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Example sentences for "this last"

  • This last-named gentleman felt just then a strong impulse to observe the operations of Murray Bradshaw.

  • But her friends hardly knew how to congratulate her on this last event.

  • His whole being was concentrated in this last word.

  • And in this last action he falls into the classic sin of Pride.

  • It couldn't tear itself away from the setting of this last struggle, from this sea that had devoured one of its own!

  • Paul slackened his pace, emboldened by this last minute of solitude.

  • While she was in full enjoyment of this last aggravation of the horrors of the prospect, Emily tried another change of position--and, this time, with success.

  • In this last case, Francine saw her opportunity of being even with him "You brute!

  • This last specimen of the housekeeper's audacious familiarity reached the limits of his endurance.

  • This last observation of Mr. Weller's bore reference to a demonstration Mr. Winkle made at the instant, of a frantic desire to throw his feet in the air, and dash the back of his head on the ice.

  • This last was an appeal to the fat boy's most sensitive feelings.

  • At this last exclamation, which issued as it were from a broken heart, Louise burst into tears, and threw herself into Montalais's arms.

  • During the last few minutes Monsieur had felt there was something of an irritating nature concealed under his favorite's remarks; this last word, however, ignited the powder.

  • I must ask your kind allowances for this last part of the performance.

  • At this last announcement, Midwinter's distrust found its expression in words.

  • This last gain is a very important one; for we don't know that Mrs. Armadale may not have told him your maiden name.

  • Father Vicente de Valverde was at his side, striving to administer consolation, and, if possible, to persuade him at this last hour to abjure his superstition and embrace the religion of his Conquerors.

  • This last he deemed most probable; as the vessel might have passed him unnoticed under the cover of the night, or of the dense fogs that sometimes hang over the coast.

  • This last intelligence he was to communicate to the general by means of two or three nimble-footed attendants, who were to accompany him on his mission.

  • The infantry was headed by his brother Gonzalo, supported by Pedro de Valdivia, the future hero of Arauco, whose disastrous story forms the burden of romance as well as of chronicle.

  • And he makes no attempt to refute the charge.

  • Pizarro had formed his troops in a corresponding manner with that of his adversary.

  • It would go hard with a Castilian, if he could not make out something like a genealogy, - however shadowy.

  • Of the three objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, especially appealed to Pierre.

  • As he had reasons for hiding himself before this last crime, he could have explained why he had kept out of sight, and why he had been silent about the occurrences at Gazeau Tower.

  • I heard the sound of this last word, and with a smile I repeated it like an echo.

  • This last form of torture was only applied when an atrocious crime had been proved to have been committed upon a sacred person, such as a priest, a cardinal, a prince, or an eminent and learned man.

  • I placed implicit faith in this last statement, when I marked the look with which it was accompanied.

  • When he knew his state in this last illness, he asked them to send for me.

  • On this last voyage, in a gale of wind, he had saved all the lives aboard a brig, the crew helpless from scurvy.

  • She saw in this last move of McGaw's, aided as he was by the Union, not only a determination to ruin her, but a plan to divide her business among a set of men who hated her as much on account of her success as for anything else.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human language; resolutions adopted; this arrangement; this bird; this company; this custom; this date; this direction; this discovery; this doctrine; this feeling; this important; this institution; this man; this narrative; this nature; this neighbourhood; this old; this operation; this place; this poem; this road; this town; this treaty; this will; three different