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Example sentences for "till now"

  • For still Bathory (why, till now I guessed not) Would never hear it from my lips, but sighing Gazed upward.

  • Till now it was the Emperor who rewarded thee, I but the instrument.

  • Sblood, I was never taken for the devil till now.

  • Till now printed Puzzles as if because it had puzzled Dodsley and Reed to make out the true word.

  • Although Tom is marked in the old copy as entering at the commencement of the scene, be does not really come in till now.

  • Clare's father, till now, had not included Harlan in his feud with the grandfather.

  • I haven't been able to get him out of the woods since--till now, and I've had to bring him almost by main force.

  • You've used us like you'd use school-boys for fifty years, but you ain't dared to brag of it till now!

  • If he had stayed on, he too would have discovered how cheaply they held her--those dear ones of hers for whom she had lived till now!

  • Till now it has all been work at second hand.

  • A secret dread and repugnance had held him from it till now.

  • And they had borne it all so bravely, so cheerfully, till now.

  • Indeed, I think he would have perhaps dismissed the subject into the fire, but for a strange circumstance that had occurred to him this very afternoon; but I had no opportunity to relate it till now.

  • We told thirty when we started From port so taut and fine, But soon our crew were parted, Till now we number nine.

  • She holds the weeping burden with a sweet And virgin glow of pride upon her brow, That knew no flush save modesty's till now.

  • Till now, she and Ellinor had always shared the same bed: this Madeline would not now suffer.

  • Till now, Aram had not changed his posture or his countenance--his dark and piercing eye had for one instant fixed on each witness that appeared against him, and then dropped its gaze upon the ground.

  • She had meant then to look at the book, but it had disappeared and she had forgotten it till now.

  • Up till now he had been chiefly concerned with his own satisfaction over a great personal triumph, the biggest thing he had accomplished in his entire career.

  • Up till now he had taken no account of the fact that he had had scarcely any sleep for several nights, and in addition to this had in actual fact been suffering from mild typhoid.

  • After he recovered himself, he said to his vizier, "Is it possible that there should be such a stately palace so near my own, and I be an utter stranger to it till now?

  • Till now I was afraid of disobeying a father, who is unjustly enraged against you, and resolved on your destruction, but at last I abhor this barbarity.

  • I have had one chance of happiness, and only one, in all my life, till now.

  • In such phrases as, at once, from thence, till now, how is the latter word to be parsed?

  • Till now I have defied all danger with a firm spirit; but I can do so no longer, if my palace and my person are not in security.

  • And he slowly extended his other hand which till now he had kept behind his back.

  • Up till now, he had always known exactly what he wished for, and had never found any pleasure in desiring vainly.

  • Inhaling the hot and acrid exhalations of his horse, Andrea Sperelli felt that none of the delicate perfumes affected by him up till now, had ever afforded him such intense enjoyment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already suggested; being thrown; but first; civil administration; could imagine; good appetite; great demand; legged stool; room table; the west; till about; till death; till finally; till half; till late; till night; till now; till quite; till she; till they; till they reached the; till when; violent passion; von der; would form; wrote many