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Example sentences for "about their"

  • Laden with fruit around it palm-trees grow, While mid the stones fire plays about their roots.

  • Onward swept The eager host arrayed about their lord.

  • The Romans made a prodigious fuss, about their beards.

  • Doubtless, there are men of wonderfully well balanced minds, who go about their business, with great apparent composure, after they have killed their antagonists in duels.

  • I made some inquiry of the trader who had been with them for some years, about their traditions.

  • This soured them so much that they sought to make trouble with me about their pay, allowing me no time whatever to settle up in the usual manner.

  • They wear great store of beads about their necks, arms, and legs; about their middles, silk cloths.

  • They all carry a relique of Maramba in a little box, and hang it about their necks, under their left arms.

  • All they want is Hyrum and myself; then tell everybody to go about their business, and not to collect in groups, but to scatter about.

  • One mobber was killed by lightning and another had his hand torn off by a fractious horse, and in fear they dispersed, saying, if that was the way God fought for the "Mormons" they would go about their business.

  • The marshal had no papers by which they could be held, so permitted them to go about their business.

  • I told them they would have to ask the negroes for how was I to know what weapons they had concealed about their persons, any more than pa was responsible if his politicians carried revolvers.

  • It is not more natural for dogs to fight about a bone, than for such to snarl and quarrel, or be in some distempered passion, about their selfish, carnal interest.

  • There has been some little mystery about their authorship, but it is evident that they are not all from the same hand.

  • It was later in the day, and upon a seat in the presence of the green and gold Labyrinthodon that looms so splendidly above the lake, that the Kippses fell into talk about their future.

  • Turning his horse now in this direction, now in that, he gathered the animals, one by one, about their leader.

  • Thus far, then, their pursuers had tracked them, and no doubt they would be about their ears in a few minutes.

  • The hussars obeyed the order, falling in about their captain in closed ranks.

  • So the Jewish ambassadors interceded with him, and entreated him that he would determine nothing that was severe about their queen or nation.

  • And the Devil so hardens them, that nothing will awaken their cares about their Souls: How come so many to be Seared in their Sins?

  • They'll put up some arches, and a few statues and build tribute houses in a lot of towns, and then they'll go on about their business, and we who have fought will feel a bit blank.

  • There had been, too, about their friendship a rather engaging seriousness.

  • She knew that that gaze meant that those two had had long conversations of an intimate kind--about their likes and dislikes, about their natures, about their views of marriage.

  • She did not imagine that it had gone further than talks about their likes and dislikes, about their natures or about marriage as an institution.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about dark; about eighty; about fifty; about forty; about him; about nine; about noon; about six; about sixteen; about sixty; about south; about the same period; about three; about time; about two; about two miles from; about what; him like; know each; many ages; only necessary; peasant girl; slavery conflict; somebody ought; space equal; transparent water