At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.
One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the spider brought life, not death.
One would have said that he was hesitating between the two abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one saves one's self.
One would have said, from her tone, that it was a question of the merest curiosity.
One would have said that it was no personal grief that absorbed her, but compassion for the whole world's misery.
One would have said that he had a mind very free from care.
Perhaps she too was affected by the weather; perhaps she was anxious about Thyrza; one would have said, however, that she had some trouble distinct from these.
Thyrza went on, shaken with emotion, one would have said, with fear.
He himself was unable to account for her unexpected intercession, and so, one would have said, was Olivia.
One would have said that he had been brought up between the covers of an ancient history, nothing in consequence being so old or so new as to amaze him.
One would have said that if the garments followed Deuteronomy fashions they had at all events been cut by the scissors of a court tailor to Louis XV.
But no word would come from my lips; one would have said that no trace of my former tenderness lingered within my heart, but that it was entirely replaced by this impression of alarm and offence.
There stood between us, as it were, an offence not forgiven; one would have saidthat he wished to punish me for something, and that he was pretending to himself to be unconscious of it.
He seemed taken aback by it, and, one would have said, alarmed at it, in a manner which it seemed difficult for Signor Fortini to account for.
One would have said that he was conscious of having committed the murder himself.
He jumped up from his seat, however, to receive his visitor with an air, one would have said, of having been startled by his entrance.
One would have said that he made the immense edifice breathe.
On the entrance of the cardinal, one would have said that an invisible magic thread had suddenly drawn all glances from the marble table to the gallery, from the southern to the western extremity of the hall.
To see them so gentle under his hand, so easy to scale, one would have said that he had tamed them.
One would have said, to hear the furious clashing of his iron fork and his earthenware plate, that all his love had turned to appetite.
Looking at his figure, one would have said that he had a giant's strength; at his features, that he would use it like a giant.
The person reading was a trifle different; one would have saidof him that he was of the world, worldly, albeit there was that in his attire which attested a certain fellowship with the organisms of his environment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one would have said" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
