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Example sentences for "had sent"

  • The fame of the beauty and worth of Bradamante had reached the ears of the Grecian Emperor, Constantine, and he had sent to Charlemagne to demand the hand of his niece for Leo, his son, and the heir to his dominions.

  • Her mother, on her deathbed, had sent her to Manfred, foretelling that she would work wonders for his glory provided she never yielded to his passion.

  • I now felt that I had good cause to extol my good fortune which, after many vicissitudes, had sent me precisely to this particular spot in France.

  • Though I had only held my appointment for a few months, yet I was given a holiday this first summer, which I spent in a second visit to Toplitz, a place which I had grown to like, and whither I had sent on my wife in advance.

  • I thereupon wrote to him, and asked for more precise details of his wishes, and begged him to commission a composition, the fee for which I presumed he had sent in advance.

  • When the rumour reached Muhammad at Hudaibiya that Othman Ibn Affan, whom he had sent to inform the Meccans that he was merely coming to visit their temple, and with peaceable intentions, had been slain by them.

  • Moreover we had sent Moses of old with our signs and with clear authority.

  • But thy Lord did not destroy the cities till He had sent an apostle to their mother-city to rehearse our signs to its people: nor did we destroy the cities unless its people were unjust.

  • If we had sent it down unto any foreigner, And he had recited it to them, they had not believed.

  • Late in the evening the steamboat, which I had sent back to Vancouver, returned, bringing to my assistance from Vancouver, Captain Henry D.

  • Porter represented to him that he had sent to Beaufort for more ammunition.

  • If Early had been but one day earlier he might have entered the capital before the arrival of the reinforcements I had sent.

  • I notified him, also, that I had sent Grierson to take command of his cavalry, he being a very efficient officer.

  • I had sent some 2,500 cavalry under General Sooy Smith to Sherman's department, and they had mostly arrived before Sherman got to Memphis.

  • Mr. Calvert and Brown, whom I had sent to reconnoitre the country, returned with the sad intelligence that they had found no water.

  • Mr. Hodgson and Charley, whom I had sent to seek John and Caleb, returned to the camp with a kangaroo.

  • Pope Clement, by this, had sent to demand assistance from the Duke of Urbino, who was with the troops of Venice; he commissioned the envoy to tell his Excellency that the Castle of S.

  • He said to the Bishop of Meaux, whom he had sent for to minister to the queen, "Do not quit my wife till she is safe; I am in mortal terror.

  • At the same time he had sent Wheeler's division of cavalry against the trains parked in Decatur.

  • He had sent a small force some miles in advance toward Cumberland Gap, under Brigadier-General Schoepf.

  • Before leaving Savannah I had sent to Newbern Colonel W.

  • So when David had granted his request, he went thither, and great multitudes came running together to him, for he had sent to a great number so to do.

  • The noise aroused Napoleon from his meditation, and reminded him of the person he had sent for.

  • We counted at that time on the regiments of grenadiers whom we had sent to the seat of war, and who, under the command of Archduke Charles, were to defend the defiles of Neumarkt against the advancing columns of the French army.

  • But several hours elapsed, and the messenger the German ambassadors had sent to Colonel Barbaczy's headquarters did not return.

  • Count Lehrbach lost on the very next day his scarcely-obtained portfolio, and he was compelled to remove the furniture which, in rude haste he had sent to the chancery of state in the morning, in the course of the same evening.

  • King Tremicen was weak in spirit, and he had sent word to King Escariano that his daughter was already betrothed to the son of his head commander.

  • The emperor immediately commanded all the knights of the city to go and escort the ambassador that Tirant had sent, and they all went to the port, and had them disembark.

  • However, nobody dared to speak to the King, and much expectation was built upon the reply he had sent to the Queen.

  • He had sent to the reverend father asking him to, come by night and disguised.

  • Uncertain as to what he had just done, I asked him if he had sent to Madame de Maintenon.

  • But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho.

  • Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before: 22:16.

  • He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back: 18:3.

  • And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived, 45:28.

  • And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.

  • So our heart is heavy and our head is in the dust, and when we saw your impi we thought that Dingaan, who now rules over the Zulus, had sent it to eat us up and to take the cattle that still remain to us.


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