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Example sentences for "our way"

  • Come up the hillside where the gulches cut the country, and rocks are in our way, and I will show you how to run.

  • Bands of graceful antelope bounded out of our way, stopping on a knoll to watch the strange procession with wondering eyes, and once we saw a dust-cloud raised by a moving herd of buffalo, in the distance.

  • Before the sun had come to light the world, we were on our way to "The River That Scolds at the Other.

  • We then crossed over to Menado, on our way to Macassar and Java, and I finally quitted the Moluccas, among whose luxuriant and beautiful islands I had wandered for more than three years.

  • On our way back from Makariki, as on our way there, we had storm and rain at sea, and we arrived at Awaiya late in the evening, with all our baggage drenched, and ourselves thoroughly uncomfortable.

  • We put in a night at Jonathan Barnes's on our way back.

  • We'd heard of him before from Goring and the other troopers; but he'd been on duty in another district, and hadn't come in our way.

  • There's never any great trouble in us chaps finding a home for a week or two, and somebody to help us on our way as long as we've the notes to chuck about.

  • On our way to the farm we arranged that Miss Halcombe was to enter the house alone, and that I was to wait outside, within call.

  • On our way back I had let the ladies settle for themselves the first point of view which they were to sketch, under my instructions, on the afternoon of the next day.

  • I gave Laura my arm, and we walked as fast as we could on our way back.

  • I said a few sympathising words, and we then talked of other subjects on our way back to the house.

  • It was possible that a future opportunity of putting the question might not easily offer, so I risked asking it on our way back to the house.

  • We will be much longer than six days on our way to Tegucigalpa as we are going shooting and also to pay our respects to Bogran the ex-president and the man who is getting up the next revolution.

  • If you'd only have stayed in jail another day your wife would have had us all on our way to Mexico.

  • On the 4th we expect to be on our way to Kioto with Lloyd and his wife and John Fox.

  • We were on our way to dinner at some modest resort when we saw and at once recognized the long envelope on the mantel.

  • On our way we could not help admiring the birds which flew and chirped around us.

  • While on our way up we came to an object which filled us with much interest.

  • Wealth is good, and if it comes in our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

  • We made the best of our way to the spot, and found sure enough that the hole was the mouth of a cavern, no doubt the same as that of which da Silvestra wrote.

  • However, we consoled ourselves with the idea that we would investigate it thoroughly on our way back, and followed on at the heels of our uncanny guide.

  • Having secured these two men I looked in vain for a third to suit my purpose, so we determined to start without one, trusting to luck to find a suitable man on our way up country.

  • We travelled many hours through a tract, black and barren, in which, however, there were the reliques of humanity; for we found a ruined chapel in our way.

  • In our way to Armidel was Coriatachan, where we had already been, and to which therefore we were very willing to return.

  • The magnetism of his conversation easily drew us out of our way, and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation.

  • On our way to the boat, however, which was to row us across the water, an incident happened that put me in very good spirits and earned some applause.

  • On our way home we passed through a country town, of which I forget the name, and the sight of a gunsmith's shop there reminded me that I had no cartridges.

  • The garden, as I had observed when we walked through it on the previous day on our way to the first covert that we shot, was bordered by a shrubbery through which ran paths that led to the back drive of the castle.

  • On our way we stopped to pick up my three hundred and fifty cartridges.

  • On our way to the upper regions I asked if there had been any visitors on the previous day.

  • On our way back we missed the right path, and lost ourselves for the moment.

  • For the first time, it occurred to me that we had forgotten an obstacle in our way, when we distributed our photographs of the knife.

  • Why then, let's on our way in silent sort.

  • We doubt not of a fair and lucky war, Since God so graciously hath brought to light This dangerous treason, lurking in our way To hinder our beginnings; we doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way.

  • And do you, Megillus and Cleinias, answer for the young man as you did before; and if any impediment comes in our way, I will take the word out of your mouths, and carry you over the river as I did just now.

  • For we, as you say, from our inexperience in such matters, might very likely not know, even if they came in our way, what was right or wrong in such societies.

  • We were on our way home, and it was already dusk, when a turn of the path brought us face to face with the old ruined tower, of which I have already spoken as standing at the head of the valley.

  • We met no one on our way, and in a moment he had hurried me into the house, up the stairs, and along the narrow passage, and I was once more in the east room, and in the presence of all the memories of that accursed night.

  • On our way back, I know not what devil prompted me to ask Agalma whether she had really been in earnest in her former allusion to 'somebody.

  • We doubt not of a fair and lucky war, Since God so graciously hath brought to light This dangerous treason lurking in our way To hinder our beginnings.

  • We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way.

  • On Monday morning we left Newby for York on our way home.

  • The next morning we started for Birmingham, ninety-seven miles from Liverpool, on our way to London, as I am unable to travel the whole way in a day.

  • On our way [home] we met Lady Byron with her pretty little carriage and ponies.

  • The next day was Sunday but the weather being fine we concluded to continue our journey, and followed the Tay seeing Birnam Wood and Dunsinane on our way up to Dunkeld, near to which is the fine seat of the Duke of Athol.

  • We doubt not of a faire and luckie Warre, Since God so graciously hath brought to light This dangerous Treason, lurking in our way, To hinder our beginnings.

  • We doubt not now, But euery Rubbe is smoothed on our way.


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