Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "anon"

Lexicographically close words:
anoj; anomalies; anomalistic; anomalous; anomaly; anone; anonymity; anonymous; anonymously; anoon
  1. What convulsive eddies each of the shells, whose trajectory we heard ever and anon in the skies overhead, were making in that living stream were to us a subject of poignant speculation.

  2. Anon she cometh back again unclad, and would step into the bed; but she saw the sword and said: What is this, Champion?

  3. Went he then, and anon comes the Black Squire, and now that he was alone with Birdalone this first time, he seemed moody and downcast, all unlike the two others.

  4. Anon she turned to a tall thin lad of some fifteen winters, and said unto him: Wilt thou now take me unto the house, and the place where dwelleth the old man?

  5. And therewith her foot was in the stirrup, and anon she sat in the saddle, and her palfrey was ambling briskly on the way she would.

  6. Anon she became aware of someone moving about the chamber, and she looked about unhappily; and lo!

  7. But what it was, that shall ye hear anon when we carried the matter through; but I bade Baudoin still carry the flasket till the evening.

  8. Therewithal began the boat to stir, and anon it glided forth out of the creek into the waters of the lake, and the light of the lantern died, and it was but a minute ere Birdalone lost all sight of it.

  9. Now, the rock stands proudly above the sea: anon the sea sweeps furiously over the rock with a roar of "Victory!

  10. By degrees the white line expanded in size and became massive, as though a huge breaker were rolling towards them; ever and anon jets of foam flew high into the air from various parts of the mass, like smoke from a cannon's mouth.

  11. He is often in society; but he is ever and anon in solitude.

  12. Ever and anon he is anxious to throw aside this incumbrance, and be as a man merely to a man.

  13. On second thoughts, perhaps, it is as well that the works of Anon were not collected together.

  14. Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within.

  15. Anon ought to have been rich, but he lived in an age when piracy was the fashion, and when booksellers walked about, as it were, like Indian chiefs with the skulls of the authors they had slain, hung round their necks.

  16. The novelist ever and anon finds himself forced to adopt the sterner tone of the historian, when describing deeds connected with his country's triumphs.

  17. Anon would arrive a fat abbot on his ambling pad, surrounded by the white-robed companions of his convent.

  18. Anon he would end his strain with a long, low falling note, and they heard some old cathedral hymn wailing through solemn arches and bending the spirit to reverence and prayer.

  19. And all this while his face was wrought and contorted, at short intervals, by those fearful spasms of shame and mental suffering; and ever and anon his hands locked together and seemed to wring themselves even beyond his own volition.

  20. One who anon will stand very near to you--as a brother.

  21. The intruder now groped his way across the room and anon Lenora heard him first draw aside the curtains from before the window, and then proceed to open two of the casements.

  22. Now he is at St. Pharailde and anon back at St. Jakab.

  23. Anon a wagon will be here with my effects and my serving woman.

  24. The listeners could no longer distinguish what was said, but anon a harsh laugh struck their ear, and leaning out of the window Lenora could see the Duke and her father standing just outside the council-chamber.

  25. And Lenora wonders if anon she will perceive a pair of grey eyes--that were wont to be so merry--turning sightless orbs to the dull, bleak sky.

  26. But anon upon the road I fhall meet the ox-wagon with Your effects and Your ferving-woman; it cannot be far from here, as the driver had orders to put up in this town for the night.

  27. On my word of honour, seigniors, he approved of it in its entirety, and much that I will submit to you anon hath been framed under his guidance.

  28. All of a sudden these pictures, anon so full of animation, disappear.

  29. And it befell anon That I must imitate him.

  30. Never again, for we did leave anon The pasture and the pool.

  31. But there were old memories between us, and anon he was as gentle as my mother with me.

  32. On the hearthstone, her mother's wheel hummed in a fitful way, now rapidly, now slowly, anon stopping altogether.

  33. Her face was so bright and her voice so confident that her mother felt the influence of her spirit, and anon shared it.

  34. And anon we were joined by Mr. Izaak Walton, the gentlest of malignants, and very entertaining in his talk.

  35. I shall anon advise you Further in the proceeding.

  36. Anon that regular breathing grew irritating to him; it drew so marked a contrast 'twixt Crispin's frame of mind and his own.

  37. The tenderness that two days ago had been his as he talked to her upon the cliffs was again upon him, and the thought that anon she would be linked to him by the ties of relationship, was pleasurable.

  38. The measure that she had hummed was silenced, and her shapely mouth took on a pout of impatience, which anon grew into a tighter mould, as he continued absent.

  39. Thought followed thought as he sat huddled there with sunken head and hands clasped tight between his knees, and they were mostly of his dull uneventful days in Scotland, and ever and anon of Cynthia, his beloved.

  40. In the street men stirred and lanthorns gleamed fitfully, whilst ever and anon a face surmounted by a morion would be pressed against the leaded panes of the window.

  41. Deal fairly with him, child, and if anon you find you cannot truly love him, then tell him so.

  42. Anon Cynthia withdrew; next Kenneth, who went in quest of her.

  43. His eyelids drooped heavily, and his chin kept ever and anon sinking forward on to his breast.

  44. Anon they went yet paler than their wont, as Galliard rested the point of his sword against the fellow's neck.

  45. You are yourself a lover, Kenneth, and you may guess something of the impatience that anon beset me.

  46. Anon she came to the place above the clump of blossoming furze where since the midday visit the hare had woven another maze of tracks before coming to the leaping-place by the form.

  47. For a long while the hare, watching excitedly, sees nothing of the combatants save the white tip of the fox’s brush, but anon they come into the open, where not a spray shuts out the view.

  48. These two men scrutinized the faces of the Boys in a very peculiar manner, and a careful observer could have seen the flushes of anger which ever and anon overspread their countenances.

  49. He was squatting in an old pig-trough that had been brought in to be tinkered; and as he rhapsodised, anon he waved a shovel over his head, anon dug it into the ground with the action of those who would urge Canadian canoes.

  50. The weird assemblage chattered together in some wild jargon, mumbling and muttering spells and incantations, chanting fearfully with hoarse, cracked voices a wild chorus, and anon breaking into a loud and long-continued peal of laughter.

  51. Mistress Nutter pays little heed to him, but ever and anon looks back, as if in dread of some one behind her.

  52. Towart the feld anon he gan to ryd, And in o plan houit one reu{er} syde.

  53. Ever and anon a stag emerged from the woods, crossing the Griess with elastic tread, the brown silhouette of its antlers sharply relieved against the colorless monotony of the landscape.

  54. When his barking was renewed, it was punctuated with sharp, reminiscent yelps, as the injustice of his treatment ever and anon recurred to his mind.

  55. Kelsey detected it in their abstraction during the formal greetings, and when he was seated among them, ever and anon they shifted uneasily in their chairs, which grated harshly on the puncheon floor.

  56. Yet she was handsome, and knew well how to impress people with her charms, but ever and anon something selfish and mendacious would flash out of her handsome eyes that destroyed all these efforts at enforced amiability.

  57. Anon the mist in great part cleared away, and Mahadeo was seen peering through the clouds, bold and supernaturally high.

  58. Melodious masses proper to the service were ever and anon chanted by the papal choir, and overpowering perfume was diffused around by a hundred censers.

  59. Doctor Lamb, meanwhile, steadily pursued his task, though he ever and anon paused, to fling certain roots and drugs upon the charcoal.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anonymous letter; anonymous letters