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Example sentences for "during his"

  • My father, during his life, had allowed my aunt very handsomely for my board; for generosity was too deeply riveted in his nature to be plucked out by all the power of his wife.

  • This her liking was not, during his absence, so far extinguished but that it immediately revived on his return.

  • During his sojourn in Spain he performed many eminent services for the government which employed him; services which, I believe, it had sufficient discernment to see, and gratitude to reward.

  • During his confinement he lived tolerably well, being in possession of money.

  • Sir John Eliot employed himself, during his imprisonment, in writing a treatise on government, which he transmitted to his friend.

  • The truth was that the invalid had insisted that, during his stay, all the waiters and stable-boys of the Castle should wear his livery.

  • During his ascent he gradually becomes inured to the annoyances which belong to a life of ambition.

  • During his apprenticeship, Bianconi learnt much of the country through which he travelled.

  • However, when he did recollect me, I found his heart as warm as ever, and he shared his purse and friendship with me during his continuance in London.

  • The plan of it, as has already been observed, was conceived many years before, during his travels in Switzerland, and a sketch of it sent from that country to his brother Henry in Ireland.

  • During his residence in Scotland his convivial talents gained him at one time attentions in a high quarter, which, however, he had the good sense to appreciate correctly.

  • During his tyranny in the Chersonese, a Parian, named Lysagoras, had sought to injure him with the Persian government, and the chief now wreaked upon the island the retaliation due to an individual.

  • In addition to the victory of Marathon, Miltiades, during his tyranny in the Chersonese, had gratified the resentment and increased the dominion of the Athenians.

  • During his occupation of Eleusis, he wantonly violated the mysterious sanctuary of Orgas--the place above all others most consecrated to the Eleusinian gods.

  • There seems no sufficient ground to doubt, indeed, his existence, nor the extended power which, during his reign, Crete obtained in Greece.

  • With the end of his reformation in view, the two sisters, during his convalescence, attended him with the most assiduous and affectionate care.

  • Mr. Green had a son who, during his term at college, exhibited talents of so decided a character that his father, after some deliberation, concluded to place him under the care of an eminent lawyer in Boston.

  • During his week of sobriety, he had been able to save two dollars.

  • During his journey he dismounted to say the Divine Office, standing; he remained on the same spot without paying attention to the rain, and did not mount till he had quite finished.

  • God, who has often condescended to usher in His saints by portents, was pleased, at the birth of Francis, to give signs of what he would be during his life.

  • Mujahid, during his attack on Vijayanagar, penetrated into the second line of works, where there was a celebrated image of the monkey-god, Hanuman.

  • During his illness he put to death several physicians who had failed in cure, beheading some, and causing others to be trodden to death by elephants, so that all the surviving medical practitioners, alarmed, fled from his dominions.

  • During his residence at the seat of empire, his hours were not wasted in the recluse idleness of a seraglio; and the king of the Huns could maintain his superior dignity, without concealing his person from the public view.

  • But the conquerors soon imitated the vanquished nations in the arts of flattery; and the imperious spirit of the first Cæsar too easily consented to assume, during his lifetime, a place among the tutelar deities of Rome.

  • Captain Halstead was employed, during his stay, in sounding the rivers, for the benefit of navigation, which were found sufficiently deep, and excellently calculated for the purposes of trade.

  • During his time, we know nothing remarkable that happened.

  • Sallust, during his administration of Numidia, is said to have exercised great oppression.

  • During his quaestorship he pronounced funeral orations from the rostra, according to custom, in praise of his aunt (5) Julia, and his wife Cornelia.

  • During his consulships, he commonly walked the streets on foot; but at other times, rode in a close carriage.

  • He brought it in a cage to his house, desired his wife to put it in his chamber, and take care of it during his absence, and then departed.

  • During his absence, put into one of the cups you are accustomed to drink out of this powder, and setting it by, charge the slave you may order that night to attend you, on a signal you shall agree upon, to bring that cup to you.

  • During his hospitalities I observed that my kind host sometimes beat his breast and wept, from which I guessed that he was in love, and a wanderer, like myself.

  • During his lifetime, his youngest son Phinehas, the worthier of the two, (27) officiated as high priest.

  • The mother confessed what had happened during his absence.

  • When his jealous enemies surprised him during his prayers, he did not interrupt himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    during many; during our; during pregnancy; during several; during sleep; during some; during the greater part; during the last year; during the latter part; during the past year; during the rainy season; during the same period; during the whole time; during those; during winter; good disposition; highly dependent; never had; offered upon the altar; rapid stream; revenge myself; salad bowl; this coast; thou dost; tortoise shell; where water