The plan was on a grand scale, and, as far as related to Napoleon in person, was executed, to the extreme discomfiture of the allies, with his usual success.
Nor to our thinking would it have been bridged but for the creation of 'immunities' upon a grand scale.
Certainly this will account for much, and we have reason to believe that this disturbing force had been in operation for a long time past and on a grand scale.
Thenceforth, everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; for lucre instead of the general good.
These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society.
The enemy were determined to make one more effort on a grand scale in order to try and save the town, and we did not know the spot or the hour the storm would burst upon us, so it was best not to be caught napping.
Our men were burning to have another "shy" at the enemy on a grand scale, in order to wipe out the stain of the repulse at the Redan, although that was not all their fault.
The Prussians were now coming up, and the French decided that one more effort on a grand scale must be made in order to drive these detestable English from the field.
There was nothing mean about him; even his rascalities, if you chose to call his transactions by that name, were on a grand scale.
To Mrs. Campbell Irving expressed his regret that her husband did not attempt something on a grand scale.
His invasion of Kokuri, though it collapsed in utter failure, was conducted on such a grand scale that it reminds us of the Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes, described by Herodotus.
For the first time in our country, the collection of historical materials was undertaken on a grand scale.
The difference is simply that in Europe the same phenomenon developed on a grand scale, while it took place in Japan in a very small compass.
To produce Springfields on a grand scale in private plants would imply the use of thousands of gauges, jigs, dies, and other small tools necessary for such a manufacture, as well as that of great quantities of special machines.
Yet all of it, both the strange and the familiar, had to be put in production here on a grand scale and in a minimum of time, that the American millions might go adequately equipped to meet the foe.
While this unit was put through hurriedly for these tests, the preparation for the rest of the deliveries was made on a grand scale, looking toward quantity production later on.
As the attempt is now to be renewed on a grand scale, the reader may wish some further details of the means employed to insure success.
Her rolling, like everything else appertaining to her, is done on a grand scale.
But once master of the situation, he undertook the work on a grand scale, and pushed it with such vigor that in less than two years the road was in operation.
The expedition of 1857 was little more than an experiment on a grand scale.
It is clear that such rocks, formed of mud and sand, now for the most part consolidated, are the monuments of denuding operations, which took place on a grand scale at a very remote period in the earth's history.
The alternation, on a grand scale, of distinct formations of clay and limestone, has caused the oolitic and liassic series to give rise to some marked features in the physical outline of parts of England and France.
He feared that if he delayed longer, another expedition would be fitted out on a grand scale, and leave nothing which an individual could attempt.
It was discovered that these Ishmaelites of the West did not mean war--at least, on a grand scale.
That it was intended to be upon a grand scale, was testified by the amplitude and variety of the impedimenta.
Don Silvio was a ganadero,--a grazier, on a grand scale.
The war still continued, with other Spanish expeditions organized on a grand scale, and ended in 1604, so far as England was concerned, with that country's renunciation of trade to the Indies and aid to the Dutch.
In this war as in the preceding, French privateersmen made great inroads on British commerce, and some of these privateering operations were conducted on a grand scale.
Separate batteries and large troughs containing a solution of cyanide of silver in cyanide of potassium are used on a grand scale in the electro-plating establishment of Messrs.
The property of reflection is also illustrated on a grand scale in the illumination of our satellite, the moon, and the various planetary bodies which shine by light reflected from the sun, and have no inherent self-luminosity.
As Professor Judd observes, the abundant generation of atmospheric electricity is a familiar phenomenon in all volcanic eruptions on a grand scale.
The geysers of the Yellowstone occur on a grand scale; the eruptions are frequent, and the water is projected into the air to a height of over 200 feet.
Finally, the system of commercial companies, antipathetic to the French bourgeoisie, was for the first time practised on a grand scale; but Sully never understood that movement of colonial expansion, begun by Henry II.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grand scale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
