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Sentences starting with instance

Instance upon instance was given, and men of high prominence from whom he had received bribes were named, not the least important of these being the Honorable Alva Hopkins of Gosport. [9]

Sentences ending with instance

Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. [10]
Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?--the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? [5]
Take this place where we are now, for instance. [5]
For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow among its dungeons, or climb about its ruined towers, or visit its interior shows--the great Heidelberg Tun, for instance. [5]
Take the peek-a-boo waist, for instance. [5]
What her feelings toward him, whether she loved him as a woman loves a man he could not say, no man being a judge in the supreme instance. [9]
If you wish to get the distance of a heavenly body, you know that you must take two observations from remote points of the earth's orbit,--in midsummer and midwinter, for instance. [6]
In antique Roman times it was the custom of the Deity to try to conceal His intentions in the entrails of birds, and this was patiently and hopefully continued century after century, although the attempted concealment never succeeded, in a single recorded instance. [5]
He takes the thick and thin as it comes, as to pie, for instance. [4]
Why not banish these spies and select servants from the military caste, for instance? [10]

Short sentences using instance

One good instance will suffice. [1]
For instance, consider the Dollar. [5]
Take Leith, for instance. [9]
Mr. Parr, for instance. [9]
Martha Preston, for instance. [9]
Well, then, for instance. [5]
Take wartime for instance. [5]
Take travel, for instance. [5]
Take smoking, for instance. [5]
Never in one instance. [5]

Sentences containing instance two or more times

I now ask whether he is able to find in anything that Judge Trumbull, for instance, has said, or in anything that I have said, a justification at all compared with what we have, in this instance, for that sort of vulgarity. [7]

More example sentences with the word instance in them

In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
In that instance you were eager to flash out a hot rebuke and enjoy it. [5]
I will tell you the former instance, and then you will see it for yourself. [5]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? [7]
I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
Tell him how you are situated at the court, and what prospects, you have here in Ratisbon or elsewhere; for instance, I would gladly go to the magnificent Netherlands with my husband. [10]
I will give you another instance of thought. [5]
He did, however, write some letters in 1876, as, for instance, the answer to the invitation of the Virginia students. [6]
For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
For instance, Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning. [5]
For instance, somebody would mention a name. [5]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
For instance, none would have pitched a tent in the grounds, slept in it, read in it, and lived in it--when it did not rain. [11]
Something of Mr. Worthington's affairs was known: the mills, for instance, were not being run to their full capacity. [9]
The news was worth a good deal, for instance, to Mr. Peter Pardriff (brother of Paul, of Ripton), who refrained, with praiseworthy self-control, from publishing it in the State Tribune, although the temptation to do so must have been great. [9]
Ideas rule the world, and never was there a more signal instance of this triumph of an idea than here. [7]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
One such instance will do as well as twenty. [3]
For instance, we will ask the Indians if they would feel proud to obey your sceptre, Cambyses. [10]
There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account. [9]
There came moments when I grew slightly alarmed, as, for instance, one Sunday in the early spring when I was dining at the Ezra Hutchins's house and surprised Mrs. Hutchins's glance on me, suspecting her of seeking to divine what manner of man I was. [9]
As, for instance, when a fault or sin showed on the surface of a man, whether, if you dug down, you would find that it ran back and into the original organic bunch of original sin within the man. [4]
For instance, take What's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder and lightning parts. [5]
Here, for instance, were two far-reaching and momentous events, one crowding upon the other, and not an hour for reflection, realization, or adjustment! [9]
Suppose a minister were to undertake to express opinions on medical subjects, for instance, would you not think he was going beyond his province? [6]
For instance, we were out for a walk, and passed by some bushes that were freighted with wild goose-berries. [5]
For instance, they were convinced that the Hon. [9]
For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. [5]
I wondered how we should feel in New England if such an outrage had been done to Boston, for instance, or little Concord! [9]
When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another. [2]
As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and Socrates. [10]
For instance, as we approached the Dardanelles, we coasted along the Plains of Troy and past the mouth of the Scamander; we saw where Troy had stood (in the distance,) and where it does not stand now--a city that perished when the world was young. [5]
Orion, by the way, was acquiring "feet" on his own account, and in one instance, at least, seems to have won his brother's commendation. [5]
For instance, there was the Senator's check for $2,000--"to buy suitable clothing in New York with! [5]
For instance, there was the legend of 'The Undying Head. [5]
Such, for instance, was the estimable man to whom I have repeatedly referred as a warm defender of tractoration, and a bitter assailant of its enemies. [6]
For instance, there was the case of Mr. Dyck Calhoun. [11]
For instance, there was the Baldwin case, in Ohio, twenty-two years ago. [5]
There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
Three were what was called enteritis, in one instance complicated with erysipelas; but it is well known that this term has been often used to signify inflammation of the peritoneum covering the intestines. [3]
For instance, it was a proud thing to be of the crew of such stately craft as the 'Aleck Scott' or the 'Grand Turk. [5]
For instance, I was a pilot once, but I gave it up, and I do not believe the captain of the Minneapolis would let me navigate his ship to London. [5]
That her uncle was a good man, for instance, had no such effect upon Honora, as the fact that Peter was a good man. [9]
For instance, he wanted the war parties (called) in before he started unarmed upon his mission of peace. [5]
Here is a very remarkable instance of the other thing in Mr. [5]
Why should not variations occur during an early period of development, having no relation to reversion; yet such variations might be preserved and accumulated, if in any way serviceable, for instance, in shortening and simplifying the course of development? [1]
Who has given us a grander instance of self-sacrificing devotion? [5]
Olympius himself was unanimously chosen Symposiarch, and he invited the company to discuss, in the first instance, the time-honored question: Which was the highest good? [10]
It is not true, for instance, as Dr. Meigs states, that contagion is "no respecter of persons;" that "it attacks all individuals alike. [3]
I have never tried in even one single instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. [5]
His manner of treating Janet, for instance, was quite different from that he employed in dealing with Lise. [9]
As, for instance, towards evening I am preparing a bed for a sowing of turnips,--not that I like turnips in the least; but this is the season to sow them. [4]
There came others to the village, as, for instance, a series of clerks to the Avocat; but she would not decline from Armand upon them. [11]
If I were to stick you with this hat-pin, for instance, you would accept the matter as a positive insult. [9]
I don't like to say it to myself, but I cannot help suspecting, in this instance, the doubtful-looking personage who sits on my left, beyond the Scarabee. [6]
It was indicated to newspapers (such as the Mail and State) showing a desire to keep up public interest in the affair that their advertising matter might decrease; Mr. Sherrill's great department store, for instance, did not approve of this sort of agitation. [9]
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except towards the things which were sacred to other people. [5]
Generally he inclined to leniency; but breaking into a house was punishable with death, and in this instance it was but right to show no mercy, out of deference to the Arab merchant. [10]
What I mean to indicate by such an extreme instance as this is, that in our very license of individual freedom there is finally a correcting power. [4]
But he tried to imagine a Massachusetts senator, Mr. Sumner, for instance, going through the rat story, and couldn't. [9]
For instance, call this waiter St. Louis. [5]
An instance of this second-hand acquisition of knowledge occurred the very next morning, when Lily Dallam, with much dignity, walked into Honora's little sitting-room. [9]
One instance of this kind was very remarkable. [3]
Do these liberation-parties think that they can succeed in a project which has been attempted a million times in the history of the world and has never in one single instance been successful--the "modification" of a despotism by other means than bloodshed? [5]
In one instance they sold a man a gallon of rum worth two dollars for a piece of property which was sold some years later for $100,000. [5]
In this instance they set up the poor criminals at long range, like so many targets, and practiced on them--kept them hopping about and dodging bullets for half an hour before they managed to drive the center. [5]
We know that these qualities are easily affected by changed conditions of life, or by close inter-breeding, and that they are governed by highly complex laws, for instance, that of the unequal fertility of converse crosses between the same two species. [1]
Why bless you, there was my income from the Daily Warwhoop for four months--about--about--well, what should you say to about eight thousand dollars, for instance? [5]
The fact of the vast diffusion of some odors, as that of musk or the rose, for instance, has long been cited as the most remarkable illustration of the divisibility of matter, and the nicety of the senses. [3]
For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire. [2]
The result was the same that had followed the similar proceeding the day before,--the storm was soon calmed, and after a little time she fell into a quiet sleep, as in the first instance. [6]
Philip ever maintained the right to pitch it on the side of his own convenience, and he chose in this instance to come to the rescue of his dear mamma, and turned the scales in her favour. [9]
This is probably the only instance on record where common family flour brought three thousand dollars a pound in the public market. [5]
He would insert the most ridiculous statements, as for instance, "Davy is worse to-day, having bribed Lindy to give him a pint of Madeira against my orders. [9]
For instance, when the Mississippi was first seen by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I. [5]
He had relieved the meeting of the necessity of taking any further action: of putting their names, for instance, in their enthusiasm to a paper which the first citizen might see. [9]
Suppose, for instance, the Medical Society should refuse to give us an opiate, or to set a broken limb, until we had signed our belief in a certain number of propositions,--of which we will say this is the first: I. [6]
For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street. [9]
If, for instance, the landlord's wife at Burnsville had traveled with her husband, her table would probably have been more on a level with his knowledge of the world, and it would have contained something that the wayfaring man, though a Northerner, could eat. [4]
James Redpath recognised the justice of this assumption, and furnished the following instance in support of it. [5]
Take, for instance, the Illinois and Michigan Canal. [7]
Consider, for instance, the fundamental doctrine in the Creeds, that of the Trinity, which has been much scoffed at. [9]
I will take the first instance which happens to suggest itself. [3]
In respect to the external perpendicular fissure of Gratiolet, in the human brain for instance, Professor Turner remarks: (71. [1]
Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
The feathers of the common guinea-fowl offer a good instance of white spots surrounded by darker zones; and wherever the white spots are large and stand near each other, the surrounding dark zones become confluent. [1]
I then sent the chapters composing it to the North American Review, but failed in one instance, to date them. [5]
They are taught the beginnings of such sciences as bear upon agriculture--like chemistry, for instance. [5]
See, for instance, the account which I have given in my 'Journal of Researches,' 1845, p. [1]
For instance, with the aborigines of America and Australia, Prof. Huxley says ('Transact. [1]
We may infer that this is the case from what we see, for instance, in the United States, where subsistence is easy, and there is plenty of room. [1]
Whenever I observed that the head of a department was pursuing a wrong course, I laid down everything and went and tried to set him right, as it was my duty to do; and I never was thanked for it in a single instance. [5]
His interference, in that particular instance, might have been an excellent thing, but to permit it would have been to establish a most pernicious precedent. [5]
Take, for instance, that minaret business on the west; I picked that up from a mosque in Algiers. [9]
I don't say that men of influence are not factors in the Church to-day, but I do say that they are not using the intelligence in this task which they bring to bear, for instance, on their business. [9]
Mr. Roberton says that in one instance within his knowledge a practitioner passed the catheter for a patient with puerperal fever late in the evening; the same night he attended a lady who had the symptoms of the disease on the second day. [3]
It is true that I am a stranger to some of the monarchs--mainly through their neglect of their opportunities--but such is not the case in the present instance. [5]
For instance, in that end of it which you have called the "parlour," the raised platform for the accommodation of guests and the family at meals is the largest you have ever seen in any house--is it not so? [5]

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