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Example sentences for "still continued"

  • But though Henry had opened his mind to this scheme of ambition, he still continued to negotiate with his enemies, and endeavored to obtain more secure, though less considerable advantages.

  • First the Austrians were determined to get a more favourable division of the common expenses; that of 1867 still continued, although Hungary had grown relatively in wealth.

  • He had expired gazing upon the Virgin, and nothing could have been so sweet; and he still continued to gaze upon her with his dead eyes, as though with ineffable delight.

  • Thus Monferrand, though he still continued to smile, spent a few anxious moments in waiting to see if anybody would rise to answer him.

  • The abolition of the lottery system in the District as an immorality, was a flagrant breach of this "good faith" to Maryland and Virginia, as the system "still continued in those states.

  • As local or colonial magistrate, in which capacity he still continued to act he had no cases of serious crime to adjudicate, and very few cases of petty misdemeanor.

  • The abolition of the lottery system in the District as an immorality, was a flagrant breach of this "good faith" to Maryland and Virginia, as the system "still continued in those states.

  • There is some reason, however, to apprehend, that the same force which had driven them from their native seats, still continued to impel their march towards the frontiers of Europe.

  • Bloody street fights between the two parties, however, still continued by day and night.

  • Conflicts with the archbishop, however, and with the clerical minority in the chamber, still continued.

  • The sect, however, still continued to gather members in Syria and Asia Minor.

  • When his capital was gone he still continued to buy with borrowed money, and has become involved in such difficulties that he cannot free himself.

  • The house was built by the deceased nobleman whose widow he still continued to serve, and may be described as follows: The four walls surrounding the one izba (room) were built of stone, and the interior was ten yards square.

  • He kept his money in large trunks, and, while having more than he knew what to do with, still continued to collect money from his subjects.

  • Moaning with pain, he still continued to labor.

  • One night he was so fatigued with his performance that he still continued to sleep, when the horse, a very steady one, who could always find his way home without assistance, had stopped at the gate.

  • It became a habit; and when they had removed to Penton-place, and consequently were so much nearer the theatre that it was no longer necessary, it still continued.

  • He still continued to promote the success of the campaign, exerting his influence over the Indian tribes to win them from the enemy.

  • He still continued in actual command of the militia of the State.

  • The hostilities of the Indians north of the Ohio, by many attributed to British wiles, still continued.

  • It still continued to be dry frosty weather; and, as we were obliged to ford the Agueda, up to the middle, every man carried a pair of iced breeches into the trenches with him.

  • It still continued to rain hard, and we again passed the night in a wood.

  • The battle, on the side of the Prussians, still continued to rage in an unceasing roar of artillery.

  • Yet he still continued to secure to himself some share of attention by several works in prose.

  • His terms not having been regularly kept in the University, (where his mother and sister had still continued to reside) he did not take his degree of Master of Arts till the Easter of 1773.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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