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Example sentences for "him from"

  • I wish you had this Duke again, lest you should have trouble with him from hence: he seems a genius of the wrong sort.

  • I have been inured to abuse on him from my birth.

  • It wonderfully describes the penetrating power of that inward voice which clearly came to him from without, and as clearly spoke to him within.

  • It also suggests very plainly that Elijah was lifted to the skies by power acting on him from without.

  • Hard stolidity and brutal carelessness shielded him from any 'womanish' tenderness.

  • On her recovery she wrote to him from Morpeth, to announce her departure for the south, Henry having invited her to his court, accompanying his invitation with presents of costly stuffs, and money, and clothing for the baby.

  • The country in front had been laid waste to the Pyrenees, and everything which Caesar required had to be brought to him from Gaul.

  • We know Clodius only from Cicero; and a picture of him from a second hand might have made his position more intelligible, if not more reputable.

  • At this Dierich threw his arms round him from behind, and called on the others to keep him.

  • Why, Margaret, think you I had ever kept the dear child so long, but that I made sure you would be back to him from day to day?

  • And I have ta'en him from thee; it was cruel; but he would have broken thy heart one day if I had not.

  • So far from being acquainted with the story, that it never so much as entered into thy thoughts; a certain argument, says al Beidâwi, that it must have been revealed to him from heaven.

  • But every man among them desireth that he may have expanded scrolls delivered to him from God.

  • He said that some twenty years ago a suit was sent to him from Orange, and measurements were made from it, and that every suit since had been made from these measurements.

  • Remittances of money came to him from an unknown quarter; and, with a break or two, have come ever since up to this period.

  • He had news of me from various quarters, and I of him from one; I was leading a life in marked contrast from the homely Riversley circle of days: and this likewise was set in the count of charges against my father.

  • She had urged him to quit the old world for the new, but that had been the very proposition conveyed to him from Darrell.

  • In the second week another note came to him from Mrs. Clarke.

  • Even if he had been ready to renew it those about Rosamund would have dissuaded him from doing so.

  • He did not know what direction it came from, but, fantastically enough, it seemed to be a comment on his thought, a brusk, decisive exclamation flung at him from out of the silent evening.

  • He had never seen Welsley before, though its fame had been familiar to him from childhood.

  • I seem to get a good deal of him from this.

  • He continued to sit there, his slippered foot on a low chair, his cane between his fingers, and she glanced at him from time to time.

  • Thea's lips parted; she looked at him from under a frown, searching his face.

  • In consideration of a sum of a thousand crowns, and all his expenses paid, he agreed to accompany me to La Trappe, and to make a portrait of him from memory.

  • The Marquis cried to him from a distance, that but for the respect he owed to the King, and to the state in which he was, he would give him a hundred kicks in the stomach, and haul him out by the ears.

  • The Major turned and looked at him from head to foot with affectionate pride.

  • A secret dread and repugnance had held him from it till now.

  • There were certain individuals in particular who depended on him from day to day.

  • He turned to the man beside him, and his sharp look swept over him from head to foot.

  • She looked at him from time to time, her great eyes lightening and deepening as it seemed with every fresh thrust of his.

  • The authority of ministers and judges would expire with him from whom it was derived.

  • But he could not, after he had read the documents transmitted to him from Edinburgh by Tweedale, entertain the slightest doubt of the guilt of the Master of Stair.

  • A litter was sent down to him from London, but to no purpose.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after shall; being persuaded; cultivated plants; disinterested benevolence; fourteen miles; free acid; him and; him from; him out; him was; him who; him with; himself again; himself hath; himself says; himself should; himself tells; himself that; himself the; himself would; later known; poured upon; still remains; vast concourse; whose authority; whose like