capital fellow
Example Sentences
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Weighborne was a capital fellow, one could not help liking him.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
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.
He knew a very capital fellow, and a good sailor, James Wall by name.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
Oh that I had made full use of them! what a capital fellow I should be!
From Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography by Hoare, Edward N.
I did my best to arrange it so, and your lawyer was a capital fellow to deal with.
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor