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Example sentences for "old friends"

  • It was not until Ayling had begun to ask Chedsey for news of old friends, and chanced almost at once to mention Lonsdale, that both he and the old waiter exclaimed in the same breath, "Major Lonsdale!

  • He lit one, and they fell into the easy silence of old friends, taking up their friendship exactly where it had been broken off.

  • I wanted both the police and Larry's old friends to know the truth at first hand--and clear him before I went away.

  • They will drop the hunt here and telegraph the Chicago police, And of course the news will leak through to my old friends, and they'll also stop looking for me in New York.

  • An opportune double knock at the door, which I knew well from old experience in Windsor Terrace, and which nobody but Mr. Micawber could ever have knocked at that door, resolved any doubt in my mind as to their being my old friends.

  • I found it pleasant to watch the Harwoods, who are, as may have been surmised, old friends of mine.

  • So they went on and found other deer; but Ruddy was gone, as old Bunny had said, and Aunt Yeld alone remained of the Stag's old friends.

  • There were plenty of young deer of his own age to keep him company, and Aunt Yeld and Ruddy's little daughter were still left for old friends.

  • I say, Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offence.

  • He said that you should have remembered old friends!

  • But I am clear in wishing heartily to keep my old friends, and for them to love my future wife for my sake.

  • Of course we were obliged to go down to lunch, and then I saw my old friends, and renewed pleasant acquaintances.

  • Moncure, and two sons, of Stafford--old friends.

  • As you return call for a few minutes on my old friends, the Bowens.

  • The stages were running with such rapidity, however, that it was impossible to call, as I wished, upon my old friends, Dr.

  • As Roman Catholics, and as old friends of Romayne, the Lorings naturally rejoiced in his conversion.

  • But as old friends also of Romayne's wife, they were bound not to express their sentiments too openly.

  • She has only stipulated that Lord and Lady Loring (old friends) shall be present.

  • You are mistaken entirely," replied Wilton, "in regard to my not wishing to see my old friends.

  • An hour later Gray resumed his walk to Liverpool Street, a member of the Society of Old Friends.

  • It was the glorious morning that made me feel like it; and when I came in and saw all my old friends looking so happy--there, I beg your pardon.

  • We're old friends of his, and we've come to see him.

  • I'm secretary to the 'Old Friends' Society,' at sixty pounds a year.

  • All constraint disappeared between us, and, had he so desired, I might have confided in him as one confides only in old friends.

  • I beheld one of my old friends, Henri Sidoine, whom I had not seen for ten years.

  • And why had my old friends, the steuerrath and the born Kippenreiter, seemed so much disturbed!

  • These were my old friends, the weather-beaten, tobacco-chewing, silent men of Zanowitz and the other fishing villages on the coast.

  • We went a little after ten and thought we would be among the first, but the rooms were already full--quantities of people (not many of my old friends) and splendid jewels.

  • I met of course quantities of old friends, and agreed to go to Lottie Van Schaick's ball.

  • I was delighted to see the Stanze again with many old friends.

  • I met quantities of old friends, and made a tour de valse with Carlo Alessandri for the sake of old times.

  • You've made up your mind to cut Joe off from all his old friends, including me.

  • Fuddlestone, old friends of the house, wouldn't sit on the bench with Sir Pitt at Quarter Sessions, and cut him dead in the High Street of Southampton, where the reprobate stood offering his dirty old hands to them.

  • He might be able to give her interesting news from that capital, and of some of Miss Crawley's old friends of the emigration, to whom she had shown so much kindness during their distress.

  • The landlady might well regret those old, old friends, who had left her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    festival days; great heat; hand grenades; hour they; much water; old acquaintance; old age; old and; old enough; old friend; old friends; old lady; old man; old time; old times; old woman; olden days; olden times; older brother; open circuit; promote the; remarkable passage; shine forth; social organization; special attention; would have been more