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Example sentences for "the presence"

  • The name of Montriveau stirred her now as the presence of the fiery, stubborn, exacting lover had never done.

  • The presence of the brig among the reefs was now sufficiently explained.

  • Madam de Cleves blushed, both because the Queen-Dauphin had conjectured right, and because she spoke her conjecture in the presence of the Duke de Nemours.

  • None of them had ever seen Leopold of Lutha--he had been but a name to them--they cared nothing for him; but in the presence of death they were awed by the majesty of the king they had never known.

  • He was mumbling to himself as though unconscious of the presence of the others.

  • At last he heard the pound of hoofs upon the pavement without and a moment later Coblich, his clothing streaked with dirt, blood caked upon his face from a wound across the forehead, rushed in to the presence of the prince regent.

  • Gaming went on in the camp, and even in the presence of the enemy.

  • Go you and bring Draupadi hither, that if she has aught to say, she may say it in the presence of us all.

  • And after they had done this, their mother and joint wife entered the presence of Gandhari, and respectfully saluted her; and the wives of the Kauravas came in and were made known to Kunti and Draupadi.

  • One of them, named Pimentello, having, in the presence of the Duc de Sully, appealed to the honour which he enjoyed in having often played with Henry IV.

  • The moment Roxy's back was turned he would toddle to the presence of the tongs and say, "Like it!

  • Luigi's southern blood leaped to the boiling point in a moment under the sharp humiliation of this insult delivered in the presence of four hundred strangers.

  • The presence of the knife on the stage of the murder was a worrying circumstance for Wilson.

  • The landlady's apologetic tone made her sick at heart, as a sensitive human being must ever feel in the presence of a fellow-being doomed to disaster.

  • In the presence of his last work, so overwhelming, so stupendous, we lesser men are left at a loss.

  • They were in no way embarrassed by the presence of Susan.

  • This speech was delivered in the presence of a vast multitude of people, who had gathered from all parts on the first hint of what was happening, and the news was passed from mouth to mouth in a few seconds.

  • My brother tried to bribe them to let him off, but far from listening to him they tied his hands, and forced him to walk between them to the presence of the judge.

  • When he touched the ground, he rapped it with his foot; it opened, and we found ourselves in the enchanted palace, in the presence of the beautiful princess of the Ebony Isle.

  • He arrived at Fleurieres almost in a state of elation; he had satisfied himself, logically, that in the presence of his threat of exposure they would, as he mentally phrased it, rattle down like unwound buckets.

  • He felt, as soon as he entered the room, that he was in the presence of something evil; he was startled and pained, as he would have been by a threatening cry in the stillness of the night.

  • Her coupe now found its way to Nankeen Square without difficulty, and she sent up a card, which Mrs. Lapham received in the presence of her daughter Penelope.

  • Neither he nor his wife thought now that their daughter was marrying a Corey; they thought only that she was giving herself to the man who loved her, and their acquiescence was sobered still further by the presence of Irene.

  • The presence of iron in the ore showed with the magnet from the start; and when he came to test it, he found out that it contained about seventy-five per cent.

  • Zerrilla's voice fell, and the trouble which she could keep out of her face usually, when she was comfortably warmed and fed and prettily dressed, clouded it in the presence of a sympathetic listener.

  • But in the morning all the ordinary currents of conjecture were disturbed by the presence of a strange mourner who had plashed among them as if from the moon.

  • But their watch in the wainscoted parlor was sometimes varied by the presence of other guests from far or near.

  • The simple truth was that nothing then invited him so strongly as the presence of Dorothea.

  • Thus Tarzan of the Apes left them filled with terror at this new manifestation of the presence of some unseen and unearthly evil power which lurked in the forest about their village.

  • It must be the light from the camp fire the two men had built before they were attacked--Tarzan knew nothing of the presence of the sailors.

  • If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient to have arrested one of the murderers.

  • Mr. Prywell did also, in the presence of the townsmen, confirm all that their subordinate preacher had said.

  • Thus was he had up straightway to the castle; for that was the royal palace, and the place where his honour was to dwell; the which was ready prepared for his Highness by the presence of the Lord Secretary, and the work of Captain Credence.

  • At the same time Lady Macbeth affects to swoon away in the presence of so awful a crime.

  • This, in spite of the presence of Mrs. Thompson, they consented to do.

  • He commences to poison her, but, in the presence of her youth, beauty and affection for him, relents, hesitates to commit a possibly unnecessary crime.

  • He refused to get up and dress in the presence of the detectives who were obliging enough to go downstairs and wait his convenience.

  • A few short steps brought her to the presence of Louisa, who urged her to make good use of her time, and not to delay a moment, but to go with her to her brother's house, where Elfonzo would forever make her happy.

  • And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dress'd myself in such humility That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths Even in the presence of the crowned King.

  • Now will it best avail your Majesty To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France: The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, As it disanimates his enemies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the presence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the fat; the flood; the left; the morning; the name; the old; the west; the wilderness; their father; then bishop; then evaporated; then only; then proceed; then put; then ready for use; then removed; then rinse; then says; theological seminary; there came; there they; there will; these gentlemen; these should; these works; world civilization