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Example sentences for "her family"

  • I know nothing of her dwelling, her larvae, her cocoons, her family-arrangements.

  • One of the pluckiest of my subjects, the Hairy Ammophila, was not always provided with the hereditary dish of her family, the Grey Worm.

  • The action of the Philanthus is explained by her passion for honey; hence the murders committed in excess of the needs of her family.

  • You would be inclined to think that the victim of persecution, learning gradually from the misfortunes suffered by her family, would show distress at the ravisher's approach and at least attempt to escape.

  • Two mornings after that supper, it being the 27th day of July, the Bishop of Rochester breakfasting with Lady Castlewood and her family, and the meal scarce over, Doctor A.

  • The Dowager at Chelsey was furious against this neglect of her family, and had a great battle with Lady Marlborough (as Lady Castlewood insisted on calling the Duchess).

  • How could she face her parents, get back her box, and disconcert the whole scheme for the rehabilitation of her family on such sentimental grounds?

  • She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face, the sublimation of all the d'Urberville lineaments, furrowed with incarnate memories representing in hieroglyphic the centuries of her family's and England's history.

  • Her family consists of fourteen cocoons, a number very near the average; and, of these fourteen cocoons, twelve belong to males and only two to females.

  • This means of investigation, moreover, would be of no use to her, for the plant selected for the establishing of her family is, for the most part, not yet in flower.

  • We must then follow the same mother in her migration from one dwelling to the next if we would obtain a complete census of her family.

  • There was no room left for hope to her, or to any of her family.

  • Grace felt this to be good-natured, because her brother at Marlborough was the one bright spot in her family,--and she was comforted.

  • The other voices within her issued of the acknowledged dues to her family and to the world--the civilization protecting women: sentences thereanent in modern books and Journals.

  • Nataly's dead body was her advocate with her family, with friends, with the world.

  • Her child, yes; the love of her child she had; but the child's destiny was an alien phantom, looking at her with harder eyes than she had vision of in her family.

  • In her own past behaviour, there was a constant source of vexation and regret; and in the unhappy defects of her family, a subject of yet heavier chagrin.

  • At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family.

  • I should never have said Mrs. Collins was settled near her family.

  • And lo, her enunciation was precise and clear, not lisping and incomplete like that of her family; and the voice, though deeper than usual with women, was still both youthful and womanly.

  • How should you be acquainted with any of her family?

  • He felt himself quite lost in wonder at the manner of the man, and that the probability of his daughter's having had a reserve as to her family history, should be so far out of his mind.

  • Her family at that time lived in the country.

  • It was his reply to an application in verse made to him in their very young days by herself and two other members of her family, the manner of which seems to have unusually pleased him.

  • Then she sat silent, thinking how she should declare the matter to her family.

  • Could it be right that she should marry at all, for the sake of doing good to her family?

  • It was manifestly the intention of her family to ostracise her altogether.

  • Though she would not recognize Roger as a lover, she did acknowledge him to be the head of her family, and her own special friend, and entitled in some special way to know all that she herself did, and all that was done in regard to her.

  • In all the intercourses of her family, since the first rough usage which she remembered, there had never been anything sweet or gracious.

  • That genuine cordial approbation was so pleasant that the thought crossed her, 'Was she going to be a blessing to her family?

  • Because she knew no better, poor thing; her family promoted it, and took advantage of her innocence.

  • Levin's conviction that it could not be was founded on the idea that in the eyes of her family he was a disadvantageous and worthless match for the charming Kitty, and that Kitty herself could not love him.

  • She was silent for a little, thinking of herself, of her own grief in her family, and all at once, with an impulsive movement, she raised her head and clasped her hands with an imploring gesture.

  • Captain Gills,' says Mr Toots, 'and Mr Sols, I am happy to inform you that Mrs Toots has had an increase to her family.

  • There is no abortion in the matter; but other reasons prevent her returning to her family.

  • In the mean time, she ruined him by making him pay constantly for excellent dinners and suppers, which were eaten by her family, but which did not advance him one inch towards the fulfilment of his wishes.

  • To see this young and beautiful woman surrounded by her children, adored by her family, seemed to me a beautiful sight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could meet; good terms; her brother; her child; her countenance; her cousin; her desk; her eye; her eyes; her hair; her head; her lap; her niece; her place; her tone; here described; here present; here taken; here translated; hereby amended; hereby ordered; hereditary monarch; hereditary monarchy; heroic verse; indirect taxation; when reduced