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Example sentences for "great success"

  • Catherine, whose soldiering has turned out a great success, is told off to act as sentry outside the tent occupied by two distinguished officers who have just arrived.

  • I think it is going to be a great success.

  • I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

  • The double tent was considered a great success, and the new crampons were much praised except by Bowers, whose fondness for the older form was not to be shaken.

  • This journal is doing gloriously, and "Great Expectations" is a great success.

  • In January "The Frozen Deep" had been played at the Tavistock House theatre with such great success, that it was necessary to repeat it several times, and the theatre was finally demolished at the end of that month.

  • The dear girls have enjoyed themselves immensely, and their trip has been a great success.

  • I have the strongest belief in its making a great success.

  • The fact that he had achieved such a great success, as the papers had reported, with his first exhibition and had not lost ground with the second--a very interesting letter had come from M.

  • Here and there in the news an author had made a great success with a book; a scientist with a discovery; a philosopher with a new theory; a financier with an investment.

  • So he sat there, accidentally president, and in full charge, wondering how he should make it a great success, and Florence J.

  • The poem was a great success, and besides being paid for the work, Addison received a Government post, so once more life ran smoothly for him.

  • When it was published Gulliver's Travels was at once a great success.

  • The Tatler, especially after Addison joined with Steele in producing it, was a great success.

  • When this new book of Gaelic poetry came out, it again was a great success.

  • And as at this time there were no stories written in English prose (poetry only being still used for stories), the book was a great success.

  • These clothes I have on were a great success in America.

  • In America they are regarded as a great success, and we all love dearly to talk about them.

  • It was a great success--but I didn't get any money.

  • The piece was a great success, and promised to run a long time if he could find a good Philippa to replace Mrs. Wood.

  • Mr. Willard and Mr. Beerbohm Tree were in the cast, and it was a great success.

  • Sargent's 'Lady Macbeth' in the New Gallery is a great success.

  • I have already told of my first appearance as Beatrice at Leeds, and said that I never played the part so well again; but the Lyceum production was a great success, and Beatrice a great personal success for me.

  • Oddly enough, although "Olivia" was such a great success at the Court, it has never made much money since.

  • The concert was now over, and the audience indicated by the volume of applause that rang out that it was a great success.

  • I read the accounts of the first concert in the New York papers, and they all referred to it as being a great success.

  • As the concert had been such a great success here, they were very hopeful regarding the rest of the tour.

  • Alma Fohstroem, who had made such a great success during my London season at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden.

  • In due course we reached San Francisco, where my agent informed me that the engagement was going to be a great success, two-thirds of the tickets having been sold for the entire season.

  • Galassi, the baritone, made a great success; and in the gambling scene an elegant ballet was introduced, led by little Mdlle.

  • I played in La maison sans enfants, and I took her rôle at a moment's notice in Le démon du jeu, a piece which made a great success.

  • In the second piece I played Mariette, and made a great success.

  • My aunt then sang a song which was very much in vogue, and made a great success.

  • It was a spectacular play, and was having a great success.

  • I knew a long time beforehand that every seat in the house had been booked; I knew that the Press expected a great success, and that Perrin himself was reckoning on a long series of big receipts.

  • She tried it at the London Lyceum, to the horror of the critics, but it proved a great success.

  • She" was pronounced a great success in Boston, over $1600 being taken in at one performance.

  • The piece chosen was the latest one of Émile Augier, which has had a great success in Paris, called "Le fils Giboyer.

  • Pan smiled a diabolical smile, and had, of course, a great success.

  • At the Rhein-fest given for Queen Victoria in 1844 she said that she had had a great success, and that Queen Victoria had always been a friend to her since that time.

  • It was a great success, whether by the Duke de Morny or by Offenbach, and was the funniest thing I ever saw.

  • So great success in negotiation, however servile had been his bearing, had little by little increased the influence of Dubois over his master.

  • Though it is only a society play, it was a great success.

  • Rousseau brought out a little opera entitled Le Devin de village (The Village Wizard), which had a great success.

  • The library had been a great success, and it was rare, indeed, for a drunken man to be seen in the streets even of a Saturday night.

  • The cricket-match was a great success, the military band was delightful, and Mr. Brook had placed it on the lawn, so that those of the young people who chose could dance to the inspiring strains.

  • It achieved a great success, and if he would have been content with literary renown, he now could have wished for nothing more to add to his happiness.

  • It had a great success, but as it waxed more and more liberal, the duchess repented her patronage, and finally withdrew it.

  • He now issued the tragedy of "Oedipus," which had a great success.

  • But whatever was wanting in the public services, the social meetings of the day were a great success.

  • Throngs followed him from Church to Church, and, as might be expected, his mission was a great success.

  • Such a Ministry in the eyes of the world may be deemed a great success, but to such as judge not after the outward appearance, it is known to be a dead failure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great admirer; great advance; great armie; great change; great commotion; great convenience; great cost; great earthquake; great expedition; great hand; great kingdom; great mass; great military; great multitude followed him; great national; great naval; great prowess; great repute; great sigh; great slaughter; great that; great tribulation; great want; great weight; greatly mistaken; greatly surprised