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Example sentences for "returned the"

  • Young Holliday, on his side, returned the gaze, amazed and puzzled by the medical student's odd language and manners.

  • I guess you do," returned the commissioner, and helped himself to port.

  • Well, I'm not a lucky man, you see," returned the stranger.

  • Well, it seemed to me there was sulphur in the air, so I talked for talking," returned the other.

  • You seem to have been seeing life," returned the other.

  • I have been figuring upon this," returned the lawyer.

  • I am advising you for your good," returned the Count, with a smile of quiet contempt.

  • And I want five minutes' talk with you, Percival, first," returned the Count.

  • They do not belong here," returned the Prince.

  • That's all right," returned the man's voice, more pleasantly than before.

  • I will stop you from living and forbid you to be planted," returned the Prince.

  • So I may die with a clear conscience," returned the Wizard, gravely.

  • Madam," returned the vizir, "you shall be obeyed.

  • You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter from the strange malady that has taken possession of her.

  • You are right," returned the Caliph, "I had forgotten all about it.

  • Never mind that," returned the doctor, "the thing is to find a way out of it.

  • It would be an excellent thing to do," returned the grand-vizir, "but how do you propose to accomplish it?

  • They need not," returned the dame, hastily.

  • Better to laugh than to tremble," returned the Savelli.

  • You speak kindly," returned the Knight; "but you know not all our cause of grief.

  • Perhaps you are right," returned the King, with a dismal sigh.

  • They get all those, and more," returned the Professor.

  • The tobacco is in your pipe, your Majesty," returned the Steward.

  • Naturally," returned the cleaver, with a nod.

  • Let me see your letter," returned the rabbit, as if he still doubted her.

  • If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "I should with great alacrity teach them to fly.

  • Whoever or whencesoever you are,' returned the Arab, 'your dress and that of your servants show your rank to be high and your wealth to be great.

  • So difficult," returned the Prince, "that I will at present hear no more of his labours.

  • If the Princess is pleased that her servant should die," returned the lady, "let her command some death less dreadful than enclosure in this horrid cavern.

  • That supports what I said," returned the sailor, "namely, that these giants are good for nothing!

  • Well, who knows," returned the reporter, "who knows but that we may be much nearer inhabited land than we think?

  • We must try at any rate," returned the reporter; "humanity commands us.

  • One likes to know one's neighbors," returned the sailor, who was obstinate in his idea.

  • His bravery has my thanks," returned the lady; "although it be the will of Heaven that it should be displayed in vain.

  • In requital, having previously waxed his hand, a practice unknown, I believe, to the gentlemen of the modern fancy, he returned the box on the ear with such interest as to kill his antagonist on the spot.

  • John took the key from his uncle's hand; the dying man pressed it as he did so, and John, interpreting this as a mark of kindness, returned the pressure.

  • It came to me, Bosh," returned the gentleman.

  • Oh, no," returned the soldier; "I have never seen him.

  • I know it," returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail.

  • Oh, yes; I am anxious," returned the Scarecrow.

  • Certainly; that is why I know it," returned the Scarecrow.

  • It is well," returned the voice; "to-morrow.

  • We shall see," returned the other, smiling.

  • I will see them both," returned the inspector; "I must conscientiously perform my duty.

  • Monsieur," returned the inspector, "providence has changed this gigantic plan you advocate so warmly.

  • It probably fell off when he made that low bow to you," returned the hen.

  • Because they are born in both cottage and palace," returned the Master.

  • You are not of them," returned the Woodsman.

  • Call Glossie and Flossie," returned the Master.

  • Put it at five mile," returned the Landlord.

  • Same to you, if you like it," returned the Tinker.

  • I ain't partickler in weather," returned the Tinker, with a yawn.

  • They call him such," returned the Landlord, evading personal responsibility; "he is in general so considered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been murdered; but presently; captive register; children under; each board; long engagement; long residence; lord will; move rapidly; public lands; returned again; returned back; returned from; returned home; returned quietly; returned the; said laughing; set fire; stannous chloride; that when; then knit; things hoped; three pieces; topmast staysail; working capital; you need