I was on one once that I was assured would face anything, and the brute bolted and went through some trees, and I was swept off the pad and was half an hour before I opened my eyes.
Half an hour before nightfall he and the woman and child took their places in it, and the two beams in the roof that had been left unfastened to allow of their entry were securely lashed in their places by the villagers.
The latter, who had received news half an hour before of their approach, made a stand, relying on their cannon.
Although leprosy came to Miriam as a punishment for her sin, still this occasion served to show how eminent a personage she was.
Dias had given them a feed all round an hour before.
The Indian declined to sit down with them, saying that he had taken a meal an hour before.
He had gone to Brown's and stood there not more than half an hour before one of the bosses noticed his form towering above the rest, and signaled to him.
Three days later there came another heavy snowstorm, and Jonas and Marija and Ona and little Stanislovas all set out together, an hour before daybreak, to try to get to the yards.
Every now and then the pain would force Jurgis to stop work, but he stuck it out till nearly an hour before closing.
Hitherto their course had been unimpeded, save by the obstacles already enumerated; and they had now, at about an hour before dawn, gained a point that promised a speedy termination to their dangers and perplexities.
At half an hour before noon, I was again in the oasis; your mother was at the wonted spot; and although she received me with her sunniest smiles, there were traces of tears upon her cheek.
At about half anhour before mid-day the air became more rarified, and, the murky clouds gradually disappearing, left the blue autumnal sky without spot or blemish.
When the ladies first heard that we had come to claim the redemption of the half-promise given at Madam Schuyler's, their surprise was not less than mine had been, half an hour before, while their uneasiness was probably greater.
The danger would have been greater, but a thunder-shower had passed over the settlement only an hour beforewe were alarmed, and coming from the north, all that side of the house had been well drenched with rain.
Our guests did not remain the night, but they left us in a sort of a chaise that Herman Mordaunt kept for country use, about anhour before sunset.
Who could have believed that these inert things, not an hour before, had been speeding down the icy way quicker than any express train that ever travelled, and they with them?
That night an assembly of all the tribe would be held in the great temple an hour before moonrise, that the Mother and the Snake might take up their royalty in the presence of the people.
At length, about half an hour before nightfall, the dwarf appeared at the mouth of the cave, looking more like a gnome than a man against the lurid background of the angry sky.
At last, about an hour before sunset, they came to the home of the Yellow Devil.
The season being hot it was arranged that the great games in honour of the safety of Cæsar, should open each day at dawn and come to an end an hour before noon.
Lacking any stars to steer by, the captain wished to cast anchor, but as the water proved too deep they proceeded slowly, till about an hour before dawn a sudden gust struck them which caused the galley to lean over.
It was an hour before sunset, or a little less, when at length Nehushta saw two persons walk on to the patch of open ground which she watched continually--Amram and a slave who bore a bundle on his head.
Quarter of an hour before serving, put in the chervil, but take the cover off the pot, so that it remains a good green color.
Let it boil for three to four hours, and three quarters of an hour before dishing, add some potatoes cut in pieces.
Keep the lid of the pan on and, half-an-hour before serving, put in peeled potatoes.
Jack' Thayer, who was literally thrown off the Titanic by an explosion, after he had refused to leave the men to go with his mother, floated around on a raft for an hour before he was picked up.
I swam about for more than one hour before I was picked up by a boat.
I knocked, and his man in tears told me his master was dead an hour before.
I am going abroad, but have left Patrick to put up my things, and to be sure to be at home half an hour before two.
There was not another cloud visible, and the air marvelously clear; time, about three quarters of an hour before sunset.
They were to be alone for a certain reason; and he came half an hour before dinner.
Half an hour before sunset, Helen Rolleston, whose vision was very keen, said she saw something at the verge of the horizon, like a hair standing upright.
They reached the doomed village an hour before day-dawn, and surrounded at once the house of the chief, whilst a small body was sent to search and plunder the village itself.
Thus he crossed the square as a prisoner where an hour before he had walked as a king.
Those same words repeated by the same number of voices an hour before in the public square, instead of resounding in the prison, would have made him King of Naples.
He was at di Marco's house an hour before Salvatore's arrest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
