The emperor Othon II., who upheld the authority of his lieutenant, Godfrey, became convinced that the imperial power was too weak to resist singly the opposition of the nobles of the country.

Nevertheless this powerful city singly maintained the war for the space of two years; but the intrepid burghers finally yielded to the veterans of the duke, formed to victory in the French wars.

This was suggested to me the other day by one of our first ministers, who told me that he believed Sir R. Sutton's being joined in a mediation, which was carried on by my Lord Paget singly, would be shocking to you, but that they could be more free with a person of Mr. Stanyan's quality.

I have seen poems I never read, published with my name at length; and others, that were truly and singly wrote by me, printed under the names of others.

To this kind of piracy Ulysses alludes, in opposition to the former, which he had been just before mentioning, in his question to Eumoeus. "Did pirates wait, till all thy friends were gone, To catch thee singly with thy flocks alone; Say, did they force thee from thy fleecy care, And from thy fields transport and sell thee here?"[011]

See! far besprenged all our troops are spread, Yet I will singly dare the bloody fray.

A million dollars, paid singly, would be to me far more precious than paid in one single draft; for it would practically show the sympathy of the people at large.

Their oval leaves, sometimes nearly a foot long, droop singly from the twigs, and form no luxuriant masses of foliage.

After sunset we crossed singly, with great loss of time, in a miserable ferry-boat, over the broad mouth of the Pulundaga, where a pleasant road through a forest led us, in fifteen minutes, over the mountain-spur, Malanguit, which again projected itself right across our path into the sea, to the mouth of the Paracale.

After the reading of the statutes by the president, who exhorts the electors to the conscientious performance of their duty, the latter advance singly to the table, and write three names on a piece of paper.

On my asking why no oil-factory had been erected, I received for answer that the nuts were cheaper singly than in quantities.

Moreover, the Government of the day anticipated the people in setting the example, by selling cigars cheaper singly than in quantities.

In order to obtain the bast, the stalk above ground is closely pruned and freed from leaves and other encumbrances; each leaf is then singly divided into stripsa cross incision being made through the membrane on the inner or concave side, and connected by means of the pulpy parts (the parenchym) clinging together.

Misfortunes never come Singly.

Misfortunes never come Singly.

He happened to be unhurt, so that, though alone he was by no means a match for them all together, yet he was full of confidence against each singly.

All these hogs were weighed singly on scales in the course of eleven hours.

He forgets the old story of the faggots, which, weak singly, become strong when combined.

She knew that several of the more fashionable dancing-schools tabooed all pupils, singly or in classes, who labored under social disabilitiesand this included the people of at least one other race who were vastly farther along in the world than the colored people of the community where Miss Hohlfelder lived.

For, as I know, he injures himself who is singly devoted, When for the common cause the whole are not working together.

" In these two brief remarks, taken singly, or, especially, in juxtaposition, from so representative a source, and so characteristic of oligarchical opinions everywhere, appears condensed the suggestive political warning of these times, indeed of all times, and which a people regardful of civil and religious liberty can never be slow to heed.

The universities and the newspapers, working singly and in collaboration, turned them out by the dozen.

From the lower deck the boys, pressing to the starboard guards to see, singly or in pairs smiled up to Hilary's smile.

Insert them singly in 4-1/2-in.

Keep the mould moist, and when the plants are large enough to handle, pot them off singly in thumb pots, using rich, light, sandy soil.

Sigismund, who had witnessed this unusual scene with surprise, watched him to the last, and he saw, by the manner in which he dashed his hand across his eyes, that his fierce nature had been singularly shaken.

He is quite a nice idiot, but, when Lord Valmond came, of course I talked as stiffly as possibly, and presently Lord George told him that he was singularly backward in copybook maxims, and that there was one he ought to write out and commit to memory, and it began with "Two's Company," upon which Lord Valmond stalked on in a rage.

"We went to the Porcelain Manufactory, and, singularly enough, met there the daughter of Oersted, to whom I had the pleasure of an introduction.

Not only did the flames mount to a greater height, and appear singularly conspicuous from the situation of the houses, but every instant some blazing fragment fell with a tremendous splash into the water, where it hissed for a moment, and then was for ever quenched, floating a black mass upon the surface.

The effects of the fire as displayed in this structure, were singularly grand and surprising.

One can not realize long at a time how his face or his manners should have become peculiar; and after looking at a print for five minutes in a shop-window, or dipping into an English book, or in any manner throwing off the mental habit of the instant, the curious gaze of the passer-by, or the accent of a strange language, strikes one very singularly.

The "Grotto," so named from the singularly winding apertures penetrating the sinter surrounding it, was at rest when we first discovered it.

We are surprised to see, in one figure, how long the stride is,in another, how much the knee is bent,in a third, how curiously the heel strikes the ground before the rest of the foot,in all, how singularly the body is accommodated to the action of walking.

But the workings of this impulse are singularly contrasted in the productions of the Greek and Mediaeval artists.

It was singularly fitting, among the many coincidences in the history of this regiment, that they should be there, tacitly avenging the assault upon Sumner and the attempts to bully the impregnable Wilson.

With a hardiness that would have been strongly offensive, if it had not been singularly ridiculous, Mr. Seward told the astonished world of Europe that the fate of slavery did not depend upon the event of our contest,which was as much as to say that we should not injure it, happen what might; and no one then supposed that the Confederates would willingly strike a blow at it, either to conciliate foreign nations or to obtain black soldiers.

Singularly enough, mill-dams are always found below mill-ponds.

He greeted her with a smile and bow, both of which struck her as being singularly affected, for he was not given to polite observances.

Arthur Carrollton, too, acting as her escort, aided her materially, for it was soon whispered around that he was a wealthy Englishman, and many were the comments made upon the handsome couple, who seemed singularly adapted to each other.

The composition, which contains over a hundred figures, is singularly animated, and although the forms are uncouthly proportioned, and the treatment of the subject in some of the details touches what to the modern mind seems grotesque, it is an exceedingly vivid and faithful reflection of the religious ideas of the age that produced it.

What do you think, Dagaeoga?" "My thought has not taken shape yet, Tayoga, but if 'tis fancy then 'tis singularly persistent.

By profession a lawyertime-serving and over-compliant to wealth and influencehe gives singularly little evidence of it in the style of his books.

whose graceful minds, like some enchanted well, In whose calm depths the pure and beautiful Alone are mirrored, are, on account of their very sweetness and simplicity, singularly unfitted to convey any true likeness of the coarse and stormy Middle Age.

If Miss Lind entertains any sentiment for me but one of mistrust and aversion, her behavior is singularly misleading.

After a reign of more than twenty-eight years, rendered singularly glorious by great achievements under difficult circumstances, he died universally lamented, on the 28th of October, A. D. 900.

The shaggy eyebrows, throwing the eye-sockets into shadow, gave him, in conjunction with the spectacles, the same owlish, solemn expression that I had noticed in my Kennington acquaintance; and which, by the way, was singularly out of character with the frivolous behaviour that I had just witnessed.

Barley is also singularly affected by the moisture or dryness of the air.

The STAPELIA is an extensive genus of low succulent plants without leaves, but yielding singularly handsome star-shaped flowers; they are of African origin growing in the sandy deserts, but in a natural state very diminutive being increased to their present condition and numerous varieties by cultivation, they mostly have an offensive smell whence some people call them the carrion plant.

Putting aside the question of the Mémoires, we know nothing of Diderot which would lead us to entertain for a moment the supposition that he was a dishonourable and badhearted man; we do know that his writings bear the imprint of a singularly candid, noble, and fearless mind; we do know that he devoted his life, unflinchingly and unsparingly, to a great cause.

Blake has been, hitherto, singularly unfortunate in his editors.