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Example sentences for "great name"

  • Great Name of Allah, I swear I will bide my time, and murder you in your bed.

  • I know the 'great name' of Allah, uttering which bears me instantly to the farthest corner of the world; see!

  • For they shall call upon the great name in thee, 13:16.

  • He at once recognised the genius of the young chief who, as General Bonaparte, had already made himself a great name; and Talleyrand's appointment as Foreign Minister was renewed when Napoleon became First Consul.

  • It seemed to him that this offer implied some doubt as to his sincerity, as well as an intention to stimulate his ardour by the authority of a great name.

  • Magni nominis umbra=--The shadow of a great name.

  • Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.

  • Napoleon,= 20 =for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.

  • As you know, I was but a child, and when you came with your great name, your great riches, you for a time fascinated me; but I never loved you.

  • He speedily acquired a great name, and was appointed painter to the King, Louis XIV.

  • He left behind him on his death a son and a daughter, the former living to be a painter of no great name.

  • His is a great name in the Tuscan School.

  • He now travelled, a second time, with the additional glory of a great name, and in the full maturity of his mind.

  • The victory of Rossbach won for Frederic a great name, and diffused universal joy among the English and Prussians.

  • They came from Denmark, and some of their chieftains won a great name in their generation, such as Harold, Canute, Sweyn, and Rollo.

  • But with your talents, boy, surely you are not going to throw away your chances of a great name?

  • I care nothing for a great name, father," said John.

  • He who one day or other deliberately abandons a great name, a great authority, or a large fortune, frees himself at once from many troubles, many restless nights, and sometimes from many crimes.

  • You say I have a great name and a first-rate reputation: you may just as well tell me that I have a stock of air I cannot dispose of.

  • Public, when a citizen gains a great name by advising well or by acting still better for the common advantage.

  • Of the occupation of making a great name.

  • I beg your pardon; the public has informed you of a great name; you would not otherwise have perceived the precious talent of your neighbour: you know little of your friend but his name.

  • I know that this principle is contested by some of great name, who have themselves evinced a wonderful variety of powers.

  • The writer advocates no cause that requires the prestige of a great name to make it respectable.

  • Christianity must have the support of Lincoln's great name.

  • He did not present it because he was himself an unbeliever and wished to support his views with the prestige of Lincoln's great name.

  • They needed the influence of Lincoln's great name to support their crumbling creed, and would have it at any sacrifice, particularly when its possession required no greater sacrifice than truth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been carried; great advance; great army; great artist; great central; great comfort; great confusion; great contrast; great damage; great demand; great indeed; great intelligence; great love; great mind; great monarch; great numbers; great people; great poet; great regret; great renown; great reputation; great square; great style; great teacher; great variety; great weight