Use came in a sentence
Sentences starting with came
- Came out twenty years too soon,--that was the trouble. [6]
- Came along" Steven went. [9]
- Came back, and took over a battery of artillery. [5]
- Came down yesterday to try to earn some money," he continued, cheerfully making himself agreeable. [9]
- Came over in the "Mayflower" on the first old fool's face. [6]
- Came there, no one knew where from, and lived with his mother, a little withered old woman, on a little cleared patch up in the hills, in a comfortable sort of shanty. [4]
Sentences ending with came
- Good-by, Vane, glad you came. [9]
- But I heard you calling, and I came. [11]
- But still two years passed before David came. [11]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- And, secondarily, how would Virginia treat him if he came? [9]
- Yet no, it would not go, but stayed there, tipping its gold-brown head at me as though it would invite me to guess why it came. [11]
- And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
- Those who fought with us but now were to shoot us at sunset, and remain here till other troops came. [11]
- The adversary explained with enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. [5]
- Maybe that was why--though he may not have admitted it to himself--he could not bear to be beholden to her when his ruin came. [11]
Short sentences using came
- I came without--him---as you see. [9]
- Then came another word--mortgage. [9]
- Others came on with weapons. [11]
- They came every week. [9]
- I am glad we came. [5]
- Luck came their way again. [5]
- Now came a waiting interval. [5]
- Now came her Voices again. [5]
- Then came the vacation. [10]
- He came on urgent business. [11]
Sentences containing came two or more times
- A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again. [2]
- Since he came West, since he came to the Sagalac, he's brought work to Lebanon and to Manitou. [11]
- It poured: the water came down in sheets, in torrents, in deluges; it came down with the wildest tempest of many a year. [4]
- This particular gull visited a cottage; was fed; came next day and was fed again; came into the house, next time, and ate with the family; kept on doing this almost daily, thereafter. [5]
- Even on the verge of the last ambushed passage her senses came back; but they came with a stark realization of the peril ahead: it looked out of her eyes as a face shows itself at the window of a burning building. [11]
- When he came up she did as she had been told; and, before she had expended the paints and feathers, the bear began to totter, but, still advancing, came close to the woman. [5]
- She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again,--endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement. [6]
- And it came too late; this, with the king's recall, came too late! [11]
- It came close to us, and then turned, and as rapidly as it came fled away through the forest, and we lost the unearthly noise far up the mountain-slope. [4]
- I came here to see you, I came here because I love you, because I have always loved you, Honora. [9]
More example sentences with the word came in them
- Do you think, Zoe, that with that I could wear the dress of transparent bombyx silk that came yesterday from Cos? [10]
- I passed through your village that very night, and was his guest till the midnight train came along. [5]
- I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. [14]
- And then came your party, and Glencoe, and that curious incident at the Fair. [9]
- On Sunday morning your letter came, and you have thus been spared the visitation of the unannounced and unsummoned apparition of Currer Bell in Cornhill. [14]
- I came into your father's camp one evening in the autumn, hungry and tired and knocked about. [11]
- Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
- The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
- One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
- Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
- She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
- I imposed upon you, when I made you think Lelaps came from Swabia; he was really born in the desert, where the tigers live. [10]
- He came to you with the good news first," she said with a flutter. [11]
- I never told you why I came to this country--I didn't want to sadden you with my troubles--but now I want you to understand me better. [4]
- I will tell you why I came here to-night. [9]
- I minded that you were talking to her yesterday in the lab'rat'ry, before the telegram came about Mr. George. [9]
- Miss Woodburn said you were freezing him to death when I came down. [8]
- When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
- But how wildly you smile, how wild you looked when I came in! [10]
- What ship did you say you came over in? [5]
- I remember what you read in church the first Sunday you came, and it has always helped me; for I wanted to be good. [11]
- Sometimes I think you ought to go back to the Arcadia you came from. [9]
- Shall I tell you just how it all came about? [10]
- The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
- Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
- I know why you came out here. [11]
- Three days before you came I got a packet of letters, not by the usual yearly mail. [11]
- One would know you came from a land where there are no gentlemen. [5]
- She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity. [11]
- After a grievous yet hopeful leave-taking I came home again, leaning on his arm, through the cool autumn night. [10]
- It was not yet dusk when Master Ulsenius came and broke off our discourse. [10]
- She came trembling, yet determined, and she left with her eyes full of joyful tears. [11]
- She came there yesterday evening at eight o'clock and remained with my wife and myself until twelve o'clock. [11]
- Perhaps he came yesterday and I have forgotten it. [2]
- Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
- During the first years of my convalescence I could enjoy nothing save what came or was brought to me. [10]
- When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
- Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. [5]
- It came this year just at the right moment, for here was a distinguished stranger visiting in the place. [6]
- In the previous year he had made a journey to Arizona with Jowett, to see some railway construction there, and at a ranch he had visited he came upon some verses which had haunted his mind ever since. [11]
- In turning, the yacht came round on the seaward side of the steamer, but far behind. [4]
- His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
- Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
- Laura's few friends wrote to her or came and talked with her, and pleaded with her to retire while it was yet time, and not attempt to face the gathering storm. [5]
- His own words written that fateful day before he died at the Cote Dorion came to him: "Sacristan, acolyte, player, or preacher, Each to his office, but who holds the key? [11]
- Here I finished writing the second draft of the preliminary proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and it was published on the following Monday. [7]
- I was still writing it when Michael Clones came up the drive to tell me you and your mother were here. [11]
- The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight. [5]
- But I will write down in order how it came about. [10]
- First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
- Sonya came along, wrapped in her cloak. [2]
- At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
- He clasped the wounded arm with his left hand as the surgeon came forward. [11]
- But an I would, I could not, for that the accuser came masked by night, and told the forester, and straightway got him hence again, and so the forester knoweth him not. [5]
- Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
- Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
- That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
- But no, she would keep her word to Philip, till Philip came again. [11]
- I wish you would just have the kindness to look at it and see where you think it came from. [6]
- Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
- One ironically minded would have said she chirruped, for her words came out in not unmusical, if staccato, notes, and she shook her shrivelled, ringed fingers reprovingly at a stalwart young man. [11]
- For me he would have put himself out not an inch had he not understood that my support came from those quarters. [9]
- Everybody believed I would die; but on the fourteenth day a change came for the worse and they were disappointed. [5]
- And perhaps it would be best if the other never came back. [11]
- We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
- The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
- Sirona is a worthy and innocent woman, and at the time when Phoebicius came out to seek her, I had never even set eyes upon her nor had my ears ever heard a word pass her lips. [10]
- I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
- The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
- Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
- After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
- When the outer world came to him, perhaps he had about as much to give to it as to receive from it; probably more, in his own estimation; for there is no conceit like that of isolation. [4]
- They came from workshops and writing-rooms, from humble houses in narrow lanes, and from the handsomest and largest in the main street. [10]
- But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
- It was his workmen who did the repairs, but he came over to see--to superintend. [11]
- It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
- The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
- Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
- At first, high words had been spoken; then there came the strife of two dissimilar natures, and both were headstrong, and each proud and unrelenting in his own way. [11]
- Some of her words came to me, shrilly, above the noise. [9]
- And if his words brought tears to my eyes, my strength came with them. [9]
- Then came the words "valuable booty," "slight risk," "thanks and reward. [10]
- It was the word, "Temporise," and it came from the Prime Minister. [11]
- Then came the word of command. [2]
- Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
- He loved a word for righteous mouthing, and in a moment of inspiration pagan and scandal came to him. [11]
- But no; no word came from him. [5]
- For a time word came from him. [11]
- He was river-driver, woodsman, hunter, carpenter, guide, as whim or opportunity came to him. [11]
- I tried to woo her, but she cut my words short, said I was a noble man, and a worthy suitor but--" "There came the but. [10]
- Mr Swiveller was wondering whether this might be another Miss Brass, twin sister to the Dragon, when there came a rapping of knuckles at the office door. [12]
- It is no wonder that when there came a vast deal to reprove, the bonne desisted altogether, overwhelmed by the weight of it. [11]
- I was so won by it that I came softly over to it. [11]
- Before we reached Wolfville we came in sight of this basin and some of the estuaries and streams that run into it; that is, when the tide goes out; but they are only muddy ditches half the time. [4]
- Negroes and farmers' wives took to the woods when the buggy came upon them suddenly, and altogether the drive was pleasant and animated, and a refreshment all around. [5]
- And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
- A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
- He handled things without gloves, and this was not a good thing for any that came to him with a weak case. [11]
- From a distance without came the shouts of the survivors making for the tavern. [9]
- He started forward without a word, but came back again and caught her hand. [11]
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