Example Sentences

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And in this time she proved one of his most bountiful benefactors; and he as grateful an acknowledger of it.

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak

And I have absolutely no valid, no sound, excuse to make but that I am like that!—I mean I am an abandonedly bad writer of letters and acknowledger of kindnesses.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry