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Sentences starting with tidings

Tidings had come that the Sultan of Egypt had fallen upon the Island of Cyprus, and that the Mussulmans had beaten King Janus, who ruled over it, and had carried him beyond seas in triumph to Old Cairo, a prisoner and loaded with chains. [10]
Tidings soon came that he had attempted to do what the best citizens expected. [10]

Sentences ending with tidings

Four hours passed, without tidings. [5]
La Hire halted where he was, and sent back the tidings. [5]
Others, whose relations were more intimate, pressed forward to enjoy the mournful satisfaction of being the first messengers of evil tidings. [10]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
Other vessels shared the same fate, but none could give reliable tidings. [10]
It was evident that he brought no good tidings. [10]
Hermon was to send news of his health to Lesbos from time to time if a safe opportunity offered and, when Daphne knew where he was to be found, she could let him have tidings. [10]
The latter was ready to grant it, but first desired to know the contents of a letter which had just been handed to him and must contain evil tidings. [10]
The news that reached her ears about what was happening in the world awakened her interest, it is true, but she took no trouble to ask for tidings. [10]
As the galley put off from the shore, and the flutes summoned the oarsmen to their toil, its owner felt so disheartened that he did not even venture to hope that he was going in quest of good tidings. [10]

Short sentences using tidings

Some joyful tidings have come. [10]
Or have tidings from Rome? [10]
These tidings startled Barbara. [10]
Then what questions, answers, tidings! [10]

More example sentences with the word tidings in them

The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
I recall as yesterday the day Captain Clapsaddle rode to the Hall, his horse covered with sweat, and the reluctant tidings of Captain Jack Carvel's death on his lips. [9]
Thither, quoth she, would she send Herdegen on his coming; for she knew full well that the tidings brought by Akusch could not remain hid. [10]
The telegraph office would presently close, and as yet there were no tidings from Hagerstown. [6]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
The physician here will now take the melancholy tidings to the unfortunate widow, and then you can talk it all over with her at night. [10]
The first person who received sure tidings was old Tabus. [10]
On Monday morning, when I come to you for tidings, you are off watching Charles make an ass of himself at Newmarket. [9]
All tidings the west wind blew from distance and age he found deep in those dark-blue depths, and found them mysteries solved. [13]
While these malcontents were successfully gathering adherents, and the traitor had sought the commander of the Egyptian garrison, two more messengers arrived with tidings that the fugitives would arrive in Succoth between midnight and morning. [10]
Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate. [2]
The housekeeper's face was seen at Aunt Jacoba's window, and so soon as tidings were brought of who it as that came, the dog-keeper's whips hastily silenced the hounds and drove them into the kennel. [10]
Farnese's bold assault was kindly rebuked by the commander-in-chief, and when the former praised Navarrete's heroic aid before Don Juan, the general gave the bold warrior and gallant trooper, the honorable commission of bearing tidings of the victory to the king. [10]
The strongest pressure was between the peninsula of the Choma and the Sebasteum; for this afforded a view of the sea, and the first tidings must reach the residence of the Regent, which was connected with the palace. [10]
He would gladly wait there longer to afford the old man's granddaughter an opportunity to soften the tidings of the impending misfortune. [10]
Every day brought us new guests, many of them from the city; still, none had any tidings yet of the Venice ships or of our Kunz, who should come home with them. [10]
I'll send him up to you, but he must first tell me below what his tidings are. [10]
Henrica had grown up among her father's boon companions, amid the clinking of glasses and hunting-shouts, Maria in a grave burgher household, and what they told each other seemed like tidings from a strange world. [10]
Maria had grown up amid the battle for freedom, and knew how to estimate the grave importance of the tidings her husband had received. [10]
A runner came to me with the tidings, where I was building a fort on the Mississippi, and I took Willis here and Saunders, and came. [9]
Comets were portents to Increase Mather, President of Harvard College; "preachers of Divine wrath, heralds and messengers of evil tidings to the world. [6]
They listened eagerly to his tidings, and when he had finished his description of the prison, Darius exclaimed: "I believe a little courage will save him. [10]
Ann had consented to follow this gracious bidding, if only she might give tidings of where she would be to those her friends who would for certain come in search of her. [10]
Ephraim now returned to confirm the glad tidings, and what an effect it produced upon the discouraged hearts! [10]
Away flew the tidings, broadcast, and people threw off their carpet slippers and dressing gowns, and some who had gone to bed got up again. [9]
Then she received tidings which gave her special joy, for one of the wishes she had formed in Landshut was fulfilled. [10]
You know the tidings this terrible day has brought? [10]
On the way tidings of the battle of Muhlberg reached them. [10]
Ann had had tidings of our home-coming, yet I found her not at our house, and when I had waited for her till evening, and in vain, I sought her in her own dwelling. [10]
Neither were the tidings from the theatre of war of a cheering character. [7]
Loud acclamations greeted them, yet tidings of the defeat at Actium spread with the swiftness of the wind. [10]
The Lord chose them out to prepare the hearts of mankind for the good tidings, and make them fit to receive the gospel when the Star should rise over Bethlehem. [10]
Without giving him the usual greeting, she hastily desired to know what was exciting the people, who had brought the tidings of victory, and whither the multitude was flocking? [10]
Hence now was the time when we might most surely look for tidings from the Levant, and Ann would not be out of the way in case any such might come to Nuremberg. [10]
Her Ladyship received the tidings with great fortitude; and instead of the torrent of reproaches I looked for, and deserved, she implored me to go home and care for my injuries lest I get the fever. [9]
By next morning the tidings were in every mouth that a new couple had plighted their troth, and that the Hallers' three chevronells were to be quartered with the three links of the Schoppers. [10]
The paper carried the tidings to many who had not heard it. [6]
That was all the tidings I had craved; as to how life should fare henceforth I cared no more, but let what might befall without a wish or a will. [10]
Near it were the royal palaces and the arsenal, and any tidings must first reach this spot. [10]
She was awaiting the return of her sister, who, she supposed, was still detained on the Owl's Nest by old Tabus's predictions; she had sorrowful tidings for her. [10]
In return for the promise that she would let the Eysvogels know as soon as she received any tidings of her lover, which Els gave unasked, Siebenburg, who had always treated her repellently or indifferently, thanked her so humbly that she was surprised. [10]
The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
He was descending the Hudson in a steamboat when the tidings first reached him. [4]
The source of the false tidings is discovered later. [10]
Els had forgiven the clever fellow the more willingly the more consoling became the tidings he brought her from her betrothed bridegroom. [10]
It was inevitable that she should hear tidings from the capital. [9]
No tidings came that could tell him the things that he ached to know. [4]
Cambyses started with terror at these tidings, as one who saw a dead man rise from his grave. [10]
And as we talked he reached out and took my hand, for I sat near him, and said: "Richard, I have heard tidings of you that gladden my heart, and they have done more than Dr. Leiden's physic for this old frame of mine. [9]
But the deliverer soon reached the first convicts, and the glad tidings that he had come to save them from their misery speedily extended to the inmost depths of the mines. [10]
Always it brought softly to him strange, sweet tidings of far-off things. [13]
The day before she had offered to tell his fortune; but he refused point-blank, for surely no good tidings could come to him from those lips. [10]
A messenger was sent to the magistrate's house; he presently returned with the tidings that it had disappeared from among the state archives. [5]
Presently my grand-uncle saw where I was sitting, and waved and bowed to me as though he had some good tidings to give me. [10]
After he had retired with his companions, the Queen again turned to the Regent, saying: "We did wisely to make the people happy at first with tidings of victory. [10]
See how she receives the good tidings of her success! [14]
When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far away from him. [2]
The gold, the purple, the ermine, the gems, and all the other splendours which she had seen, as if in a dream, hovering before her at the first tidings that she was invited to sing before the Emperor Charles, had vanished from her imagination. [10]
Ephraim had already proposed to go with some of his companions in quest of tidings, when a messenger announced that Hur's men had lost courage at the sight of the well-fortified Egyptian citadel. [10]
The first tidings pierced his own soul deeply. [10]
While some of Pharaoh's warriors offered refreshments to the exhausted, dust-covered runner, and listened with every token of horror to the tidings he hoarsely gasped, the commander of the troops read the letter. [10]
At these tidings, Peter dashed his mug of beer angrily on the table, sprang from his seat, and left the room before the nobleman. [10]
When the garden patches grew bare and brown, and the bleak winds from across the Mississippi swept over the common, untoward tidings came like water dripping from a roof, bit by bit. [9]
The solemn tidings passed from the chamber of death through the family. [6]
The shameless rascal--he owes everything to Antony--had received tidings of Actium ere the ships arrived, and had already made overtures to Octavianus when the Imperator came. [10]
Colonel Carvel was off early to the Arsenal in search of tidings. [9]
And the enormity of those tidings, coming as they did on the top of my dejection, benumbed me. [9]
Inform the sisters of their grandmother's death, and tell them the pleasant tidings you have brought us, but reserve until the morning a description of the terrible scenes you witnessed. [10]
The chief officer of the palace, Fray Antonio de Villacastin, seeing Ulrich slip from his horse, hastened to receive the tottering soldier's tidings, and led him to the church. [10]
On the day of St. Matthias--that is, the twenty-fourth of February, Charles's birthday-at noon, Frau Traut, radiant with joy, could despatch the waiting messenger to Ulm with the tidings that a son had just been born to his Majesty. [10]
Hereupon, in fulfilment of my purpose yestereve, I made it my hard duty to carry the evil tidings to the old baron, and humbly to remind him of his promise to take care for Herdegen's ransom. [10]
On the 21st of April, 1775, a messenger, riding express from Boston to New York with the tidings of Lexington and Concord, reached New London. [4]
All this she now keenly felt with all the earnestness natural to her, but she was soothed by the tidings that there was One who had redeemed the world, and taken on Himself the sins of every repentant sinner. [10]
And he experienced now an exultation, though solemn and sacred, that her faith had so far been rewarded in the tidings he now confided to the messenger. [9]
But it was not of Herdegen that he brought tidings, but of him--of him--of Gotz that he had sure knowledge. [10]
Yesterday had he not heard from the overseer of the pavement-workers the comforting tidings that after our grief and suffering here on earth there would be another, beautiful, blissful and eternal life? [10]
These tidings were not brought by letter, but by Gorgias himself, whose visit surprised them one evening late in March. [10]
Though I have no pleasant tidings to take back to her, I am still permitted to tell her the truth. [10]
Instead of bad news, she was surely bringing good tidings. [10]
At these tidings my brother lost all heart, and fell back in the arm-chair as pale as ashes. [10]
How Virginia envied Maude because the Union lists of dead and wounded would give her tidings of her brother Tom, at least! [9]
He writes in March, expecting that the fate of the cabinet will be determined in a week, looking daily for decisive news from Paris, and fearing dismal tidings from Poland. [4]
Hitherto he had listened to the tidings of battle which had reached his ears with an indifference that seemed intelligible and pardonable only when attributed to his wound. [10]
And she deemed likewise that she was as a watchman at his post; it was at Nuremberg that all was planned for seeking Herdegen, and hither must the first tidings come that could be had of him. [10]
Hereupon came a letter from my lord Cardinal with these tidings of good comfort: that he was willing to administer extreme unction to my grand-uncle Im Hoff, if his life should be in peril when his eminence returned from England. [10]
No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. [6]
Nay, and we knew for what cause and reason, for Dame Henneleinlein had counselled the King's men to seize him, to the end that he might be put on the rack to give tidings of where his master lay hid. [10]
The crier had just raised his voice to announce some important tidings to the people who thronged around him between the Town Hall and the Franciscan monastery. [10]
As to Herdegen, it was no small comfort to us to learn that my lord Cardinal Bernhardi had taken that matter in hand, and had bidden all the priests and friars in the Levant to make enquiry for tidings of him. [10]
While I write, it seems as if I saw again that poor little bearer of the first evil tidings, and heard once more the first shots which interrupted his prophecy with eloquent confirmation. [10]
But the world is enormous now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad. [5]
The place was instantly buoyed, and they hastened back to the port with the grateful tidings to Phips. [11]
Pyrrhus had returned in the afternoon with tidings that Antony's mounted troops had defeated those of Octavianus. [10]
Tabus fell as if struck by lightning when she heard the tidings, and since that time her tongue had lost its power of fluent speech, her ear its sharpness; but Ledscha did not leave her side, and saved her life by tireless, faithful nursing. [10]
He would wait, however, until she came from her chamber, before disturbing her with the evil tidings. [6]
At that point her friend's fresh tidings began. [10]
Madame Jules forgot her breakfast, and fled up the street with the tidings. [9]
Arsinoe as she heard these tidings felt like a sailor whose vessel has grounded on a rocky shore, and who realizes with horror that every plank and beam be neath him quivers and gapes. [10]
Before leaving her, he undertook to send her tidings of Wolf's health now and then by the violinist Massi, as he had not leisure to do it himself. [10]

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