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Example sentences for "went forward"

  • We went forward to the north, keeping the coast close on board for twelve days together, and having the wind at east and E.

  • Then the two men with bows laid down their bows and arrows, went forward unarmed, and made signs of peace to them, which at last the other began to understand; so two of their men laid down their bows and arrows, and came towards them.

  • As we went forward, our whole caravan being in a body, our negroes, who were in the front, cried out, that they saw a white man!

  • As I went forward I discovered bodies scattered in twos and threes over the grass-plain.

  • Nevertheless we all were ready to encounter and overcome every obstacle providing that we could enter the forbidden land, and thus we went forward.

  • Suddenly, as we went forward, the great bell in one of the high turrets of the Naya's stronghold boomed forth the first stroke of the midnight hour.

  • I went forward an inch, then another and another down the slope, and at last I could have sworn that I saw dark blurs against the ground.

  • He went forward, steadily but resolutely, on the crest of it.

  • Then we went forward quickly, hands waved a welcome above the logs, the great wooden gates swung open, and at last we had reached the haven for which we had suffered so much.

  • I went forward a few steps, hesitated, and bowed.

  • Crossing this, we went forward to a position a mile northeast of Cassville, briskly skirmishing with part of Hood's corps.

  • Our men dropped fast as we went forward, but the line was carried and the Confederates broke from the next ridge in rear, some two hundred yards away.

  • The architect remained in the background till the dance drew to a conclusion, and then he went forward.

  • He pressed the youth's hand with a smile, went forward, and looked through the hole into the interior of the gymnasium.

  • She made an inquiry about getting to Stancy Castle, upon which Somerset, who had not till now observed her, went forward, and introducing himself assisted her to the carriage and saw her safely off.

  • However, we went forward in the usual artillery formation.

  • We went forward, but found the Turks had gone.

  • As we went forward, and a red sun rose over Tigris, Sarcka remarked: 'The sensation I am about to go through is one which I wouldn't miss for worlds.

  • I remember one man in whom was never observed the slightest emotion amid the terriblest happenings, till one day some one noticed that whenever he went forward he turned up his jacket-collar, as if to shelter from that fiery rain.

  • Come along, Helga,' said I; and we went forward.

  • The sour-faced man, named Tommy, went forward, and was presently busy in chopping up a piece of wood.

  • She rose from the parapet and went forward to meet him.

  • The mules were sent back from El-Guethifa that morning, the baggage was packed upon the camels, and the little force, insufficient in numbers and supplies, went forward on its long and untoward march.

  • Pamela drove round the gorge, and coming again to the shore, went forward by the side of the sea.

  • The lot fell to Eurylochus, who, with twenty-two brave men, went forward to the fair palace of Circe, around which fawned tamed mountain lions and wolves.

  • Queen Uta and Princess Kriemhild, with many followers from the Burgundian court, went forward to the Rhine to meet and welcome the royal bridal party.

  • As we went forward, the sound became plainer continually, showing that we were heading straight toward it.

  • Somehow, as we went forward, a sense of the silent loneliness and desertion of the old garden grew upon me, and I felt shivery.

  • A good many seals were lying on the ice-floes, and as we went forward we shot some.

  • We went forward -- steadily forward -- though the way round was both long and troublesome.

  • We went forward at a rattling pace; the going was perfect.

  • But my father did as he was asked, setting down the nets that he was carrying, and only taking with him the long boathook on which he had slung them as he went forward.

  • Then the door was closed, and the man with whom I had spoken set his back against it, but it was not barred; and I went forward to the steps of the high place, and stood before Hodulf.

  • All this was so strange that I went forward, and when I had a chance I asked the steward what was on hand.

  • When he was well out of sight, I went forward.

  • Springing from his seat, he went forward.

  • Eagerly, as if fresh and strong, but with careful eyes and every sense keenly alert, he went forward on the trail that he knew must lead him to Sibyl AndrĂ©s.

  • Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other staid.

  • So went forward in my walk with some men that were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met with many merry seamen that had got their money paid them to-day.

  • But however we went forward making no stop.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    because then; can say; full assembly; guerrilla warfare; particularly important; something beyond; taking her; virtuous conduct; went afterwards; went aloft; went and; went back; went directly; went down; went downstairs; went every; went forth; went from; went home; went immediately; went over; went slowly; went then; went thither; went through; went together