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Example sentences for "had never before seen"

  • He hurried me along the narrow streets until we came to a quay, where there were a great number of ships, such as I had never before seen.

  • I had never before seen so many houses and so many people gathered together.

  • He had never before seen Mr. Vane in this mood.

  • It was not that she had become a lady--a lady of a type he had never before seen.

  • The Negro carried the body by a leg and an arm, and threw it into the pit with a savage indifference, which I had never before seen.

  • Karfa now looked at me with great earnestness, and inquired if I could eat the common victuals of the country, assuring me he had never before seen a white man.

  • I was presented at one of them with a dish which I had never before seen.

  • It seemed to me that I had never before seen so many stars in the heavens.

  • I had never before seen my mother weep, and it caused me the greatest anguish.

  • The boat had scarce reached the island this last turn before the day overcast, and there arose such a storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and hail as I had never before seen.

  • I had never before seen I therefore had the most material parts of it reserved as a specimine, the leggs are yellow and feet webbed as those of the duckandmallard.

  • Sand after crossing the river I Saw a Singular Species of fish which I had never before Seen one of the men Call this fish a Skaite, it is properly a Thornback.

  • Reubin Feilds returned in the evening and brought with him a large grey squrrel and two others of a kind I had never before seen.

  • I had never before seen so many soldiers together, nor such a brilliant variety of uniforms.

  • To tell the truth, I had never before seen so much swaggering and drunkenness in Johnstown, and I marvelled at it as I hastened on.

  • Offering his hand, with a mixture of kindness and ceremonious grace that I had never before seen in my Quaker father, he placed her in his own arm-chair.

  • Beautiful, as I had never before seen it; so clear, that one could note the very instant its disc touched the horizon's grey.

  • His own took a sternness, such as I had never before seen, and yet there was a trace of pity in it too.

  • I had never before seen John in the company of women, and I marvelled to perceive the refinement of his language, and the poetic ideas it clothed.

  • I had often heard of "stirring up a hornets' nest," but I had never before seen a practical demonstration of its danger.

  • My son Theodore wrote of Miss Anthony's visit in Paris: "I had never before seen her in the role of tourist.

  • Mr. Gurney said he had never before seen such a sight as forty ladies and gentlemen sitting down to dinner and none of them tasting wine.

  • His face wore a murderous look such as I had never before seen.

  • As this man's wife I was compelled to revive some of my late mother's relatives, whom I had never before seen.

  • While standing at one of the bars, however, several men I knew passed and repassed, among them being the Earl of Fyneshade accompanied by Markwick and another man whom I had never before seen.

  • She was standing before me, with jewels upon her neck and arms flashing in the lamplight, one of the handsomest of women, yet upon her face was a wild and wearied expression such as I had never before seen.

  • Speke says it was a magnificent sight; the whole hill was covered with gigantic huts, such as he had never before seen in Africa.

  • He had never before seen an Englishman, and he was pleased to see one for whom he already felt a regard.

  • He had never before seen a white man, but had met with black native traders, who came, he said, for ivory, but not for slaves.

  • He drew near, and observed a little door, which he had never before seen.

  • As he kept his eyes fixed on the object, a maiden of astonishing beauty appeared before him, such as he had never before seen.

  • The darkness grew less, and the astonished Rabbi, lifting up his eyes, found that they had come to the gates of a city which he had never before seen.

  • I had never before seen her, but her tall, angular person, very red face, and totally unsympathetic manner, chilled me.

  • I had never before seen anything so grand as the great hall with its polished stairway.

  • I had never before seen a stump, but remembered Dr.

  • The negro carried the body by a leg and an arm, and threw it into the pit with a savage indifference which I had never before seen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being slain; had also; had any; had asked; had become; had been fixed since; had committed; had died; had done; had ever; had finished; had found; had gone; had his; had little; had looked; had married; had never before seen; had observed; had often; had received from the; had seemed; had some; had time; walk along; wounded soldier