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Example sentences for "while since"

  • Our great want, a while since, was harbour and good company, and now I hope we have both.

  • Also (as was hinted a while since) that the power and glory of this breadth, and length, &c.

  • If thou art a hero as that knight said of thee a while since, and not a pure madman, then follow after that knight and bring that lady back hither again.

  • While I was playing with her a while since, she slipped from me and took flight, and has sped as thou dost see.

  • For I freely confess that thou art the greatest knight in the world, against whom no other knight can hope to stand; for I could fight no more and thou mightest easily have slain me when I fell down a while since.

  • I've put a quilt upon you I'm after quilting a while since with my own two hands, and you'd best stretch out now for your sleep, and may God give you a good rest till I call you in the morning when the cocks will crow.

  • He said his father was a farmer a while since, and there's himself now in a poor state.

  • It's doubtless your best line; and I really quite feel, at all events, that when you mentioned a while since that I talk too much you only meant too much to you.

  • I laughed at dreams a while since--but only when they promise peace need we have doubt of them.

  • His hand was already on the door-latch when old Nicholas himself, still seated by the hearth, detained him, though a while since he had bidden him make all speed to Marshcotes.

  • They were over young, these lads who had been left to his care, to fight with grown men; what if one of them were slain in saving the life he had gladly given up a while since?

  • Why, yes; he went away too a while since, when Cathelineau turned the soldiers out of St. Florent.

  • As you said a while since, Victorine, how should she not like his society?

  • Now go down, Eleanor; our friends are below, I heard their steps a while since, as they came in.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always trying; brilliant yellow; clad figure; female slaves; happen next; hath chosen; lasting peace; necessary result; often present; quite clean; return here; while after; while another; while before; while from; while his; while looking; while lying; while others; while sitting; while some; while still; while that; while the; while there; while thou