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Example sentences for "soon found"

  • Now, however, he recommenced it, and with every intention, as we soon found, to stop at no intrigue or baseness in order to carry his point.

  • As for Madame des Ursins, he soon found a change in her manner.

  • He at once commenced his march; but to retreat in full daylight was very difficult, as he soon found.

  • But I soon found I could not trust Melannie, for when I awoke I discovered her to be asleep.

  • She came with me to see my mother, and I soon found that, as true women, there was no inequality between them.

  • Carried away by the thought of my salvation, I waded knee deep to meet my comrades, and climbing into the boat I soon found myself on board the "Endraght".

  • Pushing on through the darkness, I soon found I was nearer my destination than I supposed.

  • My reception, however, had been so cordial that I soon found myself at ease in my new associations.

  • And I soon found in Janesville, as I have always found, that they are the key to successful labor.

  • I soon found that I was an object of derision to all present, except M.

  • At first we thought that it was smoke from some great fire on the plains; but we soon found that it was a swarm of locusts.

  • General Klopicki was named commander-in-chief of the army, and he soon found himself at the head of a powerful force.

  • I soon found myself the proud possessor of that for which I had acknowledged a long-felt want.

  • I soon found it wise to learn how to do repairs for myself; and it was by doing them myself that I discovered how I had been victimised by the rapacity, dishonesty, and inefficiency of the British workman and his master.

  • I soon found that if I wanted potatoes and cabbages, I must grow them; if a pipe burst there was no plumber to mend it, I must mend it myself; and so through a long range of occupations, with which I had had no previous acquaintance.

  • The reality I soon found to be entirely different.

  • This he soon found, and agreed with the people of the house for 2 shillings a day per man; which I found was the customary Price and method of proceeding.

  • Northward of it the land, which is low, Trends North-West by North; but we soon found that it did not keep that direction long before it turn'd again to the Northward.

  • We soon found a group of trees so situated that the trunks would serve as posts for our intended building.

  • I soon found, too, the copper cauldron which was successfully floated by the casks; this I got on shore, and hauling it up among the rocks, stored under it the powder casks we had landed the day before.

  • However I soon found, that the moment they were assured that I was in reality an Englishman, they all spoke English, and exceedingly well too.

  • The crib in which I was confined was as dark as pitch, and, as I soon found, as hot as the black--hole in Calcutta.

  • I soon found that I had landed amongst a family of originals.

  • This gradually disappeared, and I soon found myself on the level green-sward, without any marks of footing for my guide.

  • I soon found reason to leave them, but I doubt whether for three hours their mouths were once seen motionless!

  • I soon found I had but a little passed by the place where I had been before, when I travelled on foot to that shore; so taking nothing out of my boat but my gun and umbrella, for it was exceedingly hot, I began my march.

  • We soon found a cave with a narrow entrance, large enough inside to hold half-a-dozen of such lads as we were, and we crawled in.

  • We waited till he was well off, and then rode back to the spot where Romer had fallen: we soon found him, but he was quite dead; the blow with the lion's paw had fractured his skull.

  • We kept near the coast, but we soon found that we could not obtain the supply of game, or fuel for our fires at night, so well as we could in the interior, and we agreed to get away from the coast again.

  • The fact was his thoughts were running in one particular direction, and I soon found which, for he began in his morose way: "Just as if I should overload or ill-use a hoss!

  • Philip, who, I soon found, was the quicker with his tongue.

  • We had so far mastered one enemy, but were suffering from the attack of another, which we had ignored for a time; while now it was impressing itself upon us all, as I soon found, in a very serious way.

  • That there was danger I soon found, for struggling, and oaths, and curses saluted my ears again as I reached the ladder and ran up on to the poop-deck, just as a shout from near the wheel drove me back.


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