Meantime

Examples

• Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Meantime the whole hall was in a stir; most people rose and remained standing, for a change; some walked about, all talked and laughed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In the meantime he constructed a typewriter to print in raised letters, without ink. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the meantime, in 1801, Le Bon, a Frenchman at Paris, had succeeded in making illuminating gas from wood, lit his house therewith, and proposed to light the whole city of Paris. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the meantime, he placed a strong guard at the gate of the tunnel and in the western pass, so as to prevent the island being taken by surprise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Meantime the wax candle and the Argand oil lamp held their own bravely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the meantime, take no step without letting me know. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A gate, which has in the meantime shut off the flow of grain, is now drawn back, and the operation is repeated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Meantime a young man named George Stephenson, who was working at a coal mine at Killingworth, seven miles north of Newcastle, was studying out a new plan of locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Well, some day they would tell the truth to every one and meantime he was glad there was a Gaylord's for his own learning of it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Can you give a fellow anything to read in the meantime? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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