1190 examples of it could be in sentences

"You have an enemy, then; some one bent on hurting you?" "I don't know who it could be.

She stood wondering how it could be,wondering with an amazement beyond words, how all that was in her heart, the love and the pain, and the sweetness and bitterness, could all be hidden,all hidden by that air in which the women stood so clear!

" "I wonder if it could be the water," said Hector, musingly.

The beleaguered people began to pray for deliverance, when, as if in answer to their prayer, a heavy shower of rain fell, extinguishing the fire, and before it could be replenished, Major Willard with a party of dragoons arrived and the Indians raised the siege.

If it could be remembered, how much he had the advantage of me in voice and person, I could not here be suspected of an affected modesty, or overvaluing his excellence; for he sung a clear, counter-tenor, and had a melodious, warbling throat, which could not but set off the last scene of Sir Courtly with uncommon happiness, which I, alas!

The 'advance squadron,' it should be noted, was not to be ahead of the two main divisions, but in such a position that it could be moved to strengthen either.

He even kept several buckets of moist sand handy, where it could be snatched up at a second's warning, knowing that most fires can be smothered, when quenching them with water is out of the question.

And so he too set to work to remove the jaguar skin, for it would make a pretty decent rug, if it could be properly preserved.

It could be backup for you and the girls, security . . .

Otherwise it could be easily settled.

The Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella entered the place in triumph, if triumph it could be called.

The weight of evidence is not doubled merely; it would be only doubled if half the men who squinted had right-hand birthmarks; whereas the proportion, if it could be ascertained, would be, perhaps, more like one in ten thousand.

This rule has been adopted, as far as it could be, in the Constitution of New-York.

When I was younger than I am now, I was greatly troubled to understand how it could be that if the moon was always falling to the earth, as the astronomers assured us it was, it should never reach it, nor have its falling velocity accelerated.

And this was the man as to whom it had been acknowledged that his evidence, if it could be obtained, would be final.

We was together in his room, and I just sot down for a minute to think what it could be as I had eaten, when I dozed off directlyand when I opened my eyes again, not quite a minute arterwards, I couldn't find him nowheresand

It could be used for large game and yet would not be too large for food birds.

He came late in life to the position of a landed proprietor, and he at once set before himself as his object the endeavour to make his estate as perfect as it could be madeperfect in the way in which a naturally beautiful country and his own good taste invited him to make it, but beyond all, as perfect as might be, viewed as the dwelling-place of his tenants and the labouring poor.

But it could be done only at her expense, and it seemed to him that to tell this noble girl, who was waiting for him, that he did not need her, would be to spill for ever the happiness with which she overflowed, and sap the pride that had been the marrow of her during her twenty years of life.

In fluent French, which it could be perceived, however, was not her native tongue, she inquired whether, as she had been told, Herr von Brink, Tottleben's adjutant, resided there.

Every one who wished to prove his hatred of the arch-heretic exhibited the image of the maternal Virgin holding in her arms the Infant Godhead, either in his house as a picture, or embroidered on his garments, or on his furniture, on his personal ornamentsin short, wherever it could be introduced.

It could be carried on only with great difficulty without his presence and without his account books.

In 1778, when some other land was offered, Washington wrote to his agent, "I have premised these things to shew my inability, not my unwillingness to purchase the Lands in my own Neck at (almost) any price& this I am very desirous of doing if it could be accomplished by any means in my power, in ye way of Barter for other Landfor Negroes ... or in shortfor any thing else ... but for money I cannot, I want the means."

It could be called a piece of stove pipe, cut by a chimney-maker into the form of a pike head.

If it could be arranged without frightening and embarrassing you, you mean?" "Yes." "I wonder if you are not more afraid of being frightened and embarrassed than of any other earthly trial.

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