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Example sentences for "found themselves"

  • Half an hour later Marchmont and two men found themselves before a small, square stone house, standing apart from its neighbours in a small, square yard.

  • To their surprise and gratification the officers found themselves paroled, and that at once.

  • Miriam and Christianna, turning a little northward, found themselves on a hillside thronged with people.

  • But then, as you know, that did not much matter, for the really strong one is twenty yards farther on, and those who ran in found themselves up Blind Alley.

  • The prisoners within, sentenced to various terms of reclusion and imprisonment under the Empire, found themselves on their release walking about in a world which knew not Joseph.

  • Some, running too complacently to the hiding-places of their wealth, found themselves despoiled of all.

  • A body of troops, habituated to preserve this open order, in a long front and a rapid charge, found themselves prepared to execute every disposition which the circumstances of war, or the skill of their leader, might suggest.

  • Pushing forward the sharp shooters soon found themselves again on the banks of the same river, which here changes its course to the south so as to again cross the road along which the corps was advancing.

  • Cautiously the men stole away, and, as daylight appeared, found themselves alone.

  • F found themselves in a peach orchard surrounding a large farm house with its out-buildings.

  • To do this a wide detour was necessary, and it was nearly an hour and a half later when the four men found themselves in a proper position to commence the operation of "driving.

  • Before there had been time to test their efficacy, the Hojo swept down on Kamakura, and Tadayoshi and the young shogun found themselves fugitives.

  • Moreover, among these provincial vassals, men originally of humble origin, found themselves raised to the level of honoured subjects, and a man's status came to be determined by his occupation rather than by his lineage.

  • The Government withheld from the people the privileges of free speech and public meeting, so that the press and the platform found themselves in frequent collision with the police.

  • On the 8th a curious experience was related by some of the Canadian Mounted Infantry, who, happening to lose their way and pass, unchallenged, the Boer lines, found themselves at the little town of Hebron.

  • The detachment of Greys and Lincolns, with two guns, found themselves under a heavy fire, which continued throughout the day.

  • Each battalion lost thirty men or so, but brilliant and inexhaustible as they were, found themselves unable, on the initial day, to push the attack.

  • The small post under Lieutenant Crane found themselves by some misunderstanding isolated in the midst of the enemy.

  • But now at last, as the evening sun threw a long shadow from the hills, the leading regiment, the Inniskillings, found themselves at the utmost fringe of boulders with a clear slope between them and the main trench of the enemy.

  • So close were the skirmishers that on at least one occasion Boer and Briton found themselves on each side of the same rock.

  • The legates, therefore, found themselves obliged to lower their terms; and Henry was so fortunate as to conclude an accommodation with them.

  • Footnote 145: The Montanists and the Novatians, who adhered to this opinion with the greatest rigor and obstinacy, found themselves at last in the number of excommunicated heretics.

  • It was not till the spring of 1564 that the French war was formally terminated by the treaty of Troyes, when the English, after much vain haggling, found themselves obliged to accept the French terms.

  • The city got wind of what was going to happen; the French troops were admitted, and, being in, found themselves in a trap and were cut to pieces.

  • IT was still early morning, and King Louis was still on the Damietta side of the Achmoun, when the Count of Artois, the Earl of Salisbury, and the Grand Masters of the Temple and the Hospital, found themselves victors in the camp.

  • Bisset, Walter Espec, and the two grand masters, found themselves surrounded by a host of foes, and defending themselves desperately against every species of assailant.

  • All the foreign merchants, together with Captain Elliot, who had gone up to Canton specially to meet the crisis, found themselves prisoners in their own houses, deprived of servants and even of food.

  • Just about the same time they found themselves confronted by three enemies at once, their own mercenaries, the Numidians, and such Libyans as joined the former in their revolt.

  • Meanwhile Hasdrubal noticed the terror displayed by the Romans whenever they had lately found themselves in the presence of the enemy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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