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  • Ring, then. (9)
  • Then, what sort of woman is she? (10)
  • Then she was here? (8)
  • Then I stay with her. (10)
  • Then Ottilia was here! (10)
  • Then he can sift and strain. (10)
  • Then Drew offers a compromise. (10)
  • This, then, was the real issue. (8)
  • There was silence, then June rose. (8)
  • But her heart had grown since then. (8)
  • Then the confusion was heightened. (12)
  • And then you can show momma your map. (9)
  • It was first one thing and then another. (13)
  • See all that, and then talk about reason! (8)
  • Then, indeed, there would be a monopoly of the worst sort. (16)
  • Then came the question what was to be done. (8)
  • Then we heard a voice too well known to us. (10)
  • Then people might think it was for mattresses. (9)
  • Then would I uplift another shout, believe me! (10)
  • All the puppets then rolled off to the breakfast. (10)
  • But then you know, how should I guess such a thing? (4)
  • Imagine, then, the strange magnetism drawing her there! (10)
  • Then there was an ascent through a cornfield to a copse. (10)
  • I shall be happy to sell it you then with out reservation. (8)
  • Just then the tall Greek approached the party of English. (10)
  • Then he rose, folded the rug mechanically, and looked at the clock. (8)
  • Now and then we see one succeed, having no editorial character and tone. (16)
  • Then lifting his free foot he leaned his entire weight on the fallen foe. (21)
  • She felt then that he was comparing her home with another, a foreign home. (10)
  • Then, was that day of the announcement of Lakelands to Nataly, to be accounted a gloomy day? (10)
  • It was then that his touch upon Bank money began to intoxicate him strangely. (10)
  • Then he pressed one of the numerous electric buttons on the edge of the desk. (12)
  • Then a kind of superhuman coolness came to her, and she deliberately looked in. (8)
  • Then he bent down, and wetting his finger, placed it close to their joined lips. (8)
  • A very large wasp was crawling up the pane, then slipping down with a faint buzz. (8)
  • And since then with but few exceptions the great composers have also been pianists. (3)
  • Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself. (4)
  • Each coat should be allowed to dry out and then be wet before the next one is added. (17)
  • To seek it, owns to our smallness, in real fact; and when it is attained, what then? (10)
  • Again and again he knocked, then opened the door, stepped in, and closed it carefully. (8)
  • She never once looked at Mr. Bosinney until he moved on, and then she looked after him. (8)
  • He hesitated and seemed to be trying to recall something, then began humming a popular air. (1)
  • He tried his foot on the ground, and then stretched his length, saying that it only wanted rest. (10)
  • Take two or three months, and join us as we are travelling home; and then think of settling, pray. (10)
  • Now, then, thinks I, my fine fellow, I will bounce you; and without a salutation I pressed forward. (10)
  • She crossed the side street, stopped for a second, gave a swift look round, then came resolutely on. (8)
  • She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove to her own lodgings, in Rivers Street. (4)
  • Then she sinks down on the floor, lays her forehead on the dusty carpet, and presses her body to it. (8)
  • Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards the table where a few books were lying. (4)
  • And then his hat sat so well, and the innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important! (4)
  • The hero then favoured him with a warning equal to his own in emphasis, and surpassing it in sincerity. (10)
  • She then spoke of the letter, repeating the whole of its contents as far as they concerned George Wickham. (4)
  • The two stood gazing at each other for a minute in silence; then June walked forward and held out her hand. (8)
  • At the station he wrote a second telegram to the farm, and then tore it up; he could not have explained why. (8)
  • Then you might have thought that his flirting up to the last moment in his desperation was a very good joke. (9)
  • He had never seen Mrs. Westangle till then, or heard of her, and he had not the least notion where she lived. (9)
  • A sallow two or three minutes composed their motions, and then they jumped again to the step for lively legs. (10)
  • He raised his hat and nodded to the ladies; then, leaving his remark unfinished, disappeared within the vestry. (8)
  • She clung to him, and remained rapt by the sight till the train drew near, and then pulled him back in a panic. (9)
  • Then the rogue-girl went to the window and, taking the little cat on her breast, sat looking out into the rain. (8)
  • Then he managed to express his sense of gratitude for the great opportunities his uncle had given him in Paris. (13)
  • I think it did vex him, then, and that he even shared it, and tried at times to meet such shadowy claim as it had. (9)
  • And, then, along the sea front, nearly at the turning to the railway station, his heart almost leaped into his mouth. (8)
  • Nor did he know that he had an angel with him then: a blind angel, and a weak one, but one who struck upon his chance. (10)
  • From that too stormy kiss of his she drew back for a second, then, as if afraid of her own recoil, snuggled close again. (8)
  • But to face the prospect of ruining two men, as it looked to her, had till then been too much for that soft-hearted creature. (8)
  • An idol must have their attributes: a king must show his face now and then: a song must appeal to their intelligence, to subdue them quite. (10)
  • He stood with his ancient nightgown flapping round his still more ancient legs, slightly shivering; then, pulling the door open, he looked forth. (8)
  • The machinery of the world, then, is not entirely dislocated: there is harmony, on one point, among the mysterious powers who have to do with us. (10)
  • Then the kindler stooped; from the torch-car down the measureless altitudes Leaned his rayless head, relinquished rein and footing, raised not a cry. (10)
  • What was done then might be beautiful, but the life was monotonous; she insisted that it was Huguenot; harsh, nasal, sombre, insolent, self-sufficient. (10)

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Definition of then:

  • then, th_en, adv. at that time: afterward: immediately: at another time. | conj. for that reason, therefore: in that case. | adj. being at that time. | n. a specific time already mentioned. | by then, by that time. (0)

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