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Example sentences for "great abilities"

  • One of the chief delights and benefits of travel is, that one is perpetually meeting men of great abilities, of original mind, and rare acquirements, who will converse without reserve.

  • I always duly appreciated your brother's great abilities, and, what is far more important, his lofty mind.

  • The Man who is fitted out by Nature, and sent into the World with great Abilities, is capable of doing great Good or Mischief in it.

  • To comply with his kind Inclination to make my Cures famous, I shall give you his Testimonial of my great Abilities at large in his own Words.

  • I knew a Gentleman of great Abilities, who bewail'd the Want of this Part of his Education to the End of a very honourable Life.

  • Such is the reverence paid to great abilities, however misused; they, who contemplated in Milton the scholar and the wit, were contented to forget the reviler of his king.

  • He was a man of great abilities as a writer and a politician.

  • They were both men of great abilities, but their style and manner were very different.

  • In early life he discerned the germ of great abilities in two youths of Savannah--George M.

  • As a senator in Congress, he won the confidence of the nation by the display of great abilities; and gave universal satisfaction of the pure patriotism of his heart, in all he said, or did.

  • In this contest were made manifest the great abilities of Colquitt, Toombs, Stephens, Cobb, and Herschel V.

  • Eumenes, a young man of great abilities, inherited a large estate from a father, long eminent in conspicuous employments.

  • The office quite as earnestly sought him, as the most popular man in the country, who had proved himself to be a man of great abilities in the various positions he had previously filled, and as honest as he was patriotic.

  • It was about this time that Hamilton was brought in legal conflict with another young man of great abilities, ambition, and popularity; and this man was Aaron Burr, a grandson of Jonathan Edwards.

  • Such is the reverence paid to great abilities, however misused: they who contemplated in Milton the scholar and the wit, were contented to forget the reviler of his king.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great adventure; great capital; great character; great cities; great country; great curiosity; great depths; great distress; great effect; great extent; great host; great houses; great improvement; great marvel; great ones; great pleasure; great poet; great riches; great river; great shout; great sorrow; great white; greater extent; greater importance; greatly magnified; prostrated himself