For if a true survey be taken of counsellors and statesmen, there may be found (though rarely) those which can make a small state great, and yet cannot fiddle; as on the other side, there will be found a
great many, that can fiddle very cunningly, but yet are so far from being able to make a small state great, as their gift lieth the other way; to bring a great and flourishing estate, to ruin and decay.
The Essays
But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I suppose you know--not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that you never required of me more than was natural.
There are a great many people--and a great many things, too--over here that I should like to perform that operation upon.
I have made a great many pleasant acquaintances in travelling round (both ladies and gentlemen), and had a great many most interesting talks.
I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as the people over here.
Bundle of Letters
If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a
great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz."
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* exodus: the departure of a
great many people from one place.
The great migration
Indeed in the Shire such a matter would have required a
great many more words and bows" (2.300).
The Great War and Tolkien's Memory: an examination of World War I themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings