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Example sentences for "this child"

  • In this child I lived, breathed, and had my being, until later events startled my individuality once more into its old currents of existence.

  • But this girl, this child-woman--or was she rather woman-child?

  • I don't know exactly," confessed she, as if it were a small matter.

  • As she did not wish to risk another descent, she continued to sort out the eggs.

  • He was enthusiastic--cunning Burlingham, who knew so well how to get the best out of everyone!

  • The sight of this child is a horror to him; even the tyranny which he exercises over her excites him and disorders his nerves.

  • First, because he is the living portrait of his mother, and then because he doubts, perhaps, if this child is really his son.

  • Count Kostia, you make a mistake--this child is really yours.

  • This child is perfectly beautiful," said she; "to-morrow I mean to dress her up and have her likeness taken.

  • When she came, I said, "This child is very sick.

  • How He has smitten me by means of this child, He well knows.

  • I dare not weary you with words which all seem a mockery; I can only assure you of my tenderest love and sympathy, and that we all feel with and for you as only those can who know what this child was to you.

  • Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign that shall be spoken against.

  • This child, with his innocent outlook upon life, was the compass that showed them the point to which they had departed from what they knew, but did not want to know.

  • This child's presence always and infallibly called up in Vronsky that strange feeling of inexplicable loathing which he had experienced of late.

  • I took to this child--I could not myself say why.

  • Such and so strange were the thoughts that floated through the mind of this child of twelve years old.

  • Such were the tendencies of this child's mind--ever toward the melancholy and the beautiful united.

  • What then do you mean by affirming that there can be no secular education of this child--apart from religious teaching?

  • This child's head is goin' under water anyhow!

  • This child was an epileptic and had frequent attacks of falling, when she injured herself, once having fallen in this way against a hot stove.

  • Both the father and mother were still young at the birth of this child.

  • This child was a foundling, and was adopted by people whose family was broken up by death when she was about 6 years old.

  • Certainly, if Mrs. Bowen were to marry again, there was nothing in this child's looks to suggest the idea of a predecessor to the second husband.

  • The experienced and sophisticated man--for that in no ill way was what Colville was--felt himself on trial for his honour and his manhood by this simple girl, this child.

  • What I am most anxious for is not to take a shadow of advantage of this child's--of Imogene's inexperience, and her remoteness from her family.

  • Then you mean to say that you believe I've been trifling with the feelings of this child?

  • How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child!

  • And, moreover, is there not a quality of awful sacredness in the relation between this mother and this child?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    minister unto; this and; this battle; this bird; this department; this description; this event; this gentleman; this great; this line; this measure; this month; this neighbourhood; this one; this our; this period; this poor; this question; this regard; this river; this school; this side; this species; this term; this time; this truth