Instances

Examples

• Numerous instances could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• These were instances of friendship for which any man might reasonably feel most grateful. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Many similar instances could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It must, however, be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Instances might be multiplied of this easily gained and unconscious popularity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I have providentially been the means of removing him from several houses: though in one or two instances I did not arrive in time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The device is so arranged that the air current is caused to take either direction through the tube; and in some instances gravity may be used to assist a vacuum formed behind the carrier. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Motion in one body in all past instances, that have fallen under our observation, is followed upon impulse by motion in another. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These had elected their officers from highest to lowest and were accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These instances are in themselves totally distinct from each other, and have no union but in the mind, which observes them, and collects their ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Events have occurred which have not improved his temper, and in more instances than one he has not been allowed to have his own way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the few cases that get into the newspapers, are there not instances of slain bodies found, and no murderers ever discovered? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Instances of this kind are every where to be met with. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If we desire similar instances, it will not be very difficult to find them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The several instances of resembling conjunctions lead us into the notion of power and necessity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Two instances will mark the general character. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of this we shall see many instances in the progress of this treatise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These caveats served their purpose thoroughly in many instances, but there have remained a great variety of projects upon which no definite action was ever taken. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In both instances he connected the end plate of one kind with the opposite end plate of the other kind by a wire, and in both arrangements produced a current of electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Innumerable other instances could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And as to the condition of the sewing woman, trying and poor as it is in many instances, yet she can earn more money with less physical exhaustion than under the old system. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Nor are these instances confined to the State of Ohio. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What sort of instances do you mean? Plato. The Republic.
• You mentioned _two_ instances. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I might give as instances those arguments for infinite divisibility, which are derived from the point of contact. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The persons employed in the finances, fleets, and magistracy, are instances of this order of men. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Because, if any doubt is still lingering in our minds, a few commonplace instances will satisfy us of the truth of what I am saying. Plato. The Republic.

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