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Example sentences for "certain great"

  • He had another son by a Greek concubine, whom he committed to the guardianship of a certain great admiral.

  • It appears by the newspapers, that the foundation of a certain great house in Pall Mall is rotten, and giving-way.

  • In a certain great assembly, of which you are a distinguished member, panegyrics on your private virtues have so often wounded your delicacy, that we shall not distress you with anything on the subject.

  • I am so apt to a lapsus linguæ, that I sometimes think the character of a certain great man I have read of somewhere is very much apropos to myself--that he was a compound of great talents and great folly.

  • It was to recall to my mind that he desired to learn whether a certain great enterprise of his will succeed, the details of which he says thou canst tell me.

  • In the processions which were made on certain great feasts he held his crosier, and, if he were a mitred abbot, he wore his mitre: this was also his parliamentary costume.

  • When the abbot celebrated high mass on certain great festivals he wore the full episcopal costume.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bringing about; certain amount; certain cases; certain class; certain conditions; certain days; certain depth; certain directions; certain forms; certain fungi; certain laws; certain line; certain moments; certain part; certain place; certain point; certain portion; certain proportion; certain quarters; certain seasons; certain small; certain times; certain value; certain village; medieval times; specialized tanker