mean time

Example Sentences

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Mean-time, his seat between us being vacant, she turned to me: How now, confidence, said she, darest thou sit next me?

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

Mean-time, I made my excuses to the ladies, as well as I could, which they readily granted me.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

Mean-time their friend Rose had come, all wrapped up, through the rain, to make them a call.

From Monkey Jack and Other Stories by

Mean-time, Doctor Hodges, who had run to one of the arched openings looking on the nave, called out to them to secure the fugitive.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Mean-time, the good woman you so dearly love will be hastened up to you; and she writes by this opportunity, to acquaint you of it, and of all our returning love.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel