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Example sentences for "dear aunt"

  • It is all true, dear aunt, and they are exceedingly kind to me.

  • You must remember, dear aunt, how often Fred would speak of him.

  • I can't tell you any more, dear Aunt Verner; I am too sick and ill, and if I filled ten sheets with the particulars, it would not alter the dreadful facts.

  • Did I see her tonight, Ham, on the sand, after we met you?

  • The room was as neat as Janet or my aunt.

  • I sat looking about me and thinking, and listening to the stitching in the room and the tune that was being hammered across the yard, appeared on a tray, and turned out to be for me.

  • I will tell you--as soon as I can; but don't ask me now, my dear aunt!

  • I have explained my reasons to my dear aunt--Could I have any concealment from her, to whom, from my earliest childhood, I owe everything that kindness and affection could give?

  • Lean your head on me, my dear aunt,' said Miss Nugent.

  • My dear aunt, this is being serious indeed.

  • Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?

  • Dear aunt," remarked Miss Lister wearily, "I wish you wouldn't trouble to quote the English classics to me when we are alone.

  • Dear aunt," said Jane, "there are no gooseberries.

  • Then may I go to him in disguise, dear aunt?

  • Dear aunt, I am extremely vexed," said the Duke, stopping short in his walk.

  • Dear aunt, I still refuse to believe that she can have gone to M.

  • But, dear aunt, I do not wish to make it right at all.

  • A very short time after my visit to Fulham, my dear aunt wrote to me to say that she had consulted with her attorneys, Messrs.

  • As you remarked to me, my dear aunt, tittle-tattle is the mark of petty individuals and petty minds.

  • My dear Aunt,--I am going to pay you a visit without making much fuss about it.

  • I have no more news to tell you, my dear aunt, and I must interrupt this letter in haste, as the post-hour is near.

  • MY DEAR AUNT: The life here, as I wrote you, is something almost monastic in its systematic regularity, and its despotic claims on one's time.

  • Something like sadness passed over her face, and her voice was deeper in its tone, as she repeated, "Good night, dear Aunt Mary!

  • I have thought a good deal about it, my dear aunt, and I have talked a good deal about it with Steerforth.

  • My dear aunt,' I replied, 'no one can form the least idea what she is!

  • Give your attention, dear aunt, to this precious book--and you will give me all I ask.

  • Dear aunt, may I ask your attention to a few lines?

  • I had expected to see him in the boardroom, on the Monday evening of which I am now writing, and had proposed to tell him, when we met, of dear Aunt Verinder's arrival in London.

  • Your knowledge of the world, dear aunt, is superior to mine," I suggested diffidently.

  • Let me leave you to repose, dear aunt; I will call again to-morrow.

  • My dear aunt, when you happen to be the orthodox wife of a rising heretic, your husband's opinions are not exactly the spectacular performance they are to you and me.

  • Nothing of what you have said or could say on this point, my dear aunt, has the smallest weight with me.

  • My dear aunt,' he said calmly to Lady Charlotte, 'I mean to marry Miss Leyburn if I can at any time persuade her to have me.

  • No, my dear aunt; something very much pleasanter than all the driving-parties in the world; something much more important to me.

  • He turns to Mademoiselle de Vaudrey) She cannot have told you everything, dear aunt?

  • The Duchess But, dear aunt, do you know at what price he has granted me the life of Fernand?

  • The Duchess A child who is dead has but a tomb in the heart of his mother; but the child who has been stolen, is still living in that heart, dear aunt.

  • Do not contradict me, dear aunt; Fernand still lives; if not, then the duke has broken faith, and I know he values too highly the virtues of his race to disgrace them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear aunt; dear auntie; dear baroness; dear children; dear count; dear doctor; dear fellow; dear girl; dear grandfather; dear grandmother; dear little; dear minister; dear mistress; dear nephew; dear nurse; dear pastor; dear sisters; dear unto; dear woman; dear young; dearest friends; dearest love; dearest sister; little hill; three distinct; what light