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Example sentences for "spoiled child"

  • He sat there looking at the letter, long after he had finished reading it; there was nothing of the petulance of a spoiled child in this simple, this heartbroken farewell.

  • Ah, your English doesn't go so far as that; you don't know what a spoiled child is?

  • He made Arno out a gloomy woman-hater, and called me a spoiled child.

  • How entirely unnecessary had been Lucie's fear of the "wayward, spoiled child"!

  • Now, confess honestly that you think me a spoiled child, or rather do not confess it, or we shall be sure to quarrel.

  • I remember he regarded me simply as a spoiled child.

  • A spoiled child, who hasn't the least business out of the school-room yet," mentally decides the visitor.

  • I am going to tell you something," she said, with her pretty air of a spoiled child.

  • She is a spoiled child," she said, "but we humor her all we can, for hers is a sad fate.

  • He was a spoiled child of fortune, if you wish to have it so.

  • His harsh, blustering voice softened perceptibly, and he spoke in a wheedling tone, such as one might employ in the effort to tranquillize a spoiled child in a fit of temper.

  • While her father and Allan had been exchanging civilities, she had been putting the writing-table in order, and examining the various objects scattered on it with the unrestrained curiosity of a spoiled child.

  • We will let Mrs. Armadale see the bubbles," continued the doctor, in the tone of a parent humoring a spoiled child.

  • These latter, like some other perversities, suggest reactions of a petulant, spoiled child.

  • This resentment against interference again reminds us of the reactions of a spoiled child.

  • I expressed my annoyance in plain terms; but this ebullition on my part was most probably considered a specimen of girlish caprice, or the airs of a spoiled child.

  • It was then that she showed the temper and the spirit of a spoiled child, and declared that she would follow the dictates of her own mind in preference to every other consideration.

  • I would rather be a kitten in the arms of a spoiled child, to be one moment petted and pampered, and the next moment thumped over the head with the spoon.

  • I therefore experienced the fate of a spoiled child in such situation, and was neglected or noticed only to be crossed and contradicted.

  • My mother died; and my power as a spoiled child was at an end.

  • I exclaimed, indignantly, "you are as capricious as a spoiled child.

  • She looked at us with a pleased face, and said it was well to be a spoiled child like me.

  • You were a spoiled child, certainly; but you have got over that.

  • Everything tells you that the idol of your heart is a collection of caprices and follies, but she is a spoiled child, whom you can not help but love.

  • That is not love, it is a liking for a moment, it is to transform a lover into a spoiled child.

  • Because he is five years older than I am he treats me like a little girl, and to-day he told me I was a spoiled child.

  • But, even supposing he should not change, you yourself will alter, and when you are no longer a spoiled child, he will not call you such.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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