" Hereupon Roger, having straightway choked him to silence with the one hand full soon had found the money with the other, and thereafter, he loosed the Bailiff that he might get his breath again; the which he no sooner had done than he fell to prayers and humble entreaties: "Sir knightright noble sir, sure thou wilt not take thus from a woeful wight all that he hath.

Then half my crew are sick and some are helpless, though I reckon they'll pick up sooner at sea than in an African hospital.

No sooner had they separated from the main body than a terrific discharge of grape, canister, and musketry assailed them from the convent.

"It had to come to this," he said, "sooner or later.

If he remains in Russia, it is an absolute certainty that he will sooner or later be rearrested.

And all the sooner if I can be with him more.

But the newer additions, and the light they have thrown upon old problems present the opportunity for a synthesis, which must sooner or later be made.

No sooner had Kai-káús heard this description of the country of Mázinderán than he determined to lead an army thither, declaring to his warriors that the splendor and glory of his reign should exceed that of either Jemshíd, Zohák, or Kai-kobád.

The next day an officer came to me, and roughly told me that the empress had no use for dotards in her dominions, and that the sooner I went away the better for me.

I became alarmed, and the conviction forced itself upon me that the sooner I should escape from Madrid, the better for me.

If there is obviously only one thing to be done, the sooner it is done the better.

In very early infancy, when not at the breast, it is for the most part asleep in its cot; and although as the months advance it sleeps less, yet when the hour for repose arrives, the child is no sooner laid down to rest, than it drops off into a quiet, peaceful slumber.

" This was no sooner thought than it was done.

This last notion no sooner glanced athwart our heroine's mind, than she began diligently to search for the hidden spring.

This was no sooner done, than the faithful old black hurried down to his mistress, to communicate the intelligence that the party was safely in the forest; while the adventurers turned, ascended the bank of the stream, and pursued their way on more solid ground.

Billy blamed himself for not having thought sooner to send for other and fresher help.

As his wealth is unlimited, and sooner or later all the nobility and gentry of England, France, Italy and Russia will be in Queer Street, his collection cannot but grow and become more and more amazing.

Vigorous exercise while the stomach is busily digesting food, may prove injurious, and is apt to result sooner or later in dyspepsia.

For in seeking the excellency hereof, the sooner he draweth to perfection the nigher he corneth to GOD, who is the chief Wisdom: and therefore called GOD because He is the most wise, or rather wisdom itself.

Well, the sooner the better for me.

However lonely a place it was, some one would be bound to see me and give me away sooner or later.

Sooner or later he would learn that they were hopeless, and Sinclair dreaded the breakdown which he knew would follow that discovery.

If I had only seen her sooner" "Shut up!" growled Howland, betraying irritability for the first time.

And if the suddenness of an unexpected evil have surprised his thoughts, and infected his cheeks with paleness, he hath no sooner digested it in his conceit than he gathers up himself, and insults over mischief.

His boldness is beholden to other men's modesty, which rescues him many times from a baffle; yet his face is good armour, and he is dashed out of anything sooner than countenance.