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Example sentences for "replied they"

  • If we throw it over, it will break,' replied they.

  • Thou sayest well," replied they; but in their hearts they purposed me evil.

  • No,' replied they; 'nor did we ever see the place till now.

  • Those blacks, replied they, eat men; but by what miracle did you escape their cruelty?

  • That is true, replied they, the young man and the young lady, who were at your house yesternight, told it us; but we would know it from your own mouth.

  • Was it not you, replied they, who made the cream-tart you sold to the eunuch?

  • We know," replied they, "that ten are gone to an island that is at the end of this river, and that there is an inhabited place near there in which there will be some forty or fifty souls.

  • Those negroes," replied they, "eat men, and by what miracle did you escape their cruelty?

  • Was it not you," replied they, "that made the cream-tart you sold to the eunuch?

  • No, sir, not with certainty," replied they.

  • Replied they, "O Queen, command us whatso thou wilt; we are at thy disposal and may the Messiah never disappoint thy dealings!

  • O King," replied they, "we will devote our lives to the Messiah, and we will be thy sacrifice.

  • Say on," replied they; so he began as follows the Tale of the First Eunuch, Bukhayt.

  • None but the porters," replied they; whereupon she went up to Sherkan and embraced him, and he returned with her to the saloon, after he had made an end of the mellay.

  • They want to make us act imprudently," replied they, turning in their arm-chairs.

  • We will obey the Emperor," replied they calmly, "in everything that may contribute to maintain peace and the honour of God.

  • We see," replied they, "all that is to be feared for our common cause, and we will employ every care to prevent such great disasters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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