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Example sentences for "great black"

  • In his left hand the squire held not only the reins of his own horse but those of a great black war-horse, fully harnessed, which trotted along at his side.

  • Down the slanting road there was riding a big, burly man, clad in a tunic of purple velvet and driving a great black horse as hard as it could gallop.

  • He took up a great black bow, as he spoke, and sitting down upon the ground he placed his two feet on either end of the stave.

  • A great black rock, higher than that we had climbed, stood before us, with its summit hidden in the clouds, and a wide expanse of hills and moors, but not a house or tree so far as the eye could reach.

  • We had a drink of water from the well, but afterwards, when sitting on the seat, saw at the bottom of the well a great black toad, which we had not noticed when drinking the water.

  • Fortunately for us the moon now rose, though obscured by great black clouds, which we could see meant mischief, probably to make us pay dearly for the lovely weather during the day.

  • THEN that same day there came a damosel into the court, and she brought with her a great black shield, with a white hand in the midst holding a sword.

  • With that came Merlin on a great black horse, and said unto Arthur, Thou hast never done!

  • And then was Sir Tristram ware of a likely knight riding upon a great black horse, and a black-covered shield.

  • It was in the year '47, when Carl Richter was gone home to Berlin before his last semester, to see his father: One fine morning von Kalbach rode in at the Brandenburg gate on a great black stallion.

  • We crossed the Saline, and on the plains beyond was a great black patch, a herd of buffalo.

  • The day after they put it in his room he came in with a great black cloth, which he spread over it.

  • Now amongst them there was a great black one, who swallowed him down without hurting him.

  • So he set out and took the broad and pleasant road, and at length came to a great black door, which was the door of Hell.

  • Then he spread a great black cloth, on which he made the brothers stand.

  • Your lover waits at the door mounted on a great black horse.

  • His own steed sniffed the air and replied, and then he saw between the parted branches a great black charger, which he recognized as that of Lez-Breiz.

  • At the head of these who approached to meet them came Sir Launcelot and the Lady Elaine, they two riding side by side, Sir Launcelot upon a great black horse, and she upon a white palfrey.

  • And that knight was clad altogether in black armor and he rode upon a great black horse, and all the trappings and the furniture of that horse were as black as all the other things that belonged to that knight.

  • There was no other bird in sight except a great black-backed gull, flying idly about, now making a wide circle and occasionally dropping on to the water to examine some small floating object, then flying off again.

  • Pearce's Cornish Drolls, occurred to him or to some one, that the Wolf Rock was the habitation of a great black dog, a terrible supernatural beast that preys on the souls of the dead.

  • I can see, like a great black rain of gigantic drops, the lines of the falling bombs against the clear blue sky.

  • Instead of the whole dark flight of thousands of airships for which the soldiers had been looking, there came, athwart the sky, like a great black bird, a single Demon.

  • Straight before us, at some little distance, there rose a great black rock to a height of, as far as I could judge, a thousand feet.

  • Welcome to thy white friend from beyond the great black water.

  • One is a black savage like those thou hast given unto Zomara, and the other white, like the people dwelling beyond the great black water.

  • His eyes shrank, his nose grew long and sharp, and instead of the Magician there was a great black raven in the room with them.

  • Illustration: THERE WAS A GREAT BLACK RAVEN IN THE ROOM WITH THEM] In two more steps Long had reached the castle, but already the Magician was opening the door of the chamber where the Prince was.

  • On rode Boots and on he rode, and after a while he and Dapplegrim came into a great black forest.

  • It was a great black-bearded man, sitting on the ditch, holding his shoes in his hand.

  • Her eyes, he knew, were wide with fear, great black pupils, deep, immensely deep.

  • There was a great black arm in the air, and a hand to the wrist of it, and to the shoulder a crosspiece with a ring, like one end of an anchor.

  • A great black bulk, moving noiselessly as a shadow hither and thither among the shadows, seemed the spirit of the swamp made palpable.

  • A pair of great black talons, edged like knives, open and clutching, reached down and forward.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great black" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great abilities; great affairs; great change; great country; great criminal; great encouragement; great event; great favour; great fear; great fish; great force; great goddess; great impulse; great lake; great lover; great merchant; great national; great perfection; great prowess; great relief; great resemblance; great respect; great talents; great thickness; great writer; greater evil