Canalis, with the gesture of a great man, "what is the use of all these discussions?
I shall make myself a mother, by taking care of others and by my secret co-operation in the existence of a great man, to whom also I shall carry all my thoughts and all my earthly efforts.
Then the minister's wife cried again: "Ah, he is a great man, your uncle!
Is not that the most precious and sublime duty of the wife of a great man, to conquer Heaven for him by charities while he is conquering earth by his deeds?
It is the first time in my life that I have been able to see a great man, a hero!
Home with great content that I have thus begun an acquaintance with him, who is a great man, and a man of as much business as any man in England; which I will endeavour to deserve and keep.
It does not take a great man to soon discover that, in raising anything, the greater part of the plants goes into stalk and leaf, and the fruit is a most inconsiderable portion.
It is common to say that, if the world makes progress at all, it is by its great men, and when anything important for the race is to be done, a great man is raised up to do it.
It is the fashion nowadays not to consider him a great man, but no one pretends to measure his goodness.
Ben Jonson was a great man, Hoole a very small man.
We are at present much more inclined to join in paying homage to, the genius of a great man than to engage in a controversy concerning church-government and toleration.
I will not betray our illustrious friend by mentioning his surname; he is a great man now, and might not wish it generally known that he had dined off turnips.
Nor a great man neither, if I were called to such a destiny.
Great man as he was, he was sorely afraid of little paragraphs.
To one I have restored half his dominions; how often has the other pressed my hand, calling me a great man!
Whatever may be the crowning event of his military career, Bonaparte is still a great man.
Altogether he posed as quite a great man, particularly when his story became known.
She also urged what a great man I might be among her people if only I would stay and make my home with them.
He expressed excessive disgust for the criminal police corps; for, under the Empire, he had belonged to Fouche's police, and looked upon him as a great man.
If he were equally remarkable outside his office, the banker would be a great man.
That creature thinks itself a great man because it does mean things with great capital.
Well, a nice mess you've got us into, with your nodding head and the deference due to a man of pedigree!
He doesn't wear silk stockings, and he really ought to be supplied with a new Adjective to help him to express his opinions: but, for all that, he is a great man.
But it was not seemly to allow Mr. Cleever to depart; he was a great man.
A great manis a new statue in every attitude and action.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
