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Example sentences for "singularly enough"

  • Singularly enough, not one of the sequences mentioned occurred in the practice of a physician connected with a lying-in hospital.

  • Singularly enough, the bacterium termo and the bacterium commune--to which the fetidity of matters undergoing putrefaction is due--are in themselves harmless.

  • The latter clearly describes the disease and uses the name lytta, but, singularly enough, claims for man an exemption from the general susceptibility to the infection by inoculation.

  • Singularly enough, Miss Lois did not seem to appreciate Anne's condition: she was suffering too deeply herself.

  • Wild flowers, that seem so fresh and young, are, singularly enough, the especial prey of old maids.

  • He infers the latter fact from a consideration of the customs of the present almost pureblooded Indians here, who must have descended from the older race, although, singularly enough, knowing nothing of their ancient progenitors.

  • Singularly enough, nearly all this great fish supply in the Gulf was along the eastern coast of this American Adriatic, or on the Sonora and Sinaloa side, rather than on or along the coast of Lower California.

  • Singularly enough, he returns to England to gratify his aged parents with a sight of himself, and intends to try and persuade one of his female cousins to come out with him.

  • Singularly enough he asked after Luff, and whether I knew if he was upon the coast.

  • Our equipment should have been made in Germany, for, singularly enough, Stockholm is not half so well provided with furs and articles of winter clothing as Hamburg or Leipsic.

  • Singularly enough, there were also two Italian organ grinders on board, whom I accosted in their native language; but they seemed neither surprised nor particularly pleased.

  • Eggs are plentiful everywhere, yet, singularly enough, we were nearly a fortnight in Norway before we either saw or heard a single fowl.

  • Yet, singularly enough, the Swedes are rather sensitive to foreign criticism, seeming to reserve for themselves the privilege of being censorious.

  • Granvelle, singularly enough, notices this in a letter to the Regent Mary, in 1555, treating it as a mere suspicion on their part.

  • But the department which especially engaged Charles's attention in his retirement, singularly enough, was the financial.

  • Two of them, singularly enough as it may seem to us, performed the office of carvers.

  • Singularly enough, the low-priced teas are the only genuine ones.

  • Some of the earliest notices of boxing-matches upon record, singularly enough, took place between combatants of the fair sex.

  • Singularly enough, but faint traces of this overwhelming calamity, as it was considered at the time, can be gathered from the current advertisements.

  • Singularly enough, Longfer Hill, which had previously been upon their left, now rose far away upon the right.

  • Singularly enough, Christians seem to delight in rendering death particularly hideous, and graveyards decidedly disagreeable.

  • Singularly enough, he did not attempt a denial, but said that if they would not bring him to a trial (which of course they promised) he would give it up immediately.

  • Singularly enough, the intended victim perished on the same day on the same scaffold, having in the meantime been condemned for a plot against the Protector.

  • The people, however, singularly enough, did not pelt the impudent rogue, but actually collected money for him.

  • Singularly enough, this great and versatile actor had, on first coming to London with his friend Johnson, started as a wine merchant below in Durham Yard.

  • The spot that he had chosen was, singularly enough, in earlier days, Gabriel's favourite haunt for the indulgence of his noontide contemplation and pipe.

  • Singularly enough, the lead over the altar at the east end was untouched, and among the monuments the body of one bishop (Braybroke--Richard II.

  • Singularly enough, Sturgess, who was gifted with the artist's sense of proportion, could hew a spade out of a plank more skillfully than Maseden, and he was inordinately proud of the achievement.

  • Singularly enough, he either forgot or was afraid to voice his own prediction as to a possible alternative.

  • Thus, singularly enough, next to the officer himself, and possibly a look-out in the bows, he was the first person on board to become aware of a peril which suddenly beset the Southern Cross.

  • Singularly enough, sailors are not only fatalists, which they may well be, but superstitious.

  • But the Chief Inspector was more solid, more circumspect, even, singularly enough, more sensitive to the probable comments of a crusty judge if counsel for the defense contrived to elicit the facts.

  • Singularly enough, Grant's somewhat high-flown simile appeared to satisfy his craving for light.

  • Returning, he found his crony poring over the book which, singularly enough, figured prominently on each occasion when the specter-producing window was markedly in evidence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cried out; each foot; electrical engineering; fellow soldiers; holy ground; humble opinion; hundred dinars; hundred dollars; know anything; little door; mighty fine; national literature; quarto edition; reach the; singularly enough; speak for; talk nonsense; though quite; times greater; what belongs; whatever you; whither thou