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Example sentences for "dear son"

  • MY DEAR SON,--Long life, and all the blessings of all the saints be upon you now and for evermore!

  • But wherever I live, my dear son, as long as I have a house, I hope you will always do me the justice and the pleasure to consider yourself as its master.

  • My dear son, Captain Walsingham showed his judgment more, perhaps, in pointing out causes than effects.

  • You are right, my dear son; marry Miss Walsingham, and we have enough, and more than enough, for happiness.

  • More than satisfy--as you ever do, ever will, my dear son.

  • Dear Son,--I have both yours, and have changed my mind since my last.

  • Dear Son,--I have Kempis by me; but have not read him lately.

  • Dear Son,--Your brother will receive 5 pounds for you next Saturday, if Mr. S.

  • Dear Son,--Your brother Samuel, with his wife and child, are here.

  • My dear son "It is with great pain I write to tell you that you must leave all and hasten home if you would see your mother.

  • My dear son, we have all one interest; if you want anything, let us know, and if it can be had you know enough of us to know you shall not want it.

  • No, my dear son, I am not certain of it, and no man can have such a certainty; but I am sure that the Christian religion is not the true one, because it cannot be universal.

  • Pleasures which give activity to our senses, my dear son, disturb the repose of our soul--a proof that they do not deserve the name of real enjoyments.

  • Meanwhile the prince reached his mother's house, and she said to him: "Dear son, where have you been?

  • The prince entered, saw the tower, went up and met an old woman who said to him: "Dear son, where are you going?

  • She answered: "My dear son, how will you go and find the Love of the three Oranges?

  • The queen answered: "Ah, my dear son, I am sad because you must now part from me.

  • My dear son, I do not; but I thought you might be mistaken in them, especially at night.

  • Remember, my dear son, the circumstances and associations by which you are morally bound to each other.

  • I have come to take my farewell of you, my dear son, as I am ready to depart on a long journey and will not again see you on earth.

  • Again I say, speak, my dear son, and tell my daughter the truth; do you hear, the truth?

  • I am; but your calling me fool put me in mind of my dear son, who often used to call me fool--and you just now looked as he sometimes did, with a blob of foam on your lip.

  • In their eyes, O dear son, amongst the Kurus ourselves and the Pandavas are equal.

  • And seeing the place become like a troubled ocean, the intelligent Bharadwaja said unto his dear son, Aswatthaman, 'Restrain both these mighty warriors so proficient in arms.

  • My dear son, Hero Naznai," said the king, "I gave you my daughter and made you my son with the hope that when a black day should come upon me you would give me your help.

  • I am greatly obliged to you, my dear son; this is a very delicate attention on your part.

  • Give it me, my dear, dear son: your own honour, if not your affection for me, demands that you should.

  • You will be sure, my dear son, to give the note to Madame Tourville herself?

  • Possibly with your enemies, dear son; but there is nothing the matter with your business.

  • If you love her so much, dear son, why did you exact so much money?

  • And my Nato pleases you, dear son-in-law?

  • I will come back immediately, dear son-in-law; I am only going to see what is keeping Nato.

  • Then the boy wept; and when the hermit heard him weeping, he put his arm round him and said, "Weep not, my dear son.

  • Now before sunrise, whilst it was yet early, he was awakened by the voice of the hermit crying, "My son, my dear son!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear aunt; dear brothers; dear countess; dear daughter; dear father; dear general; dear godfather; dear grandmother; dear heart; dear lady; dear life; dear marquise; dear niece; dear parents; dear son; dear soul; dear wife; dearest creature; dearest friend; dearest girl; dearest lady; greater degree; half score; oppose them; raised his; wood light