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Example sentences for "beside him"

  • She got in beside him, making a grimace as she saw Ruenke lying behind her.

  • They lined up beside him, and, like him, they looked dangerous.

  • A huge pile of railroad ties loomed up beside him.

  • Then arose King Agamemnon, and Talthybius 300 The herald, clear in utterance as a God, Beside him stood, holding the victim boar.

  • The Athenæan Goddess azure-eyed 200 Beside him stood, and thus the Chief bespake.

  • Nestor, beside him standing, with his heel Shook him, and, urgent, thus the Chief reproved.

  • There was the waggonette moving from the door, old Godden driving, luggage piled up beside him, and the Stormers sitting opposite each other in the carriage.

  • Beside him, on a low stool, stood a half-finished glass of negus, bedewed with beads of heat.

  • He sat down on a chintz-covered windowseat whence he could see the drive, and get what air there was; and the dog Balthasar who appreciated chintz on hot days, jumped up beside him.

  • And often Heracles would have Admetus beside him to tell him about the radiant god Apollo, whose bow and arrows Heracles had been given.

  • Phrixus mounted on the ram and he pulled Helle up beside him.

  • He looked up and he saw his tall and grave-eyed wife, Alcestis, beside him.

  • She hid him in the chamber of the palace where her singing birds were, and she would come and sit beside him, asking about his own country and telling him that she would go with him there.

  • Beside him, in the center of the battle, were the two creatures in the world upon whom he could most depend, his stalwart and splendid sons, Strong-Arm and Branch.

  • Beside him was a great flat rock, and he clambered upon this, and then, over the crest of the flames could see easily enough the glaring eyes of his late pursuers.

  • Beside him was an Italian, who said, "He's burned something most awful.

  • He wrapped it in his handkerchief, and laid it beside him.

  • He liked having me beside him, and every few seconds put down his head toward me.

  • The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him.

  • Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of the Horse Guards.

  • The doctor who had been standing beside him, preventing Prince Andrew from seeing his face, moved away.

  • Taking the colonel's outburst as a challenge to his courage, the general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the bullets.

  • He started up, and saw that his aunt stood beside him.

  • Graham, weary in the reaction from his intense feeling and excitement, threw himself on the sofa, and his aunt came and sat beside him.

  • Stan' whar you is," and in a moment he splashed in beside him.

  • The saint made Astolpho seat himself beside him, took the reins, and giving the word to the coursers, they bore them upward with astonishing celerity.

  • As they rose up he took the second dart that was beside him, and cast it after them.

  • They rose to go forth, and Yspadaden Penkawr seized one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him, and threw it after them.

  • Charlemagne bade him remount and ride beside him; and omitted nothing which might do him honor in sight of his martial train.

  • This astute actress knew where to touch Nelson's weak spot, and that it would send him into a frenzy of love to think of her yearning to be beside him.

  • Two useless prize ships were sunk beside him, and there they may still lie together.

  • But she spied the automobile, with its top raised, some distance down the lane, and in a moment she was in it, beside him, wrapped in the coat she had now come to regard as her own.

  • He could think of nothing but that she was here beside him.

  • And we'll fetch Davy along, for luck," cried Cowan, catching sight of me beside him.

  • Now that she was there, beside him, her strength failed her, and her courage--courage that she had been storing for this dread undertaking throughout the whole of that dreadful day.

  • Beside him was a certain swarthy gentleman whom I had noticed in the court, a man of some thirty-five years, with a fine, fleshy face and coal-black hair.

  • Beside him, crushing lavender betwixt his rough fingers and strewing it over floor and sheets, was Aylward the archer.

  • Beside him, slapping his tawny shoulder in encouragement, was the lean spare form of Back Simon who had remained ever under Nigel's pennon.

  • Shad obeyed and Peter, watching him closely, picked up his weapon and Yakimov's and examined them carefully, putting one in his pocket and laying the other beside him on the mantel.

  • He marked it in the scrutiny of the man who opened the door and of the aged woman who suddenly appeared beside him in the dim hallway and led him noiselessly up the stair to a lighted room upon the second floor.

  • In the joy and surprise she almost fainted, but he caught her and set her down beside him.

  • On the last day Allan Woodcourt sat beside him, "Joe, my poor fellow," he said.

  • The time came when Arthur's father lay dying with his son beside him.

  • It was for Tanqueray, and she took it up to him and laid it beside him without a word.

  • Beside him, it struck Tanqueray that Nina showed more than ever a murky flame.

  • There was a bench on the top, and he made her sit on it beside him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adjacent waters; beside her; beside himself; beside the; besides being; besides many; besides some; besides that; besides the; besides their; besides those; besides which; conjugal life; dead animal; electricity supplied; foreign articles; lateral pressure; lost child; ntgen rays; pontoon bridge; sandy plain; small volume; thine anger; this very; trust himself; wooden mallet