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Example sentences for "great trouble"

  • But these emissaries are still among us giving us great trouble, while our Government has no one who can officially represent itself.

  • There is no doubt but that they will be a great trouble to us.

  • Grascour here, who is a great trouble, and you may be sure of this, that I intend to see Harry Annesley before he starts for America.

  • Indeed, the whole Scarborough affair had been from first to last a great trouble to him.

  • To Florence, as to most other girls, the question of her future life had been a great trouble.

  • I cannot explain all about it, for I don't understand it; but he has come to great trouble.

  • So to my office, and all alone making up my month's accounts, which to my great trouble I find that I am got no further than L640.

  • It will always be a great trouble to me--but one must expect trouble in this world, as I said to Percy just now.

  • Mother dear,' and here her voice was very sad, 'I will not deny that this is a great trouble, and that my life will not be as easy and as happy as it used to be.

  • I have been in great trouble--I am in great trouble still.

  • Then I gave him five francs, and said I did not want anybody to know, because I must visit a poor, sick friend who had written to say she was in great trouble, but wished to tell no one except me that she'd come to Paris.

  • And I'm in great trouble, great trouble of my own.

  • And this poor woman is again in great trouble, for at last (she thinks) they will make an end of her son.

  • The queen was in great trouble at seeing her son ill like that.

  • Malbrouk said to her: "You must ask him, as if you were in great trouble about it, what would have to be done to kill him?

  • No, monsieur, and it's a great trouble to me.

  • This had been a great trouble to him, as he felt almost ashamed to have, as his son and heir, this miniature man who did not even break his toys.

  • I went to great trouble to get a copy, and I don't think I should be able to get another.

  • The whole thing was a great trouble, and a great pain to me.

  • I suppose one does think unjust things when one's in great trouble," she answered.

  • That is when there is great trouble, and you are grieved for some one.

  • He answered nothing to the reproaches hurled at him; but said, with a glance of eager interest in the sunken eyes, "Is she in great trouble, little father?

  • And it was Calabressa himself who said to me, 'Little daughter, if ever you are in great trouble, go to Naples.

  • Close by the water was standing one man, whose face showed that he was in great trouble, as he gazed anxiously in every direction over the sea.

  • Then in great trouble, Joseph and Mary hastened back to Jerusalem, looking for their boy.

  • Your father and I have been looking for you, in great trouble, for three days!

  • Out of the crowd came a man running, whose face showed that he was in great trouble.

  • The English were in great trouble at having lost their King and at the Duke's having conquered and beat down the standard; but they still fought on, and defended themselves long, and in fact till the day drew to a close.

  • He obtained it from the divided and dismayed witan with no great trouble, and was crowned by the archbishop of York--the most influential and patriotic among them--binding himself by the constitutional promises of justice and good laws.

  • The Normans drew their swords and hewed down the barricades, and the English, in great trouble, fell back upon their standard, where were collected the maimed and wounded.

  • Many of the King's servants come on board to-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts come to see the ship till it was quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was a great trouble to us all.

  • To my great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, to put in order and to give him an account of them.

  • His son had a painful way of being right that was a great trouble to him.

  • And now, in regard to the Brattles, there came upon him a great trouble.

  • Dick, I am in great trouble," he said in a low voice.

  • Oh, I am in great trouble, Mr. Long, because I am conscious daily of doing you a great wrong.

  • All through the night and so far into the morning he had been in great trouble of thought.

  • I appeared in great trouble, and my good master was so much affected that the tears ran down his face.

  • My mother seemed in great trouble; she was apprehensive that my senses were impaired, or that I was foolish.

  • I went home in great trouble, but said nothing to any body.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great city; great confusion; great contrast; great convenience; great duke; great economic; great error; great experience; great flood; great gods; great guns; great hole; great letter; great literature; great moral; great need; great peace; great perfection; great quantities; great race; great scale; great statesman; great virtue; great wave; greater value; greatly mistaken