How To Use Just then In A Sentence
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Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
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Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg.
Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
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Just then, as hope began to relume my soul, Mr. Moodwell approached Atkins, saying,
Autobiography of a female slave,
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Just then, Dallas noticed one of the luscious women walking towards him.
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Just then his valet helps him into his ninth change of clothes that day.
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Just then there was a knock at the door.
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Just then, an ettin shoved a heavy sledge into view.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Just then, the movie began, with all its bright colors and orchestral music.
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Just then, her bleary eyed, pajamaed husband Wilford Brimley walks in with a plate of pie.
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And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Now that she was back, under the same roof, I considered and instantly dismissed the notion of trying to have a word with her; nothing could have been worse just then than talk spreading in the bazaar and the camp that she'd been colloguing with a British officer.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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In September of 1943 my marriage was solemnised with V.S., who had come out of jail just then.
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Just then a stag belled loudly.
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I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway?
The Sky Writer
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Just then, a shrill voice pierced through the thick tension in the room.
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Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.
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She dares him to do it, and just then the clock strikes twelve.
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Just then, I realized the gravity of my situation.
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Just then, Dustin pulled up in his dark blue low-rider truck.
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Just then a bearded, hatted figure swept into their midst.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Just then small pitter-patter of feet could be heard just above Turk's head.
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Just then my girlfriend drove up and gave me a ride.
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Just then 15 people came galloping from the front room and out the door.
The Knight And The Seismo-Dragon
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And just then the computer crashes.
Computing
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The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law's scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to Paris for the purpose.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Just then the white-domed heads of two men in coveralls appeared over the rim of the hollow, and the others stepped back to let them clamber out.
The Priest
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Just then, Gillian appeared as if from nowhere.
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The speed of the current in her veins was just then as swift as it was viewless.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Reception emerged just then, and said that DPP was wanted on the telephone.
HUMAN VOICES
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Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet.
Finnegans Wake
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Just then, my next course arrives; it turns out to be a stuffed aubergine pie with layers of wild mushroom.
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But at the moment of recovery from anaesthesis, just then, BEFORE STARTING ON
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
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Just then, the servant enters the room and urgently asks Mrs. Bird to follow him into the kitchen.
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Just then a mob of Bolsheviks crowded into the room.
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Just then, a searing note burst from the stage - the band was ready.
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Just then Delilah skipped up, her blonde hair pulled back into sparkly butterfly clips.
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I adored her just then, the trull, and I felt a kinship with her too, for she came from the Kingswood where I was raised.
Wildfire
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Just then, from the hallway came a roar as a stack of empty orange crates crashed to the floor.
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Just then there was a sudden flurry of arrivals: a common wainscot, several green carpets, a straw underwing, and two or three scorched carpets, which would most likely have been feeding as caterpillars on the spindle trees in the wood.
Wildwood
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But just as he began to come out with his “Ay, ay, we are all mortal, Vita incerta, mors certissima!” and two or three more pithy reflections, which he was in the habit of uttering after funerals, when the will of the deceased was about to be opened, — just then Mrs. Dods was pleased to become the expounder of her own oracle.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Just then, from the sky, a huge bird-like creature swoops down.
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But Garry was mistaken in this diagnosis of his, as events turned out; but, ere he could say another word, just then as the colonel was going to make a reply to him, the skipper hammered on the deck with a marling - spike to attract attention and give a hail at the very top of his voice that made us all jump, it was so loud and unexpected.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Farther off, at a fourth instrument in the oratory, a whole class of a dozen or more were taking a singing lesson, and just then joining in a "barcarole" (I think they called it), whereof I yet remember these words "fraîchë," "brisë," and "Venisë.
Villette
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Cap'n Sproul at that moment had his fist up ready to spack it down into his palm to add emphasis to some particularly violent observation he was just then making to Mr. Tate, highway "surveyor" in Tumble-dick District.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
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The prospective corpse was not "heeled," as he was not in any feud just then, and was not expecting trouble, but he knew that he would have to act, and quickly, by his wits, or he would be shot, and he turned on the fellow and said carelessly:
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Just then he felt the bone pop, then slide painfully free, and he was not grateful but angry now.
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Just then Hunter Niall came barging in the now broken door.
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed
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Just then, Div whapped him on the back of the head with the bottle of carpet cleaner.
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She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits.
Pamela
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There were just then about 600 of them on duty at Resina Garcia, and as they were for the most part dressed in spotless white they looked delightsomely clean and cool.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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But he could not speak just then, and the faqir dare not; for, as Sita saw, he was a Maunee, and, as such, bound to perpetual silence ....
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Just then, the click, clacking of the mortals' shoes were heard as their darkly silhouetted figures stood in the center near the fountain.
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Just then a taxi drew up to the sidewalk.
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It's also true that most people want to serve the Lord, but only in an advisatory position. * nods* I don't know why that was signifigant just then, but it came to mind, so I said it.
Naylamoors Diary Entry
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He would have been highly gratified, therefore, had he been a fly on the wall of King's office just then.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Just then, a cloud of dust formed in the distance as an old automobile came bouncing down the road.
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Just then some one looked seaward, and there they see ships coming from the south round the Ness, and they were not fewer than ten, and they row hard and steer thitherwards.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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She threw off the covers and sat up. just then she heard a small, barely audible chuckle.
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Just then we bomb past an old gent in a fishing boat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just then the door opened and the cat whipped out, with the dog chasing it.
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Just then, an electronic school bell rang, and the boisterous hordes of noisy white kids started piling into the corridors and classrooms.
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I mentioned the word revelation just then.
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The Doctor went to headquarters, but either a drunken doctor from a geebung town wasn't of much account, or they weren't taking any romance just then at headquarters.
Over the Sliprails
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Just then I saw a fierce-looking man come from the gateway, sword in hand; the two bheesties went on with their watering, and I heard him speaking angrily, and he gave force to his abuse by striking each man sharply with the flat of his sword.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
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Just then the door swings wide and his wife and daughter rush in, flushed, laden with eggs from the henhouse.
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Just then his pants caught on a nail that was sticking out from the roof, and the nail stopped his fall.
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Just then a loud crackling came over the speakers followed by the loud beating of a drum as the heavy rock music slowly filtered out into the car.
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Just then a great flash of lightning split the sky in two and the first heavy drops of rain splattered onto the ground and into the pond.
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Just then, she heard the loud blaring sound of an ambulance siren as it screamed by her vehicle, hurrying up the road in the one empty lane that had been sectioned off by orange cones.
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Just then, as ill luck would have it, came in the Winchelsea man-of-war, by way of visit, which put the marooners into such a surprise that they set fire to the ship and sloop and fled ashore to the woods.
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Just then, the ship was rocked by an explosion.
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Just then, the sun broke past the tree line; Lizzie and Jake squinted into the sudden light.
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Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old acquaintance.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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I got so mad with my older brother just then, and I decided myself, that I would tell Mama and Papa about it that night.
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A thought it were Scriptur 'as he said, but a'd needed a' my strength just then for t 'lift t' pot off t 'fire -- it were t' first vittle a'd tasted sin 'morn, for t' famine comes down like stones on t 'head o' us poor folk: an 'a' a said were just "Coom along, chap, an 'fa' to; an 'God's blessing be on him as eats most.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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Just then the bridge rang under horse-shoe iron, and the party turned and saw Bennet Hatch come galloping -- a brown-faced, grizzled fellow, heavy of hand and grim of mien, armed with sword and spear, a steel salet on his head, a leather jack upon his body.
The Black Arrow
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Just then, the semantron awoke the priest for the night services.
This Side of Glory
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Just then, he spotted them meandering down the road.
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The wind comes up just then and laces out those black satin streamers and they sort of wave at Marge, like bye-bye, but Marge never moves.
GRACED LAND
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Montmorin knew what was coming, but just then the forward carronade sent a shattering cask of musket balls into the Revenant's belly and belched a pall of smoke above the ship.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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Just then, one of Roger's posh mates, some poncy Lord dude or other who had spent years on the African savannah saunters past…
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Just then his brother walked into the room; he quickly flipped the drawing pad to a blank page.
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Just then Thorne walked by the open door of my homeroom, on his way to the Zoo.
THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. IV: FASTER, FASTER, FASTER
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Just then, the sound of keys and the front door squeaking open met our ears.
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Just then the door opened and the cat whipped out, with the dog chasing it.
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Then the lids would stay quite motionless for a long time, and the colour would fade a little from her whole face; but sometimes, just then, she would bite her lower lip, and that spoiled what some people would have called the intenseness of her expression.
Fair Margaret A Portrait
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Just then, a golden voice in his mind gave a suggestion.
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It was true it had never occurred to him to look at Susy in the light of a celestial visitant, and I fear he was just then more struck with the fair complimenter than the compliment to his companion, but he was pleased for her sake.
A Waif of the Plains
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And just then the computer crashes.
Computing
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Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful.
Farouche
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Just then, Mr Tokmier clapped his hands, signaling the end of the discussion.
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Elmendorf was summoned to the White House for what became known as the “Showdown of the CBO Directors,” a wonkfest for those obsessed, as so many in Washington were just then, with the details of health care.
THE PROMISE
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Just then, his mobile phone rang.
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He started door-to-door canvass on April 28 and as happened him on previous occasions, his car conked out just then.
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Just then a man stepped up ten yards away from them, his expression was merry and bright, on his face blood was trickling, he had on a fancy red coat, decorated from head to toe.
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Just then a loud bang resounded throughout the warehouse.
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Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper.
The Amateur Garden
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Wow, we almost passed out just then because of all the flipping excitement.
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A flutey voice, like some birds I've listened to," returned the girl ruminantly, "but with something a bit odd and different in her speech that made us think her an American, and Hope even spoke of it; but just then the carriage came to take us to the wharf, and she forgot to answer.
All Aboard A Story for Girls
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Just then they heard a grating creak, followed by _creak, creak_, all round the Gardens.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
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The signor is a good friend of the young milord and miladi? "questioned the landlord, deferentially, but very anxiously; for just then it flashed upon his memory that two years previous another grand" signor, "of reverend age like this one, had come inquiring about the young pair, and had ended in breaking up their union for the time.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
The House of Mirth
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Just then, Kat's hand made contact with that stupid grin with a loud smack that made the whole hallway pay attention.
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Just then I saw Mr. Dixon jump up on one of the carron-ades, and make signs to the natives that no more were to come on board.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898
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Just then, still in the costume of an ordinary budmash, but with his face washed clear of his black disguise, Mr Brooke rode up, and asked leave to join the advance.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
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Just then, a silver-haired man with dancing eyes enters the pub and he and Martyn are soon engrossed in conversation about one of his other big loves, fishing.
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Just then, a fork of light streaked across the sky and a deafening roar filled her ears.
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Anne had no attention to spare just then for a crop-eared pussy cat.
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Just then a friend drove up and gave me a ride.
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Just then, a gust of wind rocked the ship; Isaac stumbled backwards, falling against a deckchair, his whole face a deathly shade of white.
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Peter was not feeling particularly good about his accuracy just then, and he was taking no chances.
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Just then, there was a short knock and the door swung open to reveal his mother, undoing her tight, business-like bun.
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What had promised to be a splendid scandal looked like fizzling out like the dampest of squibs, and this damned baronet would walk away without a blot on his escutcheon ... or so it seemed to me just then.
Watershed
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Just then the raucous clamour of alarm bells sounded from all over the house and from the basement area ahead of him.
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Just then, there was the sound of three tentative knocks, and the man clad in the wolf costume turned around.
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Just then, a group of men wearing sombreros and playing guitar came to our floor.
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Just then, his mobile phone rang.
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Yet just then, amid industrial calamity, Taylor landed his apprenticeship.
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Just then, the song began over the speaker system and my jaw dropped.
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Just then a bus came by so we got on and rode home.
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just then the bugle sounded
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Just then, this fire truck comes barrelling up in the rear view mirror full speed, sirens and lights ablaze and the dream ends.
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They also despatched a messenger to Demosthenes, who had led the Athenian expedition into Aetolia, asking him to be their commander, and sent for twenty Athenian ships which were just then cruising about the Peloponnese under the command of Aristoteles the son of Timocrates, and Hierophon the son of Antimnestus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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He would have wildly darted into the shop, but just then the figure of the mantuamaker appeared in the doorway.
Condensed Novels
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Just then a faint rustle of leaves disturbed the pressing silence.
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Just then came a knock at the door of the hut, and a gruff voice asked them to open the door.
The Treasure Seekers
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Just then he felt the bone pop, then slide painfully free, and he was not grateful but angry now.
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Just then, the scouts he had sent ahead, came running back.
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Just then Mrs Robovitch appeared at the bedroom door.
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Just then, the black car in front of us moved forward and disappeared, then it was our turn.
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And a large "bumble," with a sting as pitiless as the finger of scorn, just then climbed up the inside of Mr. Middlerib's nightshirt, until it got squarely between his shoulders, and then it felt for his marrow, and he said calmly:
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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Some time later Toby uttered a low "whew" that caused Chatz, just then in the act of putting the pole back into the water, to hold it suspended in midair.
Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails
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Just then the rain began to pour furiously and it got dark.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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He was conscious of it, but he was a taciturn man and just then he had nothing to say.
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Just then there was a knock on the door and a tall frame entered.
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Just then another passenger rose from his seat and flashed a small plastic card at the warring parties.
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Just then his face underwent a sudden transfiguration and fell softer.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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Just then, he saw a large house glooming in the distance.
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A thought of whether her curls were all right, or her dress untumbled, &c. just now and then disturbed the charm, and prevented her forgetting herself sufficiently to allow her to be quite at ease and happy, and she would glance at herself in the mirror, and put back the hair from her brow, lest Mrs. I-know-not-who, who was just then entering the room, should not think her quite as lovely as Mrs. Somebody-else did, who had very foolishly been saying so rather in a loud tone to her Mamma.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
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Just then two birds flew by, close together and perfect mates; and the cows raised their heads and "mooed" at the same time; and two men -- also twins -- came over the two hills along the two paths with two dinner-pails in their hands and entered the two houses.
The Enchanted Island of Yew
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Just then a loud crackling came over the speakers followed by the loud beating of a drum as the heavy rock music slowly filtered out into the car.
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Just then the super gives Fuzzy a prod and he howls like Balaam's ass, but the coon stands there smiling and not feazed a bit.
Side Show Studies
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Not being on very good terms with the Lord just then, Jonah offered an alternative: throw me overboard as a sacrifice to appease God, and you will be spared.
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Fortunately for them, Roland Kuhn, who ran an asylum in Switzerland, was just then getting tired of paying top dollar for chlorpromazine.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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It was a stale response, but noncombative, and all I could manage just then.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
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Just then the courtroom doors burst open and in walked Asha.
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Just then the rain began to pour furiously and it got dark.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Just then, I think I saw a small, evil glimmer in his eyes.
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It was an astute move to sell the shares just then.
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My name displeased me, and as the most fashionable name just then happened to be Abellino, I changed my name Bélá into it.
A Hungarian Nabob
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Just then the back door burst open and the head waiter walked outside.
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Just then, our elbows knocked into each other as he was slicing his food.
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Just then, a bright flash of light from some kind of flare is fired by Huang.
Darker than Black ep 22 « Undercover
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Just then there was a knock at the door.
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Just then, she saw a pair of black leather boots step in front of her, as a somewhat amused male voice asked, ‘Are you all right, Miss?’
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René de Cossé married into the Gouffier family, just then very powerful at court, and became _premier panelier_ (chief pantler) to Louis
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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He dared not trust his tongue to make answer, just then, and sent the aeromotor onward at top speed, leaning far forward to win the earliest glimpse of -- what?
The Lost City
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Just then four other pirate ships began to approach them.
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Just then, I heard the snort of a horse, and someone dismounting onto the gravel.
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Ever since Ranke, who was the first to use the records of the chancelleries of Europe which were just then beginning to become available, historians have tried to get back to original sources.
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I opened my mouth for a sharp rebuke but just then the waitress appeared, bringing our plates of burgers and fries.
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Just then, a bird beside him ruffled its wings and flew away.
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It was meaningless to ask whether it did on Earth just then-doubly meaningless, given the physics here and the forgottenness yonder.
The Boat of a Million Years
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Just then we heard the courthouse doors open and the sound of a dog whimpering.
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Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
The House of Mirth
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Just then, an excited shout shifted Brenna's attention.
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Just then the steward came back with a couple of dresses and even a change of clothes for Jack.
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Somehow it did not seem to me such a very preposterous "idee," as Esau called it, for just then I too had an idea.
To The West
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Just then, a stone cleverly thrown by the boy, struck the creature on the wing, but the blow did not disable it, and the jacamar ran off and disappeared in an instant.
The Mysterious Island
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Just then, like some silent, colorful, prehistoric pterodactyl, a paraglider floated into view and soared twenty feet directly over my head.
Live and Let Love
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Mike was a bit short of cash just then.
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He always kept it short and one of his feet shuffled around when he was nervous, as he did just then.
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This calamity is the more heavy, as it carries with it a great disappointment; for very near our habitation was a high wall, the sunny side of which was covered with the most delicious fruits; peaches, apricots, nectarines, &c. all just then ripening; and I thought of having such a feast with my children as I had never enjoyed in my life.
The Bird and Insects' Post-Office
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Just then, she tripped over her own feet and fell on the sidewalk.
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Just then the hair on my arms stands up and the raised kneeler attached to the church pew directly behind us slams to the ground.
Soul Trapper
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'* At Ramsgate I picked up two neat aquatinta engravings, just then published; one of' The Bathing Place, Ramsgate, 'the other,' The Harbour and Pier, Ramsgate, ** drawn by R.
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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Just then the volume leaped to a roar, and the camera panned sharply upward; Henderson spotted the ball arcing high above the stadium, a brilliant streak against the grainy sky.
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And just then the computer crashes.
Computing
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Just then came a knock at the door of the hut, and a gruff voice asked them to open the door.
The Treasure Seekers
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Juno, meantime, whose feelings were less affected, did not kneel at all; but, like a tribrach, amused herself with chasing a hare which just then crossed one of the forest ridings.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law’s scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful.
Farouche
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Just then, Pace leaned forward and his oversize head interrupted my view of the seductress.
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Just then, Mother was carrying a loaded platter of pancakes to the table.
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Just then Jake felt a few drops of rain hit his nose, and blinked.
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While the field was exploding behind the leaders, Anthony attacked Scherz with seven laps to go, and just then the Swiss was in all sorts of trouble, bobbling in a few places and apparently suffering from a mechanical.
Laura Van Gilder, Jesse Anthony win day 1 of Granogue Cross
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Hello, Mrs. Black!" called the switchman in a jolly voice to his wife, who just then came to the side door to look out.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South
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Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings.
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In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.
The Argonautica
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I quickly sat before the fiery red of my flush could be exposed to the entire cafeteria, who only just then were beginning to talk again, the buzz of gossip fizzing on my ears.
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Killian just then was making bread in the small, cluttery kitchen of an apartment in the hills above Westwood, kneading the ball of dough in a large wooden salad bowl with vigor and abandon, her faded jeans dusted with pale wheat flour, her arms as well, and another smudge of it across her cheek and nose.
Sudden Rain
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There was an excitement, just then, about the trichina germ in pork, and one of his memoranda says:
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
The House of Mirth
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Just then the front door slammed and the clack of shoes was heard on the wood floor.
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Just then, a ragged Great-tailed Grackle flew into some nearby scrub.
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Just then, the fairy godmother appeared, waved her magic wand, and turned the blades of grass into stems and leaves to hide the cups from the angry queen.
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& then everyone will fail to appear. & then you will start to talk to yourself. & just then you will notice that whatever you wanted to forget all those years but wanted to tell now in the voice you disowned is already forgotten. your doctor has seen you; not mengele, not goebbels — dr. alzheimer.
Mark terrill | part II germany « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Just then, her bleary eyed, pajamaed husband [Wilford Brimley] walks in with a plate of pie.
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Just then there was a knock at the door.