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Sentences starting with twice

Twice in a week, our Clara had this latter experience with him within the past month. [5]
Twice in one week did this fever surge up in him, and it caught him in those moments when, exhausted by the struggle of his mind to adapt itself to the new conditions, his senses were delicately susceptible. [11]
Twice or thrice we seemed to get the signal, and a shout was just ready to break from the men's lips when they perceived it was a false alarm. [5]
Twice that day was the future revealed to Stephen. [9]
Twice again he was in prison because the societies met at his house. [9]
Twice Detricand's hand was gashed slightly, and then he pinioned the wrist of his enemy, and tripped him up. [11]
Twice Mrs. Temple tried to speak. [9]
Twice I have travelled to the grave where he lies. [11]
Twice he moved toward the secretary, and twice he turned away again; but finally he said: "This may be my last night in the world--I must not take the chance. [5]
Twice his shots took effect; one man was wounded, and one killed. [11]

Sentences ending with twice

I gave you your life twice. [11]
After this there was a lull, and poor Mrs. Sprowle's head nodded once or twice. [6]
Bob's been carved up some with a bowie, and Tom's been hurt once or twice. [5]
She's be'n here twice. [9]
Fortunately I thought twice. [9]
You've seen me try that button twice. [5]
They say Platov took 'Poleon himself twice. [2]
He never has to think twice. [11]
But few dare to take advantage of it, and they never do so twice. [9]
While talking to Tikhon he asked about me twice. [2]

Short sentences using twice

Greevy fired twice wide. [11]
He fired twice quickly. [11]
One man is hit twice. [11]
Twice he cleared hip throat. [9]
Twice as large as mine! [6]
He cheated twice. [11]

Sentences containing twice two or more times

He has been twice to Piccadilly after me, and twice here, and swears he will have my heart. [9]
Twice he tried to speak his name, and twice he failed. [9]
He not obliged to sing now, only twice every year; but if he not sing twice each year they take him his pension away. [5]
Twice Virginia was summoned to her aunt, and twice she made excuse. [9]
One of the richest among the Athenian exiles, he had twice bought the possessions of Pisistratus from the state, and twice been obliged to surrender them, on the tyrant's return to power. [10]
Twice she put out her hand to take the garment again, and twice she refrained. [5]
Jethro chuckled twice on his way home: he chuckled twice again to Cynthia's delight at supper, and after supper he sent Millicent Skinner to find Jake Wheeler. [9]
This chute was not more than twice as wide and high as a Saratoga trunk, and was walled, roofed and floored with solid blocks of Egyptian granite as wide as a wardrobe, twice as thick and three times as long. [5]
The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. [2]
Do you think--no, don't look at me, look away off at that sail do you-think that, if I had been poor, Mr. Burnett would have seen me only twice, just twice, all last season? [4]

More example sentences with the word twice in them

Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here. [5]
Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
But twice every year he went to yonder point and spoke out the King's words to him: 'John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York? [11]
Gras had already written twice to his master, telling him with what gratifying patience Hermon was beginning to submit to his great misfortune, when the notary Melampus returned from Alexandria with news which produced the most delightful transformation in the blind artist's outer life. [10]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
He recalled Barry's words: "She's as thin as she once wasn't, but twice as beautiful. [11]
I write 2,000 words a day; I think I can dictate twice as many. [5]
She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
You see, it will take nearly twice as long to do the first set as it will to do the second, and that will give you a marked sense of the difference in length of the two reigns. [5]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
We asked him why, once or twice, as we walked back to the camp but he still said it was no matter. [5]
I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
By John Jones, who saw him once in a street car and twice in a barber shop. [5]
Maine has 581,813, while South Carolina has 274,567; Maine has twice as many as South Carolina, and 32,679 over. [7]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
Once or twice when a wild storm was on I could not land at Cap Martin, and was carried out to sea and over to France. [11]
She comes every week, sometimes twice, she brings me little delicacies, new seeds for my garden. [9]
Once or twice we have found him admitting still more objectionable articles into his materia medica; in doing which, I am sorry to say that he could plead grave and learned authority. [3]
The imaginary man was unprincipled, and had no dignity, but he had such influence over Austen Vane that he had induced him to drive twice within sight of Fairview gate, when Austen Vane had turned round again. [9]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
When Dr. Leiden was still coming twice a day to Gloucester Street, Mr. Tom must needs get into a scrape with one of the ladies of the theatre, and come to me in the Circle chambers for one hundred pounds. [9]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
That fiery jumble was an enchanting thing to look at, and we stayed out the performance; one cannot have such a show as that twice in a lifetime. [5]
That night a warm heavy rain came on, and in the morning every stream and river was swollen to twice its size. [11]
But really, you want to let him take a shy at your palms once; it's worth twice the price of admission or your money's returned at the door. [5]
Lawless rose, and walked up and down the room once or twice, pulling at his beard and frowning. [11]
The constables of Vilray had twice visited the Manor to arrest him that day, but they had been led in another direction by a clue which he had provided; and afterwards in the dusk he had doubled back and hid himself under Jean Jacques' roof. [11]
His Majesty usually uttered exactly the opposite of his real opinions, and therefore, in the outline of his abdication speech, he twice emphasized how great a debt of gratitude Don Philip owed him for the Heritage which while still alive he bequeathed to him. [10]
He dined with us twice during his short stay, and was most delightful and agreeable. [6]
A man who understands the use of edged tools can get along twice as fast with a knife and fork as he can with a fork alone. [4]
And I guess Uncle Jethro will get to Boston twice a month if you're there. [9]
Yet once or twice, they said, men had come up from it no worse at all. [11]
The stranger spat twice, regarded Mr. Brice pityingly, and finally led him in silence past the picket fence and the New England-looking meeting-house opposite until they came to the great square on which the State House squatted. [9]
Yet once or twice, from things they said, I came to know that all was not well between Bigot and Doltaire on one hand, and Doltaire and the Governor on the other. [11]
I've seen him twice, but he never told me. [9]
I've seen him twice, as I see you now. [2]
Austen Vane called twice, and then made an arrangement with young Dr. Tredway (one of the numerous Ripton Tredways whose money had founded the hospital) that he was to see Mr. Meader as soon as he was able to sustain a conversation. [9]
But once or twice when he met Clarence Colfax at these houses he was aware of a decided change in the attitude of that young gentleman. [9]
Did fate deal twice to those whom she had made novices? [9]
I writ him twice to the capital, and give him fair warning afore he went. [9]
Then I called twice to Doltaire to stop. [11]
Makar Alexeevich came twice that evening shuffling along in his galoshes as far as the door and stopped and looked ingratiatingly at Pierre. [2]
Only once or twice since that day on the Ecrehos, so fateful to them both, had Guida seen Ranulph. [11]
I read them twice over, and then, despite the lateness of the hour, I sat staring at the candles, reflecting upon my own helplessness. [9]
And he heard, twice or thrice, the word "Scab! [9]
I had been twice invited to weddings in that famous room: once to the marriage of my friend Motley's daughter, then to that of Mr. Frederick Locker's daughter to Lionel Tennyson, whose recent death has been so deeply mourned. [6]
The dwarf had twice encountered him when he was endeavouring to obtain intelligence of the fugitives. [12]
She read it twice before the full meaning of it came to her, and after that she could not well mistake it,--the language being so admirable in every way. [9]
Consequently, wages were twice as high in the North as they were in the South, because the one wage had that much more purchasing power than the other had. [5]
Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night. [2]
Boris passed them twice and each time turned away. [2]
One would have turned twice to see. [11]
Nevertheless the Hebrew troops were twice their number. [10]
I think I tried to speak twice without making myself distinctly audible. [6]
Some folks set traps for the mole; but my moles never seem to go twice in the same place. [4]
Clam spells the trained nurse afternoons; I am allowed to see Mrs. Clemens 20 minutes twice a day and write her two letters a day provided I put no news in them. [5]
Then, with a tragedy-tonic once or twice a month, we shall enjoy the comedies all the better. [5]
Once or twice, too, his eyes opened with a dumb hunted look, then closed as with an irresistible weariness. [11]
I directed twice to you in Mr. Orchardson's care. [9]
Ruth only went to town twice a week to attend lectures, and the household was quite to Mr. Bolton's taste, for he liked the cheer of company and something going on evenings. [5]
Twice she came to the shed where he laboured, and knocked at the door. [11]
Having practically come to the mere defensive, it seems to be no economy at all to employ twice as many men for that object as are needed. [7]
He never had to tell her a thing twice, nor did she interrupt--as Miss Ottway sometimes had done--the processes of his thought. [9]
Twice he paused to stare at Mr. Hopper, who sat calmly on, and the third time stopped abruptly before him. [9]
Twice he essayed to speak, but paused. [11]
Twice he essayed to speak, but faltered. [11]
You are not to refuse them this time, though you have done it twice before. [5]
I'm worth enough to make a prince rich, and if I'd been treated right by those I brought into the world I'd be worth twice as much. [11]
Twice he paused to look behind him, and when he reached the corner of the street he stopped for some time to survey the Governor's house opposite. [9]
He snatched her to his breast, and kissed her twice in a very agony of joy, then let her go. [11]
I have written to him twice to come. [5]
Twice, in order to get inside the palace of a monarch for a purpose--once in Berlin and once in London--he had played the second violin in a Tzigany orchestra. [11]
She helped Orion to fold her veil twice over her face, and did not thrust him aside when he whispered in her ear: "Let us see if a kiss cannot be sweet even through all that wrapping!--Now, come. [10]
Twice we stopped to fix the machinery and laid a good while, once in the night; but it wasn't dark enough, and he was afeard to skip. [5]
He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
Twice a motion to adjourn had been offered--a motion always in order in other Houses, and doubtless so in this one also. [5]
Darius, ever eager to acquire knowledge, did not wait to be asked twice, and was to be found there every night in earnest attention to the old priest's lessons. [10]
Twice, thrice, four times, she tried to wrench her hand with a sudden jerk through the fingers that grasped it; but each time in vain. [10]
Twice, thrice, four times he repeated it in the same way. [10]
Twice or three times a week, saying, 'Leave your village and go to France. [5]
In this little time the former had so fallen in my estimation that once or twice I was on the point of throwing it away. [5]
He heard the timber crash against the door--once, twice, thrice, and then give away. [11]
A stick was thrust between her jaws and she was fastened with a leash, as if bridled, her legs were bound together, and Daniel rolled her over once or twice from side to side. [2]
When she moved through the town people looked twice. [11]
She read it through slowly, shuddering a little once or twice. [11]
But twice or thrice during the night I waked to see the torch still shining, and caught the fragrance of consuming pine, and minded not at all the smoke the burning made. [11]
In twice a thousand years shall the unholy invention of man labor at odds to beget the fellow to this majestic lie! [5]
At least, he thought that nobody would live to speak twice disrespectfully of her in his presence. [4]
He realised that though in his six years' residence in the land he had acquired a command of Arabic equal to that of others who had been in the country twice that time, he had acquired little else. [11]
Twice he did this; which was very little like Fielding Bey. [11]
But enough of this; I seem to be proving to the man that made the multiplication table that twice one are two. [5]
It was at this moment that the butler handed her a telegram, which, with Mrs. Holt's permission, she opened and read twice before the meaning of it came to her. [9]
Heinz had had this letter read aloud twice. [10]
So powerful was this influence that the shrill Elder twice essayed to speak in protest, but was prevented by the wizened Elder Meacham. [11]
And Lady Jane this evening was agitated, and once or twice furtively looked at something under the bar-counter; in fact, a close observer would have noticed anger or anxiety in the eyes of the daughter of Dick Waldron, the keeper of the Saints' Repose. [11]
He would naturally think twice before he gave an emetic or cathartic which evacuated his own pocket, and be sparing of the cholagogues that emptied the biliary ducts of his own wallet, unless he were sure they were needed. [3]
But do you think there would be much amusement in living half-a-dozen times, or even twice, unless you were quite sure that you remembered everything? [11]
But I don't think it is worth doing twice. [11]

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