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Example sentences for "returned home"

  • Dispirited, he returned home in the morning to his anxious wife, who was expecting to receive a heavy haul.

  • If a person, falsely reported to have been dead, returned home, he did not enter his house by the door, but went into it through the roof.

  • The ceremony being gone through three times, all the parties present, except the devil in bodily shape, returned home.

  • If one accidentally met a funeral or saw a corpse on the road, he returned home in haste.

  • I comforted him, after which I returned home to refresh myself.

  • Our carriage, as we returned home, formed one of a file of at least one hundred.

  • We delivered our message, returned home, and, being very tired, I was glad to go to bed.

  • By and by comes in my Lord, and so, after looking over my accounts, I returned home, being a dirty and dark walk.

  • I left poor old Nanny with her face buried in her apron; and it was in a very melancholy mood that I returned home.

  • I returned home, delivering a note from Don Perez to Emilia, stating his intention to abide by her wishes, and stated to Donna Teresa all that had passed between the cavaliers.

  • He returned home, to explain what he had gathered to his wife but found that she had left the house some time before, without stating whither she was going.

  • We returned home to dinner, and in the evening went to the Page 321 play.

  • We returned home just in time to be hastily dressed before Page 192 the royals came back.

  • At a time when to enrich himself with the plunder of the natives was the aim of every servant of the East India Company, it is much to the honour of Hastings that he returned home a comparatively poor man.

  • We returned home to a very late tea, thoroughly tired, but very much pleased.

  • Of a number of boon companions making good cheer and drinking at a tavern, and how one of them had a quarrel with his wife when he returned home, as you will hear.

  • And with that she left without hearing Mass, or seeing St. Michael, or breakfasting either; and without saying a single word, returned home.

  • His father followed him, but not being so light of foot, found the pursuit hopeless, so returned home, where his mother was still grieving over the offence her grandson had committed.

  • I did not make these reflections on the morning when I returned home.

  • I returned home, certain that I should find a letter from Marguerite.

  • All I remember is that when I returned home, I spent three hours over my toilet, and I looked at my watch and my clock a hundred times, which unfortunately both pointed to the same hour.

  • I said to myself as I returned home; "she must have had a sad death, for, in her world, one has friends only when one is perfectly well.

  • I parted from Hubbard Squash on the way, and it was past eleven when I returned home.

  • The officers requested us to follow them to the police station which we did, and after stating to the chief of police what had happened, we returned home.

  • And, then, when I returned home, the "antique curio siege" was still going on.

  • I returned home, not without promising to be with Zarco the following year.

  • Azora, having passed two days with a friend in the country, returned home on the third.

  • I often dined with them, and frequently, when I returned home at night, I thought that I would do as he had done, and get married, as I now found my empty house very dull.

  • While I was talking to her, I had an intuitive feeling of her falseness, but now I could not believe that it was so, and when I returned home to dinner, I was angry for having suspected her, even for a moment.

  • I was benefitted among the dear people; but my body was much wearied when I returned home, and the folio wing day I was very unwell: yet my mind was peaceful.

  • I scarcely indulged the thought, but when I returned home, it still pursued me.

  • As I returned home it was sweetly brought to my mind, 'Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto Me.

  • After an absence of six weeks I returned home: the day was fine.

  • McLean remained in this institution of learning about two years and then returned home.

  • During his confinement in Charleston, as a prisoner of war, he suffered so much from impure air and unwholesome diet that his health gave way, and he returned home only to die.

  • General McLeary continued in service until after the battle of Guilford, when he returned home, and was soon afterward discharged.

  • Having marched as far as Caswell county they received intelligence of the battle of Monmouth, when he returned home on a furlough.

  • She appeared more pensive and thoughtful than common as we returned home, and said little the rest of the evening, but next morning was as chatty as ever.

  • I related this conversation to her after we returned home; but she approved it not.

  • We passed the evening very agreeably; but the major's importunity was rather troublesome as we returned home.

  • When he returned home, his brothers again questioned him closely: "Have you got your money?

  • And when the old man had returned home, the youth told him to go to Novgorod, there to enquire for a merchant, and ask him whether he had any children.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    che non; detailed account; determinate form; door neighbor; feel convinced; first paper; great character; kind reception; made into; many causes; natural agents; pinnate leaves; potato flour; pure space; returned again; returned back; returned from; returned quietly; returned the; sail boom; send peace; shine before; single layer; slave insurrection; soon after our arrival; would think