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Example sentences for "great store"

  • Here is great store of cotton cloth made, and painted clothes of cotton wooll: here groweth great store of corne and Rice.

  • Also there is great store of wheate, ryce, and dates growing thereabout, wherewith they serue Babylon and all the countrey, Ormus, and all the partes of India.

  • When there is great store of water in Tigris you may goe from Babylon to Basora in 8 or 9 dayes: if there be small store it will cost you the more dayes.

  • Isaac "grew until he became very great," and had "great store of servants.

  • Neither Abraham nor Isaac seem ever to have sold one, though they had "great store of servants.

  • When Isaac sojourned in the country of the Philistines he "had great store of servants.

  • He liues, but takes small ioy of his renowne; 2 For of that cruell wound he bled so sore, That from his steed he fell in deadly swowne; 4 Yet still the bloud forth gusht in so great store, That he lay wallowd all in his owne gore.

  • Sidenote: Great store of sundry commodities to be had in Chio.

  • Also there is a great store of corne, Rice, and Dates, which the countrey doth yeeld.

  • It lieth more than two miles from Henrosser, right against Neuen, and hath within it two faire mils, & great store of conies.

  • He farewelled me and bestowed on me great store of the country-stuffs and produce; and I took leave of him and embarked.

  • Upon this resolve I took a great store of cash and, buying goods and gear fit for travel, bound them up in bales.

  • FN#66] Thus did I for some time, till I had laid up great store of excellent nuts, besides a large sum of money, the price of those I had sold.

  • So they pulled it forth of the shell and cut its throat and took of it great store of meat.

  • She was 50 tons, having ten mariners, five or six Negroes, great store of soap and sweet meat, bound from St. Domingo to Cartagena.

  • For she had taken a frigate in which there were ten men (whom they set ashore) great store of maize, twenty-eight fat hogs, and two hundred hens.

  • And Nod, having his mother's quick hand, made a great store of Manaka-cake and Sudd-bread.

  • Then Nod whimpering in his fear a little, like a cat, edged on once more through a gallery where was laid up on sandy shelves a great store of nuts and pods and skins and spits and sharp-edged flints.

  • The crockery counter had absorbed the great store which it had entered so humbly but fourteen years before, as a mere tenant of one of its tiny corners.

  • Once, long years ago, I went into a great store in a distant city and found up under its roof a man whose sole task from one year's end to the other was the making of repairs upon toy locomotives.

  • And how may I make my name feared but by keeping a great store of knights and men-at-arms and bondsmen and my Castle very strong?

  • For Richard Bek and his men had at their command a great store of the best commodities that had belonged to the late lord.

  • A great store of arrows had been long before prepared, and Guy felt confident that he could hold out for a long time.

  • Sir Eustace gave me orders yesterday to procure wood of the kind used for arrows, and to lay in a great store of it; also to set the smiths to work to make arrow-heads.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great character; great delight; great distances; great excellence; great favourite; great flocks; great heap; great indignation; great love; great magician; great mistake; great pain; great practical; great prophet; great proportion; great prosperity; great race; great repute; great sacrifice; great soldier; great things; great want; great writer; greater detail; greatly mistaken; other towns