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Example sentences for "great ability"

  • Almost as a matter of course we became associated with Kenny Meadows, a clever, erratic genius, and an artist of great ability.

  • He always appeared to Lord Melbourne to be a man of great ability, resolution and discretion, and Lord Melbourne much rejoices that he has turned out so.

  • The Duke, who certainly was at all times a man of great ability, went round the city himself upon a tour of inspection, and when he had made his mind up, he sent for Lattanzio Gorini, one of his paymasters.

  • He was a Sienese and a man of great ability, who could hold his own against any other workman in that art; but, above all, he was the most amusing comrade and the heartiest good fellow in the universe.

  • They were men of great ability, great industry, indomitable courage, and strict personal integrity.

  • He graduated at Princeton at the early age of 15, and was a man of great ability, of rarely equaled scholarship, and of the most polished and courtly manners.

  • He studied divinity, but his talents recommending him to the notice of the government, he was appointed to a civil office, where he displayed so great ability that he was appointed comptroller of the finances.

  • His publications are numerous and display great ability.

  • The French in Canada were now led by the Marquis de Montcalm, distinguished both as a soldier of great ability and as a man of varied intellectual accomplishments.

  • He was a man of no great ability, but his position and his immense wealth made him influential.

  • Philip of Macedon was a prince of great ability, educated at Thebes during the Theban supremacy, and trained in war by Epaminondas, on whose tactics he founded his famous invention, the “Macedonian phalanx.

  • Mehemet Ali was made pasha, and being a man of great ability, administered the country vigorously and greatly extended the Egyptian territories.

  • He was not a fanatic, but a Statesman of great ability, seeking to break the oligarchy, and transfer its powers to the tribunes of the people.

  • And Perseus himself was a monarch of great ability, trained and disciplined to war.

  • John Marshall has been heretofore recognized as a man of great ability, and now he takes a position which he holds for life, and where his influence is paramount.

  • He was a man of pure integrity, great ability, a fine scholar and an effective public speaker.

  • These resolutions he supported in a speech of great ability.

  • The founder was a young priest of great ability, who had read a distinguished course in arts and theology before his ordination.

  • He was a man of great ability, well versed in mathematics and in the natural sciences, and well qualified to make an excellent impression on the educated classes.

  • The entire subject of the currency was also treated with great ability by Mr. Webster, in a report made at this session of Congress from the committee of the Senate on finance, of which he was chairman.

  • Mr. Mills of Northampton, who had filled that station with great ability, having declined being a candidate for reelection in consequence of ill health.

  • Nor is great ability necessary to acquire it, so much as patience, accuracy, and watchfulness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great author; great business; great centre; great cities; great commotion; great criminal; great depth; great difference; great diversity; great interest; great loss; great meeting; great part; great peril; great perplexity; great pleasure; great salvation; great shame; great speech; great stir; great straits; great towns; great trouble; great water; great while; greater part