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Example sentences for "about dark"

  • About dark we met General Grant's staff-officer near Bolton Station, who turned us to the right, with orders to push on to Vicksburg by what was known as the upper Jackson Road, which crossed the Big Black at Bridgeport.

  • About dark I learned that Nash had come back, and then, giving Brackett orders to have a cart ready at the corner of the plaza, McLane and I went to the house of Green.

  • Garrison, agent) about dark, just as the purser had arrived; by a totally different route.

  • About dark Merritt's division crossed the North Anna at Anderson's ford, while Gregg and Wilson encamped on the north side, having engaged the enemy, who still hung on my rear up to a late hour at night.

  • The little party of three arrived at the mouth of Tayban Arroyo, on the Reo Pecos, where Garrett had written Brazil to meet him, about dark on the night of July 13th.

  • During the day two men would "herd" or watch the cattle until noon and the other two until time to "bed" them, which would be about dark.

  • About dark I strolled up to a second-hand book store and asked how much a bible, nearly new, would bring?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about dark; about eight times the; about eighty; about five; about right; about sixteen; about sixty; about some; about ten; about that; about the same date; about thirty; about time; about two; about two miles from; about what; answer thee; cantus firmus; dine with; early age; high latitudes; much pain; plaster cast; single wire; true name; would hardly