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Example sentences for "great historical"

  • In Sweden, Protestantism did not give rise to any events of a new and peculiar character, or of great historical moment, as in England and Germany.

  • That in a great historical process of this kind flowers of exquisite beauty may perish, without being made immortal in poetry or tradition, is undoubtedly true; nevertheless, we cannot wish the process undone.

  • Their composition is not that of a great historical picture, but rather that of a frieze, or of some rich festoon entwined among groups of picturesque figures.

  • Victor Hugo also was fired by the famous Scotchman with the desire to write a great historical novel.

  • Dukes of Guise of several successive generations, are portrayed in such masterly style as to bear comparison with the heroes of Shakespeare's great historical plays (Henry IV.

  • For this purpose, he has most unjustifiably disfigured a great historical character, revoltingly loaded him with the most crying enormities, with which he racks and tortures our feelings.

  • In Wallenstein he has adhered so conscientiously to historical truth, that he could not wholly master his materials, an event of no great historical extent is spun out into two plays, with prologue in some degree didactical.

  • The place was of great historical importance.

  • Whoever visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, New York, is likely to pause before a great historical painting by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier.

  • The struggles at Balaklava, on the river Alma, at Inkerman, and the storming of the Redan and the Malakhoff became the subjects of great historical paintings, of poems and of songs, the echoes of which are heard to the present day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great actor; great author; great calm; great chamber; great contrast; great difficulty; great distinction; great elevation; great favor; great force; great heat; great master; great multitude; great nation; great pains; great race; great resemblance; great sorrow; great square; great state; great water; great world; greater amount; greater value; greatest width; musical notes