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Sentences starting with time

Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Time and patience would be pretty sure to bring out new developments, and physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait as well as how to labor. [6]
Time is money with me, old 'un. [11]
Time passes swiftly when thoughts are cheerful, or are only tinged with the soft melancholy of a brief separation. [11]
Time it was when the leaves were grown Your rose-colour, my queen; Ere the birds to the south had flown, While yet the grass was green. [11]
Time has been when a man could clothe his whole body for the price of these nether-socks. [4]
Time and time we met people plodding along, some of them nodding uncertainly, others abruptly taking the far side of the pike, and every encounter drove the poison deeper into his soul. [9]
Time meant little to him now that he had started, and he edged along with slow side movement till he got clear of the thicket. [13]
Time itself seemed to have grown dull and old, as if no day were ever to displace the melancholy night. [12]
Time is not to be cheated. [6]

Sentences ending with time

It's remarkable how you've come to understand, and in such a short time. [9]
You can take your time. [10]
My brush and your stylus will earn us more in no time. [10]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
You have mistaken your man this time. [11]
I had read your letters to my wife--" "Your wife once on a time! [11]
I have seen your face by the light, and that is enough for this time. [10]
I remember a young wife who had to part with her husband for a time. [6]
Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
In 24 hours you'll be home, and it'll be 6 to-morrow morning, village time. [5]

Short sentences using time

What time will you start? [11]
No time was wasted. [11]
This time he was startled. [11]
But that time was past. [10]
Is your time valuable? [5]
We've no time to lose. [11]
There's no time to lose. [11]
It was time to go. [4]
They listened this time. [9]
That will take time. [9]

Sentences containing time two or more times

But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
He said, 'If you are determined to kill me, let me have time to pray before I die,' I told him I had no time to hear him pray. [5]
Most of his writings are repetitions and recastings of the old material, with such reflections as occur to him from time to time. [4]
The matter will work so well this time that even they who now oppose will come in next time. [7]
Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
The Colonel listened with many exclamations, slapping his knee from time to time as she proceeded. [9]
In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
As a matter wholly my own, I would authorize no biography, without time and opportunity [sic] to carefully examine and consider every word of it and, in this case, in the nature of things, I can have no such time and Opportunity [sic]. [7]
The time comes when we have learned to understand the music of sorrow, the beauty of resigned suffering, the holy light that plays over the pillow of those who die before their time, in humble hope and trust. [6]

More example sentences with the word time in them

He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
Say--the next time you're going in there, don't you reckon you could spread the door and--" "No, indeedy! [5]
At another time you're all for work. [12]
And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers, whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time you jack up the wages. [9]
I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
But this time your suspicions happen to be misplaced. [10]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. [11]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
I fully acknowledge your courage, but at the same time advise you to remember that, though a man proves his courage in action, a woman's is shown in obedience. [10]
When old Col. Youngs talks this way, I think it time to get a fine office. [5]
We are both young; time is with us; and we will flourish palms in the face of Europe yet. [11]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit. [6]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
Do you think you'd have time to drop in to see me, Minnie, before your train goes? [9]
I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
I never loved you, never truly loved you at any time. [11]
Oh, I warn you, my dear, there's a good time coming, and it'll be right along before you know what you're about, too. [5]
Yet I'm glad you wrote me; it gave me time to think, and I can tell you the truth as I see it. [11]
I with you, you with me, till the end of time. [10]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
Might I ask you to give me the time? [5]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
Oh, I implore you to crush out that fatal habit while it may yet be time! [5]
I simply ask you to come to see me when you find time. [13]
But I'd like you to believe that when I agreed with with the sentiments you expressed the first time I saw you, I was sincere. [9]
Do you know--have you thought that very soon--by this time to-morrow--you will be Elizabeth Venters? [13]
And what do you think it was that saved the ship, and Captain Coram, and so in due time gave to London that Foundling Hospital which he endowed, and under the floor of which he lies buried? [6]
I could give you the details if I had time. [5]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
Where better can you take your pleasure for the last time? [11]
Another time, then, you shall hear from me! [10]
By this time, you see, I had gotten used to expecting everything Joan said to come true. [5]
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
The last time you saw me you offered me your hand and heart. [11]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
About this time you notice, in protected, sunny spots, that the grass has a little color. [4]
I will thank you not to make it public until General Fremont shall have had time to receive the original. [7]
And I give you my honour, mon cher Courtenay, that I lost no time in getting back to Arlington Street, and called Dorothy down to tell her. [9]
Speed also says you must not fail to send us the New York Journal he wrote for some time since. [7]
I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
He said: "If you know that to be true, you have not lost your time, Captain. [5]
Let me help you into the house, and lie down on the cushion for a time. [10]
Then: "Hovey, were you here in my father's time? [11]
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
And I saw you growing away from me all the time, Hugh, growing away from the friends who were fond of you, as though you were fading in the distance. [9]
I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me. [12]
I have known you for some time, though I think you did not know me. [6]
What time did you fix for goin'? [11]
The next time you come to call I pray you leave your travelling show at home. [9]
For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
Any time that you can make it convenient to tarry a day or two with me, I shall be glad to have you. [5]
With us what you call time is a spacious thing; it takes a long stretch of it to grow an angel to full age. [5]
Your eyes and you are out of commission for some time, anyhow. [11]
For this time you are excused from any further punishment. [10]
By the time you are chastened unto heaven you will be too companionable to lose. [11]
I do hope you are all well and having as jolly a time as we are, for I love you, sweetheart, and also, in a measure, the Bays. [5]
I will tell you another time what that casket of treasures is like. [10]
What extravagant fancies you and I have seriously entertained at one time or another! [6]
I've lived with you all this time, and you do not know me any better than you know--the scrub-woman. [9]
But I warn you all that a time 's coming when you're going to feel sick whenever you think of this day. [5]
It might give you a novel sensation to walk in at any time. [4]
Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
It does not yield to time nor to decay, to the long wash of experience that wears away the stone, nor to disintegration. [11]
You are young yet, and I am offering myself for all time. [9]
It was not yet time to discuss the matter with any one. [10]
To go while yet there was time, and smooth for ever the way for others by an eternal silence--that seemed well. [11]
Rostov had not yet had time to get his uniform. [2]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
He saw it yesterday; said it was dying, then, so I reckon it's dead by this time. [5]
It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
He was eighty-three years old at the time of writing it. [3]
Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
After being five years at the Port School, the time drew near when I was to enter college. [6]
And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
And yet I yearned to go back, and looked forward eagerly to the time when I should have stored enough in my head to gain admission to the bar. [9]
Know at once, ye guests, for I dare not lose time in preparing my words, that a treacherous assault awaits ye! [10]
In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]

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