13714 examples of was seen in sentences

In a few minutes, the light was seen, rounding the point that hid the bay from our view, and, as the boat landed in front of our tents, Spalding and Martin lifted from it a fine two year old deer, shot directly between the eyes.

A close watch was kept on him, and one morning he was seen to drive down to the west side of the bridge and tie his team behind a house, where he thought they would be safe until he returned.

FORMER KAISERIN WEEPS The meeting of former Emperor William and the former empress at Amerongen is described by a Dutch correspondent as follows: "The gates were thrown open, the drawbridge was lowered with a noise of chains and iron bars that sounded very medieval, and in the courtyard before the castle an elderly man in a gray military cloak was seen at a distance, walking slowly and leaning on his stick.

How effective these measures were was seen when the new resistance they met on the Continent drove the Northmen to a fresh attack on Britain.

" The dark eye of the Bravo was seen rolling over the person of his companion, by the light of the moon, in a manner that caused the blood of the latter to steal towards his heart.

A sleek, plump little fellow, frightened out of his wits, was seen trying to climb out of a window on the opposite side from which danger was threatened.

Whatever is truly heroic in the character of Louis was seen after he was forty-eight.

First the royal officers, twenty-three in number, were ranged in two files, and ordered to walk forward manacled and bareheaded; next came the hangman with his bonnet on his head, dressed in the livery of his office, and mounted on his horse that drew a vehicle of new form devised for the occasion; and then on this vehicle was seen Montrose himself, seated on a lofty form, and pinioned, and uncovered.

Next was seen a magnificent shrine in mosaic, from the church of St. Mary Maggiore, in Rome.

On the 11th, a high mountain, its summit covered with snow, was seen, and named Mount Egmont; Wharton gives its height as 8,300 feet, and describes it as a magnificent conical mountain surrounded on three sides by the sea.

The next day another island was seen, and as they were very short of fodder for the animals, Gore was sent to see if trade could be opened up with the inhabitants.

When the great crisis was seen approaching, the public feeling showed itself by violent agitation.

" The effervescence in the minds of the people was so great, that the entry of the Prussians was delayed for forty-eight hours, but on the first of March, at ten in the morning, they had come into the city, and the smoke of their bivouac fires was seen in the Champs Elysées.

But after a little time there came a boy, the prettiest boy that ever was seen on earth, and in his hand a basket full of fruits and flowers, more beautiful than tongue can tell.

" "Oui, yis, mes boys; and there's rain, and tunder, and lightin'," added Henri, pointing to a dark cloud which was seen rising on the horizon ahead of them.

She bore on her breast, in the curiously embroidered letter, a specimen of her skill, and her needlework was seen on the ruff of the governor; military men wore it on their scarfs, and the minister on his bands.

Bruce surprised the cavalry with deep pits, and before the English could recover from this, an approaching reinforcement for the Scotch was seen coming over the hill.

As he did so, his face was seen to grow suddenly pale as death.

There Chanticleer was drawn upon his knees Adoring shrines, and stocks of sainted trees: And by him, a misshapen, ugly race; The curse of God was seen on every face: No Holland emblem could that malice mend, But still the worse the look, the fitter for a fiend.

Simpson and Bowers sent up a balloon to-day with a double thread and instrument attached; the line was checked at about 3 miles, and soon after the instrument was seen to disengage.

Some one here told me the bearings, I'd take my oath, where the body was seen; and yet no boat could ever come up with it; and that was queer, you know, so I clapt it down in my log.

"No matter if you don't hit it, shoot!" Bang! went the gun, and as the report of the firearm died away the wolf was seen to stagger and fall.

The few seconds of suspense were soon past, when the ball was seen to strike the water fully

The policy of "monopoly-accepted" was seen to involve as a necessary feature, public regulation of rates, to the point, if necessary, of absolutely fixing them.

In the genial spring evenings the priest was seen sitting by the mound, his finger closed in the unread prayer-book.

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