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Example sentences for "soon came"

  • I soon came to the cornfields for which the Albigeois plain is noted.

  • We tried a side-passage to see if it led round this obstacle, but it soon came to an end.

  • We held Court on the ground and heard both sides of the story, after which we retired to the shade of a bunch of willows to hold council over the matter with the result that we soon came to a decision in favor of Mr. Holman.

  • We soon came to a fair-sized stream, now known to be the south fork of the Kern River, which we followed until we came to its junction with a larger river, the two making the Kern River.

  • Immediately the skiff was water borne we lost no time in setting off on what might prove to be a perilous passage, and yet there was none of danger whatsoever in it as we soon came to know.

  • I could not then understand why it was Morgan spoke as if this might be his last opportunity to desert from the British lines; but all of us soon came to have a very good idea as to the reason, when he explained what had happened.

  • The combined army, now numbering about twenty-five thousand men, soon came to blows with the enemy.

  • It soon came to blows, and a Gascon soldier wounded a Protestant gentleman with his halberd.

  • We soon came, however, to a very deep hollow, where we could see over the tops of the trees in it, and on the other side what seemed to be a shed of a plantation in which the dog was barking.

  • It was tolerably good weather, but it soon came up thick and rainy with a strong wind.

  • To this plantation we soon came, but the people excused themselves from taking us over, saying that their canoe was not at home, and sent us to another plantation on the right.

  • We soon came up with the teamsters who were driving for "dear life.

  • We soon came in sight of the mill; close to it was a bridge where a rebel guard was walking back and forth, with an old double-barreled shotgun on his shoulder.

  • I soon came to a fence and threw the rails down and started up the hill.

  • I soon came to a cottage nearly opposite a bridge, which led over the river, not the bridge which I have already mentioned, but one much smaller, and considerably higher up the valley.

  • I soon came to an unenclosed part of the mountain covered with gorse and whin, and still proceeding upward reached a road, which I subsequently learned was the main road from Llangollen over the hill.

  • We soon came to a road leading east and west.

  • Following the road to the south, which gradually descended, I soon came to a place where a road diverged from the straight one to the left.

  • But he soon came to a rupture with the Protestants, and war broke out before the Schmalcald Leaguers were prepared for it.

  • He soon came to be regarded at home and abroad with something of the same reverence which his great master had won.

  • Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soon came along of himself.

  • He soon came up to the great bird, who was standing on a stone on the edge of the river watching for a nice fat fish.

  • He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrounded it without a single bridge by which to cross.

  • Setting her body before him on his palfrey, he soon came to the little shrine, and making a bier of the altar laid Guillardun upon it.

  • Riding at a hand-gallop, he soon came in sight of tall cliffs which overlooked the sea, and which formed a natural harbour, wherein lay a vessel richly beseen.

  • It was between eight and nine in the evening when we turned, and we soon came in sight of the pony party, led as we thought by Captain Scott.

  • In the afternoon we soon came to a steep slope--the same on which we exchanged sledges on December 28.

  • One of the owners, James Morrison, soon came to take charge, in the name of the yacht club, and he assured Dick and the others that the club would pay anything that was fair for the return of the vessel.

  • Soon came a whistling wind and then the rain fell in torrents.

  • Soon came a grinding tinder the boat and the screw came to a standstill.

  • He soon came back to say that there were none (at which I was much surprised) and began to lay the cloth for my dinner in a box by the fire.

  • He soon came to our house and seemed very grateful to our people for their kindness to his suffering people during his absence.

  • We soon came to the lake, and the village of many wigwams was close beside the water.

  • He soon came in and all talked for some time.

  • We soon came to a home that it seemed to me I had seen before.

  • But he soon came to the end of his tether; and the quick jerk, which caused the tree itself to crack, brought him to his haunches, while the noose tightening on his throat was fast strangling him.

  • The fire spread with fearful rapidity, but we soon came to a place where our path made a turn by the village, and we reached the rear of the place.

  • I soon came to a spot where the dead branches lay thick on the ground, and I shouted, "Come here, boys!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bearing trees; door opened; good camp; its place; little lower; mean when; meat balls; much alone; physical energy; queer thing; similar view; soon after his arrival; soon after our arrival; soon arrived; soon becomes; soon came; soon discovered; soon found; soon grew; soon learned; soon made; soon reached; soon returned; soon shall; sooner heard; until further