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Example sentences for "her niece"

  • She promised to secure a wealthy wife for him, but delayed to do so until he insisted on a match being arranged between him and her niece Raymonde.

  • Accompanied by La Sarriette, her niece, she went to Gavard's house after his arrest, and took possession of his money, which they divided between them.

  • Fortunately she received a small legacy from a relative, and on this, added to the earnings of her niece, she was able to live.

  • She brought up her niece Sophie, who was cured of phthisis by Doctor Pascal.

  • For a long time she lost sight of her niece Nana, but later she found her in a position of apparent wealth.

  • They confided to each other that Tillie was "just a little off, on the subject of her niece," and agreed that it would be as well not to excite her further.

  • Her romantic imagination found possibilities in her niece.

  • While he talked on without interruption, the older lady looked from her nephew to her niece, and took the sadness in Julie's white face for grief at the enforced separation.

  • When the dowager had finished reading the letter, and after such a beginning the rest must have been sad indeed, she slowly laid her spectacles on the table, put the letter down beside them, and looked fixedly at her niece.

  • Then his new relative turned to her niece, and gave her a flower.

  • Thus the old lady learned more of her niece's husband in one evening than the Bennington family had ascertained during his whole sojourn with them.

  • She had happily obtained the conversion of her son; when she had suffered more, she would be rewarded by that of her niece also, but not until then would her self-imposed task of charity be perfected.

  • In order not to interrupt the history of the conversion of her niece, chronological order has been slightly anticipated.

  • Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all.

  • Lady Bertram wrote her daily terrors to her niece, who might now be said to live upon letters, and pass all her time between suffering from that of to-day and looking forward to to-morrow's.

  • Mrs. Ochiltree drove immediately to her niece's, where she found Mrs. Carteret and Clara at home.

  • At her niece's table she felt at liberty to speak her mind, which she invariably did, with a frankness that sometimes bordered on brutality.

  • It seemed for a moment as though Mrs. Ochiltree would speak no further: but her once strong will, now weakened by her bodily infirmities, yielded to the influence of her niece's imperious demand.

  • Madame Voss said to her one morning, when she had been snubbed rather rudely by her niece.

  • Madame Voss, though she did not generally obtain much credit for clear seeing, had a clearer insight to the state of her niece's mind than had her husband.

  • Madame Cheron looked on her niece's diffidence with a feeling very near to contempt, and endeavoured to overcome it by reproof, rather than to encourage it by gentleness.

  • Yes, he would do nicely for Ethelyn and by way of quieting her conscience, which kept whispering that she had not been altogether just to her niece, Mrs. Dr.

  • A hat trimmed in that style would be becoming to Elsie," remarked Adelaide, continuing the conversation with Rose, and turning to look at her niece as she spoke.

  • The good aunt had long anxiously wished for just such a declaration as had been made to her niece, and it was one of the last of her apprehensions that it would not have been favourably received.

  • The following morning Miss Emmerson and her niece, attended by Charles, took a walk to examine the beauties of Albany.

  • They are forcible ones I must admit," said Miss Emmerson, smiling affectionately on her niece; "but now for the other kind of love.

  • Then she would have been about twenty now," Rose went on, not noticing her aunt's disinclination to talk of her niece.

  • She had lost the feeling that she was doing her an injustice by not acknowledging her as her niece.

  • It was as James Sampson's child she had always thought of her niece.

  • Mrs. Gallilee turned to her niece, and proceeded quietly with what she had to say.

  • Already absorbed in considering Ovid's obstinacy, and the means of overcoming it, she was now confronted by a resolute side in the character of her niece, which took her by surprise.

  • Still good-humoured, but with an effort that began to appear, Mrs. Gallilee lowered herself to the level of her niece.

  • Mrs. Gallilee laid herself back in her chair, and submitted patiently to her niece's simplicity.

  • Mrs. Haydon never saw any more of her niece, Lena.

  • She had not lost her interest in her niece Lena, but Lena could not come much to her house to see her, it would not be right, now Lena was a married woman.

  • Mrs. Haydon felt she had done very well by her niece, Lena, and she never thought now she needed any more to go and see her.

  • Mrs. Haydon was a real, good, german woman, and she did really mean to do well by her niece Lena.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her bedroom; her brain; her brother; her companions; her conduct; her eyes; her favour; her features; her only; her person; her power; her shoulder; her side; her sisters; her the; her was; her white; here because; here have; here present; hereafter shall; hereditary monarchy; hereinafter provided; hermetically sealed; heroic deeds; national interest