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Example sentences for "great friend"

  • I bowed again to my comrade's great friend.

  • This is my great friend, a splendid fellow--and the soul of discretion.

  • Pell, one may remark, was a great friend of Hobbes.

  • Afterwards Lord Dartmouth, a great friend of James the Second, but one who played a dubious part at the Revolution.

  • It was on a hot Sunday afternoon in late June, that Leroux and a great friend of his, a very tall boy who had somewhat outgrown his strength, paid what proved to be their last visit to the canal.

  • Gerald Legge, second son of the Earl of Dartmouth, killed in action in Gallipoli, August, 1915; an excellent naturalist and a great friend of ours.

  • He is cawass here and a great friend of mine.

  • I am told that lord was much in with Lord Wharton, and I remember he was to have been one of the Lords Justices by his recommendation; yet the Bishop recommends him as a great friend to the Church, etc.

  • He was a great friend of Addison's, and the second volume of the Tatler was dedicated to him.

  • The Secretary and I dined to-day with Brigadier Britton,[13] a great friend of his.

  • Erasmus Lewis, Under Secretary of State under Lord Dartmouth, was a great friend of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot.

  • I had lost a great friend, and France a great patriot.

  • Herr, who had come to Beaucourt to fetch me, had spoken a great deal to my mother about a great friend of hers, a certain M.

  • I had known him for several years; he was a great friend of both my husband and myself and came frequently to the house.

  • We went out and breakfasted at Compiegne with a great friend of ours, M.

  • I was quite puzzled, but Hatzfeldt, who was a great friend of Liszt's and knew all his peculiarities, when consulted by Madame A.

  • He was a great friend of Marshal MacMahon, and had been prefet at Pau, where he had a great position.

  • He is a great friend of mine--Captain Ronald Hope.

  • The queen is a great friend of mine," Mazaroff went on, and Jessie knew instantly that he was lying.

  • Captain Hope is also a great friend of General Maxgregor, and is, I know, very anxious to find a post in the Asturian army.

  • Miss Wishart is a great friend of mine, and a most awfully good sort.

  • And as you are a great friend of hers I think I may tell you a great secret," and the lady patted him playfully.

  • And do you know I met such a nice man up there, who said you were a great friend of his?

  • I hope you liked her, for her mother was a relation of my husband, and when I have been home the small Alice has always been a great friend of mine.

  • Lord Edward DeciĆ©, who was a great friend of my father, died about three years ago.

  • Under ordinary conditions I should have taken no action, but you see Mrs. Richford is a great friend of mine, and I was anxious to see how far her husband was in with these people.

  • There was a young native prince who was a great friend of mine and he was about to be married to a princess who was as bright and intelligent as himself.

  • She is a great friend of Princess Mary and told me I ought to go and see her.

  • I have just had a nice visit from Prince Orloff, Russian Ambassador here, who is a great friend of ours, and who was very anxious from the first that I should go.

  • I am happy to insert every memorial of the honour done to my great friend.

  • It may be observed, that I sometimes call my great friend, Mr.

  • She had an old friend, a great friend, a woman whom as a girl she had really loved.

  • He is a great friend of Mrs. Simpson's, and he and his mother have been invited.

  • You have come here without telling Mrs. Aylmer what occurred at Cherry Court School and at Cherry Court Park; you don't want her to know how terribly you injured my great friend, Florence Aylmer.

  • My great friend, Maurice Trevor, returns, I think, in a day or two.

  • Ah, Florence, you little know what a great, great friend he is!

  • The master Pedraza, a great friend of Renovales, was to conduct the orchestra.

  • According to her, Mariano was making millions; Josephina was reported to be a great friend of the Pope, her house was full of Cardinals and if the Pope did not visit her it was only because the poor thing was a prisoner in the Vatican.

  • He also was a great friend of Mrs. Madison's, and helped her in her dramatic escape from the White House when the British were on their way to burn and plunder it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great book; great circle; great concourse; great distance from the; great distress; great family; great girl; great mistake; great mystery; great name; great noise; great pace; great pressure; great prince; great principles; great public; great rock; great sigh; great spoonful; great talents; great veneration; great way; great world; great wrong; greater number; greater proportion