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Example sentences for "pleasant surprise"

  • Mrs. Dean had placed it on the rack above the keyboard directly in front of Marjorie's open exercise book, with a view toward giving her a pleasant surprise.

  • I expected she'd make a fuss, and for once she gave me a pleasant surprise.

  • Mignon had, indeed, been treated to a pleasant surprise.

  • Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise.

  • It has produced a pleasant surprise, as I can testify, for I have experienced it myself.

  • The association is infelicitous, and consequently it does not produce a 'pleasant surprise.

  • But it doesn't produce a pleasant surprise," Madge objected.

  • Of the meteorological lessons of our youth, we especially recalled at that moment the frequent northerly winds off the coast of Portugal, and as a pleasant surprise we already had them far up in the Bay.

  • This was a pleasant surprise to us; we had thus not only found the very summit of the plateau, but also the slope down on the far side.

  • On the 29th the weather became calmer and the sun shone -- a pleasant surprise.

  • I said something more about the “pleasant surprise,” and was positive that no bank officer of my degree had so fine an establishment.

  • Not only to give you a pleasant surprise, but to save you all trouble and anxiety, I have hired the house and furnished it.

  • I had informed her in the beginning about the “pleasant surprise” I was preparing for my wife.

  • Perhaps I persuaded myself into the belief, under the necessities of the occasion, that I was hiring and furnishing the English basement house as a pleasant surprise to Lilian.

  • It is a pleasant surprise to find it smoothly re-surfaced--an excellent highway now, though in its windings across the fells it carries us over some steep grades.

  • The Bayerischer-Hof proves a pleasant surprise; one of the cleanest, brightest and best-conducted inns we have found anywhere.

  • The Hotel St. Louis et de la Poste at Autun does not present a very attractive exterior, but it proves a pleasant surprise and we are hungry enough to do justice to an excellent luncheon, having breakfasted in Dijon at five o'clock.

  • We stop at a country inn in the village of Prun for luncheon, which proves excellent--a pleasant surprise, for the inn is anything but prepossessing in appearance.

  • I wanted to give you a pleasant surprise," he replied.

  • O Mamita Lila," exclaimed she, "I have had such a pleasant surprise!

  • I couldn't have dreamed you were planning such a pleasant surprise for me.

  • Only, as I have said, she kept the contents a dead secret, in order that one day they might be a pleasant surprise to you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot consent; chamois leather; constantly increasing; could guess; failing health; head down; judicial procedure; long enough; nor does; pleasant enough; pleasant evening; pleasant flavor; pleasant journey; pleasant little; pleasant place; pleasant sight; pleasant surprise; pleasant voice; pleasant weather; pleasantly situated; promised myself; sweet butter; things must; trench warfare; who happened; would perhaps