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Sentences starting with hours

Hours afterwards he waked with a yawn. [11]
Hours after all the others were asleep, Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw, engaged in earnest conversation. [10]
Hours elapsed ere the advancing multitude reached the camp, and Miriam who stood describing to Amminadab, whose eyes were no longer keen enough to discern distant objects, what was passing below, witnessed many an incident from which she would fain have averted her gaze. [10]
Hours before this she had read and re-read Ian's letter, that document of pain and purpose, of tragical, inglorious, fatal purpose. [11]
Hours after, when she had fallen into a deep sleep, General Armour and his wife met outside her bedroom door. [11]
Hours elapsed; the noise, the firing, the ringing of the alarm bells still continued; smoke and the smell of fire penetrated through the doors and windows. [10]
Hours passed, and it was very cold; the open wound in my knee, which no one saw, pained me so, and the frost in my fingers and toes burned and itched dreadfully. [10]
Hours sped or dragged. [13]
Hours grew to days, days to weeks, and not until Roda's messenger appeared from the citadel in Antwerp to summon him to action, did he revive and regain his old vivacity. [10]
Hours after, on board the Merrie Monarch, we learned in fragments the sad story. [11]

Sentences ending with hours

I will tell you in two hours. [11]
She had lived years in the last few hours. [11]
Madame said she would not need me for a couple of hours. [11]
I'm sure it won't stop raining for hours. [9]
They set up with her all night, Miss Mary Jane said, and they don't think she'll last many hours. [5]
Perhaps Mark Antony will arrive in a few hours. [10]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
Of course they were pretty well tired by this time, and very glad to sit down,--having the prospect before them of being obliged to stand for hours. [6]
The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and were to relieve each other every two hours. [5]
Ludo and I went to school, and when it was over the many joyful faces in the street confirmed what we had heard during the school hours. [10]

Short sentences using hours

Four hours passed, without tidings. [5]
In three hours we start. [10]
This had occupied two hours. [5]
The function lasted two hours. [4]
Three hours would sicken me. [11]
This business occupied several hours. [10]
Three hours or more! [11]
Two hours since I heard. [11]
Open at All Hours. [5]
It seemed twenty hours. [5]

Sentences containing hours two or more times

She reads in two hours and 20 minutes and will play not longer than 2 3/4 hours. [5]
In one of them to the prince, who was temporarily absent from the city, we have glimpses of the happy hours, the happiest of all hours, passed in this refined family circle. [4]
Very early in the morning, after a few hours spent in suffering, he heard mass, and then remained for hours in the sable-draped room where he communed with himself alone. [10]
We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden--the Ho^tel de France--and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family who always went to bed just two hours after me and always got up two hours ahead of me. [5]
There was plenty of time, hours and hours of it, and the thing that was to happen would happen --there was no hurrying it. [5]
During the hours of the night which followed these evening visits I often succeeded in working earnestly for two or three hours in preparation for the examination. [10]
With fifteen thousand men I held the enemy at bay for thirty-five hours and beat him; but he would not hold out even for fourteen hours. [2]
All this union labour talk about shorter hours makes me sick--why, there was a time when I worked ten and twelve hours a day, and I'm man enough to do it yet, if I have to. [9]
He had been hours upon hours each day alone with the birds, and squirrels, and wild animals, and something of the keen scent and instinct of the animal world had entered into his body and brain, so that he felt what he could not understand. [11]
During the first hours these things nauseated me: hours followed in which they did not so affect me; still other hours followed in which I found myself smacking my lips over some tolerably infernal messes. [5]

More example sentences with the word hours in them

I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
In 24 hours you'll be home, and it'll be 6 to-morrow morning, village time. [5]
I said that you would leave England within twenty-four hours, and that you would not return within three years. [11]
To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
The papers say you have spent many hours at the Colonial Office. [11]
Do you think you could live with such a man twenty-four hours, even if he had his crown on? [4]
Kalamoun was hopeless; yet twenty-four hours earlier Fielding had fancied there was a little light in the darkness. [11]
For hours she would sit in reverie beside her sleeping father, her heart "over the water to Charley. [11]
Other hours, however, would follow, and if the next did not decide the fate of the woman whom she hated, future ones should. [10]
The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
But I was working ten hours a day packing tools in your shops, and all you gave me when the whistle blew was--Jesus. [9]
For hours they worked with snow upon the frozen limbs to bring back life and consciousness. [11]
The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
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]
They're willing to work twelve hours on end, for the war, they say, but they'd want to be consulted. [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]
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]
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]
For hours Philip's witnesses were examined, among them the officers of his duchy and Count Carignan Damour. [11]
I had been withdrawn from all real feeling and living for hours, but I believe that same suspension was my salvation. [11]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
She covered them with rouge every day, to conceal the evidence of the sorrowful hours she spent when alone? [10]
They burdened her with long interrogatories of two or three hours, from which the judges themselves went forth fatigued. [5]
She had remained with him for hours, leaving her place at his side merely to give him his medicine, or, with her mother's aid, place poultices on his wounds. [10]
But Bucklaw said, with great candour, that unfortunately he had to sail for Boston within thirty-six hours, to keep engagements with divers assignees for whom he had special cargo. [11]
But he contended with an alert and suspicious enemy; and so at the end of two hours it was manifest to him that he had made but little progress. [5]
H. Lucas, Andy Wineland, Master, made the same run in 60 hours and 57 minutes. [5]
With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and fore-topsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. [11]
They think it will take but little time --two hours, they say. [7]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
So a young wife not yet a mother loses herself for hours together in a vista of unexplored experience. [11]
They do not wholly refuse their service, but they now require favourable hours to move. [10]
At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding. [10]
If the woman who gave him birth wishes to make him feel new and deep gratitude, let her hasten at once to Luxemburg, where he has been for several hours in the deepest privacy. [10]
Last Friday, Fred Whitmore (it was the 28th day of his apprenticeship on the machine) stacked up 49,700 ems of solid nonpareil in 8 hours, and the type-breaking delay was only 6 minutes for the day. [5]
She has wild whims and dangerous fancies, fills her hours of leisure with experiences--an artist is the Queen. [11]
What I learned while seeking after truth during those night hours ought to have taught me the connection between mind and body; yet I was never farther from perceiving it. [10]
After a little while it was whispered from ear to ear that the emperor would only grant a few more audiences; and how many had already waited in vain yesterday, for hours, in the same place! [10]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
The pass to which the Egyptians had brought them within the last few hours had been so terrible, that even the better natures among the Hebrews did not think of curbing the thirst for vengeance. [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]
With the pain, which had spoiled many good hours for me, the quiet had brought me something more to the purpose-thoughts and plans. [10]
There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
Three years ago, when they made it fifty-six hours, we were fools to keep up the pay. [9]
Cynthia thought of what the lady had said to her a few hours since, by this very fire, and began to believe she must have dreamed it. [9]
He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
You may believe what he says, or not, just as you choose: "So interested was his Royal Highness in the proceedings that he stayed in the ring three and a half hours witnessing these trotting matches. [9]
She vaguely felt, what all realise sooner or later, that we must live our dark hours alone. [11]
When I remember what agonies you suffered in those hours, how bravely you endured them--ah, Monsieur! [11]
More pleasant hours were to follow on the amusing arrival of the Emperor at his half-finished residence at Lochias that night. [10]
The pleasantest hours were those of our afternoon drive in the Champs Elysees and the Bois de Boulogne,--or "the Boulogne Woods," as our American tailor's wife of the old time called the favorite place for driving. [6]
And if there were questionings and little panics of doubt, did not these moments also reveal Margaret to herself more certainly than the hours of happy dreaming? [4]
The busiest hours were probably from 10 till 1. [10]
When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
Mrs. Willis's dainties were often untouched, and he would frequently sit for hours between slumber and waking, or mumble to himself as I read the prints. [9]
Thousands of people were made so sea-sick by the rolling and pitching of floors and streets that they were weak and bed-ridden for hours, and some few for even days afterward.--Hardly an individual escaped nausea entirely. [5]
But darker hours were in the order of nature very near at hand. [6]
How changed we were from what we had been a few short hours before! [5]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
Before twenty-four hours went round, a dozen people knew it. [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]
As for poor Weldon, he would stride for hours at a time with eyes fixed ahead, a wild figure,--ragged and fringed. [9]
For a whole week Pollux had devoted himself to this task during all the hours of daylight with unflagging zeal and diligence. [10]
Think of the weary hours you have given to a rite that should be the highest social pleasure! [4]
The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. [5]
During study hours we were serious, but in the intervals we were merry enough. [10]
Never before were we together so well betimes, Margery, and happy hours are few. [10]
For two hours we sat apart in the station and ruminated in disgust. [5]
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. [5]
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
For some hours we had been making three and a half or four miles an hour and we were still making that. [5]
I don't think we got lost exactly, but we wandered four hours over the steepest, rockiest and most dangerous piece of country in the world. [5]
Some hours later we encountered a huntsman, from whom I procured some gun-grease; with this I filled the watch, and heated it in by the fire. [4]
Three hours afterward we came to the railway-track. [5]
By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
But those who watched him as he retired from the window saw plainly that the idyl, which he had promised them should begin to-day, would assuredly not do so for the next few hours at least, unless some miracle should occur. [10]
The hours he was with her he was wholly at his ease. [4]
They said it was two hours, by carriage to the ancient city of Bergamo, and that we would arrive there in good season for the railway train. [5]
All he asked was two clear hours. [11]
Meanwhile the Emperor was standing in a room just behind the antechamber that had only been finished a few hours since. [10]
One of them was put in the dungeon and the other sent to recover the pistol within twelve hours, in default of which his brother would be hanged. [4]
Whether that run was of moments or hours Jane Withersteen could not tell. [13]
Quite mad he was not, for the illusions which haunted him were often absent for several hours, when he spoke with perfect lucidity, received reports, and gave orders. [10]
The old physician was not dissatisfied with the condition of his patient, but ordered the widow to lie down for a time and to leave the care of her for a few hours to her young friend. [10]
Well, all that was nearly three hours ago. [5]
In Bremen I was most cordially received in the family of Mohr, a member of my corps, in whose circle I spent some delightful hours, and also an evening never to be forgotten in the famous old Rathskeller. [10]
The precious fluid was made by stirring a gallon of water with a quart of tar, leaving it forty-eight hours, and pouring off the clear water. [6]
The river packet was leaving in a few hours for Muscatine, Iowa, where his mother and his two brothers were now located. [5]
He forgot it was he who had left her room, and had set up his own tabernacle, because his hours differed from hers, and because she tossed in her bed at nights, and that made him restless too. [11]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
The storm of war has blown to your house the young madcap, with whom you spent such happy hours at your sister's wedding. [10]
Ten hours from Wanganui by the Fly. [5]
I must have walked two hours or more before I came to the mire of a cross-road, and there I stood in a quandary of doubt as to which side led to Charlestown. [9]
For hours Pomfrette walked incessantly up and down the river-bank, muttering and gesticulating, but at last came quietly to the cottage which he shared with Henri Beauvin. [11]
It was a walk of two hours, but each one seemed as long as St. John's day. [10]
I used to walk down there and sit on the stones of the ruined mill; or climb to the crests on the far side of the pond to gaze for hours westward where the green billows of the Alleghenies lost themselves in the haze. [9]
We have been waked up at barbarous hours in the morning and handed on, as it were. [9]
Two hours of waiting, then came a scene which is burned into my brain. [11]

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