I once heard of a poorhouse boy who was the son of a thief.
I once heard of a fellow who built a rowboat in the garret of his house.
I once heard a French workingman say that Jules Favre parlait comme un ange--talked like an angel; and there was a simple appropriateness in the expression.
Two girls," I once heard a German say to an Englishwoman who had just described her own modest household which she ran, she said, with two maids.
I once heard a young Englishwoman who had not been long in Germany ask an elderly acquaintance to recommend a dressmaker.
Kidd, of Springfield, says that he once heard a lawyer opposed to Lincoln trying to convince a jury that precedent was superior to law, and that custom made things legal in all cases.
Of his lampoon upon him, I once heard a single line, too gross to be repeated.
A propos of this I cannot resist a most illuminating story of Mr. Gladstone, which I once heard told by Mr. George Wyndham, the Irish Secretary.
As I once heard it picturesquely expressed, "The mask should be torn from the villain's face.
For example, when I was a young man I once heard an old gentleman in a third-class railway carriage remark vaguely and yet impressively to the company at large, as follows: "I once saw six men hanged in a very rustic manner.
You good man," I once heard a foreigner observe to this gentleman, in allusion to his bold style of riding; "it no matter if you break your neck!
I once heard a plaintive voice lamenting behind a blackthorn, while the hounds were baying over a drain at the finish of a clipping thirty minutes on the grass.
I once heard a rye say that the life of that man would fetch much money; so come to the other side of the hill, and write the lil in the tent of Jasper and his wife Pakomovna.
It is a fable, but a fable from which I once heard a person of less genius than grotesqueness draw a moral even more extravagant than the fable itself.
Moreover, old age is ripeness, and I once heard say, 'Better ripe than raw.
On the other hand, I once heard an eminent Frenchman hold that the less English a French master knew the more fit he was to teach French.
I once heard an examiner ask a candidate to the baccalaureat es-sciences.
I once heardan examiner ask a dear little fellow, aged eleven, the following poser: "Give me the derivations of all the words of the French sentence you have just read aloud.
But what, you ask me, are we to say about sudden conversions, of which we once heard so much, and which we are still taught to seek and expect?
When I feel myself in my heart of hearts a sinner," I once heard Dr.
I once heard a man say in Irish is e do chailleamhuin do rinn me: 'It is to lose it I did' (I lost it).
I once heard an old Wicklow woman say of some very rich people 'why these people could ait goold.
I once heard a gentleman say that our language was a made-up gibberish.
Both Wythen and Anselo laughed merrily as I told a tale I once heard of a Gypsy who had been “away” for a space.
Now across the fields on our left hand there came into view a familiar landmark, Dunston Pillar, concerning which I once heard a story from the lips of Bishop Edward Trollope, a whilom neighbour of mine.
I cannot, mamma, efface from my memory the sermon which I once heard Mr. Ingleby preach.
I once heard of a lady of rank who rode out in her carriage one frosty morning, but having passed the suburbs of the city, felt the weather so intensely cold, that she ordered the coachman to drive home as fast as possible.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once heard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
