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Example sentences for "hour and"

  • The branches, after becoming greatly curved from being touched, straighten themselves at a quicker rate than in almost any other tendril seen by me, namely, in between half an hour and an hour.

  • The following day, Wednesday, I called on the Bishop and we spent an hour and a half very pleasantly in examining every part of their beautiful cathedral--the one church gem in Canada.

  • I had an hour and a half's daily lesson in Urdu from an efficient, if immensely pompous, Moonshee, but I never attempted to learn to read or write the Persian characters.

  • Cumming invariably preached for over an hour, sometimes for an hour and a half, and yet I never felt bored or wearied by his long discourses, but really looked forward to them.

  • We were spinning along through Kansas, and in the course of an hour and a half we were fairly abroad on the great Plains.

  • I went into the dark among the scenes again, and for an hour and a half gave myself up to the horrors, wholly unconscious of everything else.

  • After an hour and a half's rest he seemed better; he walked away almost briskly, and we reached the water-bag much earlier than I expected.

  • We rested here an hour and had a swim in one of the rocky basins.

  • The train, which did not stop at Bryngelly, left Coed at ten, and Coed was an hour and a half's walk.

  • He had been speaking for an hour and a half, and yet, to her, it seemed but a few minutes since he rose.

  • For nearly an hour and a half he held the House in chains, even the hoots and interruptions died away towards the end of his oration.

  • He did more; he sat down, weary as he was, and waited for an hour and a half, till it was time for the train to start.

  • Why passengers for Turin, who reach Susa dusty, tired, and sleepy, should be detained at that place for an hour and a half instead of being forwarded to their beds in the great city, is never made very apparent.

  • It took about an hour and a half to pack the things; but at last they were all packed, and corded, and bound together with sticks, as though it were intended that they should travel in that form to Moscow.

  • Read with Filomena for an hour and a half.

  • After I had passed the crisis of my illness, and consequently began to suffer terribly from hunger, I was ordered an egg for my breakfast; I sometimes had to lie for an hour and a half, pining for this egg.

  • Lamb should be cooked an hour and a half; veal, two hours and three-quarters; pork, three hours and a quarter.

  • If they are not more than a year old an hour and a half will be enough, but if very old they may need three hours.

  • If the dish be a large one, holding about two quarts, it will require an hour and a half or two hours to bake.

  • It will take an hour and a quarter to cook a pair of chickens, each weighing between three and a half and four pounds; anything larger, an hour and a half.

  • My uniform is in the ranger's shelter an hour and a half higher up the valley.

  • You can go there and back," he said, "in an hour and a half, and I shall want the bundle by that time.

  • Do not think I went all the way back to Sunch'ston--there is a ranger's shelter now only an hour and a half below the statues, and here I passed the night.

  • He remained an hour and a half in the house, and shed tears.

  • The late Privy Seal(772) Spoke for an hour and a half, with the greatest applause, against the Hanoverians: and my Lord Chancellor extremely well for them.

  • Princess Emily came thither to fish, and he, who is grown quite indolent, and has not been out of a hot room this twelve- month, sat an hour and a half by the water side.

  • But think how charming a ridicule must that be that lasts and rises, flash after flash, for an hour and a half!

  • He learned to shiver for an hour and a quarter on the windward side of Elysium while Mrs. Reiver was making up her mind to come for a ride.

  • The honest course is always the best," said Tarrion after an hour and a half of study and conversation.

  • Now, you see why it takes an hour and a half to fetch her through," said the subaltern, unshipping the cartridge-hopper above his pet gun.

  • When Winton had left him, an hour and a half later that afternoon, Fiorsen continued to stand at the front door, swaying his body to and fro.

  • It was so in Mr. Stone's old bottle, hour by hour and day by day, throughout the month.

  • Through the wicket gate they passed once more beside the moon-coloured wheat, which seemed of a different world from that world in which they had walked but an hour and a half ago.

  • Going out under the porch with her, he said: "He'll get you up in an hour and a quarter.

  • She told me, with another oath, that she had an hour and a half's road before her.

  • Salomon besieged the village for an hour and a half, but was beaten back.

  • A man, I was told, should walk there in an hour and a half; and I thought it scarce too ambitious to suppose that a man encumbered with a donkey might cover the same distance in four hours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual operation; attack the; bully beef; check the; circumstances permit; doing work; good camp; hour ago; hour agone; hour ahead; hour longer; hour more; hour passed; hour past; hour went; hour when; hours after; hours before; hours later; much engaged; native women; nitrogenous matter; saying anything; shrank back; tailed eagle; travel from