Visits

Examples

• The two visits had stirred her into restlessness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I had also sometimes the honour of attending my master in his visits to others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He made me a prettily-turnedneatly-worded apology, about the ghost-visits, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• After every one of her visits (and oh how glad she was when they were over! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But when I had made these three visits, my guardian said to me, on my return at night, Now, little woman, little woman, this will never do. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Those eyes had looked on the visits of a certain ghost--had long waited the comings and goings of that strangest spectre, Hypochondria. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Lord Byron paid me frequent visits; but I really cannot recollect whether it was just at this period or later in that year or the next. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In those six years I had never been away except on visits at holiday time in the neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Not a stranger, reader; she is known to me by sight; she visits at the Rue Fossette: she is often of Madame Beck's Sunday parties. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Her visits there, beginning by chance, were continued by solicitation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Days were passed in parleys, visits, preparations. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Samaritan and Jew, Moslem and Christian alike, revere it, and honor it with their visits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A lady whom I don't know, because she never visits here, though I see her every Sunday at church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No, madam, my visits to Hartfield have been for yourself only; and the encouragement I received Encouragement! Jane Austen. Emma.
• In some visits to the Jumble his attention had been attracted to this boy Hexam. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She paid her visits--first to Miss Mann, for this was the most difficult point. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Commission informs us that this small group alone receives over fifteen thousand visits a day--five million and a half in the year. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If he can see the Diamond through the iron safe of the bank at Frizinghall, we shall be troubled with no more visits from the Indians for the present. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You may be sure I shall not encourage any more of their visits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And therefore, I remarked, you suffered him to continue his visits as usual? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The school gossiped, the kitchen whispered, the town caught the rumourparents wrote letters and paid visits of remonstrance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She informs me that she makes one of her professional visits here, every year, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The visits of these latter machines to London and the east of England became systematic after the summer of 1917. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In order that these visits might be visits of state, Mrs Boffin's equipage was ordered out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Thornton came occasionally, but his visits were addressed to her father, and were confined to the study. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Therefore we are inclined so far to accede to Mr. Copperfield's proposal, as to admit his visits here. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Typist: Preston