Her delight in the child, instead of growing less, went on increasing because of the awe, rather than dread of having at last to give him up.
At last, instead of entering the parlour after them, she turned away to the kitchen, and made haste to get ready their supper.
If it should ever come to be known, what contempt would not clothe him, instead of the garments of praise of which he had dreamed all these years!
If we would learn how to make the worst instead of the best of a matrimonial bargain, Adam, the first husband, will teach us.
Instead of happy reminiscences, nothing is left of it except its jars.
Instead of finding his genius maimed by his alliance with Ann Denman, this eminent sculptor was ever ready to acknowledge that his subsequent success was in a great part marriage-made.
In reference to marriage and to everything else in life, we should sometimes reflect how much worse off we might be instead of how much better.
Then they know that the path upon which they have entered may be strewn with thorns instead of with roses, unless mutual forbearance and mutual respect guard the way.
And yet that man takes to himself one of the bitterest of earth's curses who marries carelessly instead of seeking with all diligence for those qualities in a wife that are the foundation of lasting happiness.
Give your child to be educated by a slave," said an ancient Greek, "and instead of one slave, you will then have two.
They reckon that they have a right to so much service, care, and tenderness from those who love them, instead of asking how much service, care, and tenderness they can give.
Faithful to his injunction, instead of lamenting his loss, she indulged her sorrow in depicting her husband as he had lived.
Instead of love being the occasion of all the misery of this world (as is sung by fantastic bards), the misery of this world is occasioned by there not being love enough.
Merely to settle this point some married people are continually engaging in a tug of war instead of pulling comfortably together.
After the horse had passed over their trail the dog could smell only the horse's footprints, instead of theirs.
And instead of growling, he would wag his tail, and try to be friendly.
But instead of tearing off out of danger, she lighted on the ground quite near Tommy.
Perhaps I should say "a few nights" instead of "days.
And instead of the ground rising, it was old Mother Grouse herself who had jumped up and sailed away.
One fall Mr. Crow decides to stay in Pleasant Valley during the winter, instead of going South, and he remembers all at once that he will need some warm clothing.
Bodies found in the caves are trussed up knees to chin, but as usual the bodies found at Casa Grande have been shipped away East to be stored in cellars instead of being left carefully glassed over, where they were found.
Instead of the clang of street car bells and the jangle of nerves tangled from too many humans in town, you hear the flow and the sing and the laughter and the trebles of the glacial streams rejoicing in their race to the sea.
The men wear store trousers instead of woven linen ones; some wear hats instead of a red head band; and there are wagons instead of drags attached to a dog in shafts.
All the time I was in the houses, my little guide had been waiting wistfully at the bottom of the ladder; and the children uttered shouts of glee to see me come down the ladder face out instead of backwards as the Acomas descend.
The inaccessibility of the Rito may be in harmony with its ancient character; but that same inaccessibility drives thousands of tourists to Egypt instead of the Jemez Forests.
Paint Helen Hunt Jackson's colors red instead of gray; multiply the crimes by ten instead of two; and you have a faint picture of the land-jockey period of New Mexican history.
We descended from the Mesa by the sand-hills instead of the rock steps, preceded by an escort of romping children; but not a discourteous act took place during all my visit.
However this may be, there can be no doubt that the system leads to the formation of cliques, and, consequently, to separate action by a clique instead of by the whole corps.
While on board the gun-boat, I remarked to her captain that I was surprised that General Banks did not make his assault upon our left, where we could have the aid of the fleet, instead of on the right, as he evidently proposed to do.
My plan was simply to utilize our powerful fleet instead of ignoring it.
That this should have been so great a calamity--a capitulation instead of a defeat--appears to have been the fault of MacMahon.
Had they fought with as much vigor as they wrote, the world would at least have respected their courage, insteadof pronouncing them as cowardly as they were cruel.
She was fully dressed, except that instead of her bodice she wore a kimono that left her throat and arms bare.
As a matter of fact, instead of being moved by any ill will toward the Colonel, the inclination of the President was to overrule the recommendation of the General Staff and urge that the Colonel be granted permission to go over seas.
How many a Sunday afternoon was spent in vain, noisy talk of worldly things, or in sleeping, instead of in learning to meditate and pray?
You have many officers in the East who are remiss, and take their ease instead of attending to the torturing of their prisoners and to their safe keeping; it was this that gave rise to the great rebellion.
Now, instead of working round, work backward and forward, dropping a bead on every chain stitch, so that they may all come on the right side of the purse.
Instead of a simple button-hole stitch, the needle is twisted once in the loop, so that when drawn up, it has a longer appearance than the ordinary Brussels.
Now, along the top work a row of extra long stitches, made by twisting the cotton twice over the hook instead of once, beginning on the d.
Do four stitches instead of one in the loop of the Brussels stitch.
Worked like the preceding; but with three bars in each line instead of two.
Break off the thread in this and the following round, and begin at the beginning of a division of the octagon, instead of at the last stitch as hitherto.
Spotted muslin, or any similar material, may be used for the back of the anti-macassar, instead of crochet, for those who would prefer saving themselves the trouble of working the second piece.
This finishes the slope on one side; now slope the other side the same, only beginning on the wrong side of the work instead of the right.
The thread, instead of being held by the fingers of the right hand, is passed over and under those of the left.
Instead of completing it, again twist the thread round, until the same number of loops are on, and work a stitch completely.
Let some one set me to play the spy over cabinets, instead of raking up the secrets of private families.
Instead of pandering to the vilest passions, let me serve the government.
Instead of dogging the footsteps of shady characters, let them put me in charge of the craftiest diplomats.
Instead of showing them up, you prefer to invent rather than to reveal occurrences.
DEAR MADAM, Instead of censuring my indolence (though you might as usual do it with very just reason), listen to a tale of wonders.
Instead of the Brothers I found Lord Egremont and fourscore fox-hounds.
I shall not return till Wednesday or Thursday, and instead of my Christmas, I shall eat my new-year's dinner, at the Belvidere.
By a mistake you have received two bound books instead of one.
The Baronet, instead of flying to Paris and Rome, returns to his college at Oxford, and even the house at Whitehall is to be left.
Instead of complaining of the want of them, I begin already to think of making a choice.
The stops I have met with about my houses would require pages instead of lines, but I believe in the end I shall settle in Bentinck Street.
Johnson to write Goldsmith's epitaph in English instead of Latin.
Much less play, more conversation, and instead of our immense routs, agreable societies where you know and are known by almost every body you meet.
He is now in very different circumstances than before; instead of an easy and ample allowance, he has taken possession of a great Estate, with low rents and high incumbrances.
DEAR MADAM, Your kind letter and just reproaches, instead of making me do immediately what I had resolved to do every post-night for a fortnight before, put off my letters two or three days longer.
No tropic forests and bright-plumaged birds are encountered there as at Vera Cruz; instead are vast stretches of desert lying within the temperate zone, alternating with cultivated plains and interspersed with large towns.
Instead of fomenting the industries and trade of her colonies, Spain established amazing monopolies and unjust measures of repression.
I might not touch him, and both Montezuma and they performed instead their ceremony of kissing the ground.
Indeed, is he wise he adopts this paso himself, instead of the English trot.
An improvement on his invention came from Peru, in 1783, which was the use of mules instead of men in treading out the crushed ore.
Instead of going to Tsarskoe-Selo we retired to the saint's little den, where we opened a bottle of champagne, of which we all three drank.
Instead Anna [Madame Vyrubova] and I read your sweet letters together, and we kissed your picture.
It is incomprehensible why we granted to our then allies, Italy and Roumania, facilities for playing the part of seceders by presenting them with an ultimatum before action was completed, instead of winning them over and involving them also.
The English Government lets its people go on calmly trusting to the myth that instead of six U-boats sunk there are a hundred at the bottom of the sea.
As it proved impossible to break the resistance put up by General Ludendorff, the idea presented itself at a later stage to strive for the annexation of Roumania instead of Poland.
In a similar way during past decades the effect of unsolved racial antagonisms might have been studied within the Habsburg Monarchy and the inevitable explosion anticipated, instead of its being allowed to culminate in the world war.
Thus it was in this case, and, instead of being drawn closer together, the two became more and more estranged.
I drove from Bucharest to Sinaia, carrying certain political documents with me in a dispatch-case, which, by mistake, was fastened on behind instead of being laid in the car.
The Governor, whose destiny led him to the edge of the precipice, instead of tranquillizing the minds of the public by resorting to prudent measures, began to commit still greater enormities.
The variations being the rule, insteadof the exception, these, however slight, become evidence of the use of a different Gospel from ours.
We hold that Paul was as much an inspired writer as any of the apostles, and instead of making all sorts of difficulties about the books we have, we ought to be grateful that they are extant.
If this had occurred to the great reasoner at the outset of his career instead of the close, how much might the world have been advantaged!
They are large, often over an inch in length, and broad, and they sit in saucers, instead of cups.
If, instead of acorns, pods hang on the twigs, the tree belongs to the locust family, related to our garden peas and beans.
Then people began to plant nuts, instead of eating them all, and gradually all the warmer countries of Europe found they could grow these walnuts.
Very often the shell contains a spongy substance that is tasteless, instead of the kernel the patient nutter has a right to expect.
The inner bark has the same tinge instead of the orange-coloured lining the black oak bark has.
Instead of buds, I saw what seemed like lighted candles, each with a silken frill, like the recurved petals of an iris, below the tip of flame!
Instead of a cone, a blue, juicy, sweet berry follows the blossoming of this tree.
Instead of horned capsules, the cone has flat, overlapping blades, like the wing of a maple seed, and the small, closed seed case is the base of the blade.
He did indeed surround himself with a school of disciples, but instead of making a series of desultory travels, teaching in remote places and along the high-road, he went to the heart of the evil.
Instead of drinking greedily, he stood tossing his head with snorts of disappointment.
Instead of endeavouring to break through them, which I doubted my ability to accomplish, I threw all my energy into the spring, and leaped clear over their shoulders.
What was the astonishment of the women to find that instead of modifying the red colour, it only showed forth, if possible, more vivid than ever!
What hindered him from taking the horse instead of the mule?
We could see the smoke rising over the distant villages; but we had passed them in the darkness, and instead of remaining in cache, we continued on through a wide plain covered with sage and cactus plants.
Instead of going off with a start, the intelligent animal stepped away slowly, as though he understood my situation.
The grass had sprung up, and our mules and oxen, instead of thinning down, every day grew fatter upon it.
Their provisions were spent as well as ours, and instead of resting our wearied animals, we pushed on through a pass in the sierra in hopes of finding game on the other side.
The mustang recognised it; and instead of running forward, obedient to the guidance of her rider, she wheeled suddenly and came galloping back.
Some carried, instead of the pictured serape, the blanket of the Navajoes, with its broad black stripes.
I was about to rush forward and secure my prize, when I observed the doe, instead of running off as I had expected, go up to her fallen partner and press her tapering nose to his body.
At four different periods of my life I have been constrained by circumstances to maintain myself by the exercise of my dramatic faculty; latterly, it is true, in a less painful and distasteful manner, by reading, instead of acting.
There is a great difference between being chaperoned by one's father insteadof one's mother: the latter, poor dear!
I had taken "The Abbot" with me, which I had never read; but my mother did not sleep, so we chatted instead of my reading.
I had the great honor of accompanying Mrs. Fry in one of her visits to Newgate, but from various causes received rather a painful impression instead of the very different one I had anticipated.
The colors of the autumnal foliage are rich and beautiful beyond imagination--crimson and gold, like a regal mantle, instead of the sad russet cloak of our fading woods.
We dropped Henry at Lord Waldegrave's and had a very pleasant drive, though the day was as various in its moods as if we were in April instead of June.
Victoire came with me to the theater instead of Dall, whose whole time is taken up attending on my father.
Instead of the twenty pounds a year which my poor father squeezed out of his hard-earned income for my allowance, out of which I bought (alas, with how much difficulty, seeing how many other things I would buy!
These consisted of log cabins, like those we built at Little Rock the previous winter, only now the logs were cedar instead of pine.
Lady Pelham had remarked the improved spirits of her niece; but, instead of rejoicing that any medicine should have 'ministered to a mind diseased,' she was offended at the success of a remedy applied by any other than herself.
This remark, instead of making the guests sad, seemed to cheer them up.
Instead of opening the gate she scrambled over the fence, and as soon as she was outside she started off.
Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering: "What do you wish me to do with that?
They are of that nature, that, whoever attempts to ridicule them, will, instead of turning them into jest, become the object of ridicule himself.
The Rawlinson version gives, insteadof "who was the guardian of all Leinster," the variant "who would run round Leinster in a day.
Instead of comraim Thurneysen seems to prefer the reading of the second MS.
Following Windisch's suggestion, this poem has been placed here instead of the later place where it occurs in the text.
And Eochaid himself was deceived, and he chose, instead of Etain, her daughter Messbuachalla (or as some say Esa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
