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Example sentences for "dinner given"

  • Astor, son of John Jacob Astor, to a dinner given by my father, written upon very small note paper and folded in the usual style of the day: Mr. W.

  • A dinner given in my young days by my parents to Mr. and Mrs. William C.

  • I especially remember a dinner given by him in honor of Martin Van Buren.

  • The Prince of Wales presided at a dinner given at the Hotel Metropole, London, to Lord Suffield, on his retirement from the command of the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery.

  • At the end of February he came down to the Mayor's dinner given to Prince Henry of Prussia, but he did not speak.

  • We remember that he did not appear at the first dinner of the Society of Authors, where his place was beside ours--a dinner given to American authors, at which Lowell presided.

  • Moncure Conway, in his Reminiscences, recalls a dinner given by Dante Rossetti to W.

  • Shortly after arriving in London, he was a guest at the Mansion House at a dinner given to representatives of Art and Literature, and was invited to speak.

  • It was such an hour of destiny as this when, at a dinner given by Sergeant Talfourd, at his home (No.

  • Last evening at a dinner given by Sidney Colvin, I met Mr. James, who showed great interest in hearing how you were, and how much nearer you were likely to be.

  • MARCH 15—Dinner given at Stourport to the Rev.

  • I will further mention only a dinner given by American residents in Rome on Washington's birthday, at which I was present.

  • I first met the Duchess of Sutherland at a dinner given in our honor by Lord Morpeth's parents, the Earl and Countess of Carlisle.

  • I will also mention a dinner given in our honor by John Kenyon, well known as a Maecenas of that period.

  • At a dinner given in our honor at Greenwich, I was escorted to the table by Mr. Mallock, author of "The New Republic.

  • At a dinner given at North Walsham the same evening Painter announced that this was his last appearance in the prize ring.

  • The presentation was made by Lord James Townshend, at a dinner given at the King's Arms Inn, East Dereham, under the presidency of Quarter-Master Wood.

  • The presentation was made at a dinner given at the Norfolk Hotel, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Bignold).

  • Footnote 14: This was a dinner given by the Middlesex reformers to their representatives.

  • The omission of the health of the Prince is certainly very strange--it would be very unusual at any public dinner--but seems quite unaccountable at a dinner given in connection with the interests of one of the Royal Theatres.

  • Mr. Woodger had entertained 40 of his friends at a dinner given by him at St. George’s Tavern, King Street.

  • Burroughs had been elected Mayor, and a dinner given at the Star to celebrate the event.

  • Mr. George Danby-Palmer had presided at a dinner given to B.

  • The Lord High Steward (the Earl of Lichfield) had been sworn in, and a dinner given in his honour.

  • Mark Twain's only profit from this source was in the delivery of a delicious speech, which he made at a dinner given to Cornelius Walford, of London, an insurance author of repute.

  • In April, '89, he made an address at a dinner given to a victorious baseball team returning from a tour of the world by way of the Sandwich Islands.

  • Once at a dinner given to Matthews, Mark Twain made a speech which consisted almost entirely of intonations of the name "Brander Matthews" to express various shades of human emotion.

  • In the evening of September 11, Lafayette attended a dinner given by the French residents of New York at Washington Hall in celebration of the forty-seventh anniversary of the battle of Brandywine.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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