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Example sentences for "returning home"

  • Returning home, and the State needing the services of trained soldiers to command the State troops, notwithstanding his failing health, he cheerfully accepted the command of the Seventh Regiment State troops.

  • Returning home, he organized a company for the Confederate service, was elected Captain, and joined the Fifteenth Regiment, then forming in Columbia under Colonel DeSaussure.

  • On returning home, I threw myself on my knees and tried to pray, imploring Heaven for strength and patience.

  • On returning home, Byron read what she had written, and, filled with disgust and indignation, he wrote the famous lines "Remember thee!

  • At this time also he was informed by letter that some English tourists, on returning home, had boasted that they could have been presented to him at Venice, but would not.

  • Returning home, we had time to view the Palazzo de Medicis, which was an house of the Duke of Florence near our lodging, upon the brow of Mons Pincius, having a fine prospect toward the Campo Marzo.

  • Returning home, we pass by Cardinal Cajetan's Palace, a noble piece of architecture of Vincenzo Ammanatti, which is the grace of the whole Corso.

  • Returning home, I passed by the stumps of old Pasquin, at the corner of a street, called Strada Pontificia; here they still paste up their drolling lampoons and scurrilous papers.

  • It was, in fact, only the commencement of the campaign that prevented Rostov from returning home as he had promised and marrying Sonya.

  • On returning home in the evening he would jot down in his notebook four or five necessary calls or appointments for certain hours.

  • Footnote 1: [These restrictions led to ill-humor among the Indians who soon announced their intention of returning home, unless the restraints imposed by Burgoyne were withdrawn.

  • Some pleaded ill health; the term of enlistment of many had expired, and they were bent on returning home; and others, who had no such excuses to make became exceedingly turbulent, and mutinous.

  • On quitting the palace, instead of returning home, she went directly to his house, and, without disclosing her name, informed him of the whole particulars of the conversation which had passed between the Archbishop and the King.

  • But the dreary Winter at length gave place to smiling Spring, and Agnes began to look forward anxiously for an opportunity of returning home.

  • Returning home, we were allowed, as a great Christmas treat, to watch all Peter's preparations for dinner.

  • On returning home we amused our seniors with, as they said, a capital rehearsal.

  • Returning home, I often at night roused my father from his slumbers to pray for me, lest I should be cast into the bottomless pit before morning.

  • They might be friends, but they might be enemies; and if so, there was too great a probability of our finding ourselves entering a French port as prisoners, instead of returning home as we had expected.

  • The thought of being a second time disappointed in my hopes of returning home, and of learning the fate of my beloved wife, was more than I could bear.

  • I at all events was ready to run every risk for the sake of returning home.

  • I was abroad at the time, but on the point of returning home.

  • Returning home, he went to bed at once, and had the most delightful dreams.

  • That evening, on returning home, Rodolphe said to Mimi-- "There is something new.

  • Returning home, he endeavoured to bring his own people that were in Hii, or that were subject to that monastery, into the way of truth, which he had embraced with all his heart; but he could not prevail.

  • Returning home, after his tears and prayers and vows, he found his companion asleep; and going to bed himself, he began to compose himself to rest.

  • Frequently he will wander for hours through streets and fields, returning home and to bed without knowledge of anything having transpired.

  • Returning home, she asked the boy who drove her to stop and allow her to get out.

  • On returning home, having walked five hours, she was seized with an attack of vomiting and fainted.

  • Returning home, he became an apprentice in his father's factory at Ware, Massachusetts.

  • Returning home, he hurried to Washington, to secure the aid of the General Government.

  • In returning home, he crossed the Hudson in an open boat, and was detained on the river several hours.

  • Returning home at the end of the year, he continued his studies under the Rev.

  • Returning home, he looked at Litka; and immediately there opened before him, as it were, a new, clear horizon.

  • But on returning home late he passed by Pan Stanislav's windows, in which light was still shining.

  • Returning home, he had his eyes full of her, his mind and his heart full.

  • On returning home, my grandmother removed the patches from her face, took off her hoops, informed my grandfather of her loss at the gaming-table, and ordered him to pay the money.

  • On returning home, she hastened to the window--the officer was standing in his accustomed place, with his eyes fixed upon her.

  • On returning home, he threw himself upon his bed without undressing, and fell into a deep sleep.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asked them; civil servant; consular rank; faint sigh; free negro; general causes; great adventure; haue done; intellectual power; lawful money; little enough; nothing for; nothing more; nothing was; personal immortality; polite literature; returning from; returning home; she faltered; tell you; tis not; varies from; wrong done