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Sentences starting with once

Once I thought you true, and this letter you send would have me still believe so. [11]
Once more, if you touch the Urania again I warn you, you shall learn--" "Well, what? [10]
Once more among you the antique spirit lives. [11]
Once she loved you now she will have none of you. [9]
Once Eda exclaimed:--"When you do fall in love, Janet, you must tell me all about it, every word! [9]
Once aroused, he would not be pacified by bribes of cheap olive branches and laurels. [9]
Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
Once removed, he would be building on rock. [9]
Once everybody had worshipped him: that was when he had sung in the Mass, the day of the funeral of the wife of Farette the miller, for whom he worked. [11]
Once in the woods, however, they rode alertly, and Dyck's eyes were everywhere. [11]

Sentences ending with once

I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
But now--now ask your question at once. [10]
But I like you, Richard, as I have said more than once. [9]
Let me tell you what happened to me once. [6]
I ain't forcing you to take the money, sir," he flared up, all at once. [9]
I beg of you to push back the bolt at once. [10]
Can any of you tell any reason why it should not have come into the Union at once? [7]
I remember telling you of her once. [9]
I don't believe you can guess, and so I might as well tell you at once. [7]
I will tell you all the circumstances at once. [10]

Short sentences using once

And once a young gentleman--alas! [11]
Bellegarde Once More X. [9]
Once the Chilterns were. [9]
For once he was silent. [9]
Once more Arsinoe was alone. [10]
Once more, uphold us! [10]
At once, you understand! [9]
He gulped once, uncomfortably. [9]
Once down by the slaughter-house. [5]
All at once Tang-a-Dahit stopped. [11]

Sentences containing once two or more times

In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
If she had written to him once, if she had come to him once, would he have desisted? [9]
If the city would only burn, that his cocksure judgment might for once be mistaken, his calmness for once broken! [9]
Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
The entrance doors were once more opened, and my lord, in a temper, at once began: "You press your courtesies too far, Sir John Enderby. [11]
He certainly seemed well pleased with himself, and more than once, as he sat alone, he laughed outright, and once he said aloud, as his fingers ran up and down a schedule--not a man-o'-war's schedule--laughing softly: "Poor old Farquhar, if he could see me now! [11]
This same thing was repeated once more; and it fetched such a whirlwind of applause that Sir Sagramor lost his temper, and at once changed his tactics and set himself the task of chasing me down. [5]
They would be useful to me if said to me once a month, they may be useful to you, said once. [5]
Once he got up in the dark and drank great draughts of water; once again, as he thought of Mona, his wife, as she was in the first days of their married life, a sudden impulse seized him. [11]

More example sentences with the word once in them

And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
And make up your mind that, for once, you have got to take life seriously. [11]
I had read your letters to my wife--" "Your wife once on a time! [11]
You must keep your eyes open in a passado with him, but if I can once get to my quarte, tierce, and side-thrust, I have him. [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
You must make your choice once for all now. [11]
We were again young, once more united. [10]
There was a young lady once, sir, the daughter of an outfitting warehouse of the first respectability--but that's a weakness. [12]
One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
I once loved you--but I hate you now! [11]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
And I tell you, once for all, I say thank you for nothing for such friends. [10]
And I told you, I believe, that I met him once at Mr. [9]
Here Epagathos, and you, Claudius--go at once to Timotheus; carry him this sword. [10]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
I tell you, you will recover sight, and once more thank the gods for a good old age. [10]
Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
Let me show you what I mean to do once we've Salem free from danger. [11]
I once thought you were this and that--I won't say what I thought you. [11]
Oh, yes, once you were talking to Auguste de St. Gre about money. [9]
I said that you were in love with her once, Davy, when I saw you looking at the portrait. [9]
You know all, you trust me, and, my dear husband, my own love, we must part once more. [11]
And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it. [5]
No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
Now what would you say, Cleopatra, if I myself took a part in my procession--I say mine, since it is to be in my honor; that really would be for once something new and amusing. [10]
As I told you once, the days of useless martyrdom are past. [9]
I confessed to you once that Mr. Parr had made for us all the money we possess. [9]
The doctrines which you once professed, and of which you have now made such an unlooked-for repudiation! [9]
Her religion, which you once disliked so much, I will venture you now prize most highly. [7]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young. [9]
In that ability you know I once prided myself as the only or chief gem of my character; that gem I lost--how and where you know too well. [7]
Good to have you home once more. [9]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
I do wish you could come down once more before your holiday. [5]
The best thing you can do is to let me die, for then you would be safe once for all from my wickedness, and all would be over and done with. [10]
Let me see you all, once more. [5]
I will make you a fortune undreamed of, and you shall be my fianancier once more. [9]
Nobody sows it, yet who can uproot it when it is once here? [10]
She's not fit yet to go to Askatoon, and I must see her once again. [11]
She turned away, yet looked back once more--she felt tragedy around her. [11]
You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
Shame seized her; yes, and anger; and shame again at the remembrance of her talk with Euphrasia--and anger once more. [9]
He wore a yellow top-coat, and red-heeled shoes of the latest fashion, and I settled at once he was the Duke of Chartersea. [9]
When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
In all the years Krool had been in England he had never been inside a place of worship or given any sign of that fanaticism which, all at once, he made manifest. [11]
With growth of years had come increase of piety, and it was his custom once a week to gather about him such of the servants as would for the reading of Scripture. [11]
There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
Know at once, ye guests, for I dare not lose time in preparing my words, that a treacherous assault awaits ye! [10]
Once, when I wrote a Letter to Queen Victoria, you did not put it in the respectable part of the Magazine, but interred it in that potter's field, the Editor's Drawer. [5]
He must have written more than once during this period, but the next existing letter--also to Sister Pamela--was written in October. [5]
For I have written about the Coliseum, and the gladiators, the martyrs, and the lions, and yet have never once used the phrase "butchered to make a Roman holiday. [5]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
Clemens would naturally write something about Bermuda, and began at once, "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," and presently completed four papers, which Howells eagerly accepted for the Atlantic. [5]
It had nearly wrecked her life: and he only realised it now, in the moment of clear-seeing which comes to every being once in a lifetime. [11]
The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
He was the would-be squire once again, in top-boots and a frock. [9]
This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
For you I would take from his Majesty a dukedom which he has offered me more than once. [11]
A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
For myself, I would rather have seen Lamb himself once, than to have lived with Judas. [4]
She said she would not go far, and would call at the haunted house once a month for her money. [5]
Some believed he would march at once, others that he could not accomplish the investment before fall, others that the siege would be long, and bravely contested; but upon one thing all voices agreed: that Orleans must eventually fall, and with it France. [5]
And if he would like to go to St. Louis, I think I can have it arranged at once. [9]
My lord Alexander would have it that he had seen the spirit of one who was dead, and he would gladly give his life to see her once again. [10]
Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing business. [7]
Then the King would fain cruise at once against the French, but Queen Dorothy must needs go with him. [9]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
He said it would be happiness enough to look upon her face once more--it would be almost too much happiness when to it was added the fact that she would bring messages with her that were fresh from Louise's lips. [5]
Then his conscience would be clear once more. [11]
I was once worthy of men's liking, perhaps, and I had good comrades; but that is all over. [11]
He would be worthy of hate his whole life long, if he did not seek her once more! [10]
The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
Clemens's enthusiasm for work was now such that he agreed with Redpath to return to the platform that autumn, and he began at once writing lectures. [5]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
I have to work on it occasionally, which I don't like a particle I don't like to work at too many things at once. [5]
Jasper went to work energetically, at once, perceiving that his leisure was observed. [5]
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]
As the afternoon wore, desire to see these toilers once more took possession of her. [9]
He recalled Barry's words: "She's as thin as she once wasn't, but twice as beautiful. [11]
She repeated the words once more, a little louder, a little clearer. [11]
She recalled the words Lacey had used regarding a service which David had once done her. [11]
She dropped a word or two of grief over the precious time that must be lost, then began at once to issue commands for the march back. [5]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
Tim faced the woods once more. [11]
Yet, though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, Sweet echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung. [6]
If the skilful woman, who was indebted to her for many a customer, began the work of cutting at once, her cousins, the Wollers, could help her the next day with the sewing. [10]
A dark little woman, rather worn--must have been pretty once though. [5]
For you, old woman, have done everything with your own hands for so long, that you deserve to have some one to wait on you for once. [10]
The Queen, less woman now than Queen, enraged by the information got he knew not how, had come at once to punish the gross breach of her orders and a dark misconduct-so he thought. [11]
I saw a woman look once as though she could lose the whole world--and her own soul. [11]
When the old woman had once more disappeared indoors, he asked the paraschites: "Whose heart is it that you have brought me, and how did it come into your hands? [10]
As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. [9]
He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. [2]

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