à la bonne heure
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of à la bonne heure
Literally, “at the good hour”
Example Sentences
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"A la bonne heure," cried the clown, and his feature beamed with disproportionate joy.
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"A la bonne heure," he would say when checking his step.
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"A la bonne heure," said she in a tone of pique, and avoiding the searching glance of his eye; then, on her making a signal to Mrs. Oswald, she rose, and we left the dining-room.
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Had it been the man that eats a sheep; “à la bonne heure!” you have something for your money there: and I can even sympathize with the French gentleman who follows Van Amburgh to this day, in the agreeable hope, to use his own words, of “assisting at the soirée, when the lions shall eat Mr. Van Amburgh.”
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They say Sebastopol is took, and the Rushans run away.'—À la bonne heure; but won't they come back again, think you?
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