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Example sentences for "long friend"

  • One Sunday after meeting at Amesbury he said to his life-long friend, Miss Gove, "Abby, has thee a spare room up at thy house?

  • Mr. John Lowell Gardner, a college classmate and life-long friend of Mr. Emerson, has favored me with a letter which contains matters of interest concerning him never before given to the public.

  • Furness of Philadelphia, a kindred spirit and an almost life-long friend.

  • Cautious as was Darwin himself, he found in his life-long friend Lyell, a still more doubting and critical spirit, and it is clear from what Darwin says that he derived much help by laying new ideas and suggestions before him.

  • Even in that case, will you insist upon forcing your father's life-long friend to the wall?

  • He stood with folded arms, tall and straight, facing unflinchingly the accusing eyes of his life-long friend, Jack Gardner.

  • It is of interest further to state that Whittier's life-long friend and co-laborer in the anti-slavery field, Theodore D.

  • Mr. George Chester, his life-long friend, pronounced him the prince of cronies, and I have seen many letters from him instinct with affection and jovial humour.

  • Thomas Morris, son of Robert Morris the great financier of the Revolution, was my father's life-long friend.

  • Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity church in New York, and a life-long friend of the whole Astor connection, that he was a private in a Hessian regiment that fought against our colonies in the Revolutionary War.

  • One may readily turn from Emily Virginia Mason to her life-long friend, the daughter of Senator William Wright of New Jersey.

  • From her school-days down to the hour in which she was stretched prostrate in her last sickness, Charlotte Bronte kept up the closest and most confidential intercourse with her one life-long friend.

  • An hour or two passed, when Flash Jack directed attention to my long friend, who, since the medicine boy left, had not been noticed till now.

  • By a hundred whimsical oddities, my long friend became a great favourite with these people; and they bestowed upon him a long, comical title, expressive of his lank figure and Koora combined.

  • Like all lank men, my long friend had an appetite of his own.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    essential constituent; long accustomed; long engagement; long friend; long knife; long known; long life; long narrow; long night; long piece; long robe; long slant; long stretch; long strip; long struggle; long way; long year; longer afraid; longer anything; longer exist; longer existed; mural painting; shine before; steam vessel; still life; thought myself