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Meanings of great contemporaries in English

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Usage of great contemporaries in English
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None of Herrick's great contemporaries has left a consecrating word concerning it.
Ponkapog Papers
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As a critic of literature, he surpasses all his great contemporaries.
Halleck's New English Literature
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Ecclesiastical history is silent as to distinguished persons except as persecutors, or as great contemporaries.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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Dionysius and Mikon were the great contemporaries of Polygnotus, the former being celebrated for his portraits.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03: Ancient Achievements
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She is more obviously, more consciously a preacher and moralizer than any of her great contemporaries.
English Literature / Its History and Its Significance for the Li...
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The differences between Arnold's teaching and that of his two great contemporaries are probably now clear.
A History of English Literature
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Eratosthenes outlived most of his great contemporaries.
A History of Science — Volume 1
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The father of English poetry belonged to the school of progress and of inquiry, like his great contemporaries on the Continent.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
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He was a man of less intellectual power undoubtedly than either of his great contemporaries and antagonists, Allen, Merrick, or Thomas.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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There we have the real work of the three great contemporaries who illuminated the middle of the eighteenth century-onlynine volumes in all.
Through the Magic Door
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You can scrutinize the handwriting and revel in the irony that some of the great contemporaries are trapped under the same displays together.
Wired
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'Mandeville,' however, is a very minor figure when compared with his great contemporaries, especially with the chief of them, Geoffrey Chaucer.
A History of English Literature
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