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Example sentences for "then began"

  • Then began they to believe that man's body was the property of Satan, and his soul only the property of God.

  • Then began men to believe that devils, and not their Father in Heaven, were, to all practical intents, the lords of nature.

  • Then began they to fancy that man was to be delivered from his manifold earthly miseries, not by purity and virtue, reason and knowledge, but by magic, masked under the sacred name of religion.

  • Then began Epistemon to wind about the capstan, by doing whereof the two cables so entangled and empestered the legs of the horses, that they were all of them thrown down to the ground easily, together with their riders.

  • Then began Kissbreech in manner as followeth.

  • He then began to accuse me of saying of the eucharist, "Let them smell the scent of it, and know that it is but bread and wine still.

  • He then began to tell me of the wish of his holiness, the rev.

  • I then began to confess to him: but when I saw that he held steadfastly some opinions for no other reason than that the church so believed, and without bringing any proper evidence of the fact, viz.

  • And he then began to fell branches of trees.

  • And those mighty warriors, O Bharata, then began to case themselves in impenetrable mail that were besides variegated with pure gold, and armed themselves with celestial weapons of various kinds.

  • From the body of the king, O monarch, then began to flow a mighty and copious stream of water and that stream soon extinguished, O king, the fiery flames emitted by the Asura.

  • Following these manoeuvres, he sat with his chin upon his hand for five minutes, then began to make a circle with the berries.

  • The latter waited two hours, then began to throw shells into the town.

  • Then began a frightful uproar that shook the marshes and sent the sea birds screaming.

  • I then began to prepare for my rôle in L'Etrangère.

  • He then began to explain to me that his balloon would be able to carry inflammable matter without the least danger, thanks to this and thanks to that.

  • He then began to invent a hundred miseries for me.

  • We then began to walk again, and found that outside the rain had moderated.

  • Then began, as each candidate came forward, a process which I can only describe as "bully-ragging.

  • We then began to take stock of our fellow-lodgers.

  • Then began a train of expenditures, each one more extravagant than the last.

  • Then began a fearful scene, by reason of the mystery and silence which surrounded it.

  • Messer Giovanni Gaddi, who was present, then began to say: “The poor fellow is delirious, and has only a few hours to live.

  • CVIII I THEN began to deliberate upon the best way of making my escape.

  • He then began to consider the matter over with himself, and, regarding it as a plot, he determined to break his engagement, and let his friend remain the tiger's devil.

  • He then began to teach the Wills to say their prayers, making for them beads[295] out of bits of mud, and repeating to them the liturgies of Buddha.

  • The sound of the motor passing outside grew loud--louder--then began to die away.

  • It flared up, elfinish, then began to ascend.

  • One quick glance fore and aft he gave, then began to swarm down the ladder; in which instant I knew his mission.

  • In his turn he then began to talk of the thin partitions, and the manner in which the house had been crammed with people until it seemed as though the floors and the walls would collapse with the strain.

  • Then began a wild, mad race, which might last throughout the night, over the mountains, through the valleys, across the forests and the torrents.

  • Douches and external irritations had not served to wake him up, but a soldier told him upon this day that his brother was not dead, as he believed, but was alive and he then began to speak, opened his eyes, and began to talk.

  • He then began to be able to use the left eye, which remained, however, very photophobic.

  • He then began to have a few vague ideas of persecution.

  • He then began to breed carrier pigeons and got first prizes at international exhibitions.

  • Then began sheep-raising that was sheep-raising.

  • Then began in earnest our preparations for departure.

  • Then began a struggle brief but terrifying.

  • Then began a fight which must remain a desperate memory with the man forever.

  • We then began to think how we might get from this place, which was quite uninhabited; and we determined to repair our boat, which was very much shattered, and to put to sea in quest of a ship or some inhabited island.

  • I then began to think how we might be saved; and I believe no mind was ever like mine so replete with inventions and confused with schemes, though how to escape death I knew not.

  • He then Began in such soft accents, that within The sweetness thrills me yet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    might know; must leave; tertiary strata; then added; then allowed; then apply; then bishop; then bottle; then called; then down; then dried; then evaporated; then glanced; then going; then home; then inquired; then proceed; then season; then serve; then sweeten; then the; then wash; then went; this state; understood that; water mark