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Example sentences for "had entered"

  • He draws the implement out as feelingly as if it had entered a man's body.

  • He reached the further verge of the plateau on which he had entered.

  • She did not know he had entered; and he found her weeping.

  • When we had entered I found that whether a place to marry in or not, it was one to depress.

  • Almost as soon as I had entered I heard footsteps without.

  • He had entered a valley or was traversing a wide, gently sloping pass.

  • Macomber had just come in full of enthusiasm and pride over the horse he had entered, and he had money to wager.

  • Wildfire could not get out, except by the pass he had entered, unless he could fly.

  • At this moment such a transaction appeared in all its horrors; I shuddered at the engagement I had entered into, and its inevitable consequences.

  • The rest of my time I gave to the study of the political professions I had entered upon, and in which I hoped, from my successful beginning, to be advantageously employed.

  • Thereupon an earthquake shook the ground, and the way by which he had entered closed.

  • Then he said: "If it had entered into my heart to conceive the king of Spain to be such a villain never would you have seen this day.

  • And he went toward the door by which he had entered.

  • Bonaparte sprang out with the same haste with which he had entered it; went rapidly up the stairs, and through the apartments, examining more particularly those which had been inhabited by Louis XVI.

  • Coeur-de-Roi went out as simply as he had entered.

  • It reached the door opposite to that by which it had entered.

  • Morgan had scarcely formulated this chivalric axiom, expressive of a desire which had every chance of accomplishment, than three Masonic blows resounded upon the door through which he had entered.

  • He had entered by degrees into secret negotiations with all the great powers of Europe, hoping in the end to make himself independent, and to obtain recognition as Prince of Greece.

  • He had entered in his youth the brotherhood of the Oratory, which he had soon quitted, being unable, he used to say, to accustom himself to theology.

  • The Duchess of Montpensier, who had so often execrated him, did not hesitate to express her regret that "her brother Mayenne had not been there to let down for him the drawbridge of the gate by which he had entered Paris.

  • Like myself, he was the son of a Nonconformist minister, and on leaving school he had entered upon a business career as a clerk on the quayside at Newcastle.

  • He gained friends, influence, wealth, in the town he had entered as a penniless workman.

  • Prince Eugene, at the head of the Imperial army, had entered Italy by Vicenza, and passed the Adige near Carpi, where he defeated a body of five thousand French forces.

  • What cared he for liberty and a rapid advance in the career upon which he had entered, if only his future life was beautified by her love!

  • So when it closed Eva could not distinguish who had entered.

  • When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered.

  • I can bear witness that in Egypt I never saw him touch any money beyond his pay; and that he left the country poorer than he had entered it is a fact that cannot be denied.

  • The General-in-Chief immediately determined to march in person against that formidable enemy, and he left Cairo about fifteen days after he had entered it.

  • When I went to return as I came, I found the door by which I had entered locked.

  • So saying, the aggrieved divine departed from his pulpit, and shaking the dust from his shoes, left the church as hastily as he had entered it, though with a different reason for his speed.

  • Opposite him was a curtain, rather like that through which he had entered.

  • She took his arm--found little jeweled slippers in a closet hewn in the wall--put them on and led him to the curtains he had entered by.

  • She knew who he was, how he had entered, and how he felt.

  • The child, conscious that he had not done anything, but frightened on the whole, repented of his disobedience, and escaped from the chamber more quickly than he had entered it.

  • On the previous Saturday night the gentlemen had entered into an argument about boating: the result was that a match on the river was arranged, and some bets were pending on it.

  • Lady Kirton told me in so many words that I had entered an action against Lord Hartledon for breach of promise, and laid the damages at ten thousand pounds," returned Dr.


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