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Example sentences for "great variety"

  • But this being in great variety of degrees (as may be perceived amongst men) cannot certainly be discovered in the several species of animals, much less in their particular individuals.

  • This difference of intention, and remission of the mind in thinking, with a great variety of degrees between earnest study and very near minding nothing at all, every one, I think, has experimented in himself.

  • In it the mind observes a great variety of modifications, and from thence receives distinct ideas.

  • The tobacconist was succeeded by a theatrical hair-dresser, who ornamented the window with a great variety of ‘characters,’ and terrific combats.

  • He was a thorough radical, and used to attend a great variety of public meetings, for the express purpose of finding fault with everything that was proposed.

  • There is a great variety of testimony, various and varied, as to the character of Dickens.

  • This had led to the assemblage of a great variety of species in a limited space, and I was the first naturalist who had come to reap the harvest they had prepared.

  • He had a fine large house, in which he often received visitors; and his garden was the best for flowers which I had seen in the tropics, although there was no great variety.

  • Among the more characteristic forms of this flora are the rattans--climbing palms of the genus Calamus, and a great variety of tall, as well as stemless palms.

  • Finally she rented a small shed on a prominent street and passers-by often stopped, and regular customers came to buy the freshly gathered produce, the supply being not only abundant, but of great variety.

  • A great variety of species are commonly bred, but all of them came from China or India.

  • With a great variety of crops, or with poor labor add one half to this time allowance.

  • And there was a great variety of the passions to be observed in them--now lamenting their losses, their giving thanks for their deliverance.

  • A great variety of fabrics of silk and cotton, as well as those fibres in their raw state, came from Asia to Europe.

  • There were various lower officials, such as alarifes, rayones, and others in great variety.

  • Their duties were partly military, partly civil, and under them were subordinate royal officers with a great variety of titles such as sarjento mayor, alferez real, alcalde.

  • Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context.

  • A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored.

  • It has become, as it were, embodied in popular morality, been made the basis of popular hopes, and a test under which popular faith or approval is bestowed on a great variety of ways and means of living.

  • The ordinary sermon addressed on Sunday to the ordinary congregation deals with a great variety of topics, and from many different points of view, and with more or less diversity of method.

  • Moreover, I found instead of the stereotyped orthodox view of his place and capacity which prevailed in 1857, a great variety of opinions about him, mostly depreciatory, it is true, but still varying in degree as well as in kind.

  • Falconer and Sir Proby Cautley, continued for fifteen years, for the discovery in these marls and sandstones of a great variety of fossil mammalia and reptiles, together with many fresh-water shells.

  • There is not a great variety of hummingbirds in the Amazons region, the number of species being far smaller in these uniform forest plains than in the diversified valleys of the Andes, under the same parallels of latitude.

  • A great variety of other beautiful and curious insects adorned these pleasant woods.

  • We walked about a mile along the marly shore, on which was a thick carpet of flowering shrubs, enlivened by a great variety of lovely little butterflies, and then entered the forest by a dry watercourse.

  • There was considerable use also of the Spenserian stanza, and development of a great variety of lyric stanza forms, though not in the prodigal profusion of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period.

  • Both sorts are written in a great variety of stanza forms, all equally skilful and musical.

  • His Scottish characters in particular, often especially the secondary ones, are delightfully realistic portraits of a great variety of types.

  • They deal with a great variety of topics, whatever Bacon happened to be interested in, from friendship to the arrangement of a house, and in their condensation they are more like bare synopses than complete discussions.

  • There will be a great variety of costume and no compulsions.

  • And there will be many more trees, and a great variety of trees--all the world will have been ransacked for winter conifers.

  • Octavius, which was wholly unknown before his elevation to the Consulship, was effectually displayed, after his preferment to that office, in a great variety of speeches.

  • For he urged a great variety of arguments in the defence of right and equity, against the literal jubeat of the law; and supported them by such a numerous series of precedents, that he overpowered Q.

  • Thus you see, my Brutus, I am come insensibly to yourself, though there was undoubtedly a great variety of Orators between my first appearance in the Forum, and yours.


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