They continued thus for a half hour more, and the blessed clouds, not clouds of rain, but clouds of mists and vapors, were increasing.
In a half hour or so," said Adam Colfax with satisfaction.
A quarter of an hour, a half hour, and an hour passed, and still Henry did not stir.
They broke into the long frontier trot, still heading south, slightly by east, and they did not hear the plaintive cry again for a half hour, but when it came it was nearer to them than before, and they increased their gait.
Henry about noon looked back, noticed that Paul was laboring, and stopped for a rest of a half hour.
Of all that followed John Penhallow in later years remembered most distinctly the half hourof astonishing relief from pain.
But, John, a half hour of talk with him about our national affairs leaves me tangled in a net of despair, and I hate it.
A half hour later he was in a hospital tent and a grim old army surgeon handling his arms.
After walking a half hour, he came to a small country called the Land of the Busy Bees.
Then he swallowed him so fast that Pinocchio, falling down into the body of the fish, lay stunned for a half hour.
In less than a half hour, at least twenty people passed and Pinocchio begged of each one, but they all answered: "Aren't you ashamed?
A half hour later, just as the first gray streak of dawn was appearing, he curved off onto a gravel road.
A half hour, an hour, an hour and a half dragged by.
A half hourlater he received a highly commendatory message, congratulating him on his achievement and bidding him keep up the good work.
He had no time now to stop for a half hour's gossip with a prospective builder of a barn, and did not come to loaf in Birdie Spinks' drug-store at the end of the day.
In the house Clara sat for a half hourat a table in the lighted living room beside her father, pretending to read a book.
When he had been shown to his room Hugh sat for a half hour by an open window, and then as he could not sleep, decided to go for a walk.
But they had been in their hotel scarcely a half hour, and Ella had not done exclaiming over the bag that Fanny had brought her from Paris, when his telephone call came.
But oh, to stand a half hour on two legs only, when he had four, and would gladly have used all of them, was hard.
Sometimes he catches bad boys, to put them in a bag for a half hour, to scare them; or, he shuts them up in a dark closet, or sends them to bed without any supper.
The stingy fellow, as he fell overboard, bumped his head so hard on the plough beam, that he lay senseless for a half hour.
Such a lesson of fidelity and obedience, and such an example of it, will have more influence, than a half hour's scolding about whispering without leave, or a dozen public punishments.
There will be given you when you enter the school a blank schedule, in which the divisions of each forenoon for one week are marked, and in which your own employments for every half hour are to be written.
It is a good plan to have a bell rung five minutes before each half hour expires, and then exactly at its close.
After spending a half hour in there, someone brought us an old pitcher of stagnant water that was not drinkable.
From the time we left the gardens till we reached the Oak of Abraham, a half hour passed.
It was a half hour later, and dawn was just breaking, when Skipper Zeb and Toby picked up their rifles, and with Skipper Zeb in the lead, and Charley bringing up the rear, they set out for Double Up Cove.
I'm thinkin' 'twill be a half hour's stop, or thereabouts.
When Mr. Norton broke the good news to Mrs. Norton a half hour later, the two declared it was the happiest day of their whole life.
Dinner took about a half hour, after which they spent another fifteen minutes over coffee, with Janet refusing her second cup.
At which juncture Mrs. Bagley did not leap to her feet to accept his offer to do that which she had been asking him to do for a half hour.
They relaxed over coffee and small talk for a half hour.
Tayoga still in front, they plunged into the depths of the forest, and advanced at speed a half hour, when they heard a single faint cry behind them.
He heard the tall clock standing on the floor in the corner strike ten, eleven, and then twelve, and a half hour later, when he was as wide awake as ever, there was a knock at the door.
You said I would die at your hand, but there is only a half hour left in which to make good the prophecy.
I know it, because I can't see the forests there as distinctly as I did a half hour ago, and I hold that the change in Areskoui's heart is propitious to our plan.
A half hour ago, I caught a glimpse of a man, strong, and, as well as I could tell in the night, of a dark complexion.
They reached the crest of the ridge in a half hour, as Dick had expected, and looking northward in the moonlight saw the dim outlines of other ridges and peaks in a vast, intricate maze.
Scarcely a half hour after he spoke, Bright Sun, who was at the head of the column, stopped his pony and pointed to indistinct tiny shadows just under the horizon.
The other side contains a half hour of a rain effect such as one would hear in a heavy downfall with prominent patter of water on pavement.
The other side or track contains a half hour of rain effects such as one would hear in a heavy downfall with loud splatterings of water on the pavement.
One side has a half hour of very soft, light rainfall such as you have experienced in listening to rain falling on grass, canvas or a tent top.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half hour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
