98 examples of oncome in sentences

CHAPTER LXI HOW THE FOREST FOUGHT FOR THEM A hum upon the night-wind, lost, ever and anon, in wailing gust, yet a hum that never ceased; a sound that grew and grew, loud and ever more loud until it seemed to fill the very night, a dreadful sound, ominous and threatening, a sound to shake the boldest heartthe ring and tramp of an armed, oncoming multitude.

Then with the oncoming of what we call civilization, and the growth of the sense of property, differences aroseaccumulations of wealth and power by individuals, enslavements of tribes by other tribes; and classes sprang up, and class-government, and so the material of endless suffering and oppression and hatred and warfare.

Even the stolid Sing Pete was jumping up and down, shouting: "Come oncome onLamblin' Kid!

Then, the sea passing from under us, we would go swooping dizzily down the great, black, froth-splotched back of the wave, until the oncoming sea caught us up most mightily.

So thousands of the deluded populace went to a bridge on the eastern outskirts of the town to catch the first glimpse of the victorious oncoming Russians; and there they stayed until nightfall, watching and hoping andwhat was more pitiable believing.

All skipped adroitly out of the path of the oncoming beast, which was rushing on like a whirlwind.

Both Roy and Peggy were considerably astonished to see that the oncoming auto was occupied by old Mr. Harding, and that by his side was seated none other than the blue-chinned man, known as Eugene Mortlake.

He gazed at the oncoming aeroplanes.

THE ONCOMING OF THE STORM XVIII.

Outnumbering those who charged many times, it was not in savage nature to face that unformed oncoming motley of howling, bloodthirsty maniacs.

That one, unhorsed by accident, was left to face that oncoming flood. . . .

With what splendid rigidity the escorts' burnished lines walled in its oncome.

"Too late!" moaned Flora to the detective, Madame to Constance and Miranda, and the battery lads to their girls, from whose hands they began to wring wild good-byes as a peal of fifes and drums heralded the oncome of the departing regiment.

Squarely the priest faced that stark and hideous circumstance; to spare Richard was beyond his power, and the boy was his brother; yes, this oncoming King Edward would be a fratricide, and after death would be irrevocably damned.

"I have accorded you incessant praise And song and service, dear, because of this; And always I have dreamed incessantly Who always dreamed, when in oncoming days This man or that shall love you, and at last This man or that shall win you, it must be That, loving him, you will have pity on me When happiness engenders memory And long thoughts, nor unkindly, of the past, O Branwen!

Now he and Branwen were alone and a little troubled, since each was afraid of that oncoming moment when their eyes must meet.

Intellectual effort was destructive to the blessed state, which was pure passivity, untroubled contemplation in its early stages, before the oncoming of rapture.

Harry Campbell writes in the Lancet (1898) that "the inordinate development of this emotion always betokens a neurotic diathesis, and not infrequently indicates the oncoming of insanity.

I hurried along the deserted road and asked my heart for a village, a house, a church, a cave, anything to shield from the oncoming drench.

" I leaped for the door, and grasped the musket, barely straightening up, as the oncoming horseman swung around the corner.

The sheriff dispatched a man to wire for troops, divided his force in halves, and, leading one contingent, he rode toward the oncoming mob.

It is the oncoming of the Light which lighteth every man that is in the world; the dawning of the day of earth on the hills of Judea, over which has risen the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings.

In such a mystic evolution it may well be, in history as in nature, that the organic processes type the oncoming form of life; but to trace these rightly there is needed a finer criticism than that which has given us the orthodox typology.

They sprayed the oncoming Bavarians with a shower of steel and piled the dead high outside the French trenches.

Granted that Mordaunt, with the eyes of steel, was not exactly an oncoming man and that when he married Christine he received, as wedding presents, two or three brothers-in-law who sponged hopelessly upon him, I still think that Miss ETHEL DELL has given us too detailed an account of the domestic differences between Mordaunt and his wife.

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