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Example sentences for "certain class"

  • By a certain class of writers he has been regarded as denying the existence of any and all ideas not derived from sense, and has been classed with the school of Hobbes, Condillac, etc.

  • It is simply the mind's power of recognizing a certain class of truths and relations.

  • What is that certain peculiarity, or quality, of a certain class of objects, which constitutes what we call the ludicrous, objectively considered?

  • In some cases, a certain class of objects, or the knowledge of certain persons, or of a particular language or some part of a language, as substantives, e.

  • A certain class of philosophers do, indeed, imply the denial of every one of them--namely, those philosophers who deny the reality of time.

  • It merely presents us with the conception of spontaneity of action, as the proper ground for imputing freedom to the cause of a certain class of objects.

  • We demonstrate from indubitable principles, not merely our ignorance in respect to this or that subject, but in regard to all possible questions of a certain class.

  • Defn: Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.

  • Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases.

  • Sports) Defn: A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

  • The resourcefulness of a ten-year-old boy was recently suggested in a certain class in composition.

  • No: this buying and selling of finery now goes on frequently between a certain class of fashionable maids and mistresses; and some young ladies are now not ashamed to become old clothes-women.

  • It was impossible to keep a certain class of men in the army when they were encamped near their homes.

  • The intense devotion of the women to the Confederate cause was most irritating to a certain class of Federal officers in the army that invaded north Alabama.

  • Revolting against the voluptuous ataraxia of a certain class of Parisian music, he set up, with violence, a manly, healthy pessimism.

  • They turned the acutest problems into ingenious games: and they always came back to the problem of women--women of a certain class.

  • These words, however, do not refer, as the connection evidently shows, to the Montanists generally; but only to a certain class of them who fell in with the patripassian doctrine of Noctus.

  • The only thing wanted to complete this sacerdotal system, is to obtain for a certain class of men the corporate possession, and exclusive administration, of these essential and holy mysteries.

  • This only limits the use of the charm to a certain class, and establishes a prerequisite to its proper efficacy.

  • But down to the latest period of Roman jurisprudence there was a certain class of transactions which never admitted of being directly modified by a condition, or of being limited to or from a point of time.

  • Scottish law ranks with land a certain class of securities, and Hindoo law associates it with slaves.

  • The legislator, it is said, proportioned the divisions of his work to the frequency of a certain class of incidents in barbarian life.

  • I have heard it seriously asserted in discussion by geologists and mining engineers, that a low state of the barometer generally, if not invariably, accompanies a certain class of accidents in coal pits.

  • In England and Scotland a certain class of goblin or ghost found a running stream an impassable barrier.

  • The Dacotahs and Iroquois use an instrument not unlike the drilling bow at present employed for a certain class of work in Europe.

  • It seems to be composed, at least towards the surface, of stones and pebbles,—a feature peculiar to a certain class of mounds, of a highly interesting character.

  • The earth above them was mingled with coals, and also with fragments of hard-burned clay, which were immediately recognised as portions of the “altar” peculiar to a certain class of mounds devoted to religious purposes.

  • An explanation of this circumstance may probably be found in the character of a certain class of small mounds, occurring within enclosures and in connection with the altar mounds.

  • A certain class of critics have contended that the procurator granted to the Jews in this instance the right to carry out capital punishment, as others have maintained was the case in the execution of Stephen.

  • The Athenians were guilty of a strange perversion of the social instincts by placing a higher appreciation upon the charms of a certain class of lewd women that they did upon the virtuous merits of their own wives and mothers.

  • Indeed, their production forms quite an industry among a certain class of Indians.

  • A railway is an expensive system to support, and must charge accordingly; consequently the burros, as a means of transportation for a certain class of goods, are quite able to compete with the locomotive and the rail.

  • A certain class of persons coming from out of the city are permitted to carry revolvers, but they must be in a belt and in full sight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also that; certain animals; certain branches; certain characters; certain depth; certain directions; certain diseases; certain general; certain groups; certain height; certain instances; certain lady; certain length; certain line; certain members; certain order; certain persons; certain places; certain points; certain resemblance; certain school; certain state; certain types; certain woman; much labour; said cheerfully