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Example sentences for "pretty fellow"

  • She could act admirably as a Devonshire lass, a pretty fellow, or a fine lady.

  • You're a pretty fellow to stand guard," he remarked to his cousin the next morning, after the men had gone to the wood again.

  • I hope he is a pretty fellow, and can turn a merry quip and tell a story.

  • You will look a pretty fellow, in all conscience, when you have added a peruke to your other adornments.

  • Grey Dumaresq, you are a pretty fellow and a pleasant comrade; but you shall never be suffered to stand in the light of Sandford's hopes and plans and desires.

  • I thought he would turn out a pretty fellow.

  • A pretty fellow, you, with a long coat on your back, and no English on your tongue; an’t you ashamed of yourself?

  • A pretty fellow you, with a long coat on your back and no English on your tongue, an’t you ashamed of yourself?

  • Charming as he was, and without any manner of doubt a pretty fellow, Jocasta hath such a regiment of the like continually marching round her standard, that 'tis no wonder her attention is distracted amongst them.

  • To kiss that hand would make many a pretty fellow happy!

  • But you're a pretty fellow, ain't you, to crow over me?

  • You're a pretty fellow to go bush-riding," grumbled Lumley.

  • You're a pretty fellow to go bushranging.

  • He was a handsome fellow certainly, though not so tall or so handsome as Lord Chudleigh: his features were smaller and his air less distinguished; but still a pretty fellow.

  • And yet she refuses Harry Temple, a pretty fellow, though studious, and a man whom any of us, gentlewomen born, would be glad to encourage.

  • He is a pretty fellow, my dear," she said, "though of position too exalted for one so humble as myself.

  • Charming as he was, and without any manner of doubt a pretty fellow, Jocasta hath such a regiment of the like continually marching round her standard, that ’tis no wonder her attention is distracted amongst them.

  • But the ladies loved him, and he was undoubtedly a pretty fellow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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