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Example sentences for "great harm"

  • And, after all, she is a very shallow creature, incapable of any deep scheming; there is no great harm.

  • Come," said he, "there's no great harm done.

  • No great harm if she were; but still there had been passages between himself and her which should have bound her over to more circumspection.

  • We must not molest the police; but there's no great harm done if we mislead them.

  • No great harm in that, Seckendorf," replied Ferdinand, leaning over to speak to him.

  • I was obliged to make up a little bit of a story too, and tell her you knew all about it; but that was no great harm; for I was resolved, you should know all about it, very soon.

  • A failure can work no great harm, for to us belongs the power to make any change which the future may show to be necessary.

  • To conclude, gentlemen, I see no great harm in this resolution except the procrastination that will result from it, and that will give us nothing but what we have before us.

  • I s'pose there's no great harm in jist askin' what your name may be, young man?

  • The habits of popular control, too, come to aid in making them fancy that what everybody does in their part of the country can have no great harm in it.

  • T'eir gotliness ist so pure even sin wilt do it no great harm.

  • But it iss every one will hef to do that, and no great harm comes of it.

  • She would address herself, when there was a chance, to her neighbor on the other side; if she remained silent altogether, no great harm would be done.

  • However, as there must be chaise-boys as well as plow-boys, there was no great harm in the change.

  • Well," said Parley, "I see no great harm in that.

  • He talked large and wild for a space," said Judith, coolly, "but soon I persuaded him there was no great harm in the stranger gentleman.

  • A great harm would be your falling sick; get you up and out, seek your friends again, and be happy as you were before.

  • She would have been well content to hear that his affairs permitted him to leave the neighborhood, and that would happen in good time; meanwhile there could be no great harm in being civil to so well-behaved a young gentleman.

  • Were it between himself and me, methinks there were no great harm done.

  • He laughed at me, and said that had nothing to do with the matter, that there was no great harm in what I had said, and that, consequently, I could not expect to be punished for it.

  • The very best that can be said of him, is to be found in his name of Hurry Skurry, which, if it means no great harm, means no great good.

  • I wish you had not come, my good Judith; it can do no good to me, while it may do great harm to yourself.

  • As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose.

  • And no great harm if it does," said Mr. Woodhouse.

  • To be sure, no one had ever breathed a word against her character; but, for her part, she believed no great harm of Audrey, either.

  • Twill do no great harm to be lenient, for once, Saunderson, and I am in the mood to-day to be friends with all men, including myself.

  • They had certain ways, had gentlemen, but she knew no great harm of them.

  • A few skins would do no great harm, Gar'ner, even to a craft cut down and reduced.

  • Mr. Whittle was a sober man, and, though he saw no great harm in enlivening his heart and cheering his spirits with brandy taken in small quantities, he was never known to be any the worse for his libations.

  • I see no great harm in our positions, if you hadn't got dismasted.

  • What I shall now speak of was, I believe, the beginning of great harm to me.


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