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Sentences starting with late

Late in August Wingfield said, "Sickness had not now left us seven able men in our town. [4]
Late one night when the sweethearts had been having a flawless visit together, Sally's interior devil began to work his specialty, and soon the conversation was drifting toward the customary rock. [5]
Late one night, when the delegates were gone, Stephen ventured to speak what was in his mind. [9]
Late one afternoon, when he dropped in at Mr. Bentley's house, he was informed by Sam that a lady was awaiting Mr. Bentley in the library. [9]
Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder. [2]
Late as it was, I flew to New York and got a policeman to conduct me to the headquarters of the detective force. [5]
Late Carscallen was thinking of a brother whom he had heard preach his first sermon in Edinburgh twenty years before. [11]
Late one evening the Rostovs' four sleighs drove into Marya Dmitrievna's courtyard in the old Konyusheny street. [2]
Late in June the friends returned homewards,--parting rather suddenly (it would seem) from each other, when their paths diverged. [14]
Late one night the boat was approaching Helena, Arkansas; the water was low, and the crossing above the town in a very blind and tangled condition. [5]

Sentences ending with late

He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late. [6]
I--I won't detain you now; it's so late. [8]
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]
We started several years too late. [9]
He, as I wrote you before, has changed very much of late. [2]
Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
Don't wait and worry about a good price but sell out for whatever you can get, and come along, or you might be too late. [5]
Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
If he left without discovering his loss, and got well on his way, and discovered it then, it would be too late. [11]
Fortunately some person with sense discovered the fraud before it was too late. [9]

Short sentences using late

How late she was! [11]
Am I so very late? [11]
Now it is too late. [5]
But this came too late. [5]
But it was too late. [4]
I hope not too late. [13]
They are always too late. [11]
But it was too late. [11]
The bishop was too late. [10]
It was late November. [9]

Sentences containing late two or more times

The ladies of the Hawaiian capital learned too late the right way to occupy a horse--too late to get much benefit from it. [5]
Among the people present were the late Dr. J. G. Holland, the late Mr. Seymour of the 'New York Times,' Mr. [5]
Not too late, perhaps, to save her,--not too late to try to save her, at least! [6]
The sunny gardens of the late Judge Charles Jackson and the late Mr. S.P. [6]
But it's too late, too late for my young Seigneur! [11]
The season was late, as usual, and the hotels were still waiting for the crowds that seem to prefer to be late and make a rushing carnival of August, but the tiny cottages were nearly all occupied. [4]
His hours are late, as I have said; often, on waking late in the night, I see the light through cracks in his window-shutters on the wall of the house opposite. [6]
It was too late to do anything--too late to stop the lecture. [5]
There was a late look in the light, a late sense in the atmosphere. [5]
At the seance just referred to, my friend questioned his late uncle, through Mr. Manchester, and the late uncle wrote down his replies, using Mr. Manchester's hand and pencil for that purpose. [5]

More example sentences with the word late in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
I'll certainly..." "But you'll be late for dinner. [2]
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison. [10]
If you remember, you asked me to go to London; it was too late either to go or to decline. [14]
They had not yet said anything to each other, except how happy, how glad, how thankful they were to have each other again; then a sentinel passed, and she started up, exclaiming anxiously: "So late, so late; Zorrillo will be waiting! [10]
Evelyn was not yet out, but she was very nearly out, and after the late notoriety Mrs. Mavick dreaded the regular Newport season. [4]
In the earlier years of his ministry he had sometimes noticed this, when he was preaching; --very little of late years. [6]
That was a year previous to the late Presidential election. [7]
Get them to write their wills now, or it may be too late by -and-by. [5]
The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chicago convention, contributed his, which was worth something; and I now contribute mine, which may be worth nothing. [7]
Of course it would be my luck to find a sorrowing and aged maiden aunt of the deceased there, who had arrived from Springfield too late to get into the church. [5]
For him the world was suddenly shut out, and he only saw the woods of a late summer's afternoon, a lonely tent--and a woman. [11]
When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
Just a word with ye, before it's too late, sir. [9]
In our struggles with the porter to obtain the little items of soap, water, and towels, we were convinced that we had arrived too late, and that for perfect satisfaction we should have been here before the war. [4]
It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
Also he hed with him the five riders who've been guardin' him pretty close of late. [13]
I went on with an energy increased by the ridiculousness of the situation, the danger that an experienced woodsman was in of getting home late for supper; the lateness of the meal being nothing to the gibes of the unlost. [4]
It was the will of the late Seigneur. [11]
Besides the fellow will have left off stealing at any rate at first, for his late master was none of the mildest and had cured him of his pilfering I should think, once for all. [10]
I know it will be late in the season,--but don't you think you could take us, Alison? [9]
He reminded his wife that Mr. Hopper had not been to supper of late. [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]
When the Regent, who had been a friend of her late husband, removed into the palace of the Pharaohs, he made her advances, and the clever and decided woman knew how to make herself at first agreeable, and finally indispensable, to the vacillating man. [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 Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
It was late when we turned in between the white dates and made our way up the little driveway to the farmhouse. [9]
It was late when they parted; the Frenchman excited, beaming, joyous, the Englishman responsive, but cool in mind still. [11]
It was late when the old man came home. [12]
And one morning, when she was late to breakfast, I delivered an ultimatum. [9]
It was late when Johanna came to admonish her to retire to rest. [10]
It was late when he reached the house and rang the night-bell. [4]
It was late when he left the house, but he took with him a note to Mr. Sage to drop into the box for morning delivery. [4]
Such was Berry when he had under his razor one of Ingolby's business foes of Manitou, who had of late been in touch with Felix Marchand. [11]
I don't mind what they call me, so long as they don't call me too late for dinner. [11]
She knows just what she will raise; and she has an infinite variety of early and late. [4]
I don't know what it is to be unhappy or uneasy; and I am not going to try to learn how, at this late day. [5]
I don't know what is behind these things you are doing, but you'll be sorry for it when it is too late. [11]
But out of what canyon they had ridden it was too late to tell. [13]
Yet, if you were to see Ravenna, you would say that that is late enough. [4]
When the owners were late coming for their ships, the Admiral always burned them, so that the insurance money should not be lost. [5]
The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
These great avenues were at all times, from three till seven, filled with vehicles; and at certain points, and late in the day, there was, or would have been anywhere else except in Paris, a jam. [4]
When the ambassadors were already on the threshold, he called after them: "Wherever she may be, however late it may become, you will bring her. [10]
About midnight I went away, in company with the military attaches of the British, Italian, and American embassies, to finish with a late smoke. [5]
They know very well that they are going to have storms to wrestle with; they have not forgotten the gales of September and the tempests of the late autumn and early winter. [6]
Let whoever means well go the town-hall, and demand a surrender before it is too late. [10]
It was very well for these people to assume to be what they pretended; but, she reflected too late, she had no proof of it except the agent's permit. [8]
You remember when we were in the depths of the woods last summer how difficult it was to get up any interest in the files of late papers that reached us, and how unreal all the struggle and turmoil of the world seemed. [4]
But of course we were dead tired, and slept like policemen; so when we awoke in the morning and ran to the window it was already too late, because it was half past eleven. [5]
And why are we always getting glimpses of things when it is too late? [9]
It is frequently water-logged till late in the summer: invisible a part of the year, when it emerges it is mostly a dreary flat. [4]
But if it wasn't too late, I thought I'd go down and drive him home. [11]
He said there wasn't another hole like that in the mountains --and he would have been right if the late mule had not tried to eat up the nitroglycerin. [5]
The only question was whether it had not already grown too late for him to visit her and her father, who went to bed with the chickens. [10]
Last night he was very late, and it was quite light. [12]
She sat still--it was too late, then. [9]
Now, when it was too late, she said to Charlotte, "If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now. [14]
In fact, I was too late, but I begged so hard that the governor was touched by my brave devotion to my country's cause--those are the words he used--and so he yielded, and allowed me to come. [5]
Like enough it was too late or too early. [5]
The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen. [2]
My late wife was the dramatist and stage-manager. [5]
The University bill was sure to pass this, time, and that would make money plenty, but might not the, help come too late? [5]
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]
But, as I was saying, to change quarters here as late as November is a little difficult, for the wise ones seek to get housed for the winter by October: they select the sunny apartments, get on the double windows, and store up wood. [4]
The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. [5]
The late arrival was Prof. Arnold von Tungern, dean of the theological faculty at the University of Cologne. [10]
In fact it was only brought into more general use by Cheselden and Sharpe so late as the beginning of the last century. [3]
His dinner hour was late, and he rarely worked at night. [6]
How quiet it was in the square in those late autumn days, and yet not lifeless by any means! [4]
Their late visit was due to the necessity of holding a conference in relation to the measures to be adopted to calm the excited citizens. [10]
When any one was bleeding to death every moment might bring the terrible "too late. [10]
Her last appearance was at the age of seventy-six, which is rather late in life for the tight rope, one of her specialties. [6]
The new Charley was as dead as the old had been of late, and this clarifying moment left the grim impression behind that the old law was not obsolete. [11]
Among these papers was a letter to the late Lord Eglington written the day before she died. [11]
The late Claimant was a fool, but plainly this new one's a maniac. [5]
But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night. [5]
What could she want of him at so late an hour? [10]
But her mind wandered still, and she sat mechanically looking before her at a picture of the father of the late Seigneur, which was let into the moulding of the oak wall. [11]
She did not wake till late, and it was with downcast eyes and set lips that she went with Karnis and Orpheus to the house of Porphyrius. [10]
Was his late visit intended for the Gaulish lady, to whom she had seen him go yesterday again with the wine jar? [10]
He sat up very late with me that night on the Lake House porch to give me a rubbing down, as he expressed it, as he might have admonished some favorite jockey before a sweepstake. [9]
He had retired very late to rest, and the chamberlain therefore put off waking him, especially as he had been troubled by evil dreams, in spite of his happy frame of mind when he sought his couch. [10]
A person more versed in the modern world of affairs than the late rector of Bremerton would not have been so long in arriving at the answer to this riddle. [9]
And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades. [5]
He was lifted up, carried to his study, and laid on the very couch he had so feared of late. [2]
You can't set up too late, young man, to read Scott. [6]
They still kept up this shaving procession as late as four or five years ago. [5]
Now she took up the beaker, and lifted it to her lips, but set it down again to answer Paaker's remark that she was breakfasting late. [10]
But I sat up pretty late reading my favorite Scott. [6]
Dr. Butts sat up late at night reading these papers and reflecting upon them. [6]
A cheer went up from the men on the shore, and the people who were gathering on the bridges, too late to be of service. [11]
If I get up early enough in the morning, or if I am let stay up at night late enough, I see him; but that is not enough--is it, mother? [11]
There is another up above, but the stair has got harder to climb o' late years, and I never use it. [12]
She was gone until late at night; and when Old Sophy, who had watched for her, bound up her long hair for her sleep, it was damp with the cold dews. [6]

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