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Example sentences for "earth could"

  • Nothing on earth could induce me ever again to assume a position in which I could be subjected to what I have gone through this morning.

  • Rimmon was as well-satisfied-looking as any man on earth could be.

  • But who on earth could ever be angry with such a splendid high-spirited creature?

  • Colin still held Minna's hand half doubtfully in his, and looked with his open face all troubled into her pretty brown eyes, wondering vaguely what on earth could be the meaning of this unexpected coldness of demeanour.

  • How on earth could he ever have imagined that those stuffed Guy Fawkeses and wooden marionettes and dancing fantoccini were real living men and women?

  • What on earth could she be coming here for?

  • What on earth could it matter, when John Cann's treasure was at stake, whether anything at all was visible or otherwise from his miserable dining-room windows?

  • Next moment, the report of a shot sounded loudly down below in the compound, and I rushed out at once to see what on earth could be matter.

  • With his intimate knowledge of John Cann's life, and of West Indian affairs generally, how on earth could he ever have overlooked it?

  • How on earth could she go out sewing by the day if she didn't have her religious convictions?

  • How on earth could he get on with Uncle Cyrus?

  • But, my dear Mrs. Proudie, who on earth could talk to Lord Dumbello?

  • Nothing on earth could be worse than this.

  • But when Lord Lufton would ask him what on earth could be the harm of riding along the roads to look at the hounds, he hardly knew what sensible answer to give his lordship.

  • It's all very well for a dead poet; but no misfortune on earth could compel me to live there.

  • I think no man on earth could be happier than I am to-day.

  • To the second question I should say, "How on earth could a fellow like me, without a relative in the world, become domestic, unless he married?

  • How on earth could it matter to her whether he was or was not hungry?

  • It seems as if nothing on earth could ever be so great as that magnificent world, nothing could ever be so small as the life which peoples it.

  • That it was coming nearer and nearer, and that now no power on earth could avert it.

  • He longed to tell her of the love that was his, and how no power on earth could change it.

  • Do you really think anything on earth could compel me to say that!

  • The picture his imagination painted was too horrible; it could never come true--not all the emperors on earth could make it come true!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot hold; constitutional power; earth again; earth below; earth could; earth life; earth peace; earth roads; earth station; earthen vessels; earthly paradise; earthly things; earthquake shocks; earthy matter; even number; foreign affairs; good conscience; had often; much value; slightly soluble; stir until; strong point; tower hatch; twilight sleep; will read; you know anything about