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Example sentences for "this scene"

  • Footnote: This scene is not fictitious, but based upon the verbal statements and disclosures of the lady who played so prominent a part in it.

  • Napoleon, painfully moved by this scene, quickly advanced to the prince, and took his hand.

  • There is another version of this scene, according to which it was not Metternich's, but the emperor's hat that fell to the floor.

  • Niclas looked triumphantly at his immense crowd of listeners, who were gazing at him with amazement, awaiting in breathless stillness the unravelling of this scene.

  • At this moment the Prince of Prussia, who had been a silent witness to this scene, approached General Winterfeldt.

  • His contemptuous glance met the two poor musicians, who had stepped aside, and were silent witnesses of this scene.

  • You will scarcely believe that, in this scene of horrors, the sound of laughter should be overheard.

  • The strangeness and abruptness of this scene left me no power to assume a part in it.

  • I was astonished and affrighted at this scene.

  • The age and sex of the youthful sovereign gave a singular and touching interest to this scene, and the manner in which her majesty delivered the speech heightened its effect.

  • Happening to be within a mile of this scene of slaughter, and hearing the alarm, he recrossed the Haw, and meeting in his retreat with another body of loyalists, he conceived that they were militiamen, and put them to the sword.

  • Nor was the thievery confined altogether to the professionals, who had crowded to this scene of action from the cities and islands of the Mediterranean.

  • In the midst of this scene came up a French officer, whom I recognised as the patient I had taken to Spring Hill after the battle of the Tchernaya, and who took my part at once, and ordered them to release me.

  • I need not linger on this scene, nor give the readers the results of my operation; although novel to me, and decidedly useful, they were what every medical man well knows.

  • I ventured to increase, in the smallest perceptible degree, the crack by means of which I was myself an interested, if unseen, participator in this scene.

  • If this scene, as Cagnolo says, ended the dramatic performances we are forced to conclude that they were exceedingly dull and spiritless.

  • This scene is faithfully described in a contemporaneous Ferrarese manuscript on criminology now preserved in the library of the university.

  • Of this scene, Duncan, who, in his eagerness to report his arrival, had entered unannounced, stood many moments an unobserved and a delighted spectator.

  • There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene.

  • During the existence of this scene, a man suddenly appeared at the furthest extremity of a platform of rock which formed the level of the village.

  • Of this scene, so chillingly in accordance with the past, Duncan stood for many minutes a rapt observer.

  • Already deeply moved by this scene, and without reflecting on the consequences of what he was about to do, he determined at all events to dissipate the terrible and unjust fears with which he had inspired Adrienne.

  • Abbe d'Aigrigny, his forehead resting on his hand, remained as if a stranger to this scene; he was too much occupied with his fears at the consequences of the approaching interview between Mdlle.

  • Very clear, very precise," said the princess, exchanging a glance of satisfaction with the other actors in this scene.

  • This scene was, however, another proof to me of what I must in future expect; and it had the effect of hardening me and blunting my feelings.

  • From the contemplation of this scene, Emily's mind proceeded to the apprehension of what she might suffer in it, till the remembrance of Valancourt, far, far distant!

  • Emily, as she approached the lattice, was sensible of the features of this scene only as they served to bring Valancourt more immediately to her fancy.

  • As you can understand, this scene is a quite novel one to me,--a glimpse into a new and different world.

  • May I trespass so far upon your kindness as to ask all present to remain silent in regard to this scene.

  • Our Christian work among you will be more full of hope and faith because of this scene, and therefore more successful.

  • This scene, however, exciting as it would have been under any other circumstances, produced very little impression upon the great crowd that was engaged about the steamer.

  • This scene, of course, strongly attracted the attention both of Rollo and of Jane.

  • Rollo had one very extraordinary proof of the deep and overwhelming character of the excitement of this scene, in an accident that occurred in the midst of it, which, for a moment, frightened him extremely.

  • While gazing with great interest on this scene, as the steamer moved along, Jane was suddenly startled and terrified at the sound of a heavy gun, which seemed to be fired close to her ear.

  • With my heart still filled with the bitterness of this scene, I wandered instinctively beyond the luminous zone projected around the chateau through the apertures of the resplendent windows.

  • The least breath causes a full cup to overflow; thus the little unpleasantness of this scene seems to have intensified this feeling of ennui which has scarce left me since my advent into this abode of joy.

  • His grandson, Horace Vernet, painted an excellent picture of this scene, which was exhibited in the Louvre in 1816, and attracted a great deal of attention.

  • This scene made a lasting impression on Vernet.

  • The change in the countenance of Rodin, of which he did not appear to be conscious, was so remarkable, that the other actors in this scene looked at him with a sort of terror.

  • Mute with astonishment, the spectators of this scene felt an uneasy curiosity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this building; this camp; this castle; this church; this collection; this convention; this court; this earth; this expedition; this king; this lady; this law; this letter; this means; this movement; this night; this office; this one; this planet; this play; this ship; this thing; this vessel; this voyage; this work; this world