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Example sentences for "elderly gentleman"

  • While he was thus engaged, an elderly gentleman in the garb of a clergyman approached him.

  • You seem fond of bad music, sir," observed an elderly gentleman, who had been standing near a doorway looking at the middy with a quiet smile.

  • Will he buy a safe, elderly gentleman's horse?

  • At length, just as an elderly gentleman of very dignified presence happened to be passing, a large bubble sailed majestically down, and burst right against his nose!

  • Then there was an elderly gentleman, who, judging by his bronzed countenance, had been in a foreign clime for a long time.

  • Various patriotic speeches were delivered, and at one stage, I mind, the meeting was put into great good humour by the action of an elderly gentleman on the platform.

  • Max, going down the steps, met an elderly gentleman coming up.

  • Evening was drawing on apace, and it was quite dusk out of doors when Agnes came in, carrying a carefully-shaded lamp, and informed Max that an elderly gentleman, a certain Dr.

  • As the latter entered the last room of the series, an elderly gentleman, who was at work there alone, rose respectfully from his desk.

  • Descending again to the basement hall, an elderly gentleman came in, and was warmly welcomed by Dr.

  • The scene is a street: an elderly gentleman, with a large face and strongly marked features, appears.

  • I had reached the darkest portion of the road, and found myself mechanically repeating: "An elderly gentleman a week ago left his lodgings on the Kent Road," when suddenly I heard a step behind me.

  • I turned quickly, with an expression of horror in my face, and by the light of the newly risen moon beheld an elderly gentleman, with green cotton umbrella, approaching me.

  • As I was returning home disappointed as usual, I met an elderly gentleman, whose name I forget, though we had often seen each other in society.

  • Sophia has made a new conquest of an elderly gentleman in a curricle, with a coronet on it.

  • He alluded to an elderly gentleman, a friend and distant relation of his, whom he had invited to accompany him on the continent.

  • Mr. Thompson, an elderly gentleman of Shrewsbury, was seized with hemiplegia in the cold bath; which I suppose might be owing to some great energy of exertion, as much as to the coldness of the water.

  • Foremost of them rode an elderly gentleman in scarlet, and by his side a young lady who might be a few years past twenty.

  • John Paul, a portly, elderly gentleman, with iron-grey hair and a face that looked stern to those who did not know him, bent forward and shook hands with the stranger.

  • He quickened his pace, for he just now caught sight of Victor Eckardstein alighting from the last coach, in company with an elderly gentleman.

  • I had reached the darkest portion of the road, and found my self mechanically repeating: "An elderly gentleman a week ago left his lodgings on the Kent Road," when suddenly I heard a step behind me.

  • Occasionally the Great little Man would condescend to take a pinch of the best Rappee with an elderly gentleman.

  • He met an elderly gentleman--a parson by the colour of his cloth--who was poking some decayed herbage with a long cane.

  • There was no other in the stables, and as he was sure of catching the chariot before morning, he felt there would be no harm in learning why Phyllida had supped at a wayside inn, alone with an elderly gentleman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before putting; began again; class system; elderly gentleman; elderly lady; elderly woman; face like; found only; frontier life; inches deep; million note; nearly vertical; pays des; shall later; single acre; single glass; social success; sweet little; tertiary formations; thou only; water over; white patch; white person; you again