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Example sentences for "respectable family"

  • Yet there are a few private rooms which contain a table surrounded with benches, in which a respectable family or a few friends can enjoy themselves in a decent way.

  • He appears to have given up the naval profession on his marriage with Miss Ann Machardy, a young lady resident in Exeter, but of Scottish origin, being a member of a respectable family in the county of Aberdeen.

  • Although educated in a manner which rendered him fit to mix in the best society of the day, he took up his residence in the district of Lochaber, where, in a short time, he was married to a lady of respectable family.

  • I next come to the male servants: there are more than a half-dozen of them in a respectable family, and their services are in the main confined to the outer apartment of the household.

  • One of these bore reference to the reception with which a respectable family, that had been recommended to his notice by some common friend in England, was greeted on its arrival at the island.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came running; common fire; comparative mythology; constituent part; crumpled horn; drive back; first journey; for thy; great flocks; laboured under; many pictures; more modern; more than; respectable family; respectable woman; rudimentary organs; search after; seated myself; still found; surely enough; that question; wild thyme; yield obedience