Many things of a portentous nature had come to pass even before that time (such as olive oil spouting beside the Tiber), and many, also, precisely then.

H. Why, cheerly, cheerly then.

and when the fight is over, If ye look in vain for me, Where the dead are lying thickest, Search for him that was Dundee!" Loudly then the hills re-echoed With our answer to his call, But a deeper echo sounded In the bosoms of us all.

Conolly then took leave of them, and stood still until they disappeared, when he returned to the courtyard, and went up to his sister's carriage.

Couldst then his pure and modest mind distress By vile remarks upon his speech, address, Attire, and voice?''All this I must confess.' 'Unhappy child!

I told him definitely then, this being a Balkan crisis, a Balkan affair, I did not consider that public opinion in this country would justify us in promising to give anything more than diplomatic support.

It was worth while to study the psychology of the Turks, because dimly then, but with ever-increasing distinctness, Germany foresaw that Turkey might be a counter of immense importance in the great conflict which was assuredly drawing nearer, though as yet its existence was but foreshadowed by the most distant reflections of summer lightning on a serene horizon.

she shall do't discretly then.

before, prior to; earlier; previously &c adj.; afore^, aforehand^, beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile^; ere then, ere now, before then, before now; erewhile^, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.

And may it not be that we are permitted this interest for a deeper purpose than we are wont to suppose; because Sin is best seen in the light of Virtue,and then most fearfully when she holds the torch to herself?

" "Firstly then," say I, narratively, "my husband must have a great deal of interest in several professionsthe army, the navy, the barso as to give the boys a helping hand; then he must have some shootinggood shooting for them; for them all, that is, except Bobby!

In consequence his great fleet of transports was helpless, it drifted along with the tide, fortunately then running up the Straits, but this bore him beyond his landing-place of the year before, and daybreak found him apparently far to the east of the North Foreland.

"Do you like Julia Carey?" Mrs. Carey laughed as she answered, "Frankly then, I do not!

icewhat then, I asked myself, should I do? * * *

As to slavery itself, the earliest laws giving it mention did not establish the institution but merely recognized it, first indirectly then directly, as in existence by force of custom.

All they want is to get hold of the secret of this new explosive of yours; then as likely as not they'll hand you over to the police, or else...." he paused.

And presently, the strange noisings died in the upward height, and all about us; and the utter disgust of the stink went from us; so that we knew that the Monster had gone past us, and did make downward through the dark Gorge; and mayhap then to some lone and dreadful cavern of the world, as I did think.

At 7.35 a.m. left the bivouac and steered 30 degrees through thickets; at 8.30 crossed our track of the 24th, and at 9.15 passed a salt marsh trending north-west and south-east; at 12.25 p.m. altered the course to north till 1.0; then, 37 degrees, ascended a granite hill, on which we found a few shallow pools of rainwater; then north till 4.0 p.m., and bivouacked in a grassy patch with a small hollow containing a little muddy water.

Obviously, then, if the use of tobacco interferes with the normal action of the saliva, and if the digestion of starch ends in the stomach, here is the strong point in the argument of the opponents of tobacco.

They disliked Anglicanism as much as they abhorred and despised Romanismtheoretically at least, for practically then as now frontiersmen were liberal to one another's religious opinions, and the staunch friend and good hunter might follow whatever creed he wished, provided he did not intrude it on others.

One child will be seized within a few hours; another, not for some days; and now and then (though rarely), five or six weeks have intervened between the period of exposure and the manifestation of the disease.

When in his study pent the whole year through, Man views the world, as through an optic glass, On a chance holiday, and scarcely then, How by persuasion can he govern men? FAUST

To Lawrence, who had never seen anything of the sort, the services which now began were exceedingly interesting; and as Annie had not been to a negro church since she was a little girl, and very seldom then, she gave very earnest and animated attention to what was going on.

Simultaneously then, being yourself only a fool after all, you flatter me and underestimate my intelligence.

He eat, and drank, and prayed, and sleptwhat then? He eat, and drank, and prayed, and slept again!