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Example sentences for "great good"

  • Speaking then from that region where "Cotton is king," I affirm, contrary as my opinion is to that most common in the South, that the slavery agitation has accomplished and will do great good.

  • There is another fact also, the result, in great measure, of this agitation, which in my view proves it to have been and to be of great good.

  • But Menendez, in great good humor, smiled, saying it were better to see and know all that could be known.

  • By great good fortune I found myself with De BrĂ©sac upon the larger vessel, which De Gourgues had renamed the Vengeance.

  • But it has done me great good; it has also made me very sorry on account of those times when I dimmed the lustre of my soul by my sins, so that I could not see our Lord.

  • May our Lord grant that I may have pleased His Majesty a little herein; for I am sure that they pleased Him who condemned and rebuked me, and that it was all for my great good.

  • My interview with him did me great good,--it seems as if it left a new fire in my soul, burning with desire to serve our Lord as in the beginning.

  • Hence, a grave reason for cooperation exists when, if one refuses it, a great good will be lost or a great evil incurred.

  • Another opinion says that damage is done as well as injury, since men regard an insult, even though offered in private, as an unjust deprivation of a great good.

  • Hanz Von Vickeinsteighner is in great good humour at the prospect of a profitable day at his counter.

  • You're the drollest little man," she said, and gave him a great good-humoured slap.

  • By great good fortune I found Master Parker, newly returned to his house, and about to sit down to his dinner.

  • It fell out by great good-luck that for the day there was none other Fellow within the College but Master Webberley, the others having gone to see an estate that the College possesses near to this city.

  • To the young, and to those who do not reflect much on what is offered to their belief, you will do great good by showing how spiritual food is often adulterated.

  • The said son waxed in great worth and in great goodness, and multiplied in great good.

  • She replied, "Men came who had dreamed a dream that we should have a beautiful male child of great good fortune, and as the sacrifice of a black ox was necessary to bring it true, I gave ours to them.

  • That is why I am so happy; for now the spirit of my father will be very pleased with us, and it will bring us great good fortune.

  • Sometimes, by great good fortune, James did not accompany us, and Dorothy and I would sit there alone together and watch the shadows deepen across the water.

  • But I must find my mother, and tell her of my great good fortune.

  • And there was Carolus Spiltdorph, advanced to a lieutenancy like myself, and by great good fortune in my company.

  • Then in great good nature he told me just to step along, and a little further into the dark smoke I'd find Grandpapa Marcy and Uncle Dib, exerting their wondrous energies over a stew they were puzzled to get to the right substance.

  • I am indeed glad to know that your former works have been so highly commended, and where such commendation will do great good.

  • I believe the book will do great good, and I hope its message may be used for the bettering of the homes of the world.

  • John Willis Baer "I feel confident that it can do great good, and I mean that my boys shall have the contents placed before them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great attraction; great chief; great city; great country; great credit; great disadvantage; great effort; great fancy; great heat; great heights; great honor; great kindness; great lover; great pleasure; great point; great price; great prosperity; great rock; great sense; great ship; great sigh; great sorrow; great stature; great strength; greater pleasure; real value