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Example sentences for "great stir"

  • It made a great stir in society, and things remained thus several months.

  • He had been on more than good terms with Madame de Luxembourg--the Comte de Rontzau also: hence the quarrel; the cause of which was known by everybody, and made a great stir.

  • The King of Spain made a great stir in consequence of what had taken place, as though the project had been formed to strip him, during his lifetime, of his realm.

  • The affair soon made a great stir; the friends of both parties mixed themselves up in it.

  • It is impossible to say how fine his writings in consequence are, unless we could describe how fine nature is.

  • In a year or so after this, he set to work, and poured out quarto upon quarto, as if they had been drops of water.

  • We do not like Sir Walter's gratuitous servility: we like Lord Byron's preposterous liberalism little better.

  • The case created a great stir, public opinion being universal that he was the prime mover in the whole affair.

  • When the news arrived in England it created a great stir.

  • The treatment of St. Eustatius caused a great stir, not only in the West Indies, but in England as well.

  • This publication made a great stir, not only at Jena, but throughout all Germany.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great authority; great builder; great calm; great confusion; great distances; great effulgence; great elevation; great flocks; great glory; great heiress; great impression; great kindness; great mass; great peace; great plain; great purpose; great relief; great salvation; great sensation; great source; great style; great weakness; greatly obliged; greatly reduced; splendid fellow; wild creatures