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Sentences starting with then

Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
Then recall to your memory again what this night of the full moon means--you are well aware of it--to me. [10]
Then lift up your head again, and look at me. [10]
Then tell me your grief to-day too; it will do you good, it will bring back peace to your mind. [10]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
Then I am young. [2]
Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
Then I suppose you'll finish your plan of coloring hen's eggs by feeding a peculiar diet to the hen? [5]
Then Mena courted you. [10]

Sentences ending with then

I will tell you, then. [6]
Why is it you wish to get Mr. Allen over the border, then? [9]
Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? [5]
Nobody would suspect you then. [4]
Shorter tells me you are staying with then. [9]
Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
She had been, years before, very ill in Paris, and the apprehensions for her safety now were based upon the recollection of her peril then. [4]
If I were writing a poem you would expect, as a matter of course, that there would be a digression now and then. [6]
She need not write her letter to him, then. [11]
But perhaps he would not have heeded it then. [5]

Short sentences using then

Woa-a-a then, will you? [12]
Then what do you mean? [5]
Then what did you do? [5]
Then who can you be? [5]
Then came another word--mortgage. [9]
Well then, you won't understand. [2]
The delegation then withdrew. [7]
Then my experience with Mr. [9]
Then he went wild. [11]
Then Plautilla, his wife? [10]

Sentences containing then two or more times

Fust I thot you was deef and dumb, then I thot you was sick or crazy, or suthin', and then by and by I begin to reckon you was a passel of sickly fools that couldn't think of nothing to say. [5]
And then Tom would take another innings, and then the old man again--and so on, and so on, for an hour and more, each trying to beat out the other. [5]
After this he would grow bewildered, then repentant, then contrite. [9]
She would first wonder, then doubt, and then believe at last that he was a common criminal. [11]
Then your brow will grow smooth again; and if the model is a success, and you want to buy marble, or pay the founder, then out with your gold, out of the coffer and its hiding-place! [10]
Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
I then read what I had written and handed it to Mr. Lynch, whereupon Mr. Winters said: "That's not satisfactory, and it won't do;" and then addressing himself to Mr. Lynch, he further said: "How does it strike you? [5]
At first we were surprised; then we were grieved; then we were indignant. [4]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]

More example sentences with the word then in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
And then came your party, and Glencoe, and that curious incident at the Fair. [9]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
I suppose then, your friend Gyges speaks Greek better than you do? [10]
You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
Is swording then your dearest vice that you must urge it on a harmless gentle man, and my visitor? [11]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
You shall have your chance to live, but I shall throw you in the river, and you can then fight the river. [11]
You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
She said: "Read your book--and then I will answer you! [5]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
He was much younger then than he is now, and he showed 'it. [5]
For we were young then, yes, we were very young. [5]
They were all young then, and laughed easily. [5]
I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? [5]
Illness came; then you, who have nursed me back to life. [11]
When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
Then come forward, you, the youngest of us all, who are so highly trusted by this holy assembly. [10]
Then you yourself, you, Ann, will be the island haven for which he will long. [10]
And even then you wouldn't wish me, now, as I was. [9]
Well, then, are you willing to try it out, on the level? [9]
Upon the plains you will see a cloud arising, not in the sky, but from the ground--a billowy surf of drifting snow; then another white billow from the sky will sweep down and meet it, and you are caught between. [11]
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]
In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. [5]
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
For an hour you will hate me; for a day you will resent me, and then you will begin to love me. [11]
And then, sir, you will be sent to the Tower, and I shan't move a finger to get you out. [9]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
Then what are you up to now? [2]
All right, then, you umsteigen--for I hear them coming. [5]
Then why do you try to get to Heaven? [5]
What then brought you to Serapis? [10]
Then I'll take you to far places. [13]
I will hide you till night, and then you must away. [11]
It would take you thirty years to guess, and even then you would have to give it up, I believe. [5]
By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five in the afternoon,--and then you don't know which way the machine's headed. [9]
Well, then, do you think I'd care what--what Mere Langlois or the rest of the world would say? [11]
Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
Who should understand you then, if not your mother? [10]
But, Aristomachus, would you then avoid the few Oases in the desert, because you must afterwards return to its sands and drought? [10]
Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls? [6]
I will tell you the former instance, and then you will see it for yourself. [5]
If such as you take an interest in such as he, know, then, that I have sent him of an errand. [5]
By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. [11]
Another time, then, you shall hear from me! [10]
Ah, but then you shall be my wife in spite of him, in spite of a thousand Philip d'Avranches! [11]
And then again you seem as cold as your New England snow, you have no feeling, you are an Anglo-Saxon--a Puritan. [9]
I am vain, you see; but then vanity is no sin when one has fine aspirations, and I aspire to you! [11]
Well, then, don't you see the fateful moment has come in Irish life and history? [11]
If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
And what will you say then, I should like to know? [8]
There, now, Can't you say-- "In a letter to Mr. Howells of the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain describes the reception of the new comedy 'Ali Sin,' and then goes on to say:" etc. [5]
Well, then, don't you put on any exclusiveness in a mining-camp, that's all. [5]
I will give you proofs, and then if my friend here still insists, I will try to accommodate him. [5]
Let me tell you one of my fancies, and then you will understand the strange sort of fascination she has for me. [6]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
Then, of course, you must show us the mill working at night, and afterwards--may I ask it?--you must all come and have supper with me at the summer hotel. [11]
The thing is, you must know how to talk to them, to say the right thing, the flattering, the tactful, and the nice sentimental thing,--they mostly have middle-class sentimentality--and then you get what you want. [11]
Then again: If you love her, and she loves you, and is sorry for what she has done, marry her and save her from everlasting shame. [11]
Well, then, will you let me aid you--say till better times? [13]
Look at what you know, and then, if you only think, you'll laugh at what I know. [11]
Aw, then, don't you know who he was? [11]
Very well, then you know what to say to Sir William. [11]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
Then how did you know it was written by my son? [9]
I cannot tell you how uncomfortable I felt, and then--yes, Els, then I first realised distinctly what you are to me. [10]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
Then why are you herewith us? [9]
Yes, I know you have loved Carnac, for I see all the signs--" "Do you love him then, ma'm'selle? [11]
From one citizen you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius. [5]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
Should any of you doubt this, you have but to read the "Address to the King" of our Congress, then sitting in Philadelphia. [9]
Then what were you doing with it? [9]
But I thought you dead by now, and--" "If you are disappointed," said I, "there is a way"; and I waved towards his men, then to Mr. Stevens and my own ambushed fellows. [11]
Now then, mind you cure her. [5]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
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]
And then, when you brought me to him that morning and he got up and treated me like a lady, I just couldn't stand it. [9]
You promise her, you break her life, you spoil her, and then you fly away --ah coward you! [11]
And then, 'Do you bike, Miss Mavick? [4]
Then, just as you begin to half hope he is going to discover the cause of it and launch hot bolts of wrath at the guilty manufacturers of it, you have to turn away disappointed. [5]
Now, then, have you been considering the proposition that no act is ever born of any but a self-contenting impulse--(primarily). [5]
I will see you at eight o'clock in the morning, and we will then arrange the order of the procession. [5]
I shall accompany you as far as Edmonton; you can then proceed by easy stages, in this pleasant weather. [11]
Ah, sir, then you are to step in here. [9]
It's you as you are now, not as you were then, of course. [11]

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