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Example sentences for "great marvel"

  • This is a great marvel,' said Sir Lancelot, 'and I thank God that He hath shielded me of His mercy.

  • This is a great marvel,' said King Arthur, 'and while I presume not to be such a knight as thou sayest, yet for ensample to my knights will I essay to draw the sword.

  • Then had the king and barons great marvel, but some of the knights had great spite against Balin.

  • And, forsooth, there is a great marvel; for men may see there the earth of the tomb apertly many times stir and move, as there were quick things under.

  • And though there be never so much taken away thereof in the day, at morrow it is as full again as ever it was; and that is a great marvel.

  • And in that isle there is a great marvel, more to speak of than in any other part of the world.

  • And that is great marvel that it might be so, save only the will of God, that the air sustaineth it.

  • And men eat both the fruit and the beast, and that is a great marvel.

  • And, in truth, there is a great marvel, for men may see there the earth of the tomb many times openly stir and move, as though there were living things under.

  • Then soon after there fell a great marvel, that the cross of the shield at one time vanished away that no man wist where it became.

  • Sir, said the king unto Sir Galahad, here is a great marvel as ever I saw, and right good knights have assayed and failed.

  • O Jesu, said King Arthur, this is to me a great marvel.

  • Oh, said king Arthur, this is to me a great marvel.

  • So ever the king had a custom that at the feast of Pentecost, in especial afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel.

  • And even forth with all so wounded as he is, it is great marvel that he may endure this long battle with that good knight.

  • And no one came out from the city against them; and this was a great marvel, seeing that for every man that was in the host there were over two hundred men in the city.

  • Then might you have seen the Straits of St. George (as it were) in flower with ships and galleys sailing upwards, and the beauty thereof was a great marvel to behold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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