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Example sentences for "certain time"

  • A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time.

  • The chance of a gentleman or lady with a given mortal ailment to live a certain time is as good again as that of the common sort of coarse people.

  • For should the saints enjoy all this But for a certain time, O, how would they their mark then miss, And at this thing repine?

  • After a certain time of which he had no cognizance he found himself under the glaring arc-light that hung over Main Street before the Pelican Hotel, in front of what was known as the ladies' entrance.

  • What is it that leads us to a certain man or woman at a certain time, or to open a certain book?

  • I have an engagement to have my furs in New Orleans by a certain time.

  • After a certain time, this amusement ceased, and Monsieur said; "Mesdames, I thank you much for the kindness you have done me.

  • In fact, a certain time afterwards, I bore you this fair son.

  • But after a certain time he spoke, and said, "Praise be to God!

  • Accordingly, to consider the state of the universe at the end of a certain time t, is to examine where it will be when T is at the point Tt of its course.

  • In the conception of "something that happens," I indeed think an existence which a certain time antecedes, and from this I can derive analytical judgements.

  • The causality of reason in its intelligible character does not begin to be; it does not make its appearance at a certain time, for the purpose of producing an effect.

  • Between two moments there is always a certain time, and between two states existing in these moments there is always a difference having a certain quantity (for all parts of phenomena are in their turn quantities).

  • To "Postpone to a certain time" prevents the assembly taking up the question till the specified time, and therefore allows of limited debate upon the propriety of the postponement.

  • On the contrary, where there has been less fibrous contraction than usual for a certain time, the sensorial power or spirit of animation becomes accumulated in the inactive part of the system.

  • The groom had been ordered to get the dog-cart out by a certain time to take Aymer seven miles to the nearest railway station.

  • He tried the experiment time after time, till at last he obtained the proper strength, and fixed the requisite amount of acid to eat through a given thickness of iron and wood in a certain time.

  • Up to a certain time we always called this the North-West Mountain, as it bore in that direction when first seen, until we discovered its proper name, when I christened it Mount Destruction.

  • After this they are eligible for marriage, but for a certain time, until the wounds heal, they are compelled to absent themselves from the society of women.

  • Don't speak to me of love; you may idolize me, as you say you do, for a certain time, but you will never love me as you love Louise.

  • When a man is so happy as to possess a mother-in-law who is well-preserved, he may easily keep her in check for a certain time, although he may not know any young celibate brave enough to assail her.

  • I was disappointed, not only in the amount I expected to receive from the business I followed in the village, but disappointed in the receipt of money I felt sure of getting by a certain time.

  • At last, his friends urged him to shut himself up at home for a certain time, and see if total abstinence would not give him strength.

  • He slept rather long, but after a certain time he was roused by a light breath of cooler air, together with the conversation and steps of two men drawing near the tree rapidly.

  • The remnants of the regular troops of the Lithuanian quota withdrew for a certain time to Birji and Kyedani, in order to rally there.

  • They rode on then a certain time at a walk and in silence, surrounded by a cloud of steam, which was issuing from the horses.

  • On the road Pan Michael told them about the neighborhood, and the famous nobles of Lauda, of Kmita, and of all that had happened during a certain time.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been pleased; certain distances; certain form; certain insects; certain length; certain lines; certain localities; certain members; certain number; certain person; certain portions; certain position; certain proportion; certain rate; certain sections; certain specified; certain spot; certain thing; certain things; certain time; certain village; certain words; certainly not; certainly would; cutting machine; even now