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Sentences starting with sooner

Sooner than I was expecting, too. [5]
Sooner or later, then, Jane heard the cracking of horses' hoofs on the stones, and the sound came nearer and nearer. [13]
Sooner or later the Sentence would reach every Romany everywhere, and Jethro would pass into the darkness of oblivion, not in his own time nor in the time of Fate. [11]
Sooner than allow that, I will myself find my way into the house of Seleukus, and among the spies who surround the tyrant. [10]
Sooner would she succumb than betray him as the thief or reveal what she had discovered in the viridarium. [10]
Sooner would he step into boiling water than return to that bed of terror. [10]
Sooner would I see a scimitar at my throat. [10]
Sooner would I kiss one of those serpents or a thorny hedgehog than him, the fratricide in the purple. [10]
Sooner or later it must come--with dusk the end of it. [11]
Sooner or later I shall rise out of this stupor. [13]

Sentences ending with sooner

I wish they would come sooner. [2]
I hope you will regard the other duties claiming my attention, together with the great length and importance of these documents, as constituting a sufficient apology for not having responded sooner. [7]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
If we was to put in another night this way we'd have to knock off for a week to let our hands get well--couldn't touch a case-knife with them sooner. [5]
There--let me cover thy head also--thou'lt be warm the sooner. [5]
It seemed as though he had always wished to preach, and marvelled that the perception had not come to him sooner. [9]
And also glad that we did not make it sooner. [5]
You do look pale; I am ashamed of myself that I didn't notice it sooner. [5]
If she could only have found these letters a month sooner! [5]
In the midst of pressing duties I have been unable to answer it sooner. [7]

Sentences containing sooner two or more times

He had been unwilling to frighten them sooner than was needful, but they must learn it sooner or later: Cynegius had arrived to overthrow the image of Serapis, and what must ensue they knew only too well. [10]
The sooner that occurred the sooner would she see her own position and try to adapt herself to her responsibilities, and face the real state of her husband's attitude towards her. [11]
I'd sooner scrub floors, I'd sooner starve than do such a thing--take money for my affections. [9]

More example sentences with the word sooner in them

His worst enemy, your brother, would probably sacrifice himself for his welfare sooner than I. [10]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
We mane business, ye know; and the sooner ye put us on the scent of a V, the asier yell save yerself from a dale of trouble. [5]
Fire and water would unite sooner than Mark Antony and cowardice! [10]
Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
I was blessed with a sturdy health such as few men enjoy, and came to myself sooner than had been looked for, with a dash of cold water. [9]
The old man, whose name was Ripley, wore a nut-brown hunting shirt trimmed with red cotton; and he had no sooner slipped the packs from his horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. [9]
True, the simpletons who were so madly in love with her, and with whom she played so cruelly, would have believed her capable of anything sooner than such kindness. [10]
The struggle in which we are engaged was inevitable; it might have come a little sooner, or a little later, but it must have come. [6]
A certain thing which was sure to happen sooner or later happened now. [5]
Some, however, questioned whether it was not the work of a new hand, who wrote, not from experience, but from his or her ideas of the condition to which a story-teller, a novelist, must in all probability be sooner or later reduced. [6]
She vaguely felt, what all realise sooner or later, that we must live our dark hours alone. [11]
And no sooner were we outside the gates than I declared I should never again enter a private residence by the back door. [9]
But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off. [12]
She thought it went sooner, as it was advertised to do. [11]
No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
No sooner had we made fast than we were boarded by a shabby customs officer who, when he had seen our passports, bowed politely and invited us to land. [9]
No sooner had we descended than the fording of streams began again. [4]
Her very tranquillity was suspicious, for there must be something of exhaustion in it, and the reaction must come sooner or later. [6]
Why, if he was so jealous, as I see things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. [2]
The word "ice-cream" was no sooner whispered than it passed from one to another all down the tables. [6]
But Cynthia, who was listening with one ear while Susan talked into the other, gathered that Jethro had been struggling with the railroads, and was sooner or later to engage in a mightier struggle with them. [9]
I could have used it sooner, but I was waiting to hear from the Father-stork. [5]
He had been urged to fly sooner, but had replied as became a pilot to reply-- 'I will not go. [5]
The moment came upon them sooner than the text of the play warranted. [11]
These all burn up sooner or later, provided they are not housed in brick or stone and iron. [6]
As is not unfrequent with versatile and inflammable people, he caught fire at the first spark of a new medical discovery, and no sooner got home to England than he began to spread the conflagration. [6]
This was done under military protection, directed by me, in the belief, still sincerely entertained, that with such a nucleus around which to build we could get the State into position again sooner than otherwise. [7]
No sooner was Uncle Tom out of the house in the morning than Anne Rory marched into the sitting-room and took command, and turned it, into a dressmaking establishment. [9]
The sooner the two poisoned lads recover the better, of course; yet the Benedictio Mensae need not remain unsung on account of their heedlessness, for little Hannibal showed me the best substitute. [10]
The sooner they two had a conversation, the better. [10]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
I know and trust him, and whoever expects aught else will sooner or later, by my son's course of action, be proved a liar. [10]
If you come to that, I'd sooner suspect your honesty than his. [12]
Appeal was made to him; he gave assent, and came forth arrayed for battle; but no sooner did the Frenchman glimpse his huge frame and hear his famous name but he fled away, and the French king's cause was lost. [5]
We are going to have them all on our hands to take care of sooner or later. [5]
We've all got to go, sooner or later. [5]
I may have to go sooner if the pain in my breast doesn't mend its ways pretty considerably. [5]
It was bound to expose itself sooner or later. [5]
If it came to choice--and it might come to that, sooner or later--she believed she could come to a decision without much difficulty or many pangs. [5]
It was impossible to apply to business an individual code of ethics,--even to Perry's business, to Tom's business: the two were incompatible, and the sooner one recognized that the better: the whole structure of business was built up on natural, as opposed to ethical law. [9]
The hordes would thus be exposed to slightly different conditions and habits of life, and would sooner or later come to differ in some small degree. [1]
At any rate, those things are getting said nowadays; he'll have to hear them sooner or later. [8]
No sooner had this thought become clear to him, than he started up, examined a number of daggers which hung, carefully arranged, above his bed, and laid the sharpest on the little table before him. [10]
We must put this scrap of evidence furnished by the Professor with the other scraps; it may turn out of some consequence, sooner or later. [6]
No sooner did this idea come to him than he was spurred to put it into effect. [4]
No sooner did this group espy the artist than they moved in his direction. [4]
No sooner was this done than Father Corraine entered the room, and seeing the outlaw, said "You have come here, Pierre? [11]
I can await this coming danger bravely, and the sooner it comes the better, for then I shall have it behind me. [10]
I was willing they should visit Welch, and the sooner the better. [5]
No sooner had they found seats at one end of the car than they unlimbered, and began through their various reluctant instruments to deploy a tune. [4]
No sooner had they done so than they set up a loud outcry, and behaved as if the enemy had invaded the land again. [10]
This may bring them to act sooner than they otherwise would. [7]
How fortunate for them they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery! [7]
No sooner were the two ladies alone, than Balbilla rose and looked inquisitively round and about the sculptor's enclosed work-room; but her companion said: "A very polite young man, this Pollux, but rather too much at his ease, and too enthusiastic. [10]
No sooner had the town heard with bated breath of the expulsion of the first citizen from the inner sanctuary of the post-office, than the news of another event began to go the rounds. [9]
But even on the threshold Herdegen saw through their purpose, and had no sooner shut the door than he drew his hunting knife. [10]
No sooner had the sun begun to pit the snow hillocks than wild creatures came in from the mountains, haggard with hunger and hardship. [9]
In one sense the sooner it was told the better, lest Ingolby should suddenly discover it for himself. [11]
The time for the publisher's complaisance had arrived sooner even than Scott predicted in one of his kindly letters to Irving, "when "'Your name is up and may go From Toledo to Madrid. [4]
No sooner had the newcomers landed than trouble began. [4]
No sooner was the mill fairly started than off he went to the Cumberland. [9]
Why fret because the hour of death comes sooner than we looked for? [11]
One half of the experiment seems to have succeeded, and the sooner we try the other half, the better. [9]
No sooner did the danger seem past than bitter strife sprang up within the walls. [9]
No sooner was the court completely cleared of men by the mounted guard than a new incident claimed Klea's attention. [10]
No sooner had the Compromise Acts of 1850 resulted in a temporary peace, which everybody said must be final and perpetual, than new outbreaks came. [7]
In accounting for the blunders, and even gross blunders, which, sooner or later, one who writes much is pretty sure to commit, I must not forget the part played by the blind spot or idiotic area in the brain, which I have already described. [6]
Conybear informed me that they were "magnates,"... We were sitting in the drawing-room at tea, when they entered with Mr. Watling, and no sooner had he spoken to Mrs. Kyme than his quick eye singled me out of the group. [9]
A man like that always exposes his cards, sooner or later. [5]
Please accept my thanks; and, at the same time, pardon me for not having sooner found time to tender them. [7]
But the best system breaks at political roulette sooner or later. [11]
And what seemed still more terrible to her was that since her father's illness began (perhaps even sooner, when she stayed with him expecting something to happen), all the personal desires and hopes that had been forgotten or sleeping within her had awakened. [2]
I would have sooner, I believe, wrought by the side of any rascally redemptioner in the iron mines of the Patapsco than have gone to Eton. [9]
He had no sooner, however, plunged his good sword into a soft part of the monster, and seen the blood flow from the wound, than his opponent changed itself into a griffin, and raising itself from the ground swooped upon him. [10]
She reached Altotting sooner than she had expected. [10]
They had no sooner taken their places than, from a little side door near the vestry, there entered the Seigneur Duvarney and Alixe, who, coming down slowly, took places very near the chancel steps. [11]
He had no sooner taken a mouthful, however, and thrown a piece of bread to Biribi the dog, than, starting again to his feet, he said: "Your pardon, monsieur le chevalier, that brute in the Place has knocked all sense from my head! [11]
We were no sooner started than she pulled the curtains and opened her portmanteau, which I saw was near filled with things for my aid and comfort. [9]
He had no sooner spied Judge Whipple than he beckoned to him with a kind of military abruptness. [9]
He had no sooner seen Mr. Clement comfortably installed, therefore, than he presented himself at the door of his chamber with the book, enveloped in strong paper and very securely tied round with a stout string. [6]
We are no sooner rid of one hero than we are ready for another. [9]
He had no sooner reached the deck of the Swordfish than he asked for the young person who had just been put on board. [6]
Croesus had no sooner quitted the king than the crown-prince was announced. [10]
These also must sooner or later yield their precedence and pass the torch they hold to other hands. [6]
He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society, and with Sonya's love and his promise to her. [2]
I had no sooner made this discovery, which drew from me an involuntary groan, when a ship's lanthorn was of a sudden thrust over me, and I perceived behind it a head covered with shaggy hair and beard, and beetling brows. [9]
Raleigh had no sooner made good his footing at the court of Elizabeth than he joined Sir Humphrey in a new adventure. [4]
It was no sooner light than it began to rain heavily. [12]
Now I should sooner have looked for the skies to fall than for Ann, my heart's closest friend, to keep the secret of what had befallen that very morning; and yet she kept silence. [10]
My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus. [10]
A man no sooner gets a cut, than the Great Physician, whose agency we often call Nature, goes to work, first to stop the blood, and then to heal the wound, and then to make the scar as small as possible. [6]
He would no sooner get an inkling of what his opening sentence was to be than the flames of his anger would rise and sweep it away. [9]
She had no sooner entered the room than the same sudden changes which had followed my cousin's visit began to show themselves, and before she had reached my bedside I was in a state of deadly collapse, as on the occasions already mentioned. [6]
Ice has no sooner disappeared than we desire it. [4]
It was no sooner announced in the papers that I was going to England than I began to hear of preparations to welcome me. [6]
He had no sooner adopted this resolution, than he conveyed as much honesty into his face as it was capable of expressing, and sympathised with Mr Swiveller exceedingly. [12]
I tell her sometimes that she reminds me of my Alma Mater, always young, always fresh in her attractions, with her scholars all round her, many of them graduates, or to graduate sooner or later. [6]
The night was so warm, and the sooner they pressed forward the better, for Moses had promised to join them a few leagues hence. [10]

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