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Sentences starting with when

When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
When you lose, you're martyrs; but I don't find that when you win, you look upon the other losers in that light. [12]
When I need your services I will call for you. [10]
When we want your opinion on scientific matters, we will hasten to let you know. [5]
When you receive your next 1/4 yr's salary, don't send any of it here until after you have told me you have got it. [5]
When you meet your man he'll recognize the rest of his suit. [5]
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]
When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]

Sentences ending with when

Can I tell when? [10]
Perhaps the tale was the more impressive because of Crozier's deep baritone voice, capable, as it was, of much modulation, yet, except when. [11]
What science can there be in a matter in which, as in all practical matters, nothing can be defined and everything depends on innumerable conditions, the significance of which is determined at a particular moment which arrives no one knows when? [2]

Short sentences using when

But when did you return? [11]
That's when I was there. [11]
Now, recollect: when was it? [10]
When is it to be? [5]
When was all this? [5]
And when will these die? [5]

Sentences containing when two or more times

Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
I believed in you when he said it, as I believe in you now when you stand there like that. [11]
When you plant, you think you cannot fertilize too much: when you get the bills for the manure, you think you cannot fertilize too little. [4]
When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
When, at last, you return to it, you do not find it as it was when acquired. [6]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
I will give you a specimen of Hipponax's Poetry: "There are but two days when a wife, Brings pleasure to her husband's life, The wedding-day, when hopes are bright, And the day he buries her out of his sight. [10]
I know the years when the fevers and dysenteries are in earnest, and when they're only making believe. [6]
And how soon would anguish of soul utterly destroy the spell, which was slowly, slowly, yet steadily diminishing, and, when the mirror revealed wrinkles which the skill of no Olympus could efface, when she----No, she was not created to grow old! [10]

More example sentences with the word when 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]
My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
So, you see, you've kept me here talking when there's no need and while my business waits. [11]
You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
Mebbe later, when you're broken, you might. [13]
And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
To be in your place when you sing to the Emperor Charles again! [10]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
Say, stranger, when your Mr. Temple smiled--" "He is the man! [9]
You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. [9]
But--but why grieve your mother when it--when it may not happen? [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've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
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]
Wot's money, when your friend wot give it ain't 'ere! [11]
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
Now, away to your duty," she added, tapping his breast affectionately with her fan, "and when everything is done, come and take me to my room. [11]
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you. [10]
When old Col. Youngs talks this way, I think it time to get a fine office. [5]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
When we were younger we could stand it; we could give way to it and take the consequences. [8]
Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
When I was young, husbands and wives usually went to parties together. [9]
When we were young--" "Younger," he put in. [8]
When you were young you were not taught the truth--neither was I. [9]
I was not young when you were born. [9]
When she was young she was beautiful--like a Madonna by an old master. [9]
Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
And all the young people I ever saw in my life was when I rode fast through the villages. [13]
There was a young man in Boston, when Jethro arrived in Lyman Hull's team, named William Wetherell. [9]
He found the young ladies with Fulkerson when he rang. [8]
Later, when the young ladies were asleep, he carried his manuscript to the Democrat office, and delivered it into the hands of his friend, the night editor, who was awaiting it. [9]
Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
But the sturdy young fellow knew how to defend his liberty, and had already released himself from his assailant when other servants grasped him. [10]
But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
My wives are young and charming, and when they grow old, what is to hinder me from taking others, still handsomer, and who, by the side of the faded beauties, will be doubly charming. [10]
When you are young again in body, these gray hairs shall render you distinguished. [11]
I wish, now, you'd waked up when I kissed you--I do, honest. [5]
When smoke invites you, you have to come. [5]
I imposed upon you, when I made you think Lelaps came from Swabia; he was really born in the desert, where the tigers live. [10]
He believed in you, was so pitifully eager to believe in you even when the letter--" "Where is the letter? [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]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
When I kissed you, I set the seal upon my eternal offering to you. [11]
When I see you, I feel it, I think. [9]
He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
When I visit you, as you say I shall, I mean to indoctrinate Maurice with sound views on that subject. [6]
And tell me, you will let me know when you have found out where he and his parents have gone? [10]
I wonder if you will laugh when I tell you I have made a hero of you? [5]
You now say you will have but 85,000 when all enroute to you shall have reached you. [7]
When you say you will do a thing 'directly,' you mean 'immediately'; in the American language--generally speaking--the word signifies 'after a little. [5]
Bye and bye you will comprehend why it is that I wish to unbosom myself to a newspaper man when I have so studiously avoided conversation with other people. [5]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
I listened to you when you told me lies as to how it would ruin him . [9]
Sit down--I'll move you when you are in the way. [5]
I'll talk to you when we're in Lordkop. [11]
I will tell you when we meet again. [11]
We'll wait for you when we get to shore. [5]
Bloomin' picnic for you when the Osnum Digners eat sand. [11]
Let this console you when the bread fails. [5]
I was like you when I was young. [11]
Why, some of you were surprised when a friend of mine told you there were fifty-eight separate pieces in a fiddle. [6]
I said that you were in love with her once, Davy, when I saw you looking at the portrait. [9]
Miss Woodburn said you were freezing him to death when I came down. [8]
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]
I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
I remember when you were a prisoner with me upon the Ottawa. [11]
I can't get you to talk seriously even when I come all the way from New York to find out what's going on here. [9]
It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
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]
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]
Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
But I tell you this, gentlemen, that you will live to see the day when you will bitterly regret this injustice to an innocent and a noble woman, and Isaac D. Worthington will live to regret it. [9]
And what do you think you'll do, Washington, when you get to Hawkeye? [5]
Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
And when do you think she will be ready for a drawing- room--Her Majesty Queen Victoria's, or ours? [11]
You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
This will make you think of me when . [11]
I says: "Now you think it's bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? [5]
How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
When I saw you there beside Duncan I remembered that he had spoken about the Guardian letters, and the notion occurred to me to get him to show you his library. [9]
When they give you the signal, brave Martialis, remember the unfortunate woman in Alexandria whose death you swore to revenge. [10]
Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
I shall show you that when she recovered her health, her mind was changed, she was not what she had been. [5]
Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for. [9]

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