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Example sentences for "great water"

  • He had heard of the "great water" in the west, which he believed, in common with others, might lead to the Gulf of California.

  • Christ stilling the tempest is a subject fraught with perplexity to those who have never seen either a maritime vessel or the "great water," and firearms are placed somewhat before their invention in the hands of the heroes of antiquity.

  • These more remote traders, as was claimed, made their journeys upon a great water in large canoes.

  • The missionaries among the Hurons, as well as Champlain and the best informed of the French settlers upon the St. Lawrence, thought this "great water" must be a western sea leading to Asia.

  • An example of conditions where the important problems of transmission are absent exists in the numerous factories grouped about the great water-power plants at Niagara and drawing electrical energy from it.

  • This application of great water powers to the industrial wants of distant cities is hardly more than a decade old.

  • A great water-power, or a location where fuel is cheap, may offer opportunity to generate electrical energy at an exceptionally low cost.

  • The statement over which I have pondered, walking along that river, that he might have reached the "great water" in three more days, is intelligible only in this interpretation of his course.

  • In the afternoon we travelled by wagon, and the waters being much out, by reason of heavy rains, when it drew towards night we hired a boy on the way to guide us through a great water we had to pass.

  • Then is Smithfield pond, which of old time in records was called Horse-pool, for that men watered horses there, and was a great water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great abilities; great affairs; great assembly; great celebrity; great cities; great consideration; great crowd; great difficulty; great fancy; great hall; great intelligence; great interest; great island; great kindness; great moral; great multitude; great mystery; great nobleman; great poet; great statesman; great thickness; great weakness; greatest diameter; greatly improved; greatly superior; make firm