11991 examples of an hour in sentences

Higher yet the water rosethe current ran eight miles an hour.

Such a thing cannot be done an hour too soon.

"I've hustled round since sun-up and imagined the gang could get along for half an hour without my watching.

Jacob hasn't been gone over an hour, an' we have as much more time to find out how things are in the rest of the encampment, so let's set about it without delay.

"No," a man by him was saying, "it positively has not moved for an hour.

Add to every pint of the liquor 1 lb. of pounded loaf sugar; stir them together, and, when the sugar is dissolved, cover the jar; set it upon the fire in a saucepan of boiling water, and let it boil for an hour, removing the scum as fast as it rises; add to each pint a glass of brandy, bottle it, and seal the corks.

After an hour or so of revelry the boys returned the key to its proper place and separated.

We stopped at Natchez before breakfast this morning, and, having half an hour, we took a carriage and drove through the city.

An hour and a half later Mrs. West kissed Marjorie's pale lips, and bade her stay a good while and have a good time.

Upon so slender a foundation she amused herself for above an hour, erecting such castles in the air that, had any one discovered her thought, she would have perished of mortification.

Do you think I would let the child stay an hour under his roof, or stay here myself, if I believed one word of all those wicked stories the papers are publishing?

"Business went on in the shop as usual under the direction of the head assistant, until about seven o'clock, when Mr. Winslow returned from his club, where he usually spent an hour over the papers every afternoon, and at once asked for his nephew.

The apparatus is preserved in the Hôtel de Ville, and is never exposed to view or erected on the place of execution, till about an hour before the execution itself takes place.

He had not been half an hour in the archbishop's palace, and when he reached his own door, he had not been absent an hour from the house.

Here I spread a rug on the boards, and, placing my bag for a pillow, he lay down, and after an hour's profound sleep he rose refreshed and well; but still he thought it wise not to attempt the ascent farther.

He disagreed with her at every point, and when she suggested that they stop an hour earlier than usual, he went off by himself, without asking her to go.

then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness:

But really, unless you have ever spent an hour alone with her, you can form no idea of how tired one gets.

His recollections were wonderfully distinct, and it always gave me a peculiar thrill to hear him talk about the great men he had lived and acted with in both hemispheres, as familiarly as if he had parted from them only an hour before.

Half an hour afterwards, I was standing by my sitting-room fire when Antony came into the room.

Elizabeth Gauthier went this morning and will be back in an hour with all the news.

After a stay of half an hour we returned to the boat leaving the natives in good humour.

"So you see, sad as it was to disturb the slumbers of innocence, I couldn't possibly let you go on sleeping at the rate of two francs an hour.

He laid himself down in the hammock-cloths, for an hour or two, towards morning though the wind did not sigh through the rigging louder than common, without arousing him from his slumbers.

All through his life he never wasted an hour on controversy.

11991 examples of  an hour  in sentences