Groups
[grʊp]
Examples
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He knew Rachael well, for a glance at any one of these groups was sufficient to show him that she was not there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The whole atmosphere could not consist of such groups of three because the watery particles were but a small portion of the total a tmosphere. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That was before the first _partizan_ groups had been formed; before he had met Kashkin or any of the others. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have as yet only spoken incidentally of the disappearance of species and of groups of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The things which are socially most fundamental, that is, which have to do with the experiences in which the widest groups share, are the essentials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He looked suspiciously about him, for the men were conversing in groups, and he feared to be the subject of their talk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She sat with Gerald drinking some sweetish liqueur, and staring with black, sullen looks at the various groups of people at the tables. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Their purpose is to outline the general features of education as the process by which social groups maintain their continuous existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Both in time and space species and groups of species have their points of maximum development. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The groups break up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They stood in little groups, talking in low tones, and ever casting affrighted glances behind them from their great rolling eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But as all groups cannot thus go on increasing in size, for the world would not hold them, the more dominant groups beat the less dominant. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- One man is concerned in a multitude of diverse groups, in which his associates may be quite different. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Jacquard’s invention consisted in individualizing and differentiating the movement of the warp threads, instead of operating them in constant groups. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- My friends were in groups on the deck. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They were the homes of small patriarchal groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Basque newspapers have been published in the Argentine and in the United States to supply groups of prosperous emigrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These separated groups of varieties developed very early certain broad resemblances and differences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The rain pours; Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses'; irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The weight of opinion inclines now towards the idea of some primordial connection of these two groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All vertebrate animals, all insects and some other large groups of animals, pair for each birth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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