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Sentences starting with evening

Evening after evening was this other fire lighted and then put out at once; and a great longing came to him to leave this guarding of the fire, and go to her--"For half a day," he said--"just for half a day! [11]
Evening descended upon the veld with a golden radiance which soothed like prayer. [11]
Evening came, and the richest, most flourishing commercial capital in the world was here a heap of ashes, there a ruin, everywhere a plundered treasury. [10]
Evening was drawing on, but had not closed in, when--still travelling among the same dismal objects--they came to a busy town. [12]
Evening is coming on, and I must arrange my mistress's dress and ornaments for the banquet. [10]
Evening came, the lamps were lighted, but I dared not go home; for only one person had thrown a copper into my lap, and I needed more to buy a bit of bread and a few coals. [10]
Evening found us in the cars; they lighted candles in spring-candle-sticks; odd enough I thought it in the land of oil-wells and unmeasured floods of kerosene. [6]
Evening was at hand, and in the thick forest the shadows were heavy, and night was settling upon them before its time. [11]
Evening was drawing down. [11]
Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. [2]

Sentences ending with evening

Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
Did I understand you to say it was your opinion that the supposititious candle was lighted at about eight o'clock yesterday evening? [5]
Friends, what do you say to letting me off this evening? [10]
How she sang yesterday evening! [10]
Two or three years ago I had an appointment to meet Mr. Daly on the stage of this theatre at eight o'clock in the evening. [5]
It was a world of unbridled will, this, where the soul of Jethro Fawe had its origin; and to it his senses fled involuntarily when he put Sarasate's fiddle to his chin this Autumn evening. [11]
Make him dine with you and spend the evening. [5]
We got through with this work at six in the evening. [5]
As he reclined with the Bithyman, before the supper which was standing ready, he said: "A strange evening! [10]
The guest remarked, with suave irony: "Assassins appear to be scarce this evening. [5]

Short sentences using evening

Up to Antwerp toward evening. [4]
More of this, this evening. [10]
The next evening the same. [11]
Prince Vasili arrived that evening. [2]
He might arrive that evening. [11]
The lonely evening seemed endless. [10]
Toward evening they reached Luxemburg. [10]
The evening wore on. [11]
It was a happy evening. [4]
Farewell until this evening. [10]

Sentences containing evening two or more times

So she continued to watch and listen unweariedly, day after day and evening after evening, but always in vain. [10]
It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotes three and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabbered them over three or four times the evening before. [5]
It was under this impression that Irene passed the last evening at Saratoga with Stanhope on the piazza of the hotel--an evening that the latter long remembered as giving him the sweetest and the most contradictory and perplexing glimpses of a woman's heart. [4]
The crystal air of evening was suffused with the level evening light; and as they wound in and out under the spreading trees she caught glimpses across the shrubbery of the deepening blue of waters. [9]
Cynthia, alas, did not think about it: she did not know that, in her absence, the fire had not been lighted in the evening, Jethro supping on crackers and milk and Milly partaking of the evening meal at home. [9]
There was a good deal of talk about it evening after evening, off and on, and I can only undertake to set down fragments of it. [4]
And yet this evening, or to-morrow evening, or the next, I'll steal five thousand dollars, if it can be done, and risk my neck in doing it--to say nothing of family honour, and what not. [11]
Lise, in her evening finery, looking occasionally at the clock, was awaiting the hour set for a rendezvous, whiling away the time with the Boston evening sheet whose glaring red headlines stretched across the page. [9]
Time: On Thursday evening at five o'clock, if you can get it so; but in no case to be at a greater distance of time than Friday evening at five o'clock. [7]
We passed a charming evening on the banks of the famous Guadalquivir, enjoying the mild, balmy air of a southern evening, and rejoicing in the certainty that we were at length in this land of promise . [4]

More example sentences with the word evening in them

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
I came into your father's camp one evening in the autumn, hungry and tired and knocked about. [11]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
Our evening meetings, you know, only begin at early candlelight. [4]
Some evening, perchance, you happen to be in the dark street outside of Charing Cross station. [9]
Tell me how you fared in the light of evening, at the end of that bloody day. [11]
Perhaps he would yet come that evening, to give Els at least a greeting from the street. [10]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
She came there yesterday evening at eight o'clock and remained with my wife and myself until twelve o'clock. [11]
When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
I go to work at 7 o'clock in the evening, and work till 3 o'clock the next morning. [5]
As the evening wore on, the probability of Frank's appearance seemed less; and the Armours began to breathe more freely. [11]
As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. [4]
Every morning we woke to fresh pleasures, and every evening closed a spring festal day, radiant with the sunlight of liberty and the magic of friendship. [10]
Here was tea, with milk or with lemon-baths of it and claret-cup for the hardier spirits throughout the evening. [8]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
Norice had been with her the evening before. [11]
I was racked with anxiety about Farrar; at last, when I had all but given up hope, I received a telegram from him dated at Detroit, saying he would arrive with the doctor that evening. [9]
He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
He could surely win over the abbess in the course of the voyage, and Paula might be brought to reason, perhaps, this very evening. [10]
This evening I will bring in a lump of clay and a good piece of modelling wax. [10]
The whole company will arrive this evening. [10]
Happy is he whose pathway at the beginning of life's evening is once more so brilliantly illumined by the sun of love. [10]
At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
Some of those who were present at Mrs. Grainger's that evening remember her entrance into the drawing-room. [9]
But Mr. Douglas, who had arrived the evening before to the booming of two and thirty guns, had his banners end his bunting, too. [9]
He's the one who drove you home that evening from Crewe's party. [9]
It was Joe who brought the astounding news to the store that evening. [9]
The first thing which suggests itself to me, as I contemplate my slight project, is the liability of repeating in the evening what I may have said in the morning in one form or another, and printed in these or other pages. [6]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
The evening to which I refer was that of John's first party. [4]
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]
The conflagration, at which he had looked with so much indifference the evening before, had greatly increased during the night. [2]
But the day which began so sorrowfully was followed by an evening of delight--she owed to it her new meeting with Lienhard. [10]
It was evening when we got to Middletown. [6]
In the evening, when the sun settled red upon the horizon, I would think of Patty and my friends in Gloucester Street. [9]
It was evening when the bishop came to visit Paula. [10]
We all gasped when she brought Adelaide to recite from 'Romeo and Juliet' at an evening party, but all London did the same the week after. [11]
In the evening, when Prince Andrew had left, the countess went up to Natasha and whispered: "Well, what? [2]
It was evening when Philip took the cars at the Ilium station. [5]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
Do you remember when I sang for you on the evening of that day he died? [11]
And that evening, when I came in at five o'clock to study, I asked my mother what had become of Gene Hollister's aunt. [9]
There are times when Ethiopian minstrelsy can amuse, if it does not charm, a weary soul, and such a vacant hour there was on this same Friday evening. [6]
On the evening when Charley Steele met with his mishap he was a river-driver--or so it seemed. [11]
More than once when Anatole's regiment was stationed at Tver he had taken him from Tver in the evening, brought him to Moscow by daybreak, and driven him back again the next night. [2]
With what pleasure, when again permitted to go out in the evening, I witnessed the performances of Plautus's pieces given by Professor Geppert's pupils! [10]
Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
I suppose you were with him at six o'clock last evening, instead of being here with me, as you promised. [11]
The innumerable exits were there in the wall of life and none had opened to him; but since the evening when he saw Jasmine at the railway station, there had been an opening of doors in his soul hitherto hidden. [11]
One evening we were sitting in the accustomed spot--that is, the coping. [11]
The travellers' tents were pitched one sultry evening in November, between the Nile and the limestone range, in which was arrayed a long row of tombs of the period of the Pharaohs. [10]
Not less peculiar were Mrs. Falchion's words to Hungerford the evening before, recorded in the last sentence of the preceding chapter. [11]
Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in. [10]
She and Sally were in the clouds that evening. [5]
The great houses were closed and blinded, and in the evening the servants who had been left behind chattered on the front steps. [9]
Several of them were caught and confined in the fort, and, guarded, were conducted to the morning and evening prayers. [4]
That evening March went with his wife to return the call of the Dryfoos ladies. [8]
At evening she went to the station at Fourteenth Street with her father, and stood amongst the people, pressed back by the soldiers, until the trains came in. [9]
And then he went to his club, and passed a cheerful evening. [4]
That evening he went to Carterette and asked her to be his wife. [11]
Then the word went through the valley and the hills, that one evening he would play for all who came; and that day was "Toussaint," or the Feast of All Souls. [11]
Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. [8]
As the sun went down and the evening chill came on, we made preparation for bed. [5]
Scarce an evening went by without an expression of uneasiness from Hannah. [9]
The evening was well forward when Doltaire, rising from his seat in the drawing-room, bowed to me, and said, "If it pleases you, monsieur? [11]
We left Jacob's Well and traveled till eight in the evening, but rather slowly, for we had been in the saddle nineteen hours, and the horses were cruelly tired. [5]
Again whole days, weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. [2]
One evening, three weeks or so after the conversation with Ethel Wing just related, Honora's husband entered her room as her maid was giving the finishing touches to her toilet. [9]
One evening, when we were tied up under the oaks of a bayou, I told him. [9]
The next evening we went to the Lyceum Theatre to see Mr. Irving. [6]
In the evening we went to a large reception at Mr. Gosse's. [6]
In the evening we went to a large dinner at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor. [6]
One evening, as we went home in an open street-car together, after such a departure, Tom blurted out:--"Hugh, I believe I care for your family as much as for my own. [9]
For often, as we walked together through the yellow fields of an evening, it had been on my tongue to confess the lie Mr. Allen had led me into. [9]
In the evening we took the "Limited" for home. [9]
For several weeks we played whist with him every evening, for Liebig, like so many other scholars, regarded card-playing as the best recreation after severe tension of the mind. [10]
At two o'clock we meet--work, talk, and walk together till five, her dinner-hour, spend the evening together, when she converses fluently and abundantly, and with the most complete frankness. [14]
In the evening we had music; the professor playing on the piano, his two daughters, Mrs. Conybeare and her unmarried sister, singing, and a young lady playing the violin. [6]
The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort. [4]
The evening before we came to the Suez Canal I was walking with Miss Treherne and her father. [11]
I have my way of thinking, you have yours; thus we each know what the other means; but after the tragedy comes the satyr play, and we may as well finish this agitating evening with an hour's friendly chat. [10]
We shot a water-fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn't go to bed early enough in the evening. [5]
That evening, as Wassef the camel-driver went to the mosque to pray, Fatima cursed him, because now all the village laughed secretly at the revenge that Wassef had taken upon the lover of his daughter. [11]
Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
How great it was, Pierre's words as he stood at the door one evening will testify. [11]
And so it was, for when evening came no carts had been provided. [2]
Your morning draught was well enough, but we don't care for your evening slip-slop. [6]
Seeing that he was up and dressed, and that the room appeared to have been occupied ever since she quitted it on the previous evening, she stopped short, in some embarrassment. [12]
As the patient was to sit up in the evening, he appointed to visit her in her room at a certain hour, and rambling out with his book, did not return until the hour arrived. [12]
And behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the dungeons the evening before! [5]
The unmentioned fact was that Jack had taken a little flier in Oshkosh, and a hint from Henderson one evening at the Union, when the venture looked squally, had let him out of a heavy loss into a small profit, and Jack felt grateful. [4]
The late evening was spent in gaiety with her grandfather and the Chevalier; but at night when she went to bed she could not sleep. [11]
That evening Rufinus was sitting in the garden with his wife and daughter and their friend Philippus. [10]

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