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Example sentences for "said this"

  • It is said this morning, by those who know, that the assets of the bank are principally in worthless stocks, and that the shareholders will never get a cent.

  • Eaverson did not look his wife steadily in the face as he said this although he plainly tried to do so.

  • And as he said this, Lane turned hurriedly away and left the house.

  • And as he said this, he fixed his eyes intently on the countenance of Mr. Fenwick.

  • I would not believe my own sight, nor touch of the spiritual hands; and it would take deeper and higher strains than those of Mr. Harris to convince me.

  • My recollection of what I saw here is very dim and confused; more so than I anticipated.

  • Miller's face was pale, and his lip quivered as he said this.

  • Mr. Everett's countenance, as he said this, did not wear a very amiable expression.

  • The sad, rebuking earnestness with which the boy looked at me, when I said this, touched my feelings.

  • As he said this, he threw himself heavily upon the bed, and came with his whole weight upon the body of his child.

  • I said this to Vanna, who was looking down upon it with meditative eyes.

  • And as he said this, her heart broke; and she went and her feet were weary.

  • As he said this, the Rana, fore-spent with fighting, entered and heard the Divine word.

  • I fixed my eyes full on Isora while I said this, and she quailed beneath my gaze: her cheek, her lips, were utterly without colour, and an expression of sickening and keen anguish was graven upon her face.

  • I said this, my eye falling upon the letter discovered my own name written in two places.

  • As he said this, Bolingbroke threw open the door of an apartment, and introduced me to a lady with whom he had found that domestic happiness denied him in his first marriage.

  • He said this smilingly; but she could not bear jokes on that one subject.

  • When he said this to Etta, she protested--not very vigorously, because she wished him to think her really almost innocent.

  • He said this hurriedly, carelessly, gayly--guiltily.

  • He said this, however, without conviction and with an uncertain voice, for he himself felt how empty and even ridiculous that counsel must seem on his lips.

  • And he said this carelessly, as if bantering and also chiding; but Cæsar's eyes were mist-covered from delight.

  • If thou understand not that I said this to insure Lygia's safety, I am ready to believe that I told the truth.

  • He smiled good-naturedly as he said this.

  • As he said this, Hurstwood really imagined that his state was pitiful.

  • As he said this, leaning toward her, Matrena Petrovna ejaculated a "Listen!

  • As he said this he was so excited, so sincere and so droll that Madame Trebassof could not help smiling through her tears.

  • As he said this, he was pressing her forward towards the door of the apartment where the clergyman (such clergymen disgrace their profession) awaited their appearance.

  • There was a shade of sadness in the young man's voice as he said this.

  • There was a roughness in the voice of Florence as he said this.

  • Jacques chuckled as he said this, and handed his own portion over to another Indian, who readily undertook to finish it for him.

  • Charley's thoughts reverted to his sister Kate when he said this.

  • There was a touch of pathos in the old trader's voice as he said this.

  • As he said this he lifted his cup to empty the slops, but without paying attention to what he was doing.

  • And while he said this, and as the burning tinder dropped on the floor, the sharp hunger, unfelt during his late anxious emotions, gnawed at his entrails.

  • Egerton rose as he said this, and retired to his writing-table, and in his turn opened his correspondence.

  • As he said this, a step was heard, and a shadow fell over the stream.

  • He said this not of himself, but as high priest, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation, and not for that nation only, but also for the children of God who were scattered abroad.

  • He said this because of His earlier words: Of those you gave me, I have lost none.

  • He said this, not out of concern for the poor but, because he was a thief who held their money bag and controlled what was put in it.

  • He said this to test Philip because Jesus Himself knew what He would do.

  • He said this to signify the death He was to die.

  • Just as he said this, and towards the Paris end of the Champs Elysees, there was a halt, a sensation among the loungers round them; many of them uncovered in salute.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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