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Example sentences for "incontinently"

Lexicographically close words:
incontestibly; incontinence; incontinency; incontinent; incontinentlie; incontrollable; incontrovertible; incontrovertibly; inconuenience; inconueniences
  1. At length the prowler reached his burrow and hurled himself incontinently in, his brush describing a frantic arc as he disappeared.

  2. Ever since the sight of a snake at close quarters has incontinently thrown his brain out of gear.

  3. Accordingly we bought the beef, congratulating each other on our good fortune, carried it with us into the mines, and there incontinently hung it up on a tree as the only way of getting rid of so formidable an incumbrance.

  4. I fell incontinently in love with her as the waterman was pulling me off alongside.

  5. My next sensation was that of pain--burning, stabbing, racking pain, of so excruciating a character that I incontinently groaned aloud.

  6. One of the others promptly avenged him with a squirt of syphon in Mr. Lavender's left eye; whereon he incontinently attacked them all, whirling the ham-bone round his head like a shillelagh.

  7. Then depositing our own reply, his courage left him completely, and he incontinently bolted for our lines as hard as he could run, casting his dignity to the winds.

  8. Covering hers, she had incontinently broken down, and her body shook with the violence of her sobs.

  9. My duty as the Pope's body-guard kept me at his side, and my cousin Ferrante Gonzaga having less to do, was constantly at the Colonna palace, where he incontinently fell in love with Fenice.

  10. But Cesare, to my astonishment, turned deadly pale and galloped incontinently in the opposite direction.

  11. As for Teach, he grew as pale as death, and incontinently went down to his cabin.

  12. I incontinently reeled off half a page of statistics, more or less accurate, about the number of persons destroyed by snakes and wild beasts in the last year.

  13. As the land-grabber lurched from the impact of that terrific slap, McGraw's left palm straightened him up on the other ear, and he subsided incontinently into a corner.

  14. He seized Scarborough Castle, but was seized himself directly afterwards, and he and his friends incontinently lost their heads.

  15. The old hero, who would have stood unmoved before an army, incontinently went home and died of a broken heart (February 1588).

  16. He could no longer fix it upon anything: it wandered as incontinently as the wind among the hills, and very often he seemed to have come back to himself after a long absence, but without any memory.

  17. But the Sabbath, Joseph rejoined; and incontinently began to discuss the observances of the Sabbath with her.

  18. In a moment she would have been dragged from her horse, for Raynier's steed had taken fright, and it was all he could do to keep the idiotic beast from incontinently bolting, let alone come to her assistance.

  19. As for his wife, the sight of the butchery of the wretched servants, cut to pieces before her eyes, in spite of their heartrending yells for mercy, had been too much for her, and she saved all trouble on her account by incontinently fainting.

  20. Olive Henderson had turned out the veriest, the most capricious, the most heartless of flirts, and Captain Cavendish found himself incontinently snubbed!

  21. He readeth his paper sedulously, but his glance passeth incontinently outside the margin or over the top of the page to the coveted group.

  22. My mind incontinently leapt to a remote scene, I saw a well-lit room and children round the hearth and a figure at the piano.

  23. Herewith the head incontinently disappeared, there was the sound of a heavy step, and a tall figure loomed in the doorway.

  24. The flood of the eyes began to flow: he sobbed forth aloud and incontinently the name of Glorvina!

  25. The gentleman then all retired to the cabin, and, with the exception of the captain, incontinently fell upon the good things.

  26. If the springs of Christian charity, just now welling up so sweetly within him, were not to run incontinently dry, the conversation, he felt, must be steadied down to themes of other import.

  27. But Smyth's mood changed, his tears ceasing as incontinently as they had begun.

  28. This his assistant was so long in handing to him, that he incontinently flew into a towering passion, and discharged from the said trowel a quantity of mortar, which entered the other's windpipe just as he was stammering out an excuse.

  29. And having delivered himself of this sublime sentiment, Tomkins would incontinently ring for another tumbler.

  30. This was too much for his little companion’s philosophy, who incontinently followed his example, but both were immediately caught up by some of the ladies, and quickly caressed into composure.

  31. But if none had heeded him at first, much less would they do so now; for he had fallen incontinently upon his native tongue.

  32. The nervous outburst of reproof which greeted his eloquence was so unexpectedly menacing that he retired precipitately beneath the table, his small white tail clapped incontinently between his legs.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incontinently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.