If he himself could talk to Aileen personally and explain just how things were, he felt sure he could make her see that it would be to their mutual advantage, for the present at least, to have the matter amicably settled.
In other words, things were shaping up for a great 'change business, and Edward Tighe felt, with other brokers, that there was a great future ahead.
Brazil lent me some of his clothes, while all my things were spread on the roofs of the various boats to dry in the sun, I never shall forget Col.
If he was to have any hand in them, things were to be done according to certain rules, which, as he said, prevailed in the world of fashion.
But if things were so as Mr Rubb now described them, there could be no doubt about her duty.
What would he do,--he with his wife, and all his children, if things were in such a state as Mr Slow described them?
Things were not as bad as that excited messenger had said, but they were bad enough.
Things were so sudden, so close here, that one of Kershaw's men killed a Federal soldier, and wounded another with an axe he happened to have in his hand.
If things were to be vulgarly measured, this fact too must come in.
I thought it best, Miss Boyce, as I had unexpectedly a couple of spare hours this evening, to come and let you know how things were going.
Things were different: he was not simply Tip Lewis, a ragged little street boy, any longer; this was the morning when he was going to start out under a new motto, with Jesus for his guide.
He could not marry her, he would not have desired to do so had he been able; but as things were, there was no money to marry on either side.
Things were wrong up there at The Roundabout, very wrong.
Things were hard so I made them into a story--I coloured them up.
As things were, it might not have been worth his while to take the trouble of discovering her.
But, as things were, I thought it my duty to look at the inclosures.
As things were, he knew perfectly well that the more seriously Romayne was annoyed, in his presence, the better his own private interests would be served.
Had he been able to take David into his confidence he would have had the names of one or two men to go to, but as things were he had nothing.
She did not like the way things were going, she confided to Mike.
But as things were--The murmuring among the crowd at the foot of the stairs ceased, and he looked up.
Things were in this uncomfortable state, when Miss Lucinda Mandeville, the belle par excellence, gave a turn to them which we shall relate, after presenting our readers with a sketch of the lady herself.
As things were, he was in the habit, when on his rounds, of preaching to the Trek-Boers and half-breeds.
However, things were found to be in a satisfactory condition on the whole; in fact Nathan could find nothing but this one item to find fault with.
As things were, his hunting never yielded him more than a few snakes and lizards and an occasional jackal.
And yet--wadna many o' them be lost if things were changed so greatly and sae suddenly as those who talk like the Bolsheviki wad be havin' them?
Things were a wee bit easier for me then; I could keep a bit o' the siller I earned, and I could think about singing once in a while.
If things were really, over there, as we have believed, those men would be quitting now.
Things were in this situation when John and Robin Gray determined to build a house for their father at Rosanna.
Things were in this situation when Jessy, for the first time, accompanied the blind lady to Mrs. Hungerford's.
But while Mr. O'Mahony was being elected Member of Parliament for County Cavan, things were going on very sadly in County Galway.
Things were going on in this way, and Mr. Jones was still striving to find out evidence by which a case might be substantiated against Pat Carroll, when that gentleman, one winter afternoon, was using his eloquence upon Master Florian Jones.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
