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Example sentences for "returned from"

  • He returned from Ireland, beggared and almost broken-hearted, in October or November 1599, and died in the January following, just as Essex was preparing to start to Ireland.

  • He returned from that "cursedest of all islands," as he called it, against express command, and was with difficulty dissuaded from landing in open rebellion.

  • He would, however, do something when we returned from Uganda; for as Mtesa followed his advice in everything, so did Kamrasi, for both held the highest opinion of him.

  • I sent the three men who had returned from Grant to lay a complaint against the convoy, who had tricked him out of a pleasant voyage, and myself out of the long-wished-for survey of the lake.

  • Unhappily, my health has been unusually bad since we returned from abroad, so that the time has been a good deal wasted on the endurance of malaise; but I am brooding over many things, and hope that coming months will not be barren.

  • We returned from Torquay on the 16th, leaving the glorious weather behind us.

  • I returned from Jerusalem to Aleppo, where I remained three months afterwards, and then departed in a caravan bound for Persia.

  • Towards night, Hernando the Spaniard and Edward Markes returned from Nangasaki, where they could not procure sight of any of our fugitives, though they were still at that place.

  • The master of our ship, Mr James Foster, returned from Nangasaki on the 7th, bringing our skiff with him, but all the deserters had got sanctuary in that town, so that he had not been able to see or speak with any of them.

  • I was not in London," she replied, "I returned from Bath to-day.

  • In due time I will set down her words to me when I returned from Moscow.

  • In the morning I promised to come and see her at Louviers, when I returned from England, but I could not keep my word.

  • I well remember one Saturday midnight when the Rhodeses, Campbell, Fairlie, Garstin, and I returned from a mild spree at Du Toit's Pan.

  • One night, accompanied by a friend, he returned from a journey.

  • The thing happened on the afternoon of the day on which I returned from the "rush" to Rotunda Creek.

  • I returned from my trip with horrible pains, and for two days I have been laid up, without being able to eat or sleep.

  • I returned from Biarritz in an excellent state of preservation, but after three days I experienced all the rigours incident to a change of climate.

  • I returned from Florence by land, and am glad to have decided on that route.

  • And Barnabas and Saul, returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled their ministry, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark.

  • And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him, 35:10.

  • And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.

  • On the 22d of July General Rousseau reached Marietta, having returned from his raid on the Alabama road at Opelika, and on the next day General Garrard also returned from Covington, both having been measurably successful.

  • When I returned from Knoxville I found quite a commotion.

  • Shortly after the hunt the King returned from Milan, and then honored me with a military dinner, his Majesty and all the guests, numbering eighty, appearing in full uniform.

  • Only be towards me as you were when I returned from Casopo.

  • When I returned from Muran I did not see you, but that did not matter.

  • If we may, let it be after the middle of May, by which time I hope to be returned from Bedford.

  • When I returned from France, after an absence of six or seven years, I was astonished at the change which I found had taken place in the United States in that time.

  • That I may not lose the pleasure promised me, let it not be till the middle of May, by which time I shall be returned from a trip I meditate to Bedford.

  • Riversbrook the night Sir Horace had returned from Scotland.

  • Inspector Seldon turned to him and remarked severely: "Why didn't you let me know that Sir Horace Fewbanks had returned from Scotland?

  • Hurried Hill off when he returned from Scotland.

  • There was no lady with Sir Horace when you left him that night when he returned from Scotland?

  • Aleander, when he returned from Orleans to Paris in 1511, kept quiet for a month, in order to awaken public interest.

  • About the month of September 1832, he returned from Portugal to Madrid, and had several interviews with the French Legitimists, whose confidence in the scamp was countenanced by the duchess's example.

  • I have related in these Memoirs that we went through the Rambouillet campaign side by side and that we returned from it together.


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