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Sentences starting with past

Past and gone were the idyls of which it had been the stage. [9]
Past and future were blotted out, and he lived only in the present. [9]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
Past twelve o'clock is the dead of night here. [12]
Past grievances are forgotten. [10]
Past master of dissimulation that he was, he had made up his mind--if he should find Cynthia at home--to lay the letters indifferently on the table and walk into his bedroom. [9]

Sentences ending with past

As I told you once, the days of useless martyrdom are past. [9]
But explain where you have been for this week past. [9]
It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
I think I wrote until 2 or half past. [5]
I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
Now a toreador, whom he had seen more than once in the arena, strutted past. [10]
For it's rest when the gallop is over, my men, And it's here's to the lads that have ridden their last; And it's here's to the lasses we leave in the glen, With a smile for the future, a sigh for the past! [11]
The old man wept too, but his tears were tears of joy and he repeatedly assured Cambyses that he would recover and have ample opportunity of making amends for the past. [10]
And the moment was past. [9]
But that time was past. [10]

Short sentences using past

Past, party of the, 147. [6]
Do not believe the past. [6]
They talk of the Past. [5]
They are past thanking you. [5]
That life was past. [9]
The danger is past now. [9]
I went on past him. [9]
It was past one o'clock. [2]
It was past midnight. [2]
It is past midnight. [11]

Sentences containing past two or more times

She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village. [2]
Drunken soldiers staggered past me; hags begged for sous or bread at corners; and devoted priests and long-robed Recollet monks, cowled and alert, hurried past, silent, and worn with labours, watchings, and prayers. [11]
He passed them over to the wife of Fielding Bey with whom he had shared past secrets and past dangers. [11]
That little spot of blood in the crumpled handkerchief which had flashed past his eye was the fatal message he had sought to elude for months past. [11]
My eyes can never bear to look upon the past again, the past with you-- never. [11]
Howells, Hay, Aldrich, Matthews, Stockton, Cable, Remus--how their young hopes and ambitions come flooding back to my memory now, out of the vague far past, the beautiful past, the lamented past! [5]
Much of my life in the past was mean and small, so much that I have said and done has been unworthy --my love for you is too sharp a light for my gross imperfections of the past! [11]
All that happened in the past four years went rushing past, and she saw herself in scenes which were so tormenting in their reality that once she cried out as in a nightmare. [11]
For the past I am responsible, and for the past I will speak from the past; but for the deeds of the present I will speak only from the present. [11]

More example sentences with the word past in them

Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
My past gives you the right to do so. [10]
After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour. [9]
During the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness. [7]
Prince Eugene of Wurttemberg fired from a hill over the French crowds that were running past, and demanded reinforcements which did not arrive. [2]
The principle is wrong, the day is past when such things can be done--in that way. [9]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
It bore these words: "Miss Ogle, Past, Present, and Future. [6]
The old Italian woman, her duenna, always called her Donna Isabella, but she possessed little more knowledge of her past than I. [10]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
Leicester was riding with the Knights Tilters, and as they cantered lightly past the dais, trailing their spears in obeisance, Elizabeth engaged herself in talk with Cecil, who was standing near, and appeared not to see the favourite. [11]
He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
The schoolhouse stood with pines about Upon the hill, and ever A creek, where hid the speckled trout, Ran past it to the river. [11]
Three mendicant friars, with overflowing pouches, pressed past them, and two others were still standing with the men and the maidservants assembled in the light of the lanterns. [10]
You are acquainted with my past life. [10]
The great hall, with its gallery, and its hangings, and the long table made from the trunk of a single tree, carries one back into the past centuries. [6]
All Katharina's sympathy with Heliodora had died finally in the course of the past, moonless night. [10]
Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites. [6]
It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
He was living with a past which had been everlasting distant, and had now become a vivid and buffeting present. [11]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Medea, so the wise woman was called, though scarcely past five and forty, harmonized in appearance with this strange habitation, full as it was of objects calculated to rouse repulsion, dread, and amazement. [10]
Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive. [2]
They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
But, on the whole, we rolled southward happily, between high walls and hedges, past trim gardens and fields and meadows, and I marvelled at the regular, park-like look of the country, as though stamped from one design continually recurring, like our butter at Carvel Hall. [9]
She knew the whole history of the past, and it touched her in a tender spot. [11]
He ordered Cilo, who was then the prefect of Rome, to lead me to the seats of the past consuls and the old senators. [10]
To all persons who shall be so released, and who shall keep their parole, the President grants an amnesty for any past offences of treason or disloyalty which they may have comminuted. [7]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
The young fellows who prided themselves upon a neat buggy and a fast horse made their turnouts shine, and dashed past the inn with a self-conscious air. [4]
Yet the practitioner who prescribes the nitrate of silver supposes he is guided by the solemn experience of the past, instead of by its idle fancies. [6]
If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would. [11]
Denisov talked in whispers with the esaul and the Cossacks rode past Petya and Denisov. [2]
The angry borzois whined and getting free of the leash rushed past the horses' feet at the wolf. [2]
It is disunion which has held our empire together for centuries, and what it has done in the past it may continue to do now and in the future. [5]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
He felt that when the next test came the old man would either break completely, and sink down into another and everlasting forgetfulness, or tear away forever the veil between himself and his past, and emerge into a long-lost life. [11]
You see, Wilhelm, when the Glipper looked past me--" "Your beard lost its calmness. [10]
At this instant, when Margaret arose with the crumpled letter in her hand, and marched towards her husband's library, did she choose, or had she been choosing for the two years past, and was this only a publication of her election? [4]
I'll tell you what we'll do, Count Luigi: I'll make a try at your past, and if I have any success there--no, on the whole, I'll let the future alone; that's really the affair of an expert. [5]
They cared little what his past had been. [11]
Think how fast we've traveled; if we had gone straight east we would be long past England by this time. [5]
Some day the west will be numerically strong enough to move the seat of government; her past attempts are a fair warning that when the day comes she will do it. [5]
He and Driscoll were of the same age--a year or two past sixty. [5]
From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. [2]
Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
His tireless feet went clac-clac past her doorway, or halted by it, or entered in when it pleased him. [11]
Twice in a week, our Clara had this latter experience with him within the past month. [5]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
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]
Fifty years ago we passed through, in all essentials, what France has been passing through during the past two or three years, in the matter of periodical frights, horrors, and shudderings. [5]
But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. [5]
For instance, as we approached the Dardanelles, we coasted along the Plains of Troy and past the mouth of the Scamander; we saw where Troy had stood (in the distance,) and where it does not stand now--a city that perished when the world was young. [5]
I made my way, Banks behind me, into Church Street, past the "Ship" tavern, which brought memories of the brawl there, and of Captain Clapsaddle forcing the mob, like chaff, before his sword. [9]
You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
It is the way a country schoolmaster used to look in days long past when he had refused his school a holiday and it had risen against him in ill-mannered riot and violence and insurrection. [5]
But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,--as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. [11]
Even while she was so ill these past weeks, she never asked for me; and when I came . [11]
Besides, the anniversary was past, and if his Majesty did not desire to hear them to-day, business, or the gout, or indigestion, or a thousand other reasons might be the cause. [10]
She never did; was past the susceptible age when she first came; was tired of the people. [4]
Every patrician who was past the age of thirty, had the right to become a candidate yearly for the office. [10]
When the procession was past and gone my grand-uncle bid Herdegen go to him, and that which the old man then said and did to move him to give up his love was shrewdly planned and not without effect on his mind. [10]
The sedan chair was now swaying past the place where the "short cut" for pedestrians led up to the Trausnitzburg, the proud citadel of the dukes of Bavarian Landshut. [10]
For him there was no outside world; no past, no Kathleen, no Billy; no suspicion, or infidelity, or unfaith; no fear of disaster; no terrors of the future. [11]
His tawny hair was long and tangled, matted now many years past the possibility of being entered by a comb. [4]
Just as he was leaving in the early morning a horseman rode rapidly past, and called out to the smith, who was standing in front of the shop: "The battle is lost. [10]
Not the less was it to be deplored by all who love the memories of the past. [6]
Every morning she was in the saddle by half past seven, and off to the station for her mail. [5]
But the singin' was goin' past and recedin' as before, till it died away along the waves of prairie grass. [11]
Caracalla's evening meal was ended, and for years past his friends had never seen the gloomy monarch in so mad a mood. [10]
A solitary bell was clanging on the chapel as I went by, and I saw three nuns steal past me with bowed heads. [11]
Its curved portico was capped by a wrought-iron railing, its long windows were touched with purple, and its low garret--set like a deckhouse on the wide roof--suggested hidden secrets of the past. [9]
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is the past--can't be restored. [5]
His past egotism was borne in upon him now. [11]
In that it was an out-door life, full of freshness and open-air vigour, it was not antagonistic to her past. [11]
Now the sun was already high in the heavens, yet she did not return, though it was long past the time for the bandages to be renewed, and the drops to be given which sustained the life of the dying Minorite in the adjoining room. [10]
How the grim warriors of the past seem flocking in ghostly squadrons to their ancient battlefield again--how the wails of the dying well up from the--" At this point the horse called Oahu sat down in the sand. [5]
Soon, however, a warning glance from his wife brought him back and saved Lady Dargan from collapse; for it seemed impossible to talk alone to this ghost of her past. [11]
The young culprit wanted to slip past his teacher with a low "good night," but the latter called him, and pointing to the picture, smilingly asked: "Did you paint this? [10]
I found myself walking with Tom and Susan past hurrying travellers and porters to the Decatur Street entrance, where my automobile stood waiting. [9]
We drove and walked together, and discussed everything the past had brought and the future promised. [10]
But the Judge walked past him without reply, and into the office. [9]
And the style Wald--or wood--Stromer is to be set down to the fact that this branch had, from a long past time, heretofore held the dignity of Rangers of the great forest which is the pride of Nuremberg to this very day. [10]
Suddenly, while we waited for murder, a tall figure shot out of the door past the widow, the pistol flew out of Tipton's hand, and Tipton swung about with something like a bellow, to face Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
She did not wait to speak to Ephraim, and she was going out again when a man rushed past her and through the partition door. [9]
Duchess Agnes, after visiting the new church at Rottenpach, rode past him on her return to Nuremberg. [10]
Of course we visited it, and came away as wise as most people do who go and gaze upon such mementoes of the past when in an unreflective mood. [5]
Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
But just what--in view of his past strict orthodoxy and limited congregation --Mr. Engel meant, he could not have said. [9]
She had been very ill with a severe fever, but was much better during the past few days. [10]
For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open. [9]
And on that very day, also, came Jethro Fawe out of the Past and demanded her return. [11]
The President himself values the evidence of the past. [7]
One of those useless, slushy afternoons, I took Tom for a walk that led us, as dusk came on, past Nancy's house. [9]
The master enjoins us to look back every evening on the events, feelings and actions of the day just past. [10]

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