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• A great storm is approaching our shores.
• “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.”
• ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.’
• Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
• He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,, the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
• He doth object I am too great of birth.
• “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
• a great nature
• a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
• the ewes great with young
• to use great caution;  to be in great pain
• We have all / Great cause to give great thanks.
• Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
• [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
• those that are so great with him
• Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
• Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
• Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
• Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
• Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened.
• Dinner was great.
• A great man.
• Peter the Great was czar of Russia.
• To improve in art, one must first study the greats.
• Alexander the Great