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Example sentences for "the several"

  • This was prior to the commencement of hostilities, and consequently before the motion of the 20th February could be deliberated on by the several assemblies.

  • I have already stated that the expense of conducting the present war, and the government of the several states, may be done for two millions sterling, and the establishment in the time of peace, for three quarters of a million.

  • In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face in length and breadth and curvature differs enormously.

  • The several relators of this history.

  • A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

  • The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings.

  • He fixed generals of ability in the several stations of attack, and assumed in person the conduct of the most important province on the Upper Danube.

  • The rest of his reign was spent in the several provinces of the empire, particularly those of the East, and province was by turns the scene of his rapine and cruelty.

  • As a nursery of seamen, it now is, or when time shall have more nearly assimilated the principles of navigation in the several States, will become, a universal resource.

  • The plan reported by the convention, by extending the authority of the federal head to the individual citizens of the several States, will enable the government to employ the ordinary magistracy of each, in the execution of its laws.

  • The several kinds of shuttles ought to answer in material and form to the several kinds of webs.

  • In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

  • The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall.

  • The attributes of the Federal Government were therefore carefully enumerated and all that was not included amongst them was declared to constitute a part of the privileges of the several Governments of the States.

  • Were it my intention to examine the provisions of American law minutely, I should have to point out still further differences in the executive details of the several communities.

  • Amendments must be proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

  • You cannot imagine what a service you have done me in making me make this Abstract; for though I thought I had got all clear, it has clarified my brains very much, by making me weigh the relative importance of the several elements.

  • I have been so much interested this morning in comparing all my notes on the variation of the several species of the genus Equus and the results of their crossing.

  • I have transmitted to you, with this letter, the several allegations on both sides.

  • The first invention of public couriers is ascribed to Cyrus, who, in order to receive the earliest intelligence from the governors of the several provances, erected post-houses throughout the kingdom of Persia, at equal dis.

  • The contents of the several dishes, and their positions, however, were the result of the sole judgment of Remarkable.

  • The several postures of his devout soul.

  • The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

  • The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.

  • Thus, although the whole of life is allowed by every one to be short, the several divisions of it appear long and tedious.

  • Thus also with ants, the several worker-castes are generally quite distinct; but in some cases, as we shall hereafter see, the castes are connected together by finely graduated varieties.

  • The same remark holds good in regard to the fruit of the several varieties of the plum, and still more strongly with the melon, as well as in many other analogous cases.

  • In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face, in length and breadth and curvature, differs enormously.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the air; the beginning; the cattle; the fountain; the garden; the next; the people; the plains; the princes; the sea; theatre party; thee again; thee and; thee have; then from; then gave; then goes; then heated; then knit; then place; then pour; then stopped; then take off the; these countries; these may; these terms