Saint Pavin added, however, that he had said it without much thought, and only because he had once seen M.
In the same manner that he had once announced to her that they had enough to live on, she expected him, some fine morning, to tell her that he was a millionaire.
Having told her that I had once been a laundress, she made me wash and iron all the clothes in the house, and was forever accusing me of using too much soap and too much coal.
He related, that he had once in a dream a contest of wit with some other person, and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his opponent had the better of him.
At a time when he was less able than he had once been to sustain a shock, he was suddenly deprived of Mr. Levett, which event he thus communicated to Dr.
He had once, by a bold and unexpected effort, freed himself from their yoke; and he was not inclined to put it on his neck again.
The English quarter, which was in Leinster, had once consisted of new and handsome houses, but had been burned by the Irish some months before, and now lay in heaps of ruin.
He had once had a good estate; but he had wasted it.
Marlborough was now as desirous to support the government as he had once been to subvert it.
Had she quarrelled with him because he had once been in love with Mrs Hurtle, or because she had grounds for regarding Mrs Hurtle as her present rival?
When Lady Pomona, instigated by some friend of high rank but questionable taste, had once suggested a change to Eaton Square, Mr Longestaffe had at once snubbed his wife.
Mrs Hurtle was a widow whom he had once promised to marry.
There was a scent which he had once approved, and now she bore it on her handkerchief.
It had once read, in plain black letters, Charles Steele, Barrister, etc.
He had seen the good man's lips tremble at some materialistic words he had once used in their many talks, and he wrote: "Lips that now tremble, Do you dissemble When you deny that the human is best?
And then Mr. Gresham thought of a former day when he had once been at Gatherum Castle.
So you have an unknown damsel shut up in your castle," he had once said to Mrs. Robarts.
The soft brown locks which she had once loved to brush back, scorning, as she would boast to herself, to care that they should be seen were now sparse enough and all untidy and unclean.
She clutched her breast and swung from the room, moving with that vigorous stride that had once appealed to him so, and still did.
No one of them knew that, although he was married and had two children, he was planning to divorce his wife and marry the girl who had appropriated to herself the role which his wife had once played.
He had once tried to make her promise that if ever her feeling toward him changed she would let him know of it in some way.
I felt the necessity of getting as far away as possible from our old lodgings, and I knew something of Fulham, because I had once been at school there.
On approaching the shed I found that it had once been a boat-house, and that an attempt had apparently been made to convert it afterwards into a sort of rude arbour, by placing inside it a firwood seat, a few stools, and a table.
One whom hehad once chosen to save he could not now have deserted, except by what would have been, in his sight, dishonor.
She looked at him with an increased interest: the accent of his voice told her that this man, whatever he might be now, had once been a gentleman.
No obstacles could defeat the plan which he had once adopted as the best; no accidents frustrated it, for they all had been foreseen before they actually occurred.
In veneration for the Deity, too, he does not yield to the Spaniard; the arms of the Northmen could not make him apostatize from Christianity when he had once professed it.
Here Kollomietzev related how he had once caught an old sectarian by the heel somewhere near Moscow, on whom he had looked in, accompanied by the police, and who nearly jumped out of his cottage window.
The grey crow he had once seen in foreign fields and addressed in a fit of homesickness.
And so that matter ended, for Mr. Carvel could not be moved from a purpose hehad once made.
Heaven put a last expedient into my head, that I had once heard Mr. Dulany speak of.
I knew he was thinking of the black tidings he had oncebrought my mother.
The leisure, that he had once reckoned on so much, exceeded, when it came, the pains of the old counting-house travail.
He died at Edmonton; not, as has been supposed, at Enfield, to which place he never returned as to a place of residence, after he had once quitted it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had once" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
