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Example sentences for "had yet"

  • He scorned himself for what he had yet to tell.

  • Writing with all propriety, he had yet allowed it to be seen how greatly he was vexed and disappointed at her failure to take the flood.

  • At present, the picture which my thoughts suggested, far from fixing my attention, destroyed the portion I had yet left, by conjuring up to my recollection the peril in which his affairs now stood.

  • For this purpose he soon got on foot as many men, and well armed too, as he had yet commanded.

  • The cave seemed the friendliest place he had yet found.

  • He had yet to learn what faith can do, in the revelation of the Moodless, for the subjugation of mood to will.

  • The ejected food was in masses of enormous size, larger than any we had yet seen on the voyage, some of them being estimated to be of the size of our hatch-house, viz.

  • From the difference in shape, he looked much larger than the largest sperm whale we had yet seen, although we had come across some of the very biggest specimens of cachalot.

  • At the current price, it would be worth about L200, so that, taken altogether, the whale very nearly approached in value the largest one we had yet caught.

  • These were the first whale-ships we had yet seen, and it may be imagined how anxious we felt to meet men with whom we could compare notes and exchange yarns.

  • Dantes, though almost sure as to what course the vessel would take, had yet watched it anxiously until it tacked and stood towards him.

  • Why, there is this need, Elgar," returned the other, more vigorously than he had yet spoken.

  • All knew that the position of things had no security; before long there must come a crisis worse than any the family had yet experienced.

  • He had yet to learn that the human eye was remarkable for the peculiarities of which the honourable gentleman had spoken.

  • It was a small low building, one story above the ground, with even a more desolate and unpromising exterior than any he had yet passed.

  • She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laughed at, and it was rather too early to begin.

  • The houses were the worst I had yet seen on the line of rail, as bad as in the mountains of Donegal, worse than any I saw in Innishowen.

  • The locked doors, the nurses conspicuous by their absence, the importunate beggars, the absent matron, the whole establishment was far below anything of the kind I had yet seen in Ireland.

  • Just opposite where the police left the cars was the most utterly wretched house that I had yet seen.

  • And yet at the date when it closed, Crabbe was nearer to at least the semblance of a success than he had yet approached.

  • Moreover, the poems contain passages of description which, for truth to Nature, touched by real imagination, are finer than anything he had yet achieved.

  • Waife remained long silent, breathing very hard, passing his hand several times over his forehead; at last he said more quietly than he had yet spoken, "Will you tell me where they have gone?

  • This was the largest river we had yet come to, and it gave us much trouble to cross it, for, wherever it appeared fordable, the bed was so soft and muddy, that we dared not venture to take our horses into it.

  • At night we had abundance of firewood, and a few of the long narrow yams were also found at this encampment, the first vegetable food we had yet procured.

  • Ten miles from our last night's camp we crossed the tracks of horses, apparently of no very old date, this being the first symptom we had yet observed of our approach towards the haunts of civilised man.

  • He was accompanied by positively the least well-favored being of the species I had yet seen.

  • A pleasant surprise awaited us in the grandest display of quartz that we had yet seen.

  • He did, however, everything in his power to make us feel "at home;" and the evening ended with a fantasia of a more pronounced character than anything that I had yet seen.

  • By far the poorest thing we had yet seen, this "town" had been grandiosely described to the first Expedition at Zibá.

  • He was the only disinterested evidence living, of whom I had yet heard.

  • Now the card contained one, among other facts, which was almost as precious, in a political point of view, as any I had yet obtained.

  • I obtained a more accurate and satisfactory knowledge of the manners and customs of the Africans from these, than from all the persons put together whom I had yet seen.

  • Hence the impression upon this ground also was against us; and we had yet had no adequate opportunity of doing it away.

  • She seemed to know him, and stretching her arm toward him as a child does toward its mother when danger threatens, she laid her head upon his bosom with a piteous wail--the only really audible sound she had yet uttered.


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