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  • And moving was a very good idea at that juncture of the battle.†   (source)
  • Large circular rondels, enameled cream-and-blue in the moon-and-falcon sigil of House Arryn, protected the vulnerable juncture of arm and breast.†   (source)
  • We'd reached the juncture of the hallway where I had to turn for algebra and Boris had to turn for American Government: the bane of his existence.†   (source)
  • Flora surreptitiously (The Criminal Element recommended surreptitious action at all possible junctures) removed the lid from the shoe box.†   (source)
  • "Exactly what you would normally do at this juncture," the man says.†   (source)
  • Up to this juncture, it's been like being in a storm — so much instability, of dreams achieved and then shattered, of a silence within the walls of my body, of being turned on, beaten, belittled and pushed aside; forgotten and unimportant.†   (source)
  • All we have to do is reach the arena, and it's at a juncture.†   (source)
  • Getting to the site of the twins' juncture wasn't particularly difficult for the young, though seasoned, neurosurgeons either.†   (source)
  • He read the whole thing in ten sittings in his booth at Day's and began pondering the whale's nature at an early juncture.†   (source)
  • At the juncture between the rivers, they visited the dwarves' trading outpost, Hedarth, and exchanged their rafts for donkeys.†   (source)
  • They were digging on a little rise, north of the juncture of where Salt Creek joined the Powder River.†   (source)
  • At the juncture between turn and homestretch, he collared the last of the front-runners, Half Time, who was laboring along the rail.†   (source)
  • Marten stood beside her, a heavy, dis-turbing hand near the juncture of her white shoulder and white neck, smiling on them both.†   (source)
  • You can see here the blade pierced the juncture between the fourth rib and the sternum on the way in.†   (source)
  • At first, there were just their own three girls, in the dimly-lit, drab brown sitting room that stood at the juncture of three murky hallways leading in separate directions to the distant recesses of the strange and marvelous bordello.†   (source)
  • The line showed clearly on the top of his brown head and back where the brain joined the spinal cord and the old man drove the knife on the oar into the juncture, withdrew it, and drove it in again into the shark. s yellow cat-like eyes.†   (source)
  • He's been at this juncture with many students before, but this boy is putting up a fierce fight.†   (source)
  • "At this juncture," Millard said, "it's best not to suppose anything."†   (source)
  • From the sideline, Cesar thought it incomprehensible that his pitcher and catcher found anything to laugh about at this critical juncture of the game, but they were.†   (source)
  • A "stroke well aimed at this critical juncture might put a final end to the war," he argued.†   (source)
  • You couldn't possibly, Judge, not at this juncture.†   (source)
  • The following facts should be taken into account at this juncture.†   (source)
  • Twelve–one at each juncture of the leg and the body.†   (source)
  • If the Shadowhunters were not so concerned with their own …. emergency at this juncture, they would surely have involved themselves by now.†   (source)
  • The peace process is at a difficult juncture.†   (source)
  • A culling of man's population and planetary influence might be the very thing we need at this juncture.†   (source)
  • We hitand-run each other at odd junctures, off hours.†   (source)
  • Eventually, we faced three small valleys that led to a common juncture at the town of Janostelek.†   (source)
  • Regis didn't hesitate any longer, for he knew that any pause at this frightening juncture would probably cause him to change his mind and run to find a hiding place in some dark hole in the city.†   (source)
  • Behind the houses, the hill continued steeply upward, making a large promontory that jutted out into the juncture of the river and creek.†   (source)
  • " At this juncture my chief seized a particularly robust groundhog skull and began rhythmically clacking its jaws together as if to emphasize his final words: "You, Lieutenant Mowat, have been chosen for this great task!†   (source)
  • At this juncture, then, Auschwitz stands revealed in its dual function: as a depot for mass murder but also a vast enclave dedicated to the practice of slavery.†   (source)
  • I was young and surpassingly naive at this juncture and I saw no undue hardship resulting from this arrangement.†   (source)
  • Because he needs to — otherwise he'd be stony flat broke, and to seek other employment at this juncture would bring him further out in the open than would be at all prudent.   (source)
    juncture = point in time
  • All we can do at the present juncture is to consider what measures we can take for communicating with the mainland for help, and in the event of help being delayed (as is only too possible given the state of the weather) what measures we must adopt to ensure our safety.   (source)
  • Not, as they used to say, at this juncture.†   (source)
  • It was a visual representation of the juncture where man and God become one.†   (source)
  • Carlo, you have brought this church to a disastrous juncture.†   (source)
  • Reason crashed at a critical juncture, and he ate a harpoon.†   (source)
  • As a nation, Alexander Ilyich, we are at a very interesting juncture.†   (source)
  • She nuzzled her way into the juncture of his collarbone and shoulder.†   (source)
  • Jaime caught a glimpse of the thick blonde bush at the juncture of her thighs as she climbed out.†   (source)
  • On the day after, Friday, May 10, came what many in Congress knew to be a critical juncture.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Mike entered the discussion by asking me to describe the strange wolves.†   (source)
  • In any case, at that juncture, if it happens, it's probably going to be irrelevant.†   (source)
  • At this juncture the pickings are ours but that won't last long, I doubt through the morning.†   (source)
  • And on the dragon's back, at the juncture between its neck and shoulders, sat his cousin, Eragon.†   (source)
  • They saw the curve of the little creek from two miles away and angled for the nearest juncture.†   (source)
  • Had Jefferson known Adams's mind at this juncture, he would have been quite surprised.†   (source)
  • SCUTTLING FORWARD on my stomach, worrying that I'm too heavy for the supports and that at any second the entire section of pipe will collapse, I scoot along the shaft, pausing at each juncture to listen.†   (source)
  • The show was complicated to find, and as we wandered the busy galleries (weaving in and out of crowds, turning right, turning left, backtracking through labyrinths of confusing signage and layout) large gloomy reproductions of The Anatomy Lesson appeared erratically and at unexpected junctures, baleful signposts, the same old corpse with the flayed arm, red arrows beneath: operating theater, this way.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the Count could only cross his fingers that a Scandinavian man would be residing in the hotel at the critical juncture.†   (source)
  • Four junctures down I hear voices.†   (source)
  • What young lovers have not found themselves at this juncture in a silence so sudden, so seemingly insurmountable that it threatens to cast doubt upon their chemistry as a couple?†   (source)
  • And not only is a duel central to the action of Onegin, one occurs at a critical juncture in War and Peace, Fathers and Sons, and The Brothers Karamazov!†   (source)
  • "And it was at this fateful juncture that the good general's sash unsashed and his robe disrobed, revealing a regulation pair of U.S. Army– issue briefs—at the sight of which, Madame Veloshki fainted."†   (source)
  • And watching you together just now, seeing your instinctive tenderness, and seeing the way that she felt instantly at ease in your company, it was suddenly so obvious that what she needs, especially at this juncture in her life, is a mother's touch, a mother's way, a mother's—"†   (source)
  • And I don't just mean the Napoleons who influence the course of history; I mean men and women who routinely appear at critical junctures in the progress of art, or commerce, or the evolution of ideas—as if Life itself has summoned them once again to help fulfill its purpose.†   (source)
  • Years afterward, recalling this juncture in his life, he would describe himself as looking rather like a short, thick Archbishop of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • 'If that appears enigmatic to you, Mr Undersecretary, I'm afraid it's all I can offer at this juncture.'†   (source)
  • Her legs were skinny but well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head.†   (source)
  • Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line—as they ought to and always had before—the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle.†   (source)
  • I felt carefully at the juncture of these tight strings, at the tiny joints, no bigger than pinheads.†   (source)
  • At a stroke the Continental Congress had made the Glorious Cause of America more glorious still, for all the world to know, and also to give every citizen soldier at this critical juncture something still larger and more compelling for which to fight.†   (source)
  • The buildings stood at the juncture where the Az Ragni poured into the Edda, more than doubling its size.†   (source)
  • Shaking her hair out of her face, she carefully drew the Fortis rune at the juncture of shoulder blade and back, just where, if he were an angel, he would have wings.†   (source)
  • "That was," he gasped, and pressed his face to the juncture of her neck and shoulder and breathed as if he were breathing her in; he was shaking a little, although his grip on her was steady and firm.†   (source)
  • I thought I heard something behind me when I reached the octopus-like juncture where all the sleeping halls met.†   (source)
  • At this critical juncture none but the most self-assured of men, no matter how certain he may be of his privacy, can refrain from casting a surreptitious glance around to reassure himself that he really is alone.†   (source)
  • At the juncture between the dragon's neck and back was a saddle much like Saphira's, and on the saddle sat a figure that looked to be Arya, her dark hair streaming from her head.†   (source)
  • The juncture was otherwise empty, but on the floor was a mosaic of a three-headed dragon wrought in red and black tiles.†   (source)
  • Hideous though his face might be, the worst of his wounds was the one at the juncture of shoulder and arm, where his own mail had been driven back into his armpit by an arrow.†   (source)
  • The much-used door had a slight give, or play, which made a crack at the juncture with its frame, and while the door fastened shut automatically, there was another bolt that could be secured from inside; through the crack Morris could see that this interior mechanism was firmly latched, and so he knew that Sophie could not have left the room.†   (source)
  • At this juncture,mon ami , I was brought into the affair.†   (source)
  • At the juncture of the Rue Denfert-Rochereau with the Boulevard is a statue of two men in flowing robes.†   (source)
  • On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool.†   (source)
  • Just as at the opening of the cosmogonic cycle it was possible to say "God is not involved," but at the same time "God is creatorpreserver-destroyer," so now at this critical juncture, where the One breaks into the many, destiny "happens," but at the same time "isFIGURE 62.†   (source)
  • What a way to talk at such a juncture !†   (source)
  • Miss Clegg appeared at this juncture.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Joan was at once thrilled and frightened to see Jim Cleve enter the cabin.†   (source)
  • At this juncture little Fay sidled over to Lassiter.†   (source)
  • At this juncture a sharp knock on the parlor door interrupted the conversation.†   (source)
  • Yes, I think that we should be more useful there at the present juncture.†   (source)
  • At this juncture the jaded horse was spurred into a trot, soon reaching the pines and the camp.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Monty and Link reached the teeing-ground, and Stillwell went out to meet them.†   (source)
  • At this juncture most of the outlaws began to file back into the room.†   (source)
  • At this juncture not one of such size was available.†   (source)
  • And at that juncture a shout pealed from the forest.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Madeline's brother joined the group, evidently in search of Stillwell.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Pilchuck rushed up behind them.†   (source)
  • And at this juncture the Longstreth party came out.†   (source)
  • At that juncture Helen heard Dale's melodious yell near at hand.†   (source)
  • At that juncture the crowd spread out, closed in, and Aiken and Sibert were caught in the circle.†   (source)
  • Hold!" yelled Pilchuck, suddenly at this juncture.†   (source)
  • At this juncture she looked up to see a strange, yet familiar figure approaching.†   (source)
  • At that juncture Pruitt and Follonsbee strode from somewhere to confront the Jetts.†   (source)
  • — a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.†   (source)
  • At this juncture a considerable noise of voices is heard in the hall.†   (source)
  • At this juncture enters the Minister D—.†   (source)
  • And all this at this juncture—just as the Baths are beginning to be known.†   (source)
  • Newman at this juncture felt inspired to speak.†   (source)
  • But at this juncture, I have a hunch that we're still left with one real difficulty."†   (source)
  • Newman, at this juncture, fell to admiring the duchess for her fine manners.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, Maule turned to Mr. Pyncheon.†   (source)
  • They were attached at this juncture to the stitching in which I was engaged, and I can feel once more the spasm of my effort not to move them till I should so have steadied myself as to be able to make up my mind what to do.†   (source)
  • The hotel being on the edge of a fashionable neighbourhood, the price of the few square feet she was to occupy was considerably in excess of her means; but she found a justification for her dislike of poorer quarters in the argument that, at this particular juncture, it was of the utmost importance to keep up a show of prosperity.†   (source)
  • At the juncture Moze returned.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, however, Frau Stohr displayed her poor upbringing in the most garish light, because—apparently out of some crude satisfaction that she was less ill than Blumenkohl—she accompanied his departure with a few half-sympathetic, half-contemptuous remarks.†   (source)
  • At this juncture several more outlaws crowded out of the door, and the one in the lead was a tall man of stalwart physique.†   (source)
  • That the unhappy event which has been narrated could not have happened at a worse juncture was but too true.†   (source)
  • At this juncture the Indian rose to his full height, and he folded his arms to stand with the somber pride of a chieftain while his dark, inscrutable eyes were riveted upon Shefford.†   (source)
  • What the country needs—just at this present juncture—is neither a college president nor a lot of monkeying with foreign affairs, but a good—sound economical—business—administration, that will give us a chance to have something like a decent turnover.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Flo returned to the room, and again Carley was struck with the girl's singular freedom of movement and the sense of sure poise and joy that seemed to emanate from her presence.†   (source)
  • But at this juncture, Mugridge, who had lifted his head and ascertained the extent of his loss, floundered over on the deck and buried his teeth in Wolf Larsen's leg.†   (source)
  • To find that he had been making it in the delicatessen business was an extraordinary piece of good fortune at this juncture; though it was well on in the morning, they had not breakfasted, and the children were beginning to whimper.†   (source)
  • But coming as the invitation did at the particular juncture when fear and indignation at these adversaries could be transformed by a spring of the foot into a triumph over them, she abandoned herself to her impulse, climbed the gate, put her toe upon his instep, and scrambled into the saddle behind him.†   (source)
  • Tom offered his hand, and at this juncture the horseman that had been behind the wagon rode forward abreast of the driver.†   (source)
  • Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse.†   (source)
  • Most fortunately, at this juncture, Elzbieta got the long-awaited chance to go at five o'clock in the morning and help scrub the office floors of one of the packers.†   (source)
  • It was partly at such junctures as these and partly at quite different ones that, with the turn my matters had now taken, my predicament, as I have called it, grew most sensible.†   (source)
  • They would think that we flinch, that we are afraid of them—afraid of practising a lawful rigour singularly demanded at this juncture lest it should provoke new troubles.†   (source)
  • Tess attempted to expostulate, but at this juncture all her fluency failed her, and without heeding he added: "Well, this paradise that you supply is perhaps as good as any other, after all.†   (source)
  • And just at that juncture it happened that Jurgis was introduced to a man named Harper whom he recognized as the night watchman at Brown's, who had been instrumental in making him an American citizen, the first year of his arrival at the yards.†   (source)
  • And by evening both in the dining hall and the social rooms the festivities continued to grow until at one point … At this juncture we alone know to what these carnival festivities eventually led, thanks to Hans Castorp's enterprising spirit.†   (source)
  • That may not please the ladies—we believe we can say that Frau Chauchat was instinctively annoyed by it, one or two pointed remarks that she let slip, and which we shall insert at some juncture, indicated as much.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Dale burst into the saloon, suddenly to check his impetus, to swerve aside toward the bar and halt.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, when the last of the baggage was being hauled up the cliff, Monty approached Madeline and removed his sombrero.†   (source)
  • …man from Java, a coffee-planter—would hardly be an incentive, or beuer, would not of itself be sufficient cause for us to introduce Pieter Peeperkorn (for that was what he called himself, saying, "Pieter Peeperkorn will now regale himself with a schnapps") at this late juncture in our story; for, good Lord, what shades and hues were not to be found in the society of the successful institution under the medical management of Hofrat Doctor Behrens, that polyglot of the idiomatic phrase.†   (source)
  • Then Helen told how she had only that day realized the extent of Carmichael's advice and help and labor—how, indeed, he had been a brother to her—how— But at this juncture Bo buried her face in Helen's breast and began to cry wildly.†   (source)
  • At that juncture there pealed out a singularly penetrating yell, most startling in its suddenness and nerve-racking with its terrible long-drawn and sustained wildness.†   (source)
  • Such junctures in the course of the year seemed to give them a hook to hang on to, functioned like a piece of gymnastic equipment for vaulting nimbly over the empty intervals in between.†   (source)
  • Chapter 3 "I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter," said Mr Shepherd one morning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, "that the present juncture is much in our favour.†   (source)
  • At this juncture Ralph had the happy idea of proposing to Isabel that she also, under his own escort, should make a pilgrimage to Rome.†   (source)
  • It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad.†   (source)
  • I never jined the church till I found a minister that was up to 'em all in Greek and all that, and he said right the contrary; and then I took right hold, and jined the church,—I did now, fact," said John, who had been all this time uncorking some very frisky bottled cider, which at this juncture he presented.†   (source)
  • At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation: "Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!"†   (source)
  • The juncture was favorable.†   (source)
  • Then came the incident of that day, and the reddleman, still loving her well, was excited by this accidental service to her at a critical juncture to vow an active devotion to her cause, instead of, as hitherto, sighing and holding aloof.†   (source)
  • Mrs. O'Dowd, the good housewife, arrayed in curl papers and a camisole, felt that her duty was to act, and not to sleep, at this juncture.†   (source)
  • Henchard went away, thinking that perhaps there was nothing significant after all in Farfrae's look at Elizabeth-Jane at that juncture.†   (source)
  • 'Mr Squeers,' said the waiter, looking in at this juncture; 'here's a gentleman asking for you at the bar.'†   (source)
  • Sowerberry returned at this juncture.†   (source)
  • This trick, a bad habit, the cracking of his fingers, always soothed him, and gave precision to his thoughts, so needful to him at this juncture.†   (source)
  • ' Mr. Micawber looking up at this juncture to where we were standing, I had only time to repeat my caution.†   (source)
  • This venture, unaided and alone, into the paths of farming as master and not as man, with an advance of sheep not yet paid for, was a critical juncture with Gabriel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly.†   (source)
  • Fatality has points of juncture where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the reflections which give color.†   (source)
  • And, therefore, since we have been unfortunate enough to introduce our heroine at so inauspicious a juncture, we would entreat for a mood of due solemnity in the spectators of her fate.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, finding that the cries and blows of their driver were redoubled at this juncture, the leaders backed upon the pole-horses, who in their turn backed the sleigh.†   (source)
  • Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.†   (source)
  • In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury.†   (source)
  • Solitude and sadness had so emolliated Henchard that he now feared circumstances he would formerly have scorned, and he began to wish that he had not taken upon himself to arrive at such a juncture.†   (source)
  • In the manner and tone of these two persons, on first meeting at any juncture, and especially when they met in the presence of others, was something indirect and circumspect, as if they had approached each other obliquely and addressed each other by implication.†   (source)
  • 'Hah!' cried Mr Pyke at this juncture, snatching something from the chimney-piece with a theatrical air.†   (source)
  • At this juncture we perceived Mr. Kenge coming out of court with an affable dignity upon him, listening to Mr. Vholes, who was deferential and carried his own bag.†   (source)
  • Copperfield,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'your confidence is not, at the existing juncture, ill-bestowed.†   (source)
  • At this juncture news arrived which was spread among the many creditors of the Colonel at Paris, and which caused them great satisfaction.†   (source)
  • At these junctures in her progress a hand was invariably stretched forward to steady her, holding her firmly until smooth ground was again reached, when the hand was again withdrawn to a respectful distance.†   (source)
  • Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together.†   (source)
  • This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties connected with the sewers and surveillance.†   (source)
  • You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I." At this critical juncture, old Cudjoe, the black man-of-all-work, put his head in at the door, and wished "Missis would come into the kitchen;" and our senator, tolerably relieved, looked after his little wife with a whimsical mixture of amusement and vexation, and, seating himself in the arm-chair, began to read the papers.†   (source)
  • At this juncture the Pequod's keels had shot by the three German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had, Derick's boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his foreign rivals.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, Smike escaping from his father fled to Nicholas, and implored him, in most moving terms, never to give him up, but to let him live and die beside him.†   (source)
  • "D—n!" yelled out Jos, wild with fear, rage, and mortification; and Isidor came in at this juncture, swearing in his turn.†   (source)
  • In so far as the indefinable had an influence upon Isabel's behaviour at this juncture, it was not the conception, even unformulated, of a union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted conquest at her English suitor's large quiet hands she was at least as far removed from the disposition to let the young man from Boston take positive possession of her.†   (source)
  • Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in any one of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square miles.†   (source)
  • Yet we feel it to be a questionable venture, even for Phoebe, at this juncture, to cross the threshold of the Seven Gables.†   (source)
  • Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers.†   (source)
  • "Silence, sirrah!" said Jos, with a resolute countenance still, and thrust his arm into the sleeve with indomitable resolution, in the performance of which heroic act he was found by Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, who at this juncture came up to visit Amelia, and entered without ringing at the antechamber door.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, proclamation was made by another married lady, that the baby had begun to eat like anything; whereupon the two married ladies, already mentioned, rushed tumultuously into the bedroom to behold him in the act.†   (source)
  • It is right, at this juncture, that they should both hear from my own lips how much I desire to serve them.†   (source)
  • However, Miss Lane (who had herself been too much occupied in contemplating the grown-up actors, to pay the necessary attention to these proceedings) rescued the unhappy infant at this juncture, who, being recruited with a glass of wine, was shortly afterwards taken away by her friends, after sustaining no more serious damage than a flattening of the pink gauze bonnet, and a rather extensive creasing of the white frock and trousers.†   (source)
  • The dull, gray weight of clouds made it invisible; but it was no hour for disbelief,—no juncture this to question that there was a sky above, and an Almighty Father looking from it!†   (source)
  • So she made the change, and straightway fancied that everything was spoiled by it; not recognizing that it was the nervousness of the juncture, and her own native squeamishness as an old maid, that wrought all the seeming mischief.†   (source)
  • Had the spirit of prophecy directed the birth of this production, it could not have brought it forth, at a more seasonable juncture, or a more necessary time.†   (source)
  • Just at the juncture of his neck and skull the blow fell on his topmost vertebra and cut both tendons through.†   (source)
  • What you would like to revile as the disjuncture of speech and life is nothing more than a higher unity in beauty's crown, and I have no fear which side high-minded youth will always take in a struggle where the choice is between literature and barbarism.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disjuncture reverses the meaning of juncture. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • He lowered the dirk, kissed it at the juncture of haft and tang, and thrust it home in its sheath.†   (source)
  • He kissed the dirk at the juncture of haft and tang, and handed it back to me.†   (source)
  • Catch him clean in the notch, though"—he chopped the edge of his hand at the juncture of neck and shoulder—"and he's dead.†   (source)
  • At this juncture, he arrived, clad in nothing but a pair of ragged breeches, thin chest glimmering whitely in the dim stable.†   (source)
  • The individual whose visual organs while the above was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhibit symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong shop.†   (source)
  • But having in my life perused many state-trials, which I ever observed to terminate as the judges thought fit to direct, I durst not rely on so dangerous a decision, in so critical a juncture, and against such powerful enemies.†   (source)
  • The legs and the very thighs with them so stuck together, that in short while the juncture made no sign that was apparent.†   (source)
  • That night they designed to murder their two companions, and slept till midnight in the bower, thinking to fall upon them in their sleep: not were the honest men less thoughtful concerning them; for at this juncture they were coming to find them out, but in a much fairer way.†   (source)
  • All Lothario's good sense seems to have failed him at this juncture; all his prudent maxims escaped his memory; for without once reflecting rationally, and without more ado, in his impatience and in the blindness of the jealous rage that gnawed his heart, and dying to revenge himself upon Camilla, who had done him no wrong, before Anselmo had risen he hastened to him and said to him, "Know, Anselmo, that for several days past I have been struggling with myself, striving to withhold…†   (source)
  • I had full hold of her watch, but giving a great jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the juncture giving the watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my foot, and that there were certainly pickpockets there, for somebody or other had given a pull at my watch; for you are to observe that on these adventures we always went very well dressed, and I had very good clothes…†   (source)
  • Whoever considers the populousness and strength of several of these States singly at the present juncture, and looks forward to what they will become, even at the distance of half a century, will at once dismiss as idle and visionary any scheme which aims at regulating their movements by laws to operate upon them in their collective capacities, and to be executed by a coercion applicable to them in the same capacities.†   (source)
  • She sent for a minister, too, a serious, pious, good man, and applied herself with such earnestness, by his assistance, to the work of a sincere repentance, that I believe, and so did the minister too, that she was a true penitent; and, which is still more, she was not only so for the occasion, and at that juncture, but she continued so, as I was informed, to the day of her death.†   (source)
  • Perhaps many travellers have not been under greater difficulties and distress than I was at this juncture, expecting every moment to see my box dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first violent blast, or rising wave.†   (source)
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