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Example sentences for "sate down"

  • We sate down by him, and told him that we were desirous to see him, because we heard he was stout and valiant, and true to his friend, and that we were sorry our master could not be moved to save his life.

  • He sate down by the unfortunate mother, and essayed, by such topics as his religion and reason suggested, to interrupt the current of Dame Glendinning's feelings; but the attempt was in vain.

  • He sate down on the table, and little by little he made me tell him all my troubles.

  • Then exhausted he sate down again, and put out his hand to Molly.

  • He sate down by her patiently, when he saw her agitation, and took her hand in a kind, friendly manner.

  • He looked round the table as he sate down.

  • I sate down, and turned over two large portfolios of political caricatures.

  • I sate down, and wrote a line to the Commandant of the station, begging him to give orders that the case might be tried that very evening.

  • But the moment that he sate down to be examined, which is just the situation in which all other people, from natural flurry, do worse than at other times, he began to do his very best.

  • I sate down by his bed-side, and took his emaciated hand.

  • Izzy's nose was a deeper purple than when he sate down, you wouldn't know he had a drop in.

  • When I got within sight of the house, I thought it rather too early to pay a visit to the miser, and steppin' into a quarry, sate down to let another hour pass.

  • Big with these reflections, I sate down, and finding that the best things remained to be said on the wrong side, I resolved to write a book that should be wholly new.

  • He sate down to supper among us, and my wife was not sparing of her gooseberry wine.

  • As this last argument was directed to me, I protested I could see no reason for it neither, nor why Mr Simpkins got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery, and we sate down with a blank.

  • Then he sate down helplessly in his chair.

  • And with that he lifted her right up like a baby, sate down on a neighbouring rock, and set her on his knee.

  • I sate down on the base of a sentinel column and looked at the sky, mirrored at my feet, wondering what other things the water had seen.

  • At length he alighted at a spot nearly opposite to Oldbridge, sate down on the turf to rest himself, and called for breakfast.

  • We sate down to our game, though my thoughts were so preoccupied that I scarcely knew what cards were before me.

  • He stood there for a moment, and then feeling very weary, sate down on the turf, leaning his back against a stone; then came upon him a great drowsiness.

  • The evenings had by this time shortened very much, and darkness often overtook us before we sate down to our early tea.

  • We spoke to the servant-maid at the door, who invited us forward, and we sate down in the parlour.

  • The good woman had provided, according to her promise, a better fire than we had found in the morning; and indeed when I sate down in the chimney-corner of her smoky biggin’ I thought I had never been more comfortable in my life.

  • I sate down at the table, but she remained standing, and folding her hands, repeated a long grace.

  • I sate down for a few moments' rest, and ate something the good nuns provided, and then borrowing a cloak to serve as a protection against the drizzling rain which had again set in, I sallied forth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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