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Example sentences for "great reader"

  • My mother, like my father, had a wonderful memory, and was a great reader, from childhood, her home possessing a big library.

  • All his life he was a great reader, and rather preferred the old "classics" of English literature to modern books, except those on travel and big game hunting, of which he had an extensive library.

  • He is a great reader, and what has once been read by him is never forgotten if it is in any way useful.

  • Edison was always a great reader, and was in the habit of buying books at auctions and second-hand stores.

  • It is well known that Edison is very studious and a great reader, but his associates sometimes felt surprised at his fund of general information.

  • The Tutor is not only a poet, but is a great reader of the poetry of many languages.

  • She was a great student and a great reader of what she used to call "naw-vels.

  • He was a great reader, never idle, but always had a book in his hand,--a volume of poetry or one of the novels of Scott or Cooper.

  • Budgett, the rich English merchant, was a great reader.

  • You are a great reader, I learn," he said.

  • I was a great reader, he said; and he found that when I missed a word in my English tasks, I almost always substituted a synonym in the place of it.

  • Maitland had been an idle, good-humoured boy, full of ideas, a great reader and a voluble talker.

  • His friend was a great reader, but Hugh felt that he himself possessed a power of enjoyment, an appreciation of colour and melody, a thrilled delight in what was artistically excellent, of which his friend seemed to have little inkling.

  • When first seen we found that she was already fond of Lytton, Scott, and Dickens, and that she was a great reader of the daily newspapers, dwelling much on accidents and tragedies.

  • In early childhood she was a great reader of novels and spent many hours lying on the bed living an imaginary life.

  • He is very lazy, but a great reader, especially of cheap novels.

  • He told of some comparative merits of law schools, had some books on home-taught law, and was a great reader of the newspapers.

  • He said, "You could easily learn the little tricks of voice and gesture which bring applause from ignorant people, and make one blush to be called an elocutionist, but you have not the dramatic sense and can never be a great reader.

  • Obviously, she cannot be a great reader, or rather it is fortunate she is not so, for if she spent all her little leisure over books, she would miss much that is inspiring in her life.

  • He was a great reader, and had been familiar with the names of Raphael and Da Vinci and Dürer from childhood.


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