capital fellow

Example Sentences

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He would have been made into a capital fellow by a little course of fagging when he was a youngster?”

From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by Drayson, A.W.

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

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

He's a capital fellow," affirmed Jewett, "and that's why it's a sin this had to happen to him.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

I must put you under the same treatment as I did Jack Hamlin—do you know him?—a gambler and a capital fellow; you remind me of him.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

As he spoke, Felix lit another cigar, and looked slyly at his companion, as who should say, "You see what a capital fellow I am!"

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór