"In time" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a sort of bravery about her. When he came into the drawing-room she was in one of the window recesses talking to a serious-looking woman of the dressmaker type. She left her business at once to come to him. "Why did I not know in time?" ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... this determination, read the two letters. In one the queen asked for the ornaments back again. This letter had been conveyed by D'Artagnan and had arrived in time. The other was that which Laporte had placed in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, warning him that he was about to be assassinated; that ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... God's promises to His people in time past, and ends by definitely stating his own special need and request ...
— The King's Cup-Bearer • Amy Catherine Walton
... have been [Sect. 2, towards the end.] already observed in that resemblance, which we so readily suppose betwixt particular impressions and their external causes. But we shall not find a more evident effect of it, than in the present instance, where from the relations of causation and contiguity in time betwixt two objects, we feign likewise that of a conjunction in place, in order to strengthen ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... hundred and forty-six against him, and his political connexion with Oxford was severed. The verdict of posterity has been more liberal. The chief fault laid to Peel's charge is that he should for so many years have ignored all signs of the danger which was approaching, and not have made up his mind in time. He could see the crisis clearly, when it came, and could put the national interest above everything else: he could not look ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
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