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Example sentences for "moment ago"

  • Indians, or somebody skulking about him when I was examining him a moment ago," said Plume hurriedly.

  • Nearly shot one of the hounds a moment ago.

  • I never set eyes on your daughter to-day--until a moment ago.

  • I just left her, a moment ago, at the hospital," said he, steadfastly ignoring her repellent tone.

  • Was that the look that had been fixed upon her face a moment ago?

  • You said they were hungry a moment ago," she rejoined, her resolution slowly breaking under the one influence which could have softened her.

  • She would be as frenzied as you were a moment ago; and she would not listen to reason.

  • I think, Captain, that I mentioned the word "pistol" a moment ago in connection with arming of the reserves?

  • Let's look at it this way, would this statement be correct then if we changed the word "compound," to be defined as the general basement area as I just defined it a moment ago?

  • There was no reason to go into why, and why--I told him my reasons a moment ago.

  • The foundation fact, however, is as I worded it a moment ago: the people of England were never willingly ruled from without, religiously or politically.

  • A moment ago it was said that as a piece of literature the Bible must accept the standards of other literary books.

  • Others revealed the disposition of which we spoke a moment ago, and set out to make the Book speak the current tongue.

  • Indeed, he had used it as the text for that paraphrase of the Revelation of which we spoke a moment ago.

  • The only question that had been raised was by that Hugh Broughton of whom we were speaking a moment ago, and it had not seemed a serious one.

  • A moment ago on the hill below them a man's figure had been in silhouette against the lights.

  • If Hermia had been startled a moment ago, she now learned that she would have need of all her courage.

  • Her loquacity, a moment ago so amusing, had assumed a deeper significance.

  • Miss Earle came in only a moment ago to send us to bed," she affirmed, without a tremor.

  • Louie continued: "A moment ago I told you not to tell him you'd been here.

  • It had glazed doors, and the pale student called Richardson, coming up a moment ago to put his exercise-book back into its place, had left one of the doors open.

  • He had accredited her with remarkable intelligence a moment ago, but as a fact the girl's knowledge of life is but a poor thing in comparison with that of the man of the world.

  • A moment ago I gave you some sound advice.

  • She is a different being from a moment ago.

  • I think that you see plainly enough now that the process of apperception is what I called it a moment ago, a resultant of the association of ideas.

  • I have heard this advice given to a student by Miss Call, whose book on muscular relaxation I quoted a moment ago.

  • I probably shocked you a moment ago by saying that most men begin to be old fogies at the age of twenty-five.

  • This state of things was what I had in mind when, a moment ago, I said there was no 'new psychology' worthy of the name.

  • A moment ago, Mrs. Batch had been hoping she might yet at the last speak motherly words.

  • A moment ago, Katie's eyelids had been red with much weeping.

  • A moment ago, his death would have been beautiful.

  • A moment ago, she had been in the seventh-heaven.

  • That a moment ago I was ready to sacrifice my love, to belie my heart, to crush my fondest hope--and that is true, indeed.

  • As I had occasion to say a moment ago, comparatively a very small part of his children have heard anything about it.

  • There was, then, no clear record at the first in regard to these matters of belief; and, as I said a moment ago, for the first two or three hundred years the condition of the Church was chaotic.

  • But a moment ago Mrs. Stapleton told you to go--she said she had done with you; I heard her myself.

  • He was reading here a moment ago, and now he's disappeared.

  • Why, there he was reading a moment ago, and now he's vanished out of sight.

  • He was reading here a moment ago, and now he's vanished!

  • You were laughing just a moment ago, and now you are nearly crying!

  • You remember that delightful soliloquy when she addresses the purse--'Poor little thing, I kissed you a moment ago'?

  • Surely too, but a moment ago, something had snapped within her.

  • Men who, a moment ago, would have killed any one who sought to restrain them from clearing the boat's falls, now raced pell-mell after their officers.

  • Why, I had it in my heart to pity them a moment ago.

  • I left him a moment ago, close to the saloon entrance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cloth decorative; forced loan; hand dealer; mighty hunter; moment afterward; moment and; moment and then said; moment before; moment later; moment like; moment looking; moment more; moment only; moment since; momentary pause; much troubled; nearly cylindrical; play called; play golf; principal object; said hoarsely; seeing that; seen him; speaking countries; three years; warm heart