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Presently in sentence

420 examples of Presently in a sentence

Presently the traveller's gaze, passing over the lower ridges which confine the course of the Doubs on the south, was able to sweep the fertile plains of Burgundy and Beaujolais.
He set his course for it, and presently was ensconced in this retreat.
Presently, seeing that this solitary glance was not repeated, she took alarm: 'Can it be that he does not love me any more,' she asked herself; 'alas, I am far too old for him; I am ten years his senior.'
Presently a cry of indignation from some, the astonished silence of others announced a general sensation.
Presently the King arrived, followed only by M. de La Mole and his Great Chamberlain.
However, as Julien himself was greatly attached to little Stanislas, he was more welcome to speak to her of the child's illness: presently it assumed a grave character.
M. Valenod glanced at one of his men in full livery, who left the room, and presently the sound of singing ceased.
M. de Renal presently returned; he was beside himself.
Presently he turned to the Humanities, Virgil, Horace, Cicero.
Presently they heard a sound in the house; a consideration to which she had not given a thought now disturbed Madame de Renal.
She returned presently with oranges, biscuits, a bottle of Malaga; she had found it impossible to purloin any bread.
Presently she returned, in defiance of all the rules of prudence, to bring him a cup of coffee; she was afraid of his dying of hunger.
'This was not what the vicar wanted; presently I was besieged with endless indiscreet requests, intrigues, and so forth.
'I think,' he said to Julien, 'that presently you might go to the riding school; and after a few weeks I shall be delighted to ride with you.''I wished to have the honour of thanking you for all your kindness to me; pray believe, Sir,' Julien added with a most serious air, 'that I am fully conscious of all that I owe you.
Presently they were surrounded by a circle of thirty people.
The Marquis's kindness was so flattering to our hero's easily wounded vanity that presently, in spite of himself, he felt a sort of attachment to this genial old man.
Presently the sincere and unfeigned resistance, with which our hero received a number of her ideas, began to occupy her mind; she thought about him; she reported to her cousin the pettiest details of their conversations, and found that she could never succeed in displaying them in every aspect.
He was on the point of falling at her feet, crushed with love and misery, and crying: 'Pity!''And this creature who is so lovely, so superior to all the rest, who has once loved me, it is M. de Caylus whom, no doubt, she will presently be loving!'Julien could not doubt Mademoiselle de La Mole's sincerity; the accent of truth was all too evident in everything that she said.
A small and extremely dark man presently made a noisy entrance, and began speaking from the door; he had a sallow complexion and a slightly eccentric air.
Julien left the room and presently reappeared, dressed with the most scrupulous care.
'I do not know Julien'; these words plunged her in a day-dream which presently ended in the most enchanting suppositions; but she believed them to be the truth.
She feared some subtle refinement of his pride which would presently upset the whole position.
Didn't you know?' said the gaoler with an air of stupidity which presently turned to one of joyful greed.
A sort of peasant came presently to fetch the old man.
'But why!' she said to herself presently, 'would it not have been worse to have made no impression upon the cold egoism of a priest sated with the enjoyment of power?'Dazzled by this rapid and unexpected avenue to the episcopate that was opening before his eyes, astonished at Mathilde's intelligence, for a moment M. de Frilair was off his guard.
But presently his whole attention was absorbed in twelve or fifteen pretty women who, seated opposite the dock, filled the three galleries above the bench and the jurybox.
Presently he felt himself inflamed by the idea of duty.
Presently Tom checked his whistle.
Presently they were shoulder to shoulder.
Presently the confusion took form, and through the fog of battle Tom appeared, seated astride the new boy, and pounding him with his fists.
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