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Sentences ending with former

During these spectacles, which were followed by other similar ones, Barbara had been thinking of her own affairs, and gazed more frequently at her lover and his distinguished guests than at the former. [10]
Their long, flowing, wavy hair, and an atmosphere of ideality which enveloped them both, might have inclined one to the latter supposition; while the form of their brows, indicating deep thought and severe mental labor, and their slightly stooping shoulders, would have suggested the former. [10]
You may be sure I was well thrashed by Mr. Carvel, who thought the more of the latter misdoing, though obliged to emphasize the former. [9]
No amount of science will entirely change their emotional nature; and besides, with all our science, I don't see that the supernatural has any less hold on this generation than on the former. [4]
He did not say so, but contrived to intimate the former. [9]
The sister of rich old Peter Schlumperger, who was paying court to Barbara, had dismounted from the former. [10]
Print is the proper vehicle for the latter, but it isn't for the former. [5]
The mean temperature of the southernmost point of New South Wales is the same as that of Nice--60 deg.--yet Nice is further from the equator by 460 miles than is the former. [5]
The latter is more for the preventive and less for the vindictive than the former. [7]
He was a Basque, he knew the Spanish people well--the types, the character, the idiosyncrasies; and he was sure that Sebastian Dolores and his daughter belonged to the lower clerical or higher working class, and he greatly inclined towards the former. [11]

Short sentences using former

The former is the quickest. [5]
Whereabouts were his former haunts? [5]
The former is best. [5]
His former love? [2]

Sentences containing former two or more times

It is more probable that the hairiness of the former is due to partial reversion; for characters which have been at some former period long inherited are always apt to return. [1]

More example sentences with the word former in them

Both are as zealously fostered in Keilhau now as in former years. [10]
For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
I will tell you the former instance, and then you will see it for yourself. [5]
I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
Also, do everything you can to make your former flame unhappy. [5]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
This she hoped would repay Didymus for the injury which, to her deep regret, had been inflicted upon him, and at least partially repair the loss sustained by the former library of the museum during the conflagration in the Bruchium. [10]
Well --argued Miles--he would naturally go to his former haunts, for that is the instinct of unsound minds, when homeless and forsaken, as well as of sound ones. [5]
Still more satisfactory would it be if it could be shown that he had reconsidered his predictions, and declared that he could not abide by his former alarming conclusions. [6]
The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
I look forward with pleasure to the fulfillment of the promise made in the former to visit Washington the following winter and to "call. [7]
If he thought with loathing on his former life, so did she. [9]
But as the whole subject of rudimentary organs has been discussed and illustrated in my former works (24. [1]
It was Nancy who managed the economy, who accomplished remarkable things with a sum they would have deemed poverty in former days. [9]
The bold general who had gained so many victories, and whom the defeat of Actium had only humbled, was said to have regained his former elasticity. [10]
The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the monument to Myrtilus in Tennis, and another highly gifted young sculptor, who pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to his mother. [10]
The former slackness which had shown itself even in his eyes was now replaced by an energetic readiness for action and resistance. [2]
I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
This I did-- When were such things done in the former time? [10]
He must learn what his rival's companion knew of his former life, so he answered quickly, "Well, for aught I care, begin. [10]
But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the enemy's flight, these orderly masses returned thence as disorganized and terrified mobs. [2]
The two former were to attend to the sick in the infirmary, to ring the bell and chant the services as usual, that the escape of the rest might not be suspected; and Joanna, Paula, and Pulcheria, were to assist them. [10]
This, if it were sound in itself, is waging destructive war with the former position; for if Mr. Clay's bill impoverishes the treasury too much, what shall be said of one that impoverishes it still more? [7]
The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the door, rolled up in a blanket. [5]
Howells and Clemens were corresponding regularly again, though not with the frequency of former years. [5]
Several of them were contained in a former volume which received its name from the Address called "Currents and Counter-Currents. [6]
The doors, too, were arched and low, some with oaken portals and quaint benches, where the former inhabitants had sat on summer evenings. [12]
Thence the former watched the conflict in which, grown grey in the arts of peace, he shared only with his heart and soul. [10]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
Now the letter was to say that they had both played him false; the former in obedience to the stern behest of his father, the town-councillor; the second by reason that his Duke commanded his attendance. [10]
The principal one was that she would find there several old friends of former days, one of whom, her singing-master Feys, had promised to accept her voice and enable her to serve her art again with full pleasure. [10]
Slocum" (no, it was one "Carl Byng," I perceive) "Carl Byng" for Mark Twain, and that it was the former who wrote the plagiarism entitled "Three Aces," I think that would do a fair justice without any unseemly display. [5]
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
True, the latter was much quicker than the former, who if the situation became critical, pondered over it an unconscionably long time. [10]
That the habit was most extensively practised during former times, even by the ancestors of civilised nations, is clearly shewn by the preservation of many curious customs and ceremonies, of which Mr. M'Lennan has given an interesting account. [1]
Farnese's bold assault was kindly rebuked by the commander-in-chief, and when the former praised Navarrete's heroic aid before Don Juan, the general gave the bold warrior and gallant trooper, the honorable commission of bearing tidings of the victory to the king. [10]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
Although the King was hungry and chilly, he was also so tired and so drowsy that these latter influences soon began to get the advantage of the former, and he presently dozed off into a state of semi-consciousness. [5]
The former excitement was great--this one was greater still. [5]
Not a word was exchanged between Barine and the Queen's messengers until they reached the room where the former was to await Cleopatra; but here Iras again endeavoured to induce her to speak. [10]
The former gentleman was despondent, the latter hopeful. [5]
He thought she was anxious, as on a former occasion, lest his election to the office of Eletto might prove his ruin, so he drew her towards him, exclaiming "Have no fear, Bonita. [10]
Adjoining the studio was a smaller apartment, separated from the former room by a corridor, that could be closed, and by a heavy curtain. [10]
In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers and their families. [7]
Sometimes, on her walks and drives, she saw people bowing to her, and recognized friends or acquaintances of what seemed to her like a former existence. [9]
Mr. C. Staniland Wake argues strongly ('Anthropologia,' March, 1874, p. 197) against the views held by these three writers on the former prevalence of almost promiscuous intercourse; and he thinks that the classificatory system of relationship can be otherwise explained. [1]
Ulrich did not wait for the end of the dispute, for Farnese was now springing into the hostile ship, and the former, with a bold leap, followed. [10]
Frequently Paulina received visits from heathen acquaintances in rich dresses and the sight of them always reminded Arsinoe of former days. [10]
That is all very well so far as it goes, but satisfies no man, and makes a good many angry, as I told you on a former occasion. [6]
He had been very much in the city in former years, but he came less and less now, not because it was less beautiful or attractive in a way, but because it had lost for him a certain charm it once had. [4]
Charmian did not venture to go there; a visit to Octavianus's former teacher would have been misinterpreted, and it was repugnant to her own delicacy of feeling to hold intercourse at this time with the foe and conqueror of her royal mistress. [10]
The latter are used for fuel, and the former are pressed for their oil. [4]
The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
I have stated upon former occasions, and I may as well state again, what I understand to be the real issue in this controversy between Judge Douglas and myself. [7]
I have said, upon a former occasion, and I repeat it now, that the course of arguement that Judge Douglas makes use of upon this subject (I charge not his motives in this), is preparing the public mind for that new Dred Scott decision. [7]
I have said upon a former occasion, and I do not choose to suppress it now, that I have no objection to the division in the Judge's party. [7]
Then hang it up in its former place. [5]
It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
It would be unnatural, nay, suspicious, if she did not sometimes long for the old freedom and her former companions. [10]
When, after an unhappy marriage and many desolate days, she had regained her former bright cheerfulness and saw her house become the centre of the intellectual life of the city, she had striven until now to extend the same welcome to all her guests. [10]
She had not understood the real nature of the former one. [10]
But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap. [9]
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
One is by trying to demonstrate it upon reason, and the other is, to show that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus to pass it by the weight of pure authority. [7]
Once more the truth overwhelmed, the folly of his former optimism arose to mock him. [9]
How small and trivial was the former in comparison with the latter, which had no termination! [10]
His heart seemed too small to contain all the love with which he wished to make amends to his brothers for his sins against them in former years. [10]
To come back to the old house and its former tenant, the Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. [6]
He is resolved to take a little care of the former, in pity to the latter, which I applaud, and shall second with all, my might. [5]
Is man subject to similar malconformations, the result of arrested development, of reduplication of parts, etc., and does he display in any of his anomalies reversion to some former and ancient type of structure? [1]
Still they continued to see the remains of former warriors, who had been to the place where they were now going, some of whom had retreated as far back as the place where they first saw the bones, beyond which no one had ever escaped. [5]
After that journey to Ryazan he found the country dull; his former pursuits no longer interested him, and often when sitting alone in his study he got up, went to the mirror, and gazed a long time at his own face. [2]
Prince Andrew wished to return to that former world of pure thought, but he could not, and delirium drew him back into its domain. [2]
He began slowly to pit against his former startling admissions the testimony of his few principles, and to buttress them on every side with apposite observations, naive, pungent. [11]
There was much to palliate the course which she had pursued in former days, and she had carefully planned the defence by which she hoped to influence his calm but not unjust nature. [10]
Hereupon I appealed to my brother right earnestly, beseeching him not to reject his former friend if it were only for love of me. [10]
But it seems to me that in walking the streets of London and Paris I shall revert to my student days, and appear to myself like a relic of a former generation. [6]
I told Arthur to leave out the former squib or paragraph and use only the Californian's Story. [5]
The Ticknor referred to in a former letter was Professor George Ticknor, of Harvard College, a history-writer of distinction. [5]
Landrassy bowed suavely to Ian as they met outside Mennaval's door in the early evening of this day when the business was accomplished, the former coming out, the latter going in. [11]
He now came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear guard. [2]
She went up to her, and learned that her husband and her son were both dead, the former in Syria, and the latter after his return to Egypt. [10]
The former went to Delia now and said a few cheery words, but, from behind her handkerchief, she begged him to leave her alone for a moment. [11]
He was condemned to death, and before his end he sent for me and confessed to me that in former years he had soiled his soul with many robberies and murders. [10]
Then he went to Clara's former residence, questioned the landlady and her servant, and finally interrogated the livery-stable keeper. [10]
He tried not to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. [2]
He led Tracy to a chromo which had suffered damage in a former owner's hands through being used as a lamp mat, and said, with a flourish of his hand toward the picture-- "This del Sarto--" "Is that a del Sarto? [5]
In former, free-trade times, sugar was sixpence a pound, now it is two shillings sixpence; raisins were one penny, and now sixpence. [4]
Suicide during former times was not generally considered as a crime (33. [1]
In this little time the former had so fallen in my estimation that once or twice I was on the point of throwing it away. [5]
Thus they ran till they had passed the bones of all former warriors, and were some distance beyond, when looking back, they saw the monster slowly rising. [5]
Example, from a Thug's testimony: "We passed through to Kurnaul, where we found a former Thug named Junooa, an old comrade of ours, who had turned religious mendicant and become a disciple and holy. [5]
All this, he thought, he could now repay, for certainly his old patron was poor enough, and he intended honestly to share with his former benefactor the profits he expected to realize with so fair a prodigy as Dada. [10]
Now a former thought struck her--she would speak to Mrs. Hawkins. [5]
The present feeling, though not so bright and poetic as the former, was stronger and more serious. [2]
In these years, though I worked hard and often late, I still found time for convivialities, for social gaieties, yet little by little without realizing the fact, I was losing zest for the companionship of my former intimates. [9]
I can believe this, because my own case was somewhat similar, as per my former article. [5]

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