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Example sentences for "her parents"

  • With calm, proud bearing Marie entered the sitting-room of her parents, and returned the salutations of her betrothed, who hastened toward her with tender assiduity.

  • But it is scarcely charitable to judge and condemn a young girl fourteen years of age, who did but obey the command of her parents, and followed the man who was the first and only one that ever whispered the word of love in her ear.

  • Marie flew down to the sitting-room of her parents, following her mother, who took her place in the niche at the open window without speaking to her.

  • My daughter shall not be a heroine of romance, but an obedient child, who submits to the will of her parents.

  • She doesn't take the same easy view that you and I do, Geoffrey, of my passing her off on the people of the inn as my wife.

  • With that final announcement of her royal will and pleasure, the Empress of the Inn withdrew.

  • He stooped and laid two of his fingers softly on Geoffrey's pulse.

  • The mournful end of Nora, her lonely return to die under the roof of her parents,--this he had learned before from the narrative of Dr.

  • He secretly sent down to Lansmere to ascertain if Nora had gone to her parents.

  • Shortly afterwards she left England with her new companion, unknown to all,--to Lady Jane as to her parents.

  • A lady, who had been destined by her parents to myself, though we had never, I own, been formally betrothed, became the wife of my kinsman.

  • Beside the stumps of those willow-trees he erected a memorial tomb, inscribed with divers holy texts; and he there performed many Buddhist services on behalf of the spirits of Aoyagi and of her parents.

  • Yuan Ch'un returns to the Jung Kuo mansion, on a visit to her parents, and offers her congratulations to them on the feast of lanterns, on the fifteenth of the first moon.

  • It was about the visit (of Yuan Ch'un) to her parents," Chia Lien explained.

  • But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

  • That is, any man that her parents propose to her to marry, though she does not like him, but marries in obedience to her parents, who make the choice for her.

  • His mother being discovered by her parents to be pregnant, was turned out of doors by them, whereupon she went to her lover, who married her, though in so doing he acted contrary to the advice of his relations.

  • Her parents refusing to sanction the union, their hands were joined beneath the greenwood tree by one Madawg Benfras, a bard, and a great friend of Ab Gwilym.

  • And now, what things Corydon could not get into his room, she would have to send back to her parents.

  • The girl was almost prostrated with misery; she vowed that she would go back to her parents, that she would go to work in an office.

  • The sense of her beauty had choked the boy's amusement at her parents.

  • Her parents-in-law were waiting, and she could see how tremendously they were impressed and relieved by her grace.

  • And she asked this for the sake of her parents; for she dared not speak of her husband, fearing the master might become very angry were he to learn the truth.

  • So she left home, saying farewell to her parents, with eyes full of tears: scarcely could she find voice to utter the word "good-by.

  • But at length the thought of her parents, left in ignorance of her fate, and of her sisters, precluded from sharing with her the delights of her situation, preyed on her mind and made her begin to feel her palace as but a splendid prison.

  • On awaking, the princess hastened to her parents to tell them what was on her mind; not alluding to her wedding-day, but finding other reasons equally good.

  • Her parents, afraid that they had unwittingly incurred the anger of the gods, consulted the oracle of Apollo, and received this answer: "The virgin is destined for the bride of no mortal lover.

  • Her parents acceded to her wish; the gods also ratified it.

  • Testy and impatient, the commissioner decided that she should be taken back to her parents, but only on one condition: she must promise never to try it again.

  • Sidonie told her of Georges, of their relations, attempting to palliate her offence by blaming the cruelty of her parents in marrying her by force to a man much older than herself.

  • After Lisa's refusal to return to her parents, we agreed on a solution.

  • Rama writes: Lisa told me she was afraid of her parents.

  • I suggested that she return home to her parents, and she insisted that the demons were possessing them too.

  • It was not difficult to believe that she could never enjoy, peacefully, any happiness which caused sorrow to her parents.

  • A murmur of surprise, which went on increasing, and a general whispering reminded Ginevra that all present were wondering at the absence of her parents; her father's wrath seemed present to her.

  • Then, not venturing to look at her parents, she lowered her large eyelids as if to veil the fire of her eyes.

  • For the sake of her parents, I trust she will shortly recover.

  • Her parents opposed, and talked seriously to her and used force to restrain her, but she overcame them in the end, and to the school they had to take her, where she was refused admission on account of her tender years.

  • I knew Millicent well, having at various times spent several weeks with her in her parents' house, and she, an only child, was naturally regarded as the most important person in it.

  • He and one of the two younger ladies were perhaps her parents, and the elderly lady her grandmother.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her age; her arm; her chair; her child; her cousin; her dark; her eye; her eyes; her heart; her lips were parted; her little; her native; her only; her return; her right; her time; her turn; her window; here made; here translated; here used; here very; hereby know; hereinafter provided; heroic verse; promissory note