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Example sentences for "and from"

  • Although the mode of election of their members varies from epoch to epoch, and from nation to nation, they present very similar characteristics.

  • Should the strength of an authority be intermittent, the crowd, always obedient to its extreme sentiments, passes alternately from anarchy to servitude, and from servitude to anarchy.

  • Greenock to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to Aberdeen.

  • This was just what I needed; and I got it at a time, and from a source, whence I least expected it.

  • He generally carried a viper with him which he had made quite tame, and from which he had extracted the poisonous fangs; it would dance and perform various kinds of tricks.

  • Nightfall brought us to Peterborough, and from thence we were not slow in reaching the place of our destination.

  • Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her.

  • But we haven't very far to go now--only another mile.

  • And anyhow, please forgive Diana and let her have her music lessons.

  • Matthew and I are such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all.

  • As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads.

  • The wheat, now close to its maturity, had turned from pale yellow to golden yellow, and from that to brown.

  • A saucer of shelled filberts stood near his elbow, and from time to time he picked up one of these in a great thumb and forefinger and put it between his teeth.

  • A great nation of Atheists is a practical impossibility, because the basic principle of such a society must needs be selfishness, and from such a foundation no mighty superstructure can ever rise.

  • The veering gusts of public judgment have carried incessantly along, from country to country, and from generation to generation, with countless mutations of aspect and of inuendo, the sinister renown of Machiavelli.

  • With apologies to the Professor, they passed through his lecture room to the laboratory at the back, and from thence, down the private stairs, past a privy, into the lower laboratory.

  • On arriving at King's Cross he took the underground railway to Paddington, and from there a train to Bristol.

  • At the beginning of January he left Bristol for Bath, and from Bath, in the company of a sergeant of police, travelled by way of Didcot to Oxford.

  • Kong Sam Kee, the Calistoga washerman, was entrusted with the affair; and from day to day it languished on, with protestations on our part and mellifluous excuses on the part of Kong Sam Kee.

  • And from her, her eyes narrowed to two slits, her cheeks scarlet: "Why, thanks.

  • Your eye lighted on it, pleased, and from it traveled its gratified way down her white temples, past her little ears, to the smooth black coil at the nape of her neck.

  • And from Eva or Babe, "I've GOT silk stockings, Jo.

  • Charles "had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he had once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had not made less than twenty thousand pounds by the war.

  • Then Rawdon took out of his pocket the little pocket-book which he had discovered in Becky's desk, and from which he drew a bundle of the notes which it contained.

  • The draft was upon our friends Hulker and Bullock of Lombard Street, to whose house, still thinking he was doing business, George bent his way, and from whom he received his money.

  • Along this buried corridor the "king" led them, for though he had never traversed it himself the Princess Emma had, and from her he had received minute directions.

  • Upon the roof of this the American landed, and from there he dropped to the courtyard without mishap.

  • An hour later darkness had fallen upon the little city of Lustadt, and from a small gateway in the rear of the palace grounds two horsemen rode out into the ill-paved street and turned their mounts' heads toward the north.

  • He turned back into the alley and at last found a crooked passageway between buildings that he hoped might lead him to a spot where there was no sentry, and from which he could find his way out of the village toward the south.

  • Maenck clambered to the hood of the machine, and from there to the top.

  • At last, with a twisting movement, he got upon his hands and knees, and from thence, like a babe trying to walk, to his feet.

  • He had not deemed it possible that his army could that day succeed, and from this he felt the ability to fight harder.

  • The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously.

  • He was one who would go where the cannikin clinked, not caring who should pay; and from supping in the wolves' den, there is but a step to hunting with the pack.

  • One was Sakuma- Shozan, hereditary retainer of one of the Shogun's councillors, and from him he got more than money or than money's worth.

  • From weeping he went to whining, and from whining to wailing, until at last he achieved a scream.

  • And from branch to branch, and from tree to tree, we followed overhead, making an infernal row and warning all the forest-dwellers that old Saber-Tooth was coming.

  • They think it is their own personality, that they have only one personality; and from such a premise they can conclude only that they have lived previous lives.

  • And from my knowledge of the times, the only explanation possible lies in that he perished shortly after the adventure with the wild pigs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and all; and blessed; and built; and departed; and fell; and for; and fro; and laid; and let; and looked; and said; and set; and she; and went; and when; battle line; both chambers; central bank; had better; high tension; motu cordis; natural generation; natural things; private letters; race suicide; stand until