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Sentences starting with shortly

Shortly after this, without coming to any positive understanding with her, I set out for Vandalia, when and where you first saw me. [7]
Shortly afterward, he went to visit his father; and as he has not turned up since, I trust he is there yet. [5]
Shortly after he was with Sir Thomas Gates in South Holland. [4]
Shortly after his victory, after all the important passes and strongholds had been conquered by his troops, he set out for Egypt with his train and the vanquished princes. [10]
Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. [5]
Shortly we came upon an ancient stone aqueduct, built upon arches, and from that time forth we had ruins all about us--we were approaching our journey's end. [5]
Shortly afterwards they turned in at the gate of "The Brackens. [9]
Shortly afterward the tuba sounded to assemble the plunderers still scattered about Seleukus's house, and Nemesianus saw the men marching in small companies into the great hall. [10]
Shortly before the time set for the nuptials another disaster occurred. [5]
Shortly after leaving the small village of Welden, we entered upon that tremendous prairie solitude that stretches its leagues on leagues of houseless dreariness far away toward the jubilee Settlements. [5]

Sentences ending with shortly

I am going to spend a few days with the Langdon's in Elmira, New York, as soon as I get time, and a few days at Mrs. Hooker's in Hartford, Conn., shortly. [5]
Manners," I said shortly. [9]
But Blondin came out shortly. [5]
In any case it will be decided very shortly. [2]
The new crop is a little backward, but will be coming in shortly. [5]
I have told him plainly that if he does not drop all business at once, the chances are ten to one that he will forfeit his life very shortly. [9]
The Consul General has been here five years, and has got enough of it to do him for a century, and is going home shortly. [5]
But he is getting to think St. Thomas is not quiet enough for a man of his turn of mind, and that is why he wishes me to find out if government is likely to buy some more islands shortly. [5]
The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly. [5]
Rhodopis is not at home now, but she must return shortly. [10]

Short sentences using shortly

The effect was shortly perceptible. [5]
He was shortly convinced. [5]
This was shortly after tiffin. [11]

More example sentences with the word shortly in them

The third--Charlotte's contribution--is yet in manuscript, but will be published shortly after the appearance of this memoir. [14]
It is four years ago, shortly before your wedding with Mena; my father called me to play draughts. [10]
And these people would shortly understand, if they did not now understand, that Hugh had come back voluntarily and from a sense of duty to assume the burdens and responsibilities that so many of his generation and class had shirked. [9]
Beyond, the road winds up the hill'around the end of Mr. Wiley's plantation and plunges shortly into the woods, gray and cold indeed to-day. [9]
Whereupon his eyebrows, which met above his nose, were darkly knit, and he gave me to wit, shortly and well-nigh harshly, that he would abide by his own. [10]
The unsuspecting Tom was too good-natured to be offended, and shortly after dinner Austen found himself in the process of being looked over by a stout gentleman named Putter, proprietor of Putter's Livery, who claimed to be a judge of men as well as horses. [9]
Mr. Billings' answer was to wink, very slowly, with one eye; and shortly after these pleasantries were over, the case was called. [9]
A single glance was sufficient, for these good people so understood each other that Mrs. Merrill had only to raise her eyes to her husband's, and this she did shortly after the supper party began; while she was pouring the coffee, to be exact. [9]
She often told us how highly French was valued in the capital, and we must believe that the language possesses an imperishable charm for Germans when we remember that this was the case so shortly after the glorious uprising against the terrible despotism of France. [10]
We shortly hit upon one which promised well, and this one we adopted, and set its machinery going at once. [5]
Gumbert gave himself up to the officers of justice, and was shortly after discharged by Justice Atwill, on his own recognizance, to appear for trial at six o'clock in the evening. [5]
It was drawn up shortly after their marriage. [4]
He flew along unfrequented alleys, and shortly found himself at his aunt's back fence. [5]
On his way to the Green Shield he had confessed to Biberli--who, torch in hand, led the way--that he intended very shortly to turn his back on the court and ride home, because this time he had found the right chatelaine for his castle. [10]
They go shortly to the devil for a year--(which is but a poetical way of saying they are going to afflict themselves with the unsurpassable--(bad word) of travel for a spell. [5]
I am going to surprise my reader with a letter which I received very shortly after the conversation took place which I have just reported. [6]
He was anxious to select the most suitable one; the master who had created this work of art had been his friend, and had closed his eyes in death shortly after its completion. [10]
I propose shortly to quit Memphis, but I promised you to hear your request, and in order to keep my word I have come to see you; still--as I have said--only to keep my word. [10]
They shortly came to one and had to stop. [5]
The color rushed to her own cheeks, and shortly saying: "No--after all, I think not," she turned her back on the old man and threw herself on the cushions close to where the wine-jug was standing. [10]
I am going to have luncheon shortly with ladies just ladies. [5]
On the Nile they met Paaker's boat, and Ani caused it and his own to be stopped, while he requested Paaker to visit him shortly at the palace. [10]
They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. [5]
Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark. [5]
Shortly after that the first flurry occurred. [9]
Shortly after noon the farmers began to arrive from several directions, with mules and horses for our use, and these they lent us for as long as the war might last, which they judged would be about three months. [5]
At four o'clock the doorbell rang, and shortly thereafter Ellen appeared, simpering and apologetic enough, with a card. [9]
Shortly before noon the Bishop of Arras ushered in Duke Maurice, who wished to take leave of him. [10]
For he had the art, in a high degree, of inoculating his followers with the spirit which animated him; and shortly, to my great surprise, I found myself working as though my life depended on it. [9]
Pentaur shortly narrated the affair to the captain, and named himself to him. [10]
And shortly after that, amidst a shower of miscellaneous articles and rice, Mr. and Mrs. Vane took their departure. [9]
The consequence was that Arkansas shortly began to glower upon him dangerously, and presently said: "Lan'lord, will you p-please make that remark over agin if you please? [5]
Another thing he tells you, in a speech made at Memphis in Tennessee, shortly after the canvass in Illinois, last year. [7]
While Paaker was telling her that he must shortly leave for Syria, she involuntarily observed the action of this hand, which often went cautiously to his girdle as if he had something concealed there; this was the oval phial with the rest of the philter. [10]
Pollux, to be sure, had had his answer ready for his master, and without considering how easy it would have been to part from him in kindness, he had shortly and roundly quitted his service. [10]
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows. [5]
Shortly after, we struck the roaring brook that issues from the Pass to the south. [4]
Shortly came a sound that threw the doe into a panic of terror,--a short, sharp yelp, followed by a prolonged howl, caught up and reechoed by other bayings along the mountain-side. [4]
He had undergone some serious operation shortly before Caesar's arrival at Alexandria had been announced, and this had made it impossible for him to be present at the grand reception, or even to pay his respects to Caracalla. [10]
The river becomes small shortly after we leave Annapolis and before we reach Paradise. [4]
Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
Ani listened in silence; then he said with an expression of much disquiet and anxiety: "This man is a follower of Rameses, and must shortly return to him. [10]
I answered him shortly, and asked him whether he had no more than that to say to me. [10]
Governor Sharpe answered shortly that he had been happy to hear the good news from Scipio. [9]
I will here shortly rehearse all I myself knew of that matter. [10]
The Spaniards were shortly going to fight against them and for the faith. [10]
But he was shortly after driven back, probably from an encounter with the Spaniards, and returned with the loss of a tall ship. [4]
On Friday afternoon, shortly after Ditmar had begun to dictate his correspondence, Mr. Holster, the agent of the Clarendon Mill, arrived and interrupted him. [9]
One day, however, shortly after Carnac's return home, there came a change in the scene. [11]
Shortly after sunset she was welcomed to Frau Schurstab's house. [10]
Shortly before sunrise she was awakened by Berenike, who wished to take some rest, and who told her, before seeking her couch, that Apollinaris was doing well. [10]
Shortly your spirit shall take its exit; therefore confess freely thy sins, for to deny tends only to make me groan under the bitter cup thou hast made for me. [5]
Shortly after, Ammonius secretly baptized her, and she begged to be given the name of Magdalen, and so it was, and after that she took me wholly into her confidence. [10]
Shortly after my return from abroad, in answer to his summons, I found him at Heinrich's, his napkin tucked into his shirt front, and a dish of his favourite sausages before him. [9]
Still, you cannot remain in this room, for it will shortly be occupied by a party of young officers who began the fray. [10]
Shortly after this purchase--the next week, in fact,--The Paris had alluringly and craftily displayed, for the tempting sum of $6.29, the very cloak ordained by providence to "go" with the hat. [9]
These are some pictures of Grenoble which must leave been taken shortly before my father died. [9]
She was pointed out to me in the theatre shortly after my arrival in Madrid. [4]
He had gone out shortly after we left, and had not waited for the doctor. [9]
Shortly after six, our pack train arrived. [5]
Then the going on again--so fresh at first, and shortly afterwards so sleepy. [12]
Shortly before ten o'clock he came out into an open place opposite the village, and saw the ferryboat lying in the shadow of the trees and the high bank. [5]
Klea had not observed Irene's long absence since, as we know, shortly after her sister had set out, overpowered by hunger and fatigue she had fallen asleep. [10]
Shortly after the Nubian's return the Queen came back to the palace from the mausoleum. [10]
To his mind, not the least of the trials it was to impose upon him, and one which would have to be dealt with shortly, was a necessary talk with his assistant, McCrae. [9]
At eleven the next night I brought one hundred thousand dollars in bank-notes and put them into the chief's hands, and shortly afterward he took his leave, with the brave old undimmed confidence in his eye. [5]
And though I never once heard a word of politics fall from his lips, his school shortly became known to all good Tories as a nursery of conspiracy and sedition. [9]
Then she led Nefert, who remained unrecognized, into the boat, entered it herself with her companions, and shortly after landed at the palace, while Paaker's mother, for whom he had called his boat, had yet a long time to wait before it could start. [10]
I was never more aware of this than when, shortly after dawn Wednesday, the massive grey pile of the Palace of Versailles suddenly rose before me. [9]
Shortly after the meeting they all separated, and were then observed by Mr. Fox and others to be paired for the season. [1]
Shortly after the marriage of Xanthe and Phaon, Semestre went to live with her daughter. [10]
When he had left the room shortly before he must have been informed that, in defiance of his explicit command, she had gone to the knight's house that morning. [10]
And shortly afterwards, it couldn't be had at any price--and for one month the people lived on barley, beans and beef--and nothing beside. [5]
Our own inference is, from all the circumstances, that Strachey began his manuscript in Virginia or shortly after his return, and added to it and corrected it from time to time up to 1616. [4]
A thriving place is the Good Samaritan City of the Mississippi: has a great wholesale jobbing trade; foundries, machine shops; and manufactories of wagons, carriages, and cotton-seed oil; and is shortly to have cotton mills and elevators. [5]
She refused an invitation to dine out, and retired shortly after her own dinner with a novel so distracting that she gradually regained an equable frame of mind. [9]
Shortly he bounded into our midst with a gallant war-whoop. [5]
Orion's son, too, inherited the office of Mukaukas, when he came to man's estate, from his father who was appointed to it, but under a new Arab title, shortly after his marriage. [10]
During his sojourn in Virginia, or more probably shortly after his return to England, he wrote a brief and bungling narration of his experiences in the colony, and a description of Indian life. [4]
Nefert had come in late, had excused her delay by shortly explaining to her mother that she had been detained by Bent-Anat, and had then affectionately offered her brow for a kiss of "good-night. [10]
I had intended, in accordance with the customs of our country, to choose a fitting husband for thee shortly myself, to whose care I should have committed thee; but the gods willed differently. [10]
The fact is, I must have something to do, and that shortly, too..... Now write to the Sacramento Union folks, or to Marsh, and tell them I'll write as many letters a week as they want, for $10 a week--my board must be paid. [5]
And even if I had not been aware of my good fortune in being connected with such a firm as Theodore Watling's, Larry would shortly have brought it home to me. [9]
As soon as I got ashore I hunted up a striped pole, and shortly found one. [5]
Shortly after this I began to grow crazy, along with the rest of the population, about the mysterious and wonderful "cement mine," and to make preparations to take advantage of any opportunity that might offer to go and help hunt for it. [5]
He shortly fought his way to a higher post and a more powerful--President of the Twelve. [5]
On hearing of his marriage, which took place shortly before my father's, Mr. Carvel expressed neither displeasure nor surprise. [9]
Once, shortly after his marriage, when he had come home in wrath after a protracted quarrel with Mr. Tredway over the orthodoxy of the new minister, in the middle of his indignant recital of Mr. Tredway's unwarranted attitude, Sarah Austen had smiled. [9]
He shortly chose his day, and sent me word. [5]
Finally he entered his carriage and drove away, and the populace shortly began to drop into his wake. [5]
He spoke of him in Concord before his fellow-citizens, shortly after his death, in 1856. [6]
However, she expressed herself very sorry to hear such a dismal account of her state of health, and shortly afterwards sat down with her grandfather and Mrs Jarley to breakfast. [12]
Frau Schimmel followed her darling's unfortunate wife shortly afterwards. [10]
When at last he lay on his death-bed, and shortly before the end, Melissa asked him what was his favorite verse of the Scriptures, he replied firmly and decidedly: "Now the fullness of time is come. [10]
Shortly after Mrs. Hayden had built that palatial house (which had a high fence around its grounds and a driveway leading to a porte-cochere) and had given her initial ball, the dancing class began. [9]
However he may have differed from the ordinary run of horses, he was shortly attacked by one of the thousand ills to which every horse is subject. [9]
And then--it must have been shortly before he was wounded--he wrote you that appeal. [9]
Perhaps the imagination had something to do with causing the chill from that temporary hiding of the sun to feel so much more penetrating than that from the coming on of night, which shortly followed. [4]
Shortly after I had retired from his presence it occurred to me that he had said nothing to forbid my making a boat, and the first thing I did after school that day was to procure, for twenty-five cents, a second-hand book on boat construction. [9]
As his presence had not interfered with or interrupted the preparations, they were now far advanced, and were completed shortly after his departure. [12]

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