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Example sentences for "she found"

  • Fearing that Camille, in spite of his promise, would spoil everything by some insult, she found a pretext to send him away; she begged that he would go and examine a pair of horses that were a recent acquisition.

  • Moriaz witnessed this ceremony, she found it as interesting as a first presentation at the theatre or opera.

  • But she could not talk freely about love, she found, for all that manumission.

  • She found it impossible to look her own diffidence in the face.

  • She found it difficult to begin thinking, and indeed she was anything but clear what it was she had to think about.

  • She found it extremely difficult to infuse an air of quiet correctitude into her return through the window, and when she was safely inside she waved clinched fists and executed a noiseless dance of rage.

  • She had one idea, she found, very clear in her mind--that she would get a Research Scholarship, and so contrive another year in the laboratory.

  • Moreover, she found it impossible to take the chance.

  • She found it fighting loyally for what intelligence and wisdom told her was only her romantic conception of a cowboy.

  • She found it necessary, however, to warm her numb fingers before she could fasten hooks and buttons.

  • She found a kind comforter, who led her to the higher sources of consolation, feeling all the time the deep self-accusation with which the sight of sweet childish penitence must always inspire a grown person.

  • It was the soft paper, and as she was passing the edge of the figure of the girl, she found a large smear following her finger.

  • She found a chance to slip out to the tool-house and rescue the Holy Bible and the sheet of paper, the latter now so scratched out and interlined as to be unintelligible to anyone save an author.

  • She found time to return thanks that her breeches had been cut with that smart bouffance.

  • She found "Asleep in Jesus" and played it over and over on the piano.

  • She found, however, on reaching home, that the hour was still early enough for her to sit down and rest a few minutes before putting her plan into execution.

  • She found that in her absence the two had been discussing matters again, for Haeberlein met her with another remonstrance.

  • Erica was disappointed; but when, on coming home, she found Rose in the dining room comfortably chatting over the fire to Tom, who was evidently in the seventh heaven of happiness, she felt as if she could have shaken them both.

  • When at length Erica was shown into the study, connected in her mind with so many warm discussions, she found it empty.

  • In the enforced quiet, too, she found plenty of time for study.

  • On the steps of the old church, where she ate her lunch, she found a garrulous blind beggar with whom she divided her slender meal of bacon and cornbread.

  • She found Mrs. Blake looking slightly irritated as she wound a ball of white yarn from a skein that Docia was holding between her outstretched hands.

  • Meeting Fletcher a little later at breakfast, she found, to her surprise, that he accepted her presence without question and made absolutely no allusion to the heated conversation of the evening before.

  • She found a box of cream and rubbed it on for a foundation.

  • In the end, she found a dime, and dropped it into Mrs. Hooven's palm.

  • She found a spot around the base of one of the supports of the trestle where the cresses grew thickest, and plucked a couple of handfuls, washing them in the creek and pinning them up in her handkerchief.

  • Ermentrude, she found, meant to go down, but with no notion of the personal arrangements that Christina had been wont to think a needful preliminary.

  • She found herself in a dimly lighted hall, unguarded by a porter, and pushed open the first swing door.

  • In truth, she found an extraordinary pleasure in being thus free to talk to some one who was equally wise and equally benignant, the mother of her earliest childhood, whose silence seemed to answer questions that were never asked.

  • Katharine smiled at the sound of his voice; she listened as if she found it a little unfamiliar, intimately though she knew it; she tested it.

  • But, on the whole, she found it very necessary to seek support in her daughter.

  • When Rachel tried to explain, she found it very difficult.

  • She found an ally in Helen, who proceeded to expound her views of the human race, as she regarded with complacency the pyramid of variegated fruits in the centre of the table.

  • She found that he was in no state for being read to; he was completely exhausted, and suffering from violent headache.

  • She found nothing to oppose to her husband's will of steel but the appearance of absolute compliance; her spirit sank, and she lived for a while in a sort of helpless moral torpor.

  • Cardoville, to whom; if she found her in a lucid interval, she might say that Agricola had things of the greatest importance to communicate, but that he did not know how to inform her of them.

  • But soon sinking into belief that she should never know the ravishing sweets of a mutual passion, she found consolation in the hope of being useful to Agricola.

  • To her great surprise, she found it was fastened on the outside.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cause they; inevitable necessity; known species; she appeared; she determined; she explained; she glanced; she goes; she had never known; she has; she held; she laughed; she loved; she murmured; she ought; she put; she remarked; she replied; she resolved; she resumed; she shall; she spoke; she whispered; she will; sheet metal; sheltered spot