Brock kept his hands on the bellows, working it so that the fire neither died down nor blazed up for a single instant.
Work the bellows as before, brother, and do not let the fire die down or blaze up for a single instant.
It will be your work to keep the fire so that it will neither blaze up nor die down for a single instant.
Again the gadfly stung his hands, but Brock, although his hands felt as if they were pierced with hot irons, still worked the bellows so that the fire did not blaze up or die down for a single instant.
Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant's respite from worry, a single instant in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.
That was Sunday morning, and Monday night Jurgis came home, sober and sick, realizing that he had spent every cent the family owned, and had not bought a single instant's forgetfulness with it.
She saw his brows meet for a single instant, and she was conscious of a sick feeling at her heart that made her physically cold.
Priscilla met his eyes for a single instant, and looked away.
West hesitated for a single instant, then took the proffered hand into a grip of iron.
West took the outstretched hand for a single instant; but his eyes, meeting hers, held no recognition.
Presently he heard a sound which his huntsman's ear did not mistake for a single instant.
Accordingly they replied to the shouts of their assailants with a terrible fusillade,--the bugles never ceasing for a single instant to sound their joyous and warlike notes.
During those twenty-four hours his courage and force of will did not desert him for a single instant.
From now till the game is played you will not leave me a single instant?
Not for a single instant while he held him in his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of releasing him.
Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little entrenchment in the Mondetour lane.
Ninep crouched at the feet of her mistress for a single instant, then, flying through the air, fixed her deadly fangs in the sage's throat.
The captain paused a single instant to take a look at the sloop-of-war, and to examine the state of the weather.
For a single instantit occurred to the young man that he might kill the dog, and so procure nourishment with which to extricate himself and the girl; but the thought drifted idly through his mind, and so on and away.
The Indian girl saw the inert body of the woodsman dashed down through the moil and water, now showing an arm, now a leg, only once, for a single instant, the head.
That afternoon the head wind opposed them, exasperating, tireless in its resistance, never lulling for a single instant.
No matter how rebellious might be Dick Herron's heart, how ruffled the surface of his daily manner, Bolton knew perfectly well he would never for a single instant swerve in his loyalty to the main object of the expedition.
The Earl shook his head; and a smile, faint indeed, but still the first that had crossed his countenance for a long time, hung upon his lip during a single instant.
But as the poor girl paused for a single instant, the heads of the man Martin and another appeared on the stairs, and she saw that her escape was cut off.
Then my dear Monsieur Bonacieux has not suspected me a single instant?
His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
Nap hesitated for a single instant, then, with a gesture openly contemptuous, he took the revolver from his pocket and tossed it on to the bed.
I am honoured indeed to be in your thoughts for a single instant.
For a single instant, hatred, unveiled, passionate, shone out at him like sudden, darting lightning.
The whole thing was so sudden that Captain Brisac was for a single instant confused; he rallied the next, however, and shouting "Boarders, repel boarders!
As he finished speaking I seemed to catch another glimpse of the light, just for a single instant, and I breathlessly exclaimed, "There it is again, sir!
Captain Brisac paused a single instant, to make sure that all our lads were out of the way of the shot; and then he called upon the Frenchmen to surrender.
The eyes of the father and daughter met for a single instantas she glanced around upon the long lines of expectant countenances.
The other stretched forth his hand unsteadily, hesitated for a single instant, then slowly his thin eager fingers closed upon it.
She held her breath, but only for a single instant.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single instant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
