Ones
[wʌnz]
Definition
(adv.) Once.
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Examples
- These are two celebrated ones. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How about the irreclaimable ones, though? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the ones who would not make war? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You must choose me for your churchwarden, Mr. Helstone, the next time you elect new ones. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hussey also had his machine there, and they were the only ones represented. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He knew now he was up against the crazies; the ones with the black-and-red scarves. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thank you, I prefer spiders, she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The Great Geyser and the New Geyser are the most remarkable ones in Iceland, where there are about a hundred altogether. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So he got one of my long locks of hair, and I got one of his short ones. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These here ones as is below, though, ain't reg'lar thoroughbred sawbones; they're only in trainin'. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Are there no honest ones? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- By now they should be over the lines, the first ones anyway. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Empty trains were obliged to leave the road free for loaded ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These photographs, which may be considered the first durable ones that had been obtained, were, with one exception, taken on plates made of pewter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Stout fellers last six or seven years; trashy ones gets worked up in two or three. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns, said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These limp ones are two I killed today at work; but as they don't die till the sun goes down they can't be very stale meat. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All your attentions to the niece--rather rude, than otherwise, to the aunt--only way of deceiving the old ones. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And it ended by my discovering traces, but very different ones from those which I had expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When they reached the bank there stood Thomasin, in a stress of grief, bending over the two unconscious ones who already lay there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I just ran in, she said, with these little stockings for the boy,--three pair, nice, warm woollen ones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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