He was, for his day, a great linguist.

Is it in French alone, monsieur, that you excel, or are you, perhaps, a great linguist?

Ahmed Vefik was a great linguist.

He is a great linguist, too.

The great linguist of Bologna mastered a hundred languages by taking them singly, as the lion fought the bulls.

Zeisberger was a great linguist.

Macaulay was a great linguist, but he wrote no better than Shakespeare, and Burns wrote perfect English, though virtually uneducated.

Isabelle had been studying Italian in school, and with a smattering of Spanish under her belt, too, she considered herself a great linguist

Bishops Bompas was one of the greatest linguists the Mother Country ever produced.

There, too, were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age.

Why should they not become great linguists, and poets, and novelists, and artists, and critics, and historians?

'Jones is a great linguist,' Doctor Fischer said.

He lived frugally, and his dress was mean and threadbare, nevertheless, this strange, austere, unpretentious man was one of the greatest linguists of his time.