1 Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.
2 All the same, there were days when they felt that they would sooner have had less figures and more food.
3 This was brought to the lawyer the next morning, before he was out of bed; and he had no sooner seen it, and been told the circumstances, than he shot out a solemn lip.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 4 But no sooner was Mr. Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into his safe, where it reposed from that time forward.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 5 Whatsoever he looked at, grew into that form sooner or later.
6 All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barriers opened than he paced into the lists.
7 The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
8 But no sooner had the knights resumed their station, than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence, so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude were afraid even to breathe.
9 The Disinherited Knight had no sooner reached his pavilion, than squires and pages in abundance tendered their services to disarm him, to bring fresh attire, and to offer him the refreshment of the bath.
10 No sooner was Rowena seated, than a burst of music, half-drowned by the shouts of the multitude, greeted her new dignity.
11 The name of Ivanhoe was no sooner pronounced than it flew from mouth to mouth, with all the celerity with which eagerness could convey and curiosity receive it.
12 De Bracy had no sooner left the apartment than Prince John summoned an attendant.
13 And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner.
14 But he had no sooner let go her hand, on first observing that Ivanhoe had disappeared, than Rowena, who had found her situation extremely embarrassing, had taken the first opportunity to escape from the apartment.
15 But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess.