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Example sentences for "certain spot"

  • Then, stones having been piled up by me and the eunuch who was with us on a certain spot at the base of the pyramid, to somewhat more than the height of a man, I climbed on them and searched for the secret mark, no larger than a leaf.

  • Again I pressed on a certain spot, and this door swung wide of itself, and we went through, to find ourselves face to face with a third door, yet more mighty than the two through which we had won our way.

  • Following the secret plan, I struck this door with my foot upon a certain spot, and it sank slowly as though at a word of magic till its head was level with the floor of rock.

  • Story of the fool who took notes of a certain spot in the sea.

  • Another brought, and placed in a certain spot, under the tree, delicious food and drink, flowers and unguents.

  • And he sent word to Cabades through his wife that he was keeping horses and men in readiness not far from the prison, and he indicated to him a certain spot.

  • Then the man perceived that he was not satisfying the oracle by doing these things, and he again went about looking everywhere and found a certain spot in Cappadocia very closely resembling the one among the Taurians.

  • He fixed on a certain spot, and began to build, very much against the advice of his friends, who said it was on a fairy path, and would bring him ill-luck.

  • Another point that is worthy of note is the fact that the hauntings of a poltergeist are generally attached to a certain individual in a certain spot, and thus differ from the operations of an ordinary ghost.

  • This gift may reside in a certain family, and may be attached to a certain spot, where a regular oracle is open for consultation.

  • The deity of this kind of religion has his abode at a certain spot, and he is a fixed, not a movable deity.

  • What is it tells the new pair, next year, that, somewhere or other in the wide world, a certain spot is left vacant for them?

  • A bowl of fresh milk and a slice of white bread were the component parts of the goblin's repast, and were placed on a certain spot where he got them.

  • The legend of the Grassless Grave is a well-known Montgomeryshire tale, concerning a certain spot of earth in the graveyard of Montgomery Castle, upon which the verdure is less luxuriant than in other portions of the yard.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain bodies; certain breeds; certain characters; certain circumstances; certain conditions; certain directions; certain diseases; certain extent; certain fishes; certain lands; certain laws; certain limit; certain line; certain percentage; certain periods; certain persons; certain portion; certain resemblance; certain size; certain small; certain types; certain varieties; long syllable; lying dead; speaking people; thet thar