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Example sentences for "great lover"

  • Raeburn was a great lover of flowers, and he very often received floral offerings from his followers.

  • She had never had money enough to buy anything except the necessary school books, and, being a great lover of poetry, she always seized with avidity on anything that was to be found outside the book shop.

  • Now Erica was a great lover of animals, and a passionate lover of justice.

  • He was a great lover of Nature, and Nature was looking her loveliest just then.

  • Back of the lily and the rose, back of the landscape, back of all beautiful things that enchant us, there must be a great lover of the beautiful and a great beauty-principle.

  • There are many evidences in the New Testament that Christ was a great lover of the beautiful especially in nature.

  • And he is now as happy and as contented as a child in his retirement, because he has always been a great reader, a great lover of his kind.

  • It is a rare wonder, and my lord brother was always a great lover of sheep!

  • This Sicinnus was a Persian captive, but a great lover of Themistocles, and the attendant of his children.

  • He was, indeed, by nature, a great lover of honor, as is evident from the anecdotes recorded of him.

  • Pan was equally beloved by huntsmen, being himself a great lover of the woods, which afforded to his cheerful and active disposition full scope, and in which he loved to range at will.

  • Well, then, as He who dwells on high would have it, there was one whose name was Mr. Prywell, a great lover of Mansoul.

  • Well, now, as He who dwells on high would have it, there was one whose name was Mr. Prywell, a great lover of the town of Mansoul.

  • Great lovers are always jealous men, and Mr. Prywell showed himself to be a great lover by the great heat of his jealousy also.

  • Charles I was a great lover of art and he summoned many artists, some of the first rank, to England, and he bought pictures with a far-sighted munificence, and Charles II was ambitious of following along the same distinguished path.

  • From her childhood she was a great lover of books, which being observed by her mother, who was also a great admirer of learning, especially in her own sex, there was nothing wanting for her improvement, so long as her mother lived.

  • He was a highly trained linguist, a great lover of antiquities, and one of the most promising Anglo-Saxon scholars of his time.

  • I was lodged in the house of Secretary Brummer who as a great lover of music had begged that I might become his guest.

  • My wife was invited to reside with a lady of her acquaintance, the sister of the Advocate Zizius, a great lover of music, in whose house we had frequently played, so that during my absence I could leave her without any uneasiness.

  • In the evening, Andre took us to Herr Ewald, a great lover of music, at whose house the Offenbach Singing-academy had assembled to let him hear three compositions which they had practised with great care.

  • Sir John Mordaunt, who had a command at Tangier twenty-five yeares, and had been some time governour there, a great lover of field sports, affirmes that there are no pheasants in Africa or Spaine.

  • Henry Earle of Pembroke was a great lover of heraldrie, and collected curious manuscripts of it, that I have seen and perused; e.

  • This peer was a great lover of the fine arts, and a patron of Vandyck.

  • But now, as Shaddai would have it, there was one whose name was Mr. Prywell, a great lover of the people of Mansoul.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great actor; great applause; great banquet; great care; great consideration; great council; great criminal; great crisis; great delicacy; great economic; great estimation; great favour; great grief; great indeed; great intelligence; great nature; great noise; great pain; great poem; great quantity; great resemblance; great sign; great triumph; great trouble; great truth; great wall