Fingle

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? ❋ Unknown (1783)

And when I got home, I found my pal fingle had posted the most delightful thing... ❋ 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. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

Juft as the boats were putting off, we obfenred feveral fingle canoes coming from the ihore. ❋ Unknown (1812)

The captain-general hereupon iflued orders that none fliould make the leaft mo - tion, or utter a fingle word without his leave. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (1812)

SmalUare the advances which a fingle unaififted individual can make towards perfefiling any of his powers. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (1812)

He beheld it without the alteration, of a fingle feature! ❋ Unknown (1798)

In the Tnidft of this, the Cledaogli comes pouring down in a white fheet, without a fingle break, into the bafon below. ❋ William Fordyce Mavor , William Mavor , Samuel John Neele, C Rivers (1798)

The maulbkum of Thtudoi ic is Itill to be feen, and is remarkable for being covered by a fingle Itone, 28 feet in diameter, and 15 tuick. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Its romantic fittaticn, and the boldnefe 'of ifts fingle-arched bridge pro - jeftihgover the Orbe, arc - the admiration of air travellers. ❋ Unknown (1797)

The young, the tender daughter of a, great and renowned houfe, thus beheld: herfelf, by a flrange, an unforefeen re -., verfe of fortune, in a fingle night convey - ed from fplendour and affluence, from the beloved home of lier family, to the wanti - and woes of captivity in an unknown caf - tie. ❋ Unknown (1797)

It was firft made fingle felony by the Fifth of Henry the Fourth, cap, 5. — ❋ Patrick Colquhoun (1797)

Several hundred firidges are to be feen in Vc* nice; but, in general, they confift of fingle arches, and are mean enough. ❋ Unknown (1797)

There are varieties with fingle flowers and double flowers. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Of this there are varieties, with fingle dividing the roots, and fome by cuttings of the flower - fcarlet flowers, with large double fcarlet flowers of ftalks. exceeding beauty and elegance, with pale-red flowers, and with white flowers. ❋ Unknown (1797)

But the defire of knowledge generally flags when we have none with a fimilar tafte to communicate with: many years had Hid away without a fingle converfation with a botanical friend, I was a good deal furprifed at firfl on entering his room, to fee in the window the Syftema Vegetabilium of Linnaeus. ❋ Unknown (1797)