capital fellow
Example Sentences
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He's a capital fellow to me, but he's not fond of company.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
"No, papa; but he says he is sure Giacomo can explain everything,—for he is a capital fellow, and honest as the sun!"
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James
That's only his way; he does not like to be refused things, but he is a capital fellow for all that, and that's why I granted his request.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
Mac, here's your good health; you're a capital fellow.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Weighborne was a capital fellow, one could not help liking him.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville