That was a very nice hotel, too, and it had honey-suckle on it, round at the side; but Harris did not like the look of a man who was leaning against the front door.
The spectral projection of this little daily scene hung but for a moment before Anna, but in that moment she had time to fling a wondering glance across the distance between her past and present.
The room was cold and fireless, and a hard glare fell from the wall-lights on the shrouded furniture and the white slips covering the curtains.
She felt restless, insecure out of his sight: she had a sense of incompleteness, of passionate dependence, that was somehow at variance with her own conception of her character.
That was a pretty dignified way of speaking wasn't it, Marilla?
She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well; but then, that was ridiculous!
It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what color they were, that was ridiculous.
That was why I was so glad when I thought I was going to live here.
That was Matthew's way--take a whim into his head and cling to it with the most amazing silent persistency--a persistency ten times more potent and effectual in its very silence than if he had talked it out.
Regarding the altitude which the moon attains above the horizon, the letter of the Cambridge Observatory had said all that was to be said in this respect.
That was evident, but perhaps that would not have been the case in a supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory-- a new problem which tormented Barbicane's brain, imprisoned as he was in a circle of unknowns which he could not unravel.
Of his good men full great marvel had he, How they were tint through his feil[26] fantasy.
This was a disease in his bowels, which had long afflicted him, 'without interrupting his designs, or souring his temper.
Brothers, that was a dog's death," said Mowgli, feeling for the knife he always carried in a sheath round his neck now that he lived with men.
That was worth a little bruise," said the brown bear tenderly.
That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.
That was my broken tent pole, and I was very glad to know it.
That was what I was getting at," explained Theron.
That was true; we had "made" them, though we had had a little assistance here and there.
I never have seen another dumb creature that was so morbidly sensitive.
That was a good fight, but it could not count, partly because it did not last the lawful fifteen minutes (of actual fighting), and partly because neither man was disabled by his wound.
The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.
The bezoar, that was found in the heart of the Arabian deer, was a charm that could cure the plague.
I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow.
These conjunctions are formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death.
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side?
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
