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Example sentences for "good family"

  • Mr Maverick a young Gentleman of a good family & a blameless Life, was at Supper in the House of one of his friends, and went Out when the bells rang as for fire.

  • But I had become intimate with Von Tronk, a Hanoverian of good family, a lawyer, and editor, I believe, of the Freie Presse.

  • Greene was a portly, ruddy, elderly Boston gentleman of good family, who had been in early life attached in some diplomatic capacity to a Legation, and had visited Constantinople.

  • Being well-to-do and of a good family, his friendship gave me such opportunities of coming into touch with the easy circumstances of the upper classes as were not of frequent occurrence in my station of life.

  • I have no objection if a girl of good family helps me to put on my coat or hands me a glass of water--" I heard no more, for I fell asleep.

  • What indeed is there which women of good family, who are attached to their husbands, will not endure?

  • The hero of the story, although of good family, begins life as a London apprentice, but after countless adventures and perils, becomes by valour and good conduct the squire, and at last the trusted friend of the Black Prince.

  • He's of good family in the old country, as one can easily see.

  • Else how are you to show that you are of good family, well brought-up children, and not at all like other organ-grinders?

  • And as it is in French, people will see at once that you are children of good family, and that will be much more touching.

  • My advice was required, and I spoke to the advantage of the young gentleman, more out of pity than that she deserved no better match; for, though he was a gentleman of good family, yet there was great inequality.

  • He was of a good family, and was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, where he gave early proofs of his literary talents.

  • Here he was indefatigable in his duties, and unlike most young men of good family, who left the internal economy and discipline of their companies to subordinate officers, Turenne saw to everything himself.

  • His first step was to go to the clothing establishment most frequented by men of good family.

  • But this made no difference to Aunt Bachissia, who was determined that her daughter should enter her new home fitted out in every respect like a youthful bride of good family.

  • He was born of a good family at Naples in 1538.

  • The author was a gentleman of good family, and had been employed by the king in several embassies.

  • Women of good family remained at home, except for one hour after dark, when the men retired from the streets and the women came out.

  • Syngman Rhee, son of a good family, training in Confucian scholarship to win a literary degree and official position, heard with contempt and dislike the tales told by his friends of foreign teachers and foreign religion.

  • Sir Amyas Preston came of a good family settled at Crichet in Somerset.

  • If a man belongs to a good family, and has interest, he gets a good appointment; and it is mighty seldom that a man is taken from his regiment, and put on to the staff, because he has done something which showed he was a good soldier.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good anchorage; good estate; good father; good head; good health; good heart; good joke; good literature; good long; good moral; good painting; good repute; good right; good road; good scholar; good service; good sooth; good supper; good teacher; good temper; good terms; good test; good view; good water; good woman; great lawyer