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Example sentences for "friends and"

  • The prayer has been attributed to him, "God grant I may live along enough to recompense my friends and requite my foes with a strong arm.

  • Friends and neighbours, let us keep our tongues from them--and our children's tongues!

  • He was a gentle, scholarly person, silent and timid in ordinary life, and his adhesion to the "eighteen" had been an astonishment to friends and foes.

  • Fellow-citizens of Kentucky--friends and brethren, may I call you in my new position?

  • Those whom they desire to convince and persuade are their old friends and companions.

  • Perhaps I would not be wrong to say they originated with his special friends and adherents.

  • Friends and relatives in consultation with one another tried to effect a cure.

  • While we have no rank and power, Duryodhana hath both; while we have no friends and allies, Duryodhana hath both; while we are without wealth, Duryodhana hath at his command a full treasury.

  • The son I shall give thee will be the smiter of the wicked and the delight of friends and relatives.

  • Blest with good luck, king Samvarana excelled Soma in soothing the hearts of friends and Surya in scorching the hearts of foes.

  • Some run from both father and mother, friends and companions, and thus, that they may have the crown.

  • But if I run this way, then I shall be hated, and lose the love of my friends and relations, and of those that I expect benefit from, or have reliance on, and I shall be mocked of all my neighbours.

  • Some are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers, pelted by friends and foes, in a word, stand as butts.

  • She herself, first inspired the most unhappy citizens of our remote districts, with the thoughts of shedding the blood of those whom they used to call by the name of friends and brethren.

  • In the choice of my friends and acquaintance, I always endeavour to find out those whose dispositions are somewhat congenial with my own.

  • During the run of "Friends and Foes" she fell ill.

  • With equal distribution see you part My lands and goods betwixt these lovely twain: Only bestow a hundred thousand sesterces Upon my friends and fellow-soldiers.

  • My friends and citizens of Praeneste town, You see the wayward working of our stars; Our hearts confirm'd to fight, our victuals spent.

  • The daring manifested by the gallant sailor was subject of surprise and admiration at once to friends and foes, and yet, although his boat lay moored within musket shot of the defences, he sustained but trifling loss.

  • A Swedish general who had been left in Franconia, undertook to punish the perfidy of the bishop; and the ecclesiastical territory became the seat of war, and was ravaged alike by friends and foes.

  • Driven from thence, both by friends and foes, the Administrator approached the town of Hoechst on the Maine, which he crossed after a murderous action with Tilly, who disputed with him the passage of the river.

  • He has supported my enemies, persecuted my friends and brethren, trampled my religion in the dust, and even stretched his revengeful arm against my crown.

  • As it died down, he continued, "Friends and naybours, this here has been a most successful regatta.

  • Friends and naybours," said he, and this opening evoked loud applause.

  • And then comes what is the saddest experience of all; it will pass into the hands of friends and readers; echoes of it will come back to me, in talk and print; but it will no longer be the book I knew and loved, only a part of my past.

  • He is now a middle-aged man with hundreds of friends and a small income.

  • Of course one would like to write a great biography, but the biographies that live are the lives of men written by friends and contemporaries, living portraits, like Boswell's Johnson or Stanley's Arnold.

  • I love my friends and hate my enemies, which may not be in accordance with the Gospel, but I have found it a good wearing creed for honest men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced towards; ambulance train; being introduced; colossal statue; four degrees; friends and; friends were; grown from; hear the; hydrogen chloride; interest and; know her; long distance; mentioned here; mere girl; moved tones; near enough; never forgive; none but; single instance; thou give; thrown over; with them