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Example sentences for "single drop"

  • A single drop of one-tenth per cent aqueous solution of the poison brought about a typical irritation in the conjunctiva of the rabbit's eye.

  • They may exist in enormous numbers, as many as five or six hundred swarming in a single drop of blood.

  • In the crows, they often occur in enormous numbers, as many as two thousand having been found in a single drop of the blood of the most heavily infested specimen examined.

  • A single drop is let fall from a burette or glass rod held steadily above the water, upon the centre of the surface.

  • A single drop of liquid may be tested on a bright copper coin in this way.

  • A single drop of oil is sufficient for the application of the last method.

  • I suppose the distance from the river of CopiapĆ³ to this spot was at least twenty-five or thirty English miles; in the whole space there was not a single drop of water, the country deserving the name of desert in the strictest sense.

  • Instead of being nocturnal in its habits, as other toads are, and living in damp obscure recesses, it crawls during the heat of the day about the dry sand-hillocks and arid plains, where not a single drop of water can be found.

  • Who with a single drop of Christian blood in his heart would not blush with shame to be guilty of murmuring at his sufferings when, before God, he is so sinful and is deserving of much more affliction?

  • I would not for the world, that my return should be stained with a single drop of blood.

  • The officers answered, that they would not fire on the national guard; but they would not suffer the national guard, to fire on the troops of General Clausel: they would not allow a single drop of French blood to be spilt.

  • It is acknowledged throughout the empire, and not a single drop of blood has been spilt.

  • I wish not a single drop of French blood to be shed, not a single gun to be fired.

  • A single drop of laudanum given to a young infant has caused convulsions, coma, and death in more than one instance.

  • We have known a young child to be killed by a single drop of laudanum.

  • Not one, single drop of proud, pure blood coursed through his veins.

  • It must be borne in mind that silver chloride is somewhat soluble in hydrochloric acid, and only a single drop should be added.

  • A single drop of essential oil of lemon may be added.

  • The only addition, however, that really improves the flavour or bouquet is a little orange-flower water, a very little essence of vanilla, or a single drop of essence of ambergris.

  • Their covers are excellently adapted for delicate cases of testing, the whiteness of the porcelain showing the changes of colour in a single drop of liquid most distinctly.

  • It will surely be their ruin, if they pay no attention to this friendly advice; for they will not sell a single drop of it, after next Sabbath.

  • Let me advise them, as their best friend, not to buy any; and as the ambassador of Christ, I forbid them to bring a single drop of those poisonous drinks here.

  • Of course, the next two days that I was the guest of Bishop Lefebre, not a single drop of intoxicating drink was seen on the table.

  • But, though he ran all the way home, not a single drop of water was left inside the basket when he reached his father.

  • Then filling it with water to the very brim, he carried it safely home to his father and did not lose even a single drop.

  • But, though he too ran all the way home, not a single drop of water was left inside the basket when he reached his father.

  • All of nature's laws govern the smallest atoms, and a single drop of water is a miniature ocean.

  • Dogs have been killed with a single drop of nicotine.

  • A single drop of nicotine taken from a seasoned pipe, and applied to the tongue of a venomous snake has caused almost instant death.

  • I suppose the distance from the river of Copiapo to this spot was at least twenty-five or thirty English miles; in the whole space there was not a single drop of water, the country deserving the name of desert in the strictest sense.

  • But whatsoever water he came unto, ever he thrust in his cask and proved it, but little his labour profited him, for howsoever much he toiled, he might not gather up a single drop; and much he suffered and endured thereby.

  • Certes, and if a child had lowered this cask into the fountain he would have drawn it forth full to overflowing, and you have not gathered a single drop.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brown precipitate; hurry back; inquiring look; keep silence; large mound; railroad bonds; single acre; single blow; single body; single card; single cell; single dose; single drop; single fact; single form; single game; single glance; single house; single layer; single room; single sheet; single ship; single specimen; single star; single thing; single thought