The space between the fillets or bands is occupied by a singular design, and this design, all but the circular bosses, four in number, may be described as in low relief.
Whilst staying at Maracaibo, in Venezuela, a traveller took great interest in a singular tribe of Indians called Guajiros, who lived near the town in “pile dwellings.
By the analogy of these, -e often appears in the first person singular of verbs which need no supporting vowel: remīro ＞ remir remire.
Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience.
Holding his breath and listening with the greatest attention, the baron now heard a singular sound, the cause of which it was quite impossible to explain.
I heard a singular noise just now in the adjoining room where the ropes are.
It may be asked how it was that Martial had failed to discover or to suspect this singular state of affairs; but a moment’s reflection will explain his ignorance.
Escorval, faithful to his resolution, took the following day, in the hope of obtaining from Marie-Anne’s father some explanation of his singular conduct.
This singular act became the talk of the neighbourhood, and the villagers universally opined that Jean had lost his head.
Jean rapped, however, without the slightest hesitation, and when the old poacher’s eldest son opened the door, he perceived a very singular spectacle.
Her journey was prompted, however, by somewhat singular circumstances.
The ground of this singularabsurdity is scarcely worth enquiring into.
As well as I can remember,' proceeded the mother, 'the case of the fairies is a very singular one.
Maud was carried forwards with them, that she might be a witness of the singular worship that was here solemnized.
The singular superstition of spiritual favour fixing itself upon the human child, consecrated, as it were, by the hallowed light upon which the eyes first open, will shortly return upon us in The Fairies' Sabbath.
And so, no doubt, many days, and many, would have glided by, had not a singular occurrence disturbed the profound tranquillity.
His companions exhibited as singular a taste in dress as himself.
It is singular that Le Sage, who seems to have been almost as fond of Paris as Socrates was of Athens, should have picked up this intimate knowledge of the hotels of Madrid.
The singular sound was repeated, resembling the tone exactly of a small silver bell.
In the engagement which ensued, his adventures afford an illustration of the singular vicissitudes of Eastern warfare.
But if the pallor of the priest and the singular fire of his eyes frightened him, his voice, on the contrary, was mild and melancholy.
They [1] have established amongst them a somewhat singularpractice to help the souls in Purgatory.
As late as the sixteenth century, a very singular custom prevailed in England--viz.
But of all the Orientals, the place of honor in this respect must be yielded to the Nestorians; for, heretics as they are, too much praise cannot be given them for the singular reverence they show towards their departed brethren.
The Blessed Virgin was preserved by an extraordinary grace from the least sin in the whole tenor of her life and actions; but, without such a singular privilege, even the saints are obliged to say that they sin daily.
After one of those visits, about three months after the prince's death, she retired to rest, and in the course of the night had a singular dream.
Lingard Singular French Custom Voix de la Verité Devotion to the Holy Souls amongst the Early English A.
Brass, being the result of copper combined with zinc, would appear a singular transformation.
It is singular to observe this particular coincidence of the inventive faculty of man, and it shows next to a demonstration, that if all mechanical inventions were swept from the face of the earth they would be reproduced in some remote age.
The most singular part of this strange delusion is the fact of its strong hold on the minds of its infatuated votaries.
It is singular that he professes "to have tried and perfected all these," words of great import in all matters of novel invention.
It must have been about this period of his life that the Marquis of Worcester made one of his most singular and perplexing mechanical experiments, which he exhibited at the Tower before Charles I.
The circumstance is scarcely worth notice except as a singularproof that such a hallucination could exist in the mind of the same genius that perfected the first practical steam-engine.
It was a singular means of grace to have known two such men in the flesh, when he was still young and impressionable.
A vine called the bush-rope by the wood-cutters, on account of its use in hauling out the heaviest timber, has a singular appearance in the forests of Demerara.
The ants' nests have a singular appearance on this plain.
Sometimes you will fall in with flocks of two or three hundred waracabas, or trumpeters, called so from the singular noise they produce.
Many a time has this singular bird felt the shot faintly strike him from the gun of the fowler beneath, and owed his life to the distance betwixt them.
Almost every one of those singular and elegant birds described by Buffon as belonging to Cayenne are to be met with in Demerara; but it is only by an indefatigable naturalist that they are to be found.
A singular reef of rocks runs parallel to the coast, and forms the harbour of Pernambuco.
While cotingas attract your attention by their superior plumage, the singular form of the toucan makes a lasting impression on your memory.
Oscar used to say that he invented Aubrey Beardsley; but the truth is, it was Mr. Robert Ross who first introduced Aubrey to Oscar and persuaded him to commission the "Salome" drawings which gave the English edition its singular value.
The singular malevolence of the prosecution also can be estimated by their use of the so-called "literary argument.
About this time, too, he began to develop that humorous vein in conversation, which later lent a singular distinction to his casual utterances.
It was not the generosity in my friend's offer that astonished me, but the consideration for Wilde; I thought the lenity so singular in England that I feel compelled to explain it.
But never was the pressure of these restraints felt to be so great as in this singular calm, which followed the inauguration of Mr. Davis.
This singularuncertainty was soon, however, to cease.
The giants at one time obtained his hammer, and he was obliged to use a very singular stratagem to recover it.
As an oracle had declared that marriage would be fatal to her, she freed herself from the importunity of her suitors by a singular expedient.
Very well; but, what is singular in the matter is that for the future he will think differently, and that henceforward he will be obliged to resist you.
It may perhaps appear singular that his friend Gabri did not come to his aid; but the absence of this guardian angel had been the cause of his misfortune as there was no friendly glance or hand to warn, or raise him up.
The incorrect use of will in questions in the first person singular ('Will I light the fire ma'am?
The dropping of thou was a distinct loss to the English language: for now you has to do double duty--for both singular and plural--which sometimes leads to obscurity.
Shraums, singular shraum; the matter that collects about the eyes of people who have tender eyes: matter running from sore eyes.
The use of thesingular of nouns instead of the plural after a numeral is found all through Ireland.
But isn't it singular how local and provincial society talk is everywhere?
Could that be Eurydice whom the rough guide was tenderly dragging out of the hell of waters, up the stony path, that singular figure in oil-skin trousers, who disclosed a pretty face inside her hood as she emerged?
But the singular result of their various explications was to give sudden check to that undercurrent of thought which for some time had been setting towards this conception.
I subsequently gave some of these singular masses to Mr. Charles Moore, the Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens.
Then, again, I have often been surprised at the singular holes and corners in the vegetable world which the native ransacks to supply his wants.
I remember on one occasion, whilst watching a large canoe starting from Ugi to the opposite coast of St. Christoval, remarking their singular style of paddling.
A singular fatality seems to have attended the careers of nearly all the French commanders who visited these seas.
A singular W pattern that occurs on the flat blades of these St. Christoval clubs was for a long time a puzzle to me.
A native of Treasury showed me a singularconical hat which he had brought from Bouka.
Illustration] Whilst examining the island of Simbo, I noticed some singular Medusae in a small mangrove-swamp, which is inclosed in the low point that forms the south shore of the anchorage.
Overhead, perched high upon the branches of the tall mangroves, occur the two singular epiphytes, Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia, both of which have been found to be species new to science (H.
It is a singular circumstance that although these pigeons frequent coral islets where they can easily find hard pebbles of coral-rock, they prefer the quartz pebbles which are of comparatively rare occurrence.
At the completion of the time of mourning, a gathering of the tribes of the district known as a bea was to be held at Wano; and I obtained from Mr. Stephens of Ugi the following particulars of this singular custom.
It is a singular circumstance, as residents in the group inform me, that natives never seem to be struck by a falling cocoa-nut, notwithstanding that they must be frequently exposed to injury from this cause.
Since then human judgment is about human acts, which are about singular and contingent matters, it seems that no judgment would be lawful, if it were not lawful to judge from suspicions.
Now this primary singular is some singular end, as stated in the same place.
Now a singular conclusion is argued from a universal and a singular proposition.
It belongs essentially to the divine excellence that it is singular and incommunicable.
Now actions are in singular matters: and so it is necessary for the prudent man to know both the universal principles of reason, and the singulars about which actions are concerned.
Hence it belongs to fortitude to strengthen the mind against dangers of death, not only such as arise in a general battle, but also such as occur in singular combat, which may be called by the general name of battle.
Again, honor is due to someone under the aspect of excellence: and to God a singular excellence is competent, since He infinitely surpasses all things and exceeds them in every way.
Divine foreknowledge does not exclude the contingency of future singular events, because that knowledge regards the future as present and already determinate to one thing.
God by reason of their rendering pure service and subjection to God, and on account of the indivisible and singular life which unites them by holy reflections," i.
Further, prudence is about singular matters of action (Ethic.
Now it is evident that lordship belongs to God in a special and singular way, because He made all things, and has supreme dominion over all.
It was a most singular contrast, Mary, the Queen of England and Mary the wife of Philip.
Accordingly a paper of a singular tone was, after the delay of a few days, sent into the assembly.
A contemporary letter mentions a somewhat singular incident as forming the concluding part of the ceremony.
It is a singular fact that the length and droop of a girl's eyelashes have great weight in an argument.
Amidst the clinking of glasses was sealed the singular compact; and the body-stealers, that were to be, soon after separated, to come together again upon the morrow.
He was too much occupied in endeavouring to interpret the strange talk, and comprehend the singular scene passing before him.
Tell us what you want, and what the whole of this singular affair means.
He told to them the singular history of his connection with the pirates, of which Ada had already given them some particulars.
Brooke himself had been made acquainted with the subject in regard to which this singular interview was desired; but it was not a part of his duty to communicate any information respecting it.
His landlady told him on this very day that the boy ought to be sent to his mother, and had made him understand that it would not suit her to find a home any longer for one who was so singular in his proceedings.
It was so singular a coincidence that the lady should have gone to Nuncombe Putney of all villages in England, and to the house of Mrs. Stanbury of all ladies in England.
And then Mr. Outhouse himself was a somewhat singular man.
She was without friends to help her,--except these who were now with her, whose friendship had come to her in sosingular a manner, and whose power to aid her at the present moment was cruelly curtailed by their own circumstances.
There was nothing in itself singular in that, as he was accustomed to declare that luncheon was a meal too much in the day, and that a man should eat nothing beyond a biscuit between breakfast and dinner.
It seemed to both of them to be a most singular abode for such a man as Trevelyan.
It was divided by a singular separation, but not divided against itself.
