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Example sentences for "length the"

  • But at length the patience of the English was exhausted, and, beating their drums, they charged the savages.

  • And when at length the news of the King's death reached Virginia the Virginians forgot their grievances, they became King's men.

  • Then at length the vengeance of Gourges was satisfied.

  • Then the poor lady wept with disappointment and at length the chief, pretending to be very angry, swore that he would beat her if she did not cease her asking and her tears.

  • At length the forest of Falkland received them, and a glimpse of the moon showed the dark and huge tower, an appendage of royalty itself, though granted for a season to the Duke of Albany.

  • A strict search was set on foot; at length the women of the house remembered the glee maiden, and ventured to suggest her as one not unlikely to exchange an old cloak for a new one.

  • At length the hour of noon arrived; she had taken care to provide, under pretence of her own wishes, which the pantler seemed disposed to indulge, such articles of food as could be the most easily conveyed to the unhappy captive.

  • Napoleon crowned his new bride, and felt himself at length the equal of the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons.

  • At length the powers of the defenders sank.

  • At length the victories of the Spanish insurrection in the summer of 1808 forced the Emperor to draw in his troops from beyond the Elbe.

  • At length the sound of cannon was heard in the rear.

  • At length the approach of winter forced him to action.

  • Rise of a City Rabble At length the rabble of clients assumed a position, formally of equality and often even, practically, of superiority, alongside of the class of independent burgesses.

  • These persons, still bowed down by the sufferings of that great agony, were lodged in miserable sheds, and fed only with grain and water, till at length the intercessions of the female relations of the Nabob procured their release.

  • It is a slight circumstance, but deserves to be recorded, that in this year pamphleteers first ventured to print at length the names of the great men whom they lampooned.

  • At length the state of things in Bengal began to excite uneasiness at home.

  • But at length the counsels of the shrewd and resolute Rigby prevailed.

  • At length the King's pertinacity yielded to the necessity of the case.

  • At length the rebel, after eyeing his youthful antagonist for a moment, commenced maneuvering slowly, intending, if possible, to draw him out.

  • At length the full-orbed blessing beamed upon them, and they rejoiced in its brightness, and thanked God for its holy repose.

  • It was at length the beseeching in Polly Ann's eyes that he answered.

  • I gained the notch with the small hours of the morning, started on with the descent, crisscrossing, following a stream here and a stream there, until at length the song of the higher waters ceased and I knew that I was in the valley.

  • How long I stood watching him as he drifted lazily in the sun I know not, but at length the voice of Madame la Vicomtesse aroused me.

  • And so we walked along through the summer night, talking gayly, until at length the lights of the village twinkled ahead of us, and in the streets we met many parties making merry on their homeward way.

  • At length the influence of the Court, strenuously exerted, carried an Act by which the chimney tax was declared a badge of slavery, and was, with many expressions of gratitude to the King, abolished for ever.

  • Then at length the effects of the policy of Tyrconnel began to be felt ever, in that remote corner of Ireland.

  • At length the chiefs of the insurrection established some order, and marched out of Ipswich at the head of their adherents.

  • At length the happy 9th of Thermidor arrived; the prisons were thrown open; and, as you may well imagine in such a nation as this, the French comedians were not the last to be set at liberty.

  • For above an hour we glide on over the yellow, clayey, strongly agitated fresh water, until at length the boundary is passed, and we are careering over the salt waves of the sea.

  • At length the Consul's wife appeared, a young and beautiful lady of an imposing figure, dressed in the Oriental garb.

  • I was constantly on deck, lest I should lose any portion of the view, and scarcely dared to breathe when at length the long-wished- for plain came in sight.

  • I'se warrant, and no to be fit to walk your tae's-length the morn, and we have ten Scots miles afore us?

  • At length the moment of waking came, and my sensations were horrible.

  • At length the violence of the paroxysm seemed to subside; the sobs became less frequent, the kicking less forcible, and the lady's eyes closed, and she appeared to have fallen asleep.

  • At length the cortége entered the town, and passing beneath a heavy stone gateway, was lost to my view.

  • At length the tribesmen, infuriated by the occupation of their valley, and perhaps rendered desperate by the approach of famine and winter, would make a tremendous attempt to storm the camp.

  • At length the bottom of the spur was reached, and the remainder of the two companies turned to bay in the nullah with fixed bayonets.

  • At length the tribesmen on the spur perceived the danger that was threatening them.

  • At length the village of Batkhela was reached, and beyond it the Amandara Pass came in sight.

  • At length the trampling of horses and the sound of wheels were heard.

  • At length the term-day, the fatal Martinmas, arrived, and violent measures of ejection were resorted to.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "length the" 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:
    being ignorant; come tell; entering upon; justifying faith; largely composed; length arrived; length came; length compelled; length figure; length figures; length from; length portrait; length reached; length succeeded; length the; length they; lengthened period; mismo que; moderate doses; more generally; passenger train; small book; tablespoon melted; thousand pities; threw themselves; weak and