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Brief as was his record in school, we note the following prophetic facts: he displayed singular aptitude for study, he was conscientious yet vivacious, he was by nature adverse to anything rude or coarse.
Gambouge picked out the nail from the bladder, and gave a squeeze; when, as sure as I’m living, a little imp spurted out from the hole upon the palette, and began laughing in the most singular and oily manner.
Esperance did not know the sensation, and now he simply expected some revelation. He instantly knew that this was the path by which Jane had been taken away. He rose and entered the dark corridor. He had no light, and the door at once closed behind him; but he had inherited his father's singular power of seeing in the dark. He discovered the stairs, and began to descend them.
To preserve the memory of so singular a work, Mandrocles represented in a picture, the Bosphorus, the bridge, the king of Persia seated on a throne, and the army that passed over it.
It was the new-comer's "singular air" which established his identity. Amedee's vagueness had irked me, but the thing itself the "singular air" was not at all vague. Instantly perceptible, it was an investiture; marked, definite and intangible. My interrogator was "that other monsieur." In response to his question I asked him another: "Were the roses real or artificial?"
"Where are you going?" she asked him, and fearfully she shot a sidelong glance at the timepiece. It was still too soon, by at least five minutes. He smiled, but his smile was singular. He began to suspect at last that her only purpose to what end he could not guess was to detain him. "'Tis a singularly sudden interest in my doings, this," said he quietly. "What is't you seek of me?"
The crowd of miserable wretches whose one aim in life is to fill their purses but never to put anything into their heads, offers a singular instance of this torment of boredom. Their wealth becomes a punishment by delivering them up to misery of having nothing to do; for, to escape it, they will rush about in all directions, traveling here, there and everywhere.
And thus we observe that all dramatic writings of this nature are unimaginative in a singular degree; they affect sentiment and passion, which, divested of imagination, are other names for caprice and appetite.
It was a hard thing to revive the memory of a political crime which had been shared by the whole patrician order after so long an interval. But Cicero had shown his new colors; no help, it was evident, was thenceforward to be expected from him in the direction of reform. The popular party replied in a singular manner.
There was a new and singular joy in feeling herself but a novice and ignoramus beside him. "How much you know!" and then, shyly "You must teach me!" With the inevitable male retort "Teach you! when you look at me like that!" It was a golden hour.
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