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Example sentences for "highly respectable"

  • He is an industrious, enterprising fellow--and his father-in-law is a highly respectable man.

  • Two Jew clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel.

  • It is not mine, sir: the more is the pity; yet is it so far well, that the owner is my good friend, and a highly respectable gentleman.

  • Your `highly respectable firm' ought to be struck off the rolls for this job.

  • I got that,' he said, rubbing die nose with the palm of one hand, 'from my highly respectable grandfather.

  • The other authority to whom I have alluded, the Licentiate Polo de Ondegardo, was a highly respectable jurist, whose name appears frequently in the affairs of Peru.

  • Valerius, a highly respectable man, who afterwards got the name of Publicola.

  • I told him that the person in question certainly did write Interludes, for example Noah, and Joseph at Goshen, but that he was a highly respectable, nay venerable character.

  • The mistress of the house was a highly respectable widow, who with a servant maid was to wait upon us.

  • Augustin de Zarate - a highly respectable authority, frequently cited in the later portion of this work - was Contador de Mercedes, Comptroller of Accounts, for Castile.

  • Williams a highly respectable draper in the town, having altered his political opinions in those days, fell in for Ben's animadversions on that occasion.

  • The Mr. Francis Finch, so prominently figuring in this debate, was a highly respectable merchant, resident in the town.

  • Mr. Bliss is a highly respectable member of the bar, in Elyria, Lorain Co.

  • Russell, a highly respectable teacher of youth in Boston.

  • His father was a merchant, and had a highly respectable standing in society.

  • Having maintained a highly respectable standing in a class that has since numbered an unusual proportion of distinguished men, he graduated in 1811.

  • Highly respectable, county family business, I should say, from what I saw and heard.

  • The mistress of the house was a highly respectable widow, who, with a servant maid was to wait upon us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    again began; another district; bade farewell; ever present; flat piece; highly cultivated; highly dependent; highly esteemed; highly improbable; highly magnified; highly polished; highly prized; highly probable; highly respected; highly satisfactory; highly seasoned; highly sensitive; pari passu; playing cards; recover myself; small space; that the; this branch; walnut tree; weather station; would endeavor