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Example sentences for "great lawyer"

  • It is impossible for a man to be a great lawyer, so far as the learning of his profession is concerned, who has not saturated himself with the Bible.

  • He may be a great practitioner, but not a great lawyer.

  • If you say you have no time for all this, the answer is: If that is true, you have no time to be a great lawyer.

  • Kent, now thirty-five years old, a great lawyer and a strong partisan, had the conservatism of Jay, and held to the principles of Hamilton.

  • He was not a great lawyer, but his contemporaries thought him a great man.

  • If less immediate in the rewards they bring, they are the only studies which can win for the legal aspirant the true glory of a great lawyer.

  • Nevertheless, there is no field so great and so certain in the long run, in which one may become really a great lawyer, as in some of our large commercial cities, whether of the East or the West.

  • He was a great lawyer, a great soldier, a great statesman, a great philanthropist, a man without taint or stain.

  • He is a great lawyer, as well as a soldier and politician, and a speaker of almost unsurpassed gifts.

  • Very well, then, I say I shall be a great lawyer.

  • He was a great lawyer before he came to the Bench.

  • I suppose that whoever does that must describe a great soldier and a great lawyer, as well as a great Senator.

  • Webster was a great statesman, a great lawyer, a great advocate, a great public teacher.

  • He was not a great lawyer, nor even a great advocate like Rufus Choate, and yet he would frequently defeat Choate.

  • Howe was not a great lawyer, but the kind of witnesses ordinarily met with in such cases he usually handled with a skill that was little short of positive genius.

  • Mr. Evarts was not only a great lawyer, but an orator and statesman of the highest distinction.

  • He did not claim to be a man of mark or a great lawyer, but certainly acquired and retained the confidence as an advisor of many of the best citizens in Cedar Rapids and vicinity.

  • Certainly," said he, "if there be such a character as a great lawyer.

  • What thing of importance that only a great lawyer could do, did not Follett do?

  • I parried the question, by asking him, "Whether he thought Sir William Follett a great lawyer.

  • You see it takes all my time to be a great lawyer!

  • Well--shall I not rest content with being a great lawyer?

  • How does it feel to be a great lawyer, Lewis?

  • Providence brings upon the scene a great lawyer, who, unsolicited, undertakes the defence of a monster, association with whom is defilement.

  • Prentiss--though known as a great lawyer and a powerful advocate at the Bar--had until now taken but little part in politics.

  • He was adroit and quick, and was rather a quibbler than a great lawyer.


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