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Example sentences for "time and"

  • This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer; and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the latter end, and she must be blind too.

  • Well, thou hast call'd her to a reckoning many a time and oft.

  • Do you not come your tardy son to chide, That, laps'd in time and passion, lets go by Th' important acting of your dread command?

  • Of Salisbury, who can report of him, That winter lion, who in rage forgets Aged contusions and all brush of time And, like a gallant in the brow of youth, Repairs him with occasion?

  • It was on the tip of Jo's tongue to ask, but she checked herself in time and, with unusual tact, tried to find out in a round-about way.

  • But she would have consented if he had proposed to sing a whole opera, and warbled away, blissfully regardless of time and tune.

  • Better for us that we cannot as a general thing, but now and then it would be such a comfort, such a saving of time and temper.

  • Any one was free to join, which perhaps accounted for Aunt Abby's strictures as to time and tune.

  • And I must not linger another moment, for I am going to ask Mrs. Mason to keep me overnight," cried Waitstill, bethinking herself suddenly of time and place.

  • And when, after a vast expense of time and labor, a new armament was launched into the water, the Imperial troops, unaccustomed to that element, were easily baffled and defeated by the veteran sailors of the usurper.

  • The mighty mass of conquest was so intimately united by the hand of time and policy, that it required the most forcible violence to rend it asunder.

  • Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism!

  • He dreams that the footsteps die away into distance of time and of space, and that something touches him, and that something falls from his hand.

  • The ordinary fulness of time and circumstances is all I have to trust to.

  • Seth [the postmaster] is pure rubber so far as other folks' mail is concerned; maybe he stretched the rubber too far this time and it snapped.

  • You're just in time and Mrs. Wyeth has been expecting you.

  • That is--" He stopped short just in time and roared a "Git dap" at the horse.

  • So much beneath them did they esteem the frivolous devotion of time and attention to the mechanical arts and to money-making.

  • I am giving my time and energy, in return for one thing which you may give me--the joy of speaking a true word and getting it heard.

  • A procedure, it may be stated, requiring years of time and thousands of dollars, during which other infringers have generally entered the field, and all have grown fat.

  • With home-bred hordes the hillsides teem, The troop-ships bring us one by one, At vast expense of time and steam, To slay Afridis where they run.

  • He caught his Rajahs, analyzed his Rajahs, and traced them up into the mists of Time and beyond, with their queens and their concubines.

  • The votaries of Mahomet are more assured than himself of his miraculous gifts; and their confidence and credulity increase as they are farther removed from the time and place of his spiritual exploits.

  • Yet this partial jealousy was healed by time and submission; the churches of Egypt were shared with the Catholics; and all the Oriental sects were included in the common benefits of toleration.

  • What object remains for the fancy, or even the understanding, when we have abstracted from the unknown substance all ideas of time and space, of motion and matter, of sensation and reflection?

  • His appetite for blood and rapine would have been extinguished by the hopeless computation of time and distance; but he listened to the importunities of Jonas, who assured him that the weary fugitives might yet be overtaken.

  • Of rolling on and on, always postponing thought, and always racked with thinking; of being unable to reckon up the hours he had been upon the road, or to comprehend the points of time and place in his journey.

  • The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience, and the advantage both of method and materials, is naturally assumed by the most recent authors.

  • Some exemptions, very strictly confined both in time and place, were allowed to the proprietors who disposed of the produce of their own estates.

  • Time and again, when the half-hearted suggestions of the bosuns had been of no avail, I saw one or the other of the mates leap to the rail and put the right rope in the hands of the men.

  • Time and again I paused and held on until my finger-tips hurt.

  • He went up the poop-ladder three steps at a time and disappeared in the direction of the wheel behind the chart-house.

  • Time and again, as I drearily waited, I was on the verge of giving him to the driver.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being buried; fait accompli; figurative sense; government publications; human labor; not care; other vessel; passionate love; similar character; three sorts; time after; time before; time coming; time goes; time limit; time must; time past; time presses; time was; time when; time will; time will come when; times gone; times greater; times more; worth giving