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Example sentences for "once more"

  • But soon they were thrust forth once more, as the girl gave no sign of perturbation at the continued wailing of the man above.

  • Once more he took his rope and vanished into the jungle.

  • Close to the cabin the jungle commenced, and into it Tarzan of the Apes plunged, wary and noiseless--once more a savage beast hunting its food.

  • Once more he made the entire circuit of the room, feeling carefully every foot of the walls.

  • Once more, will you have me or will you not?

  • Once more he strained his eyes to see if there was no place in which he could take shelter, and this time he caught sight of a small chapel in a little clearing.

  • Listen to me once more, and do what I tell you.

  • Again he waited at the edge of the dell, and when the white moon was high in the heavens, once more he saw the glimmering in the distance, and once more the lovely maiden floated toward him.

  • Once more he looked; the hole was larger, now, and the water was trickling.

  • Didn't get them this time," he said disgustedly, and hopped up once more.

  • Now that I am once more in possession of a modest competence; now that I have so long prepared myself in silent meditation, it becomes my superior duty to proceed to Paris.

  • Will hung his head a little, and then raised it once more to heaven.

  • Or once more: 'When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew whether it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into.

  • Barely a week passed after those words had been spoken, before an event happened which reminded Agnes of 'the terrible woman' once more.

  • And, once more, the frightful dreams of the first night terrified her, following each other in the same succession.

  • Her eyes flashed; she looked like her old self once more as she spoke.

  • This sally seemed to tickle the clerk amazingly, and he once more enjoyed a little quiet laugh to himself.

  • Keep that barrow back now,' cried Wardle, when it had been hoisted over a stile into another field, and Mr. Pickwick had been deposited in it once more.

  • Once more, Miss Lucy Ashton, I am that Ravenswood to whom you granted the solemn engagement which you now desire to retract and cancel.

  • Keep these to yourself, my old friend; and, once more, good day to you.

  • Gentlemen," said Ravenswood, "permit me once more to assure you that you have been pleased to attach to our temporary connexion more importance than I ever meant that it should have.

  • You know your room, for I showed it you before dinner; but I will accompany you to it once more.

  • Once more he speaks, as if she had spoken.

  • Once more, Mr. Grewgious could not but assent to this.

  • Once more will I cross this much beforded stream, and go with you to the good greenwood!

  • Once more will I bend my back to the oppressor and carry the weight of the haughty.

  • Once more Mr. Franklin cut him short; once more Mr. Franklin answered, "I have nothing to say.

  • The Indians looked up the road and down the road once more--and then the chief Indian said these words to the boy; "See the English gentleman from foreign parts.

  • When you next see the Shivering Sand, try to forgive me once more.

  • Once more, if Nature Should of a sudden send a voice abroad, And her own self inveigh against us so: "Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?

  • Once more, if thou delayest in hot baths, When thou art over-full, how readily From stool in middle of the steaming water Thou tumblest in a fit!

  • I had never thought it possible that we three could be together undisturbed, once more; and I felt, for the time, as if the old days were come back.

  • I am glad to recollect that when the carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate, and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more.

  • Once more he laid his hand upon my shoulder; and then taking his flute and a few books from his desk, and leaving the key in it for his successor, he went out of the school, with his property under his arm.

  • He touched it once more, wishing us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, as respectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt.

  • I sat down heavily, by the table, to think and it might have been a cry of agony sharper than the rest that reminded me once more of the tragedy of the poor lady in torture.

  • She picked up her sewing and bent over it once more.

  • The locomotive is then forced to stop and wait till the road is once more clear.

  • Excuse me once more, my lord, if I appear to push you; but it is really desirable I should penetrate your intentions.

  • I will follow; and when I have run my quarry down, I will drive a wedge into that family that shall once more burst it into shivers.

  • Once more a winter in Rome proved temporally restorative.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eighty; anywhere else; country house; divers colours; exchangeable value; few miles; fresh horse; general verdict; horned antelope; kill their; many were; must needs; observe the; once and; once apparent; once began; once came; once commenced; once established; once knew; once opened; once said; once sent; once turned; once went; shot from