131495 examples of before in sentences

Faith Marvin was standing before his partners with a paper in her hand, and just as he entered she was speaking eagerly.

She had never seen him before, but recognized him at once as the Mr. Gunning whom she had heard the girls say belonged in that department, but was away just then upon a short vacation.

She's a sneak and a coward; she'll wait till it's dark before she fights you!

" Mr. Day mused a little before he replied.

"They were made in a 'sweatshop,' you see, so it is quite possible they are permeated with unpleasant odors, but I will have them aired before they are put on the counters.

" Before the words were fairly out

I will put the situation before you without a particle of exaggeration.

"I shall be glad to think well of you," she said, a little shyly; "but you have much to undo, I'm afraid, before that can be accomplished.

You know Mag Brady isn't the only jealous woman in creation!" Faith looked at her steadily before she answered, and for a second the treacherous eyes wavered and Miss Jones felt decidedly uncomfortable.

"I am sorry you will not believe me, Maggie," she said softly, "but it is the truth that I have never flirted with Mr. Denton, and the only times I ever saw him in my life before this trouble arose were twice, when you saw us together.

Her lips trembled suspiciously before she answered.

She felt faint and dizzy, and spread out her hands before her as if to ward off something that was fast overcoming her.

"Please go before you say what is in your heart, for your words can only add cruel mockery to dishonor!

"It's very easy for any one to put stolen goods in my pocket; it's been done before, and both of you know it!"

Faith laughed a little before she answered.

His head was bowed down upon his bosom, as the year just passed spread panorama-like before his vision.

But near the entrance his servants caught her and turned her out before she could eat anything.

of the "Paradise," Dante puts into the mouth of Cunizza, speaking of Foulques of Marseilles, the words, "Before his fame shall die, the hundredth year shall five times come around."

He had to do it that night, however, before she went to bed.

'I cotched him!' Of course, now it was too late to start before dinner.

He huddles a new thought on the one before it, before the first has had time to express itself; he sees things or analyses emotions so swiftly and subtly himself that he forgets the slower comprehensions of his readers; he is for analysing things far deeper than the ordinary mind commonly can.

But Shelley can write of the west wind as "Before whose unseen presence the leaves, dead, Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,"

Before the beginning of the seventeenth century, s or es began to dispute with th or eth the right of forming the third person singular of verbs; and, as the Bible and other grave books used only the latter, a clear distinction obtained, between the solemn and the familiar style, which distinction is well known at this day.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless. 7.

His own great proficiency in learning, and his earnest efforts for its promotion, form a striking contrast with the ignorance which prevailed before.

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