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• How can I when I owe him? (10)
• And why not when both were cold? (10)
• Edward hit hard when he was empty. (10)
• Who knows when we may be together again? (4)
• When Dan came, I gave up my place to him. (8)
• I knew him when he was an apprentice in London. (10)
• A month had passed when Adrian wrote this letter. (10)
• So when she makes you fight, she thinks you safe. (10)
• When he saw them he stopped dead, and raised his hat. (8)
• When I have done so, I am bound to accept his reply. (22)
• She was relieved when the train was lightened of him. (10)
• When it was done, she gave a long, low sigh of relief. (10)
• When next I go to church, I shall know what old Adam felt. (10)
• When she was out of sight, Noel walked back to the station. (8)
• Were men, when they were known, like him she knew too well? (10)
• Do you remember when we first compared our weird experiences? (9)
• And, when she was gone, he sat in the chair where she had sat. (8)
• When one is as young as Ashurst, pity is not a violent emotion. (8)
• He used to dream of the American oysters when we were in Europe. (9)
• He was about to go when Wahnschaffe called him back by a gesture. (12)
• That was not a figure of speech, when she said she felt buried alive. (22)
• When Algernon went forth a second time, he was by fifty pounds poorer. (22)
• Did you feel as you did when our little affair was broken off, long ago? (9)
• Even my husband was not so mad about his painting when we lived at home. (8)
• Thus, when the tail shows strongest decision of purpose, the head must follow. (10)
• The more blissful the hours just spent, the greater the desolation when they are over. (8)
• When they were in the garden, he commanded her to read and tell him the meaning of it. (10)
• Now they had gone three paces onward, and were in the light of many lamps, when behold! (10)
• You esteem me; I suppose you mean as much as young people mean when they say they love. (10)
• Lord forbid I accuse annybody; but when I get up, my first rush is to feel in my pocket. (10)
• What do you think will happen, Joe, when we are no longer obliged to sacrifice ourselves? (8)
• He was affecting the excessively obsequious when he came back bearing his metal soap-case. (10)
• When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go, and very unwillingly said so. (4)
• What was she thinking and brooding over into small hours when she ought to have been asleep? (8)
• I feel quite in the mood of that morning when we walked down Broadway on our wedding journey. (9)
• I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say. (4)
• When, therefore, in June of 1900 he went to Paris, it was but his third attempt on the centre of civilisation. (8)
• Mrs. March put her arms round him to kiss him, and when she let him sink back her eyes were dim. (9)
• When he stopped, she did not join in the tornado of applause, but sat motionless, looking up at him. (8)
• When they came to a street lamp where she could see him, he nodded and said yes, or no, respectfully. (9)
• The pride and power of man vanish when dread disease lays him low and brings him next to dissolution! (18)
• The wrong, if any, seemed to be condoned to him, except when from time to time his wife brought it up. (9)
• Every week, when it appeared, Cecilia, who for some reason carved on Sundays, regarded it with a frown. (8)
• When I had grown sure of their reappearance from some point of view or other, I spied for them in vain. (10)
• Pure without attenuation, passionate without contortion, when once heard it exacted absolute confidence. (10)
• There was nothing else for him or for her, except to doat on the passing minute that slipped when seized. (10)
• It will not rattle loose when the timber seasons, as does the mortise and tenon joint in the braced-frame. (17)
• There are times also when Love draws part of his being from self-love, and can find no support without it. (10)
• But the life of the spirit is beyond his region; we have our morrow in his day when we crave nought of him. (10)
• Gentlemen, Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. (8)
• Some day you will tell me the difference of what you think of me now, from what you thought when we first . (10)
• He planned a trip to Germany, but when Liszt came to Rome he remained there to study under that great master. (3)
• The whole party were but just reassembled in the drawing-room when Mr. Weston made his appearance among them. (4)
• Lowell, to whom Calderon was as a nightingale in his study, was not taken unawares when asked to go to Spain. (14)
• And she remembered the interesting moment in the omnibus when that attractive-looking man had got out so hastily. (8)
• No one could have characterized the kind of thing he had done more severely than he when he called it dog eat dog. (9)
• When he has given me soup or fish, bowed to me over wine, and asked a conventional question, he has done with me. (10)
• All those who were concerned in his affairs said he behaved well, and even more than well, when it came to the worst. (9)
• That shred of herself she would become, she felt herself becoming it when the view of her career beside her brother waned. (10)
• Everett was paring his nails, very neatly, with the air of detachment he assumed when he was engaged in taking a deposition. (13)
• It was early on the morning of a second day, before sunrise, when Vittoria sent for Merthyr to conduct her to the cathedral. (10)
• How different from that languorous, warm, moonlit night when Daphne Wing had come dancing out of the shadow of the dark trees. (8)
• Reginald is never easy unless we are by ourselves, and when the weather is tolerable, we pace the shrubbery for hours together. (4)
• When the last convulsions come they are not terrific; the frame has been weakened for dissolution; love dies like natural decay. (22)
• Seldom a morning passed when he did not watch them leave the nest on their breakfast-flight, busy in the happy stillness of dawn. (10)
• He was full of their delight when he came back, and my propinquity gave me the advantage of hearing him speak of them at first hand. (9)
• I was delighted that I had guessed their relative qualities so perfectly, and when we arrived at Mrs. March I glibly presented them. (9)
• It had been her last appeal: she reflected that she had really felt when he had not been feeling at all: and this marks a division. (10)
• Upon one occasion, he asserted, Hebe was about to fall from a broken pedestal in the ring when the other elephants rushed to the rescue. (21)
• We had already gone ashore when our attention was called to our canoes by the excited shouts of the crowd hanging over the stone parapet. (20)
• What a happy invention it were, if when adopting any road in life, we could only manage to forget that we had ever contemplated any other! (6)
• It was falling night when they reached Weimar, where they found at the station a provision of omnibuses far beyond the hotel accommodations. (9)
• When this had passed, his eyesight and sensations grew clearer, and he sat in a mental doze, looking at things with quiet animal observation. (22)
• When they had passed into the sitting-room, her husband, who was sitting conversing with Angelo, stretched out his hand and knocked the girdle. (10)
• She thought so; she relied on her devout observances; they gave her sweet confidence, and the sense of being specially shielded even when specially menaced. (10)
• Many times Doctor Greydon and Mrs. Greydon held lengthy consultations when the disease took its insidious hold on the now wasted frame of their beautiful daughter. (18)

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