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Example sentences for "this matter"

  • It was as if he had not all to say in this matter.

  • This matter of the outlaw's boots was strange, Duane thought.

  • This matter of land, water, a few stray head of stock had to be decided out of court.

  • Now, who will be on my side in this matter?

  • Thou wilt think no ill if I look for myself in this matter.

  • I must see to this matter, and that quickly.

  • Oak, with a pharisaical sense that he was not as other shearers in this matter.

  • Bathsheba was not conscious of guile in this matter.

  • But we all change, and my change, in this matter, came with seeing you.

  • This reminded him that if there was one class of manifestation on this matter that he thoroughly understood, it was the instincts of sheep.

  • But, corragio, most noble Duke of the Dungeon and Lord of Limbo, for thou art as dark in this matter as thine own dominions of Little-ease.

  • Retire--retire--there is life and death in this matter.

  • Look to yourself, Master Varney," said Foster, "you may misreckon foully in this matter.

  • Still, I will think on what thou hast said; but I must have your assistance to persuade the good Sir Hugh to make me his commissioner and fiduciary in this matter, for it is in his name I must speak, and not in my own.

  • And now, I trust, Master Tressilian, this matter is ended," said the Queen.

  • I was capable of informing you of this matter, I was therefore capable of informing another?

  • That I grant," said Don Quixote, "but in this matter of aiding me against knights thou must put a restraint upon thy natural impetuosity.

  • Even if he were not," said the curate, "I will go bail and answer for him that in this matter he will be as silent as a dummy, under pain of paying any penalty that may be pronounced.

  • That is not bad philosophy thou art talking, Sancho," said the canon; "but for all that there is a good deal to be said on this matter of counties.

  • So please you, my lord," said the Scot, "your majesty must be good to us poor gentlemen of Scotland in this matter.

  • My own life depends upon it, for worthy were I to die like a dog did I proceed rashly in this matter, and make shipwreck of the weal of Christendom.

  • There remains but one other view of this matter to conclude the point.

  • A review of their situation, in this particular, would tend greatly to remove any ill impressions which may remain in regard to this matter.

  • But she soon found a curious correspondence between the ostensibly chance position of the cows and her wishes in this matter, till she felt that their order could not be the result of accident.

  • And she did not vent this often; for she was as considerate as she was devout, and knew that his mind too was troubled by doubts as to his justice in this matter.

  • But in this matter my very deficient ears must be leading my threadbare mind astray.

  • Behold," he cried, "when a hand is raised to sweep into oblivion a thousand earthworms they lift no voice in protest, and in this matter ye are less than earthworms.

  • In this matter, from motives which cannot have been otherwise than delicate, I took too much for granted it would seem.

  • I think, good master-shipman, that you and I may win great honor in this matter, and I can see very readily that you are a brave and stout man.

  • In truth, friend, I think that you step over the line of reason in this matter.

  • I had not thought from his fair face that he had stood to this matter so shrewdly.

  • Lady, I fear that in this matter at least you are mistaken.

  • Alleyne entered, "you are the man who will stand by me in this matter.

  • In one of his personal confidences he has let us into the secret of this matter.

  • But the wise and truthful God has expressed himself on this matter in the Bible.

  • Now in this matter of service there was one thing above all others that stirred Myles Falworth's ill-liking.

  • An thou wilt not lend me thine aid in this matter, say so and ha' done with it, and I will bethink me of somewhere else to turn.

  • But tell me, Robin Ingoldsby, dost know aught more of this matter?

  • Then, after a moment, he added: "My name is Francis Gascoyne, and I will stand thy friend in this matter.

  • On my faith as a Christian, on my honor as a man, if you stir a step further in this matter, there is an end to your happiness for the rest of your life!

  • This very day I said to you, 'If you stir a step further in this matter, there is an end of your happiness for the rest of your life.

  • His mother quite shares my opinion in this matter.

  • There must be no secret between us in this matter.

  • My dear lady, I cordially side with you in this matter; I long to relieve your anxieties.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this argument; this camp; this committee; this conception; this connection; this document; this field; this good; this group; this institution; this land; this latter; this life; this marriage; this mode; this nation; this one; this particular; this plan; this rule; this society; this spot; this stage; this treaty; this very; this view