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Example sentences for "person who"

  • One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

  • A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

  • A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.

  • A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.

  • I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

  • The time had at length arrived; two feet of earth removed, and Dantes' fate would be decided.

  • If he says true," said the captain doubtingly.

  • The stranger thus presenting himself was probably a person who, like Franz, preferred the enjoyment of solitude and his own thoughts to the frivolous gabble of the guides.

  • The count bowed with the air of a person who hears a name for the first time.

  • The young girl then continued, speaking slowly, like a person who is either inventing or suppressing some feature of the history which he is relating.

  • However, I think that a person who speculates in snakes is a fool, anyway.

  • He then answers properly to Miss Gordon Cumming's flash-light picture of him--as a person who is dressed in "a turban and a pocket handkerchief.

  • Will a person who has no conscience, or a person whose conscience can be set at rest by immoral sophistry, hesitate to repeat any phrase that you can dictate?

  • A person who, in the time of Diocletian, joined in celebrating the Christian mysteries might reasonably be supposed to be a firm believer in Christ.

  • No person who had a natural interest in the Princess could observe without uneasiness the strange infatuation which made her the slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.

  • To conclude generally, I should say she learns nothing like a person who is being educated, but she learns like one who is to educate--not like a pupil, but like a future teacher.

  • If we meet a person who is under an obligation to us, we remember it immediately.

  • I know of a situation for which he is perfectly suited, and I shall be doing the greatest favor to a friend of mine, a man of high rank, by recommending to him a person who is so exactly everything which he desires.

  • The New-Englander is a person who is always just about to be warm and comfortable.

  • Columbus was evidently a person who liked to sail about, and did n't care much for consequences.

  • He may build a monument to himself in some institution, but we do not know enough of the world to which he has gone to know whether a tiny monument on this earth is any satisfaction to a person who is free of the universe.

  • He is a person who appears to have given a decided preference to the method of oral communication as a means of effecting his objects.

  • A person who belonged to the Court, and was silly enough to give this report credit, wishing to visit Petit Trianon with a party, wrote to M.

  • Michonnis, a member of the municipality, in whom she had excited a warm interest, was desirous of introducing to her a person who, he said, wished to see her out of curiosity.

  • A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

  • An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

  • A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.

  • All at once Favourite made a movement, like a person who is just waking up.

  • The host unfolded it eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply.

  • She raised her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who is reeling.

  • A person who is seated instead of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that.

  • Our walk was so directed that we could see through the colonnade every person who arrived up the avenue.

  • She introduced the young man as a person who had a great desire to make our heroine's acquaintance, and as a cousin of Arthur Townsend, her own intended.

  • When she was younger they had been rather afraid of her; she was believed, as the phrase is, to be highly educated, and a person who lived in the intimacy of their Aunt Penniman had something of reflected grandeur.

  • Not me, certainly, miss; though I must say he is a hundred times more polite to a person who has no longer extreme youth to recommend her than most of the young men.

  • On Buying Old Books By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person who, on a visit to a strange city, makes for a bookshop.

  • There is a kind of person who is steeped too much in valor.

  • To an Unknown Reader Once in a while I dream that I come upon a person who is reading a book that I have written.

  • A person who goes in at one door of a church, and out at the other, without stopping.

  • He played up old gooseberry among them; said of a person who.

  • Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attempting to pump him.

  • A spruce wench; a gimcrack also means a person who has a turn for mechanical contrivances.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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