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Example sentences for "single individual"

  • After noon the congregation is dissolved, and not a single individual is to be seen in the air[4]: while those of M.

  • This booty probably contented them for a time; certain it is that we were not interrupted: we did not even see a single individual in the pass, though we occasionally heard whistles and loud cries.

  • We passed on our way uninterrupted; no thieves showed themselves, nor indeed did we see a single individual until we arrived at Pegoens, and from thence to Vendas Novas our fortune was the same.

  • In this instance, there were no eager candidates for an interview with the great man; indeed, I did not behold a single individual, with the exception of Isturitz and the official.

  • Hence they are led about in gangs of an hundred or more by a single individual, even by an old man, or a cripple, if he be of the white race and possessed of a strong will.

  • To find a single individual, would be doing more than most men have done, with whom I am acquainted.

  • It is not for the "common benefit of the United States" that a large area of the public lands should be acquired, directly or through fraud, in the hands of a single individual.

  • It is by these laws, that they shut out the colored people of the North, the presence of a single individual of whom so alarms them with the prospect of a servile insurrection, that they immediately imprison him.

  • Huxley, therefore, considered a hydroid colony, for example, as a single individual, and each separate polyp or medusa budded from it as having the value of an organ and not of an individual.

  • A Siphonophore is regarded as a single individual composed of numerous zoids, budded from the primary zoid (siphon) produced from the planula.

  • The metaphysical mirror of the humanity that the mythical poesies had produced was here supplanted by the psychological and ethical study of a single individual.

  • A single individual, according to him, can accomplish everything, and only a single individual.

  • Was he so agitated at finding animal passion where he had honored the crown of female culture and beauty, that in his morbid condition this indignation at a single individual grew to universal loathing of life?

  • The Federal Constitution vests all the privileges and all the responsibility of the executive power in a single individual.

  • The Polish laws, which subjected the election of the sovereign to the veto of a single individual, suggested the murder of that individual or prepared the way to anarchy.

  • On the other hand, when a republic falls under the sway of a single individual, the demeanor of the sovereign is simple and unpretending, as if his authority was not yet paramount.

  • Not a single individual of the twelve millions who inhabit the territory of the United States has as yet dared to propose any restrictions to the liberty of the press.

  • Amoeba, showing the forms assumed by a single individual in four successive changes.

  • This is the process of spore-formation and we see that from a single individual we may have by division, not two animals as in the amoeba, but a score or more of them.

  • Although these flies cannot bite, the presence of even a single individual may be enough to annoy a horse almost to the end of endurance.

  • Thus in a few days time the number of bacteria resulting from a single individual would be inconceivable if they should all develop.

  • The name of Bayard was well known among us, belonging to a family of which there were several branches spread through the Middle States, as far south as Delaware; but I did not happen to know a single individual of them all.

  • Possibly, the last was inseparable from the preponderance of numbers, it not being an easy thing to persuade masses of men that they can be wrong, and a single individual right.

  • With a few immaterial exceptions, including the sites of three or four towns, three of which are cities containing respectively six, twenty, and forty thousand souls, this large surface was the property of a single individual.

  • And it makes no difference, on this principle, whether this combination of will and power be found in a single individual, or in a community of an hundred millions of individuals.

  • Those who make this assertion appear to regard a state as a single individual, capable of managing his own affairs, and of course unwilling to tolerate the intermeddling of others.

  • At length these proceedings excited a feeling of compassion, as it was evident that the Christians were destroyed, not for the public good, but as a sacrifice to the cruelty of a single individual.

  • It seems clear that the angel of the Church is a single individual, and that he must have been a personage well known to the body with which he was connected at the time when the Apocalypse was written.

  • The Polish laws, which subjected the election of the sovereign to the veto of a single individual, suggested the murder of that individual, or prepared the way to anarchy.

  • The federal constitution vests all the privileges and all the responsibility of the executive power in a single individual.

  • But how does he get from a part of the nation to a single individual?

  • Despotism in some form was the only practical and possible government, and Earl Gerald was all but despotic within the Pale, and even outside it was at any rate stronger than any other single individual.

  • The number of Protestant clergymen was extremely small, as many as six, seven, and even ten livings being frequently held by a single individual, and of these many were absentees, and their place filled by a curate.

  • We passed on our way uninterrupted; no thieves showed themselves, nor indeed did we see a single individual until we arrived at Pegões, and from thence to Vendas Novas our fortune was the same.

  • We did not even see a single individual in the pass, though we occasionally heard whistles and loud cries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    either husband; external circumstances; looking little; never see; single atom; single case; single copy; single dose; single example; single family; single file; single head; single instance; single instant; single man; single minute; single night; single note; single season; single state; single step; single thought; single thread; single volume; single women; three horizontal