Besides all this, to administer justice a man must have power beyond his own, and must, therefore, largely depend on others, while yet he can with no certainty determine who are fit for his purpose and who are not.
But, thank God, you have remembered the Emperor, while yet it was time--while yet it was time!
While yet busy he came upon a little girl feeding a cow by the roadside.
Suddenly, by three deaths, he was elevated, while yet young, to a station and honours which might have satisfied any man in his senses.
I intend to bestow it, while yet in life, upon my late wife's kinsman, Randal Leslie.
The son, while yet in the freshness and bloom of life, expired in the embrace of a loving father who had traversed almost a continent to gaze once more upon the innocent and serene countenance of his child.
While yet a law student he entered the field of newspaper publication in the founding of Le Colonisateur, to which he was a contributor.
Like a good servant, Job counted the will of his Lord his great possession, by obedience to which his soul was enriched; nor did it grieve him to lose, while yet living, those goods which he must shortly leave at his death.
These and similar allegorical interpretations may be suitably put upon Paradise without giving offence to any one, while yet we believe the strict truth of the history, confirmed by its circumstantial narrative of facts.
But soon revived, as on his forehead blew, While yet he gasped for breath, the cooling breeze.
LXIV "Rogero, if Atlantes watched thee well, While yet he was alive, thou best dost know.
She slumbered not: to her a last goodbye He bade, while yet it lacked an hour of day, Mounted his nag, and on his journey sped; While his afflicted spouse returned to bed.
As soon as seen, the maid who rode at speed The warrior knew, and, while yet distant, scanned The angelic features and the gentle air Which long had held him fast in Cupid's snare.
The same wonderful sign you had also experience of formerly, when the forementioned king of Babylon made war against us, and when he took the city, and burnt the temple; while yet I believe the Jews of that age were not so impious as you are.
While yet I dwelled upon this strange story, wondering if it all were true, and why such things do not happen now, a man on horseback appeared as suddenly as if he had risen out of the earth, on the other side of the great black slough.
Now first I can salute you, sire, as king: The diadem but tottered on your brow, While yet a spirit tenanted this clay.
Oh, sir, while yet we lived we suffered want; But at our death plenty returns to us.
While yet alike We shared thy love, then o'er my days of youth Pale envy cast his withering shade; and now, Think'st thou my heart could brook the dearer ties That bind thee in thy sorrow to the dead?
While yet a child she was entrusted to the Regent Margaret, her great-aunt, to be brought up at Brussels under her eye.
While yet he spoke, she fill'd the walls with cries, And tears ran trickling from her aged eyes.
While yet he speaks, Telemachus replies: "Ev'n nature starts, and what ye ask denies.
While yet he spoke, Leocritus rejoined: "O pride of words, and arrogance of mind!
Her natural courtesy procured for her, while yet a child, from her French attendants, the sobriquet of Polie, a name which clung to her through life.
We adore him in others, while yet we despise him in ourselves.
While yet a child she had seen houses invaded by rude soldiery.
I have been dreadfully busy with all sorts of work, in all of which I take delight, while yet to quote St. Paul, "The good that I would I do not.
The eye, unpractised, sometimes lost the current, When some wild rapid of the tide did whirl, While yet a master hand beyond the torrent Freed my frail shallop from the perilous swirl.
Felt that God had granted me a good deal of heaven, while yet on earth.
Thus circumstanced, it was a blow to him the most unexpected, to receive from the young bridegroom elect, in answer to his summons home, a petition to make the tour of Europe, while yet on the continent.
The lady then communicated to Camilla the secret to which, while yet in ignorance of its existence, she now found she had been sacrificed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while yet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
