The tramp, relieved of his rider, raised his head, and the general recognized the idiot he had talked with an hour earlier; only, by this time the idiot looked as shrewd and clever as any of them.
It was a different kiss from that she had given him half an hour earlier.
The mayor of La Logerie left Nantes about five o'clock; he was on foot, and yet he walked so fast that he was an hour earlier than he needed to be when he crossed the bridge which led into the village of Saint-Philbert.
The latter immediately, and in spite of the commands and entreaties of Petit-Pierre, ordered a retreat and again took up the position he had occupied an hour earlier on the other side of the village.
An hour earlier, or little more, she had faced him as bravely as any man, but she could not face him now, and she dared not open her eyes.
As for the throng in the hall, there was no restraint upon their talk now, and words were spoken freely which would have been high treason half an hour earlier.
He was about to give her one of his rude, curt rejoinders, but happily he remembered in time that scarce half an hour earlier he had turned over a new leaf; so he kept silence.
When he returned home to breakfast at nine the fog was certainly more opaque than it had been an hour earlier.
A quarter of an hour earlier he positively could not have conceived the miracle.
Francesca, following Gloria, saw his movement of surprise, and attributed it merely to admiration or astonishment such as she had felt herself a quarter of an hour earlier.
Then they began to talk together, and Stefanone questioned him about his interview with the tall gentleman an hour earlier.
But she was not so calm as she had been half an hour earlier, and she waited impatiently for her husband's return and for the last scene of the drama.
Someone said he had been, and set out for the hills an hour earlier.
I'll bring Lass in an hour earlier and we can start then.
I went there and Joe Wilson told me he'd seen Conal riding out an hour earlier.
Instinctively I walked round the house again, and paused before the door that had attracted my attention an hour earlier.
He remembered very vividly the dark and scowling faces and the fiery eyes of the turbaned men who had stood before the door an hour earlier, and he began to fear some dreadful catastrophe.
On our arrival at Graywater Park we had learnt that our host had been stricken down an hour earlier by sudden illness.
I don't know how long he'd laid there, but it must have been for some time, as the last rain arrived an hour earlier.
It was Saturday, and the people in that part of the country left their work anhour earlier on that day.
An hour earlier he had been unable to assure himself that his feeling for her was love, but now he felt assured on this point: he loved her, and he had never before loved a woman.
The opinion seemed to be all but general, that some sign of hilarity would not now be so much out of place as it seemed to be a quarter of an hour earlier, and the landlord was zealous in support of this view.
An hour earlier, when he had rung Mrs. Mingott's bell, Archer had fancied that his path was clear before him.
She knew that Lester Jones had been in the house an hour earlier, yet there was no sign of him.
Salt followed the same road over which the girls had trudged an hour earlier.
The taxi which had borne him away had left the mansion fully an hour earlier.
We might perhaps have been here an hour earlier by hard striving.
Picotee was by this time beginning to yawn, and Ethelberta did not feel nearly so wakeful as she had felt half-an-hour earlier.
She ran across the shrubberies, into the park, and to the gate whereat Sol had emerged some half-hour earlier.
It clogged their feet, and left green patches where their footprints would have been clearly marked an hour earlier.
The last thing she dreamed of was that Helen would face the other residents in the hotel after the ordeal she had gone through an hour earlier.
An hour earlier, had she been asked which of these two would command her confidence during a storm, her unhesitating choice would have favored the American.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour earlier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
