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Example sentences for "that very"

  • Paterson's plan was simply this, that England should first spend millions in defence of the trade of his Company, and should then be plundered of twice as many millions by means of that very trade.

  • That very ambition, that very avarice, which had, in former times, impelled him to betray two masters, were now sufficient securities for his fidelity to the order of things which had been established by the Bill of Rights.

  • At that very minute, too, there was the pause, and the slight movement, and the glance from Lady Caroline which reminded him that he was the only clergyman present, and had to return thanks.

  • What is your definition of that very wide, not to say vague, term?

  • Fur my first thought was it might be one of them ghosts I had been running down so that very day, and mebby the same one Miss Hampton seen on that very same porch.

  • I got to Chicago at six o'clock of that very day.

  • He had been holding some revival meetings in nigger churches right there in that very county, and was at it not fur away from there right then.

  • That very evening he wrote to the house of Breadwill and Co.

  • That very night, at twelve o'clock, in eighteen hours, exactly at the full moon, they would reach its brilliant disc.

  • That very night a telegram was sent from the station of Long's Peak by Joseph T.

  • Why did he cast them off, reject them, and drive them quite out of his chamber, even in that very nick of time when he stood in greatest need of the aid, suffrage, and assistance of their devout prayers and holy admonitions?

  • That very moment we spied a sail that made towards us.

  • I am of opinion that it is fit we send back the carts and the money, and, for the rest, that very speedily we fortify ourselves here, then prosecute our fortune.

  • But at once she felt that by that very word "forbidden" she had shown that she acknowledged certain rights over him, and by that very fact was encouraging him to speak of love.

  • Archer could hear Lawrence Lefferts, at that very hour, holding forth on the disintegration of society.

  • Agreeable as their expression was, the young man was shocked that they should reflect so unseemly a picture of the august tribunal before which, at that very moment, her case was being tried.

  • Little did you know that at that very moment I was being appealed to: being approached, in fact--from the other side of the Atlantic!

  • The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the prison.

  • He reflected bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl.

  • That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Cure, and some time afterwards M.

  • A trustie villaine sir, that very oft, When I am dull with care and melancholly, Lightens my humour with his merry iests: What will you walke with me about the towne, And then goe to my Inne and dine with me?

  • Why he gave a ball on that very evening; and, when madame Ramoski reached his hotel, she found it illuminated.

  • The lawyer, to whom madame de Bearn was to pay a visit on that very day, did not fail to repeat what M.

  • That very night he seemed in his sleep to be called by Alexander the Great, and approaching saw him sick abed, but was received with very kind words and much respect, and promised zealous assistance.

  • He silently acquiesced in that very system of continental measures which he had lately condemned.

  • Even in the bosom of that very House of Commons which had been elected by the nation in the ecstasy of its penitence, of its joy, and of its hope, an opposition sprang up and became powerful.

  • John, without answering, pointed with his hand to the square, whence, at that very moment, fierce shouts and savage yells made themselves heard.

  • Boxtel sank quite paralyzed on that very table, and on that very spot where, some hours before, the unfortunate Van Baerle had so leisurely, and with such intense delight, contemplated his darling bulbs.

  • One called to mind how he had seen her sitting on that very spot, and how her book had fallen on her lap, and she was gazing with a pensive face upon the sky.

  • That very night, Mr Richard was seized with an alarming illness, and in twenty-four hours was stricken with a raging fever.

  • In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening-tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning.

  • He therefore replied to Lalande, that he would come to the bridge of Avene on that very day, the 12th May, at noon, and sent his letter by Catinat, ordering him to deliver it into the hands of the Catholic general himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    express the; that are; that being; that book; that country; that date; that fellow; that has; that head; that her; that makes; that man; that means; that men; that nation; that nature; that portion; that quarter; that respect; that section; that some; that thou; that town; that what; that young; with his