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Example sentences for "claim upon"

  • Now, my possessions are my own; no one has a claim upon them: I object to the placing of the third theological virtue in the order of the day.

  • I love you, and if you will consent to acknowledge my claim upon you, and live with me, I will take you back to Fairvale Park to-morrow.

  • You think so, Harry, because you have a good heart; but most people would have thought of themselves, and would not have run all sorts of risks for the sake of three girls with no claim upon them.

  • Why, here are you staying here and risking your life for us, though we are not related to you and have no claim upon you.

  • I break the bond that binds you to him, but--I have not the power; I have no claim upon him.

  • Somehow she could not feel that she had a right to accept his loving attentions and terms of endearment, precious as they were to her, while there was any possibility that another had a claim upon her.

  • But a Tory is far less impetuous; he has a much stronger perception of the rights of others, and especially of his country's claim upon him.

  • I suppose that the Country has a claim upon you, as you say, and feel so deeply; at the same time, I think it might have left you to me, for a few more years at least.

  • I have no claim upon you or your father," I answered.

  • You have a claim upon me which you have made no effort to press.

  • The army would be forced to acknowledge my claim upon them; the nation would hear of it.

  • That anybody could help you would give you a claim upon him," Herman responded cheerily.

  • It seemed to give him a claim upon her; to shut the door upon all other possibilities; to smutch the whiteness of her soul and render her unworthy of any man whom she might some day come to love.

  • She felt as if he were establishing a claim upon her, and that at any cost she must make him see things as they were.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced stage; after having; answer them; atmospheric electricity; attached himself; claim upon; daily bread; direct result; five ships; get through; great concourse; hast thou; international politics; line engraving; otherwise improved; positive charge; said county; seating herself; trembling hand; voluminous writer; white cravat; who seemed