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Example sentences for "general very"

  • During the month of October, the weather was in general very mild; the wind chiefly from the south-east.

  • The remainder of the day was spent with our wild visitors, who behaved in general very quietly.

  • These people are in general very industrious, but covetous, false, and perfidious.

  • The weather was in general very rough, and the sea high, but the wind favourable, blowing mostly from north-west to south-west.

  • The timber that had been cut down proved in general very unfit or the purpose of building, the trees being for the most part decayed, and when cut down were immediately warped and split by the heat of the sun.

  • Between the Cape of Good Hope and this port, the master stated that he found the weather in general very rough, and the prevailing winds to have blown from WNW to SW.

  • In general very scanty, although occasionally a full flowing beard is observed.

  • The Indians are in general very jealous of their women.

  • The women 'are in general very well-looking, and some quite handsome.

  • The land, through which we this day passed, appeared much burnt up, being in general very bare of vegetable soil, and having few trees to defend it against the heat of the sun.

  • The dwellings of the Peons are in general very wretched, the walls being formed by a few upright posts interwoven with small branches of trees, plastered with mud inside and out, and the roof thatched with long grass and rushes.

  • I was then shown about eight hundred carats found in the regular course of washing; they were in general very small, not one exceeding five carats.

  • Its soil is in general very productive, and the climate mild and salubrious.

  • When the weather was settled, the wind was in general very gentle, and blew up the valley of the Indus; during snow-storms it was usually violent, and very irregular in direction.

  • Most of the plants obtained were in full flower, and the colours were in general very bright, and sufficiently varied.

  • Eggs and milk are tolerably reasonable, and the latter is in general very good; but those who chiefly supply the market with it, adulterate it.

  • It is rugged and mountainous in some parts; but spacious plains, and fine extensive vallies are interspersed throughout the island, which are in general very productive.

  • Pine apples grow in Dominica to a great size, and are in general very juicy, but they are not so good as in most other islands, owing to the too great moisture of the ground, which makes them grow too luxuriant and watry.

  • It is in general very shallow in its depth.

  • They are in general very happy in a retentive memory; they can recapitulate every particular that has been treated of in council, and remember the exact time when these were held.

  • The hair of the Indian women being in general very long, this proves an expensive method.

  • There is also a sort called the Cat-head or Pout, which are in general very large, some of them weighing eight or ten pounds; and they are esteemed a rare dish when properly dressed.

  • From this class I do not separate the priesthood, in general very attentive to strangers.

  • The houses are in general very small, consisting of a principal centre room, and one or two small ones, the centre being open in front, for the display of their wares.

  • They are capable of supporting a large share of fatigue; and the quantum of daily labour, as for instance in the operation of rowing, or of running, is in general very considerable.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    close contact; cross sections; general agreement; general assault; general conceptions; general conference; general council; general culture; general direction; general discussion; general expression; general feeling; general good; general names; general outline; general paralysis; general pardon; general prosperity; general rising; general rules; general secretary; general society; general staff; general statement; general store; irregular intervals