Use the word lately in a sentence

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I’ve had to wear a lot of hats lately, including obstetrician

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I’ve been having trouble sleeping at night lately

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What good movies has he watched lately? What is his favorite class at school? Did his team win the game last weekend? What friends does he hang out with the most? Do not criticize his friends, habits, or favorites

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He was the only one to make much news lately

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«Well, maybe you haven’t been in the loop quite as much lately, with your time off and being in the far east

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Ava had been in her labs a lot lately so that helped leave her lonely

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‘I just think that your experiences lately have knocked your confidence rather a lot

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She had been more approachable lately and there had been no more incidents of nasty cherubs

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«I haven’t slept much lately,” she said as she nodded off

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Before going to Janus, I paid a visit to Aphrodite -I like doing so lately

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She’s been a little distant lately …

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‘Don’t know who he’s messing around with lately but there’s always a woman somewhere

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I think she has lost her mind, yet she also seems to have become paradoxically popular lately: Until last Christmas she had no friends but me; now, however, she has friendly relations with lots of young people

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” (at that point I begin to suspect he means me) “She has asked to return to Janus lately, I accepted, but I know she will leave again soon; nevertheless, I am not going to take her back for a second time, I won’t allow such a disciple to come back

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That explains it: I have heard about certain persons lately who, although they are illiterate, have become successful travelling salesmen and earn up to 700,000 drachmas per month! Taking into account that a salesman’s commission is no higher than 10%, how do they manage to make sales of 7,000,000 drachmas every month? What do they really sell? Encyclopedias? Come on now! Nowadays you can find cheap and voluminous encyclopedias in bookstores or, even, on offer in newspapers! Why would anyone pay dearly a commercial traveller? Unless they sell other things, other »services», instead of books

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I have felt enough pain from him lately to know my distance would now be something that could be helpful, «I must go, they are things at the Acropolis that require my attention

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I’ve had that happen enough to me lately and I’m tired of learning that lesson

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You’ve looked so … so lost lately

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«Why certainly, I see how good you’re feeling lately so I think I would enjoy him also

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We have been feeling the itch to travel around lately and these are the travel blogs we have been enjoying: Adventure With Mash

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«I’ve learned that lately

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Desa was feeling a little dull and grey herself lately, and some of that was undoubtedly that she was used to some of the colors being turned up some of the time at least

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She just wasn’t whole in herself lately

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A few have been recreated lately from preserved DNA but they are still too rare to feed quibartas

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Trade hadn’t been up to much lately and she was skint, so there was no point in trying to leave until the boy returned and paid the bill

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We’ve made good progress lately

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It was not like that lately

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He noticed her hanging around Thom a lot lately

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No matter how much you push toward the limit, when you’re serving a sentence of three-d reality, you have to do some work to survive and his sentence had felt heavy lately

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I’m sure she’s got something to do with all this weird stuff that’s going on lately

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So few people had been looking for him lately that he wasn’t worried about it

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The mixture of rain and sun we’ve had lately has had major impact on the hedgerows bordering the lane

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He had been neglecting Ava too much lately and she was complaining about it

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They were not the wooden barrels with bung taps that he knew from the parts of Alan’s universe he had seen lately, they were plumbed fittings behind a polished bar with fine woodwork around it and glowing symbols on the tap handles, more like the place where he used to play the Herndon Cherub for her

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Lately they were few and far between and filled with unimportant information

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«So what have you been up to lately?» Thom asked as he sat down

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«Cooking,» he answered, «I’ve been trying a lot of new recipes lately

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He double checked all the extra security Ava had put on his equipment lately

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Ken, shocked and concerned about the strange way in which his wife had been behaving lately, carried her back up to the bedroom, where he made sure that the curtains were drawn and that the windows were safely closed and locked, taking the key with him to ensure Helen’s safety

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She’s not been at her best lately and you know how

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He didn’t know her, but people had been changing their personifications a lot lately

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Trade hadn’t been up to much lately and she was skint, so there was

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“Have you noticed he’s not himself lately?” Heymon asked about the captain

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Lately they had sat with Yellelle and Ava

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His loyalty had been pledged to the Elders many long years ago; but lately he was beginning to think that they were all mad

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She wasn’t really going with anyone lately, but she still spent a lot of time in his universe, most of it in the Highlands, and now she was spending a lot of sleeps back in the Yakhan in a small marble palace off Third Canal

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way in which his wife had been behaving lately, carried her back

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Being a sorceress from the Kassikan, she was not as repulsed by such things, “and lately it seems that all those at YingolNeerie might have been destroyed or powered down

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49.
Are you okay? What’s up with you and your mood swings lately?”

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“What is wrong with you, Ningla? You have not been yourself lately

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Ava was just in Tdeshi’s body lately

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“I haven’t seen him around much lately either,” I don’t think he pulls boat duty at all these days

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As overcome as she had been by Tdeshi’s hormones lately, she would invite him to her room for sex where he would fuck her lights out and she would wake up for Afternoonday with all her notes and data cleaned out

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The stairs were his morning work-out, but today he felt all the leg work he’d been doing lately

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‘Yes, he’s really shot up lately, but he’s always been a fairly serious-minded lad and pretty mature for his age

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Hasn’t Ava been living outside also lately?”

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‘So what have you been up to lately? It’s ages since I’ve seen you to talk to and what with the show and everything I’ve got out of touch

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Lately he had relied on her to keep the records

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Livingson, Miss Spelman, this is my son Harold Bessamer, lately graduated from Malvern

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He liked these friends, although lately they seemed to be behaving somewhat distant

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“You and I haven’t been seeing that much of each other lately and we only found out three years ago

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he’s been losing a lot of money on the cards lately

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«Has anyone been to any good opera houses lately?» Andrew asked

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been gaining momentum lately

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his balls a little about what a fuck he’s been lately

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«The best, but what brings you in tonight?» She knew her tone wasn’t friendly, but lately she hadn’t felt very friendly, towards him

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The tub was also fed by a little trickle that ran down thru the fields, but the weather had been rather dry lately and that was barely running

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She just had a bad habit of stretching it, whenever she got mad, and lately, that was only when she called him

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Yhomaire groaned, no doubt he hadn’t changed the water lately

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“So that’s why he’s been so stingy lately,” Luray said as she arrived back at the table with full cups

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I might settle for one of those in a floor model, but they’re doing some really true things with tension pitch lately, I might settle for a better plastic-string with that

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You have lately been under pressure; pressure which would have destroyed lesser men

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She moved out lately last year before she gave birth to her first baby

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Lately I haven’t had a lot to cheer about

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Imagine her fiancé filed the visa for her year ago but it was worked out only lately

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Alan saw quite a bit of Chensa but lately less of Mingalle once Kivete moved in, unless the four of them got together for a romp

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«It might,» she said, «But there’s another adventure that’s been on my mind a lot more lately,» Desa told him

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When Toad found himself in a dank and noisy dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between him and the outer world of sunshine and well-metalled high roads where he had lately been so happy, carrying himself as if he had bought up every road in England, he flung himself at full length on the floor, and shed bitter tears, and abandoned himself to dark despair

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of this truth in my heart lately, that many have been called for

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If that wasn’t reason enough to push her away, the rumors circulating lately were

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Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usual wages of common labour are now eight pence a-day ; tenpence, sometimes a shilling, about Edinburgh, in the counties which border upon England, probably on account of that neighbourhood, and in a few other places where there has lately been a considerable rise in the demand for labour, about Glasgow, Carron, Ayrshire, etc

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Both the pecuniary income and expense of such families have increased considerably since that time through the greater part of the kingdom, in some places more, and in some less, though perhaps scarce anywhere so much as some exaggerated accounts of the present wages of labour have lately represented them to the public

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He fully enjoyed the power it gave him, but lately he was becoming aware of the cost such power took upon his flesh

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Secondly, he could hide out in the work pits where the Keeper rarely tread, for according to Nicola, LeCynic had lately been taking any child with potential from the High Tower, keeping them for his own

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Their involvement has been off again, on again, since the beginning of the 53rd but it’s been more off than on lately

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Lately he’s had a problem with boredom

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That decision is mainly caused by how unglued Victoria has been lately

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She hasn’t been herself lately, these past few years

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Sleeping under a coach in a transient field wasn’t something she often did lately

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‘After all this rain we’ve had lately, the river’s

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gentle, but his head ached terribly, and his feet – lately

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There has been a lot of talk lately about how antioxidants are important in the diet

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Lately, too often even the Maker’s path was shadowed by the corruption

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troubling me lately and who better to discuss them with, than her

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Won a lottery lately?” and I would answer them all with a wave of

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Lately, her nightmares had worsened and I didn’t know how to banish them

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“Quartz is used for protection and containment, right?” I had heard the word demon too many times lately

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Of course potential recruits were becoming harder to convince lately

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It has in that country, indeed, been lately extended to twentyseven, a period still too short to encourage the tenant to make the most important improvements

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Definition of Lately

recently

Examples of Lately in a sentence

Frank has been drinking a lot of beer lately because he got fired last week.

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Though the salon is usually profitable, lately we have been spending more than we have been making.

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Lately, my normally happy-go-lucky mother has been displaying random bursts of anger for no reason.

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While Molly is usually carefree, she has been really stressed out lately with the task of Christmas shopping.

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Lately, the usually fast-growing city has experienced stagnant population growth.

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Sentences starting with lately

• Lately he has turned the subject over, and is sorry that his father wore out the vest and did not bring away the chair. [4]
• Lately you were praising to me the beauty of the great Hall of Columns nearly completed in the Temple of Amon over yonder in Thebes. [10]
• Lately I quit Miss Withersteen. [13]
• Lately his case has developed a something which is a wonder to the hired nurses, but which will not be much of a marvel to you if you have read medical philosophy much. [5]
• Lately bad feeling has been growing on the Sagalac, and only a spark was needed to fire the ricks. [11]
• Lately I have felt as if I were rotting with egotism. [5]
• Lately evidences of bituminous coal have been detected. [5]
• Lately I’m not as strong as I was. [5]
• Lately there was another hunt for an heir to another princely house, and one was found who was circumstanced about as the Gaikwar had been. [5]

Sentences ending with lately

• I’ve been thinking you over lately. [9]
• Some chance allusion was made by a lady to an article in a recent magazine which had pleased her more than anything she had seen lately. [4]
• The same tree they rested under when they first arrived, was there a short time ago, but the Viceroy of Egypt sent it to the Empress Eugenie lately. [5]
• Have you seen them, any of them, lately? [8]
• As we proceed, the people are wilder and much more curious about us, having, it is evident, seen few strangers lately. [4]
• It was probably the only really bright and cheery hour she had known lately. [5]
• I wonder what’s the matter with me lately? [5]
• And speaking of the book, I inclose something which has been happening here lately. [5]
• There’s been right smart rain lately. [4]
• Believe me, Very sincerely yours, I have thought a good deal about this letter and the writer of it lately. [6]

Short sentences using lately

• I hain’t sold much lately. [4]
• Have you seen him lately? [9]
• I haven’t asked her lately. [5]

More example sentences with the word lately in them

• In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
• When I postponed you lately, I did it because I thought I should be cramped for money until January, but that has turned out to be an error, so I hasten to cut short the postponement. [5]
• Again and again you have recurred to my thoughts lately, and I was beginning to have some sad presages as to the cause of your silence. [14]
• Only lately he wrote to his uncle from Paris that he was minded to make me his wife. [10]
• I had been wounded lately, and was not able to ride without help; but the good Dwarf took me on behind him, and I held on to him and was safe enough. [5]
• The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
• The gold coins with the head of Alexander the Great are some of them so fresh one might think they were newer than much of the silver currency we were lately handling. [6]
• I write it with pride, that at these suppers I was sometimes asked to speak; and, having been but lately to England, to give my opinion upon the state of affairs there. [9]
• A new species, with a still larger neck-appendage (C. penduliger), has lately been discovered, see ‘Ibis,’ vol. [1]
• The pious youth, who so lately had punished his flesh with the scourge to banish seductive dream-figures, had in these few days become quite another man. [10]
• There was another who read the account of the exercises with intense interest, a gentleman of whom we have lately forborne to speak. [9]
• The only complaints which we have heard have come from circuits which were so large that the judges could not dispose of the business, and the circuits in which Judges Pearson and Ralston lately presided. [7]
• When you rode, which wasn’t often lately, the sage was full of sneakin’ men. [13]
• So we dodged—we were used to that by this time—and when the scouts reached the spot we had so lately occupied, we were absent. [5]
• A few lascars were still cleansing the decks; others were seated on their haunches between decks, eating curry from a calabash; a couple of passengers were indolently munching oranges; and Stone the quartermaster was inspecting the work lately done by the lascars. [11]
• In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
• And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand’s bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
• Mr. J. Jenner Weir has lately given me an analogous case with ducks of two species. [1]
• Such, or something very similar, has been the observation made to me lately, whilst I have been from home, by members of some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties. [14]
• But Barine, who usually could never gaze her fill at such a spectacle, did not thank her, for this sunset reminded her of another which she had lately watched at Dion’s side, and she again broke into convulsive sobs. [10]
• The philosopher asked us at once whether we were aware that Theodosius had lately promulgated a new edict forbidding young maidens to appear in public as singers or flute-players. [10]
• Such is the turn which things have taken lately, that when Gen. Adams writes a book, I am expected to write a commentary on it. [7]
• A mounted policeman trotted past her as she crossed a gravel drive, and on the tree-flecked stretches, which lately had been empty as Eden, human figures were scattered. [9]
• He had learned to speak French like a Parisian, had hobnobbed with wit and wickedness from Versailles to Rome, and then had come back to Annapolis to set the fashions and to spend the fortune his uncle lately had left him. [9]
• Pentaur knew where to seek Gagabu, for he himself had been invited to the banquet which the prophet had prepared in honor of two sages who had lately come to the House of Seti from the university of Chennu. [10]
• Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. [2]
• He was preparing to enter the university, but he and his friend Obolenski had lately, in secret, agreed to join the hussars. [2]
• In his appendix to «Variolae Triumphatae,» he says,— «There has been a wonderful practice lately used in several parts of the world, which indeed is not yet become common in our nation. [3]
• Rich people were timid and suspicious; and as the Emperor had lately promulgated fresh and more stringent edicts against the magic arts, Posidonius had thought it prudent to postpone the meeting. [10]
• You have been through excitement and trouble lately, and it has made you feel such a need more than ever. [6]
• But even in this I can see lately a shade of improvement. [2]
• The Indians knew this because two men lately dead had revived and come back to tell them of the other world. [4]
• Some of the things in it were not very familiar; he had spent lately a great deal on rugs, on stuffs, on Japanese bric-a-brac. [8]
• The most encouraging thing I have seen lately is an experiment in one of our cities. [4]
• And just lately they have had some cause for rejoicing. [10]
• She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to involve her. [13]
• Still, he knew the master of Castlegarry was alive, for he had seen him mentioned in a chance number of The Morning Post lately come to his hands. [11]
• The meetings of the M. superba are sometimes very large; and an account has lately been published (3. [1]
• The master for the English branches had lately left the school for private reasons, which need not be here mentioned,—but he had gone, at any rate, and it was his place which had been offered to Mr. Bernard Langdon. [6]
• Nathan also said that some man, whom he could not remember, had said lately that Menard County was going to decide the contest and that made the contest very doubtful. [7]
• It is not strange that the spurs of the man who had so lately got out of the saddle should catch in the scholastic robe of the man on the floor of the Senate. [6]
• Here rare some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac hunter: Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. [5]
• Another lately added sorrow arose from the lessons she gave her six year-old nephew. [2]
• Apparently the censor sometimes revises his verdicts upon second thought, for several times lately he has suppressed journals after their issue and partial distribution. [5]
• Next I discovered some emigrant wagons going into camp on the plaza and found that they had lately come through the hostile Indian country and had fared rather roughly. [5]
• After Ledscha had so lately reminded the lover who so vehemently roused her jealous wrath what this night of the full moon meant to her, she could rely upon his appearance in spite of everything. [10]
• She has seemed so fond of dress lately, and once she spoke of learning—yes, Mr. Bradshaw, of learning to—dance! [6]
• He has been sick and threatened with consumption, but I have not inquired after him lately. [5]
• As she entered, she saw a heap moving in one corner—a lion lately bought. [11]
• I know what she has been busy with lately, and the queer idea she has got into her head. [6]
• All her days she had lived precariously near it, and lately she had visited these people, had been torn by the sight of what they endured. [9]
• At first, when she began to recover, I was conscious only of the vitality—but lately I feel the other quality. [9]
• The cousins had seen each other lately, and Private Gellatly had had a talk with the man who was ha’sh. [11]
• His friend Helena seemed to have the same feeling, when she saw what this day had given her sister; and the philosopher’s house, so lately shadowed by anxiety, and many a fear, would soon ring with voices uttering joyous congratulations. [10]
• The good people seemed to have forgotten they ever had had any other minister, except Deacon Shearer and his set of malcontents, who were doing a dull business in the meeting-house lately occupied by the Reverend Mr. Fairweather. [6]
• A loosely tied scarf round my arm showed that some one had lately left me, and would return to finish the bandaging. [11]
• There were several rows and clusters of shabby frame-houses, and a supply of mud sufficient to insure the town against a famine in that article for a hundred years; for the overflow had but lately subsided. [5]
• On this Seleukus referred me to a picture painted by old Sosibius, who has lately gone to Rome to work in Caesar’s new baths. [10]
• I need not refer to the case lately read before this Society, in which a physician went, soon after performing an autopsy of a case of puerperal fever, to a woman in labor, who was seized with the same disease and perished. [3]
• I have not received a letter from home lately, but got a «‘Journal'» the other day, in which I see the office has been sold. [5]
• I have lately read an article by Joh. [1]
• There’s been some queer deals lately an’ this seemed to me the queerest. [13]
• A distinguished physiologist, Prof. Preyer, informs me that he had lately been experimenting on the function of the shell of the ear, and has come to nearly the same conclusion as that given here. [1]
• Coming round a point of rock, I saw the Gray Monk, of whom strange legends had lately travelled to the city. [11]
• A painful hush pervaded the place which had lately been so full of cheery life. [5]
• The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals; but I need say nothing on this head, as I have so lately endeavoured to shew that the social instincts,—the prime principle of man’s moral constitution (50. [1]
• A whisper had passed that, two nights before, the Effendina had sent in haste for a famous Italian physician lately come to Cairo, and that since his visit Kaid had been sullen and depressed. [11]
• He was very pale and looked as if he had but lately come out of a sick bed, and also as if he ought to get back into it again as soon as possible. [5]
• It never came over me until lately how much good that old woman did in the world. [4]
• We took off our shoes and went into the marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, the neatest piece of architecture, inside, that I have seen lately. [5]
• The passage was originally taken from the «Histoire Naturelle des Betes Ruminans et Rongeurs, Bipedes et Autres,» lately published in Paris. [6]
• It has been only lately that Mr. Carnegie beatified me. [5]
• This man had only lately come into his life, and was only near to him in a business sense. [11]
• Veit Gundling, the old master-brewer, had lately departed this life, and the electors had been of one mind in choosing the coppersmith to fill his place, and he was likewise approved by the guilds. [10]
• The heroic devotion of this woman, and Pretty Pierre’s act of friendship to her, together with the swift panorama of his past across the seas, awoke the whole man in Shon, as the staunch life that he had lately led rendered it possible. [11]
• At the hands of the lately despised and injurious woman Rosalie was made ready to play the part in the last act, none knowing save the few who appeared in the final tableau, and they at the last moment only. [11]
• Of the hundreds of tents which till lately had covered it, only those of the seventh cohort of the praetorian guard remained; for these, having to protect the person of the emperor, had not been quartered in the town. [10]
• It reminded us of poor Maximilian, so lately shot. [5]
• Frank J. McLean, of Ninth Tennessee Cavalry now, or lately, at Johnson’s Island, for Capt. [7]
• And—without the air of having picked the single instance, but of having chosen from many—Mrs. Kame added that she had only lately seen Elsie Shorter, whose admiration for Honora was greater than ever. [9]
• I have repeatedly observed this fact in England; but two gentlemen have lately written to me, saying that they form an exception to the rule. [1]
• One of the obelisks erected by Rameses at Heliopolis is now standing in the Place de la Concorde at Paris, and has been lately translated by E. Chabas. [10]
• I am suffering now from the fact that I, who have told the truth a good many times in my life, have lately received more letters than anybody else urging me to lead a righteous life. [5]
• And I am not surprised to find Old Phelps lately rising to the audacity of criticising his exemplar. [4]
• Sabina’s urgency would not alone have sufficed to put a term to his hesitancy, especially as it had lately been farther increased by a wish that was all his own. [10]
• But there had never been a sign from her, nor any word from Mavick lately. [4]
• In a long, narrow room apart hung the portraits, waiting to be attached to the upper end of the mummy-cases of those lately deceased, and still in the hands of embalmers. [10]
• I have thought much of Anson lately. [11]
• I have felt much less of the disagreeable pains in my chest lately, and much less also of the soreness and hoarseness. [14]
• Being out of money, I sought work, and got it; did my duty faithfully about a year, and was then given the berth of night watchman yonder in that dead-house which you visited lately. [5]
• Mrs. K—-is a Missourian, and lately she discovered, by accident, that she was a remarkable hypnotiser. [5]
• He had ever loved appreciation, not to say flattery, and he had had very little of it lately. [11]
• The little man looked down at the lately rebuilt hut, and ground his teeth, when, through an opening in the hedge, he saw the white robe of a man, who was sitting by Uarda. [10]
• It was your little sister, was it not, of whom you were speaking to me lately? [10]
• Among these Thackeray’s Lectures (which had lately been delivered in Manchester) were spoken of and that on Fielding especially dwelt upon. [14]
• Her life till lately was like a long, sunny day, and now the hail is pelting her from all sides at once. [10]
• And the populace?—He lately spoiled the game of your brother, who was acting for me, in a way. [10]
• Prof. Wyman has lately shewn (Fourth Annual Report, Peabody Museum, 1871, p. 20), that this perforation is present in thirty-one per cent. [1]
• The government has lately reduced the duty upon foreign wines. [5]
• Dr. Beddoe has lately proved that, with the inhabitants of Britain, residence in towns and certain occupations have a deteriorating influence on height; and he infers that the result is to a certain extent inherited, as is likewise the case in the United States. [1]

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