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Example sentences for "original"

Lexicographically close words:
orifice; orifices; oriflamme; origanum; origin; originale; originality; originall; originally; originals
  1. All depends upon the original unity, the vital wholeness and identity, of the initiatory apprehension or view.

  2. His expression is original and fresh, pithy and robust, honest and straightforward.

  3. Very rambling is this city, and especially foreign-looking, with its churches and green roofs and countless cupolas, quite different from Amsterdam, but the two are the most original cities that I know.

  4. The inhabitants of Mossul are a remarkable mixture of the original Chaldean populace and the Arabs, Kurds, Persians and Turks who successively have ruled over them.

  5. Among Catholics the Bible is read not at all, or with great precaution, by the laity; it is expounded only by the priests, who have concerned themselves all their lives with the study of the original sources.

  6. His original intention, it is said, was to build his new capital on the Pontus, and that he even had selected the spot.

  7. It is a pity that the translation seems to be lost, and with it an insight into Moltke's elaboration of his style, which a translation would reveal better than original composition.

  8. Bravely, but only with very dimly understood emotional reasons, this proposition for the changing of the statutes was opposed by the original founders and managers of the association.

  9. In no case, as Weismann points out, is the original mutilation of the nervous system ever transmitted.

  10. Fortbildungsschule was in some cases merged into a special school, for here in reality a Fach or trade institution has developed from the original continuation school.

  11. If this process of merging is carried sufficiently far, as is in many cases done, the school may lose almost or entirely its original trend, and from a Fortbildungsschule, fall into the class of trade or Fachschulen.

  12. Any original model made becomes the property of the father of the boy, or of the person financially supporting such boy during his attendance at school.

  13. Transcriber’s Note: The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text.

  14. An Original Novel, of interest and merit.

  15. Being a compilation of the Original Letters of Q.

  16. Illustrated with original designs on wood by Howard.

  17. Translated from the original Italian by LUIGI MONTI.

  18. I approach with some hesitation the subject of diplomacy, because it contains so many elements of value to a state, and has given so many opportunities for active and original minds.

  19. It was in its original conception a single-hearted attempt to arrange Europe on the principles of the Christian religion, the various nations being regarded as brothers who ought to have proper brotherly affection for one another.

  20. If peace has to be made because of such a balance between the opposing forces as this, it would be a calamity almost worse than the original war.

  21. Both of these fire-making implements were broken when found, apparently thrown away on that account either by the original people or by subsequent visitors.

  22. The original materials for the study of Michelangelo's life and work are the two biographies by his contemporaries, Vasari and Condivi.

  23. Again her offer was refused, and again she burned three books and returned, still requiring the original price for the three that were left.

  24. When Hermann Grimm wrote his celebrated "Life of Michael Angelo" (in 1860), the only original material accessible to him was the collection of letters in the British Museum.

  25. The lack of resemblance in the statue to the original duke Lorenzo made it for a long time doubtful whether it was intended to be his tomb.

  26. At length the temple was destroyed by fire, and the original sibylline books perished.

  27. The words that I have read, however, are not the description of the demeanour of the whole community, but of that portion of it which had been added so swiftly to the original nucleus on the Day of Pentecost.

  28. But the commonest duties are very often neglected; and we preachers, I think, would very often do more good by hammering at commonplace themes than by bringing out original and fresh ones.

  29. Thus oneness in faith and in love, participation in the memorial feast and in devotional acts bound the new converts to the original believers, and trained them towards maturity.

  30. We can fancy how the little knot of 'original disciples' would be apt to value themselves on their position, especially as time went on, and their ranks were thinned.

  31. The words of this text in their original meaning point only to the ignorance of the time of the end which Christ had been foretelling.

  32. He was not even a genius in goodness; he did not strike out anything original and out of the way.

  33. If so, the journey to Antioch of Pisidia may not have been in the programme to which John Mark had agreed, and his return to Jerusalem may have been due to this departure from the original intention.

  34. We may surely, without offending either the people of Brittany or those of Samaria, admit no original tongue.

  35. Several rabbis assert that the Samaritan was the original tongue; other persons say that it was that of Lower Brittany.

  36. Most certainly the author had not the original of this letter.

  37. Squirrel has a poetic origin in the Greek language; its original meaning being shadow-tail.

  38. If we look very carefully we may find that this discovery is not original with us, for a little creature has long ago found out the fondness of bees and other insects for these flowers and has put his knowledge to good use.

  39. The original application was, doubtless, on account of the colour of the creature's fur.

  40. Millions of years ago there lived birds built on the general grebe plan and who doubtless were derived from the same original stock, but which lived in the great seas of that time.

  41. Who knows but this is the original form of all snowflakes, but that, when I observe these crystal stars falling around me, they are only just generated in the low mist next the earth.

  42. His thick, conical bill is made for crushing seeds, but he now feeds on so many different substances that its original use, as shown by its shape, is obscured.

  43. This is due to the fact that the acid of the fruit reduces the starch in the flour to dextrine, and this form of carbohydrate does not have so much thickening power as the starch in its original form had.

  44. Describe an original way of serving ice cream.

  45. Describe an original way of decorating cup cakes.

  46. Pumpkin pie is in reality a form of custard to which spice is added, but much of the original flavor of the pumpkin is lost if too much spice is used.

  47. Other materials may, of course, be used for decorating cup cakes, and original designs may be worked out in a number of attractive ways.

  48. Original ideas and designs may thus be worked out in an attractive way to match a color scheme or carry out a decorative idea.

  49. Franquetot, who, on the contrary, was extremely popular, thought it effective and original to shew all her fine friends that she preferred to their company that of an obscure country cousin with whom she had childish memories in common.

  50. These were the chief difficulties in making the original road across this mountain mass, as the old passes of Lapstone Hill and Mount York still testify.

  51. Striking again into the original south-west track by leaving the river on a bearing of 202 degrees we arrived on the eastern bend of it, where we had before breakfasted, and where we now heard natives, as if hastily making their escape.

  52. Nearly the whole of the western portion of this county consists of soil equally good; but it remains for the most part occupied by the original wood.

  53. The original mode of inoculation, with the matter of smallpox itself, was far from being supplanted by its rival.

  54. Variolae vaccinae as a name for cowpox was a figure of speech, and it is to misunderstand its original use to treat it as anything else.

  55. It may have got that sense by popular usage, but the original etymology was probably different.

  56. He was one of the original physicians of the new hospital founded in the Borough by Guy, the rich bookseller.

  57. Talbor had seized upon this specific, and claimed to have an original way of administering it, whereby its success was assured.

  58. The ambiguity of the diagnosis at the outset, and the desire to lose no time, may have been the original grounds of this indiscriminate fashion of bleeding.

  59. A second inoculation, except as a mere test of the first and within a few weeks thereof, was no part of the original 18th century teaching and practice.

  60. It also represents the Mohawks as the original tribe, of which the others are offshoots; and this tradition is confirmed by the evidence of language.

  61. In pursuance of his original purpose, when the league was firmly established, envoys were sent to other tribes to urge them to join it or at least to become allies.

  62. On the contrary, he contends that chess, in its original and most developed form, is purely a Persian invention, and that the modern game is but an abridgment of the ancient one.

  63. I--insisting upon Bensington's original name--call here the Food of the Gods.

  64. Electric lights had replaced the lamp of former days; that was the chief alteration in the original equipment.

  65. There are no known means by which the hair can be prevented from turning gray, and none which can restore it to its original hue, except through the process of dyeing.

  66. Different circumstances and different surroundings compel every lover to be original in his form or mode of proposing.

  67. Woman despises a man who has no opinion of his own; she hates a trifling disposition and admires leadership, original ideas, and looks up to man as a leader.

  68. Still a third channel for the transmission of the original propaganda are the mass organizations that function in the propaganda field under direction of either Agitprop or the Ministry of Information and Communications (see ch.

  69. Scrub and brush prevail at all upland elevations where terrain and soil conditions are poor or where the original forest has been removed and has not been replaced.

  70. At first the alphabet was used to translate the Bible and other Christian religious texts, but in the Golden Age of the First Bulgarian Kingdom several original religious and secular tests were written by Bulgarians in their own language.

  71. Most of the changes adopted since the original change-over have consisted of improvements in the materials used and increasing the number of clothing items issued to each man.

  72. Actual budgetary results are directly affected by deviations from the annual economic plan and therefore seldom, if ever, correspond to the original estimates, which have the force of law.

  73. One of its most important committee assignments is to the so-called First Committee, which was established as one of the original six committees under the General Assembly's rules of procedure in 1946.

  74. Unlike the latter reforms, which represented a slight deviation from the Soviet educational model, the 1959 reforms returned the Bulgarian system once more to the original Soviet pattern.

  75. Albania, an original member, withdrew in 1968 (see ch.

  76. North of the Stara Planina the original flora was a continuation of that on the Russian steppe.

  77. Although some critics felt that the new programs were more lively than their predecessors, others continued to criticize them for a "dearth of original thought, a laconic style, and a pompous tone.

  78. What remains of the original vegetation on the Danubian plateau is found mainly along the river, where the land has been difficult to cultivate.

  79. The results of 1878 were mixed, and the outcome of the original peace treaty was reversed within five months of its signing.

  80. The original Spartan life-style of the sultans and army officers was becoming one of luxury and indulgence.

  81. For another reason, not connected with heat, he was subsequently christened Djijam, a truly oriental name, which some of our friends think may have helped to develop his original taste for fire.

  82. However, he only found his brother Alexandre, one of those brilliant and original persons whose inherent laziness alone prevented his bringing his great natural gifts to perfection.

  83. These are the houses of the marmots or prairie dogs, and when deserted as they often are by their original inhabitants, they become the homes of burrowing owls.

  84. The fellow denied having done so, and refused to make good the difference, or to hand over the original article.

  85. Whew, but they've got the original get-rich-quick scheme in this burg.

  86. This is the original crazy house," laughed Dan.

  87. Six of the seven windows of the Chapter House contain their original stained glass, in which appear shields of King Edward I.

  88. While maintaining the original outward appearance of the guilds as societies of men affected by the same interests in daily life, the employers had actually become a powerful vested class that ruled both city and guild life.

  89. Now that I was quite recovered, his original nature had conquered and obtained the upper hand.

  90. It is a Runic manuscript, the language of the original population of Iceland, invented by Odin himself," cried my uncle, angry at my ignorance.

  91. And in the names, you of course adhered to the original spelling?

  92. You say the orthography of the original letters was queer.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "original" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboriginal; advanced; alien; antitype; archetype; article; authentic; autochthonous; autograph; basal; basic; beat; beginning; breakaway; budding; callow; candid; case; central; character; clever; commencement; composition; conception; conceptual; constituent; copy; crackpot; crank; creation; criterion; crucial; crude; derivation; dewy; different; dissenter; document; draft; draught; draughtsman; draughty; duck; early; eccentric; elemental; elementary; embryonic; endemic; epitome; essay; essential; evergreen; exploratory; extra; fanatic; fanciful; fecund; fertile; fetal; fiction; first; firsthand; fledgling; formative; freak; fresh; fugleman; fundamental; generative; genetic; genuine; germinal; good; green; gut; head; held; heretic; heretical; hermit; heterodox; hobo; holograph; honest; ideational; imaginative; immature; inartificial; inaugural; inception; inceptive; inchoate; incipient; indigenous; infant; infantile; informal; ingenious; initial; initiative; initiatory; innovation; innovator; inspired; intact; introducer; introductory; invention; inventive; inventor; kinky; lawful; lead; legitimate; letter; lifelike; literal; literature; maiden; maidenly; manuscript; matchless; material; matter; maverick; mint; mirror; misfit; model; naive; nascent; native; natural; naturalistic; nestling; new; nonfiction; notional; novel; nut; oddity; opus; ordinary; origin; original; origination; originative; originator; outsider; paper; paradigm; parchment; pariah; parturient; pattern; picturesque; piece; pioneer; play; poem; precedent; preceding; pregnant; preliminary; premiere; prenatal; primal; primary; prime; primeval; primitive; primordial; pristine; procreative; production; productive; progenitor; prolific; prototype; provenance; provenience; pure; quiz; radical; radix; raw; real; realistic; recension; recherche; representative; reserve; revolutionary; rightful; rise; root; rudimentary; rule; saved; scrip; script; scroll; sectarian; sectary; seminal; sharp; simple; sincere; solitary; source; spare; spook; standard; stem; sterling; stock; stored; strange; substantial; substantive; suspended; taproot; teeming; tramp; transcript; transcription; type; typescript; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; unbeaten; uncolored; uncommon; unconventional; underlying; undeveloped; undisguised; undistorted; unemployed; unexaggerated; unexercised; unfamiliar; unfashionable; unflattering; unfledged; unimagined; unique; unorthodox; unqualified; unromantic; unspent; untouched; untried; untrodden; unused; unusual; unvarnished; verbal; verbatim; vernacular; vernal; version; virgin; virginal; waived; work; writing; young; zealot


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    original composition; original description; original documents; original drawing; original genius; original jurisdiction; original manuscript; original nature; original plan; original poetry; original research; original sin; original work; originally made