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Example sentences for "great public"

  • I see the General--General Robert Belcher, the millionaire--in the aspect of a great public benefactor.

  • Cowperwood was now entering upon a great public career, and the various editors and public personalities of the city were watching him with interest.

  • Let it come as an afterthought--a great public need.

  • Men may have grown wiser; they may have attained to better and more correct views of great public subjects.

  • SIR, we are assembled to commemorate the establishment of great public principles of liberty, and to do honor to the distinguished dead.

  • The year 1818 commenced with a great public dinner at the City of London Tavern, to celebrate the third centenary of the Reformation, at which dinner one thousand five hundred persons attended.

  • We have been everlastingly told that these great public meetings, and the violent petitions passed at them, did a great deal of harm, but that they never produced any good.

  • Then how shall any man dare to say to any one of his countrymen, because he happen to hold a different opinion on questions of great public policy, that therefore he is un-English, and is to be condemned as anti-national?

  • There was, at this time, great public distress, and GeorgeĀ II.

  • Flodden Field, were spent in pleasure, and in great public displays of magnificence, which charmed the people, and made him a popular idol.

  • He also had unrivalled talent in managing the House of Commons against one of the most powerful oppositions ever known, and in a period of great public excitements.

  • The extent to which the consideration of such matters subordinate and postpone action upon subjects of great public importance, but involving no special private or partisan interest, should arrest attention and lead to reformation.

  • A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one's devoting himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted.

  • A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one's devoting of himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted.

  • On the 25th of October they announced a great public dinner to be given in London to eighteen members of parliament, whom they alleged had been returned to the House of Commons by their influence, and to represent their opinions.

  • Canadas, and all the other British provinces in North America, in his opinion it would be a great public misfortune--fatal to the civil liberties of the country, and change the character of our Government.

  • In the schools which prepare little boys for the "Great Public Schools," the whole scheme of education Is dominated by the headmaster's desire to win as many entrance scholarships as possible.

  • In the "Great Public Schools" the scheme of education is similarly dominated by the headmaster's desire to win as many scholarships as possible at the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges.

  • The occasion, coming so soon after the fall of Sebastopol, was one of great public demonstration, illuminations and torchlight processions, the like of which the city had never yet beheld.

  • His funeral took place in Montreal on April 13th and was a great public testimonial to his citizenship and to his devotion to his adopted country.

  • It is from a speech delivered before a great public assembly at Saratoga, in the year 1840.

  • But all these differences afforded, in my judgment, not the slightest reason for opposing him in a measure of paramount importance, and at a moment of great public exigency.

  • New questions of great public interest, traversing the old party lines, had sprung up.

  • At seventeen, he addresses with success a great public meeting.

  • The City Library of Boston has one feature entirely new in the visible of a great public collection.

  • We shall see what your conduct will be at the execution of the noblemen, your friends, at which the Council has decided to make a great public display of severity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great advantage; great affairs; great army; great artist; great assembly; great beauty; great bird; great capital; great change; great courage; great hand; great hill; great hole; great horse; great importance; great intelligence; great library; great light; great naval; great peril; great sinner; great wonder; greater quantity; greatly reduced; greatly surprised; stand fast