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Example sentences for "her uncle"

  • Perhaps that was why she had hurried him away,--why she had prevented his returning to her uncle.

  • Christina had brought her own books--a library of extraordinary extent for a maiden of the fifteenth century, but which she owed to her uncle's connexion with the arts of wood-cutting and printing.

  • Every month she carried her salary and her little earnings to her uncle Pillerault.

  • I hope they won't break anything," said Constance to her uncle.

  • Cesarine confided her anxiety to her uncle Pillerault, and he had promised to pay the bill.

  • Her uncle seemed to have receded to a distance incalculable, and to have grown awful as he receded.

  • She listened respectfully to her uncle's talk, and was attentive when Donal spoke; he thought she looked even sympathetic two or three times; and once he caught the expression as of anxiety he had seen on her face that same day twice before.

  • She in her turn conveyed them to her uncle.

  • Now when the soldiers heard these dreadful words, one by one they turned and crept down the stairs, till at last there were left upon the pylon roof only the Queen, Asti crouching at her feet, and the monstrous Abi, her uncle.

  • She an't so fond of her uncle as that, every day!

  • Her uncle's head followed her to the door, where she dallied to catch a last impression of the young stranger's lowering face, and darted through.

  • She is very good to think so much of her uncle," said the squire; and his words as he spoke them sounded very cold in Crosbie's ears.

  • But he wished her also to understand at the same time that this did not in the least mar his love for her; that he did not join her at all in her uncle's fault.

  • I remember seeing her at her uncle's last year.

  • He wanted to make her understand that this change of intention on his part was caused by the unexpected misconduct of her uncle.

  • Cynthia made Mr Henderson's acquaintance at her uncle's in London.

  • Many girls, for instance, would have been touched by the admiration she excited--I may say the attentions she received when she was at her uncle's last summer.

  • Did I tell you Cynthia is going off in hot haste to her uncle Kirkpatrick's?

  • Mary shrink close to her uncle, and her reply was in a whisper.

  • After going with the young lady to the piano, and opening it for her, Grace went back to her uncle, whose face she found deeply clouded.

  • The child took its hands from the basket and came up to her uncle.

  • She immediately wrote to her uncle, accepting his kind proposal.

  • She wrote a letter to her uncle Leopold, and a hurried note to her sister Feodora.

  • For one thing, if she remained childless, and were to die, her uncle Cumberland, who was now the King of Hanover, would succeed to the Throne of England.

  • She determined to write to her uncle, in order to make her position clear.

  • She is gone down to her uncle at Liverpool: gone to stay.

  • She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners.

  • He made a pretence of having mislaid his walking-stick, to give her time to set the bedstead right, to answer her sister's impatient knock at the wall, and to say a word softly to her uncle.

  • This quality, however fatal to her higher growth, had given her a peculiar capacity for business which endeared her to her uncle.

  • And, too, if Florence Lloyd were in any way implicated in the death of her uncle, I felt pretty sure she would not hesitate at untruth.

  • It implied that the sterling worth of the young secretary was far more to be desired than the riches and rank advocated by her uncle.

  • I half fancied that it might be you, Anne," her uncle added, "although I know what a sensible little head you have!

  • She had been the light of her uncle's eyes, and the little capable keeper of his house for years; she had been reminding her own friends of this frequently during the past year or two; now she was ready to step into a nest of her own.

  • Her uncle's attentiveness incited her to describe the scene, and as it visibly relieved his melancholy, she did it with a few vivid indications of the quaint young Irishman's manner of speech.

  • If you'll deign to give me a lesson,' said he, as Caroline came away from pressing her lips to her uncle's forehead.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good nurse; her arm; her beautiful; her body; her bosom; her carriage; her child; her country; her daughter; her duty; her house; her little; her new; her now; her old; her right; her that; her time; her with; here called; here give; here intended; hereby know; hereditary monarch; hereditary succession; herself again