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Example sentences for "half past"

  • We now walked home together, and at half past three we took our seats in a genuine old-fashioned stage-coach, of which there are few specimens now to be met with.

  • Whenever I looked upward, I thought it might be going to clear up; but, instead of that, it began to rain more in earnest after midday, and at half past two we left Inverannan in a smart shower.

  • We took the train for Leeds at half past ten, and arrived there in the afternoon, passing the ruined Abbey of Kirkstall on our way.

  • Last night, at half past nine, I could read with perfect ease in parts of the room remote from the window; and at nearly half past eleven there was a broad sheet of daylight in the west, gleaming brightly over the plashy sands.

  • At half past nine in the morning the procession approached the field of Plessis-Piquet in the following order: first came our carriage--nobody in it but M.

  • The doors opened at half past four, the play began promptly at half past five, and within two minutes afterward all who were coming were in their seats, and quiet reigned.

  • He said: "I have the honor to say that my principal strenuously objects to the hour chosen, and begs you will consent to change it to half past nine.

  • Noir, the hour is altered to half past nine.

  • I asked the official at the door when our train would start, and when he said at half past three, I said, 'How tiresome!

  • He named the only place in Carlsbad where you can sup so late as ten o'clock; as the opera begins at six, and is over at half past eight, none but the wildest roisterers frequent the place.

  • The general elevation of the country still continues high; the river pours along a vast body of water; there is no fresh in it, and it is not in any respect above its usual level.

  • Smith macropus elegans, and are very rare on the east coast.

  • At half past three we halted for the night, having gone about eleven miles.

  • Hoping that we should be more fortunate in this day's route, at half past eight o'clock we again set forward, on the same point as yesterday.

  • At half past eight o'clock we proceeded up the river, which during our day's journey trended nearly north.

  • Wilmott and the girl were not due until nine and I had--finished by half past eight.

  • At half past twelve a carriage sounded in the quiet street, then a quick step on the stairs.

  • And off we went and got there at half past one; but the waiters hadn't gone, and they all swore black and blue that Addison told the truth, he had really been there all the evening with this woman.

  • Answer if you want Sunday at Magny's at half past six.

  • But the diligence gets here at the earliest at half past six, and we should not dine till seven o'clock, which would make impossible the great joy of our little ones who would be kept up too late.

  • I returned on board at half past two in the afternoon; and, with a light breeze easterly, steered for the S.

  • On the 29th, at half past six in the morning, we saw land extending from E.

  • I Sent out 6 men to kill deer & fowls this morning at half past 1 oClock Capt.

  • Side of the Missouri and Set out at Half past 1 oClock proceeded on Verry well under a gentle Breeze.

  • We left Amiens at half past one; and I can tell as little of the country between that place and Paris, as between Boulogne and Amiens.

  • We then sat down in one of the aisles and awaited the beginning of vespers, which we supposed would take place at half past three.

  • We started at half past eight, having taken through tickets to Paris by way of Folkestone and Boulogne.

  • Two cabs were at the door by half past six, and at seven we set out for the London Bridge station, while it was still dark and bitterly cold.

  • At half past twelve o'clock they both ate supper, both in their scant, white nightgowns, both very hungry indeed.

  • At half past one, day upon day, she hung out the dish towel, hung up her kitchen apron, and walked with unswerving course into her bedroom.

  • They WERE going to have supper at half past.

  • At half past seven we were in the middle of it.

  • At half past seven, we passed this famous cape, and entered the southern Atlantic ocean.

  • At half past five o'clock, the weather clearing up, gave us a good sight of Ildefonzo Isles.

  • At half past three, a peaked hill, standing four or five miles inland, and more conspicuous than usual, bore true East.

  • At half past two a small island opened off from a low rocky point, behind which there was a small river running into the SW; but breakers seemed to extend mostly across the entrance.

  • At half past seven in the morning of Sunday the 9th they sounded, but without finding ground with fifteen fathoms of line, at the distance of half a mile from a small reef of black rocks, which ran off from a sugar-loaf point.

  • At half past four we crossed the gap in the bluffs for the second time.

  • Just stalk a bird's nest of which you know at half past two in the morning, some time during the month of July; and before you see them, you will hear them.

  • At half past five, when the coffee water was in the kettle and on the stove, I hurried over to the stable across the bridge.

  • Half past twelve," she said, "and Father's stocking not filled yet!

  • If I get there by half past five I can see the people get out of their automobiles and sail in.

  • The imperial party was to arrive at half past seven, but at six the crowd was already dense before the station, and all along the street leading to the Residenz.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    death itself; foreign interference; from thence; half acre; half aloud; half amused; half asleep; half circle; half cupfuls; half days; half dram; half fathoms; half feet; half high; half interest; half miles; half million; half minutes; half pint; half rations; half slave and half; half tablespoonful; half times; half years; indeterminate sentence; one direction