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Example sentences for "that afternoon"

  • The captain, in a spirit of subdued cheerfulness, travelled up that afternoon to town.

  • That afternoon, as Mrs Null was occupying some of her continuous leisure in feeding the turkeys at the back of the house, she noticed two colored men in earnest conversation with Isham.

  • Toward the end of that afternoon, two women came along the public road which passed the outer gate.

  • That afternoon, he sent Mrs Null a little note on the back of a card, asking her if she could let him have a few more sheets of paper.

  • But Crosbie was very comfortable in his mind on that afternoon.

  • He did not say a word to his wife on that afternoon about Dr Tempest; and she was so much taken up with his outward condition when he returned, as almost to have forgotten the letter.

  • Emily Dunstable when Lily gave notice that she would not want the horse on that afternoon.

  • And he read much Greek with Jane on that afternoon, pouring into her young ears, almost with joyous rapture, his appreciation of the glory and the pathos and the humanity, as also of the awful tragedy of the story of Oedipus.

  • Major Grantly said that he would wait and would see Grace on that afternoon.

  • It was amusing to see the way these new boys held themselves one to another as they crossed and passed one another in that afternoon's promenade.

  • That afternoon he encountered our heroes arm-in-arm in the Quadrangle and hailed them.

  • The two friends had a dreary walk round the deserted Fields that afternoon.

  • It was clear there was no more driving to be got out of it that afternoon, and the boys gave up the attempt to raise it in disgust.

  • They had a long talk, those two, that afternoon as they paced the hard, dry strand at the water's edge and watched the waves tumbling in from the sea.

  • I ran over to the hotel to order the carriage--to be told that Esbly was evacuated, the ambulance had gone, all the horses had been sold that afternoon to people who were flying.

  • That afternoon, while I was standing on the platform, I heard a drum beat in the street, and sent Amelie out to see what was going on.

  • That afternoon I was wandering about the garden snipping faded roses with Miss Emily's garden shears, when I saw Maggie coming swiftly toward me.

  • I did not reach the truth until, that afternoon, I made a second visit to the cellar.

  • And I had a corroboration of that impression from my visitor of that afternoon, a Mrs. Graves.

  • And when, that afternoon, he telephoned me from the city to say that he was mailing out some old newspapers, I knew quite well what he had found.

  • That afternoon at three o'clock we departed for Adelaide, where we were scheduled to play three games, and this time we were delighted to find that "Mann boudoir cars" had been provided for us instead of English compartment coaches.

  • That afternoon we left for Ballarat, the great gold-mining center of Australia, and at one time famous as the home of the bushrangers who for years terrorized that section of the country.

  • The household staff was again depleted that afternoon.

  • That afternoon I had a new insight into the character of the dead banker.

  • That afternoon we, Gertrude, Halsey and I, attended the coroner's inquest in town.

  • That afternoon, late, when the old man drove his waggon up to me for the hundredth time it seemed, he smiled quizzically.

  • That afternoon Barton's office boy was sent to me, as an emissary of peace.

  • That afternoon I sat with Aunt Alice in the kitchen, watching her make bread.

  • That afternoon I was walking down the street near the Planters House when I met a policeman in great haste, making his way for the hotel mentioned.

  • That afternoon I spent in assisting the little fellow to prepare his composition.

  • That afternoon a runner was started to Yreka with a dispatch to headquarters to the effect that Gen.

  • That afternoon I met Howard and told him of the conversation I had with the young lady, and he insisted on my working on her father if I could get a chance to have a private conversation with her.

  • So that afternoon Eric, for the first time since Verny's death, played with the first eleven, of which he had been captain.

  • That afternoon, again Barker was publicly caned, with the threat that the next offence would be followed by instant and public expulsion.

  • Lawrence returned, therefore, that afternoon with a strange sense of quiet and security.

  • VII I do not know exactly what occurred during that afternoon.

  • She had had, that afternoon, to run down a side street to avoid a machine-gun, and afterwards on the Morskaia she had come upon a dead man huddled up in the snow like a piece of offal.

  • That afternoon he left work early and made his way to the Restaurant Bretagne.

  • The presence of his former mistress at the races, and on that afternoon, wounded him more cruelly than the rest.

  • For vainly did Boleslas convince himself that afternoon that he had lost none of his skill in practising before his admiring seconds; a duel is always a lottery.

  • That is how it happened to be with her when she accompanied Mary that afternoon on her joyful quest of "fine feathers.

  • So that afternoon, Mrs. Levering came over on his errand.

  • That afternoon just as her trunk was being carried out, the 'bus drove up, bringing back its first instalment of returning pupils.

  • That afternoon he called on Mabel Mortimer and her cousin.

  • That afternoon, when the Sea Gull came up from Louisville, it brought home her husband, wearied, worn out and sick.

  • That afternoon in her chamber were seated Mr. Middleton and Fanny, while Julia recounted the story of her wanderings.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    honest living; that believeth; that boy; that can; that class; that even; that hour; that house; that line; that makes; that moment; that nature; that night; that our; that part; that particular; that party; that period; that portion; that that; that their; that these; that very; that you; that your; what exists