Sigurd the earl was an open-handed man, who did what was very much celebrated; namely, he made a great sacrifice festival at Hlader of which he paid all the expenses.
We know what a great sacrifice it will be for you to leave Beauport to-day; but do not forget that the greater the sacrifice, the more precious will the crown be.
I feel that the hour has come for me to make a great sacrifice; I must leave you!
Though it is a great sacrifice for me to leave my own beloved country, I must go to work in the midst of a new people, in the distant lands of Illinois.
Bonds cannot be sold except at a great sacrifice, because there is no money to buy them.
The battle of Shiloh, though won at a great sacrifice, inspired the western army with confidence, and gave General Sherman his first opportunity to prove his ability as a soldier.
If we pursued the ordinary course, the course that had been sufficient in times of peace to raise money, of putting our bonds into the market and selling them for what they would bring, it would be at a great sacrifice.
The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
The commentator explains that by Mahayajna--great sacrifice--is meant Yoga.
A great sacrifice, therefore, with profuse presents of every kind and requiring a vast heap of the earth's produce, awaits thee.
As the miners rarely fail being in need of ready money, they are generally obliged to sell their bullion for coin, and that often at a great sacrifice, so as to procure available means to prosecute their mining [Pg185] operations.
In such cases, their goods were not unfrequently sold at great sacrifice, to avoid the penalties which the breaking of their engagements at home {307} would involve.
During the time of a great sacrifice I have been cursed by the Muni Usanas (Sukra).
Roderick Hanscom' will have to win her by a great sacrifice in the last act.
A little Biblical quotation wouldn't go so bad right in there," he said, when they had finally established the Great Sacrifice for a Woman.
That brings us to the most important aspect of Hezekiah's great sacrifice.
The great horns of the cow were long after shown in the temple of Diana on the Aventine, where Romans, Sabines, and Latins every year joined in a great sacrifice.
Sir Horace, but they decided that, as its capture could only be effected at a great sacrifice of life, and as its possession was strategically of very little value to the enemy, it should be left alone.
The position was one of great strength, and if held by good soldiers could only have been taken, if at all, at a great sacrifice of life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great sacrifice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
