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Grammar : Noun



Définition of great expectations

  • As in positive thinking : noun positive attitude
Example sentences :
  • He is not a man of great rank, great promise, or great expectations.
  • Extract from : « Modern Women and What is Said of Them » by Anonymous
  • We take up the book with great expectations, and find it—trash.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 » by Various
  • I have just finished my book of "Great Expectations," and am the worse for wear.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
  • The first number of "Great Expectations" appeared on the 1st December.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
  • You cannot think how happy you make me by what you write of "Great Expectations."
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
  • This was likewise the case with an uncle, from whom I had great expectations.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I » by Tobias Smollett
  • The great expectations are not all on the younger side of fifty.
  • Extract from : « How it Feels to be Fifty » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • Once he had had great expectations, but alas!dad had just come a cropper.
  • Extract from : « Nothing But the Truth » by Frederic S. Isham
  • Great expectations were excited by it, but it soon sank into oblivion.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • Great expectations were formed of him, and he fulfilled them all.
  • Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany » by Georg Brandes

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