Admirers

Examples

• Had he succeeded in making his escape in any disguise it would have been adjudged a good thing afterwards by his admirers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had admirers without end. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She is a very pretty girl and has attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• If her admirers only _told_ her that she was an angel, she would let them _treat_ her like an idiot. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A man so wise and so amiable could not but have many admirers and many friends. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Amy always fixed herself near enough to me to see what I was about, and try to charm away some of my admirers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He shall see me merry, and surrounded with handsome admirers, if I am to die the next hour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Becky had a dozen admirers in his place, to be sure, and could cut her rival to pieces with her wit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Every time she has leave to visit Mrs. Cholmondeley she calls here, and whenever she finds me alone she begins to talk about her admirers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In the time to come, I shall have a wary eye on all admirers; and shall exact a great deal from the successful one, I assure you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Lucy was besides extremely pretty; so when she grew to be sixteen, it was to be supposed, notwithstanding her poverty, that she should have admirers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I had no difficulty in deducing from your unreserved conversation, and the rumour openly going about among your admirers, the nature of your calling. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As to admirers, you hardly know what they are; you can't even talk on the subject: you sit dumb when the other teachers quote their conquests. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I _am_ pretty; _you_ can't deny that; I may have as many admirers as I choose. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We are Sir Percival's friends, and if generosity and forbearance can add to our regard for him, we ought to be Sir Percival's admirers as well. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Both were great admirers of poetry, and began to try their hands in little pieces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Yet many admirers have been left with a sense of inadequacy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Even chronic admirers of the balance and symmetry of the Constitution admit either by word or deed that it did not foresee the whole history of the American people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Cyril Hall was their pope, infallible to them as Dr. Thomas Boultby to his admirers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Have you had any other admirers? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And into these discussions this man came, a clumsy and slovenly figure, barefooted, gathering about him a band of admirers and disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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