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Example sentences for "heard from"

  • I speak the things which I have seen with [6]my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from 39 your father.

  • I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, 27 these speak I [3]unto the world.

  • But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did 41 not Abraham.

  • We heard from Sophia; they are got safe to town; but as Johnnie had a little bag of meal with him, to make his porridge on the road, the whole inn-yard assembled to see the operation.

  • Scotch psalmody, too, should be heard from a distance.

  • This induced him to desist, and for some time I heard from him no more.

  • He heard from me a confirmation of the death of Mrs. Elford; and heard it with the same tokens of melancholy in his face which he had betrayed, when he spoke of her himself.

  • Gray has sent me in answer to my troublesome queries; I retained your copy of his 'Manual' till I heard from him, and when I have answered his letter, I will return it to you.

  • After having spent two sessions in Edinburgh, my father perceived, or he heard from my sisters, that I did not like the thought of being a physician, so he proposed that I should become a clergyman.

  • Said he hadn't heard from my sister for months--"Do you know where she is now?

  • Well, the best we could do was exchange addresses and since he didn't know where he would be, he wrote mine on a scrap of paper and stuck it in his tunic, saying that I could write to him after I heard from him.

  • Yes--heard from her, saw her, and also saw Leon.

  • Said he hadn't heard from my sister since he came over here and I said I hadn't either, but that I thought she was still out West somewhere.

  • We heard from a caravan at this place, just come from Ufipa, that a white man was reported to be in "Urua," whom I supposed to mean Livingstone.

  • Henn); how, when he heard from my men that Dr.

  • Dawson, who, as soon as he heard from my men that I had found Livingstone, had crossed over to Zanzibar, and, after consultation with Dr.

  • I knew and was content to know, that the poem soon found its way to the camps, as I heard from time to time of its being sung in chorus by the soldiers.

  • I have no notion: it is some months since I heard from him.

  • Ah, by the by, I heard from my lawyer to-day about your poor little protegee.

  • She had not taken much heed of their discourse at the time, she said; but now it came back into her mind with a singular distinctness, and it was passing strange she should have heard from an eye-witness the details of this tragedy.

  • When I had satisfied him thereon, he asked if the report was true which he heard from a prisoner for recusancy in Wisbeach Castle, concerning my troth-plight with Mr. Rookwood.

  • While this was being done I heard from my sons that Piet de Wet had told them that we should all be captured that night near the railway line.

  • When on the following night we were again in the saddle I heard from many a mouth, "Whither now?

  • I detained this letter till I heard from Donne, who has been at Worthing, and writes cheerfully.

  • I should have written to tell you so myself; but I heard from Donne of the Wedding soon about to be, and I would not intrude then.

  • I heard from Mr. Norton that Lowell had returned to Madrid in order to bring his Wife to London--if possible.

  • I knew then that you hadn't heard from Tom, but I knew, too, that you would soon be here.

  • He hasn't had time to reach the camp yet so, of course, we haven't heard from him.

  • I took the leaves home with me, to examine them at leisure, and to compare them with the botanical description; and I begged that the cook would not dress the birds till she saw or heard from me again.

  • What he heard from her of the scene of the morning, contributed to encrease his alarm.

  • It was now long since she had heard from him; but she accounted for it by supposing that he was rambling about, and she knew that letters were frequently lost.

  • And he gives news of Lydia, most acceptable since such a time has elapsed since we heard from her.

  • This I heard from herself, yesterday, as I spent the day with Lilly and mother at Mr. Elder's, where she is now staying.

  • Thursday, we heard from a lady just from town that our house was standing the day before, which somewhat consoled us for the loss of our silver and clothing; but yesterday came the tidings of new afflictions.

  • The owners, as I heard from my father, intend to give the command of her to you.

  • The captain wrote to Dublin, but the house there had not heard from Mr Ferris.

  • I heard from a seaman who came on board the Orestes that you had accompanied your father on board the Ouzel Galley," he answered quietly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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