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Example sentences for "twice over"

  • Twice over he heard shots, but they were faint and distant, and once there was a peculiar bump as if a large stone had fallen from far up the mountain side.

  • Well, sir, twice over I've seen such a creature--not a bird but a reptile.

  • Twice over I saw a figure on horseback appear directing the men--a figure I could not mistake, and man after man tried to bring him down, but he seemed to bear a charmed life.

  • Twice over he threw his head back, and shook it as if something compressed his brain and confused him.

  • Twice over me and you has made preparations to have her married, and it strikes me that the next time we have to do with any public proceedings it will be to take her to her long home.

  • Twice over as they walked he was on the point of speaking, but checked himself, and then the opportunity was gone, for Brettison held out his hand.

  • Twice over we found that rattlesnakes had been attracted by the fire and had taken possession of quarters in our tent, for which, as they viciously showed fight, they were condemned to death and executed.

  • Twice over we waded in the middle of the water, where it was sandy, and found it nowhere over our knees.

  • Yes, sir, twice over; but they were too quick for me to get a shot.

  • No examples of open: closed, himdandre hintodre, hindodre hindadre, twice over.

  • Then it came home to him as he twice over saw a gleam as of metal on one of the bodies which floated as it were over a forest of hands and glided onward toward and up the side street.

  • Twice over he saw men whom his ready imagination suggested as belonging to the corps of spies who kept the comers and goers from the Palace under observation, but he would not notice them.

  • Twice over he had opened his eyes to gaze wonderingly in the face that looked down at him, and once when Murray whispered a few encouraging words he shook his head and seemed to sink back into a deep sleep again.

  • Twice over we have seemed to pass through men who are hanging back on either side to let us pass, and who then close in behind us and follow up silently.

  • Twice over, too, he saw a drove of kangaroos, which went flying over the bushes in their tremendous leaps; but they excited no interest now.

  • Twice over he saw snakes; lizards seemed to be wonderfully plentiful wherever the stones lay scorching in the sunshine.

  • Twice over he got a grip of the edge of the gallery, but only to be snatched away again and swung to and fro.

  • Twice over he heard something which made him draw near, but his approach was followed by a dead silence, and the blood flushed to his temples; but that was no time for angry remonstrance, and he shrank away.

  • Twice over he went to the door, with the intention of opening it to listen, but he shrank away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above them; became interested; being nearly; both ways; colored eyes; dense clusters; devastating cyclones; feet above the floor; great effect; human conduct; more difficult; move the; natural power; nearly round; picturesquely situated; prison cell; steam navigation; taking her; things went; thy way; twice daily; twice over; twice pinnate; violent speech