Beforehand

Examples

• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I am not going to fool with him beforehand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Now, you know, I am certain of that, beforehand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nobody who had not known it beforehand would have suspected that there was a living creature in the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But don't disappoint yourself beforehand, Tom. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I have no doubt of his having, at times, considerable influence; but it may be perfectly impossible for him to know beforehand _when_ it will be. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I shall try to take care of it beforehand, but he might deceive me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Besides, there is a man's character beforehand to speak for him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You couldn't put the thing better--couldn't put it better, beforehand, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I should like him to tell me how I could bear up at Fair time, if I didn't take strengthening medicine for a month beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He had felt no bond beforehand to this woman who had spoiled the ideal treasure of his life, and he held himself blameless. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yet this result, which she took to be a mutual impression, called falling in love, was just what Rosamond had contemplated beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He came to take leave of us; he had settled to do so beforehand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had omitted to make a memorandum beforehand of the day on which she took the journey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You need not fall in love with _that_ lady, I said, because, I tell you beforehand, you might die at her feet, and she would not love you again. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My uncle brought me the letter that contained it; he knew about it beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am going on to the end, and I have told you beforehand what the end is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Margaret began to wonder whether all offers were as unexpected beforehand,--as distressing at the time of their occurrence, as the two she had had. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to makecannot be at all beforehand with the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The time when one would be due where we lay, wherever that might be, could be calculated pretty nearly, if we made inquiries beforehand. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We placed the candles and opened the doors beforehand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I know beforehand that nothing you, or anyone, can tell me, will show my husband's noble heart in any other light than one. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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