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Example sentences for "great fame"

  • The most distinguished commands were held by Fabius Maximus and Claudius Marcellus, both generals of great fame, though upon opposite grounds.

  • Yonder, O Brahmana, the Somakas and the Panchalas, possessed of great fame, are careering amid my troops like a forest-conflagration.

  • Possessed of great fame, Bharata then gave ten thousand billions of coins, made of the most pure gold, unto Kanwa (who had brought up his mother Sakuntala as his own daughter).

  • Having said this, mighty-armed Karna of great fame, with thy son's approval, did not fight for the first ten days.

  • Yuyutsu and Sanjaya and Gandhari of great fame, all sat down where king Dhritarashtra had taken his seat.

  • In the pursuit of great prosperity and of great fame on earth, those foremost of men, all of whom were liable to death,[109] have perished through the influence of Time.

  • And there was a Rishi of the name of Animandavya of great fame.

  • And one day, within a short time, Jaratkaru of great fame, placing his head on the lap of his wife, slept, looking like one fatigued.

  • Thou art he who possessed of great fame (in consequence of the Righteousness of his behaviour).

  • The princess of great fame, thus addressed by that Brahmana, O king, welcomed him according to the rites prescribed in the Vedas.

  • Krita age, O son, there was a Rishi of great fame, named Vyaghrapada.

  • There was a king called Eylimi, mighty and of great fame, and his daughter was called Hjordis, the fairest and wisest of womankind; and Sigmund hears it told of her that she was meet to be his wife, yea if none else were.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great boon; great charge; great depths; great dinner; great disappointment; great emotion; great experience; great friend; great goddess; great idea; great joy; great king; great lady; great lawyer; great magician; great master; great merit; great risk; great state; great stir; great throng; great treat; great wealth; greater importance; greater things; the seas