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Example sentences for "three great"

  • Thus, three great fires in the tenth and eleventh century swept London from end to end.

  • Three great Houses, it is true, have left no trace or memory behind.

  • The Hexapoda are not known to us in their earlier or more primitive manifestations; we only know them as possessed of a definite number of somites arranged in definite numbers in three great tagmata.

  • Three great pillars, Eternity, Fecundity, and Authority, supported the roof; and the whole was an emblem of the Universe.

  • The river system of India consists of three great rivers: the Indus, the Ganges, the Bramaputra.

  • The stimulus of three great wars, presented by Bismarck as sanctified by God, finally did the business.

  • Three great lights in Masonry, by the assistance of three lesser.

  • Three great elephants, two plump partridges, and my lady's lapdog.

  • The French came forward in three great divisions; the corps of Ney and Soult in the direction of Hof; Davoust, Murat and Bernadotte towards Saalburg and Schleiz, and Lannes and Augereau upon Coburg and Saalfeld.

  • Three great armies, two of which might easily communicate with each other, were thus taking the field against Napoleon at once.

  • Captaine Smith was led after him by three great Salvages, holding him fast by each arme: and on each side six went in fyle with their arrowes nocked.

  • This comparative isolation was due partly to the institution of slavery, partly to devotion to the production of two or three great staples.

  • In the genesis of the kosmos there appear to be three great undulations in the universal current of life.

  • His army was drawn up in three great bodies, the two wings composed of his French, Flemish, and Breton mercenaries, the centre of the native Normans.

  • If this were so, ancient Egypt would exhibit a stratification of three great types of religion or superstition corresponding to three great stages of society.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    much damage; separate them; this remarkable; three blades; three centuries; three days and three; three dollars; three equal vertical bands; three fathom; three fifths; three frigates; three gates; three guns; three hundred thousand more; three millions; three sides; three sons; three species; three states; three steps; three successive; three times round the; three tons; three vertical; three weeks; three witnesses