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Sentences starting with hour

Hour after hour we slopped along, by the roaring torrent, and under noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights. [5]
Hour after hour they sprawled down the waste, and for numberless hours they must go on and on, sleepless, tireless, alert, if the man was to be saved at all. [11]
Hour by hour the tireless burro kept to his faithful, steady trot. [13]
Hour after hour the swing and dip of the paddles went on. [11]
Hour by hour, the boat plows deeper and deeper into the great and populous North-west; and with each successive section of it which is revealed, one's surprise and respect gather emphasis and increase. [5]
Hour after hour slipped away, and still he slept like the dead. [5]
Hour after hour she had vainly awaited the young Alexandrian, yet he had witnessed her anxiety the day before. [10]
Hour after hour she babbled and laughed and cried and moaned in delirium; but whatever her secret was she did not reveal it. [13]
Hour after hour like that, with ten minutes' rest now and then at a spring or to stretch our legs. [11]
Hour after hour I stand--I stand spellbound, as it were--and gaze upon the statuary in Leicester Square. [5]

Sentences ending with hour

This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
I will join you in an hour. [10]
Now I know you have been asleep for an hour. [4]
I will meet you at the old mill in half an hour. [11]
Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
I've added 60,000 words in the month that I've been here; which indicates that I've dictated during 20 days of that time--40 hours, at an average of 1,500 words an hour. [5]
He was also wondering how much right he had to put the strain upon the woman in her desperate hour. [11]
But everything connected with those two is so base and shameful that I will not allow it to cloud this pleasant hour. [10]
The railroad began with the same schedule it has now: two expresses a week-time, twenty miles an hour. [5]

Short sentences using hour

Name the hour, too, Rosannah. [5]
It is now the hour. [11]
Half an hour passed. [9]
An hour, two hours, passed. [11]
Twenty miles an hour. [5]
Quarter of an hour. [4]
I'm waiting the hour. [13]
She hath had her hour! [11]
For an hour he wrote. [11]
One anxious hour followed another. [10]

Sentences containing hour two or more times

A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles. [5]
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]
Demetrius was accustomed to rise at cock-crow and go to bed at an early hour, and he was on the point of retiring even before the usual time, when Marcus came to his room and begged him to give him yet an hour. [10]
They left near three-quarters of an hour before the train was to start for New York; and for the first quarter of an hour after they left, Denzil was in apprehension. [11]
During the evening there was an intermission of three-quarters of an hour after the first act and one an hour long after the second. [5]
Joan lay on the grass, weak and suffering, hour after hour, but still insisting that the fight go on. [5]
I will see that all the guards are away, so that he can come without danger, stay one hour and talk over the future with you; but remember, only one hour. [10]
It had been testified that she was a strong, swift boat, able to run eight miles an hour up stream in a current of four miles an hour, and fifteen miles down stream. [7]
She wanted to strip her soul bare before him; but she caught the look of home in his eyes, she was at his knees at peace, and what he thought of her meant so much just now--in this one hour, for this one hour. [11]
The great ark stands before the diligence-office, and, for half an hour before the hour of starting, the porters are busy stowing away the baggage, and getting the passengers on board. [4]

More example sentences with the word hour in them

You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour, and force it. [7]
For an hour you will hate me; for a day you will resent me, and then you will begin to love me. [11]
Even at meals you never have an hour of peace and comfort. [10]
This hour makes you my son, makes me your mother. [10]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells. [5]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Perhaps there is yet a pheasant in the house, a roast fowl or something of the kind--but the hour, it is true, is late. [10]
Spent an hour, yesterday, with A. W. Lamb, who was not married when I saw him last. [5]
Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
And then Tom would take another innings, and then the old man again--and so on, and so on, for an hour and more, each trying to beat out the other. [5]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
I knew he would forget it in an hour, and maybe be sorry for it, too; but it angered me a little, at the moment. [5]
She said she would be carried before the gate in the morning, and in half an hour Paris would be ours without any question. [5]
I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour, and then I would steal the key, or saw myself out, one or t'other. [5]
Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
After he had worked at the Rathhaus long after hours, he would go home alone, and no one sought him out to pass an hour in his company, for everyone feared the rough and brutal frankness of his speech. [10]
I went to work at nine o'clock yesterday morning, and went to bed an hour after midnight. [5]
For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. [6]
For did a woman ever live who would not give all the years of tasteless serenity, for one year, for one month, for one hour, of the uncalculating delirium of love poured out upon a man who returned it? [4]
Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
It was now within three-quarters of an hour of noon, and in that house all was as still as before; the Patriarch, however, might be expected to be punctual, and she had done nothing towards dressing but putting on those gilt sandals. [10]
My studies began within the hour of my arrival. [9]
It was probably within an hour of midnight. [10]
Nor had she withheld her approval; she had heartily agreed with his views; and when, half an hour before midnight, he had gone with her to visit his patients, rapturous hopes had sprung once more in his breast. [10]
You can't play with yourself here as you can on the high veld, where an hour or two of sleep a day will do. [11]
I will speak with you to-day at any hour you may demand it. [10]
And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
They were discussing with some heat the prospect of having their pay reduced by the fifty-four hour law which was to come into effect on Monday. [9]
Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
Luck would be with him that offered first succour in that dark hour. [11]
Dr. Leigh remained with him for an hour longer, and then left him in charge of a young gentleman from the Neighborhood Guild, who gladly volunteered to watch for the night. [4]
Edith was closeted with him for a full hour. [4]
I have sat with him by the hour listening to Jim Nye's yarns, and I reckon you know the style of Jim Nye's histories, Clemens. [5]
There he sits with a load on him that weighs him down every hour of his life. [11]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
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 did not wish to say "yes"--he could not say "no," and went to the house at the appointed hour. [10]
Philip did not wish to quarrel with the artist now, but he would remember the incident, and woe betide him, if in some gloomy hour the sovereign should recall the insult offered him here. [10]
How I do wish I could have seen you an hour earlier! [5]
Besides, this hour will teach us on whom we can depend. [10]
If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. [6]
A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
It was a wild hour in the Exchange. [4]
Think of her wild fancy as we may, she felt as if that dusky woman of her midnight vision on the river were breathing for one hour through her lips. [6]
Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? [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]
Since I heard who you was, I haven't had a happy hour. [9]
Had the men who were to arrest him or inquisitive visitors not allowed themselves to be deterred even by the late hour? [10]
Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
Of the man who had injured her he had no doubt, and his course was clear, in the hour when he and Philip d'Avranche should meet. [11]
In a little while--say an hour --happened a thing, by my own fault, which--but I have no heart to write that. [5]
And after a while Honora was thankful that chance had sent her in this hour to him rather than to Mrs. Kame. [9]
The little bell, which, summoned all the occupants of the monastery, was heard at an unusual hour, and about vespers the sound of sleigh-bells attracted him to the window. [10]
In Zorrillo's tent, which was usually brightly lighted until a late hour of the night, only one miserable brand was burning, beside which sat the sleepy bar-maid, darning a hole in her frieze-jacket. [10]
The deep reverence which underlies all Emerson's speculations is well shown in this paragraph:-- "We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy. [6]
The pliant intellect which the gods bestowed on me would ill sustain the test in this hour of anguish. [10]
The world to which she returned after this hour had gained a new aspect. [10]
The decisive hour which often unites earnest men more firmly than many previous years had come to both. [10]
It was impatience which made the minutes become quarters of an hour. [10]
There were circumstances which made it necessary for me to stay through the hour hours to the end, and I stayed; but the recollection of that long, dragging, relentless season of suffering is indestructible. [5]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
At any rate, when they met, an hour or two after these occurrences, he could not help noticing how easily she seemed to have got over her excitement. [6]
An hour later, when the room was in darkness save for the bar of light that streamed in from the platform chandelier, Senator Whitredge entered. [9]
At the hour when the ladies went to their rooms the day was just beginning for a certain class of the habitues. [4]
An hour after, when she was in her room, he opened the little bundle of correspondence.--A memorandum with money from his bankers. [11]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
In those moments when it stirs within me, I am master of much which is peculiar to the experience and potentiality of that hour. [10]
An hour passed, when Henderson came hurrying in, pale, excited, but joyous. [4]
In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
An hour ago, when he had been pacing Alexander Duncan's library, the eyes and the mouth had been different. [9]
From the hour when he bound up Brydon's head, Judith's fingers aiding him, he felt a spring in his blood new to him. [11]
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]
An hour afterwards, when Count Frontenac entered upon him, he was still in the same position. [11]
And I knew what hour the clocks must have told when my brother shouted louder than ever the old chorus: "Bibit heres, bibit herus Bibit miles, bibit clerus Bibit ille, bibit illa Bibit servus cum ancilla. [10]
No matter at what hour of day or night a train may arrive or depart at a country station in America, the loafers are so invariably there in waiting that they seem to be a part of our railway system. [4]
No matter at what hour Gaston returned, he found Jacques waiting; and when he woke he found him ready, as now, on this morning, after a strange night. [11]
The news of what had happened had found its way to her solitary apartments, and, notwithstanding the hour, she had risen in order to try and discover the truth and warn her son against pronouncing a too hasty decision. [10]
What a noise, what a clatter was storming in the hall by the second hour after midnight! [10]
Here, for instance, were two far-reaching and momentous events, one crowding upon the other, and not an hour for reflection, realization, or adjustment! [9]
While the others were still feasting there, Daphne was enjoying an hour alone with her companion Chrysilla. [10]
All those that were present had been well drilled within the hour to remember that the prince was temporarily out of his head, and to be careful to show no surprise at his vagaries. [5]
The sought-for comrades were often to be found together about the noon hour in the shop of Jose Lajeunesse. [11]
Anxiety and suspense were expressed in every face: Amasis' last hour was drawing very near. [10]
But as he went towards Mizraim's quarters he saw no sure escape from the stage of those untoward events, save by the exit which is for all in some appointed hour. [11]
But ere he went to rest he thought of his hapless mother, whose birthday at this hour, beyond midnight, was now over, and, kneeling before the priedieu in his bedroom, he fervently commended her to the mercy of Heaven. [10]
When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. [2]
When Princess Mary went to her father's room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne and Anatole met in the conservatory. [2]
The doctor, however, went into the laboratory with wavering steps, and in the next half hour prepared more of the elixir into which he mixed some of his own blood. [10]
Howbeit, one single well-spent hour in life, or one toilsome deed fruitful for good, hath at all times brought me better comfort than a whole pile of pig-skin-covered tomes. [10]
In that wealthy, well-ordered house everything stood ready to hand; and in less than a quarter of an hour the tribune Nemesianus was informed that the chamber was ready for the reception of his brother. [10]
Cynthia knew very well that Ephraim meant to lay hands on Mr. Worthington, and it would indeed have been a disastrous hour for the first citizen if the old soldier had ever got into his library. [9]
I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep. [5]
Can't remember very well for an hour or two,--will come right by to-morrow. [6]
He was not well enough to go, some of the timid ones said; but he answered by packing his carpet-bag, and in an hour or two we were on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad in full blast for Harrisburg. [6]
In an hour we'll be there. [11]

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