capital fellow
Example Sentences
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This man is up to everything; he is a capital fellow.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
“You’re a capital fellow, Ralph Fairbanks,” cried the delighted little urchin.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen
Charley is such a capital fellow, so thoroughly good and hearty, and I am sure he would cut off his little finger if he thought it would give Polly pleasure.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
He seems to be a capital fellow, and, as he is a member of the Staten Club, I suppose he needs no further patent of respectability.
From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)
He has become really a capital fellow, who knows something, and has his heart pretty much in the right place, like us all.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Graeme, Elliott
