Esmond had seen this gentleman, and a very ingenious, hard-working honest fellow he was, toiling to give bread to a great family, and watching up many a long winter night to keep the wolf from his door.
She hath turned away the clerk of her visiting-book, a poor fellow with a great family of children.
Scene: A great family coach, drawn by two powerful country horses, lumbers along a narrow Irish road.
James is Servant in a great Family, and Elizabeth waits upon the Daughter of one as numerous, some Miles off of her Lover.
I know a Maiden Aunt, of a great Family, who is one of these Antiquated Sybils, that forebodes and prophesies from one end of the Year to the other.
Wimble's is the Case of many a younger Brother of a great Family, who had rather see their Children starve like Gentlemen, than thrive in a Trade or Profession that is beneath their Quality.
He was powerful, of great family, and the head-man of those who on account of the bondes appeared before the king.
The wife whom Olver of Eggja had left was young and handsome, of great family, and rich, so that he who got her might be considered to have made an excellent marriage; and her land was in the gift of the king.
The man was witty, of great family, and also a poet.
Having held office in a previous administration he had waived his right to promotion on the understanding that his reward should be great thereafter: he was a man of vigorous understanding, learned, urbane and of great family.
The Montevarchi are, I believe, what you call a great family?
She had known that he was a Marchese of a great family, and had often begged him to let her be called the Signora Marchesa.
The only difference was that they were descended from a great family of some conquered Latin city, while the patricians were the scions of an old family in the conquering city.
He found them, not among the men of great family whom he mistrusted, but among the slaves of whom he felt sure.
He was a noble of great family, but he was not elected.
The tribe was like a great family; it was composed of the chief, his wives, his children, and his servants.
A baronet, the possessor of a fine estate, the descendant of a great family.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great family" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
