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Great care   /greɪt kɛr/   Listen
Great care

noun
1.
More attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons.





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"Great care" Quotes from Famous Books



... boys reached the tent they found Oliver and Teddy mourning over the destruction of a large number of films and plates. Many pictures, developed and printed with great care, had ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson
... sensitive on the subject; so when the coach came thundering into the yard, and she was called to take her place by a man who addressed her as "Little Missy," she was ready to shed tears of vexation. Patty had to remember her mother's words, to "take great care of the doll, as it had been a lot of trouble to make," otherwise she might have been tempted to leave it behind, or let it drop out of the ...
— Golden Moments - Bright Stories for Young Folks • Anonymous
... the most beautiful I ever heard, and she used it conscientiously, if I may say so. I mean that she availed herself of its modulations to give thrilling emphasis to what was profound in her utterances, and sweetness to what was gentle or playful. She bestowed great care too on her enunciation, disliking the slipshod mode of pronouncing which is so common. I have several times heard her declare with enthusiasm that ours is a beautiful language, a noble language ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... She was to be the atonement for the parents' hasty, unlicensed marriage, in addition to their two beautiful abbeys at Caen. When the Abbaye aux Dames was consecrated, the little girl was led by her father to the foot of the altar, and there presented as his offering. She was educated with great care by a very learned though somewhat dissipated priest, took the veil, and, becoming abbess, ruled her nuns for many years, ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... that she exercised great care in sending her letters so that Mrs. Hawley would not suspect the correspondence, for she went down to the hotel letter-box to post every one ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon


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