There was no moon, and the sky was so heavily overcast with clouds, that, under any other circumstances, it would have been the height of rashness to go rushing through the darkness at such a headlong speed.
Most affectionately your own Hetta' would have been the form in which she would have wished to finish the first letter she had ever written to him.
They seemed to be as little akin to her as would have been the shopkeepers in the small town near Caversham.
Until these considerations, admitting them to be of minor importance, should have been satisfactorily adjusted, to have made a peace, in his opinion, would have been the height of impolicy.
But little Everett Constable, who also sat on the vestry, was a trifle uncomfortable in being reminded that absence from the Communion Table was perilous, although he would have been the last to deny the efficacy of the Sacrament.
It would have been the extreme of bad taste to have put into these pages any portraits which might have offended families or individuals, and in order that it may be known that the author has not done so he has written this Afterword.
And I affirm here, fearlessly before you, that he, your father, would have been the last to recognize such a marriage.
In his present situation, he resolved rather to blow up the vessel than to surrender; he concerted measures to achieve this end with a brave Dutchman named Bedaulx, whose sole alternative, if taken, would have been the gibbet.
If he were in France, such an action, followed by such an accident, would have been the means of his receiving the cross of St. Louis and a pension.
Had he been a common soldier, he would have been the bravest in the ranks; had he been an obscure citizen, all his neighbours would have respected him.
This, Mr. Chairman, would have been the situation of these States had the apportionment been made according to the numbers in each State in the year 1784.
In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford.
While you were in the smallest degree wavering, I said nothing about it, because I would not influence; but it would have been the loss of a friend to me.
But most curious sight of all, if one could have looked on from the outside, would have been the collection of dogs which we brought with us.
The total value of the stores so made away with, though amounting to a large sum, was far less than, for instance, would have been the cost of retaining the force in the country until they had consumed them.
You, darling, in that case, I verily believe, would have been the one to hate it most.
The deep danger, the only one that made him, as an idea, positively turn cold, would have been the possibility of her seeking him in marriage, of her bringing up between them that terrible issue.
If anything could have made our adventure more unpleasant to Mr. and Mrs. Winslow, it would have been the presence of guests.
He asked whether it would have been the same if he had intended to remain at home.
He would have been the best of us all if he had only been let alone.
It would have been the height of madness to disregard their demonstration.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would have been the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
