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Sentences starting with single

Single tones had reached his ears, but he did not feel in the mood to descend the stairs. [10]

Sentences ending with single

It's all very well if you're single. [2]
Already I have been approached from every side by confidential gentlemen who announced that they spoke English--one of them said 'American'--who have offered to show me many things, and who have betrayed enough interest in me to inquire whether I were married or single. [9]
Knightly' in Miss Austen's 'Emma,' had now changed her mind, and vowed that she would either find the duplicate of Professor Emanuel, or remain for ever single! [14]

Short sentences using single

Not a single wink! [5]
I hadn't a single moral. [5]
Not a single chance more. [5]

Sentences containing single two or more times

And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
With throbbing heart, unable to utter a single word, Ulrich opened the door of the studio, bowing low before the monarch, who without vouchsafing him a single glance, walked solemnly to the painting. [10]
You ain't gwine to steal a pin--'ca'se it ain't safe no mo'; en you ain't gwine into no bad comp'ny--not even once, you understand; en you ain't gwine to drink a drop--nary a single drop; en you ain't gwine to gamble one single gamble--not one! [5]
It was one thing to be free to lead a life of single self-culture, and quite another to be compelled to lead a single fife without self-culture. [4]
The president of the society, Mr. Hamilton Fish, introduced the speaker as one "whose name belongs to no single country, and to no single age. [6]
And yet, with the exception of my own little speech, which was published in two only of the then five, now four, Whig papers, I do not remember having seen a single speech, or even extract from one, in any single one of those papers. [7]
But sometimes a single species in a group is rendered sterile, whilst the others are not so; on the other hand, a single species may retain its fertility whilst most of the others fail to breed. [1]
I do not need to open a book; I take the whole of its contents into my mind at a single glance, through the cover; and in a million years I could not forget a single word of it, or its place in the volume. [5]
Natasha without knowing it was all attention: she did not lose a word, no single quiver in Pierre's voice, no look, no twitch of a muscle in his face, nor a single gesture. [2]
Life was grim in so much of it, futile in more, feeble at the best, foolish in the light of a single generation or a single century or a thousand years. [11]

More example sentences with the word single in them

And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
I have given you the estimate of the value of a single developed mine. [5]
What steps will you take to hinder a single one from escaping? [10]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? [6]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Order is not yet restored and not a single merchant is carrying on trade in a lawful manner. [2]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
I hoped he would fancy it was the accumulation of a single week. [5]
In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death. [2]
Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him. [2]
Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
Not one single word of evidence had the defence brought to discredit Crozier, save by Crozier's own word of mouth; and if Crozier had cared to commit perjury, the defence could not have proved him guilty of it. [11]
He never lived with you for a single day. [11]
A single conversation with this marvellous woman had bound her forever. [10]
The great hall, with its gallery, and its hangings, and the long table made from the trunk of a single tree, carries one back into the past centuries. [6]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
One can't help wishing that Mr. Pugh could have got at him for a single lecture, at least, of the "Star Course," or that he could have appeared in the Music Hall, "for this night only. [6]
The single open window resembled a cleft in the rocks, and looked out upon the road. [10]
A single fact will illustrate the resemblance. [6]
And now, my wife and I, out of our single heart, return you our deepest and most grateful thanks, and--yesterday was her birthday. [5]
We can understand why a classification founded on any single character or organ--even an organ so wonderfully complex and important as the brain--or on the high development of the mental faculties, is almost sure to prove unsatisfactory. [1]
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin. [6]
Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation. [5]
Once in a while one meets with a single soul greater than all the living pageant which passes before it. [6]
He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it. [2]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest. [11]
From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
I don't know what I shall do without you, and I'll write to you every single week. [9]
And if you were to die--" her voice broke a little as she passed her hand over my brow, "if you were to die, my single comfort would have been that you wore it then. [9]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
Howbeit, one single well-spent hour in life, or one toilsome deed fruitful for good, hath at all times brought me better comfort than a whole pile of pig-skin-covered tomes. [10]
After a weary watching of the monotonous and clattering round and round of the swinging couples or the stumbling single skaters, the floor was cleared, and the darling of the rink glided upon the scene. [4]
No rain will wash a single one of them away, and I hope it won't efface the least word of my speech either. [10]
This time it was the presence or absence of a single letter which led us to fear that an important package destined to America had miscarried. [6]
A single glance was sufficient, for these good people so understood each other that Mrs. Merrill had only to raise her eyes to her husband's, and this she did shortly after the supper party began; while she was pouring the coffee, to be exact. [9]
A single number was printed, when it was interrupted the course of events, and not resumed until nearly years later, in January, 1890. [6]
And yet he was not weaker than any single individual down there; aye, and if he chose he could crush them all together, as he would the glow-worm creeping on that window-sill. [10]
At least there was no conversation further than a single hurried request, now and then, from one employee to another. [5]
The single gentleman was inexorable; and whenever he had exhausted all other modes and fashions of restlessness, it invariably occurred to him that Kit's mother wanted brandy and water. [12]
The utmost caution was enforced, and although, as I have already remarked, we handled our own guns when we were only lads of twelve years old, I can not recall a single accident which occurred. [10]
Having rendered these voluntary services, the throng modestly retired a little, preferring that the single gentleman should bear their consequences alone. [12]
I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the New England weather, but I will give but a single specimen. [5]
I got home very well, and full glad was I that no insuperable obstacle had deferred my return one single day longer. [14]
All, except the very last one, were in the same hand, and they seemed to have formed a single book before they were torn asunder. [10]
But now let us suppose we take one single drop of the Tincture of Camomile, and that the whole of this were to be carried through the common series of dilutions. [3]
The best of us are liable to commit errors, which become apparent by subsequent developments; but I do not know of a single error, even, committed by Mr. Judd, since he and I have acted together politically. [7]
Its window looked upon a small plat of green, in the midst of which was a single grave marked by a plain marble slab. [6]
Pierre again went up onto the knoll where he had spent over an hour, and of that family circle which had received him as a member he did not find a single one. [2]
They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.M. Saturday was not large. [7]
Yet it seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half a year, and clearing more than 100,000 square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much. [7]
Leave your eyes unfettered by your will but a single instant and they will surely turn to seek it. [5]
We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. [7]
But Grant!--he was under a tremendous and ceaseless bombardment of praise and gratulation, but as true as I'm sitting here he never moved a muscle of his body for a single instant, during 30 minutes! [5]
The moon was under a cloud at the moment, and he could only observe that the horse and his rider looked like a single dark object, and that they were moving along at an easy pace. [6]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
And yet this truth, as Mr. Froude puts it, is only a half-truth, so that this single test of any system may not do for a given time and a limited area. [4]
Now single shrill trumpet notes echoed from afar amid the trombones and the dull roll of the drums, the noise increasing every moment. [10]
A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
Now, isn't it true, darling--now we no longer have even a single glance for such insignificant fellows! [10]
I have never tried in even one single instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. [5]
Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
Simultaneously with the travelling equipage, arrived Mr Chuckster in a hackney cab, with certain papers and supplies of money for the single gentleman, into whose hands he delivered them. [12]
He was so transcendently unconscious of the emotions going on in Mr. Bernard's mind at the moment, that he had only a single thought. [6]
It was the tramp of a single steed, and must be a new arrival; for there were loud voices in the tents, the dogs barked, and shouts, questions, and answers came nearer and nearer with the rider. [10]
I am reminded, too, of Mr. Galton's composite portraits; a thousand glimpses, as one passes through the long halls lined with paintings, all blending in one not unpleasing general effect, out of which emerges from time to time some single distinct image. [6]
We must be tolerant, for the thought which stammers on a single tongue today may organize itself in the growing consciousness of the time, and come back to us like the voice of the multitudinous waves of the ocean on the morrow. [3]
The parable was told to illustrate a single virtue, humility, and the most unwarranted inferences have been drawn from it as to the whole character of the two parties. [6]
A corps student told me it was of record that Prince Bismarck fought thirty-two of these duels in a single summer term when he was in college. [5]
Do you want to squander all your capital of crimes and follies on a single deal? [5]
It was astonishing to see what one little creature like The Terror could accomplish in the course of a single season. [6]
It was wonderful to see how his single personality pervaded this torpid little village; he seemed to be the centre of all its activities. [6]
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]
I can't dare to make an engagement now for even a single letter. [5]
They wish us to infer all, from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty, and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point, upon which he and we have never differed. [7]
Burke instantly arose to his feet, seized the tail, and exclaimed joyfully, "I claim the re--" but got no further, for a single blow of the huge trunk laid the brave fellow's fragments low in death. [5]
He don't seem to have a single vice. [11]
Would you like to grant me the privilege of placing the whole jacquard business of the world in the grip of a single Company? [5]
We all love to get some of the drippings of Conspicuousness, and we will put up with a single, humble drip, if we can't get any more. [5]
The military failed to find the French, but made good their return to Prussia without the loss of a single man. [5]
I'll allow you to cry, laugh and scream for joy as much as you will, but you're forbidden to ask a single question until I have finished. [10]
We now began to creep along flimsy bridges of a single plank, our persons shielded from destruction by a crazy wooden railing, to which I clung with both hands--not because I was afraid, but because I wanted to. [5]
She seemed indeed to be successful, for Dame Susannah agreed to everything she said; but she betrayed the fact that she was keeping a sharp watch by suddenly asking: "Does your husband's lofty niece not think us worthy of a single word? [10]
I will go to America, where all men are equal and all have an equal chance; I will live or die, sink or swim, win or lose as just a man--that alone, and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it. [5]
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]
And in that time there is always a moment --perhaps only a single one when they would do murder if their man was at hand. [5]
She had gone through life without loving one single soul--of that I felt convinced--and no one had loved her, and she had died unregretted. [10]
She was sometimes thought to be fifteen or even sixteen; her mobile face did not retain the same expression a single instant. [10]
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself. [2]
And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will. [2]

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