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Example sentences for "great matter"

  • And I answered, saying, ‘Though my life were the price of her favours 'twere no great matter.

  • He replied, "Though my life were the price of her favours 'twere no great matter.

  • The King answered to it with great indifferency, as a thing that it was no great matter whether it was done or no.

  • It's no great matter now, Corny; put, as you say, it may be of use one day.

  • Kate and I remained at Satanstoe several days, and Tom Bayard was a daily visitor; the distance between the Neck and the Hickories being no great matter.

  • To know how to do good is a great matter, but to know when to do it is no small one.

  • I have always intended you should succeed to his place: it is no great matter of profit, but every little is something.

  • As for the town itself, it was certainly no great matter; containing about twenty dwellings, and otherwise being of very modest pretensions.

  • The planking of the Neshamony was no great matter, being completed the week it was commenced.

  • That schooner, which was regularly pilot-boat built, was the fastest craft about the islands, and it was a great matter to put head-quarters on board her.

  • The dingui was no great matter of a boat, and they had not much difficulty in getting it into the water.

  • A seared, senseless conscience will permit you to lie, and steal, and deceive, and will make no great matter of it, till God awaken it by his grace or vengeance.

  • Indeed, it is no great matter to begin to look for heaven, to begin to seek the Lord, to begin to shun sin.

  • Prudence then replied that there needed no great matter of discouragement to be given to him, her continuing so as she had begun to do for the poor, would quickly cool his courage.

  • They were all true men, and fast joined together; and this, you know, is a great matter.

  • Though some odd copies of particular volumes remain on hand, there is no great matter, as they may be disposed of with a small discount.

  • Lawyers do use to make a great matter of it, when they can prove, that that very debt is paid for which their client is sued at law.

  • Well, Granny, one single head is not such a great matter.

  • Yet a will is no great matter: cut off a toe from the right foot of each one of you, and I'll say done!

  • However, a will is not such a great matter; let each of you cut him an ear off, and I'll cry done!

  • We want eighteen or nineteen good seamen to make them respectable again; and though this Bolt is no great matter as a seaman, he can turn his hand to so many things, that he was as useful as the boatswain.

  • Aye--I dare say it is different from what we would have it; French spelling being no great matter in general.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    given subject; great advance; great anxiety; great depths; great encouragement; great flocks; great fortune; great idea; great light; great literary; great marvel; great pile; great pomp; great principle; great reason; great revolution; great risk; great scholar; great share; great slaughter; great speed; great storm; great word; greater share; greatly surprised; tone process