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Example sentences for "last the"

  • As the firing became less rapid she caught the sound of men's voices, though she could distinguish no words, and at last the reports of the guns ceased, and she heard two men calling to each other in loud tones.

  • At last the glare of the camp fire shone plainly through the intervening trees, and a moment later the giant figure of the ape-man paused upon an overhanging bough to look down upon the bloody scene of carnage below.

  • We discovered at last the cause of the maddening inactivity of the detachment's tail--"There's a barrage fire beyond.

  • At last the Prince of True Believers cast his glance upon Ja'afar, but forthright turned away his head and sat motionless as before.

  • At last the day of her confinement arrived, and when she rang the bell the King did not come.

  • At last the thought of the home he had left came back to the Prince, and he began to think longingly of his father the King, his mother the Queen, and of his favourite horse and hound.

  • At last the plum-trees blossomed and bore fruit, and the Pea-hen sat down to a perfect feast of ripe juicy plums.

  • Now after some time a terribly savage tiger came ravaging the country, and at last the city-folk petitioned that the mighty Prince Victor might be sent out to destroy it.

  • At last the difference in their strength became perceptible, and Wakhs El Fellat struck his adversary so violent a blow with his javelin that his horse fell to the ground.

  • Last the Sz Ch'wan tributaries of the Yang-tsz.

  • At last the day of decision arrived for Hugh Capet.

  • At last the barbarians, in their impatience, having vainly attempted to storm the Roman camp, struck their own, and put themselves in motion towards the Alps.

  • But poor Saphir was so unhappy, and begged so hard for forgiveness, that at last the Frog's anger gave way, and she held up to him a tiny diamond stone.

  • She implored her so urgently to let her spend the night with her in the golden bed, that at last the good-natured little Princess consented.

  • At last the ship, with its strange crew, arrived at the King's Court.

  • At last the Prince's horse gave way too, and then there came over them a darkness so black that they could no longer see the hind.

  • Madame de Mailly made such an uproar at the news of this intrusion of the Elector, that at last the attention of our ministers was awakened.

  • At last the chamber of Madame de Maintenon was ready.

  • It was five o'clock when at last the 7th corps, weary, cold, and hungry, entered Sedan.

  • It was about four o'clock when at last the 106th halted for the night at Dontrien, a small village on the banks of the Suippe.

  • At last the rootlets of the trees Shall find the prison where she lies, And bear the buried dust they seize In leaves and blossoms to the skies.

  • But at last the bough is bare Where the coupons one by one Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere!

  • At last the time-piece struck half-past two, and in two minutes afterwards the fair and smiling Undine was seen advancing into the room.

  • At last the son of Judah was forced to give in, and promised to speak to the ballet-master the same day, in order that she might dance the 'pas' with the actor she named.

  • At last the exorcist, doubtless tired out, went to bed saying that he was certain that the devil would not disturb his daughter during the night.

  • Wading through swamps, crossing deep rivers by swimming and by rafts, fighting the lurking Indians who incessantly harassed their path, and nearly perishing with hunger, they reached at last the Gulf of Mexico.

  • At last the Indians, disagreeing among themselves, deserted the alliance, and a treaty was signed.

  • At last the trustees, wearied by the complaints of the colonists, surrendered their charter to the crown.

  • At last the great, the godlike, the resplendent luminary breaks through the clouds and looks again upon the wrecked earth.

  • At last the ground-mole working in the earth cut the snare but lost its sight, "and its nose and teeth have ever since been brown as if burnt.

  • To him, as he sat there, came his trusted Basmanov with those tidings which startled him at first, seeming to herald that at last the sword of Nemesis was swung above his sinful head.

  • She had heard so many and such afflicting rumours, and had received in my lord's cruel neglect of her such circumstantial confirmation of them, that she fastened avidly upon what she deemed the chance of learning at last the truth.

  • At last the half-swooning legate found his voice.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    food crops; funeral pyre; high places; last able; last came; last effort; last expedition; last found; last half; last hope; last lecture; last letters; last look; last paper; last resort; last said; last speech; last succeeded; last they; last week; last will; last winter; last year; may perhaps; strong force; undoubtedly true