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Example sentences for "great fool"

  • A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.

  • He who is under cover when it rains is a great fool if he stirs.

  • Although you think me a great fool, I beg you to believe that I can see that perfectly well.

  • Of course, I was a great fool to think of--a person who wasn't thinking of me.

  • My dear little Boulotte, when I know a secret, which may be the goose with the golden eggs to me, I should be a great fool if I gave it away.

  • But you'd have to be a great fool not to guess.

  • Ashe will be a great fool if he lets his wife see much of that woman!

  • One would have had to be a great fool not to get in.

  • I should be a great fool," said I, "if I gave the knave more money to escape from the hands of justice.

  • She abused him to her heart's content, and told him he must be a great fool to give her a dress which he considered unsuitable to her.

  • The person who drew up the agreement is either a great knave or a great fool.

  • I have not been a great sinner,' said the dying Nelson; nor had he--he had only been made a great fool of by a woman.

  • If so, Carlyle's paradox seems as great as Macaulay's, for though Carlyle does not call Boswell a great fool in plain set terms, he goes very near it.

  • Truly, I begin to feel that my ambition has made me a great fool.

  • Being a great fool is what got him elected Major of the Invincibles.

  • As I have always said, a man had better stick to his functions; for if he mount strange horses, his head may prove so wanting in brain that he will certainly fall to the ground a great fool.

  • It's very plucky of him, but I do think he's a great fool not to knock it off now till he has passed, don't you?

  • At any rate I was a great fool for my pains.

  • I had been rather thrown off my balance, I think, at the change in my life, for at first I made a great fool of myself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great blessing; great commotion; great crowd; great degree; great esteem; great estimation; great favour; great fool; great genius; great heap; great honour; great liking; great matter; great military; great moment; great moral; great number; great pains; great pity; great scholar; great social; great storm; great uneasiness; great work; greater distance; submarine fiber