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Example sentences for "these times"

  • At these times a species of sting-ray is common on the sloping beach, and bathers are frequently stung most severely by it.

  • The fit pabulum, in these times, for a certain rugged workshop intellect and heart, nowise without their corresponding workshop strength and ferocity, it requires but to be stated in such scenes to make proselytes enough.

  • Yet in these times I scarcely know what my duty may be from hour to hour.

  • Few girls in these times have so many to care and think for them.

  • Yet in my widowhood, in the sore pressure of care and difficulty in managing a large plantation in these times, I have found my faith in God's love adequate to my need.

  • People do not read such books in these times to any extent, at least in this country, but they have ever been highly valued on the continent of Europe.

  • We have in these times but a feeble conception of the bitterness of the strife of these two great parties in the beginning of the eighteenth century.

  • What would you think of a young fellow not busy in these times?

  • If you were inclined to dissipation, or, what would be little better in these times, were hot-headed and bent on taking part in this losing fight of the South, I should have no end of trouble.

  • It matters little what one hopes in these times," she said, "for events are taking place which set aside all hopes and expectations.

  • I don't fancy pensive, preoccupied men in these times.

  • Ay, ay, the old man will be busy with some of his duties, as he calls them; I wonder he fashes wi' them in these times.

  • In these times of trouble the officials are so suspicious, and our dear Alcalde knows too much.

  • In these times, one is almost compelled to suspect one's nearest friends.

  • Or it was perhaps a beggar who came to him on the old yellow marble seat under the orange trees, and chatted affably about his business as being bad in these times of war.

  • No,' he answered, 'I am not anxious to kill any man, but each must take care of himself in these times.

  • In these times' (he glanced nervously at the weeping lady) 'one must do one's duty.

  • For this reason fasting is not ordered by the Church during the whole of the Paschal season, nor on Sundays: and if anyone were to fast at these times in contradiction to the custom of Christian people, which as Augustine declares (Ep.

  • Each fast of the Ember days is composed of three days, on account of the number of months in each season: or on account of the number of Holy orders which are conferred at these times.

  • At these times many of the nobility waited on her at table.

  • How I have thought of this, and of these times, I shall recount hereafter, .

  • What you would work me to, I have some aim; How I have thought of this, and of these times, I shall recount hereafter.

  • How I have thought of this, and of these times, I shall recount hereafter.

  • What an example to tourists in these times!

  • Now suspicion fell, as it always did in these times, if any thing went wrong, upon the Christians, as having been concerned upon these occasions.

  • That Christianity also was purest in these times, there can be no doubt.

  • And let this be considered as an insuperable argument against those, who contend that there were Christian soldiers in these times, for no Christian could submit to such idolatrous homage; but, if so, no Christian could be a soldier.

  • Forty at least might have been seen at these times in the large room, forming a ring round the margin of the great sixteen-legged oak table, like the monolithic circle of Stonehenge in its pristine days.

  • Well, we hardly know how to look at things in these times!

  • A gagging Polonius, Dogberry, Gobbo, or Gravedigger could scarcely expect much toleration from a modern audience; while it is true enough, that these famous personages do not often present themselves upon the scene in these times.

  • Indeed, a long run of the tragedy, such as happens in these times, would involve serious outlay for stage-books, if so destructive a system were persisted in.

  • Nor are his instructions upon the art of making-up to be accounted highly in these times.

  • They were as subject to deception and trickery, and as full of political and sectarian rancor as partisans in these times.

  • Even funeral occasions were made to subserve the dissipating spirit of these times; they were the signal for hilarity and feasting.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bring herself; ceased speaking; cold butter; direction opposite; especially important; large lump; people think; saw you; shedding tears; these are; these books; these cases; these days; these great; these latter; these matters; these men; these pages; these places; these principles; these questions; these regions; these subjects; these three; these works; young friend