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Example sentences for "soon began"

  • The general public, however, soon began to find him out.

  • He loved the society of artists, and journalists, and literary men; he associated with them en bon camarade, and he could talk with each upon his own subject; his bon mots soon began to circulate far and wide.

  • This Society speedily became a centre of all kinds of discussion; and Sedlnitzky, the head of the police, soon began to suspect and hamper it, and thereby to point out to the rising reformers their natural leaders.

  • But though the effect of the Greek insurrection in weakening the chances of Metternich's system was certainly important, it soon began to be doubtful whether the change would be permanent.

  • There was no person in the kitchen but himself, and putting a handfull of corn in the wire popper, it soon began to snap and jump about, the hard, yellow kernels bursting forth into light and beautiful milk-white balls.

  • On putting the stone into the vinegar, it soon began to move about, as though it were possessed of life.

  • There was a little stiffness at first; but Mrs. Bodine, with her fine tact, soon began to banish this, and the old lady was pleased that Ella seconded her efforts so readily.

  • The new arrangement on Aun' Sheba's side of the "pana'ship" soon began to work well.

  • John, who had so lately eaten humble pie, soon began to regard his promises as the pie-crust, which he commenced breaking very rapidly.

  • In the beginning of his reign Clau'dius gave the highest hopes of a happy continuance; but he soon began to lessen his care for the public, and to commit to his favourites all the concerns of the empire.

  • Famine, and its usual attendant, pestilence, soon began to waste the miserable Romans; but even the extreme of misery could not induce them to sally forth, and try their fortune in the field.

  • However, by his great attention to business, and by integrity that shuddered at corruption, he soon began to retrieve the affairs of Rome, and the credit of the army.

  • But he soon began to show the natural deformity of his mind.

  • Still his playful humour had not deserted him, and he soon began to amuse himself by cutting jokes on my swarthy features and unshorn visage.

  • The roof, however, soon began to fall in, and the family were compelled to take shelter in the cellar.

  • She went to see Alice almost every day from that afternoon; and as no one could resist Barbara, Alice's reserve, buttressed and bastioned as it was with pain, soon began to yield before the live sympathy that assailed it.

  • He soon began to care for the things she gave him, but he did not learn to love the mother who gave them.

  • It soon began to be whispered about that the King had fixed on Tillotson to fill the place of Sancroft.

  • But it soon began to appear that they would have widely different fates.

  • It soon began to be whispered that Johnson was mad.

  • The trials of prosperity were too great for Prince Mahmoud, as they have been for greater men; and he soon began to lose ground at Candahar.

  • Freely giving advice and rendering assistance, he soon began, in effect, to conduct the operations of the siege; whilst the officers of his suite were teaching the Persian soldiers how to construct more effective batteries.

  • Attaining by intrigue and violence what did not rightfully descend to him by inheritance, he soon began to turn his thoughts towards foreign conquest, and to meditate the invasion of Hindostan.

  • But he soon began to perceive that even that little was not to be obtained.

  • He soon began to worry the sheep for his subsistence, and did so much mischief that he caused very considerable alarm.

  • He, however, soon began to eat; the lotions were continued; and five months afterwards, the mouth of the dog was not in the slightest degree offensive.

  • He soon began rapidly to recover, until he was in nearly the same state as before, except that the sight was apparently more deficient.

  • He observed with alarm the disreputable courtiers who had gathered round the King; and he soon began to denounce the gambling, profligacy, and drunkenness which were beginning to reappear in the city.

  • But C̆enek was never long of one mind; and he soon began to despair of the struggle on which he had entered.

  • He soon began to denounce the state of morals around him.

  • Mazarin ruled everything; but he soon began to find that a friend, to whose services he owed everything, might be more difficult to manage than even an enemy.

  • The household of the Prés Vallée were, indeed, amongst the last to hear the rumours and inquiries which soon began to spread concerning the Count de Mesnil.

  • The success of the war in Guyenne had raised the minister higher than they liked also; and the Cardinal, foolishly believing himself quite secure, soon began to treat the Frondeurs with very little ceremony.

  • I soon began to masturbate not only every time that I defecated, but also at night just before I went to sleep, and sometimes early in the morning.

  • At first I had little or no appetite, but thanks to Miss Dunn’s treatment, it soon began to improve.

  • After leaving this humble abode we soon began to meet troops, ambulances, and so on, and from them we learned that our army was falling back.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against thee; against them; apply myself; first sight; like the; little fire; lucky fellow; said politely; she appeared; soon after; soon after his arrival; soon became; soon becomes; soon followed; soon found; soon lost for new; soon made; soon returned; soon told; soon will; sooner done; sooner gone; that little; the heaven; vegetable dish; your word