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Example sentences for "single instance"

  • If it be intended to say, that Faneuil Hall is the birth place of Liberty, I am not aware of a single instance, on record, of a baby, born in a cradle.

  • I have found but a single instance, in which he writes our language, like a Frenchman.

  • But the multiplication of railroad points and the rapid development of such newer cotton ports as Galveston, to make a single instance, have all worked against her preeminence.

  • To make a single instance: take that division of the army that dwells in Brooklyn.

  • It is the spirit of the new South that is not only bringing such wonderful towns as Birmingham, to make a single instance, to the front, but is working the transformation of such staunch old settlements as Memphis or Atlanta--or Richmond.

  • It is true there are cases in which, with acknowledged propriety, we generalize from a single instance to a multitude of instances.

  • Here, then, is a general law of nature, inferred without hesitation from a single instance; an universal proposition from a singular one.

  • Here, then, is a general law of nature, inferred without hesitation from a single instance; a universal proposition from a singular one.

  • For in an experience of seventeen years the present writer has not known of a single instance in which a vaccinal lesion that pursued a regular course in other respects has failed to be accompanied by the areola.

  • For a period of nearly twenty years, during which I have employed it in a very wide field, I have never known the disease to spread beyond the sick-room in a single instance, and in very few instances within it.

  • In all the cases that have fallen under my notice this symptom has not been absent in a single instance.

  • We have the remains of animals and plants of many kinds thousands of years old, such as the mummied remains from Egypt, and yet not a single instance of the change Evolution asserts has ever been known!

  • Once admit the direct act of the Creator, and, as Haeckel says, they might as well admit it along the whole process, for the argument for a single instance is valid for the whole.

  • In a single instance there is fortunately preserved not only the text of the confirmation charter, but also that of the original grant.

  • Yet in no single instance, though each of them contains errors, have I found a clerical error common to both.

  • Here any one who was rash enough to argue from a single instance (as Mr Eyton and Mr Pell were too apt to do) might jump at the conclusion that the hide must here have been of eighty acres.

  • To take a single instance, in 1421 the water-supply of Southampton was undertaken by the council, and new leaden pipes provided by the grant of a burgess who had thus bequeathed his money “for the good of his soul.

  • Saul was rejected from being king for disobeying God's commands in a single instance.

  • Sparing details, of which our national state papers are full, we illustrate by a single instance.

  • Not a single instance is recorded, of a servant being sold by any one but himself; not a case, either under the patriarchal, or the Mosaic systems, in which a master sold his servant.

  • On the other hand, if his treatise against Marcion (to take a single instance) had been preserved, we should probably have been placed in a position to estimate with tolerable accuracy his relation to the Canonical writings.

  • I cannot indeed recollect a single instance where he adduces a quotation for the mere purpose of authenticating any one of these books.

  • We know not exactly what the checks are even in a single instance.

  • I will give only a single instance, which, though a simple one, interested me.

  • Probably in no single instance should we know what to do.

  • To give a single instance: in the last edition of Dr.

  • A single instance of the cuckoo (alluded to in the text) is mentioned by Naumann as reaching the age of thirty-two years (l.

  • Furthermore, the mutilations of certain parts of the human body, as practised by different nations from times immemorial, have, in not a single instance, led to the malformation or reduction of the parts in question.

  • One of the American writers affirms, "That there has not been a single instance in which they have complained, without being rebuked, or in which they have been complained against, without being punished.

  • There is, in short, scarce a single instance in history of the contrary, where manufactures have once taken firm root.

  • And the same experience has satisfied the British merchants, who trade thither, that it has been greatly useful to them, and not in a single instance prejudicial.

  • However frequent suicide may have been among those brought from Africa, I can say that in my time I cannot remember to have known or heard of a single instance of deliberate self-destruction, and but of one of suicide at all.

  • Never, but in a single instance, have I heard of an imputation on the general purity of manners, among the free females of the slaveholding States.

  • If such applications be as abundant as our author asserts they are, why not refer us to a single instance, that our utter ignorance may be at least relieved by one little ray of light?

  • But although I can recall no single instance in which the presence of an intruder could be definitely excluded, yet I should hesitate to base upon this any broad generalisation.

  • And in support of this fact I have only to state that I have met with no single instance of failure to obtain and hold a mate when once a territory had been secured.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about her; certain places; fair girl; gold pieces; insist upon; single bound; single combat; single dose; single drop; single exception; single family; single flower; single instance; single layer; single light; single minute; single nation; single organ; single pair; single phase; single piece; single soul; single subject; single thought; single women; you love