great-heartedness

Example Sentences

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Her instinct was infallible, her knowledge of how these poor people felt was intuitive, and her great-heartedness was to be seen in every motion, heard in every tone of her voice.

From The Judgment House by Parker, Gilbert

He was a man renowned for his wealth, as well as for great-heartedness.

From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.

Deeply moved by the great-heartedness of the Tsar, Pkerose accepted Christianity and was baptized with his whole nation, but Bakarr occupied himself with thoroughly settling the widow and children of his brother Revv.

From Caucasian Legends by Goulbat, Abraam Abraamovich

I never meant to pull you into this—I'll not let you be dragged into it by your own great-heartedness.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

"Thank you, thank you," he replied in his rich, after-dinner voice, that seemed to come with his winning smile to his lips through a vast measure of good-fellowship and great-heartedness.

From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan