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Example sentences for "agreeable surprise"

  • I gave her an agreeable surprise by saying that I had been working for her daughter, and Marion herself blushed, and lowered her eyes in a very suggestive manner.

  • I answered gravely that I did not want the money, and that I had augmented the first flagon only for the sake of procuring him an agreeable surprise.

  • Thinking to cause the prince an agreeable surprise, I had recourse to palmistry to influence his decision, and he, consequently selected a crown.

  • Just as we were going I had an agreeable surprise.

  • I gave her an agreeable surprise by saying that I had been working for her daughter, and Manon herself blushed, and lowered her eyes in a very suggestive manner.

  • Chavigni gave us an agreeable surprise, the next day, by coming to dine with us, and we passed the time till dinner by walking in the garden.

  • It was an agreeable surprise to the family when at the entrance of the churchyard many young girls began to strew flowers before the bridal couple the whole way to the church-door.

  • In fact, my dear madam, I intended to have given you an agreeable surprise.

  • He shook my hand, swore it was an agreeable surprise, ushered me into the dining-room, and called for hot water and tumblers.

  • If she came home before the ceremony, there would be an endless fuss; and Roger concluded by suggesting that we should be married the next evening, and give my honoured aunt an agreeable surprise.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute rest; advantage over; agreeable companion; agreeable flavor; agreeable surprise; before dawn; cloth limp; dwelling house; early marriages; especially where; greatly admired; habitual drunkard; husband and; important consideration; large table; made the following report; members elected; never saw; nothing doing; serve three; small nations; this ship; wounds received; younger days