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Example sentences for "great spirits"

  • The Rabbi arrived in great spirits, and refused to taste meat till he had stated the burden of his sermon for the morrow.

  • Acute critics, like Elspeth Macfadyen, could tell from Carmichael's walk down the church that he was in great spirits, and even ordinary people caught a note of triumph in his voice as he gave out the first Psalm.

  • We were in great spirits, passed the evening pleasantly, and imagined that our principal difficulties had been surmounted.

  • At about half-past eight we were shown to bed, and were in great spirits.

  • We were informed that we were in the proper direction for Friburg, and proceeded in great spirits.

  • He looks much better than he has for these five years, and is in great spirits.

  • We are hurrying away the rest of our troops to Flanders, and say that we are in great spirits, and intend to be in greater when we have defeated the French too.

  • Katie went off in great spirits, because she had managed to get Marion and Richard both to go shopping with her; the boys hate shops, too.

  • At dejeuner Katie was in great spirits; she had bought a number of pretty things, and had kept the two boys with her all the morning, on the pretext that she was in great need of their advice.

  • That very afternoon, while the others rested, Marion explored the city by himself, and came back in great spirits.

  • My brothers arrived in great spirits at Malta, after a three weeks' voyage from Gibraltar; and must now be in Egypt, I think and trust.

  • Harriet Martineau is quite well,'trudging miles together in the snow,' when the snow was, and in great spirits.

  • I see him over there with his spy-glass and some pleasant-looking boys," said Mamma, bustling about in great spirits.

  • The day the doctor said he might try it if he would be very careful, he was in great spirits, and limped about, looking up his books, and planning how he would astonish his mates by the rapidity of his recovery.

  • Drive ye away all illnesses from your family, ye great spirits; every evil spirit put far away from us, and whatever might seek to hurt us may it fly away on the wind.

  • Ye great spirits, all things of this earth were known to you while yet ye were here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great addition; great boon; great central; great change; great changes; great circle; great concourse; great feare; great might; great misery; great mountain; great mystery; great pains; great pity; great place; great poem; great pressure; great scale; great spoonful; great square; great talents; great time; great wealth; greatly diminished; other causes; speech against