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Example sentences for "had formerly"

  • What he had formerly been in France I had not a notion.

  • After making a cessation of arms, a conference was agreed on near Tours; where Henry granted his sons much less advantageous terms than he had formerly offered; and he received their submissions.

  • We proceeded about three leagues up the sound, and then landed on the east side, at a place where I had formerly been.

  • This evidently shews that the sea had formerly reached so far; and some of these perforated rocks were almost in the centre of the land.

  • The emotion I had formerly experienced in my journeys from the Hermitage to Raubonne was certainly very different, but it was not more pleasing than that with which I approached Columbier.

  • But NOW he cares nothing for fruits, nor flowers, nor anything else, but only yourself.

  • To Prometheus the Titan and to his brother Epimetheus was committed the task of making man and all other animals, and of endowing them with all needful faculties.

  • Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old, Fortunate fields and groves and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles.

  • It had formerly been a grief to him that she did not join the Movement; she was not interested in political questions and the suffrage.

  • A strange thing happened to him--he looked wonderingly at everything that he had formerly passed by as commonplace, and saw it all in a new, brilliant light.

  • His work did not interest him as it had formerly done, and progressed slowly; a disturbing element had entered, and whenever he could not instantly find a tool, he grew angry and threw the things about.

  • He had formerly learned a little how to sing a psalm of the clerk of his own parish, and this was now become a very delightful part of his evening exercise.

  • One evening Simpson had been calling to Stock's mind how disorderly the house and shop, where they were now sitting quietly at work, had formerly been, and he went on thus: Will.

  • Mr. Bragwell, when he returned home from his visit to Mr. Worthy, as recorded in the second part of this history, found that he was not quite so happy as he had formerly been.

  • I then, therefore, determined upon adopting a plan I had formerly rejected, of publishing by subscription.

  • I could not, however, recollect her till she said she had formerly met me at the Princess d'Henin's.

  • He had formerly been a Whig and an associate of Fox and Sheridan, but the excesses of the French ,Revolution appear to have driven him, as they had driven Burke and Windham, over to the opposite camp.

  • About a month after the departure of her lover, desire burned in her heart, and she remembered the pleasures she had formerly enjoyed, and of which the unfortunate absence of her friend now deprived her.

  • The doubts he had formerly entertained, combined with the appearance of the bed, made him call his wife by her name, and say.

  • If I had now as much as I had formerly, I should soon seek a wife for him.

  • Without exactly knowing how, he came to the Piazza Navoni, where, in happier days, he had formerly lived in a fine house close to the Palazzo Pamphili.

  • And this, too, led to Salvator's being by no means in a position to surround himself with the splendour and luxury which he had formerly displayed in Rome.

  • Continuing along the old track, we this day quitted the basin of the Belyando, and ascended those grassy slopes, and that range, which I had formerly taken to be the water-shed of the coast rivers.

  • After making a cessation of arms, a conference was agreed on near Tours; where Henry granted his sons much less advantageous terms than he had formerly offered, and he received their submissions.

  • He came to terms with the same Armatolians whom he had formerly treated so harshly, and let them loose, provided with arms and ammunition, on the country which he wished to obtain.

  • Wishing now to ruin the woman whom he had formerly tried to corrupt, Ali sought to turn his former crime to the success of a new one.

  • Caesar at last felt he was free, and fancied himself already on his good charger, a second time carrying war into all the places where he had formerly fought.

  • By a sad transition, which yet comes so easily in the destiny of man, the poor father grew to long for those moments of danger at which he had formerly trembled, those moments in which his son might have died nobly.

  • Here she had to return to her solitary life in her New England village, and her hundred dollars a year, which somehow did not seem as great a glory to her as it had formerly done.

  • He even did not think himself so good-looking as he had formerly done.

  • He no longer now climbed on her knees to fondle her as he had formerly done; but instead would go and sit down in his little chair in the chimney-corner and open a volume.

  • JEAN Your father spoke to me of my Uncle Martinel, whom he had formerly known.

  • He again became quiet, as he had formerly been, loving to remain seated for entire hours, without moving, plunged in deep reverie.

  • Vaucorbeil expatiated on the fascination he had formerly found in dissections; and Bouvard inquired what were the analogies between the interior of a woman and that of a man.

  • He had formerly been a joiner at Chavignolles.

  • Pécuchet on these days wore the Zouave's cap which he had formerly in Paris, considering it more in harmony with an artistic environment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had acquired; had been fixed since; had begun; had brought; had ceased; had ever; had ever been before; had formerly; had happened; had killed; had learnt; had looked; had not been long; had observed; had often; had returned; had risen from the; had sent; had spoken; had the greatest difficulty; had thought; had turned; had used; had you; municipal officer; said suddenly