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Example sentences for "along about"

  • The surveyors came trooping into camp along about noon, heated and tired.

  • So along about nine in the morning, when he thought it likely he would be apt to find Conrad seated in his favorite nook and playing some of his dreamy airs, all of them creations of his own brain, Elmer started forth.

  • Along about midnight, however, Elmer discovered positive signs that the worst was over.

  • Along about nine o'clock he nodded over into the fire, right at the most excitin' part of an Injun tale which Tank was makin' up for his especial benefit.

  • Along about midnight, they got to be purty lively affairs.

  • Along about twelve o'clock probably, and about five it got worse.

  • Along about daybreak, a servant awakened Bismarck, telling him a French general was at the door.

  • Along about 1816, Karl inherited Kneiphof, Kuelz and Jarchelin estates from his cousin, moved to Kneiphof, just east of the hamlet of Naugard.

  • Only, as I landed her back at her hotel, along about 2:30 a.

  • And when we had to leave, along about nine-thirty, it was as gay a scene as was ever staged on any West Side block, bar none.

  • There was an old boy carried one in along about 10 o'clock.

  • That's along about 6:15 when I blow in from town.

  • Along about Pittsburgh he's got so brash that I keeps watching for some white man to rise up and knock that boy's mouth so far round from the middle of his face it'll look like his side-entrance.

  • After Mr. Dallas has done gone out I fixes myself up something solid to eat and then, along about three o'clock I drifts downstairs and engages in friendly conversation with two of them West Indian boys.

  • He tried to get some place for her to stay, along about midnight, but there wasn't any.

  • Along about ten o'clock he halted his team where a dead spruce overhung the river-bank.

  • Along about eleven in come a man I never saw before.

  • Along about nine o'clock we saw Mr. Long Neck come pussy-footing in.

  • Along about a quarter past one in came a delegation of ladies from the Methodist church, nominating their parson, Rev.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    along about; along shore; along the; along with; cell division; deep shadow; free pardon; give satisfaction; high polish; kinder guess; large masses; more strictly; official language; paused again; poached eggs; private citizens; rapid stream; said office; she wished; small lakes; spiritual kingdom; that were; third year; times gone; various methods