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Example sentences for "found them"

  • He found them at Hanover on his first journey thither after he came to the crown, and brought them back to England.

  • I strolled to town one day last week, and there I found them!

  • The King of Coffano carried presents of myrrh, gold, and frankincense, I don't know where the devil he found them; for in all his dominions we have not seen the value of a shrub.

  • It is his report of the social institutions of his time, as he found them on his map of human advancement.

  • When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found them, there I smelt them out.

  • He found them, and their habits which endeared them to him, unchanged; and to slip back into the old ways without experiencing the slightest difficulty or jar was like waking from a dream and entering again on a pleasant reality.

  • I suspected nothing; I went into my dining-room, and there I found them all at supper.

  • Varied are the changes of a seaman's life--I found them so, at all events.

  • I found them surrounded by Hessian soldiers, some of whom were attempting to catch hold of their horses' heads and to drag them from their saddles.

  • Notice was brought in the morning to General Howe of what had occurred, and when one of his aides-de-camp, who was sent to ascertain the fact, climbed over the crest of the works he found them of a truth deserted.

  • I saw no sandy desert to which these hot winds have been attributed, but, on lifting some of the stones that were lying on the surface,* I found them so hot that I was obliged to drop them immediately.

  • Changed to east, to what seemed to be large gum-trees, thinking there might be a creek; arriving there, I found them to be stunted gums on the edge of the plain.

  • After opening two of them, we found them to yield a sufficient supply.

  • We found them to be two white men, and a mulatto named Jim Beckwith, who had left St. Louis when a boy, and gone to live with the Crow Indians.

  • I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water.

  • So he brought me an account of the temper he found them in and that he verily believed they would be faithful.

  • I found them a little short-handed down there, and getting discouraged.

  • He found them, as Oldham had said, copies whose accuracy was attested by the copyist before a notary.

  • Bob's hands had not for many years grasped a rope strongly, and in that respect he found them soft.

  • I found them all at work for the education of the young, and for the instruction and salvation of the world.

  • In England, where I expected on my return, to find unbelievers better, I found them worse.

  • How sad when I found them doubting, like myself.

  • He found them delicious, and he longed for more, and very soon his ready mind suggested that the wet must have come out of the leaves, and there must be more there.

  • However, we found them barbarous, treacherous, and villainous enough in their nature, only civil from fear, and therefore concluded we should soon fall into their hands when the ship was gone.

  • Some time after this, they brought us roots and herbs, and some fruits which I cannot remember, and gave us; but as we had nothing to give them, we found them not so free as the people in Madagascar were.

  • At length, on the preceding evening, he found them only in time to witness the last moments of his wife.

  • We found them in excellent spirits, for at last they had hit upon a rich vein, which had for three days been yielding an average of four pounds weight a day, and was not yet exhausted.

  • But when we came in first to the house of the said Timitwara, being upon one of their said feast days, we found them all as drunk as beggars, and the pots walking from one to another without rest.

  • He was indeed the only officer belonging to the company from whom I received any civility, or with whom I had the least communication; for I found them, in general, a reserved and supercilious set of people.

  • In these instances they seem to shew the utmost extent of their ingenuity; for we found them incapable of understanding things the most obvious to their senses.

  • He took things as he found them; and he never found them out.

  • He took things as he found them, and he found them disinclined to weave themselves into an elaborate and balanced narrative.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could observe; critical study; found also; found another; found anywhere; found breeding; found convenient; found dead; found from; found guilty; found him; found itself; found myself; found necessary; found some; found sufficient; found there; found time; found under; found upon; found very; great personal; ordinary language; penal colony; towards them; with sudden