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Example sentences for "dear boy"

  • Yes, dear boy, such and such a philistine is to such another as Raphael is to Natoire.

  • I am to be master of this farm now; and we shall be good friends, I trust, very good friends, if you try to do your duty, my dear boy.

  • You're a great genius, a born genius, my dear boy, there's no doubt about it.

  • If you like, my dear boy, we will send the carriage away and return on foot," said Jansoulet to his companion as they left Jenkins's house.

  • It's not that, my dear boy,' said the uncle, shaking him by the hand.

  • But, mind you, I have a stake in the country: don't forget that, dear boy.

  • DEAR BOY: I have received your letter of the 31st December, N.

  • DEAR BOY: I have received your letter of the 12th, N.

  • DEAR BOY: Though I have very little time, and though I write by this post to Mr. Harte, yet I cannot send a packet to Lausanne without a word or two to yourself.

  • Remember, dear boy, how in your childhood, when your father was living, you used to lisp your prayers at my knee, and how happy we all were in those days.

  • For goodness' sake, explain it, my dear boy.

  • I acknowledge that I like it, dear boy, but I am not worth it.

  • Dear boy, I know it, but I can't give it.

  • They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy 'em.

  • Yes, Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you!

  • And, dear boy, how good looking you have growed!

  • Let me finish wot I was a telling you, dear boy.

  • My dear boy, you may turn the house upside down if you will only stay in it.

  • My dear boy, we did what we thought best while waiting for you to wind up your affairs and get home.

  • Lie down and let me bathe them, there's a dear boy; then there will be no harm done.

  • Ah, dear boy, that is the real thing: I felt the glow of your young passion, and your prose was musical from the sincerity of your emotion.

  • It was from Hayward and ran as follows: My dear boy, I answer your letter at once.

  • Oh, my dear boy, you'd insist on my keeping my window open.

  • As for you, my dear boy, I did not hope to find you here, believing that they would have prevented you, like the others, from coming hither this morning.

  • Are your relations, my dear boy, as is also that worthy Mdlle.

  • Oh, my dear boy, it is the hungering of a proud old man of a father, who has not seen his son for eighteen years.

  • MY DEAR BOY: When I was thinking what I could give to you to-morrow, I remembered the story of Herder, who when he was old and weak and they brought him food and wine asked for "a great thought to quicken him.

  • DEAR BOY: What has become of The Current?

  • Yes, dear boy, I liked the new story very, very much.

  • MY DEAR BOY: You are to be nineteen years old on Wednesday.

  • MY DEAR Boy: You can do it; you have done it; it is all right.

  • And you deserved it, my dear boy--you deserved it.

  • My dear boy, the analogy is so great it forces itself upon me.

  • Ah, my dear boy, it was a tremendous escape!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accept them; dear aunt; dear auntie; dear colleague; dear countess; dear creature; dear doctor; dear fellow; dear friend; dear grandfather; dear grandmother; dear granny; dear life; dear marquise; dear mother; dear nephew; dear one; dear soul; dear young; dearly loved; mayonnaise dressing; measures were; narrow lane; strong interest; three pence; well worth