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Sentences starting with several

Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
Several bandaged soldiers, with pale swollen faces, were sitting or walking about in the sunshine in the yard. [2]
Several times his wife asked him the reason. [5]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. [5]
Several people who were thoroughly familiar with Alexandria had acted as guides. [10]
Several important witnesses were mysteriously lacking, and two or three school-teachers had suddenly decided--to take a trip to Europe. [9]
Several approving voices were heard in the crowd. [2]
Several of them were contained in a former volume which received its name from the Address called "Currents and Counter-Currents. [6]
Several of them were caught and confined in the fort, and, guarded, were conducted to the morning and evening prayers. [4]

Sentences ending with several

It is probably true he owed his pre-eminence to no one quality, but to a fortunate combination of several. [7]
Later.--I had to stop writing, for things have been going on-- several. [11]
Martyrdom was going out in her day and martyrs were becoming scarcer, but she made several. [5]
While, for instance, in my fig-eater, every toe, every scrap of the tattered garments, belongs to the street urchin whom I wished to represent, in the goddess everything came by chance as the model suggested it, and you know that I used several. [10]
It would do for several. [4]
I am a director in several. [9]
He had fought a number of duels, and with a certain trick or art he had given the end to the lives of several. [11]

Short sentences using several

There are several ways. [5]
We met several times. [5]
La Salle had several, also. [5]
Among them were several photographs. [9]
Nothing happened for several months. [9]
All this occupied several minutes. [10]
This business occupied several hours. [10]
She has written several books. [5]
Curious for several reasons. [5]
Several of those present laughed. [2]

Sentences containing several two or more times

This large sum was reached by assuming that he was doing service at several different places, and in several different capacities in the same place, all at the same time. [7]
Indeed, they lived together in Ninth Street, in a boarding-house, there, which had the honor of lodging and partially feeding several other young fellows of like kidney, who have since gone their several ways into fame or into obscurity. [5]
Upon its several schemes the Government spent L30,000 and employed the labors and ingenuities of several thousand Whites for a long time with failure as a result. [5]
Several cases are related, of persons who had been blind for several weeks, and months, and obliged even to be led to Whitehall, yet recovered their sight immediately upon being touched, so as to walk away without any guide. [6]
Egger is well prepared to entertain strangers, having several rooms and several beds in each room. [4]
There were several of the cards; more than several, in fact; no fewer than five were sent in one day. [5]
Several fools--no, I mean several tourists--usually go together, and divide up the expense, and thus make it light; for if only one f--tourist, I mean--went, he would have to have several guides and porters, and that would make the matter costly. [5]
The doctor tells me of several old drunkards, one spiritless loafer, and several far-gone moral wrecks who have been reclaimed by the Salvation Army and have remained staunch people and hard workers these two years. [5]
For instance, a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. [5]
She has been here several days and will remain several more. [5]

More example sentences with the word several in them

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]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
Phaon had not yet returned from a nocturnal excursion, and for several days had not reached home until just before sunrise. [10]
Night caught us yesterday where we had to take quarters in a peasant's house which was occupied by the family and a lot of cows and calves--also several rabbits.--[His word for fleas. [5]
We started several years too late. [9]
You've had several years of useful work in the Pindar Shops and the Wire Works, to say nothing of a course in biological chemistry, psychology and sociology under Dr. Jonathan. [9]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
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]
Nobody said a word for several minutes. [5]
She was a woman of a friendly, homely aspect; several little dogs were fawning at her feet. [10]
The three have wives and the wives have several names, and this increases the confusion. [5]
He realised that within one life a man may still live several lives, each loyal and honest after its kind. [11]
One afternoon when, with other compatriots, we were being hurried through a famous castle, the guide unwittingly ushered us into a drawing-room where the owner and several guests were seated about a tea-table. [9]
The nation purchased with money the countries out of which several of these States were formed. [7]
The King Caesarion, with Antyllus and several companions, attacked a woman. [10]
Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. [9]
It made him wild to think of all the several contingencies which might defraud him of that good-fortune which seemed but just now within his grasp. [6]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
For Dr. Leigh, whom she had sought out several times, was reserved, and did not voluntarily speak of Father Damon; she had heard that he was throwing himself with more than his usual fervor into his work. [4]
I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
Lastly, several halberdiers, who were coming from the Lindenplatz and had heard the screams in the garden, appeared, chained the prisoner, and took him to the Prebrunn jail. [10]
Even the priest who visited him several times was by no means kindly disposed towards her. [10]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: "If you could disguise your nationality, you would not find any insolence here. [5]
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]
But Mr. Cuthbert, who did not appear to perceive the humour in this conversation, extracted some keys and several pasteboard slips from a rack in the corner. [9]
For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued. [2]
Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
The sloop from which they came, and the schooner, its consort, were bound for Gaspe, to bring provisions for several hundred Indians assembled at Miramichi and Aristiguish, who were to go by these same vessels to re-enforce the garrison of Quebec. [11]
The tale of which the title is given at the beginning of this section had been written several years before the date of its publication. [6]
This desert, around which hovered gulls, sea-swallows, and sea-eagles, had been for several weeks the abode of the fugitives, Dion and Barine. [10]
The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
At Aelia Capitolina which Hadrian had decorated with several buildings, they refused to sacrifice to the statues of Zeus and Hera. [10]
On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
Now you see what a power Carnegie is, and how far his voice reaches in the several lines I speak of. [5]
In the gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. [5]
Besides these there were several newly-picked leaves and young shoots of a pinkish colour, the whole showing a decided taste for the beautiful. [1]
By the door-post were several modest tin signs. [5]
In Washington's letter were several important enclosures. [5]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
Animals, roasted whole, were placed on the table, and, when hunger was appeased, several courses of the rarest delicacies followed, celebrated in later times even among the Greeks under the name of "Persian dessert. [10]
As several millions were involved in this one branch of the case --the suit of the bondholders--the newspapers treated it with the consideration and dignity it deserved. [4]
The several divisions were commanded by the great Armagnac generals, La Hire, and Marshal de Boussac, the Sire de Retz, Florent d'Illiers, and Poton de Saintrailles. [5]
These several discourses were carefully edited by William Symonds, a doctor of divinity and a man of learning and repute, evidently at the request of Smith. [4]
In the catacombs were buried St. Cecilia, St. Agnes, and several other of the most celebrated of the saints. [5]
Two frame houses were built that year, and several persons were added to the population. [5]
Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
Near at hand were a cow and a calf and several yearlings, and farther out in the sage some straggling steers. [13]
The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling. [5]
The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle--which she could only decipher with difficulty--which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. [10]
I knew him well during several years afterward in San Francisco. [5]
It happened several weeks ago, and was followed by some additional solemnities. [5]
At my sister's wedding, my brother-in-law's friend, a young nobleman, came from Germany and remained several weeks with us. [10]
This same morning we visited several of the temporary hospitals, churches and school-houses, where the wounded were lying. [6]
For several weeks we played whist with him every evening, for Liebig, like so many other scholars, regarded card-playing as the best recreation after severe tension of the mind. [10]
Just as usual, we found the town in a fury of joy, all the bells clanging, everybody shouting, and several people drunk. [5]
On the train we found several Sydney friends; among them a Judge who was going out on circuit, and was going to hold court at Broken Hill, where the celebrated silver mine is. [5]
For several days we fared on, without more mishap. [11]
Several times the watchers heard muffled sobs from the dark room where she lay at St. Denis, and many times the grieving words, "It could have been taken!--it could have been taken! [5]
But as it was, I had a competence and several houses in Glasgow, and I set forth to Virginia with a goodly sum of money and a shipload of merchandise, which I should sell to merchants, if it chanced I should become a planter only. [11]
The principal one was that she would find there several old friends of former days, one of whom, her singing-master Feys, had promised to accept her voice and enable her to serve her art again with full pleasure. [10]
At which there was rejoicing at Lebanon, followed by dismay and indignation at Manitou, for one of the smaller merged railways had its offices there, and it was now removed to Lebanon; while several of the staff, having proved cantankerous, were promptly retired. [11]
But with this was published, as an appendix, an account of the proceedings of the Virginia colonists from 1606 to 1612, taken out of the writings of Thomas Studley and several others who had been residents in Virginia. [4]
The Regent Ani was present, and sat on Ameni's right at the top of the centre high-table at which several places were unoccupied; for the prophets and the initiated of the temple of Amon had excused themselves from being present. [10]
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 whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers. [10]
The whole village was interested, and anxious, and sent for news of me every day; and not only once a day, but several times. [5]
An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
When the death-moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder-arms, and so, as on dress-parade, with their flag flying and the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty's sake. [5]
For decoration, there was an oar garnished with a ribbon, and several groups of college undergraduates, mostly either in puffed ties or scanty attire, and always prominent in these groups, and always unmistakable, was Mr. Humphrey Crewe himself. [9]
Why, she was--she was almost supreme in several details. [5]
The gas log was almost hidden by dried palm leaves, a cigarette stump lay on the fender; on the mantel above were several photographs of men and at the other side an open door revealed a bedroom. [9]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
In his early wandering days, when tramping over New England, he used unexpectedly to turn up at Dr. Ledyard's, the principal's, remain for several weeks and disappear again. [9]
They had now walked for several days, and Mudjikewis was always in the rear. [5]
They had been waiting several hours, and had still many arrangements to make. [10]
I had been waiting several days for her, purposing to return to St. Louis in her. [5]
There she sate waiting for several hours. [14]
He has to vote several times a day; for giving a decision is really casting a vote; but that is much easier than to scratch around in all the anxieties of a retail business. [4]
These explorations and visits gave him material for future use, and exercised his pen in agreeable correspondence; but his tendency at this time, and for several years afterwards, was to the idle life of a man of society. [4]
But after her visit the old countess spoke of her several times a day. [2]
Several Asiatic princes vied with each other in the desire to honour Mark Antony by a magnificent funeral, but Octavianus had allowed Cleopatra to provide the most superb obsequies. [10]
At sunset that very day several guests had arrived as usual, followed by Antyllus, a youth of nineteen. [10]
There were several varieties of gum trees; among them many giants. [5]
Several authors have used the strongest expressions in describing these resplendent colours, which they compare with those of the most brilliant birds. [1]
Several long journeys--gave us experience of the Cape Colony railways; easy-riding, fine cars; all the conveniences; thorough cleanliness; comfortable beds furnished for the night trains. [5]
Suddenly we came upon a house with a great round hole in its wall, and then upon several in ruins beside the village street. [9]
Several times, waking up, she heard his groans and muttering, the creak of his bed, and the steps of Tikhon and the doctor when they turned him over. [2]
Before he came up with the hussars, several adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. [2]
The pioneer went up to the table, where sat the general of the troops that had just returned victorious from Ethiopia, and several other officers of high rank, There was a place vacant next to the general. [10]
Several officers ran up to him. [2]
The mainsail closed up several points, the Ninety-Nine slackened her pace and edged in closer to the land. [11]
They kept this up several minutes; and because Joan sat untroubled and indifferent they grew madder and noisier all the time. [5]
This audience took up several hours. [10]
We took the twenty-five aboard, and delivered twenty-five into the tug--among them several aged ladies, and one blind one--and all without accident. [5]

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