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Example sentences for "learned friend"

  • However, as my learned friend Émile Burnouf is of opinion that they form a real inscription in Chinese letters,[72] I give them here according to his drawing.

  • But you have not heard from my learned friend, inasmuch as it did not come within my learned friend's province to tell you, what are the facts and circumstances of the case.

  • And you, my learned friend, recollect that you were invited too; so that you are no intruder upon the hospitality of Varney the vampyre.

  • Come, my learned friend, let's take Time by the forelock.

  • Does my learned friend mean to say he objects at random?

  • Really, my learned friend is the objective case incarnate.

  • I object on the law of evidence--a matter on which my learned friend seems to be under a hallucination as complete as his client's about that L.

  • I perfectly agree with what my learned friend says in regard to the monasteries of the Old World, as seats of learning to which we are all indebted at the present day.

  • My learned friend wishes to know what it would cost to lay it with diamonds?

  • This manual, as my learned friend Mr. Turner, in his elaborate and philosophical Life of Alfred, has shown by some curious extracts from Malmsbury, was the repository of his own occasional literary reflections.

  • In my learned friend Mr. Turner's second volume of his "History of England," p.

  • There it is, my Lords; and I accept my learned friend's bland smile as the warm acknowledgment of the truth of my assertion.

  • Look well upon that gentleman, my learned friend there," pointing to him who had tossed the paper over, "and then look well upon the prisoner.

  • Allowing for my learned friend's appearance being careless and slovenly if not debauched, they were sufficiently like each other to surprise, not only the witness, but everybody present, when they were thus brought into comparison.

  • Now, gentleman, these are the passages charged as libelous, and I defy even the ingenuity of my learned friend to show that they are not most odious libels.

  • I will not yield to my learned friend, nor to any man in existence, in a just regard for the freedom of the press.

  • But what is the defence which is to be set up by my learned friend?

  • My Lord, may I ask my learned friend if he proposes to put in a written confession?

  • I am hoping to-morrow to completely pulverise my learned friend, Mathews.

  • SIR, I LAST week received a letter from a learned friend, the minister of Barnstable in Devon, which I think worthy your perusal.

  • In Two Letters from a learned friend of mine in Scotland.

  • The proposition which my learned friend undertakes to establish entirely by circumstantial evidence, may be shortly stated.

  • I will prove to you the sincerity with which I declare my conviction of the prisoner’s innocence by meeting the case for the prosecution foot to foot, and grappling with every difficulty which has been suggested by my learned friend.

  • My lord, the witness was anxious to explain one of his answers to my learned friend.

  • My lord, I am sorry to interrupt my learned friend at this early stage, but may I ask him if he has any evidence that the prisoner knew of the existence of these jewels.

  • I shall now, with the assistance of my learned friend, put the evidence before you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    borrowed from; but they were not; dozen yards; drop from; find her; foramen magnum; had learned; large number; learned afterwards; learned brother; learned friend; learned from; learned later; learned societies; learned that; minutes east; nervous exhaustion; one could; only what; refresh themselves; rich brown; righteousness shall; service rendered; transmitted through; universal causation; well grown