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Example sentences for "great people"

  • You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of a great people to do the tasks of the day and live up to the ideals of honesty and righteousness and just conduct.

  • It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life.

  • Let us add with thankful hearts that only a great people is capable of a great reconciliation.

  • A distinguished Frenchman, as he stood among the graves at Arlington, said "Only a great people is capable of a great civil war.

  • We know that the English are a great people; but we have had nothing to do with them, save that complimentary messages have been exchanged.

  • They are a great people, with learning of many things unknown here, from whom I always received the greatest kindness.

  • The Mahrattas are a great people," the rajah answered, angrily.

  • To be a great people, however, the people of this country must really act as a great people.

  • He had often heard that the people of this country loved to be called a great people, and he had many times heard them called a great people.

  • And if I should go to England and cry aloud, they would say, 'Who is this, who comes preaching to a great people?

  • Take back your sword, Great People--but wipe it first, lest some of the gold and blood stick to your hand.

  • Great People, transformed to burrow earth for gold, as the snouts of swine for earth nuts!

  • Sahib, great things are expected of a great people.

  • I thought you a great people, and I used my strength, my wealth and influence to further your power.

  • Frenchmen,” he said, “I am well pleased with you; you are a good and a great people.

  • Indeed he is reported to have said to an English gentleman that "the English were a great people, but what a pity that they had no religion!

  • Thus they have many of the qualities of a great people.

  • That is why we Germans and you English are a great people.

  • You have a great gift, my friend--all the Germans have--and it makes them a great people.

  • No nation can have the feeling so strongly that they are obliged to have the word 'home' without being a great people.

  • His choice of it was a splendid rebuke to the grumbling of his tribe, to the pride and selfishness of the "great people" who would not be content with a single lot, and wished an additional one to be assigned to them.

  • You say you are a great people--be it so; but if you are a great people, you must be capable of great deeds.

  • A distinguished Frenchman, as he stood among the graves at Arlington, said: "Only a great people is capable of a great civil war.

  • They found a home in the far West, they subdued the wilderness, they met with plenty there and became a great people.

  • The hours are long in the life of a great people.

  • A distinguished Frenchman, as he stood among the graves at Arlington, said, "Only a great people is capable of a great civil war.

  • The French are a great people in their conduct toward us in this respect, that the aid and sympathy and alliance has been all in our favor; they have done everything for us, and have been strong enough not to need anything from us.

  • The Roman pontiff, as long as he maintained his station and his principles, was guarded by the warm attachment of a great people; and could reject with scorn the prayers, the menaces, and the oblations of an heretical prince.

  • But the zeal of a great people, who instantly flew to arms, intimidated the praefect: and the archbishop was permitted to end his life in peace and in glory, after a reign of forty-seven years.

  • We have taken the stand which every great people is obliged to take soon or late.

  • Is this lifting up of a great people nothing?

  • We have all the elements within and around us necessary to constitute a great people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great battle; great character; great consolation; great country; great crisis; great damage; great enough; great evil; great experience; great forest; great hand; great heart; great invention; great longing; great love; great meeting; great might; great mind; great nation; great occasions; great powers; great river; great speed; greater variety; greatly obliged; never intended