On leaving the Lucases, she sent her boys on before her to the nearest bazaar, and was soon at her old home.
He had in fact spent much eloquence in persuading Mrs. Brownlow to continue to take the charge of the heiress during the three yearsbefore her majority.
It might be called hasty, for only a month would have passed since Elvira's arrival, before her wedding-day; but this was by her own earnest wish.
Lydia felt as if all the bright future were blasted before her eyes.
She had a vision of herself, on some day not far off, sending forth her voice in glorious song, and knowing that among the crowd before her he sat and listened.
The young man mixed the soda, put in a liberal helping of ice cream, set it before her with a spoon in it, rested the knuckles of his brown hairy hands on the counter and said: "It is hot.
It was easier to think without those five figures dancing before her eyes; and she had a great deal of thinking to do before she slept.
He saw Irene take her finger from before her lips, heard her say something in her ordinary voice, and began to speak before he reached them.
She who vacillated herself would have hated her own performance when brought before her judgment as a matter in which she had no personal interest.
Before her St Ewold's was spoken of as the home that was to belong to the Crawleys for the next twenty years.
And as for that difficulty in asking her, if Mrs Broughton would give him no opportunity of putting the question behind her back, he would put it before her face.
At her own words, a vista seemed to open up before her, and, at the other end, in blue haze, shone the great good that had hitherto eluded her.
The contrast between this and her last breakfast in that room gave her fresh misery, and strengthened her distaste for everything before her.
They met by appointment; and as Isabella had arrived nearly five minutes before her friend, her first address naturally was, "My dearest creature, what can have made you so late?
I do beseech you, Send for the lady to the Sagittary, And let her speak of me before her father.
I will go there and do't, i' th' court, before Her father.
Barbara hastily took off the chain, and laid it before her mother.
Barbara smoothed out the writing, and held it before her mother.
Miss Carlyle took it and held it before her: her hand was cold as ice, and shook as if with palsy.
A review of the past then rose up before her, from the time of her first entering that house, the bride of Mr. Carlyle, to her present sojourn in it.
I don't know where you will find a sweeter portrait of humility than in Esther, the poor play-girl of King Ahasuerus; yet Esther put on her royal apparel when she went before her lord.
Murray Bradshaw took out the spotted paper from his breast-pocket, and held it up before her.
So when he was within reach of her arm, the damsel sprang to him and caught from his hand the Jewel, and held it before her eyes, and danced with it, and pressed it on her bosom, and was as a creature giddy with great joy in possessing it.
She forgave him; but from that time more than ever he considered himself unworthy of her, morally bowed down lower than ever before her, and prized more highly than ever his undeserved happiness.
And death rose clearly and vividly before her mind as the sole means of bringing back love for her in his heart, of punishing him and of gaining the victory in that strife which the evil spirit in possession of her heart was waging with him.
She remembered all that last winter before her marriage, and her passion for Vronsky.
Yes, there we knelt on the stoep before her, while a Kaffir girl stood outside and stared with her mouth open.
And when she died, having lived out her life just before her husband, Ralph Kenzie, went on commando with his son to the Zulu war, whither her death drove him, ah!
Before her was a table cut by natives out of a single block of wood, on which were two candles of sheep's fat set in bottles, and beyond the table stood Swart Piet, who was addressing her.
Her eyes followed the direction of his look, and idled tenderly with the prospect before her.
She paced the room, her face now in her hands, her hands now clasping and wringing before her.
Before her was a woman perfectly trained in the fine social life to which she was born, whose equanimity was as regular as her features.
Between him and this high-hearted woman had conic that which would never be removed; before her he was shamed to eternity.
She found Emily with writing materials before her.
The chattering and grimacing girls appeared before her as grotesque unrealities, puppets animated in some marvellous way, and set to caricature humanity.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before her" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
