Which preposition to use with great
I had recollections of a succession of great cellars, and of one, greater than the rest, the roof of which was upheld by pillars; beyond that my mind was hazy, and predominated by a sense of cold and darkness and shadows.
Take the steam-engineit is a great contrivance, a wonderful invention; but the greatest of all was the discovery of the principle and operation, the practical phenomena of steam itself.
"Man, great in intellect, powerful in mind, gifted with reason, and having within him a spirit that is immortal, proud, glorious, aspiring as he is, falls very far short of perfection in every attribute of his nature.
Yet, perhaps the Indians and the Kamtschadales will be gradually moulded into a hardy, civilized people: and here may be the scene of many a fierce conflict between your people and the Russians, whose numbers, now four times as great as yours, increase almost as rapidly.
He looked at her in delight almost too great for expression.
The men who had moved up into the soaking wood saw they had run a risk as great to them as the fabled danger of the riverthe risk of the josher's irony, the dire humiliation of the laugh.
It is nothing very great at present, but it may lead to better things, and the pay is enough, with what he has saved, to enable him to rent a little 'appartement.'
is not this plain demonstration,I shall murder her, I find the Devil great with me.
It is to be hoped that no one, who shall become great by means of my rules, will turn upon me and revile me, when he finds himself interviewed incessantly, persecuted by unearthings of his early sins, by persistent beggars, by slanders of the envious, by libels of the press, and by the other concomitants of greatness.
Walkyn methinks, was great among them once.
My delight was great on hearing this familiar speech, and I willingly satisfied their curiosity, telling them how I had been shipwrecked, and captured by the blacks.
Although Frank had been unable to maintain the plane on an even keel, his efforts had done some good; for the distance was not so great from the water when the plane capsized as it would have been but for his strenuous efforts.
He lives inglorious or in want, To college and old books confin'd; Instead of learn'd he's call'd pedant, Dunces advanc'd, he's left behind: Yet left content a genuine Stoick he, Great without patron, rich without South Sea.'
No doubt his influence was greater over her for this subtle, unacknowledged bond.
Death of Alexander the Great after a prolonged debauch, Painting by Carl von Piloty.
"' 'A man, he observed, should begin to write soon; for, if he waits till his judgement is matured, his inability, through want of practice to express his conceptions, will make the disproportion so great between what he sees, and what he can attain, that he will probably be discouraged from writing at all.
" Extract from a letter written after her death by a former pupil: "I count Maria Mitchell's services to Vassar and her pupils infinitely valuable, and her character and attainments great beyond anything that has yet been told....
I feel, I feel my bowels refreshed with the holy tide; my zeal is great against the unedified heathen.
Let Tristram yield his loyalty and honour For fair Isoud, and die inglorious, Let Launcelot in Guenever's embrace Forget the consecrated vows he swore, And bring dark desolation on the land, My knight must grow the greater through his love, The better for my favour, the more pure!
And I feel there's something great about you.
The excitement was the greatest under which he had ever labored.
The intercourse between the crews had by no means been great during the two solemn and critical months that were just past.
My LORD, As your Goodness has been ever great towards me, so I humbly beseech you to continue it; and the greatest Proofs you can give me of it, is to use all your Interest to undo that tye between Bellmour and my self, which with such Joy you knit.
she appeals to Nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course The elements and seasons: all declare For what th' Eternal Maker has ordained The powers of man: we feel within ourselves His energy divine: he tells the heart He meant, he made us, to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
The greatest amongst them, however, is, perhaps, his "French Revolution, a History,"which is no history, but a vivid painting of characters and events as they moved along in tumultuous procession.