Already

Examples

• It was already dark when we reached it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If I must disgrace myself by such a bargain with any man, I prefer that it be one I already despise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Hence, provision was made for carrying a large stock of oil, and for giving a certain period of rest to that already used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have that already, she answered mischievously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We had already managed to get pretty high vacua, and we thought, maybe, the filament would be stable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And then he heard Lydgate's account of the troubles which Rosamond had already depicted to him in her way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Must you go home, already? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was already the scientific lion of England, but withal a very modest and unassuming lion. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I have already refused him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Phaidor-- she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, Phaidor already is yours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Tiglath Pileser III and Sargon II, names already familiar in this story, profess to have made them pay tribute. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are already friends, I hope. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I glanced at my companion, and finding that he had already risen and was ready to depart, thanked them for what they had told me, and took my leave. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You have, no doubt, already formed your conclusions from the newspapers, he said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The latter was given, as already stated, all troops in North and South Carolina. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Although we appeared at the stipulated place a quarter of an hour before the time, we found Mr. Micawber already there. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Whenever you please, was his answer; as though he had already recorded his decision against me and made his mind up not to look at it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There's a vicious point hit already, she said. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We have already shown how the hold of the Catholic church upon the consciences of men was weakening at this time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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