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Example sentences for "these great"

  • By the labours of these great men in the two last centuries we are taught to know what we seek, and how it is to be sought.

  • It is, however, a piece of justice due to the memory of these great men, to acknowledge that we are equally encouraged by their examples and guided by their discoveries.

  • There was no entrance to these great structures in the ground story.

  • It should be noticed that this architecture, and the necessities that gave it birth, led to a change in the mode of life from the open ground to the terraces or flat roofs of these great houses.

  • All the people lived together in these great houses on terms of equality, for their institutions were essentially democratical.

  • Thus have we traced the history of these great rings of coral-rock, from their first origin through their normal changes, and through the occasional accidents of their existence, to their death and final obliteration.

  • Mitchell, for several interesting personal communications on the subject of these great valleys of New South Wales.

  • It is probable that much of the snow at these great heights is evaporated rather than thawed.

  • Then, again, the significance of this question is in the direction of making clear for us the way by which men lay hold of these great truths.

  • These great thoughts go to the centre of their needs and of ours; and on them I now touch briefly.

  • Now let me turn to the second thought which lies in these great words.

  • These great water-pots that stood there, if the whole contents of them were changed, as is possible, contained far more than sufficient for the modest wants of the little company.

  • We could not catch a glance of a single figure moving in these great pleasure-grounds.

  • There are nine of these great halls, for all ranks, from His Highness downwards, where many hecatombs are roasted daily, according to the accounts, and where cooking goes on with a savage Homeric grandeur.

  • For the Prevention of these great Evils, I could heartily wish that there was an Act of Parliament for Prohibiting the Importation of French Fopperies.

  • One of these great paintings is at Venice, and the other in the Louvre at Paris.

  • But in another view the sight of these great objects of nature is depressing.

  • Courage you who delvers are; These great thunderbolts of war No more than yourselves shall go Armed with breastplate there below, As though battling as of yore.

  • Even more interesting for the modern time is the attitude of these great collectors of books of Columbus' time toward their precious treasures.

  • The result of these great discoveries I am not here concerned to examine, except so far as they aided in diminishing the energy of the warlike spirit.

  • These great obstructors of mankind played, in the seventeenth century, the same part as they play in our own day, rejecting every novelty, and therefore opposing every improvement.

  • To these great inquiries, which touch the basis of social philosophy, Burke added a considerable acquaintance with physical science, and even with the practice and routine of mechanical trades.

  • The utterly meaningless arrangement of many of these great documents, together with the unpardonable carelessness of the copiers, account partly for their needless length and largely for their obscurity.

  • How rapidly some of these great earth-movements took place it is impossible at present to say; but in several cases it can be shown that they were quite slow, as indicated by the testimony of the rivers.

  • He may well ask his companions how these great ramparts of the earth were built up.

  • But for those barren fields of ice, high up among the silent crags, the seeming home of winter and death, these great arteries of life would every summer dwindle down to paltry streams, feebly wandering over stone-strewn beds.

  • For almost as the high caste of mystic India hold themselves aloof from even the mere sight of less favored humans, do these great, somber houses of Beacon street and the rest of the Back Bay close their doors tightly to the stranger.

  • And much has been written of her growing strength in these great lines.

  • And yet it is by no means gay, the life I lead here in these great, cold rooms, where no one ever comes, where each man stows himself away in a corner without speaking.

  • Not for a moment must it be supposed that in these great attempts, these great Successes, the Royal Society stood alone.

  • In these great happenings we become strangers to each other for the reason that we never knew each other profoundly.

  • I heard him saying, "These great maneuvers, after all, they're a sham.

  • Why shouldn't you be one of them, my lad, you one of these great apostles!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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