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Sentences starting with formerly

Formerly the hosts who came from the east, and fell on our land like swarms of locusts, robbing and destroying it, were spoken of as 'a curse' and a 'pest. [10]
Formerly this city was the emporium for all vessels, but now for the most part they only run in to pay the toll and to take in supplies for their crews. [10]
Formerly I used to listen to report with interest, and a certain credulity; but I am now grown deaf and sceptical: experience has taught me how absolutely devoid of foundation her stories may be. [14]
Formerly we used to go to sleep in the lecture-hall; but his words carry us away, and if we do not take in the full meaning of his thoughts, yet we feel that they are genuine and noble. [10]
Formerly they had taken little notice of him, yet now even the most renowned received him like an Olympian victor. [10]
Formerly he had sought Him in aims he set himself. [2]
Formerly all pecuniary questions, especially requests for money to which, as an extremely wealthy man, he was very exposed, produced in him a state of hopeless agitation and perplexity. [2]
Formerly they had often visited the spot to conceal their arms and booty on the densely wooded island. [10]
Formerly it had often been opened when the fencing drill began, and she had not even shrunk from occasionally clapping her hands and calling "bravo. [10]
Formerly she would not consent that it be published either before or after my death. [5]

Sentences ending with formerly

Miss Bronte was too dainty a housekeeper to put up with this; yet she could not bear to hurt the faithful old servant, by bidding the younger maiden go over the potatoes again, and so reminding Tabby that her work was less effectual than formerly. [14]
It became necessary, therefore, that these two, who had shunned each other for months, should meet as often as they had done formerly. [4]
It will be said that the general intelligence is raised, that the habit of reading is much more widespread, and that the increase of books, periodicals, and newspapers shows a greater mental activity than existed formerly. [4]
He knew the ruin that this gambler had caused here and there in the West, and he was glad that Fort Desire, at any rate, knew him less than it did formerly. [11]
The statesmen drove out from Brampton to the door of the tannery house, as usual, only it was remarked by astute observers and Jake Wheeler that certain statesmen did not come who had been in the habit of coming formerly. [9]
It seems to me that editorials are not conned as attentively as they once were; and I am sure they have not so much influence as formerly. [4]
The place had just about doubled its size, since I was a resident of it, and was now become a city of 400,000 inhabitants; still, in the solid business parts, it looked about as it had looked formerly. [5]
My former superiors in command either envied me, or wished to remain on the same terms of intercourse as formerly. [10]
The thought made him angry, but returned to him persistently during the days that followed,--in the lecture room, in the gymnasium, in his own study, where he spent more time than formerly. [9]
I do not hear that the consent of the maidens is more difficult to obtain than formerly. [4]

Short sentences using formerly

Archbishop Sumner formerly maintained (31. [1]
That is, formerly. [5]

More example sentences with the word formerly in them

The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
He was formerly, you know, high-priest at Heliopolis, and was initiated into all your mysteries there. [10]
He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. [10]
His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the "true prince," this --scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty--he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. [5]
The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people. [2]
His reddish chop whiskers seemed to cling a little more closely to his face than formerly, and long years of compression made his mouth look sterner than ever. [9]
His earlier works, which were now lauded to the skies, had formerly invited censure and vehement attacks. [10]
The good gifts which Heaven formerly permitted me to enjoy have lost their zest; instead of bread, it now gives me stones. [10]
Yet the tranquillity, which formerly exerted so beneficial an effect, had departed, and the measures of precaution he now felt compelled to adopt, like everything else that brought him into connection with the world, interrupted the progress of his work. [10]
Here our men were stationed, where formerly a squad from an English regiment was quartered. [9]
The thoughts which were in her mind so completely absorbed her that she now studiously sought the solitude which she had formerly shunned like a misfortune. [10]
Therefore, if they were formerly of high importance to primeval man and to his ape-like progenitors, they would have been perfected or advanced through natural selection. [1]
If his eyes were again permitted to convey to him what formerly filled his soul with delight! [10]
And yet he was so informed with the modern spirit that he was not content, as a zealot formerly might have been, to snatch souls out of the evil that is in the world, but he strove to lessen the evil. [4]
At this junction was formerly a convict station called Port Arthur--a place hard to escape from. [5]
Whereas formerly many wares which needed to be kept dry had been hoisted from the outer door and the street to the spacious attic, this was now prevented by the projecting figures of the nude men and the bears. [10]
At Staufferhof Baron von Stauff, formerly a man worthy of all honour, had opened his chapel of St. Ann to all the citizens to permit them to participate in the Lutheran idolatry. [10]
When this man's voice reached Hermon, he repeated to himself the words of refusal with which the great physician had formerly declined to devote his time and skill to him. [10]
Oldring's more frequent visits had resulted in new saloons, and where there had formerly been one raid or shooting fray in the little hamlets there were now many. [13]
With Eumedes he visited the unfamiliar scenes around him, and his newly restored gift of sight presented to him here many things that formerly he would scarcely have noticed, but which now filled him with grateful joy. [10]
Salisbury was formerly very unhealthy, on account of the low, swampy nature of its grounds. [6]
My dead mother used to say that there are always more good things in a poor family which was once rich than in a rich one which was formerly poor. [10]
I've never got used to automobiles," he remarked to Hodder, "and I formerly went to church in the street-cars, but the distances have grown so great--and I have occasionally been annoyed in them. [9]
Heavy soles tramped upon the pavement, and amid the voices that now mingled with those she had formerly heard, she fancied she distinguished Maria's and Barbara's. [10]
The lamp-light fell upon his face, and the lines she had formerly perceived looked like deep shadows between his eyes and mouth. [10]
The priest soon united Heinz and Eva, but the celestial pilgrim willingly resigned the power formerly exerted over the maiden to the husband, who clasped her to his heart with tender love. [10]
This reorganizer, Professor Tzschirner, had formerly been principal of the Magdalen Gymnasium at Breslau. [10]
It was as tranquil as formerly, and apparently had neither grown nor diminished in size. [5]
At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
And in order to satisfy reasonable human curiosity, the proprietors of the flume have been obliged to select a bowlder and label it as the one that was formerly the shrine of pilgrimage. [4]
It comforted her to reflect that she was not better as she had formerly imagined, but worse, much worse, than anybody else in the world. [2]
Mr. Lincoln proceeded to rally the Buffalo convention for forbearing to say anything--after all the previous declarations of those members who were formerly Whigs--on the subject of the Mexican War, because the Van Burens had been known to have supported it. [7]
He had learned to love Heinz as the saint had formerly loved him, and he did not grudge him the happiness which, at the knight's age, had fallen to the lot of the man whose years now numbered eighty. [10]
Miss Bronte wrote to engage the lodgings at Scarborough,--a place which Anne had formerly visited with the family to whom she was governess. [14]
There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. [1]
The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster. [2]
True, during the time that followed, Pyramus succeeded no better than before in warming his wife's cold heart, but Barbara omitted many things which had formerly clouded his happiness. [10]
They pass their time now not too irksomely as they formerly did. [5]
It was formerly thought that differences of this kind could be accounted for by long exposure to different climates; but Pallas first shewed that this is not tenable, and he has since been followed by almost all anthropologists. [1]
And just at this time he obtained the tranquillity and ease of mind he had formerly striven in vain to reach. [2]
Let her consider this once more, ere she renounced the eternal bliss for which formerly she had so devoutly yearned. [10]
Kutuzov replied to this letter as he had done to the one formerly brought by Lauriston, saying that there could be no question of peace. [2]
The little of these vegetables that was used was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders. [5]
The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. [5]
In her face there was none of the ever-glowing animation that had formerly burned there and constituted its charm. [2]
If she saw them at all, it was from a different point of view than that she formerly had. [4]
I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. [5]
The invitation to the Rassinghams flung wide the doors which had formerly been closed against her, and she might be sure of not being deemed the least important among the ladies of her party to whose hearts the cause of King and Church was dear. [10]
This conclusion is the more trustworthy, as Broca formerly held a different view, which he has now abandoned. [1]
In Cleopatra's presence the image of the granddaughter of Didymus became even more vivid than that of the peerless sovereign had formerly been in Helena's. [10]
It is said the Fridolin (the old Fridolin), a new saint, but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. [5]
Our court shares the fate of every other in the East, and those to whom Rome formerly set the example of holding law and justice sacred--" "Can now go there," interrupted Dion, "to learn how rudely both are trampled under foot. [10]
Macrinus now governed the empire almost as a sovereign, for Caesar, formerly a laborious and autocratic ruler, shrank from all business. [10]
His pseudo-orders during the battle were also no worse than formerly, but much the same as usual. [2]
Nay, the thought that Wolff owed his life to him aided her always to be kind to her father-in-law, no matter how much he wounded her, and to tend him no less carefully than she had formerly cared for her invalid mother. [10]
But for all that Willarski found it pleasanter now than it had been formerly to be with Pierre, and came to see him every day. [2]
The trouble was that they could not continue to listen to him, as formerly, with comfort.... One thing was certain, that they had never expected to look forward to a vestry meeting with such breathless interest and anxiety. [9]
The artist thought that fever had driven the wounded warrior from his couch, as it formerly did his fellow-pupil Lycon, whom, in the delirium of typhus, he could keep in bed only by force. [10]
Barine shared everything that concerned him, even these moods, and this led him to tell her about the affairs of the city and the state, in which she had formerly taken little interest, his property in Alexandria and the provinces. [10]
Meanwhile Gundel was telling the group how many distinguished gentlemen had formerly paid court to Kuni. [10]
Suddenly he was surprised by the ringing shout with which he had formerly announced his approach to Myrtilus. [10]
Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment. [2]
Gay & Son, Strand, London; he was formerly a conductor of Gay's tourist parties. [5]
I had formerly stood in awe of his presence. [9]
These men are so thoroughly acclimatised to their cold and lofty abode, that when formerly carried down by the Spaniards to the low eastern plains, and when now tempted down by high wages to the gold-washings, they suffer a frightful rate of mortality. [1]
The rooms formerly so full of life now seemed dead. [10]
The Nile begins slowly to rise early in June; between the 15th and 20th of July it suddenly swells rapidly, and in the first half of October, not, as was formerly supposed, at the end of September, the inundation reaches its highest level. [10]
Here was no simple, sentimental case he might formerly have imagined, of trusting innocence betrayed, but a mixture of good and evil, selfishness and unselfishness. [9]
On the right-hand side of the river is Turnbull's Island, and on it is a large plantation which formerly was pronounced one of the most fertile in the State. [5]
The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere. [5]
I gave him seven fish-hooks--all I had--and made him take them; and Seppi gave him his new knife and a humming-top painted red and yellow --atonements for swindles practised upon him formerly, as I learned later, and probably no longer remembered by Nikolaus now. [5]
He had formerly served in a merchant's house at Venice. [10]
He began to see that with her it involved complications, responsibilities, disclosures, perhaps all of those things he had formerly avoided and resented in woman. [9]
Were I as rich as formerly I would gladly undertake the entire cost; notwithstanding that your malicious god so cruelly deceived me, after all my offerings at his shrine. [10]
The Wollers' country residence, where she had formerly been a welcome guest for weeks every summer, was near Abbach. [10]
They more nearly resemble horns than teeth, and are so manifestly useless as teeth that the animal was formerly supposed to rest his head by hooking them on to a branch! [1]
How vividly it reminded her of the brilliant exhibitions and festivities which she had formerly attended! [10]
At any rate, Proclus's eulogy ought to give him twofold pleasure, because his art had formerly repelled him, and Hermon tried to let it produce this effect upon him. [10]
These practices now prevail in many quarters of the world; and infanticide seems formerly to have prevailed, as Mr. M'Lennan (61. [1]
There were also present a very distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the Kuragins'. [2]
It was with peculiar terror that his soul avoided every recollection of his mother, of Theokritus, and all those whose opinion he had formerly valued and whose judgment was not indifferent to him. [10]
So they had parted, and the agitation of this fateful moment was still visible in the features of the woman who had formerly sacrificed to her royal playfellow her love, and now offered her life. [10]
And it came over him, not only the extent to which, formerly, he had regarded the bishop as too tolerant and easygoing, but the fact that he had arrived here today prepared to find in his superior anything but the attitude he was showing. [9]
Now, then, in order to increase the strings to my bow, I thought I would look up some of those people whom I had formerly recognized, and make myself known. [5]
Hyomoschus, also, offers one of those interesting cases of a form linking together two groups, for it is intermediate in certain osteological characters between the pachyderms and ruminants, which were formerly thought to be quite distinct. [1]
H. Bailhache, formerly one of the proprietors of the Illinois State Journal. [7]
But I went one day through Saint Omer, with its beautiful church and little blue chateau, past the rest-camps of the big regiments of guards to a seaport on the downs, formerly a quiet little French town, transformed now into an ordered Babel. [9]
Toward the end of the winter my former cheerfulness returned, and with it I also learned to use the arcanum I have formerly mentioned, which makes even the most bitter things enjoyable and lends them a taste of sweetness. [10]
At the back of the house there was a cheerful suite of rooms where the housekeeper and the apprentices had formerly lived. [10]
In the corridor of the Golden Cross he met Brother Cassian, the body servant of the Confessor de Soto, a middle-aged Swabian, who had formerly as a lay brother worked as a bookbinder in the Dominican monastery at Cologne. [10]
But the roll of the drums did not make the looting soldiers run in the direction of the drum as formerly, but made them, on the contrary, run farther away. [2]
The old church of St. Sepulcher's, formerly at the confluence of Snow Hill and the Old Bailey, now lifts its head far above the pompous viaduct which spans the valley along which the Fleet Ditch once flowed. [4]
The unexpected sight of many faces he had formerly known occupied his attention so much, that he scarcely noticed the loss of his broad-brimmed hat, which had been knocked off in the crowd. [10]
Usually, on these occasions, he was transported, almost inebriated by his own eloquence; but now he chafed at her listlessness, he was at a loss to account for the withdrawal of the enthusiasm he had formerly been able to arouse. [9]
The paper had now lightened the sergeant's heart as it had formerly done her own. [10]
Quincy is a notable example--a brisk, handsome, well-ordered city; and now, as formerly, interested in art, letters, and other high things. [5]
Nevertheless, I did not formerly consider sufficiently the existence of structures, which, as far as we can at present judge, are neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work. [1]
The letter was not different in tone from many that he had formerly received; but the visit announced was out of the usual order, and March believed he read his fate in it. [8]
It seemed of no use repeating to herself that this conversation would be of vital importance; for the mechanism that formerly had recorded these alarms and spread them, refused to work. [9]
I saw the new houses-- saw them plainly enough--but they did not affect the older picture in my mind, for through their solid bricks and mortar I saw the vanished houses, which had formerly stood there, with perfect distinctness. [5]

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