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Example sentences for "would fall"

  • A kind of alarm seized him now, because one thing seemed undoubted,--if he did not cease to visit Pani Bronich and the Osnovskis altogether, he would fall in love with that maiden past memory.

  • Lineta; "it would fall, and be broken; I will put it on the other side.

  • He had not foreseen, however, one thing; to wit, that he would fall in love to such a degree as he had.

  • At last he would fall into a rage, slam the door after him; and we could hear him rush downstairs four steps at a time, swearing by what the world stands on.

  • Under this avalanche of armed men and horses the camp began to waver, and it was clear that the foul Mohammed would fall in the dust at the feet of Mary most pure.

  • And then, without detriment to family honor, I would fall at the feet of Tvoryanski, for I should bow to him, not as to a lord for a fortune, but as to a father for his daughter.

  • The castellan told you that disgrace would fall on me and on all my family Would it not be a still greater disgrace, if I escaped from here, and left you to the vengeance of the law?

  • And you must consider what shame would fall on your family, if your nephew agreed to your proposal.

  • He thought he would fall asleep, when suddenly a strange feeling overpowered him; it seemed to him that he would never again be able to sleep, and that if he remained in that house death would soon follow.

  • When I read poetry he would fall asleep; but when he asked for the Life of Cromwell I counted on sitting up pretty late.

  • He thought that if he remained stationary ha would fall, and he was tormented with the desire of continually advancing.

  • All the horrors imagination can conceive, relative to that day of blood, would fall short of the reality.

  • I was growing so dizzy in the head that I feared every moment I would fall off.

  • My days were so busy that I had little leisure for brooding, but at odd moments I would fall into a deep melancholy.

  • Sometimes he would fall to howling like a wolf, and folk ran to their cottage doors to see the portent.

  • Under the circumstances then that I have supposed, the rate of profits would rise though money wages would fall.

  • I do not admit that if you were to double the medium of exchange it would fall to half its former value, not even if you were also to double the quantity of metal which was the standard of such medium.

  • I saw then that a great love alone was needed to make her the highest among women, and from the night I fought with you at the Coffee House I have felt upon whom that love would fall.

  • And the weight of it would fall; as I well knew, upon those who deserved it least.

  • At times his brow would cloud and he would fall silent in the midst of a jest.

  • It is probable, however, that for some time after the tax was first imposed, a great part of it would fall, not on the renter, but on the owner of the house.

  • This degradation argued great poverty in the particular temples: and it is not at all improbable that, amongst a hundred Grecian Oracles, some, under a similar temptation, would fall into a similar disgrace.

  • Yet, in the former case, A would fall considerably in price as soon as the discovery ceased to be monopolized; whereas, in the latter case, we have seen that A could not possibly vary in price by one farthing.

  • Towards four o'clock in the morning, amongst those who held that watch there had been a strong apprehension that it would fall heavily.

  • These, too, would fall--under competition.

  • Hilary Vane had the word passed around town that if they came, somethin' would fall on 'em.

  • But he closed it with his hand hard on the turned lock so that it should sound as if it had banged to, whereas, directly the handle was released it would fall open a little way.

  • It would fall to the ground in any case," Mark said, "seeing that it was obtained by fraud.

  • The blow had fallen at last, as Mary always knew that it would fall, but it was none the less bitter for that.

  • Or velocity sufficient to reach the neutral point being wanting, it would fall back on the earth by virtue of the excess of terrestrial attraction over lunar attraction.

  • Either the projectile would have kept some velocity, and passing the point of equal attraction, would fall on the moon by virtue of the excess of lunar attraction over terrestrial attraction.

  • At night he would fall into a delirium like the oniric delirium of RĂ©gis, always dreaming of the same bombardment scene, saying it was like a moving picture in his head.

  • After a few moments, he would fall back on the bed, complaining of violent headache and dizziness.

  • There were fears that the ceiling would fall; there were scruples concerning the past; there were fearful premonitions for the future (such as, that any bomb he might pick up would burst).

  • Sometimes he would be too weary to crawl home after working half the night, and so he would fall asleep, a worn, tragic little figure, on a pile of old papers and sacks in a warm corner near the presses.

  • Then I would fall to thinking of those years of newspapering--of the thrills of them, and the ills of them.

  • Sometimes the nickel would be ahead in the tests, and then again it would fall behind.

  • It often happened that when Edison had been working up to three or four o'clock in the morning, he would lie down on one of the laboratory tables, and with nothing but a couple of books for a pillow, would fall into a sound sleep.

  • The Major-General replied, "He would fall on just at the setting of the night, and when the dusk of the evening came on.

  • The Major-General replied that "He would fall on in the plain between both approaches.

  • Then the Major-General desired his Excellency that he would give order to them in the approaches, to keep themselves in readiness against sunset; for at the shutting of the night he would fall on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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