186 examples of singletons in sentences

Defoe's Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Memoirs of a Cavalier, and Journal of the Plague Year are such mixtures of fact, fiction, and credulity that they defy classification; while other so-called "novels," like Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, are but, little better than picaresque stories, with a deal of unnatural moralizing and repentance added for puritanical effect.

Thus, in 1720 appeared Captain Singleton, Duncan Campbell, and Memoirs of a Cavalier; in 1722, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and the amazingly realistic Journal of the Plague Year.

The best known of these are the Journal of the Plague Year, in which the horrors of a frightful plague are minutely recorded; the Memoirs of a Cavalier, so realistic that Chatham quoted it as history in Parliament; and several picaresque novels, like Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana.

Texts: Romances and Narratives, edited by Aitken (Dent); Poems and Pamphlets, in Arber's English Garner, vol. 8; school editions of Robinson Crusoe, and Journal of the Plague Year (Ginn and Company, etc.); Captain Singleton, and Memoirs of a Cavalier, in Everyman's Library; Early Writings, in Carisbrooke Library (Routledge).

Captain Singleton was announced, and a boyor so he lookeddark-haired and sunburnt, entered the office.

" Ralston rang for lights, and then said to Singleton: "Then, I'll see him now.

"This is his Excellency," said Captain Singleton, and Rahat Mian bowed with dignity and stood waiting.

James Harlowe and Singleton are warned against.

Might she be assured, she asked him, that her brother, with Singleton and Solmes, were actually in quest of her? * Vol.

In substance the tale is simply a mosaic of romantic adventures, though some of the hero's wanderings in the desert after being marooned by pirates and especially his encounter with the "tyger" sound like a faint echo of "Captain Singleton" or of Captain John Smith's "True Travels.

Mr. Singleton smiled at the request, and pointed out the utter impossibility of his agreeing to it; but he revived Fred's sinking hopes by saying that he was about to send out a whaler to the Northern Seas at any rate, and that he would give orders to the captain to devote a portion of his time to the search, and, moreover, agreed to let Fred go as a passenger in company with his own son Tom.

Young Singleton and Buzzby having hastily but earnestly bade Mrs. Bright and her daughter farewell, leaped on board.

Old Mr. Singleton will tell you how to address your letter; and see that it be a long one.

" "It's my opinion," remarked Buzzby to Singleton one day, as they stood at the weather gangway watching the foam that spread from the vessel's bow as she breasted the waves of the Atlantic gallantlyit's my opinion that our skipper is made o' the right stuff.

"Was it a log-line, or a bow-line, or a cod-line, or a bit of the equator, eh?" The old salt deigned no reply to this passing sally, but continued his converse with Singleton.

"One time when I was about fifty miles to the sou'-west o' Cape Horn, I" "Dinner's ready, sir," said a thin, tall, active man, stepping smartly up to Singleton, and touching his cap.

The young surgeon, Tom Singleton, whom we have yet scarcely introduced to the reader, was a tall, slim, but firmly-knit youth, with a kind, gentle disposition.

He never indulged in broad humour, though he enjoyed it much, seldom ventured on a witticism, was rather shy in the company of his companions, and spoke little; but for a quiet, pleasant tête-à-tête there was not a man in the ship equal to Tom Singleton.

Among others, a school was started by the captain for instructing such of the crew as chose to attend in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in this hyperborean academy Fred Ellice acted as the writing master, and Tom Singleton as the accountant.

SEE Davis Clyde Brion. DAVIS, EDITH A. The development of linguistic skill in twins, singletons with siblings, and only children from age five to ten years.

The development of linguistic skill in twins, singletons with siblings, and only children from five to ten year.

John Singleton Copley.

Les enquetes de Marcel Singleton: La plaie en triangle.

SEE Davis Clyde Brion. DAVIS, EDITH A. The development of linguistic skill in twins, singletons with siblings, and only children from age five to ten years.

The development of linguistic skill in twins, singletons with siblings, and only children from five to ten year.

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