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Example sentences for "able general"

  • It was absolutely necessary to send a strong army and an able general to Spain; and Pompeius indicated, very plainly, that he desired, or rather demanded, this commission.

  • The Consul Metellus, who was an able general and a man of the strictest integrity, landed in Africa, with Marius as his lieutenant, in B.

  • He was evidently ambitious of the fame of a conqueror, and possessed many of the qualities of an able general.

  • Cæsar freely exposed his own person in the first line of the battle, and discharged alike the duties of a brave soldier and an able general.

  • Epaminondas was both an able general and an eminent statesman.

  • Such was the end of an able general and an honest man, one who should have lived two hundred years earlier, when Rome was still a free state.

  • But Wallenstein, the emperor's able general, proved more than a match for the Danish king, who at length withdrew from the contest.

  • He was by no means equal to the elder Scipio, although he was an able general and an accomplished man.

  • M524) The war party triumphed, and Cleon, by no means an able general, was sent with an expedition to recover Amphipolis, B.

  • Half the troops, under an able general, would have overwhelmed the Macedonian army, even with Alexander at the head.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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