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Example sentences for "him the"

  • At this Captain Manly clapped his hand upon our hero's shoulder and fell to shaking him so that he could scarcely stand, calling out to him the while to be silent.

  • Whereupon the other, drawing to him the candle, burning there for the convenience of those who would smoke tobacco, began immediately reading it.

  • And she could have stayed with him the night, without having to go, as she was, to her mother's bed.

  • One after another she turned up to him the faces of the yellow, bursten flowers appealingly, fondling them lavishly all the while.

  • His mother saw on him the marks of some agony, and she said nothing.

  • She had hoped to find in him the devotion of a consoler, but she found "nothing but cold and bitter jesting.

  • She exposed to him the dogma of impersonality in such fine terms, that more than one bourgeois poet might profit by what she said.

  • There is something morbid in Flaubert's case, and with equal clearness of vision George Sand points out to him the cause of it and the remedy.

  • He expressed to him the fears he entertained with respect to her Majesty; he related to him what he had heard of the projects of the cardinal with regard to Buckingham, and all with a tranquillity and candor of which M.

  • You will ask for the host, and will repeat to him the word 'Forward!

  • Endowed with a rare genius for intrigue which rendered him the equal of the ablest intriguers, he remained an honest man.

  • He had seen in his province--that land in which heads become so easily heated--a few of the preliminaries of duels; but the daring of these four fencers appeared to him the strongest he had ever heard of even in Gascony.

  • D'Artagnan did not know London; he did not know a word of English; but he wrote the name of Buckingham on a piece of paper, and everyone pointed out to him the way to the duke's hotel.

  • And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection.

  • Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

  • Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.

  • That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him, 22:24.

  • But I explained to him the cause of my refusal," replied Dantes, "and I hope he fully understood it.

  • Morrel, Danglars and Caderousse were despatched in search of the bride-groom to convey to him the intelligence of the arrival of the important personage whose coming had created such a lively sensation, and to beseech him to make haste.

  • He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.

  • First, the villain and heartless vagabond sought to win my good-will and purchase my compliance, so as to get me, like a treacherous warder, to deliver up to him the keys of the fortress I had in charge.

  • We pointed out to him the window at which the reed appeared, and he by that means took note of the house, and resolved to ascertain with particular care who lived in it.

  • Diocletian and his colleague, who justly dreaded the enterprising spirit of Carausius, resigned to him the sovereignty of Britain, and reluctantly admitted their perfidious servant to a participation of the Imperial honors.

  • It is much more likely, that his good sense discovered to him the folly of such magnificent pretensions, and that he was desirous of preserving the reason and fortunes of his subjects from the mischievous pursuit.

  • His reputation obtained him the esteem of Constantine, who invited him to his court, and intrusted to him the education of his son Crispus.

  • In him the love of pleasure was corrected by a sense of dignity, nor had the habits of ease deprived him of a capacity for business.

  • These idiotic, fighting gluttons of gulls had actually pointed out to him the object of his search.

  • At the street door, confronting the waning foliage of the Embankment garden, Kervick was emboldened to recall to him the fact of his presence.

  • I suppose any man has in him the makings of what is called a good husband--if the conditions are sufficiently propitious.

  • To him the presence or absence of his wife's sister was a matter of indifference.

  • The porter stared at him the while he continued to talk.

  • Such an atmosphere could not incite in him the cravings of a boy of eighteen, but in so far as they were excited, the lack of hope made them proportionately bitter.

  • I was sorry for him too, and spoke to him the first, if I could but have spoken the wiser.

  • For which reason I choose to communicate to him the fact of this memorial as soon as it is copied.

  • I will do him the justice to admit that he turned pale.

  • King Eirik was also with his father King Harald; and the king loved and regarded him the most of all his sons, and gave him Halogaland and North More, and Raumsdal.

  • Earl Sigvalde loses no time, but goes to King Svein of Denmark, explains to him the case; and brings it so far by his persuasion, that the king delivered his sister Thyre into his hands.

  • When Asmund came north he met Harek, and told him what the king had determined with regard to the district, and produced to him the tokens of the king's full powers.

  • The same day there was a meeting of the chiefs, at which there was some talk of choosing a king; and then Harald brought forward his witnesses that King Edward had given him the kingdom on his dying day.

  • He was pleased to think that his shaven face gave him the look of a priest, and in his youth he had possessed an ascetic air which added to the impression.

  • His hesitation had left him now, and he was convinced that he had in him the makings of a great painter.

  • In him the lord of men perceived an understanding spirit and depth of counsel, strength of wisdom, words of judgment.

  • On him the Lord of hosts, the Righteous King, showed honour in the wilderness, and the Eternal Ruler gave him might to work great wonders.

  • There, balancing lightly upon a swaying bough, he sought in the direction of the eastern horizon for the tiny speck that would be the British plane bearing away from him the last of his own race and kind that he expected ever again to see.

  • So to him the entrance of the cave was a wall--a wall of light.

  • As the sun was to the outside dweller, this wall was to him the sun of his world.

  • Not only had this law been forcibly and many times impressed on him by his mother's nose and paw, but in him the instinct of fear was developing.

  • Before he had known the gods, she had been to him the centre-pin of the universe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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