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Example sentences for "never did"

  • Never did I see a better ridden course in all my life.

  • Never did I hear of Crosbey-Dale," said the squire.

  • Empty it was indeed; never did I see such a place of desolation.

  • Never did I see such crops as those that grew upon that clearing; they were magnificent.

  • Never did I see hate more savage than was written on those faces as they shook their fists at us and muttered curses not loud but deep.

  • Never did a thief with a rich booty in view, or a wooer having an assignation with his lady, wait for sundown more eagerly than I did that day.

  • It is just as though I had been walking about outside in my sleep, which is absurd, as I never did such a thing in my life.

  • Then he was called home, and made a member of the Long Parliament; where he never did, to this day, any thing against his conscience, but all for the glory of God.

  • But yet I could discern Captain Cooke to overdo his part at singing, which I never did before.

  • Never did a light-hearted, indifferent, almost mocking spirit, shine out more clearly from any human visage.

  • Never did I inflict on the bosom of Julia Clifford, so deep a pang as I daily--nay, hourly, inflicted upon my own.

  • Wild and hurried as they were, never did tones of more touching sweetness fall from any lips.

  • Never did we feel the slightest pulsation.

  • Never did poet or novelist imagine scenes so improbable.

  • Never did a woman justify better than she the expression that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.

  • Never did he sympathize more truly with the sufferings of his army; never did he suffer more bitterly from his powerlessness to struggle against such overwhelming misfortunes.

  • Never did I feel half the pleasure in surveying it I do at this moment.

  • Never did I know the triumph of my power until now; for what revenge can be half so sweet as that which attains a loathed enemy through the dishonour of his child?

  • Never did tones of the human voice fall more gratefully on the ear of mariner cast on some desert island, than did those on that of the highly excited Clara.

  • I never did pretend to be a saint, and I'm certainly not going to be one because I'm put on my word of honour.

  • You know I always wanted to steal you, but you'll do me the justice to say I never did, and I won't try, now.

  • Never thought of it--" "We never did it in our family.

  • She said that she had never heard of anyone travelling second class before, and she assured him that they never did it in America.

  • I never so much as looked at another man--I swear to God I never did!

  • No," Julia assented gravely, "I never did.

  • Never did I see a more pleasing countenance than that of M.

  • Never did I experience this so feelingly as in the perambulation I am now describing.

  • Never did I feel so great a degree of confidence and security; I looked on my fortune as already made and was pleased to think I should have no one but myself to thank for the acquisition of it.

  • Never did I taste with any other woman pleasures equal to those two minutes which I passed at the feet of Madam Basile without even daring to touch her gown.

  • I never did, my dear; I played with your Aunt Barbara.

  • I never did; and I never saw my papa or mamma either.

  • I've learnt that in my extracts; but I never did my poetry task out of doors!

  • Never did a bewitching little woman suppose anything in such a faint voice as Ruth supposed that.

  • So I say,' returned the youth, 'of course he never did.

  • And this I well remember still, that of all the slights that Satan used to take this scripture from me, yet he never did so much as put this question, But do you come aright?

  • Never did I suppose that rage could have so possessed a human countenance.

  • After that she'd have gone if she'd died,--I never did have a persuasive way with women.

  • But, when I waked in the morning, I was so cold I knew not what to do, but the daylight discovered that my bed was near swimming with the sea, which the owner told us afterwards it never did so but at spring tide.

  • They several times pressed him to take the Covenant, but he never did, but followed his business so close, with such diligence and temper, that he was well beloved on all sides, and they reposed great trust in him.

  • Since she has given you back to me, I can love and respect her as I never did before; but a little breach in youth becomes too wide in age for either repentance or your affection, my dear, to be able to span it.

  • Courtesy to the sex is my motto; but never, never did I love as I love you!

  • I never did so well as when I was under her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great country; never appeared; never been; never came; never can; never fear; never had; never heerd; never left; never looked; never lost; never occurred; never occurs; never remember; never see; never seen; never shall; never should; never told; never trust; never was; never will; state vice; telling them; through the; who can