Sometimes

Examples

• Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Sometimes, Eustacia, I think it is a judgment upon you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have thought that if Mr. Yeobright would like to pay me a visit sometimes he shouldn't stay away for want of asking. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sometimes Mr. Claypole faints himself, but the result is the same. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And when I wait upon 'em, they'll say to me sometimes--WITH IT ON--thick, and no mistake--“How am I looking, Mowcher? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He won't do it unless he is very much worried, and only threatens it sometimes, when he gets tired of studying. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I sometimes have sick fancies, she went on, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Furieusement sometimes, said she. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• An old woman's advice is sometimes worth taking, sir, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But sometimes a conqueror was afraid of the god he had conquered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I had also sometimes the honour of attending my master in his visits to others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• How dreadful to remember, perhaps, that she had sometimes even wished the old man away who was so swiftly hurried out of life! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Still, I go to Athens sometimes for amusement, and amusement requires money. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They _will_ sometimes obtrudebut how you can court them! Jane Austen. Emma.
• They get victory sometimes, but they never get good-will, which would be of more use to them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I suppose,' with a jerk, 'you have sometimes plucked a pear before it was ripe, Master Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me, and. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He glanced here, and he glanced there, sullenly but shrinkingly; and sometimes stopped and turned about, and looked all round him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Sometimes she writes Percival only, but very seldom--in nine cases out of ten she gives him his title. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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