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Example sentences for "good general"

  • On the general problem of the possibility of physical treatment it will be noted that a considerable share of all our cases were in good general condition.

  • It is notable that a large percentage of our mentally normal cases are in good general condition.

  • Physically, we found John to be in good general condition.

  • But though Crassus had good fortune, and not only did the part of a good general, but gallantly exposed his person, yet Pompey had much of the credit of the action.

  • You have lost only a good general, we both a general and our liberty.

  • The difficulty of always selecting a good general has led to the formation of a good general staff, which being near the general may advise him, and thus exercise a beneficial influence over the operations.

  • Finally, He will be a good general in whom are found united the requisite personal characteristics and a thorough knowledge of the principles of the art of war.

  • Then whosoever is a good rhapsode, is also a good general?

  • But you do maintain, that whosoever is a good rhapsode, is also a good general?

  • And of course, whoever is a good general, is also a good rhapsode?

  • The educational standard of this examination, for both men and women, is so low that it appears to be designed, not for the purpose of selecting candidates of good general education, but merely to eliminate the illiterate.

  • It is said that when some persons in society were praising a man who was thought to be a good general, PhilopÅ“men said, "How can you think that man worth consideration, who was taken by his enemy alive.

  • For you have only lost a good general, while we have lost that, and our liberty too, since how can we ever have the heart to ask you for another general, after not giving you your Pelopidas back.

  • It was very much as if Congress had said: "Good General, bring in the Atlantic tides and drown the enemy; or pluck the moon from the sky and give it to us, as a mark of your loyalty.

  • The principle carried out in France is that special military education should not be begun until a comparatively late age, and should be founded upon a groundwork of good general education in civil schools.

  • They must pass an examination in the common subjects of a good general education, such as the sons of well-born or wealthy civilians may be supposed to receive.

  • I only stopped an hour or two, and climbed to the top of a rock through the common underbrush, whence I had a good general view.

  • Leaving the Indians in charge of the canoe, I managed to climb to the top of the wall by a good deal of step-cutting between the ice and dividing rock, and gained a good general view of the glacier.

  • Still there was a chance, and it was the part of a good general to take this chance, and cut out as much work as possible for the enemy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good because; good chance; good circumstances; good citizenship; good color; good confession; good crops; good deal; good education; good fight; good food; good knowledge; good library; good one; good prince; good record; good seed; good sirs; good sized; good spirits; good trade; goodly company; goodness knows; hard time; quit their; rich man