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Example sentences for "that day"

  • The island, high river swamp, was spacious, and, like all the Pedee river swamp of that day, abounded in live stock and provision.

  • The condition of the British army on that day is thus described in a letter of Marion to Greene: * Johnson's Greene, vol.

  • So that, on that day, the boat did not push off, to the great displeasure of Master Land, who could not complete his provisions.

  • I immediately recognised that marvellous region in which, on that day, the Captain did the honours to us.

  • That day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last papers, and from that time I wish to think that men no longer think or write.

  • That day I commenced the journal of these adventures which has enabled me to relate them with more scrupulous exactitude and minute detail.

  • On the afternoon of that day Fenayrou, his wife and his brother sent the children to their grandmother and left Paris for Chatou at three o'clock.

  • Side by side with the practical and efficient education in crime furnished by the Victorian prisons of that day, Butler availed himself of the opportunity to educate his mind.

  • It is difficult to see how the Professor could have settled, or proposed to settle, with his creditor on that day.

  • We happened to know it was roast rabbits and currant jelly that day.

  • There was but little said to us that day.

  • Then we went on, determined to reach our destination, Tropic or Polar, that day.

  • This was probably a unique achievement in itself among railway operators of that day or of later times.

  • When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric.

  • His adventures on that day, however, and the success of his wooing, are subjects for another chapter.

  • I learned afterward why he was present on that day.

  • It must be stated that on that day and in the exhilarating atmosphere of that elevated spot I had been feeling utterly crushed.

  • There is no reason why I should remember that effect more on that day than on any other day, except that I stood for a long time looking out of the window after the landlady's daughter was gone with her spoil of cups and saucers.

  • Her mind went back to that day of the street fight.

  • And, "That day we spent at the dunes, and you said so and so, did you mean this and that?

  • She would crush and destroy the little girl who had fasted on that Day of Atonement; the more mature girl who had written the thesis about the paper mill rag-room; the young woman who had drudged in the store on Elm Street.

  • I worshiped you and hated you from that day.

  • That cowardly, sickly little boy you fought for in the street, that day in Winnebago, showed every sign of growing up a cowardly, sickly man.

  • And though for humanity's sake, I ought not to BOAST of it, yet we did live to pay them for it, and often too: and in the same bloody coin which they gave us that day.

  • On the morning of that day, Marion, now concealed in the swamps, near Georgetown, was pleased to order me out on a second excursion.

  • And here I must relate a tragical affair that befell us that day, and which filled us all with grief, because of our beloved general.

  • That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

  • By this time we were well used to the roar of heavy guns, the rattle of musket fire, and the flying of shot near us; but never had I been under such a fire as we rode through on that day.

  • I cannot tell all that happened on that day, but I will tell of the last charge that we made together; it was across a valley right in front of the enemy's cannon.

  • That day he saw that the crisis was past.

  • That day, as the manner rather than the purpose of the Yaqui changed, so there seemed to be subtle differences in the others of the party.

  • The sun had hidden behind clouds all the latter part of that day, an unusual occurrence for that region even in winter.

  • That day, while it was yet light, and he was digging in a moist white-bordered wash for water, he was brought sharply up by hearing the crack of hard hoofs on stone.

  • On that day he rose at noon, dined at six, and retired at nine.

  • She stated that she had been born on that day, her first husband had died on October 28th, and she had married her second husband on that day.

  • On the other hand, in Scotland the peasants say that the devil throws his cloak over the blackberries and makes them unwholesome after that day, while in Ireland he is said to stamp on the berries.

  • That day of grace fleets fast away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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