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Sentences starting with great

Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
Great lords only wish to see the velvet side of life--of death's doings, nothing at all. [10]
Great Russell Street was all a sweet fragrance of gardens, mingling with the smell of the fields from the open country to the north. [9]
Great nobles walked upon each side of him, making him lean upon them, and so steady his steps. [5]
Great drops began to fall, unheeded. [9]
Great applause rang through the building. [11]
Great losses were threatening, but he left no means untried to secure for his family what might yet be saved. [10]
Great Scott, but there was a sensation! [5]
Great men have their weaknesses. [9]
Great will be the ransom, my Frenchman! [11]

Sentences ending with great

His affection for you as his brother's son is great. [9]
The news was worth a good deal, for instance, to Mr. Peter Pardriff (brother of Paul, of Ripton), who refrained, with praiseworthy self-control, from publishing it in the State Tribune, although the temptation to do so must have been great. [9]
I have been wondering whether we shall be as happy when the world discovers that you are great. [9]
You took duty where you found it, and it has made you great. [9]
Only, if I were a man, I shouldn't rest until I became great. [9]
Then it is well with her, for death is not punishment; it is the end and aim of life,--the only end that we can attain without effort, but through sufferings!--the gods alone know how great. [10]
The Kremlin, which was not destroyed, gleamed white in the distance with its towers and the belfry of Ivan the Great. [2]
For his anger was great. [11]
My own astonishment was as great. [9]
The shock was very great. [5]

Short sentences using great

The great halls were full. [2]
A great shout went up. [11]
The great house was silent. [4]
A great function was necessary. [11]
Your great grandfather was hanged. [5]
The great idol was desecrated. [10]
The Great Understanding was complete. [11]
The great crime was accomplished. [5]
Moses, the great warrior! [5]
We've had great times here--immense. [5]

Sentences containing great two or more times

A great many years have passed since I was a parishioner of St. John's --a great many years. [9]
A second term would be a great honor and a great labor, which, together, perhaps I would not decline if tendered. [7]
It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
All this is what we see around us, now, now while we are actually fighting this great battle, and supporting this great load of indebtedness. [6]
At night there were great stories of achievement told by the cavernous fireplace; great latitude was permitted in the estimation of the size of particular drifts, but never any agreement was reached as to the "depth on a level. [4]
Whether this change was wrought by their great approval of the assault upon Sumter, or their great resentment at the government's resistance to that assault, is not definitely known. [7]
Every day he was less and less in love with the law as it was practiced, and, courting reputation, he would much rather be a great author than a great lawyer. [4]
This great building was filled, like this great theatre, with rejoicing villagers, and my friend and I started down the centre aisle. [5]
Our great achievement was achieved--the possibility of the impossible was demonstrated, and Harris and I walked proudly into the great dining-room of the Riffelberg Hotel and stood our alpenstocks up in the corner. [5]

More example sentences with the word great in them

Smedley the artist; Zorn the artist; Zogbaum the artist; Reinhart the artist; Metcalf the artist; Ancona, head tenor at the Opera; Oh, a great lot of others. [5]
In great haste, Yr Obliged Bro. [5]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
An attempt on your life, great Caesar; but we have him fast! [10]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
Now give me your hand; you will make a fine man, and perhaps a great warrior. [10]
I think of your great hate toward him who--I think of your life's implacable purpose. [13]
Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
He is the youngest of us all, but a great future awaits him. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
Suddenly a tall young man in a white dress with a beautiful sky-blue border appeared through the great gate. [10]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
It was like you; like your good great heart, like your matchless and unmatchable self. [5]
It is for you, the great Master, not for me, the overworked, bungling amateur, to correct the work of talented pupils. [10]
Lucky I found you, or you'd have been sleeping till the Great Mass. [11]
Clear out with you!--you've been guilty of a great crime, you whelp! [5]
She had seen you yesterday morning, and fancied she had noted how great and severe your sufferings were. [10]
They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
But I know you well," he exclaimed, his manner changing, "you are making this great sacrifice on my account. [9]
I don't want you to make a mistake, Hugh, too great a mistake. [9]
Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
I can't pay you the great difference. [11]
If I tell you that I have a great respect for your astuteness and ability, do not put it down to flattery. [9]
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
Has he done you or yours any great benefit? [10]
He is deceiving you now in small things, great Caesar, and later he will deceive you in greater ones. [10]
From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
In Chennu, as you know, besides the quarries there is the great college of priests, which is in close alliance with the temple of Seti. [10]
I can put you in correspondence with such a person, and you had better trust him than me a great deal. [6]
Good-by, sir, good-by; you have taken a great load off my mind. [5]
And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
For the services you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged, I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country. [7]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
Should she, as you fear, be destined to an early grave, it is indeed a great consolation to know that she is so well prepared to meet it. [7]
Sometimes I think you don't show it a great deal," the Honourable Hilary answered. [9]
Tell me, will you do me and the princess too a very great service? [10]
I know that you do it from thorough conviction, but with other acknowledged great artists and our judges, you, too, demand beauty--always beauty. [10]
As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. [6]
I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
I might shame you before these great per--" "Father! [5]
I have told you before now how I went with our maid-servant into the Canopic way to the house of my aunt Archidike to look on at the great procession. [10]
I take it you are strangers to this great thorough fare, but I am entirely familiar with it. [5]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
What great chances you are hazarding! [10]
Everywhere in London you are confronted by signs of an incomprehensible prosperity; everywhere, indeed, in Great Britain. [9]
Oh, I know you are a great man, but you mustn't think you can do this. [11]
Haven't they told you anything about the great miracle of the restoration of a holy fountain? [5]
I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
Musical it was, yet there seemed no pleasure in it: rather irony, and a great weariness of the amusements of this world: and a note, too, from a vanity never ruffled. [9]
It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
The were bidding, yes, for the possession of souls, bidding in the currency of the Great Republic. [9]
A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
The great chief Yellow Arm is fallen. [11]
The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
During the early years of his literary studies he led a life of great retirement. [6]
Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
Very well; five years ago, when the troubles concerning the frontier line arose between Great Britain and Siam, it was presently manifest that Siam had been in the wrong. [5]
Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
And in the year he had learned a great deal about his art. [4]
I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. [5]
We grounded, and Xavier, seizing a great tow-rope, leaped into the shallow water and passed the bight around a trunk. [9]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
The immortals have wrought as great a miracle in you as in me. [10]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
Gras had already written twice to his master, telling him with what gratifying patience Hermon was beginning to submit to his great misfortune, when the notary Melampus returned from Alexandria with news which produced the most delightful transformation in the blind artist's outer life. [10]
He could have written this: The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. [5]
Also Herdegen had written out many verses of Homer's great song from a precious written book, and had learned to master them well from the teaching of the doctor of Feltre. [10]
This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. [6]
It may be written down in the great speech. [7]
But it was written by Parson Halleck, a great minister and a sort of Pope in this region for fifty years. [4]
King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
Mark Twain was writing a great deal at this time. [5]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
He caught her wrists with his great hands, big enough for tall Medallion, and held her. [11]
A great green wreath, which must have cost the parent oak a large fraction of its foliage, was an object of special admiration. [6]
Forty of the wounded were placed upon pallets on the floor of a great public hall, and among these was Henry. [5]
Possibly the difficulty wouldn't be so great as many people suppose. [6]
The old palace would still be great if there were nothing of it but the spacious and lofty hall where the durbars are held. [5]
He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
This presented (or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. [7]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
Ah, but that would make great Bedford smile! [5]
Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]

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