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Example sentences for "came out"

  • Yes, and I saw him just before I came out on the porch where you were.

  • When he came out of the other end he felt enough refreshed to light a cigar.

  • The sudden thought of this made me laugh alone in my bed of sickness; and when I came out of it, had such a thing been possible, I should have liked to congratulate Miss Josephine St. Michael on her absence from the garden occasion.

  • You will not need me to tell you that I came out of Mrs. Gregory St. Michael's house little wiser than I went in.

  • At this, as we came out of the Library, he made an astonishing rejoinder, and one which I cannot in the least account for: "South Carolina does not allow divorce.

  • Then he came out again, with some ashes on his hair, and walked unconcernedly away.

  • A very quiet man, very poorly dressed and extremely sunburnt, came out of the bushes and took hold of the horses' heads.

  • It came out that he had made no record of the time these lights were in use.

  • Milliken, if he did not want an operator who, like young Lochinvar, came out of the West.

  • I was still thinking of it when I came out of the theatre an hour afterwards, and found him waiting for me near the door.

  • As we came out of the prison through the lodge, I found that the great importance of my guardian was appreciated by the turnkeys, no less than by those whom they held in charge.

  • By and by, his door opened and he came out.

  • If I had taken a hackney-chariot and gone by the streets, I should have missed my aim; going as I did, I caught the coach just as it came out of the yard.

  • The next morning I went for my mail and the entire post office came out to see me get it.

  • In three minutes I came out, and found the hippo still quiet.

  • When I came out here on the Dolphin I said I was going to Tampa, lying just on the principle that it is no other newspaper-man's business where you are going.

  • He picked a few sprigs of late-blooming linnaea as we came out upon an open bit of pasture at the top of the island, and gave them to me without speaking, but he knew as well as I that one could not say half he wished about linnaea.

  • I hastened to ask, and he came out a step or two along the path to see; and looked at the stakes as if his attention were called to them for the first time.

  • Even the children were ready to march together, a pretty flock, and at the last moment Mrs. Blackett and a few distinguished companions, the ministers and those who were very old, came out of the house together and took their places.

  • It came out of her five thousand dollars, no doubt.

  • When he came out he was at any rate close to his old friends and relations, who would take him in and give him a helping hand to start once more a new life.

  • When he came out, he saw that Happy George, an ex-gaol bird, was announced at the Congress Hall.

  • Send him for a month to prison to beg again as soon as he came out?

  • It came out in Miss Peecher the schoolmistress, watering her flowers, as Mr Bradley Headstone walked forth.

  • It came out in evidence that Colonel Moran and young Adair had, between them, won a considerable amount of money.

  • There's the advantage of being a builder," said Holmes, as we came out.

  • I don't know whether you think that McFarlane came out of jail in the dead of the night in order to strengthen the evidence against himself," said Lestrade.

  • So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.

  • It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.

  • It came out so flat, however, that it was a deathly thing.

  • Accordingly, when he came out he was glad to see the lobby clear, and hastened toward the stairs.

  • At a quarter after one in the morning he came out of the place.

  • And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

  • And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

  • But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out.

  • The few Christian inhabitants of the place, with their wives and children, came out to welcome their countrymen.

  • Neither daunted, nor diverted from his purpose, the inflexible viceroy held on his way towards the capital, where the inhabitants, preceded by Vaca de Castro and the municipal authorities, came out to receive him.

  • At one of the doors, that by which he had entered, I placed our Scotchman, making a sign to him to follow the man wherever he might go, if he came out again.

  • At this moment one of those heavy wagons, drawn by bullocks, which carry the wood cut in the fine forests of the country to the ports of the Loire, came out of a byroad full of ruts and turned on that which the two horsemen were following.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came abreast; came across; came again; came alongside; came around; came ashore; came face; came first; came forth from the; came forward; came not; came out; came running; came suddenly; came through; came upon; face grew; palm leaves; small extent; stood like; thousand miles; upon either; water and; well nigh; white beard; yesterday evening