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Example sentences for "old acquaintance"

  • Whilst I stay'd at Madrid, I made several Visits to my old Acquaintance General Mahoni.

  • We sat drinking that Liquor, which to me was a greater Rarity than all the Wine in Spain; when in dropt an old Acquaintance of mine, Mr. Le Noy, Secretary to Colonel Nevil.

  • From this moment you shall be nobody but the commercial traveller of a German house of business in Marseilles, an old acquaintance of mine.

  • She is an old acquaintance of mine, and I am sorry to say that she has on many occasions not paid proper attention to her patients.

  • He nodded to the man who was sitting at the table as if to an old acquaintance.

  • I found myself in the midst of a seraglio of houris of my old acquaintance, for whom the most lively inclination was not new to me.

  • I often went to see her; she was an old acquaintance, who recalled to my remembrance one more beloved, and this made her dear to me.

  • Quesnel's, who now seemed to converse with Madame Cheron with the familiarity of old acquaintance, and she to attend to them with particular pleasure.

  • Here dined my old acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord Sandwich's chaplain, and my Lady Wright and Dr.

  • Home, where Michell and his wife, and also there come Mr. Carter, my old acquaintance of Magdalene College, who hath not been here of many years.

  • Take a favourable moment to speak to the good soul, as an old acquaintance; she remembers you well, and by a little of that interrogating management you possess, a favourable opportunity may occur to bring in the other subject.

  • The master of the ship saluted this person cordially, and as an old acquaintance, by the name of Monday.

  • You appear to have suffered in the gale," resumed Captain Ducie, whose smile was very visible, as he thus addressed them like an old acquaintance.

  • To-day I met in the court an old acquaintance of mine--Mr. Ralph Walsh.

  • As soon as Mr. Brudenell had paid his respects to each member of the family, Lord Vincent advanced frankly and cordially to greet him as an old acquaintance, saying: "I had just learned from Miss Merlin of your arrival.

  • Stop one moment, my lady," whispered the woman and Henrietta seemed to hear in that whisper the voice of an old acquaintance, though she did not recognize the face.

  • Suddenly a glade opened up before her which seemed to greet her as an old acquaintance.

  • In which the reader will meet with an old acquaintance.

  • The following is by an old acquaintance of mine, and I think has merit.

  • On the strength, then, of old acquaintance, Mrs Trotter was admitted.

  • His first inquiry here was for an old acquaintance, and in particular for one Mr. Crab, and Lord Annesly, who had been schoolfellows with him at Tiverton.

  • While they were drinking, in came Captain Sharp, who commanded them, and who was an old acquaintance of our hero’s.

  • As the stranger declined her courteous offers, Cuddie, the reader's old acquaintance, made his appearance in person.

  • Bodkin liked her principally because she was an old acquaintance.

  • Then his mother's application to Lady Seely, brought about by an old acquaintance of Mrs. Errington, who lived in London, and kept up an intermittent correspondence with her.


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