Horrified at the suddenness and severity of the attack, we carried him into the kitchen, where he lay back in a large chair, and breathed heavily for some minutes.
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Suddenness
Synonyms for "suddenness" (37 found)
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Czech
1 entries- náhlost noun (state of being sudden)
Esperanto
1 entries- subiteco noun (state of being sudden)
Finnish
1 entries- äkillisyys noun (state of being sudden)
French
1 entries- soudaineté noun (state of being sudden)
Irish
1 entries- aibéil noun (state of being sudden)
Middle English
1 entries- sodeynte noun (state of being sudden)
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6 total sentences available.
With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall.
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Here we find that mustang humor of his forever kicking its silver heels with the most upsetting suddenness into the honeyed sweetness of his flowing poetry.
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The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.
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