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Example sentences for "return from"

  • The two first I purchased at Cairo, after my return from Arabia.

  • Upon my return from La Ferme, I found him ashamed of himself, and I rendered him still more so by what I said to him on the subject.

  • On the 17th the mayor issued his precept for bells to be set ringing and bonfires to be lighted in the city in honour of his majesty’s return from Windsor to Whitehall after his late indisposition.

  • Thus it was that towards the close of the week in which Henry Dunbar, for the first time after his return from India, visited the banking-offices, Clement Austin handed a formal notice of resignation to Mr. Balderby.

  • Over four months had passed away since my return from Rome, so leave was again due.

  • A few days after my return from Albert I went to England.

  • I walked back down that memorable road which two years later I travelled for the last time on my return from Paschendaele.

  • After my return from Bordeaux I resumed my daily habits and my work, which of all distractions I have always found the best.

  • Soon after my return from Flanders, the portrait I had mentioned, and several other works of mine, were the cause of Joseph Vernet's decision to propose me as a member of the Royal Academy of Painting.

  • After my return from London I went to see him at Versailles, whither, as I was aware, he had retired.

  • One of the first people I met, upon my return from London, was Mme.

  • DEAR SIR:--On my return from Kentucky I found your letter of the 7th of November, and have delayed answering it till now for the reason I now briefly state.

  • Sweet to return from Table-d'Hôtes disgusting (Oh, how you grumbled at the Sauce Romaine!

  • Sweet to return from "all those dreadful tourists," Such mixed society as chance allots, E'en to the social splendour of the purists Of those sparkling spots.

  • Sweet to return from bargaining, disputing, Pourboires and Trinkgelds grudgingly bestowed-- Unto the simple charioteers of Tooting, Or the Cromwell Road.

  • Theodore Burton, when he received his mother's letter, had not seen Harry since his return from Clavering.

  • Yes, very soon; that is, as soon as I return from Clavering.

  • Immediately on my return from them I sit down to write you.

  • On my return from my walk I recited those verses to Mary, who was then confined with her son Thomas, who died in his seventh year, as recorded on his headstone in Grasmere Churchyard.

  • My sister and I spent many months there after my return from Germany in 1799.

  • Then I accept your terms upon one condition only: That until we return from Calcutta, you will only see Nadine in my presence or in that of Mademoiselle Delande, her governess.

  • At any rate, I remained with General Fitz Lee until my brother's return from prison in April of that year.

  • I have not seen Colonel Allan since my return from Petersburg, but am told that he is better.

  • I received your letter directed to Alexandria after my return from my visit to Cassius, also Colonel Williamson's.

  • After Balzac's return from St. Petersburg, his letters were filled with allusions to Madame de Brugnolle, his housekeeper and financial counselor.

  • On Balzac's return from a visit to Madame Hanska in Vienna, he found that his affairs were in great disorder, and that his sister, frightened at the conditions, had pawned his silverware.

  • The ambulance that brought us to the railroad was ordered to await my return from Washington.

  • Immediately preceding the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, following closely upon my return from Texas, I came on to Washington City.

  • But to return from archbishops to cambrics.

  • A few minutes after we came, arrived Hercules Pakenham--the first time he had met his family since his return from Copenhagen.

  • On Buonaparte's return from Elba, his regiment, the 97th, was summoned home.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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