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Example sentences for "particular friend"

  • Mr. Selby, my particular friend, will have the honor of delivering this letter.

  • He is a particular friend of mine, a polite gentleman, and an agreeable neighbor, and therefore I treat him with civility; but he is not so much interested in my concerns as to alter my disposition towards any other person.

  • Major Sanford very politely accosted us, and congratulated Mrs. Sanford on this opportunity of introducing her to a particular friend, presenting Eliza.

  • Cree is a beautiful romantic stream: and as her ladyship is a particular friend of mine, I have written the following song to it.

  • Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea.

  • This song was written for Johnson's Museum, in 1794: the air is East Indian: it was brought from Hindostan by a particular friend of the poet.

  • Mr. Grey, I wish you could get me an autograph of Mr. Washington Irving; I want it for a particular friend.

  • It is Mr. Mackaw's particular friend, his family physician, whom he always travels with, that awoke us all last night.

  • I have such a curious character to introduce you to, a particular friend of Mr. Grey, who wishes very much to have the honour of your acquaintance, MR.

  • The woman, as you are pleased to call her, is my particular friend," said Lady Glencora.

  • A particular friend of mine with whom I am staying at present.

  • Oh yes," said Lizzie, "and Lady Glencora Palliser is my particular friend.

  • It's eighty years ago, since the circumstance happened to a traveller for that house, but he was a particular friend of my uncle's; and my uncle told the story to me.

  • Are you, or are you not, a particular friend of the defendant's?

  • I believe you are a particular friend of Mr. Pickwick, the defendant, are you not?

  • The author is a particular friend of my own; a gentleman who, marrying at a rather advanced stage in the journey of life, was unexpectedly and agreeably presented with a small earnest of posterity in the shape of a son.

  • I remember suffering infinite misery a whole season at the house of a particular friend; I was lodged in the best bedroom, and a superb apartment it was.

  • The enclosed petition is of one who is brother to a particular friend of mine at Oxford, and brought me a letter in his behalf from Mr. Boscawen.

  • Boston physician, a particular friend of the late Alexander H.

  • This was in consequence of a suggestion from Mr. Livingston Jenkins, a particular friend of the family.

  • Are you or are you not a particular friend of the defendant's?

  • A particular friend of mine had an account of it in a letter from London yesterday.

  • To Edward Bridgen, a merchant of London, Franklin referred in a letter to Governor Alexander Martin of North Carolina as "a particular Friend of mine and a zealous one of the American Cause.

  • Subsequently we know that Franklin in one letter asked John Paul Jones to remember him affectionately to Wharton and in another referred to Wharton as a "particular friend of his.

  • It will much oblige a particular friend of mine, and consequently me, if you will favour him with your attention.

  • But the old farmer was a particular friend and he refused to take “no” for an answer; so I went with him “to see the elephant.

  • Albert Smith was a particular friend of mine.

  • And she loved the poor Captain's memory; her heart warmed to any "particular friend of his.

  • And looking more attentively at the stranger, there was in his dress and appearance something that she thought very stylish; a particular friend of Charles Haughton's was sure to be stylish, to be a man of the first water.

  • This gentleman, also, was a particular friend of dear Charles's.

  • Now we'll go and see the Congressional Library," said my particular friend.

  • I'll meet you at the station," I said to my particular friend.

  • See the fresco," my particular friend suggested.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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