capital fellow

Example Sentences

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Be good to him; he is a capital fellow in his odd, amusing way.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

There 's a capital fellow, called Tom Cox, by the way, somewhere down in that country, who used to paint our scenes for the garrison theatricals.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Mac, here's your good health; you're a capital fellow.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Fred had known him at college, and then had found him at Naples, After several years,––and called him a capital fellow.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

"He was a capital fellow at the galleys; but I suspect he 'd prove a very shady acquaintance in more correct company."

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James