When the time came, I received the vote of every Republican member of both Houses, excepting one, the Hon.
When the time came to go to the reception at the State House, Washburne could not be found.
When the time came he voted for the second reading of the Maynooth bill (April 11) with remarkable emphasis.
In that overthrow, when the time came, Mr. Gladstone was called to play a part, though hardly at first a very zealous one.
When the time came, however, partly under strong pressure from Sir John, Thomas Gladstone took a more lenient view and gave his brother a vote.
When the time came, he went out into the garden to the heap of tan, and waited for the King's daughter; but he became still more weary than on the day before, and lay down and slept as soundly as if he had been a stone.
When the time came when he was about to die, he summoned them to his bedside and said, "Dear children, I have been thinking of something which I will declare unto you; whichsoever of you is the laziest shall have the kingdom.
Dave wondered who the other spectators would be when the time came--would the Countess be one of them?
And, O king, when the time came, the Kaurava monarch bestowed his daughter Duhsala on Jayadratha, the king of the Sindhus, agreeably to the counsels of Sakuni.
Next morning, when the time came to separate, each one offers and presents himself, with the desire to accompany him; but it is not his will or pleasure that any one shall go with him except the two whom he had brought with him.
When the time came to retire, the emperor, as was his right, lay beside his wife that night.
He believed in a kind of luck that was to do everything for him, when the time came.
When the time came, after early tea, she started out; for if she did not go, he would come, and she did not want the servants to see him two days running.
Shall I ask myself if the obstacle of Midwinter would, after all, when the time came, be the unmanageable obstacle that it looks at present?
He had put it away in his memory, and now, when the time came, he was too confused to find it.
When the time came, in the spring of 1867, for our class to go up for college examination, the Rev.
He said he was very sorry that through the pressure of duties he had quite forgotten his intention to name me when the time came to announce the appointments.
And even if I wanted to go when the time came, how do you expect me to know so long beforehand?
He resolved to go through the street of that name in the afternoon; but, when the time came, he forgot about it, and it was not till next morning that he carried out his intention.
For, after making one good resolution on top of another, he had, when the time came, again been a willing defaulter.
Right: When the time came, I told him I would do it.
When the time came is said to "squint" because the reader cannot tell whether it looks forward to the end of the sentence, or backward to the beginning.
When the time came, he began to speak quietly, but with a certain masterful quality in his voice that unmistakably constrained attention.
I knew you would tell me yourself, when the time came.
I had only to walk away and let him alone when the time came.
So when the time came we sat waiting, each with his horn or cup before him, brimming with ale or cider or mead, as he chose, and men turned in their seats that they might see the pleasant little ceremony at the high place the better.
But now, when the time came for me to go to Dyfed for Owen, I should go with power to choose lands and a home for myself and for that one whom I dared now to ask to share it.
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