To a narrow circle of the best men within his class he became a personal friend, whose inspiration led them on to the deepest original researches.
The patricians of Venice were proud to consider him as a personal friend, and to the Venetian Senate he owed his professorship at Padua.
Under the special guidance of Mayer, who besides being his teacher was a personal friend, he applied himself zealously to the study of anatomy.
I pointed out that no criticism could be made of Mr. Lincoln, and that since he was my personal friend I could not very well oppose him.
I regard him as my personal friend, and was very glad indeed to support his candidacy for the Presidency in 1908, I being chairman of the Illinois delegation to the Chicago convention that year.
To have a personal friend of the wearer of two crowns burst in at the gate in the deep dusk of the evening & say, in a voice broken with tears, "My God!
He loved flowers--not as the embryo botanist or gardener, but as a personal friend.
He is a personal friend of mine, but that is nothing to the point; his history would move me to say these things without that, and I feel them, too.
Early the next morning Rush Sloane, a personal friend, rapped at my door and announced to me the news of the assassination of Lincoln, and, as then reported, that of Seward.
I have no desire to dignify this by asking an investigation, but only to say to you privately, as a personal friend, that I court, rather than fear, such an inquiry.
The Democratic candidate, Barnabus Burns, was a personal friend, and sympathized with me on many subjects.
Among the letters received by me was one from Mr. Thorpe, a member from Ashtabula county, Ohio, and a personal friend.
He is a personal friend of mine, but that is nothing to the point, his history would move me to say these things without that, and I feel them too.
Before President Garfield was interred, General Grant asked that his own personal friend, General Beale, might be appointed Secretary of the Navy, and he never forgave President Arthur for not complying with his request.
Prominent as an adopted citizen of Washington and as a personal friend of President Adams was Dr.
About Tennyson he agreed with the rest of the world, while Tennyson, who was a personal friend, paid him the great compliment of taking from him the subject of a poem and the material of a play.
Skelton's own testimony is worth citing, for, though a personal friend, he was a true scholar.
But then Green was Freeman's personal friend, and in friendship Freeman was staunch.
In April my military colleague in the Viceroy's Council for five years, and my personal friend, General Sir George Chesney, left India, to my great regret.
He had been a member of the Court-Martial which tried the pandit, and, though a Brahmin himself, had given his vote in favour of the prisoner being hanged; moreover he was a personal friend of all the officers.
I had received the sad intelligence of her death through the 'Christian Register' before the memorial reached me, and it was like the shock of learning of the death of a personal friend.
Putnam was a young man then, less than thirty-three years old, passionately devoted to Daniel Webster, and a personal friend of Millard Fillmore.
Nor is my tribute that of a personal friend--as such my place would not be here in the pulpit, but in position with the mourners, amongst those who most deeply and genuinely feel a sense of personal loss.
As a personal friend of Archbishop Bruchesi, Mr. Smith was frequently consulted in the church’s temporal affairs.
His father, Lieutenant Colonel Bagg, was a Tory and a personal friend of the late Sir John A.
As President of the Society he addressed the father of the Suez Canal, in French, and congratulated him upon the completion of his great undertaking, not only in a public capacity, but "as a personal friend.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, who had been so intimately associated with the education and early life of the Prince, and who was destined to always possess the privileges of a personal friend.
As a personal friend of the Prince of Wales it was fitting that they should meet at Suez, where the new Viceroy came on board.
If Lord Randolph Churchill was a personal friend so also was Lord Rosebery, or Mr. Balfour.
Great-grandfather a personal friendof Alexander Hamilton's, and all that.
It seemed an eminently fitting and proper tribute to the great-grandson of the man who had been a personal friend of Alexander Hamilton's.
At Nancy, Bassompierre, as the representative of the King of France and a personal friend of Charles III of Lorraine, was received with great honour and very sumptuously lodged and entertained.
Mr. John Palmer, a personal friend of the Serampore men, had advanced them money at ten per cent.
The garden with its tropical glories and more modest exotics, every one of which was as a personal friend, and to him had an individual history, was more than a place of recreation.
Thus Mr. Ogilvie, the Dominion Surveyor and a personal friend of mine, told me that he went into one of the richest claims one day and asked to be allowed to wash out a panful of gold.
The General is a personal friend of the Emperor, and the cross of St. Andrew and a tunic covered with various orders bore witness to their wearer's distinguished career.
But at Vitimsk I was destined to come across not only an Englishman but a personal friend.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal friend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
