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Example sentences for "ever since"

  • He had been thinking, ever since he had ascertained the identity of Stephen.

  • And how, ever since, she had held the man in her heart and thought of him every day; sleeping as well as waking, for he was a factor in her dreams!

  • Ever since he had made up his mind to marry her she had assumed a new aspect in his thoughts.

  • David Brown had not been long in Aldeen when he secured the deserted temple and converted it into a Christian oratory, ever since known as Henry Martyn's Pagoda.

  • I've been shivering and sweating, ever since!

  • He shook his head, and said that the boy had been impudent and disobedient, ever since he bought him; that he was going to break him in, once for all.

  • He sought Miss Ophelia, who, ever since Eva's death, had treated him with marked and respectful kindness.

  • Harald replied, it was a common saying that he must gain the victory before whom that banner is borne, and it had turned out so ever since he had owned it.

  • William was after this king of England for twenty-one years, and his descendants have been so ever since.

  • The branches and twigs showed forth his posterity, spread over the whole land; for of his race, ever since.

  • It is the same lamentation which, ever since Werther, was to be heard throughout all literature.

  • In several of her novels, ever since Valentine, she had given us peasants among her characters.

  • In spite of this, ever since I have been relieved in my mind about the danger, I have been able to write a few pages in the mornings while he is resting.

  • The Synod shouted murder at such scandal; and has been struggling, ever since, to get the Parson exterminated.

  • The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his diary, and the fear that has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult.

  • Ever since then I have taken care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have escaped their suspicions.

  • It has been on the front of my old glass necklace (which my grandfather found them taking away, and very soon made them give back again) ever since I can remember; and long before that, as some woman told me.

  • Nevertheless, my terror left me, now I was face to face with it, and had to meet the worst; and I set myself to do my best with a vigour and sort of hardness which did not then surprise me, but have done so ever since.

  • Mrs. Medlock, "we've had to let him trample all over every one of us ever since he had feet and he thinks that's what folks was born for.

  • He's knowed me ever since I was a little 'un an' he's a friendly sort an' I axed him some questions.

  • Oh, I've heard it ever since I remember," he answered crossly.

  • Ever since I remember anything I have heard people say I shan't.

  • I have known him keep his cows boldly in my meadows, though he knew I saw him; but now, ever since I have been mayor, he runs away fast enough.

  • Ever since 1789 France has been trying to make man believe, against all evidence, that they are equal.

  • But, ever since 1789 religion has no influence on two thirds of the French people.

  • For, ever since he was a child, you know, it had been the great object of his life to find his sister.

  • Ever since my infancy, I have dwelt in the cave of Chiron the Centaur.

  • Ever since 1830, petty partial revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying conflagration.

  • Ever since I have been in these parts I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and seeing no one but that child who helps me.

  • The aediles," as the expression ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814.

  • As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day.

  • Ever since I could remember I had watched courting male birds fight all over the farm.

  • Ever since I had added to my quill and arrow money, the great big lot at Easter, father had shared his chest till with me.

  • Ever since I came, it's been nothing but notice of one assessment after another.

  • I wanted to tell him so at the time, and I have wanted to tell him so ever since; and Miss Gwilt stands between us and prevents me.

  • Ever since I got that strange letter of Midwinter's last Sunday, my usual readiness in emergencies has deserted me.

  • Mrs. Milroy declared she was too ill to enter on the subject, and she has remained too ill to enter on it ever since.

  • Well, ever since then, the infernal project has been ripening in her brain.

  • You will perhaps smile at me when I tell you that, ever since I have known this man, I have involuntarily entertained the idea that all the good fortune which has befallen me originated from him.

  • Ever since Valentine's dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad.

  • Mischievous Tolpatcheries and Trencks, ever since he crossed the Donau again, have escorted him, to right, as close as they durst; dashing out sometimes on the magazines.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active duty; ever been; ever before; ever beheld; ever being; ever did; ever have; ever increasing; ever made; ever more; ever occur; ever present; ever seed; ever seen; ever they; ever witnessed; ever wrote; evergreen shrub; everlasting glory; everlasting happiness; everybody else; everyone according; everything about; everything considered; sterilized milk; thrown over