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Example sentences for "great comfort"

  • It is a great comfort to me to have you for a friend and companion.

  • One line to say whether you think me right or wrong, would be a great comfort to me.

  • I am to visit it regularly when here, taking that work off the parish clergyman's shoulders, and a great comfort it will be.

  • It is a great comfort to me to have made a beginning.

  • Though I scarcely ever saw you, it was a great comfort to know that you were near and with me.

  • It will be a great comfort to him, and I hope, in addition, will dissipate his chills.

  • My hands are improving slowly, and, with my left hand, I am able to dress and undress myself, which is a great comfort.

  • It has been a great comfort to me to have Jennings with me.

  • And from this resolve she got great comfort.

  • If it could be arranged by the end of this week, it would be a great comfort to me.

  • And then there was a great comfort to her in Brooke's friendship.

  • The town is a fine one, and the streets are lined with arcades--a great comfort in so hot a place.

  • She had only come to see the famous castrato Farinello, who had left Madrid, and now lived at Bologna in great comfort.

  • It would be a great comfort to us, if this communication should ever be opened, for then we might freely communicate with, and hear from those we love.

  • His eldest sister had come for a fortnight from her place, and was a great comfort to them all.

  • Alfred looked at it as if indeed it would be a great comfort to him to be always reminded by the eye, of how 'He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities.

  • I found in a few minutes that it was a great comfort to me to be there.

  • So when the sun shone out on the fourth day, we were ready to start in great comfort.

  • My writing all this has been a great comfort to me and done me good.

  • A great comfort it was for Caroline to descend to the calm kitchen from the stormy back-parlour, and there vent some of her little woes to the compassionate servant of all work.

  • It had been of great comfort to her on board the transport as they were coming home, and were very nearly wrecked, on their return from the West Indies.

  • It was another old acquaintance returned to England, and at a time when his presence was likely to be of great comfort to his relatives there.

  • The little sister's sympathy was a great comfort, and so if she could think she was helping him, he was glad.

  • But she realized more and more that he was a good boy and a great comfort to her.

  • Nevertheless, she was conscious of a great relief that he had not come, and a great comfort in the presence of this other man.

  • I heard Lulu's aunt say the nurse she had when she broke her knee was a great comfort to her.

  • Miss Clark was a great comfort to us when mother was ill," said Betty; "mother had a letter from her yesterday.

  • Rather than suggest such a fearful idea I would abolish screens altogether; yet one round the back of the sofa is often a great comfort, and, judiciously arranged, makes the background for a very pretty corner.

  • And so she began to gossip again as merrily as before, which was a great comfort to me, for I could have found never a word to say at this time for the tumult of joy in my heart.

  • Also 'twill be a great comfort to me to know you will not be left helpless by any accident that may happen to me.

  • It would be a great comfort to me to have you and Sarah and Harry and the children near me.

  • My faith in God's protection was perfect and in spite of my misery the children were a great comfort.

  • It is likely that the little lad was a great comfort to him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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