Recommendation

Examples

• The Department may have either originated, or confirmed, a Minute making that recommendation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Gurth thanked the Captain for his courtesy, and promised to attend to his recommendation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I said, or tried to say, that I was much obliged to him for his recommendation-- No, my young friend! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• That won't do, Lord Alvanly, said I; really, that is no introduction, and less recommendation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• These changes were all made on my recommendation and without hesitation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We saved our recommendation, honest fellow,' said Eugene, 'for the next candidate--the one who will offer himself when you are transported or hanged. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I wish you'd leave Milton; which is a most unsuitable place for you, though it was my recommendation in the first instance. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I repel a recommendation so offensive, was the answer, delivered in the same pure key, with the same clear look. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Smith, who had been promoted to the rank of major-general shortly after the battle of Chattanooga on my recommendation, had not yet been confirmed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But it is mere impertinence in me to offer any recommendation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I must confess it is a recommendation to me. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And then you demand whether I will support you by my authority in giving you letters of recommendation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• How does the recommendation of a stringent and uniform law fit in with these three statements? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These recommendations, however, availed nothing with Mr. Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There are almost a hundred recommendations to various authorities--Federal, State, county, city, police, educational and others. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had brought no recommendations from Boston; his supply of money was reduced to one Dutch dollar and a shilling in cop per. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And as to its recommendations to _you_, I fancy I need not take much pains to dwell on them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Her introductions and recommendations must all wait, and every projected party be still only talked of. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She knew that he saw such recommendations in Harriet; he had dwelt on them to her more than once. Jane Austen. Emma.
• How many of these recommendations see sex as an instinct which can be transmuted, and turned into one of the values of life? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They saw him often, and to his other recommendations was now added that of general unreserve. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She is pliable, and I can be strong in my recommendations of him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The character of observing such a conduct is the most powerful of recommendations to new employments and increase of business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She might have added that her plain aspect, homely, precise dress, and phlegmatic, unattractive manner were to her so many additional recommendations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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