Citations:soon

English citations of soon

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• 1590 - Philip Sydney. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.

  And well hath it ſucceded with them,he hauing ſince done things beyond the hope of the yongeſt heads; of whom I ſpeak the rather, because he hath hetherto preſerued Argalus aliue, vnder pretence to haue him publiquely, and with exquiſite tormentes executed, after the ende of these warres,of which they hope for a ſoone and proſperous iſſue.

• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  CHR. I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the Slough of Despond, who persuaded me that I might, in the village before me, find a man that would take off my burden.

  So he said that he would shew me a better way, and short, not so attended with difficulties as the way, Sir, that you set me in; which way, said he, will direct you to a gentleman's house that hath skill to take off these burdens, so I believed him, and turned out of that way into this, if haply I might be soon eased of my burden.

  Now, whereas thou sawest, that so soon as the first began to sweep, the dust did so fly about that the room by him could not be cleansed, but that thou wast almost choked therewith; this is to shew thee, that the law, instead of cleansing the heart (by its working) from sin, doth revive, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. [Rom. 7:6; 1 Cor. 15:56; Rom. 5:20]

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.

  They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell hanging in it.

  Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them!

• 1858 The life of a Midshipman in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 51, page 155

  'Mr Bobstay, Jocko's dead!'

  ' Jocko dead! what! the monkey? '

  'Dat's him Sare.'

  'Why, I saw him playing about the rigging last evening, as lively as a kitten.

  'Dat's a sarcumstantial fac, Sare, but he's dead, nebber de less; and he so diwertin, too, wid his tricks!'

  'And so fond ob ebbery 'body bout de galley,' said the wardroom cook

  'And sich a soon monkey, too,' cried he of the cabin.'

  'Uch ah! he was all dat!' chimed in the others.

• 1872 — George H. Coomer. The Fugitive Slave in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, vol.35-36

  Without discovering the escape of his two captives, Dom Pedro had set on shore the American tars, put the barque in charge of a sailing master, who, in the expressive language of my shipmates, was a "soon man," and bestowing himself and his niece on board, had stood out to sea.

• 1883 Report 981: Collection of Internal Revenue in the 6th District of North Carolina in Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States for the 2nd Session of the 47th Congress, Vol. 2

  Q. Do you know what time the storekeepers came to their distilleries in the morning, and left in the evening?—A. Groner came soon. He lived at the edge of town. He was a soon man. I told him I wanted the pump. Generally the pump was locked and could not do anything until he came. I told him I wanted him soon in the morning and Groner came soon. Mr Rhyne did not come until the sun was a couple of hours high.

• 1883 — Joel Chandler Harris. Nights With Uncle Remus

  "Co'se", continued Uncle Remus, beginning to look serious, "w'en dat's de case dat a soon man lak Brer Rabbit git pester'd in he min', he bleedz ter make some kinder accidents some'rs."

• 1955 — John Myers Myers. Doc Holliday

  Not all the tall tales were told by men who professed to be in awe of Doc, of course. As in the case of Billy the Kid, there lacked not men who recalled—after he was safely dead—that they had trampled all over him. One such was a character who dubbed himself "Arizona Bill" in his published reminiscences. The Arizona Rangers were not formed until 1901; but Bill was a soon man, and he had already worked his way up to a sergeancy in the territorial police force when he rode into Tombstone one evening in 1882.