Visitors

Examples

• He knew that Mrs. Reggie didn't object to her visitors' suddenly changing their minds, and that there was always a room to spare in her elastic house. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The doors of Skuytercliff were rarely and grudgingly opened to visitors, and a chilly week-end was the most ever offered to the few thus privileged. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Has Sir Leicester had any visitors this morning? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The young lady was astonished to find visitors at the gate, and expressed her feelings in appropriate action. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Last of our visitors, there was Mr. Jellyby. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But some of the visitors alighted and did not depart after the handsome treating to veal and ham. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Always this room for visitors; haven't you, Lizzie dear? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With Cavalletto and Pancks away, he had no visitors to fear but Mr and Mrs Plornish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On the next day we left Fulham for a quiet town on the south coaSt. At that early season of the year we were the only visitors in the place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Behave yourself to visitors, my lady! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have not counted Mr. Woodcourt among our visitors because he was now Caddy's regular attendant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When our illustrious visitors had departed Holmes lit his pipe in silence and sat for some time lost in the deepest thought. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The only visitors I ever saw, or heard of, were creditors. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Sometimes we went up to London, and entered into the amusements of the busy throng; sometimes our retreat was invaded by visitors from among them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is time to think of our visitors, said Maria, still feeling her hand pressed to Henry Crawford's heart, and caring little for anything else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A nephew whom they had brought up was a frequent visitor at the house, among many other visitors; and he began to pay me attention. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This lady received the visitors with a mixture of ceremony and diffidence quite English. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The visitors stopped a long time. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The preparations for the reception of visitors appeared to be completed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She treated you as it is her pleasure to treat visitors now and then. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their visitors were not to remain above ten days with them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We came to her like visitors from heaven itself; her high-wrought courage; her hardly sustained firmness, fled with the appearance of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I had to come up the island to see about a horse, and I drove over on a chance of finding Mrs. Blenker and your visitors. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But her conclusion was false; for on the very morning after their arrival at Lambton, these visitors came. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The old lady relaxes, consents to the admission of the visitors as a favour, and dismisses Rosa. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I do not encourage visitors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And if Mr Clennam was one of our visitors, and we were dancing to delightful music, and were all as gay and light-hearted as ever we could be! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That the visitors I have alluded to have been here this morning to make money of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typist: Preston