recommendatory

Example Sentences

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But the singer says he isn't through with the recommendatory sciences.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 8, 2010

Dr. Franklin has given me a pass, and recommendatory letter to the famous Mr. West.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

The recommendatory preface of the editor, who was then believed, and is now affirmed by Dr. Maty, to be the earl of Chesterfield, raised strong prejudices in their favour.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

It was simply a recommendatory letter sent with Onesimus, returning voluntarily to Colosse and his master.

From Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Allen, Isaac

Now, veteran asylums have many things recommendatory about them, but from Greenwich and the Invalides downwards there is one especial vice that clings to them—they are haunts of everlasting complaint.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James