Recommendations
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Examples
- 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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