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Example sentences for "make her"

  • I had brought her to the Piazza, placed her among charming influences, paid her an attention she appreciated, and now I seemed to let her perceive that all this had been a bribe--a bribe to make her turn in some way against her aunt.

  • There were contradictions like this in Tita Bordereau which, as I observed later, contributed to make her an odd and affecting person.

  • She was half-surprised, half-frightened at my wishing to make her play an active part.

  • I followed her, and tried to make her talk.

  • My own little patrimony is hardly sufficient to make her independent of the world.

  • We all suspected her of having been in the dead woman's confidence; we all tried to make her speak; we all failed.

  • If you are not to make her happy, why should you pursue her?

  • All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday.

  • Nothing seemed to astonish Mr. Guppy's mother so much and to make her so very indignant as our not getting out.

  • I wished to make her my friend," said Ronald; "I never thought of anything else.

  • I can not, father," he replied, "for I have promised Dora to make her my wife.

  • In vain did Elizabeth attempt to make her reasonable, and Jane to make her resigned.

  • Lady Catherine has been of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use.

  • The face of the Harvester was eager and his tones appealing, as he leaned forward trying to make her understand.

  • There's a little blue-eyed one, but all she needs is feathers to make her a 'ha!

  • She thought to herself he was quite right to make her dismiss Mr. Coventry, and he must dismiss Jael; she should insist on it.

  • You hadn't the sense to make her eat, of course?

  • Come, doctor, that couldn't make her SING.

  • All she now wants is teaching and practice, to make her sure of her own resources.

  • The day after you refuse to go out, you get tired of Aldborough, and you allow Mrs. Lecount to make her suggestion.

  • The pupils were attired in their prettiest frocks, and as Sara danced particularly well, she was very much brought forward, and Mariette was requested to make her as diaphanous and fine as possible.

  • She was thinking of the big ship, of the Lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers' wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said.

  • Did she say, 'It is I who am wearing her to death, I who am keeping her on a rack and am the executioner, yet she tells me every night that she loves me devotedly, though she knows what I make her undergo?

  • But Anna's aunt had through a common acquaintance insinuated that he had already compromised the girl, and that he was in honor bound to make her an offer.

  • She is expected to make her choice, and yet she cannot choose, she can only answer 'yes' or 'no.

  • To remain under such undeserved reproach was wretched, but to make her suffer by justifying himself was worse still.

  • The more attentively Kitty watched her unknown friend, the more convinced she was this girl was the perfect creature she fancied her, and the more eagerly she wished to make her acquaintance.

  • At that moment she knew beyond doubt that he had come early on purpose to find her alone and to make her an offer.

  • From henceforward it will not be in my power to make her welcome at Plumstead.

  • But Lotte's object is to make her put it off,' said Bertie.

  • And as it happened, this was the way to make her tell me more about it.

  • I had not told my sister, of course, what was toward; for why should I make her anxious?

  • Then I stood up and touched her hand, and tried to make her look at me; but she only turned away the more.

  • She oughter consent; I'll make her consent!

  • He was sure that Angelo would not make her unhappier.

  • Much to their surprise he said yes, that was just the sort of wife for him, and if Katharine were handsome and rich, he himself would undertake soon to make her good-tempered.


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