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• It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
• In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
• Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
• Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
• I thought I knew you, yet how wrong I was.
• Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.
• K-2 is yet higher than this.
• There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
• After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
• He has never yet been late for an appointment;   I’m not yet wise enough to answer that;   Have you finished yet?
• He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.
• I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.
• I've yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
• He'll be hanged yet.
• The riddle will be solved yet.
• facts they had heard while they were yet heathens
• The workers went to the factory early and are striking yet.