capital fellow
Example Sentences
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"He is not only a capital fellow, but he has a large fortune—ten times as large, I venture to say, as your Lambertis have."
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
There 's a capital fellow, called Tom Cox, by the way, somewhere down in that country, who used to paint our scenes for the garrison theatricals.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Weighborne was a capital fellow, one could not help liking him.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
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 H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
He is a gentleman by birth, well educated, and a capital fellow every way.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
