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Example sentences for "this hour"

  • Only I did not see any smoke rising from those houses as there should have been at this hour of the day, when men cooked their evening food.

  • To this hour I can see the hundreds of lines running criss-cross upon its surface, especially those opposite to where I used to sit.

  • I have suffered much in life, but I do not think that ever I underwent a bitterer anguish than in this hour of my parting from Marie.

  • I implored the Power above me to give me strength and wisdom; not to let me fail in this hour of trouble, and thereby bring these poor people to a bloody death.

  • Senora, show now that you are of a noble house, and in this hour of adversity be brave, as the Flores have always been.

  • But surely, at this hour, when she was left without any one to advise her steps, he would remember the tie of blood between them.

  • Well, Dare; well, Jack; you are both welcome; never so welcome to Texas as at this hour.

  • At this hour we are all your servants, I think.

  • I inquired, after we were comfortably settled at a small table on the shaded veranda, which was a popular gathering-place at this hour.

  • Besides, he would be down-town at this hour, attending to business.

  • I know that they went to the theatre in New York, because he is still sleeping at this hour, and has sent his boots down to be cleaned, instead of coming down with them on his feet to be shined here.

  • Should I be here at this hour if what you say is true?

  • Ah, but the neighbors will see it, too; and at this hour a light in the garden is sure to attract attention," observed George.

  • It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

  • Hrolf, or Rollo Duke of Normandy, the wild Sea-king, has a share in governing England at this hour.

  • A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour, than in any other word whatever.

  • Odin's creed, if we disentangle the real kernel of it, is true to this hour.

  • She was accustomed to the advent of the fishermen at this hour.

  • He had been surely a reasonable man, and his reasonableness had led him to this hour.

  • One needs to sleep at this hour in the hot weather," said the Marchesino.

  • And he wondered whether the record he seemed to read in the silence had been a true record, or whether his imagination and his intellect of a psychologist, alert even in this hour of intense emotion, had been deceiving him.

  • By this hour to-morrow space shall know it not.

  • To-morrow, at this hour, our bark will be bounding over yonder ocean, and the weight of ages will have fallen from my heart!

  • One day in this week, at this hour, he is to meet me here.

  • Well, till to-morrow at this hour, friend Basil.

  • From time to time they spoke of sundry things, but mostly of home, for in this hour of danger through which both of them could hardly hope to live, even if one did, their thoughts turned thither, as was but natural.

  • Well, if the pest spares me and you, to-morrow morning I will be back here at this hour to tell you all that I can gather.

  • Her grandfather was in bed at this hour, for she so frequently walked upon the hills on moonlight nights that he took no notice of her comings and goings, and, enjoying himself in his own way, left her to do likewise.

  • Up to this hour he had persevered in his resolve not to invite her back.

  • Here the local barbering was always done at this hour on this day, to be followed by the great Sunday wash of the inhabitants at noon, which in its turn was followed by the great Sunday dressing an hour later.

  • You have dealt so wisely with me, father, from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear.

  • She keeps the bottle that he sent her for, to this hour; and she will believe in his affection to the last moment of her life,' said Mr. Gradgrind.

  • I hate dressing for a ball at this hour," she said, rather breathlessly.

  • What could you possibly have to tell my husband at this hour.

  • He remembered London at this hour, already dark and quiet, its few motors making their cautious way in the dusk, its throngs of clerks, nearly all women now, hurrying home to whatever dread the night might hold.

  • And of a truth, I believe that, at this hour, such was her thought.

  • I may not be found alone with thee at this hour; it has a strange look, and she may suspect.

  • It is but the magician Harmachis, whom thou didst bid me bring to thee at this hour.

  • Centurion, and making as if she saw me not; "knowest thou not that the Queen sleeps at this hour, and if she be awakened it is thou who must answer for it, and that dearly?

  • Verily, I am right well assured that, could she see us in this hour, she would bid you be happy with me, and not choose penance for love of her.

  • Here is his own letter, and you may know the seal, bidding La Pucelle to come before him at this hour.

  • It may be deemed strange that, even in this hour, I conceived in my heart a great mislike of this young French lord, how unjustly I soon well understood.

  • If I satisfy you not of my honour and good intent, I am ready, in this hour, to go before the men of law, and deliver myself up to their justice.

  • Farewell, Pharaoh my father, whom still I love mayhap more in this hour of parting than ever I did before.

  • Whether this was by chance, or whether the artist who fashioned it in some bygone generation had worked the two halves separately and cunningly cemented them together, to this hour I do not know.

  • Happy in seeing her husband smile, and in finding him at this hour in a room whither of late he had come more rarely, the Countess looked at him so tenderly that she blushed and cast down her eyes.

  • But at this hour of the night the sight struck him as so extraordinary that, curiosity afire, he hurriedly let himself out of the side door he had just locked, and crossed the lawn.

  • He was startled by the girl's appearance here at this hour.

  • The car is always so full at this hour, and I was longing for the feeling of the wind against my face.

  • Going to see an out-of-town patient at this hour of night?


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