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Example sentences for "short visit"

  • The second is Mr. George Bartram, nephew of the Admiral, and now staying on a short visit in the house at German Place.

  • It was a short visit, and a sad leave-taking.

  • When she asks what I wanted with you this morning, tell her I came to say good-by for a few days, finding my niece not so well again, and wishing to take her on a short visit to some friends to try change of air.

  • They left us after a short visit, and at half-past nine A.

  • Let us now cross the Rocky Mountains, and make a short visit in British Columbia.

  • Let us make a short visit to a cotton plantation "down south.

  • On my return to Poitiers from a short visit to the little city of Airvault, the cradle of my ancestors, I turned my steps toward Toulouse, where I arrived this morning.

  • For this purpose, in the May of the year 1779, she set out for Münster, intending to pay only a short visit.

  • Mr. Charles Yorke, whom they respected, had married a native of Seaton, and had two or three times honored that town with a short visit.

  • Probably; after a short visit to the deck to see that all is going right there.

  • Connected with the business that kept me and Mr. Brandon in town, was a short visit made us by the Squire.

  • Don't you think a short visit to Droitwich would do you good, Ellin?

  • Ever hopeful, sunny-tempered Jack, had reached the Rectory the previous night to make a short visit.

  • I had the pleasure in November of paying a short visit to the wise and good Bishop of Newport, for a church-opening at Cardiff.

  • Then comes dinner, which he always takes alone, then a short visit to the Princess of the Austurias, and at twelve sharp he gets into his carriage and drives to the hunting-grounds.

  • I asked her if I could pay her a short visit, and begged her to send a reply while I was taking my dinner.

  • At first he wanted to stay a fortnight at Rome, and then to return to Leghorn; but his friend Lord Baltimore, who had come to Rome in the meanwhile, persuaded him to pay a short visit to Naples.

  • They then paid a short visit to the bride's mother, who lived in the country, after which it was settled that Tchaikovsky should go alone to Kamenka, while his wife prepared the new home in Moscow.

  • Late in February Tchaikovsky went to St. Petersburg for a short visit.

  • So it was not difficult to persuade my daughter that a short visit to that city was the next step to be taken.

  • She was very anxious to see me, and as I was now nearly well it was determined that she should be permitted to pay me a short visit.

  • Butts heard that he had once made a short visit to this young man, at his rooms in the University.

  • Immediately after the adjournment of Congress, Washington paid a short visit to Mount Vernon.

  • After the rising of Congress, Washington made a short visit to Mount Vernon.

  • In the end of May the Prince started for a short visit to Germany, with the double intention of getting a glimpse of his daughter, and revisiting his country for the first time after thirteen years absence.

  • Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse spent the winter with the Queen in England, and in the month of November Princess Alexandra of Denmark paid a short visit to her Majesty, when the Princess's youthful beauty and sweetness won all hearts.

  • In July the Court again paid a short visit to Osborne, that the Queen's health might be recruited before the baptism of the little Princess.

  • I shall know the particulars from Governor Monroe, whom I expect to meet in a short visit I must make home, to select some books, &c.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short visit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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