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Example sentences for "that time"

  • In that time, the little cloud between them had entirely passed away.

  • Lady Montbarry has informed us that she abstained from engaging another maid in consequence of the extreme dislike which his lordship expressed to having strangers in the house, in the state of his health at that time.

  • Lady Montbarry's maid having left her at that time, the courier Ferrari (then the only servant in the house) went out to buy the lemons.

  • That time, however, did gradually come, forwarded by an affection on his side as warm as her own, and much less encumbered by refinement or self-distrust.

  • The most notable characteristic of the young clergyman's appearance was his outer guilelessness and the oddness of his face.

  • See the long, narrow, sordid streets lined with the cheap commodities of the poor.

  • The young gentleman touched his cap politely, for though the woman was not fashionably dressed, she was distinguished in appearance, with an air of remoteness which gave her a kind of agreeable mystery.

  • You have no father, cousin--well, I will be your father.

  • In the summer the Chevalier always had his breakfast under this tree.

  • Vier Marchi with Olivier Delagarde, and the bitter change in Ranulph.

  • She had gone back to the Druid's cromlech where Philip's friend had sat, and with smiling lips and swimming eyes she watched the young men until they were lost to view.

  • Then the gathering of the vraic was a fete, and the lads and lasses footed it on the green or on the hard sand, to the chance flageolets of sportive seamen home from the war.

  • Philip drew her to him, and her eyes lifted to his.

  • And just beside him was the ladder going straight down into the stable, up which his father always came to fetch the hay for Diamond's dinner.

  • I'm sorry I couldn't find it out myself; Mr. Raymond would have been better pleased with me.

  • Just go on with your cabbing for another month, only take it out of Ruby and let Diamond rest; and by that time I shall be ready for you to go down into the country.

  • He'll have found a cupboard somewhere by that time.

  • Her father and mother had by that time got so used to the odd state of things that they had ceased to wonder at them.

  • Somebody else will be sure to have taken the crossing by that time.

  • The reason alleged was their determined resolution of not leaving their mother at that time of the year.

  • Edward had been staying several weeks in the house before he engaged much of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects.

  • By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after.

  • The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time Governor of one of the Australian Colonies.

  • But at that time it will be in the hands of the lady's husband.

  • At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honor of a heathen god.

  • He could not deny this, but at the end of that time he became more insistent.

  • The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country follies possible at that time.

  • Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.

  • The truly national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened to be wide open.

  • The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand.

  • The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist.

  • He was in a might good humour when he heard me say I had paid her, and it went off into some other discourse at that time.

  • However, nothing else passed at that time; it was but a surprise, and when he was gone I soon recovered myself again.

  • A certain young lady, at that time a belle in New York, was currently called Sally, and a well-known sportsman Fred, by thousands of people who had never seen either of them.

  • What were people thinking of at that time?

  • Nothing could have been more provincial and narrow than the ideas of our "smart" men at that time.

  • There was a run at that time on the "Madonna in the Chair;" and "Beatrice Cenci" was long prime favorite.

  • I have succeeded in locating two statues evidently imported at that time.

  • To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

  • The month was so called from barley being at that time in ear.

  • Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    angry look; defense against; little silence; morning call; that afternoon; that body; that effect; that even; that for; that land; that law; that manner; that matter; that morning; that nation; that none; that not; that power; that such; that the; that this; that time; that when; that year; that you; that your