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Example sentences for "hour since"

  • Half an hour since I received a message from the duke desiring me to appear with ten men-at-arms in their best trappings to ride with him to Eu.

  • It must be farther than that to the spot where we lost Oswald, and as the thanes would surely be making their way either back to camp or eastward to the border, they must have been many miles from here an hour since.

  • I have exactly repeated what Captain Stanwick said to me half an hour since," Lionel Varleigh answered.

  • Half an hour since, I discovered him at his window, giving a letter to a person who is a stranger to me.

  • The train by which he had traveled to London had reached the terminus nearly an hour since.

  • BROCK--Only an hour since we reached this house, just as the servants were locking up for the night.

  • The man looks capable of any stretch of audacity; and both he and the woman had the impudence to bow when I met them in the village half an hour since.

  • The men pointed with a smile in the direction of the gardens; Mr. Armadale had gone that way more than an hour since, and had met (as had been reported) with Miss Milroy in the grounds.

  • About an hour since, the surgeon had been sent for in great haste to see Mrs. Armadale.

  • The sun had set more than half an hour since; the red light lay broad and low in the cloudless western heaven; all visible objects were softening in the tender twilight, but were not darkening yet.

  • Not half an hour since, I was enlightened for the first time (under circumstances which I will mention when me meet) by my old friend, Mr. Clare.

  • Spies of the Volsces Held me in chase, that I was forc'd to wheel Three or four miles about; else had I, sir, Half an hour since brought my report.

  • You know I gave it you half an hour since.

  • I know thou dost but jest: He and his lady both are at the lodge Upon the north side of this pleasant chase; 'Tis not an hour since I left them there.

  • Even now, even here, not half an hour since.

  • He had gone forth afoot half an hour since.

  • Tyers told me he turned up half an hour since.

  • I looked up at him, and he was as calm as when he had joked with me a quarter of an hour since.

  • He and his crew came on me a quarter of an hour since at the edge of the clearing.

  • And then he started crying and kept on at it till they turned out, maybe half an hour since.

  • His exultation had to die down, like the resonant chords in the music he had played an hour since, before he could come to the level of speech.

  • But she was thankful to hear that Mrs. Pilcher had not been any the worse for her talk with her visitor an hour since.

  • I can't have that glorious girl made miserable," were the words he had used to her, half an hour since.

  • An hour since a stranger invited me to be the second knight in the row of dancers, when the Danish maidens should begin the song;--'For Erik the king so young.

  • He left me half an hour since, to return in an hour if he did not meet you.

  • I might have called myself so half an hour since," answered Arthur; "but I think I shall hardly venture to assume the name in future.

  • James is gone to you but quarter of an hour since with a message, sir.

  • Did you hear the echo of a piece in the mountains, half-an-hour since?

  • Why the other was here close to the fire, half an hour since.

  • It is not an hour since I left it, and the whole time I have been attentive to the smallest sound.

  • They finished up their work as usual--and left the house more than an hour since.

  • The maid came in half an hour since, and woke me.

  • Lescure's own man, who went back to Clisson only an hour since, and who had it all from one who came direct from St. Florent.

  • Then slowly the full wretchedness of guilt burned me, bone and soul, and what I had done seemed a black evil to a maid betrothed, and to the man whose wine had quenched my thirst an hour since.

  • Magdalen Brant entered the house an hour since," he whispered.

  • Folk at the Fish-House saw smoke on the Mayfield hills an hour since.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour since" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after her; dark lane; during the latter part; extremely glad; first refused; full doses; head waiter; hour after; hour afterward; hour agone; hour ahead; hour earlier; hour later; hour longer; hour since; hours before; hours later; little water; much dreaded; nigh unto; nor was; not come; other materials; our young; petition signed; term applied