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Example sentences for "presently after"

  • The first appearance of them is by the violent agitation and rising up of the water; and, presently after, you see a round column or tube forming from the clouds above, which apparently descends till it joins the agitated water below.

  • Presently after a man came into the circle, and spoke to the king with some warmth, and in a very peremptory manner; saying something or other about hogs.

  • Presently after, we were joined by the two women, the gentlemen that were with me, and some of the seamen.

  • Presently after, relatives came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new possession.

  • Presently after, it marched through Apia, five or six hundred strong, in tolerable order and strutting with the ludicrous assumption of the triumphant islander.

  • Presently after he espied Lehua weeping, and was half in a mind to tell her all was well.

  • Captain Morgan, presently after he had taken these French prisoners, called a council to deliberate what place they should first pitch upon in this new expedition.

  • Not being able to extort anything from them, they not being the right persons, it was resolved to torture them: this they did so cruelly, that many of them died on the rack, or presently after.

  • Presently after, Elizabeth asked Harriet Hazleby whether she had ever been at Winchester.

  • Presently after several of the chief people of the town came, with others, to the inn where I was, and said, "They have cast your man into prison.

  • Presently after I had a great meeting at the man's house where I lay, and many were convinced of the Lord's everlasting truth, who stand faithful witnesses of it to this day.

  • Presently after he calls to the jailer, "Bring them up again.

  • Presently after my friend overtook and passed me on a hired steed which seemed to scorn its cavalier; and I was left in the dust of his passage, a prey to whirling thoughts.

  • Presently after, he developed his views on home politics with similar trenchancy.

  • Presently after, Jim himself arrived, and before he had yet done mopping his brow, he was at me with the accursed subject.

  • Presently after this, he received letters from Juba and Scipio.

  • Presently after, Sparamizes told Parysatis what he said, and she told the king, who was greatly enraged at it, as having the lie given him, and being in danger to forfeit the most glorious and most pleasant circumstance of his victory.

  • Presently after, some came and described to me the nature of his wound; and as I found he was not carried far, I sent for the surgeon.

  • We now made sail for the island; and, presently after, discovered a small inlet which had the appearance of being a good harbour.

  • I swear," cried he presently after, "by the holy name of God, that I will give a thousand pieces of gold to him who can tell me which of these two died first.

  • Presently after, the lady rose and took her leave; telling me she would send her eunuch to me, and that I had only to obey the directions he might give me in her name.

  • Presently after came in a footman, who brought in a good suit of trimmed clothes, a fine Holland shirt, and all the other parts of dress suitable to these.

  • Presently after, he came out, and Mr. Carew soon began his attack upon him.

  • Presently after came up two more Indians, one of whom was a person of fine majestic appearance, whose dress was by far more magnificent than any of the others.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    century after; currently vacant; daughter named; dined yesterday; discussed later; fool enough; frontier life; give more; good lady; help herself; knew not; knows what; mental tests; motor vehicles; new edition; presently adding; presently after; presently said; small canoe; square deal; take much; twere best; went down; would cost