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Example sentences for "month before"

  • A month before he became merod he had had an injury of the hand produced by a shell fragment.

  • We here found four ships of Holland, which left Bantam a month before us.

  • On the 30th the James set sail, to go on a month before, and to stay at the Cape or St Helena for us, that we might sail thence in company for England.

  • Whether, by paying attention to favoring conditions, Captain Lawrence could have repeated the success of Commodore Rodgers in gaining the sea a month before, must remain uncertain.

  • Yet everything was clear as day: that officer, he knew about him, he knew everything perfectly, he had known it from Grushenka herself, had known that a letter had come from him a month before.

  • All sorts of people began coming into the room to look on, peasants and their women, who had been roused from sleep and attracted by the hopes of another marvelous entertainment such as they had enjoyed a month before.

  • At Fair Play it heads north up into the great Snowy Range, or water shed of the continent, which feeds it perpetually, and runs thence east to join the North Platte near Fort McPherson, where we had struck it by stage-coach a month before.

  • We had seen none since leaving Denver, nearly a month before; but Judge C.

  • When we left Bangalore, we thought that it might be a month before we should have to go back there to replenish our packs from our magazine; but we shall only have been away five or six days.

  • He had already done so a month before, but Lord Cornwallis had refused to accept his advances, saying that negotiation was useless, with one who disregarded treaties and violated articles of capitulation.

  • Splann and I tied the beef to our cantle-strings, and when we returned to the group, Sponsilier was telling of the stampede of his herd in the Panhandle about a month before.

  • He had left Santo Gertrudo Ranch over a month before with a herd of three thousand straight two-year-old steers.

  • I had other herds on the trail to look after, and it was a month before I found out that the check was bogus, by which time Honest John had sailed for Europe.

  • The staples of life were running low in our commissary, no opportunity having presented itself to obtain a new supply since we left the ranch in Medina over a month before.

  • They brought news of the burning of Chicago about a month before.

  • Professor Thompson only a month before he died sent me a letter in which he said: "You are heir to all the Colorado material and I am getting what I have together.

  • There were signs of some one having been here about a month before, and as the animals were shod we judged it was some prospector.

  • He had come across from Diamond Creek by a trail over a thousand foot ridge, with a burro and a pack mule, a month before.

  • He told us he had left Green River, Utah, a month before, and had been trapping as he came along.

  • The river had fallen two feet below the stage on which we quit a month before.

  • That the explosion of a gas tank came near destroying the Iroquois theater a few hours previous to the performance on the opening night, about a month before, was testified to by John Bickles, 6711 Rhodes avenue.

  • The production was the gorgeous scenic extravaganza "Mr. Bluebeard," with which the handsome new theater had been opened not a month before.

  • A strange comparison with the Iroquois theater fire of a month before!

  • Where were the thousands of matchless mould, the men of strength and spirit, whose footfalls woke the echoes one month before in a hundred towns as they marched to the meetings at which they swore to strike down the oppressor?

  • I told him about the man and fine horse from that regiment that I’d captured just a month before, and he said the man was from his Company.

  • It looked hard but some of our men had made the Yankees wade the river about a month before; but it wasn’t more than knee-deep where they waded.

  • The lady of the house and her three pretty daughters came out to look at the prisoners, as they had a month before, and one of them recognized me.

  • Ryles had been ordered to hold the Yankee prisoners about a month before.

  • A month before, he need only have shown his card to the admiral's orderly, and the orderly and the guard and the officers' mess and the admiral himself would have turned the post upside down to do him honor.

  • When, a month before, he had been adjutant, in a like situation he would have shown more self-command.

  • A month before a rhinoceros had charged him and had dropped at his feet.

  • A month before, he would have reported to the admiral as the commandant of the station, and paid his respects.

  • That is:-- If the cuckoo sings a month before May-day, I will sing a month before August.

  • That is:-- If the cuckoo sings a month before May-day, Primroses will grow a month before that time.

  • This happened a month before he came out to India, and five days after his one-and-twentieth birthday.

  • I had seen a steel engraving of him at the head of a double volume of Memoirs a month before, and I felt ancient beyond telling.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute zero; afterwards learnt; being raised; but nothing; felt certain; her young; hundred fold; international agreements; little masters; men and women alike; month ago; month before; month later; month past; month since; monthly journal; monthly parts; perfect himself; progressive development; reproach myself; saw nothing; surpassing beauty; then those; warm place; working parties; would appear