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JUST THEN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At a particular time in the past
Example:
just then the bugle sounded
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Context examples:
Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched; as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Yes, sir," Martin said humbly, wishing somehow that the man at the desk in the library was in Professor Hilton's place just then.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Maria joined them with the same intent, just then the stoutest of the three; for the very circumstance which had driven Julia away was to her the sweetest support.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I wrote to him most affectionately in reply to his, but I think I was glad, upon the whole, that he could not come to London just then.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To walk by the side of this child, and talk to and question her, was the most natural thing in the world, or would have been the most natural, had she been acting just then without design; and by this means the others were still able to keep ahead, without any obligation of waiting for her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It might have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep. (He had been out all night on the meat-trail, and had but just then awakened.) And his carelessness might have been due to the familiarity of the trail to the pool.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I was about to ask him more, but Harker just then came in, and he held up a warning hand.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I scarcely dared look at her just then, for the fear of betraying myself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"I don't care," and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Just then, with a roar and a whistle, a round-shot passed high above the roof of the log-house and plumped far beyond us in the wood.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
