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Example sentences for "intimate friends"

  • Every mother should study, almost as carefully as those of her own, the character of her children's intimate friends.

  • This remark applies to acquaintances of the hostess, and not to intimate friends.

  • When a bachelor has a number of intimate friends, very little card-leaving is required from him as far as they are concerned.

  • The fourth of Tchaikovsky's intimate friends, Nicholas Kashkin, received him on his arrival with the cordiality of an old comrade, for he already knew him from Laroche's enthusiastic description.

  • Many of Rubinstein's intimate friends, and also his wife, maintained the reverse.

  • Intimate friends, of course, do not wait for cards, but continue their calls, without regard to any ceremonious observances made for the protection of the bereaved.

  • The donors on such occasions are usually only members of the family or intimate friends, and may act at their own discretion in the matter of giving presents.

  • The hostess receives her guests standing, aided by other members of the family or intimate friends.

  • If they are unmarried men, they have no address save at their club; and neither you nor their most intimate friends have an idea where they sleep.

  • Nine times out of ten she does the last, and, may be, with interest; and so goes on the duel, though all the time the fighters appear to be intimate friends and on the best possible terms together.

  • Third, and gaining in popularity, is a small dance, which presents the débutante to the younger set and a few of her mother's intimate friends.

  • Sometimes one or two others--sisters of the bride or groom or intimate friends, who were not included in the wedding party, are asked to the table, and when there are no bridesmaids this is always the case.

  • Thus Paul was not regarded as an innovator with respect to Jesus by Jesus' intimate friends.

  • In the environment of Paul were to be found some men who had been intimate friends of Jesus; presumably they were acquainted with Jesus' character and teaching.

  • It is the merit of Baur that however faulty his solution he placed at least in the forefront of interest the problem of the relationship between Paul and the intimate friends of Jesus.

  • Intimate Friends One's attitude toward intimate friends is either a pleasant memory or a sad revelation.

  • Men do not observe the custom of withdrawing from society for as long a time as do the women, but usually reappear at the homes of intimate friends, at public places of entertainment, and at the club after two or three months.

  • I took lodgings for her a long way off, on Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain; but I have just found out that one of my father's intimate friends lives on that street now.

  • To save you the annoyance of waiting for me at our rendezvous, I send one of my intimate friends--perfectly fresh.

  • The personnel of Brahms' intimate friends in Vienna had remained on the whole much what it had become a very few years after his arrival in the Austrian capital.

  • It is an axiom of propriety that we should never speak of ourselves, (except to intimate friends) and that we should converse with strangers about themselves, and everything which can interest them.

  • Two gentlemen do not take one another's arms in the street, unless they are young persons and intimate friends.

  • Front seats should always be reserved for the relatives and most intimate friends of both families.

  • A man is expected to make calls of condolence, inquiry and congratulation upon all his intimate friends, men and women.

  • Intimate friends of the bride are the guests at a shower.

  • The debutante may receive flowers from intimate friends only.

  • All of George's intimate friends joined in the search, except Mr. Drysdale, who was so much overcome at the terrible occurrence, that he was quite prostrated.

  • Yet it is curious that, intimate friends that we are, she would tell me nothing of the incident.

  • We were friends, intimate friends, but Giovanni Nardini was not the man to reveal to even his own father what he considered was a secret.


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