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Example sentences for "gentle reader"

  • Behold a sailor on horseback, gentle reader, to the admiration or astonishment of all the bystanders, of which there were as many as would man a king’s cutter.

  • As such, gentle reader, I sincerely beg yours, for having led you such a Tom Coxe’s traverse.

  • So take, gentle reader, the three letters, which friend Lothaire was good enough to give me, as the sketch of the picture which I shall endeavour to colour more and more as I proceed in my narrative.

  • And thus I ceasse further to trouble thy patience, wishing to thee (gentle reader) so much profit, as by reading may be had, and as great comfort as Gods holie spirit may endue thee with.

  • Beware, my gentle reader, or he'll flatten out your phiz.

  • You have yourself an Abderitian soul;" and having just given you, gentle reader, these few words of admonition, farewell.

  • See thou mock him not," gentle reader, for Billy is no subject for any man's condescension.

  • And "see thou mock him not," gentle reader!

  • Our character is to be found in the country; and therefore, gentle reader, behold along with us a specimen of Scottish scenery.

  • O, gentle reader, young perhaps, and inexperienced of this world, wonder not at this so great change!

  • Gentle reader, after staying a few months in England, I strayed across the Alps and the Apennines, and returned home, but could not tarry.

  • I would here, gentle reader, wish to draw thy attention, for a few minutes, to physic, raiment and diet.

  • Let us now, gentle reader, retire from the busy scenes of man and journey on towards the wilds in quest of the feathered tribe.

  • You and I, gentle Reader, could teach these young folks a truer lesson, an we would.

  • I would, gentle Reader, you could hear the stories that I meant to tell you.

  • This is precisely my case now, gentle reader.

  • I have a veneration for both, but, gentle reader, excuse the confessions of an old man, for I have a soft spot in the heart yet, I love Old England.

  • Bear our opinion in mind, gentle reader; and, when next you go upon your travels, see if what we assert be not correct.

  • Now, gentle reader, I spose you begin to see the game.

  • Gentle reader, av you ever been on the otion?

  • Smile not, gentle reader, many a battle has been fought in Hyde Park, in which as much skill, science and bravery have been displayed as ever achieved a victory in Flanders or by the Indus.

  • Pray be not displeased, gentle reader, if perchance thou hast imagined that I was about to conduct thee to distant lands, and didst promise thyself much instruction and entertainment from what I might tell thee of them.

  • Smile not, gentle reader, many a battle has been fought in Hyde Park, in which as much skill, science, and bravery have been displayed as ever achieved a victory in Flanders or by the Indus.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cathedral church; coloured flowers; even said; gentle blood; gentle fire; gentle heat; gentle knight; gentle lady; gentle reader; gentle slope; gentle smile; gentle voice; gentleman born; gentleman friend; gentleman like; gentleman named; last time; pale purple; pure mathematics; regard the; sacred things; sexual propagation; shall sleep; shall stay; unconverted state; who had been sent