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Example sentences for "these last"

  • These last words, she spoke with a fainting Tone, and the Tears fell anew from her fair soft Eyes.

  • A creole friend of mine was one of these last.

  • The political or other crime (if any) attributed to these last is not stated, nor why they were imprisoned.

  • One of these last came in on the crest of the wave most manfully, and landed with a violent bound almost on the spot where Bill and I stood.

  • These last were as follows:-- Each of us had on a pair of stout canvas trousers, and a pair of sailors' thick shoes.

  • These last words I uttered aloud in my distress.

  • The rigorous endeavour to fulfil the moral precepts of Christ, and truly represent the holy and heavenly community of God in abstinence from everything unclean, and in love to God and the brethren here on earth "in these last days.

  • Talmage's impressions of the Passion Play, which he wrote at Ober-Ammergau on this occasion, were never published in this country, and I herewith include them in these last milestones of his life.

  • That was a remarkable feature of these last milestones of his life, that all conflicts were forgotten in a universal acknowledgment of his evangelism.

  • My share in the Doctor's life, however, belongs to these last years of his distinguished career, and I am a contributor by special privilege.

  • But I have found out, in these last days, what heavy troubles one may bear without breaking down.

  • All these things had come upon her in these last days-though not, indeed, for the sake of Jesus Christ and righteousness, but only for the sake of those she loved; yet she would have been ready to endure the worst.

  • She had struggled so hard in these last days to banish all thought of her own happiness, and shield her dear ones from harm, that such selfishness appeared doubly cruel to her.

  • She felt as if she must return to her lover and tell him herself what she had been forced to do in these last days, but maidenly shyness restrained her, till at last Andreas came out.

  • These last might be called "calcareous sandstones;" but that term is more properly applied to a rock in which the grains are partly calcareous and partly siliceous, or to quartzose sandstones, having a cement of carbonate of lime.

  • Now, as none of these last, or the unimuscular bivalves, are freshwater, we may at once presume a deposit in which we find any of them to be marine.

  • These last appear to have been bony spines which formed the anterior part of the dorsal fin, like that of the living genera Cestracion and Chimaera (see a, fig.

  • These last-mentioned divisions have also some fossils in common, such as the Avicula inaequivalvis (fig.

  • These last, in their turn, repose upon the lias in the south and west of England.

  • These last shone, in spite of the glowing darkness, with a limpid and translucent turquoise like that of the distant landscape in a Siennese picture.

  • Now that the thin link which bound her to some sort of household gods had snapped, all the patience and submission bred in her by village life, by the hard facts of her story, and by these last months in London, served her well enough.

  • Her figure focused all the uneasy amazement and heart searchings of these last weeks.

  • A comparison between the Teutonic figures and the Celtic and Slavic would be pertinent if we knew more of the character of these last; but the information about them is slight.

  • For a former totemic organization among the Navahos, Apaches, and Mohaves (these last live on the Colorado River) there are only vague traditions and other faint traces; the taboos on foods now touch not a particular clan but a whole tribe.

  • The exceptions are the great Greek oracles of Dodona and Delphi and the Roman Sibylline Books; to these last, as is observed above, the Roman people owed the introduction of some important religious cults.

  • As there was no practical difference between ghosts and spirits or gods in respect of power and influence in human life, the offering of human beings to these last came as a matter of course.

  • I do not think that in these last exercises of his pen he wrote consciously for the printer and the public.

  • We talk about the mysticism of John's Gospel, about the depth of these last sayings of Jesus Christ.

  • These last talk in low tones, in mutterings not much louder than whispers.

  • These last men, whose lives have been spent fighting their Mexican foemen, hating them from the bottom of their hearts.

  • Payan, of these last culprits, have you prepared a list?

  • Yet even in these last hours of my fate, I rejoice to look once more on the face of that ominous and mysterious being to whom I can ascribe all the sufferings I have known.

  • In these last passages it is not so much by the scientific or philosophical speculations themselves, as by their literary treatment by former writers, that Virgil appears to be attracted.

  • If for no other reason, yet because they have more in common with the general ideas and movement of the modern world, these last-named poets have a stronger hold on students of literature in the present day.

  • These last continued to be carried on by Greeks in Italy after Rome had succeeded to Alexandria as the centre of human culture.

  • May it preserve for me, even in these last trials to which I am coming, the courage to do without the desire of deliverance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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