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Example sentences for "our great"

  • Our great man of the Middle Ages could not form any conception of any tragedy approaching Macbeth or Lear, or of any comedy equal to Henry the Fourth or Twelfth Night.

  • I am one of many members who know by experience that a generosity and a delicacy of sentiment which would do honour to any seat of learning may be found among the ten pound householders of our great cities.

  • Next day we saw the serpent again, to our great terror, when I cried out, O Heaven, to what dangers are we exposed!

  • I was then a merchant of Moussol, but am at present Haroun Alraschid, the seventh caliph of the glorious house of Abbas, who holds the place of our great prophet.

  • But the next morning, to our great surprise, that good-looking young Marylander had very quietly moved his own chair to the vacant place.

  • The lecture at the Temple of Mercury, last evening, was well attended by the elite of our great city.

  • Look at the annual reports of the deaths in any of our great cities, and see how their regularity approaches the uniformity of the tides, and their variations keep pace with those of the seasons.

  • O it will be our great glory to see that dear Man, whose blessed head was crowned with thorns, and whose lovely face was spit upon, for us.

  • This discourse has been published in every edition of the works of our great author, but, most strangely, the references to Scripture are omitted in all the editions since that of 1737.

  • Our great want, a while since, was harbour and good company, and now I hope we have both.

  • One of the workmen employed upon the ruins found, among the rubbish, where the prison had stood, a ring made of fine gold, bearing an inscription which affords strong presumptive evidence that it belonged to our great allegorist.

  • Sbe is our mistress, and we all reverence and obey her as we should, the widow of our great chieftain.

  • It was on the evening of a bloody day of battle; I had ridden at the side of our great chieftain, Mourad Bey.

  • To him it did not seem enough to be the descendant of Mohammed, of our great prophet--he wished to be king and prophet himself.

  • Next we had Mastiate as our great excitement: she, we thought, would strive to gain possession of her amba; but she also never made her appearance; and now for nearly a month we were in daily expectation of the arrival of Menilek.

  • And now I close by presenting in catalogue form some of the steps that I believe to be necessary for dealing with the terrible problems of our great underworld.

  • I think that my pages will show that the methods now in use for coping with some of our great evils do not lessen, but considerably increase the evils they seek to cure.

  • Neither was it without reason that Dickens, our great student of human nature, made of Quilp a twisted dwarf, and Stagg a blind man his most dangerous characters.

  • No garrison or watch was put into Castlewood when my lord came back, but a Guard was in the village; and one or other of them was always on the Green keeping a look-out on our great gate, and those who went out and in.

  • The portrait of the author, by White, which faced the title-page, is without doubt the best likeness that has ever appeared of our great allegorist.

  • We were certain of our innocence in the matter, and very grieved at having, through pure slander, lost the chance of such assistance in our great need.

  • Fortunately before these two movements began, to our great surprise, a loud shout was raised by some patriotic spirit in the middle of the audience, who called out 'Long live the King!

  • With me, however, this was not lasting, and I had contented myself with the poetic suggestions on these important subjects which appear here and there in the works of our great poets.

  • Had Dryden written nothing but plays we should not remember him as one of our great poets.

  • But it is, perhaps, the Celtic love of beauty, together with the Saxon love of strength and right, to which we owe much of our great literature.

  • We cannot regard Southey as one of our great poets, but when we read his letters, we must love him as a man.

  • This picture is called The Boyhood of Raleigh, and was painted by one of our great painters, Sir John Millais.

  • I feel kinder proud to have the first literary man of our great nation as my Attache.

  • How can you come for to go, for to talk arter that fashion; you are a disgrace to our great nation, you great lummokin coward, you.

  • Well, Lucius,' said Fausta, 'and what think you now of our great Queen?

  • How many of our brave soldiers, how many of our great officers, with devoted patriotism throw away their lives for their country.

  • My first business at Avignon was, of course, to visit the tomb of our great countryman, John Stuart Mill.

  • Our great-grandfathers lived in perpetual terror that they would be devoured by France; that French ambition would overset the Celestial Balance, and proceed next to eat the British Nation.

  • We lost no time in pursuing our journey up the coast, and had by four o'clock accomplished six miles, when, to our great mortification, another inlet barred our progress.

  • Though the morning was unpromising with slight rain, it was not deemed prudent to lose a moment in passing it, while in our power; and by one o'clock every thing was safely over, to our great satisfaction.


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