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Example sentences for "afresh"

Lexicographically close words:
afrade; afraid; afraide; afrayd; afrayde; africana; aft; afta; aftah; afteh
  1. Soon afterwards another adjutant of Pompeius, Marcus Scaurus, arrived in Judaea, to allay the feuds ever breaking out afresh there.

  2. In the following year (699) while Caesar himself was employed in Britain the greater part of the army was sent afresh against these tribes; but this expedition also remained in the main unsuccessful.

  3. It seemed to have occurred to nobody that Caesar would possibly stand on his defence, or that Pompeius and Crassus would combine with him afresh and more closely than ever.

  4. Miss Belinda was astounded afresh by the alacrity with which her niece seemed to forget her troubles, and rise to the occasion.

  5. Octavia was arranging afresh the bunch of long-stemmed, swaying buds at her waist, and she was giving all her attention to her task when her visitor first addressed her.

  6. In her earnestness, Susan lapsed into her broadest brogue, and the girls laughed afresh to see the silver headdress wag above Susan's nodding head.

  7. Cromer looked amazed, as if a saint had been guilty of heresy, and Patty laughed afresh at his astonished look.

  8. I thought afresh of the grave in the churchyard, underneath the tree: and it seemed as if the house were dead too, now, and all connected with my father and mother were faded away.

  9. My wounds broke out afresh at this intelligence.

  10. Because it would be just like inventing afresh the means for constructing railways.

  11. And as it were, seeing her afresh without her hat, he fell to kissing her again.

  12. But in her expression of restrained excitement, and of a sort of reserve, he could find nothing but the beauty that always bewitched him afresh though he was used to it, the consciousness of it, and the desire that it should affect him.

  13. I had better make them afresh with Sister Hyacinthe.

  14. Then the scene began afresh with the bouquets--large round bouquets they were, carelessly fastened together and looking like cabbages.

  15. Comrade," I said, for I could not mind his name, "let me rig you out afresh before we part.

  16. The guard took our weapons from us, bound us afresh but not very tightly, and set us with our backs against the gunwale of the fore deck of the ship they had us on board, which was that with the raven flag.

  17. Then he had repaired the earthworks, and crowned them afresh with a heavy timber stockade, making new gates and bridges across the moat.

  18. Over and over again she asked herself the question, bringing herself as it were each time to contemplate afresh the obstacle that had arisen in her path.

  19. They faced one another in the dimness, and Avery marked afresh the weariness of his face.

  20. He clapped his own hand upon his grandfather's, and was shocked afresh at its icy coldness.

  21. Would he drag her once more through the hell of his passion, kindle afresh for her the flame that had consumed her happiness?

  22. But there was no privacy about his return, and Miss Whalley was shocked afresh at the brazen heartlessness of it after his recent bereavement.

  23. And for this reason every time we experience afresh the particular emotion associated with the quality beautiful, we are adding to that rhythm of life within ourselves by recognising the life of all things.

  24. The activity of the artist's soul has been in vain for you, since you do not let your soul follow its tracks through the work of art; he has not created for you, because you have failed to create his work afresh in vivid contemplation.

  25. About nine o'clock I filled my pipe afresh and set off for a stroll down the street, keeping my eyes open to see if any of my old friends would take notice of me.

  26. If that is so, I will give you five hundred pounds to enable you to start afresh in the world, provided you leave this place within twenty-four hours, and do not let me ever see you or hear of you again.

  27. When she began afresh as highly to resent the former affronts that was offer'd her, as Lycas did the repute of his modesty that he had lost in the peoples esteem.

  28. Adam, 3d, will be raking the yard afresh and Susan will be sweeping the walks steadily from now until they sight us coming down the road.

  29. Frederick in vain tried to rally and lead them afresh to the attack.

  30. The women were coming in now, some crying hysterically, some shrieking afresh at the sight of the bodies that were strewn about the room.

  31. Last Friday morning I found a pile of letters on my desk and that evening I realized afresh that teaching has its pleasures as well as its pains.

  32. X Davy in Search of a Sensation Anne, walking home from school through the Birch Path one November afternoon, felt convinced afresh that life was a very wonderful thing.

  33. It is said that formerly all the fires in Rome were lighted afresh from the holy fire kindled in St. Peter's on Easter Saturday.

  34. Once a year all the household fires in Kahma are extinguished and then lighted afresh from the ghostly flame.

  35. That the three last deputies returned to Hannibal, and the ten former remained, because they had evaded their oath, having returned to Hannibal after having set out, under pretence of learning afresh the names of the captives.

  36. The full consciousness of all that he had surrendered in yielding up afresh his heritage rolled in on his memory, like the wave of some heavy sea that sweeps down all before it.

  37. They had cast the torch of war afresh into the land, and here, southward, the flame burned bitterly, and with a merciless tongue devoured the lives of men, licking them up as a forest fire the dry leaves and the touchwood.

  38. He glanced back on them, guarding his head the while from the lances that were rained on him; and he lifted the guidon higher and higher, till, out of the ruck and the throng, the brazen bird caught afresh the rays of the rising sun.

  39. Two horses had been killed under him, and he had thrown himself afresh across unwounded chargers, whose riders had fallen in the melee, and at whose bridles he had caught as he shook himself free of the dead animals' stirrups.

  40. Cigarette gave no movement of assent; all the jealous rage in her flared up afresh to stifle the noble and unselfish instincts under which she had been led during the later moments.

  41. She raised them afresh with their old dauntless frankness.

  42. They halted to rest and bait the beasts in a rocky hollow, sheltered from the blasts of the bise, and green with short, sweet grass, sprung up afresh after the summer drought.

  43. He was like a half-dead rattlesnake, which may recover life and spring afresh upon its prey at any moment.

  44. The dog-whip cracked across the writhing backs, and the constables smote afresh with baton and gun-butt.

  45. Thereafter the stars died and the rain came down afresh and the river rose yet more, and I felt the bridge begin to stir under me as a man stirs in his sleep ere he wakes.

  46. Footnote 329: The sleeves of shirts were detachable, and were sewed on afresh when a clean garment was put on.

  47. Grievously, but not mortally, wounded, they quickly got upon their feet and grasped afresh their lances, which were not broken nor the worse for wear.

  48. Footnote 313: Much has been written on the widespread belief that a dead person's wounds would bleed afresh in the presence of his murderer.

  49. Love very often inflicts afresh the wound it has given him.

  50. The Countess Marie, possessing her royal mother's tastes and gifts, made of her court a social experiment station, where these Provencal ideals of a perfect society were planted afresh in congenial soil.

  51. Then the noise began afresh with the shock of breaking lances.

  52. When he reached the river, he got off his horse and bathed his mouth and his eyes again, and he cursed afresh when the blood started afresh at his lips again.

  53. They had left the woods behind, glowing with rich autumnal coloring, the glorious blue heavens, the ripening fruits, and the changeful scenes, that opened afresh every day.

  54. They had plenty of money, and could start afresh in a new place, but the people here should see that she was able to hold her head as high as the best of them.

  55. And if you vex Klaus afresh by such a demand?

  56. Anna Maria looked sadly at the young creature, who was now on her knees before her, beginning afresh her despairing lamentations.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afresh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afresh; again; anew; ditto; encore; new; newly; over; recently