So Sir Mordred drew with a great host to Dover, for there he heard say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thought to beat his own uncle from his lands.
Now leave we Sir Launcelot in his lands, and his noble knights with him, and return we again unto King Arthur and to Sir Gawaine, that made a great host ready, to the number of three-score thousand.
Then came word to Sir Mordred that King Arthur had raised the siege from Sir Launcelot, and was coming homeward with a great host, to be avenged upon Sir Mordred.
Unto King Arthur now drew many knights, dukes, and earls, so that he had a great host.
The Alderman smiled on him and said: 'Yea, son, and are they a great host of men?
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
The 'great host' sent to capture Elisha shows the terror which he had inspired, and the importance attached to getting possession of him.
The harbour was an almost ideal one in those days, and Knut remained there with a great host of ships all through harvest.
But when they heard that the Swede-king was gone aboard ship, and had a great host and a multitude of ships, King Olaf let dig a dyke through Agni's-thwaite into the sea.
There he sat well for the warding of the land against the Danes no less than for onsets at Denmark, which he was often wont to, though he might have no great host out.
Mac 3:10 Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
Partly to avenge himself upon the earl, and partly to be near his vassal's wife, the king arrayed a great host.
Now in no long time afterwards the Picts entered the king's realm, with a great host, burning, wasting, and pilling at their will.
He came to York with a great host, and sat himself down before the city.
On the morrow, with no longer tarrying, the navy of the brethren arrived at Totnes, and therein a great host of knights in their harness.
And unto Arthur drew many knights, dukes, and earls, so that he had a great host.
But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with a great host, and landed upon Sir Launcelot's lands, and burned and wasted all that they might overrun.
And with the help of Santiago he gathered together a great host, and went up against Coimbra in the month of January, even as he had covenanted, and laid siege to it.
Then King Don Sancho gathered together a great host, Castillians and Leonese, and they of Navarre and Biscay, Asturians, and men of Aragon and of the border.
Soon after dawn he arose and clothed himself; and looking out of the window he saw the streets filled with a great host of people in black, and the weeping and the mourning were pitiful to hear.
Then King Arthur made ready a great host, and for two years he fought in the northern parts against the bands of the pirates.
Now, when the time arrived for the midsummer sacrifice at Mere, Olaf went thither with a great host of followers.
It is because a great host of war galleys are lying in the farther bay," answered Thorkel.
So the people, unwilling to take to arms and seeing that the king had a great host of warriors at his back, agreed to listen to the teachings of the bishop, and finally to have themselves baptized.
Christ departed at that time alone, but he arose not from death alone, but arose with a great host.
Then Eochy bade Midir clear the plains of Meath about Tara from rocks and stones, and Midir brought at night a great host of the Fairy Folk, and it was done.
For they looked that Midir should come with a great host of the Danaan folk to carry off the Queen.
Eight days later we were marching on Cuzco, a great hostof us, numbering at least forty thousand Chancas and twenty-five thousand of the rebellious Yuncas, who had joined our standard.
It was indeed God's will that a great host should go forth again, but neither Bernard nor any other man could surely tell that in the will of Heaven there was victory too.
There was little order in the march, and hitherto there had been little danger; for the Seljuks meant to destroy them in the mountains, and would never have tried battle in the open with such a great host.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great host" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
