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Example sentences for "while another"

  • On the opposite side of the bed a female figure presents a caudle, with a spoon in it, to St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin, while another is seen filling a goblet of wine.

  • In the third cut there are two figures of Death; one on foot mows down youths and maidens with a scythe, while another, mounted, is seen chasing a number of figures on horseback, at whom he at the same time discharges his arrows.

  • Majendie proved this by feeding a dog for forty days with white wheaten bread, at the end of which time he died; while another dog, fed on brown bread made with flour mixed with bran, lived without any disturbance of his health.

  • To the right, a man is kneeling to secure a heap of pieces, which are lavishly scattered about, while another person is stooping to press a well-filled bag of money upon his acceptance as “a small acknowledgment.

  • Vernon’s return for that place; while another man is apostrophizing the rider, “Thou art as tedious as the law.

  • One shot had fallen at the back of the Town Hall, and torn an enormous hole in the wall, while another, entering the first floor of the County Hotel, had burst with awful force, and carried away the greater part of its gloomy facade.

  • There are no less than three consecutive coverings quite entire, while another is about three-fourths completed, and a fifth is just begun.

  • We have already alluded to a clay cylinder belonging to the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, while another cylinder of the same king, which has been discussed elsewhere (cf.

  • On presenting himself before the first slab (12), the visitor will see the figure of an Athenian dragging an Amazon to the ground by her hair, while another Amazon is protecting a fallen sister in the corner.

  • A wounded Athenian lies in the left corner of the next slab (16), supported by a companion; while another Athenian is endeavouring to beat off a lusty Amazon, who appears determined to fight for every inch of the ground.

  • We are required to believe that, in one portion of the divine law, the right of the master to hold his slaves as "bondmen" is recognized, while another part of the same law denies the existence of such right.

  • For we are required to believe that one passage of Scripture grants an "authority to take slaves," while another passage is designed to annul this authority.

  • Now Enitharmon is a vast mythic being without any defined personality; she symbolizes sometimes Space and sometimes Nature, while another facet of her various character, as we shall presently discover, is Pity.

  • One will not be ruled, and fights everybody who tries to control him, while another is in a transport or an agony, according as his mother looks pleased or displeased with him.

  • One is of Hepplewhite make, showing the slender posts and fluting of his type, while another is considered one of the best specimens in New England, with a drapery of patch that is probably all of a hundred years old.

  • One of these sets sold in 1903 for twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, while another set of less ancient date brought five thousand three hundred dollars.

  • From the north Lewis of Nassau was to lead an army from the Ems into Friesland; Hoogstraeten on the east to effect an entrance by way of Maestricht; while another force of Huguenots and refugees in the south was to march into Artois.

  • As this was not conceded, a squadron under Obdam, November, 1657, blockaded the Portuguese coast, while another under De Ruyter made many seizures of merchant vessels.

  • A loud-voiced man offers for sale grapes and melons he carries in a basket, while another bears a water-bottle of leather.

  • A Kirghiz leads each horse by the bridle, while another holds on to his tail to help him if he stumbles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    compensated emancipation; male citizens; more profitable; our literature; qualitative analysis; said thoughtfully; then sweeten; thing before; while above; while another; while back; while engaged; while even; while listening; while longer; while since; while some; while standing; while still; while that; while the; while their; while they; while waiting; while warm; while you