recommended

A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.

I should myself have recommended the match, had not the noble marquis anticipated my wishes by requesting my consent to it.’”

It was thought reliance might be placed in General Quesnel; he was recommended to us from the Island of Elba; one of us went to him, and invited him to the Rue Saint-Jacques, where he would find some friends.

The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.