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Example sentences for "forenoon"

Lexicographically close words:
foremothers; foren; forenamed; forenent; foreninst; forenoons; forensic; foreordained; foreordination; forepart
  1. Inmates at work receive, in addition, both in the forenoon and the afternoon, bread with coffee, but cider or wine may be given instead of coffee in summer.

  2. Yes, sir; during the forenoon I sent a request to General Brown that my two companies should be relieved.

  3. Did you make any effort on Friday forenoon to raise a posse?

  4. I have no recollection of hearing his name mentioned in connection with the matter at all, until some time during the forenoon of Sunday.

  5. Then the first telegram, I understood you to say, received from General Latta was in the forenoon of Friday, the 20th?

  6. The first dispatch that I received was received at Antelope, on the Union Pacific railroad, on Friday forenoon sometime.

  7. In the forenoon things were middling quiet, and in the afternoon I had my proclamations struck off.

  8. Didn't most of the men who were at work in the forenoon come over to Twenty-eighth street?

  9. In the forenoon of Monday, Mr. Wootten called on me and offered to furnish me with men.

  10. In the forenoon of Saturday, while at work, did you hear any of the men say that they were going over there in the afternoon after they quit work?

  11. By mid-forenoon on April 26 we had passed the last dangerous rapids.

  12. The forenoon of the following day was a repetition of this wearisome work; but late in the afternoon the river began to run in long quiet reaches.

  13. In the early forenoon we stopped at a little Paraguayan hamlet, nestling in the green growth under a group of low hills by the river- brink.

  14. The following forenoon the baggage started, in a couple of two-wheeled ox-carts, for the landing where the steamboat awaited us.

  15. In the forenoon he took a long walk, but not to the spots they had all visited together.

  16. He only comprehended that something had occurred that same forenoon which had turned the current of life to that of death.

  17. The next forenoon she sang with him; he appeared quite as usual.

  18. It was this: in the forenoon Magnhild had received a letter, as we know, and it had caused her to look with new eyes on the life at the parsonage.

  19. But what happened this forenoon while I was absent?

  20. Since eleven o'clock this forenoon we have been in our seats, detained by the dominant majority, which, in subservience to Slavery, refuses to postpone this question or to adjourn.

  21. The following forenoon we devoted to a long drive in and about Turin.

  22. During the time we were there, and the weather being cold, forenoon and afternoon were preferable.

  23. In a single forenoon we have been to as many as a dozen different places.

  24. We spent the forenoon of the following day in the Museum.

  25. We left the fort, and wandered over the island and through the trees, with which the greater part of it is covered, lunched al fresco, and enjoyed our forenoon very much.

  26. I had seen it in the morning, and was incredulous when informed in the forenoon that it was then visible.

  27. It was too hot to walk to any distance, but one forenoon two of us ventured exploringly as far as St. Giovanni, a small fishing village with two churches, about a mile or more to the south of Bellaggio.

  28. There is little use piling on the agony by trying to tell what I suffered during this forenoon of nerve-racking torture and suspense.

  29. XV The Broken Wagon The day following the Kellow incident being Sunday, the three of us snatched an hour or so in the early forenoon for a breathing space.

  30. Blackwell tried the bullying game first; came over here this forenoon with a bunch of his men and tried to scare Gifford out.

  31. Kenniston, eager to be gone on his prospecting tour, gave me only a short forenoon over the pay-rolls; but as to this, the routine was simple enough.

  32. All that wretched forenoon the majority of the girls, half-dead from fright and exposure, clung desperately to the cushions of the locker seats, wild-eyed and despairing.

  33. All that forenoon Harriet Burrell, Jane McCarthy, Tommy, Hazel and Miss Elting stuck to their posts and worked without once pausing to rest.

  34. In the forenoon we readied Centreville and halted.

  35. Late in the forenoon I was taken to Byrd Island Hospital--an old tobacco factory now turned into something far different.

  36. Near the middle of the forenoon we came out upon the hills above Crump's Creek, and were about to descend when we heard a noise at our left, seemingly the galloping of horses.

  37. Late in the forenoon of the 13th we came in sight of Harper's Ferry.

  38. On receiving Monk's letter early in the forenoon of Saturday the House had temporized.

  39. The rest of that day was spent in a conference between the two Houses, and in farther resolutions and arrangements in each, subsidiary to those two resolutions of the forenoon which had virtually decreed the Restoration.

  40. Captain de Banyan had neither seen nor heard from his young friend since his departure on the forenoon of the preceding day.

  41. There was a man run through the line this forenoon from their side, and I reckon they are trying to find him.

  42. The forenoon was passed by the Arabs in trying to train their slaves to the work, but in this they were sadly unsuccessful.

  43. During the forenoon of the day, all the eloquence Jim could command was required to prevent his brother from yielding.

  44. I pushed off about eleven in the forenoon of July 8th, and an hour's run in moderately fast water took me within sight and sound of the white caps of the first pitch of Buffalo Rapids.

  45. I passed the mouth of the Big Horn in mid-forenoon of the following day.

  46. It was late in the forenoon before I got away.

  47. He talked incessantly; a whole forenoon would sometimes go by while Lincoln occupied the whole time telling stories.

  48. Spent the forenoon of this day on the Iowa side of the river.

  49. Duncan McArthur broke down his wagon in the forenoon and did not come up at night.

  50. I attended meeting both forenoon and afternoon, and was at home in the evening.

  51. As usual a public meeting was held in the forenoon and a sacrament meeting in the afternoon.

  52. Elder Pulsipher preached in the forenoon to a large congregation of strangers most of whom gave the best attention.

  53. In the forenoon of that day the Council of the Seventies met and invited President Hyrum Smith, and sent for President William Marks, but he was not at home, and consequently did not attend.

  54. Elder Elijah Cheney who had left Kirtland before the camp with his family came into our encampment in the forenoon having been blessed of the Lord on his journey and was received with a hearty welcome by the brethren of the camp.

  55. During the forenoon the storm had been steadily increasing in violence.

  56. All that afternoon and next forenoon they worked unceasingly at their task, and at length the frames of two pairs of bear's paw snowshoes, each snowshoe with one crossbar to stiffen it, were ready for netting.

  57. The wind had died out, though all that night the snow fell, but in mid-forenoon of the following day the clouds lightened, and shortly after noon the sun broke out, warm and brilliant.

  58. I, for one, mean to make a regular forenoon of it.

  59. That same forenoon the first and second mates of the Snowbird were leaning over the bulwarks, looking at the shore, when the sound of oars fell upon their ears, and next minute the yacht's cutter hove in sight round the point.

  60. Before the end of the forenoon watch they had their strange companion once more on the weather quarter.

  61. We got lost in the mist this forenoon on Craig Findochart, and we all got scattered.

  62. The following forenoon Kenneth drove her over to Glen Effick.

  63. On the forenoon after Dan assumed the role of doctor a small herd of antelope seemed to surprise themselves by coming directly upon us on their way from the river toward the bluffs to the south.

  64. During the forenoon both camps had the appearance of laundry establishments, a multitude of garments being spread out to dry in the sun.

  65. After daybreak they encountered no difficulty in following their course, which was well marked by hoof tracks; and in the forenoon all of our horses were once more at our command, but none the better for their escapade.

  66. In the forenoon we had fallen in with a small party of emigrants, with whom I had already held some conversation.

  67. The Indians knew well that the riflemen were mustering at all the neighboring forts; and, as soon as their effort to treat failed, they withdrew during the forenoon of the 17th.

  68. Early in the forenoon Clark summoned the fort to surrender, and while waiting for the return of the flag his men took the opportunity of getting breakfast, the first regular meal they had had for six days.

  69. Throughout the forenoon the rain continued but the troops pushed steadily onwards without halting, [Footnote: Late in life Shelby asserted that this steadiness in pushing on was due to his own influence.

  70. Under our short canvas it took us the best part of three days to beat up to Cape Maysi, the easternmost extremity of Cuba, which we safely weathered about four bells in the forenoon watch on the third morning after our escape.

  71. Without troubling themselves about rumours and alarms of this kind, the Professor and her pupil drove away in the forenoon of Monday.

  72. During the forenoon there was peace, the blacksmith working quietly at his forge.

  73. Another incident that fixes the day and time as the Monday forenoon recess is this.

  74. When the hour for the forenoon recess had come, the girls had theirs first and we went over to the Doctor's kitchen.

  75. And it was not without difficulty that in the course of the forenoon we entered Wijh Harbour, distant from Dumayghah but very few miles.

  76. The forenoon of the next day was occupied in making sundry small purchases.

  77. The forenoon was well gone before the slow-moving speck faded out of sight on the skyline.

  78. About mid-forenoon came a sudden smash at the door, and Jack precipitated himself into our presence.

  79. Spoof evidently left the next morning, for when Jack and I went over to Two about the middle of the forenoon the place was deserted.

  80. The forenoon was well gone by the time we had finished our arrangements and bought our "grub", which consisted mainly of canned goods and other preparations that would not spoil in the heat.

  81. Nothing came of it, however, and the days wore on until one forenoon we saw Spoof's tall figure looming up across the snow-waste that lay between Fourteen and Two.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forenoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.