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Example sentences for "great favorite"

  • Mr. Webster was a great favorite in the Department of State, for he made no removals, and his generous and considerate treatment of the clerks won their affection.

  • A few years after she left the convent she accompanied the family of the American Minister to Spain, and resided for some time at Madrid, where she was a great favorite in Court circles.

  • Wade has stirred him up," Isobel said calmly; "he is a great favorite of the Doctor's.

  • I am rather glad you don't, for he is no great favorite of mine, though he is so generally popular in the station here.

  • He is a most popular man, everyone likes him, among the ladies especially he is a great favorite.

  • Pisistratos was a great favorite of the Athenian populace; so was Cosmo de Medici with the populace of Florence.

  • His affability made him a great favorite.

  • Viola entered the duke’s service as a page, and soon became a great favorite.

  • He was a great favorite at the medical college, admired as much for his culture and gentleness of disposition, as for the scholastic rank that he held.

  • Bryce was a great favorite in the social circles of cultured Tuskaloosa.

  • Possessed from the beginning with a popular turn, he was a great favorite in college circles, and was counted an all-round good fellow.

  • This play, a great favorite still, contains many presentations of old Russian customs.

  • He was a great favorite in society, for his charming personality, as well as for his poetry.

  • Even as far back as 1826 Mrs. Hughes was a great favorite.

  • In November I began a book that is a great favorite, and whose writing gave me constant pleasure, "The Strawberry Handkerchief.

  • It was a great favorite, for it was the initial story of the Delineator, and I received the following letter from Charles Dwyer, the editor, after it was published: DEAR MRS.

  • It was, however, a great favorite, and with few exceptions I have had the most letters about it.

  • Washington Irving paid a second visit, and was most graciously received and became a great favorite.

  • Roger Carrington had been appointed to an excellent position in the Treasury Department, though he was still a great favorite with Mr. Monroe, and Jaqueline was not jealous.

  • Lord Montague is very nice; he is a great favorite here.

  • This bird is a great favorite with us, dead or alive, on account of its tasteful plumage, its tender flesh, its domestic virtues, and its pleasant piping.

  • She was a great favorite in society, and always surrounded by admirers.

  • That knife was a great favorite with my friend, who had brought it from Switzerland.

  • There were some of his old messmates on the quarter-deck, who welcomed him heartily, for he was a great favorite.

  • Alfred was welcomed at the fort by Colonel Forster, with whom he was a great favorite.

  • In quality it has no superior; it has always been a great favorite with my customers.

  • In northern sections, down to the corn line, Northern Spy is a great favorite.

  • Glory of Enkhuisen is a new early sort that has become a great favorite.

  • Howard, who is a great favorite of mine, in the street, this morning, he told me he was coming here, to call.

  • Ah, that is the reason Monsieur de Langdale did not return for us," said Madame de Lagny, with whom Edward had become a great favorite.

  • Yes,' she replied, 'he is a great favorite everywhere.

  • He once said to a friend: "This poem has been a great favorite with me for years.

  • I remarked to her that her husband was a great favorite in the eastern part of the State, where I had been stopping.


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