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Example sentences for "this general"

  • Ney and Berthier, standing near Napoleon, exchanged looks and smiled contemptuously at this general's senseless offer.

  • But in this general ruin, Noah found favor with God, and he and his family were preserved in the Ark.

  • In this general destruction of the winged ants, some females escape, which quickly divest themselves of their wings, form an ant-hill, and found a new colony by depositing their eggs in it.

  • This general form of transmitting telephone has prevailed and at present is the standard type.

  • This general scheme of selection is a new-comer in the field, and for certain classes of work it is of undoubted promise.

  • The common-battery wall set has usually taken this general form.

  • The hinge of the key shelf is an important feature and is universally found in all switchboards of this general type.

  • Such a comparison will tend to facilitate our survey of the primitive ages of the world: and in this general combination of the whole, each part will appear in a clearer light.

  • This Session, His Majesties Gracious Letter Direct to this General Assembly, was publickly Read and Heard with great Respect; and appointed to be Recorded in the Books of the Assembly, The Tenour whereof follows.

  • In this general excitement, the most distinguished men were ready to forestall the wants of the community, and the people clung to them for support, and placed them at its head.

  • The word "day" in Genesis 1 is an instance of this general mode of expression.

  • This general experience, moreover, is merely negative, and cannot neutralize that which is positive, except upon principles which would invalidate all testimony whatever.

  • This general rule, however, is liable to a great number of exceptions; and the doctrine of drawbacks has become a much less simple matter than it was at their first institution.

  • The sources of this general or public revenue, I shall endeavour to explain in the following chapter.

  • The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one.

  • The advantageous situation of the country, and the great number of independent status which at that time subsisted in it, probably contributed not a little to this general cultivation.

  • Cases of this general character, both visual and auditory, occupy a great part of Phantasms of the Living, and others have been frequently quoted in the S.

  • A coincidence of this general type, if it occurs, need not be difficult to substantiate, and we have in fact substantiated it with more or less completeness in several hundred cases.

  • And yet in Joan's case, more probably than in the case of Socrates, there may have been one singular exception to this general rule.

  • This general doctrine of Tarde has been elaborated by a number of recent writers.

  • The trend of public opinion is the name we give to this general movement.

  • The whole matter may be summed up in this general statement: history interprets, natural science explains.

  • This general principle of combining polity with education, is fundamental both with Plato and Xenophon: to a great degree, it is retained also by Aristotle.

  • Of this general doctrine, however, Plato makes a particular application in the passage now before us, which he would have found few Athenians, either oligarchical or democratical, to ratify.

  • My officers were in this general area in here.

  • Well, they were making a round in this general area in here [indicating].

  • Sort of looking around generally up there; I mean as you walked around in this area we have marked "A," did you from time to time glance up in this general direction?

  • All parts of the body partake of this general weakness.

  • To all women who are suffering from this general debility, exhaustion, and nervous prostration I earnestly recommend Lydia E.

  • We provisionally limit ourselves to this general indication: we shall return to this idea and give more explicit proof, when we speak of the rites (Bk.

  • This general observation is applicable to totemism.

  • It sometimes happens, it is true, that women form an exception to this general rule: there are tribes where they are believed to have no souls.

  • This gives greater reality to the several topics, besides making it possible, by this general statement, at once to acknowledge it, and also to avoid discussion and citation of authorities in the text.

  • Nor is there any nation, in the judgment of this General Assembly, to whose circumstances these remarks are more applicable than to the United States.

  • All the legislation in the world, in this general form, could not accomplish it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    much engaged; this act; this battle; this bill; this branch; this business; this case; this cause; this colony; this early; this edition; this event; this feeling; this juncture; this kingdom; this lady; this lake; this latter; this man; this narrative; this people; this phenomenon; this season; this story; this theory; this work