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Example sentences for "such was"

  • If, after mature consideration, such was my resolve, it was doubly necessary that I should not lose the end of life, the improvement of my faculties, and poison its flow by repinings without end.

  • Such was Frank's exposition to his father.

  • Such was--perhaps his instinct rather than his theory.

  • Such was Frank's statement,--untrue indeed, but believed by him to be true.

  • Such was Miltoun's younger brother at the age of twenty-six.

  • Such was he, then, when the Member for his native division was made a peer.

  • His argument was that wherever he was she would be the mistress of the house, and as such was entitled to the highest position, "therefore she will take precedence of all the archduchesses.

  • Such was Vienna a hundred years ago, and it is still the same.

  • Such was natural;--but it was natural also that envy should show itself in ridicule, and that the lord should be thrown in the clerk's teeth when the clerk should be deemed to have given offence.

  • The young man was in truth an Italian nobleman of the highest order, and as such was entitled to marry the daughter of an English nobleman.

  • Such was the rôle of different persons in this story.

  • We are on the eve of a Bolshevik insurrection"--such was, at this time, the opinion of all those who took part in political life.

  • Such was my suffering and degradation, that at the end of five years, I hardly dared to say I was free.

  • Such was my state, that I believe if my mother had come in just then, I should have tried Susan.

  • It used to horrify me when I thought of that, such was my masculine inconsistency then.

  • I am in here till to-morrow morning," I thought, and walked up and down barely restraining myself from frigging, such was my state of lust.

  • Such was my innocent device, but it sufficed, for both were hot in lust.

  • Such was Barnes's case, as stated by himself.

  • Such was my first introduction to the island of Madagascar; a portion of the world, of which, considering its position, magnitude and productions, the mariners of Christendom probably know less than of any other.

  • Such was my case, however, for I wanted not for a competency, or for most of those advantages which might tempt one to abandon the voyage.

  • Such was to be our occupation, in order to house these poor emigrants.

  • He used other anchors in different ports, that answered the purpose tolerably well; but this best bower he always intended to ride by in the Nieu deep, when he had escaped all the dangers and quicksands of foreign shores: such was Emily to me.

  • Such was my reasoning, and such my sentiments, previous to any relapse into sin or folly.

  • Such was Mr. Prendergast's thought about the matter; and that made him smile.

  • Such was Mr. Mollett senior--Mr. Matthew Mollett, with whom it will be soon our fate to be better acquainted.

  • One of such was Mr. Townsend, and few men carried their Protestant fervour further than he did.

  • Such was my first introduction to the West Indies.

  • Such was my case: I had never seen a chart of the Mediterranean.

  • As her courses rose above the water, she was pronounced to be a frigate; and as her hull appeared, such was found to be the case.

  • Such was Ætolian Tydeus; who begat 475 A son in speech his better, not in arms.

  • Such was my promise to him at the first, Ratified by a nod that self-same day When Thetis clasp'd my knees, begging revenge And glory for her city-spoiler son.

  • Such was my wrath which Agamemnon roused, The king of men.

  • Such was Mr Grobey's evidence as afterwards supplemented by the police.

  • Such was my matutinal salutation to my friend Thomas Strachan, as I entered his room on a splendid spring morning.

  • Such was Militona's room; and although it contained but the barest necessaries of life, it had not the chill and dreary look of misery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another source; feminine education; formal declaration; fugitive slave; good lump; green and; like children; magic sword; necessary that; negro blood; scenes from the life; severe tone; such are; such case; such cases; such circumstances; such manner; such matters; such men; such occasions; such persons; such places; such times; such was; such wise; what difference