

  • He saw no help, no chance of escape; in another instant he also was numbered with the dead.

  • Another instant, and he had torn back the panel into the temple.

  • But in another instant he saw her, as she half swooned and staggered into the room.

  • Another instant and he had wrenched himself loose from Zita's arms and was struggling with the ropes that still bound him even after he had managed to roll out from under the elevator in the last nick of time.

  • In another instant he was by my side, and, with careful forethought, was endeavouring to keep my attention fixed on himself, so as to prevent me from seeing the dreadful objects in the inner part of the cavern.

  • Once again he rose to his feet and attempted to seize me; but my torch turned him aside, and before he could reach me he rolled over, and in another instant he was dead.

  • In another instant I should have been his victim.

  • My well-trained steed followed without hesitation, and in another instant we were both breast-deep in the flood.

  • The fierce brute was close behind me; another instant, and we must have grappled.

  • In another instant, they were on the ground; and their revolvers, playing rapidly, soon thinned the ranks of the javali, and caused the survivors to retreat grunting and screaming into the thicket.

  • In another instant he would have plunged recklessly after Wabi, but Mukoki's voice sounding behind him, snarling in its fierceness, stopped him.

  • In another instant he was leaning eagerly toward Rod, his eyes kindling into fire again.

  • In another instant he had plunged head foremost into the pool.

  • In another instant I was carried beyond the crest of the Golden Cliffs, out over the Valley Dor, where, six thousand feet below me, the Lost Sea of Korus lay shimmering in the moonlight.

  • In another instant I had drawn myself upon the balcony.

  • Gently pressing it, I had the satisfaction of feeling the door slowly give before me, and in another instant we were looking into a dimly lighted apartment, which, so far as we could see, was unoccupied.

  • In another instant we were free of the rapids, and floating calmly on the lower portion of the river.

  • Presently we saw the birds dart off, and in another instant a large snake rose up before them.

  • In another instant I expected to see the sharp horn of the rhinoceros plunged into his side, when it suddenly stopped and rolled over into the stream.

  • I quickly sprang up, for the thought seized me that I might have stepped into the hole of some snake, and that in another instant he might be issuing out to attack me.

  • In another instant he got his head above water, and making good his hold, twisted himself, by a violent effort, across the log.

  • In another instant Dawes, believing himself alone, pressed the gift to his lips.

  • In another instant he was on the sacred quarter-deck.

  • Another instant, and a hare again crossed my path!

  • Then all is right," was the reply, and in another instant we had joined them.

  • In another instant he stood in the doorway--his body filling it from side to side--from head to stoop.

  • Fortunately his old pouch contains the required coin; and, in another instant, a silver dollar glances in the palm of the Indian girl.

  • In another instant, I had within its field of vision a tableau that astonished me.

  • In another instant, she appeared in the doorway--this time evidently with some design, as her manner clearly betokened.

  • In another instant Charlie is clasping Frank Hardingstone's strong hand in his own two emaciated ones, and after an abortive "How are ye, old fellow?

  • But the effort saved his life: the slight movement was seen, and in another instant a dark Fingoe girl was kneeling over him, with her hand upon his heart.

  • Waving the men on with his sword he dashes into the ravine, and in another instant is hand-to-hand with the enemy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another body; another characteristic; another circumstance; another clan; another country; another department; another direction; another example; another field; another flower; another genus; another good; another instance; another island; another paper; another people; another prophet; another section; another series; another species; another state; another week; generally applied; guess they; superb view; true account