1 They worked and sweated for half an hour.
2 The clanging bell had been calling for half an hour.
3 It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
4 Before she was half way home, however, she had changed her mind.
5 A portion of Tom's half of the cake was left; they divided and ate it.
6 At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard.
7 Half the time Tom was afraid Injun Joe would never be captured; the other half he was afraid he would be.
8 Half the time Tom was afraid Injun Joe would never be captured; the other half he was afraid he would be.
9 Parties were able to elude each other for the space of half an hour without going beyond the "known" ground.
10 Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
11 She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.
12 Mary gave him a brand-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.
13 Half an hour later he was disappearing behind the Douglas mansion on the summit of Cardiff Hill, and the school-house was hardly distinguishable away off in the valley behind him.
14 At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations.
15 They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.
16 The boys gazed awhile, half expecting to see a blue light flit past a window; then talking in a low tone, as befitted the time and the circumstances, they struck far off to the right, to give the haunted house a wide berth, and took their way homeward through the woods that adorned the rearward side of Cardiff Hill.
17 It seemed to him that life was but a trouble, at best, and he more than half envied Jimmy Hodges, so lately released; it must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.