But Peggy Nonce comes blowing back from her hasty errand, and says the doctor is down to Mr. Moses Simcoe's.
For the nonce the quarry was left to the dogs, and Windybank, glancing round, saw that he was the only man still in the saddle; instinctively every other rider had sprung to the ground.
He had come expecting to see unpleasant sights, to be for thenonce a bandager instead of a carver of wounds.
The Prince divined what had happened, and for the nonce said nothing.
Besides, the old lady was absorbed for the nonce in the most dismal sort of prognostications.
She forgot for the nonce that there were any phases of life in which she was not a believer, and whether this was owing to the surrounding gayety or to the champagne which they persuaded her to taste it is not my province to explain.
Rumour for the nonce had a stronger spice of truth than usual.
Marry, for the nonce you have befooled us finely; but never again shall any one serve us thus, and we will yet do you such honour thereof as you merit.
But, to leave be preaching for the nonce and come to that which I have it in mind to tell.
But Lai Ta's son had all along been on such friendly terms with him, that he consequently invited him for the nonce to help him do the honours.
Killiecrankie, where his progenitor might have chosen for the nonce to be equipped in the lightest running costume.
Perhaps that is why General von Moltke had to force the pen, which for the nonce was mightier than the sword, into the reluctant hand of William II.
For the nonce the Hohenzollern War Lord was Britannia's senior in command.
For the nonce we are supreme and they [the Papist ‘monsters’] are hurrying to destruction.
But first, it will be necessary for you to accept for the nonce Mr. Durand's statements as true.
I hear no stirring any where, no light In any window, 'tis a night for the nonce Sir.
His coolness fell about her like a bucket of water, and sent a righteous anger to her rescue, so that her chill terror was driven forth for the nonce by a flush of hot blood.
And so they sat enthroned in these wonderful dominions of which for thenonce they were prince and princess.
Now he must study it in a very different spirit, and for the nonce he repaired betimes to the newspaper room at the British Museum.
There was a fortune waiting for special knowledge and a little ready cash; and Alexander Minchin settled down to make it, taking for the nonce a furnished house in a modest neighborhood.
In the brightness of her beauty she sat there, as gracious for the nonce as the sunshine, and as much of another world.
Then that's over and done with, for the nonce at least!
I would his vileness on the nonce have voiced, But now 'twere best to cloud this matter well.
Some will lodge here, and some there; but the great De Montfort and his sons will come to Dagville's Inn, and for the nonce all who are there must make way.
She was for the nonce a happy maiden concerned with naught save the pleasures of girlhood, and possessed of a mood that would have been habitual had not the mighty sweep of public events tinged her girlish gaiety with an untoward gravity.
Her abandonment to the luscious time after her sense of ill-usage, her revolt for the nonce against social law, her passionate desire for primitive life, may have showed in her face.
She thought of her husband a good deal, and for the nonce forgot Winterborne.
But the world over, after a rain every feature of a landscape stands out with singular clearness; the haze commonly prevalent has for the nonce disappeared.
For the nonce my patience was exhausted, and I leave the names I called them to the imagination of the reader; but they were proof against words.
At this sight the blood boiled in my veins, and running to them I found Scholastic was not ill pleased that I should do justice to her beautiful spheres, while for the nonce I transformed her into a nurse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nonce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
