Sentence for previous | Use previous in a sentence

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• Confessions imply previous wrong-doing. (16)
• Arnold was in a happier mood than the day previous. (18)
• She requested him to deliver up her previous letters. (10)
• Previous pains were but Summer lightnings, passing shadows. (10)
• They had marched all the previous day and night and were resting. (1)
• Miss Bates was out, which accounted for the previous tranquillity. (4)
• Pole was pursuing in the gusty energy of his previous explanation. (10)
• What had been the previous existences of his father and his mother? (8)
• That was previous to her perjury by little, by a day-eighteen hours. (10)
• Lady Grace Halley had her fit of the devotional previous to marriage. (10)
• They smiled, and immediately took footing on their previous intimacy. (10)
• We quitted Bulsted previous to the return of the family to Riversley. (10)
• Previous to her emotion on the journey home, the words would have come out. (10)
• Still he was bound to consult his wife previous to stepping before the public. (10)
• This was a defeat of all his previous precaution, a deep victory of natural instinct. (8)
• In a previous chapter, details were given on the construction of concrete paths and roads. (17)
• And moreover, notwithstanding his previous tribulation, to spy upon Cupid was sweet to him. (10)
• Plenty of time should be allowed between coats to permit thorough drying of the previous one. (17)
• Only, it was odd that the accident should have come to pass just previous to his introduction. (10)
• But for the previous introduction to Lady Charlotte, he would have thought it passing wonderful. (10)
• Once, previous to the arrival of the latter three, there was a change in her look, or Evan fancied it. (10)
• He then begged his hero to put the previous couple in position, through a few of the opening movements. (10)
• Julia wavered; but was he only trying to soothe and pacify her, and make her overlook the previous affront? (4)
• He read that a Recorder had charged a grand jury on the previous day with a more than usually long list of offences. (8)
• Whether it was due to his previous experience or to an instinct for luxury, he was, in fact, very much one of them! (13)
• Cecilia reddened faintly, thinking of him who had taught her to listen, and of her previous contempt of the subject. (10)
• Say what poor old Nevil will, or did say, previous to the sobering of his blood, where is there a land like England? (10)
• The two first-named vessels were no strangers to the Bay, and had participated in the conquest of the previous year. (19)
• After this act of prudence he went toward the curtain, while the fair Austrian soubrette flew on her previous errand. (10)
• Thereon Bosinney rose and hid himself, according to previous arrangement, in the little study, to wait for her departure. (8)
• A quick altercation ensued; the end being that Harry managed to give his sister the context of the previous conversation. (10)
• She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the justice that Mrs. Weston foretold. (4)
• But I had not been an equal match for him previous to his taking wine; it was waste of breath and heart to contend with him. (10)
• It would have been a pleasant one had not Heriot and Destrier pretended all sorts of things about our previous acquaintance. (10)
• Her circle was practically the same as it was previous to the coveted nominal rank enabling her to trample on those beneath it. (10)
• That the reader may gather an idea of the character of passages executed by these singers an example is given on the previous page. (3)
• These facts imply many years of previous development before the time when works treating of the science of music would be prepared. (3)
• Previous to the relaxation, by amendment, of a certain legal process, this class was held to represent the austerity of the country. (10)
• They discussed the nature of their homes and previous existences, which had a kind of fascinating unreality up on that lonely height. (8)
• He rejoiced to tell his previous anticipations that he had not been disappointed; and he bade hero-worshippers expect no gilded figure. (10)
• But they had proof of a love almost greater than it was previous to the offence, in the tender precautions they took to elude repulsion. (10)
• They showed gratitude to an English colonist named Glen, who, on a previous occasion, had treated certain French prisoners with kindness. (19)
• Her previous cavalier was on his feet, all but on his knees, it appeared, searching for something that eluded him under the road-side bank. (10)
• Felix, who, no more than any one else, could keep his gaze off the trapped creature, felt again all the sensations of the previous afternoon. (8)
• Two Indians, however, brought Governor Sargeant tidings of the approach of the enemy, and his previous successes at Moose and Rupert rivers. (19)
• A fine blush having succeeded the previous paleness of her face, he was justified in his belief of her equal improvement in health and beauty. (4)
• Previous to the ceremony, the two noblemen had interchanged the short speech of mannered duellists punctiliously courteous in the opening act. (10)
• There was comfort also in Tom, who gradually regained his health, without regaining the thoughtlessness and selfishness of his previous habits. (4)
• At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the previous June I had been badly wounded in the head, and for three months was incapacitated for service. (7)
• The party walked round the Gardens unmolested nor have we grounds for supposing they assumed airs of state in the style of a previous generation. (10)
• He dared not say it, he thought it, and previous to his African travel through the Dictionary he had thought his sister infallible on these points. (10)
• It appeared that the white umbrella was notorious for having been seen on previous occasions threading the Piedmontese lines into and out of Peschiera. (10)
• The love of Ireland for the conquering country will be the celebrated ceremony in the concluding chapter previous to the inauguration of the millennium. (10)
• The methods which are used in constructing the small house of to-day are not as simply classified as the previous description would lead one to believe. (17)
• To speak, without the explanation of his previous reticence which this letter would afford, seemed useless: even the desire to speak was absent, passion being absent. (10)

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