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Example sentences for "now began"

  • I now began to revive more and more in the fresh, invigorating morning air, and carefully examined the open veldt away to the north and east in search of the enemy; but not a living thing was visible.

  • I now began to wonder how it was that we were not seen through some one of the flashes and hit by bullets sent spattering among the stones among which we wended our way; but none came near.

  • I now began to feel how impossible it would have been for me to have come alone and found my way in the darkness, for in a few minutes I was quite helpless; but Joeboy seemed in nowise confused, and did not hesitate once.

  • In connection with it, the Hebrew language, which hitherto had been firmly retained by the Bne haggola, now began to yield to the Aramaic, and to hold its own only as a sacred speech.

  • This contempt I now began to entertain for my husband, whom I now discovered to be--I must use the expression--an arrant blockhead.

  • I now began to think the very afflictions of Job had come upon me.

  • We now began to tremble for ourselves, and were in daily expectation of some dreadful event.

  • His doubts continued to increase; for he now began in earnest the study of the Bible and of his own heart, and made constant progress in the knowledge of both.

  • He now began to consider what was best to be done to free himself from further inconvenience, and resolved either to go to his wife's father or to his father in-law.

  • I now began to recover slowly; but it was more than a month after this before I had strength to stand.

  • Nevertheless, I now began to appreciate intelligence and wit, whereas before only the grotesque and the fantastic had had any attraction for me.

  • At this point I feel myself obliged to acknowledge that the great confusion which now began to prevail in my life, and particularly in my studies, was due to the inordinate effect this artistic interpretation had upon me.

  • I now began to read the papers and cultivate politics enthusiastically; however, the social intercourse of the civic world did not attract me sufficiently to make me false to my beloved academic associates.

  • I now began to imagine that because I had become a student I ought to attend the University lectures.

  • I now began to feel life tedious, and wished to store myself with friends, with whom I might grow old in the interchange of benevolence.

  • Of the great authors he now began to display the characters, laying down as an universal position, that all had beauties and defects.

  • I had been used to consider laughter as the effect of merriment; but I soon learned that it is one of the arts of adulation, and, from laughing only to show that I was pleased, I now began to laugh when I wished to please.

  • I now began to watch, with a strange interest, the numerous things that floated in our company.

  • Be this as it may, I now began to feel the inspiration of a burning hope, and at length nurtured in my secret thoughts a stern and desperate resolution that I would submit no longer to be enslaved.

  • That the system of elementary vernacular or people's schools (the term Volksschule now began to be applied) now created should be permeated by a strong nationalistic tone was, the times and circumstances considered, only natural.

  • I now began to point out to the Admiralty the inconvenience of furnishing separate estimates, viz.

  • As my reduction of observations was kept quite close, I now began to think of printing.

  • But he now began to make mistakes and to grow confused, and this distressed him greatly.

  • I now began a custom which I maintained for some years.

  • Business which had hitherto gone South now began to go East; New Orleans ceased to be the great industrial entrepot of this region and gave place to St. Louis and Chicago.

  • Waterford and Wexford--the two chief Catholic ports in that quarter-- instead of seeing their waters crowded with prizes, now began to tremble for their own safety.

  • I now began to question the Chainbearer concerning the condition in which he found the 'Nest-house and farm, over which I had given him full authority, when he came to the place, by a special letter to the agent.

  • Confined in a dark cellar, with no means of escaping but by the trap, and the almost certainty of falling into the hands of my captors, should I attempt such a thing, I now began to regret having entered so readily into Lowiny's scheme.

  • I was grieved at what I had heard, for, during my travels, I had cherished a much-loved image of justice and political excellence, that I now began to fear must be abandoned.

  • It restored my strength; and I now began to suspect that the ship I had seen had been but a phantom of the brain, and that I had been dreaming all the time.

  • He now began, by placing the hoop a little way above him and leaning back, to climb upwards, and with wonderful rapidity reached the summit.

  • I now began to fear for our four-footed friend, for I knew the power of the creature, and how one grasp of its strong hands would in an instant destroy the dog.

  • Carefully did the practised thief veil the candle he carried, with his hand, as he now began to pass by the bed.

  • We now began to hope that we should escape, though, as we paddled on, we were hotly pursued by two canoes.

  • Influenced by Ben's zeal, I had been induced to undertake the pursuit; but I now began to repent having yielded to it.

  • My mouth and throat were becoming dreadfully parched, and I would have given everything I possessed for a drop of pure water; but, from the appearance of the country, I now began to despair of finding any.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    account for; anything should; crimes against; endless number; eternal being; guess likely; hinted before; knight should; long detour; mortal agony; must admit; nine lashes; now and; now called; now come; now she; now that; now they; now used; nowhere else; persons who; seven millions; took her; uniform coat; visible things; white horses