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Example sentences for "visitor"

Lexicographically close words:
visiters; visitest; visiteth; visiting; visitings; visitors; visits; visitt; visive; viso
  1. The visitor had taken lodgings in the "Preussischen Hof," where I called on him the same evening, with joyous expectation.

  2. In one respect he surpasses the bee--he does not destroy drones.

  3. That is the manner in which history is being manufactured for boarding-school young ladies.

  4. At one time all the weaving products sent to the Leipzig Fair had to be transported back; a clandestine but effective boycott had made the sale thereof impossible.

  5. Sarah rose and read in a clear, sharp voice from the clipping: "Should not we as women take some action against this man?

  6. It lasted some time longer than need have been necessary for a visitor who was a friend of the family.

  7. As soon as the captive became convinced that his visitor was gone for good, he lay down upon the fern leaves and gave way to profound reflection--the subject, of course, being what had just passed between him and Popetta.

  8. Among these the woman visitor notices with particular interest the fan that was once the property of Lady Pepperell, who was a daughter, it will be remembered, of the Royall family, who were so kind to Major Caleb Stark in his youth.

  9. The arrival of the visitor had effectually broken up the school.

  10. The restless visitor made a rapid tour around the counters, carefully examining the goods upon the shelves.

  11. Thank you," continued the visitor in a grateful tone; "you've saved my life.

  12. It being impossible to extract any further information from him, the visitor had nothing left but to leave his card and turn away.

  13. The old curate bowed, as though giving his assent, and looked steadily at his visitor for a moment before he answered.

  14. Another visitor at Wellington was Jimmy Lufton, who had come down to see the celebration regardless of work and expenses, and ordered Molly a beautiful bouquet of narcissus to be handed to her when she appeared as Rosalind.

  15. Edith was entirely disguised as a jester and enjoyed her own quips immensely when she tapped a visitor on the shoulder with her bauble and said, "Good morrow, fair maid, art looking for a swain?

  16. Lady Georgina Betterton,' drawled the visitor carelessly, hiding whatever annoyance she may have felt.

  17. But when his visitor rose he bade him a warm good-night.

  18. She had never seen the visitor before: whether he had ever seen her before, I cannot certainly say.

  19. In the morning, every trace of the visitor had vanished, even to the thorn stick which he had set down behind the door as he entered.

  20. What will first strike any visitor going on board the Victoria and Albert is the utter lack of luxury and magnificence of decoration and furniture in the Royal apartments.

  21. Ask them each to detail his exact movements about the office this morning, and get them to recall each visitor who has been here from the beginning of the week.

  22. Penny lost her heart to her at once, and went around after her like a happy, healthy little mortal following a stray visitor from fairyland.

  23. I must fly, Happie, and you will ask the visitor to wait for me a few moments.

  24. On this card was the name of the Marquis de Fongereues, and in the corner of the glossy bit of pasteboard was a tiny sign, which signified that his visitor was especially recommended by the Society of which he was a member.

  25. But the other visitor caught his arm and held him back.

  26. At first Lali did not know who her visitor was.

  27. They talked casually for a little time, the visitor trying in vain to delicately give the conversation a personal turn.

  28. The visitor was received by Mrs. Francis Armour.

  29. The visitor was Lady Haldwell, once Miss Julia Sherwood, who had made possible what was called Francis Armour's tragedy.

  30. The visitor knew that Mrs. Armour was not at home.

  31. But after an effort at calmness she remained still and silent, looking at her visitor with a scornful dignity.

  32. Lali was in the drawing-room, receiving a visitor who had asked for Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Francis Armour.

  33. This being the floor tradition has decided was Mr. Pickwick's bedroom, it is suitably decorated with Pickwickian and Dickensian pictures and ornaments, all tending to remind the visitor of the homely period of the past.

  34. And so the visitor finds it to-day, although the interior of the coffee-room may have been denuded of its compartments which the interview between Pip and Bentley Drummie in Great Expectations suggests were there on that occasion.

  35. She felt sympathy for me, and treated me with more kindness, and, I may say, with more respect than she did when I was her visitor and her equal.

  36. I to myself, "when the protegee of Madame d'Albret, and the visitor of Madame Bathurst, it was Caroline and dear Valerie.

  37. The servants never knew that I had accepted the offer of governess, for I was invariably called Valerie by Madame Bathurst and her niece, and was treated as I was before when a visitor to the house.

  38. The room allotted to me was very comfortable, and better furnished than those in which the young ladies slept, and as far as appearances went, I was in all respects treated as a visitor and not as a governess.

  39. Recollect the Valerie of yesterday, who was your visitor and young friend, is not the Valerie of to-day!

  40. In a public library, in Pulci's native place, is preserved a little withered relic, to which the attention of the visitor is drawn with reverential complacency.

  41. Mr. Testator was beginning to stammer that he was not aware--when the visitor slipped past him into the chambers.

  42. He produced a decanter of gin, and was bustling about for hot water and sugar, when he found that his visitor had already drunk half of the decanter's contents.

  43. With hot water and sugar the visitor drank the remainder before he had been an hour in the chambers by the chimes of the church of St. Mary in the Strand; and during the process he frequently whispered to himself, "Mine!

  44. She was complaining to a visitor of the difficulty which she had in walking upon the polished floors.

  45. The visitor thereupon turned and went away, and fell twice in going downstairs.

  46. He objected, and suggested Major Gadbury for the position; but it was found that the visitor held his title only by courtesy, and was not a military man, and then the Riverlawn planter accepted the position.

  47. The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph, and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

  48. This time, again, you will lose," replied the visitor quietly.

  49. One visitor had come: at any moment another might follow and be more obstinate.

  50. Markheim stood for a long while silent, and indeed it was the visitor who first broke the silence.

  51. To most Oxford men, indeed to the common visitor of Oxford, the town seems a mere offshoot of the University.

  52. She has her theory of the poor and of what can be done for the poor, and she rides her hobby from morning to night with an equal contempt for the sentimental almsgiving of the District Visitor and for the warnings of the political economist.

  53. And so the District Visitor is "more in their way," as they tell her.

  54. Between the husband and the District Visitor there exists a sort of armed neutrality.

  55. But the District Visitor is the recipient of all.

  56. What irritates the District Visitor in cases where she has bestowed special religious attention is that people when so effectively prepared for death "won't die.

  57. It was with no peculiar pleasure therefore that I rose to receive this fresh "layman from the West"; but a single glance was enough to show me that my visitor was a man of very different stamp from his predecessors.

  58. The "five minutes' conversation" which the District Visitor expects as the reward of her benevolence becomes a perpetual trickle of advice, remonstrance, and even reproof.

  59. In the first place, the parson is only doing a duty he is bound to do while the District Visitor is a volunteer.

  60. But, fussy and dictatorial as she is, the District Visitor is as a rule more popular than the clergyman.

  61. Paul Ingelow did not move or speak, although he probably guessed who his visitor was.

  62. She fairly pulled her visitor into the hall, and led her to the sitting-room.

  63. But the visitor said he should enjoy nothing better than a trial of strength with the fire-god.

  64. She stopped her work to gaze at the bird, which she guessed to be a visitor from the upper world as none of the pigeons in the shades were red.

  65. Joachim, who has been our constant visitor ever since 1844.

  66. Richter, who has been our regular visitor since 1877 and is now, to the great credit of the Halle Committee and their supporters, living in our midst.

  67. It was about this time that a visitor to New York wrote back to the Newport Mercury that "at its present rate of progress, New York will soon be as large as Newport.

  68. The water rushes towards the Pemigewasset between these smooth granite walls, and the awe-struck visitor walks through in startled admiration.

  69. An enraptured visitor has written of this landscape seen from the church door: "One might believe that he was looking through an air that had never enwrapped any sin, upon a floor of some nook of the primitive Eden.

  70. The visitor mounts High Pole Hill to get the view, and all around it is over the sea, for, gaze whither one may as the winds blow freshly across the Cape, the scene is of dazzling white sand or deeply blue water.

  71. With an eye to business, he put toll-gates on the bridlepaths and taxed each visitor a dollar.

  72. He would welcome his visitor with a cordial handshake, answer the regulation questions about his health, hear any little item of news that might be stirring, and then calmly close his eyes, and turn round for another nap.

  73. Have you seen the visitor my General has brought me?

  74. The only entrance was through the narrow front door, where Yussuf inspected every visitor before admitting him.

  75. When the noise ceased and the impatient visitor went away he sighed with relief.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visitor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.