In response to his question, the hall-boy told him that Tracy Sargeant had arrived a few moments previous, and had been asking for him.
A few moments later, while Travers and Condy were still discussing this story, Mr. Bessemer rose.
A few moments later he was back again and the two sat, pretending to eat their chili peppers, their hearts in their throats, hardly daring to raise their eyes from their plates.
The woman pleases me," said the thin, wavering voice again after a few moments of silence.
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence.
In a few moments he heard the cherries dropping smartly into the pail, and he began to swing his scythe with that long, even stroke that few American boys ever learn.
To the girl it seemed that the frightful wound in his chest must prove fatal within a few moments.
Afternoon had deepened into evening, and now the brief twilight of the tropics was upon them--in a few moments it would be dark.
The rest of us escaped, and endeavored to make our way back to the marines, but we became confused and have been wandering aimlessly about the island ever since until we were surprised by these natives a few moments ago.
She remained so, standing for a few moments of dead silence.
Bettina stood before this window for a few moments, and then took a seat in the embrasure, that she might gaze out and reflect at leisure.
Mr. Vanderpoel thought the matter over during a few momentsof silence.
She stopped writing and sat a few moments, her chin upon her hand, thinking.
The young man was silent a few moments, driving his pencil.
And he held his handkerchief a few moments to his lips.
Then, in a few moments, she said something different, which had the effect of an explanation of the suppression of her earlier thought.
The three gentlemen spoke together apart, for a few moments.
Without expressing his concurrence in this sentiment, Mr Swiveller after a few moments of abstraction inquired which way Kit was driving, and, being informed, declared it was his way, and that he would trespass on him for a lift.
When they were at last brought to an end, and the Marchioness had withdrawn into a distant corner to take her own poor breakfast (cold enough by that time), he turned his face away for some few moments, and shook hands heartily with the air.
The Marchioness hung on behind for a few moments, and, feeling that she could go no farther, and must soon yield, clambered by a vigorous effort into the hinder seat, and in so doing lost one of the shoes for ever.
Helena's masterful look was intent upon her face for a few moments, and then she impulsively put out both her hands and said: 'You will be my friend and help me?
The Minor Canon disappears, and in a few moments returns.
When they left him a few moments previously, he was completely clad in a cotton shirt, cotton jacket, flannel vest, and cotton trousers, secured at the waist with leather straps and buckles.
Suddenly and without the slightest premonition save a violent pain in the temples she would fall into a profound slumber-like languor, from which she would awake in a few moments a totally different being.
He was given stimulants and regained consciousness, but again relapsed, and died in a few moments.
In the reflection from the mirror which Grace had beheld there was no mystery; he had opened his eyes for a few moments, but had immediately relapsed into unconsciousness, if, indeed, he had ever been positively awake.
In a few moments, in came Mr. William Hamilton, riding very rapidly, and evidently much excited.
When they had secured me, they next turned to John Harris, and, in a few moments, succeeded in tying him as firmly as they had already tied me.
He and Loristan looked at each other a few momentsin silence.
At last he loosed his hold on the young boughs and, after standing a few moments in thought, sat down upon the earth in the midst of his embowered tent.
This alteration in the primitive form of the satellite was only perceptible for a few moments.
A few moments later, the three fellow-travelers had ensconced themselves in the projectile, and screwed down the plate which covered the entrance-aperture.
After a few moments given to inquiries Ali Cogia begged the merchant to hand him over the vase that he had taken care of for so long.
I am delighted at the opportunity of speaking for a few moments with so holy a person.
He then bade me wait an instant, and vanished, returning in a few moments with a richly dressed lady of great beauty, but as he did not tell me her name, I thought it was better not to inquire.
The fire has penetrated to my heart, and I have only a few moments to live.
She sat and stared at the fire a few moments, and then began to speak in a low luxuriating voice.
And after standing a few moments panting, his arms fell and his head dropped, and turning the handle of the door, he went out to buy the pistol.
In a few moments more he went to the girl Polly and laid a hand on her shoulder.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few moments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
