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Example sentences for "never could"

  • Of course he loved his mother, just as all of us did; he never, never could go away and not let her know about it.

  • I never could bear to find a fault with Laddie, but I sadly reflected that he might as well have left me at home, if I were to be buried where I could neither hear nor see a thing.

  • Once at camp-meeting he laid it aside to pray his longest, most impressive prayer, and an affectionate cow strayed up and licked the nap all off before Isaac finished, so he never could wear it again.

  • It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account.

  • Hobbes, but why, or on what principle, I never could understand, was not murdered.

  • So I say it might do her good if somebody that knew, could tell her, but I swear to gracious, I never could.

  • It is lovely of her to give me the dress and of you to have it altered for me, as I never could.

  • I never could pass a dish that I liked in favour of those that were to follow.

  • He said that he never could be happy unless I would do as he would have me,--and he made me almost believe even that.

  • I never could nurse a horse when the hounds were going well in order to be in at the finish.

  • I never could advance my curiosity to conviction; but came away at last only willing to believe.

  • Akenside's distinguished poem is his Pleasures of Imagination: but for my part, I never could admire it so much as most people do.

  • In spite of all the care and all the suppleness Dubois had employed in order to gain the spirit of the King, he never could succeed, and people remarked, without having wonderful eyes, a very decided repugnance of the King for him.

  • Do what he could all his life to court the various ministers who came from England, he never could succeed in reestablishing himself.

  • He never could bear to hear of his domestic affairs.

  • He might think, he might even believe that Lucy was contained within that shawl, and sheltered under that hat; he never could be certain, for he did not see my face.

  • I never could, even in forming a common acquaintance, assert or prove a claim to average quickness.

  • By True Love was Ginevra followed: never could she be alone.

  • Mrs. Bolton now denominated a certain young gentleman of our acquaintance, and whom she now vowed she never could abear.

  • He never could stand it to see things going wrong.

  • But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements--somehow he never could abide'em.

  • Those few words were followed by a torrent of tears, a sight which I never could resist.

  • I never could believe in the morality of snatching from poor mortal man the delusions which make them happy.

  • A very striking design, and true to the imagination; I never could look at Death without a shudder.

  • These woe-begone figures of captives are emblematic of Nelson's principal victories; but I never could look at their swarthy limbs and manacles, without being involuntarily reminded of four African slaves in the market-place.

  • I never could work; and Joan and Maud, they neither of them work.

  • Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it.

  • And her wages were almost the only thing left to us; for Philip is not like Walter Gerard you see: he cannot earn two pounds a-week, though why he cannot I never could understand.

  • I never could for a moment believe that the Sovereign would consent to invest such a numerous body of men with such privileges.

  • But I never could express my ideas except with my tongue; and there I feel tolerably at home.

  • Mr. William said he never could think of parting with the Prince under a hundred and twenty," said the groom, looking at the young man.

  • No wonder that Whitfield's great voice stirred those whom harmless Mr. Broadbent, the Williamsburg chaplain, never could awaken.

  • Of such nothingness that, however hard he might try to conceive it, he never could, and must still hover on the hope that he might see again those he loved!

  • Such a thing Mitchett and me never could 'ave expected, comin' on us so sudden.

  • Irene looked full at Jolyon--in all his many attempts afterwards to analyze that glance he never could succeed.

  • I tried to love you, too, but I never could--never from the first.

  • But I never could get it, you know,' she said.

  • Many of us tried hard to win it from him, but we never could succeed; he shot too well.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    give glory; keep alive; never come; never did; never does; never dreamed; never expected; never failed; never forgive; never liked; never loved; never made; never mentioned; never more; never quite; never said; never saw; never seed; never shall; never tell; never think; never thought; never told; never want; raise wages; second century