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Suppofe a common globe was turned round once in twenty-four hours — imagine an animal as much inferiour to it in fize as we are to the earth, placed as as I conceived the human fpeftatOf placed to view the earth — would the apprehenfion of this Being in - duce you to call a fingle revolution in twenty-four hours, whirling?

Thirty letters on various subjects .. 1783

And when I got home, I found my pal fingle had posted the most delightful thing...

Stealth signing! madkestrel 2008

Again coarse and servile slaves of slaves, dressed up in various dazzling attires -- varieties of Generals wishing to distinguish themselves, or to earn the right to add one more little star, fingle fangle, or scrap of ribbon to their idiotic glaring get-up, or else from stupidity or carelessness -- again these miserable men have destroyed amid dreadful sufferings thousands of those honorable, kind, hard-working laborers who feed them.

"Bethink Yourselves!" Leo Tolstoy 1869

SmalUare the advances which a fingle unaififted individual can make towards perfefiling any of his powers.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

The captain-general hereupon iflued orders that none fliould make the leaft mo - tion, or utter a fingle word without his leave.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

Juft as the boats were putting off, we obfenred feveral fingle canoes coming from the ihore.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

But after they removed the feat of their government from Amboyna to Batavia,. they turned their views another way, and never made any voyage exprefsly for dif - coveries on that fide, except the fingle one of Captain Tafman; of which we are to « fpeak in article X.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

Whereas Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of their throwing the mountains, which is in itfelf fo grand, burlefque and ridiculous j by this fingle circumflance, of one of his giants with the mountain Ida upon his ihoulders, and a river, which flowed from tlie mountain running down along the giant's back, as he held it up in that pollure.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

Thefe fingle canoes have all out-riggers, and are fometimes navigated with fails, but more generally with paddles, the blades of which are fhort, and broadeft in the middle.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

Thefe 'trees are fo large that a fingle canoe is capable of containing thirty or even forty perfons, who paddle with oars iimilar to bakers' fhovels.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812