Sentence examples for once to fall from inspiring English sources

Illuminated by eight pendant ceiling fixtures (which I wish could be gaslights again, as they were in 1877), the room seemed at once to fall asleep and to come fully alert, vividly dreaming.

For instance, he once pretended to fall from a ladder.

He is ready once again to fall in love, or perhaps get married.

To look at it only once is to fall in love with gas, which gives a warm domestic radiance".

Indeed, one of his friends, Carlos Souza, once joked: "To fall asleep at night, instead of counting sheep, he counts porcelain".

They have failed to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, a northern town once expected to fall to them, or to make much progress towards Kabul, the capital.

Derby matches were once contrived to fall on Dec. 26, bypassing the computer that randomly decides the schedule for the rest of the season.

"He was history, just an attractive idiot she had once happened to fall in love with," she muses, before, in the heat of desperation, eventually calling.

Tethyshadros was once thought to fall into this group as well, before it was described (then known under the nickname "Antonio").

Housing prices will increase once foreclosures start to fall.

But the government has fallen once and threatens to fall again at every difficult vote.