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Example sentences for "return home"

  • I delivered him the recognisances which my father had sent, and having done the business I came upon, withdrew, and went to my inn to refresh myself, and then to return home.

  • All these good people who had spent the night abroad were in great haste to return home, where their cattle required their presence.

  • He asked me about this water, and I did not hesitate a moment to tell him that I had washed my hands in it the evening before, after my return home.

  • Delighted with the operation, Trumence was about to return home, when his evil star led him to sup at his inn with a countryman, a former schoolmate, who was now a sailor on board a coal-barge.

  • Then Barbara flew into such a rage that the foolish woman forgot to take the fever into account, and determined to return home.

  • When I was twenty I started with the intention of long travel, but the train journey from Calais to Paris wearied me so much that I had rested in Paris for eight years, to return home then on account of some financial embarrassments.

  • He arrived without any accident at the end of his journey; and having dispatched his affairs, took horse again, in order to return home.

  • We sat down to table, and were merry together till afternoon prayers; when all the company parted, and I went to my shop, till it was time to return home.

  • Her son's delaying to return home, according to her mandate, had disappointed and vexed her extremely.

  • After having passed a girlhood of wholesome restraint in the rational society of Europe, you are about to return home to the slavery of American female life, just as you are about to be married!

  • A few moments of awkward silence succeeded, when the interest inseparable from a return home, after an absence of years, began to resume its influence, and objects on the land were noticed.

  • I came out in your ship, and, please God we escape the perils of the sea, it is my hope and intention to return home in her.

  • Chapter XXVII Meanwhile the evening had come on, Marya Dmitrievna expressed a desire to return home, and the little girls were with difficulty torn away from the pond, and made ready.

  • Malanya Sergyevna began, in her distress, to beseech Ivan Petrovitch, in her letters, to return home soon.

  • He was advised to go away; but he was unwilling to return home in poverty from Russia, that great Russia which is a mine of gold for artists; he decided to remain and try his luck.

  • And having said this, he left the room as if to return home.

  • As he was rising to take leave of his friend to return home, he observed a woman making a sign to him, whom he presently knew to be the confidant of Schemselnihar.

  • But this is not the case when the fishermen return home, for then it appears that they have been dealing mainly with muskallonge, and with bass by the way.

  • I left him one evening to return home, taking under my coat a bag with papers and documents relating to the prosecution, which I had been examining for him, and transcribing.

  • I pretended I was a Livonian, who had deserted from the Austrians, to return home, and claim an inheritance left me by my father.

  • Russian prisoners to return home, who afterwards so effectually punished his contempt of them at the battle of Pultawa.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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