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Example sentences for "present situation"

  • A last word to yourself and I have done: "If I rightly understand my present situation, your spies are still searching for me to just as little purpose as they searched at York.

  • The one resource in Captain Wragge's present situation was to act instantly on the first impulse of his own audacity.

  • This circumstance," continued the gentleman, "so severely aggravated the horrors of my present situation, that they became absolutely intolerable.

  • Somewhat might be found in it, throwing light upon his past or present situation; but curiosity was not to be gratified by these means.

  • To remain in my present situation was a chimerical project.

  • All my contemplations had hitherto been modelled on the belief of my remaining in my present situation during my life.

  • I was insensible to the perils of my present situation.

  • Had I yielded to the first generous impulse of indignation when I learned that my honour was practised upon, how different had been my present situation!

  • You have been secluded so much from intelligence, Mr. Waverley, from causes of which I am but indistinctly informed, that I presume you are even yet unacquainted with the important particulars of my present situation.

  • He said no; but if I chose to resign my present situation, and go as a sergeant, he would permit me.

  • How can you mention public places to me," said Amelia, "when you can hardly be a stranger to my present situation?

  • Indeed, how much the superiority of misery is on the side of wickedness may appear to every reader who will compare the present situation of Amelia with that of Mrs. Ellison.

  • I have now, my dear friend, given you an account of my present situation, and leave you to judge for yourself concerning it.

  • I am happy in my present situation; but when the summer returns, I intend to visit my native home.

  • I now met with a fresh cause for disquietude in my present situation, for, Dayelle being gone, the King my husband placed his affections on Rebours.

  • Monsieur de Retz, I find, has not made you aware of all the circumstances of my present situation; and perhaps has done wisely to leave that communication to myself.

  • But, in my present situation, it is impossible for me to undertake such a work; and I cannot break off from Lord Hertford, as long as he is pleased to think me useful to him.

  • And then I asked him, what he really, and in his most deliberate mind, would advise me to, in my present situation?

  • My past and my present situation so much authorizing my apprehensions!

  • My present situation, I am sure, thought I, affords a sad evidence of this truth!

  • I had resolved in a short time to quit my present situation, and the difference of a little sooner or a little later could not be very material.

  • I was not pleased with what I had formerly drawn up upon that subject, and I did not choose in my present situation to call in an attorney.

  • Mr. Falkland was not ignorant of my dislike to my present situation; perhaps he thought it unreasonable, unjust; but I knew that he would never be brought to consent to my giving way to it.

  • In addition to the disadvantages of my present situation, I was reserved for an ignominious death.

  • This tumult of delicious thoughts in some time subsided, and gave way to images relative to my present situation.

  • If I went into the country it would be to the toilsome occupations of a day-labourer; but even that was better than my present situation.

  • He returned, bearing a candle, before I had time to ponder on my present situation.

  • My intention was innocent, and I had been betrayed into my present situation, not by my own wickedness, but the wickedness of others.

  • I do not mean to aggravate my present situation by any unavailing resistance to the superior force which detains me; but I will not renounce the right of asserting my natural freedom should it favourable opportunity occur.

  • I therefore informed him of the riot which had been committed on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth, explained how I came to be placed in my present situation, and requested of his worship to set me at liberty.

  • Still there was something in all this to awaken a hope that, if I could open a correspondence with this poor violer, he might be useful in extricating me from my present situation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being useful; holy priesthood; move quickly; perpetual peace; poor niece; present condition; present everywhere; present from; present himself; present myself; present participle; present possession; present society; present state; present tense; present them; present themselves; present usage; presented himself; presented itself; presently after; says nothing; shall tell; thick bush; thinking only; three women