Sentence Examples

1. The duke and duchess left him to repose and withdrew greatly grieved at the unfortunate result of the joke as they never thought the adventure would have fallen so heavy on Don Quixote or cost him so dear, for it cost him five days of confinement to his bed, during which he had another adventure, pleasanter than the late one, which his chronicler will not relate just now in order that he may turn his attention to Sancho Panza, who was proceeding with great diligence and drollery in his government.
2. To be sitting long after dinner, was a confinement that he could not endure.
3. Calder released her hair from its confinement, allowing it to envelop them as their lips met.
4. After this he seems to have been kept in still closer confinement than before, for nearly two years passed before he made another attempt.
5. The fact of the matter was that there was no escape for any of them, not even Lach, though he was both blind to and content with his own confinement.
6. The noise of the bronze-colored blade being pulled from its confinement was like death itself announcing its presence to one and all.
7. My continued confinement is self-imposed and most critical.
8. But first they resolved to sell the goods in the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.
9. Once the silken tresses were loose from their confinement, Dean buried his hands in her hair.
10. During my confinement for want of clothes, and by an indisposition that held me some days longer, I much enlarged my dictionary and when I went next to court, was able to understand many things the king spoke, and to return him some kind of answers.