And, since, as a general thing, children lead the same lives that their fathers did, they are likely to develop the same diseases as their fathers did.
These are undoubtedly abnormal conditions, and, taken as a general thing, they are dysgenic factors.
Of men, the same chastity is not expected as a general thing.
The months of April and May of the year 1881 were not, as a general thing, a favourable season for visiting the Ducal Palace and the Academy.
I mean as a general thing; there are, of course, occasional exceptions.
I only assert the necessity of the existence of slavery at present in our Southern States, and that, as a general thing, the slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind.
Slaveholders, as a general thing, desire to live a peaceful, quiet life; yet they are not willing to have their rights wrested from them.
We have far more time to improve ourselves than you, as a general thing.
I know he has; but I find that those who talk much of their honour, don't, as a general thing, possess much to brag of.
Booker found himself, in command of a force which has been variously estimated at from twelve to eighteen hundred men, composed of the crack volunteers of the country, and, as a general thing, commanded by brave and experienced officers.
As a general thing, the English are traders and diplomats, rather than soldiers.
And while I think of it--the men wear hats and have very dark complexions, but the women wear no headgear but a flimsy veil like a gossamer's web, and yet are exceedingly fair as a general thing.
The peasants and their children were idle, as a general thing, and the donkeys and chickens made themselves at home in drawing-room and bed-chamber and were not molested.
Sometimes the patient gets well; but, as a general thing, he don't.
They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes.
Nor does she, as a general thing, make a profit by producing it.
For Davie did not think so much of Miss Elizabeth's friendship as Katie did, and did not as a general thing take so much pains as she thought he ought to do to be polite to her friend.
The little Flemings and their mother and the two Holts went to the Scott school-house, as had been proposed, and the house was left to Mrs Fleming as a general thing.
Jacob was not, as a general thing, quick at taking up new ideas or in acting upon them, but this ought not to have been a new idea to him, he said almost angrily to himself after his brother was gone.
For it was not her thought that Katie should be kept, as a general thing, out of the wood, but Davie's.
As a general thing, therefore, you must first get fast to a whale, before any pitchpoling comes into play.
As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.
As a general thing, when a woman seems very charming, I should say 'Beware!
As a general thing, I confess, I don't like successful people, and I find clever men who have made great fortunes very offensive.
He was not given, as a general thing, to anticipating danger, or forecasting disaster, and he had had no social tremors on this particular occasion.
Are such animals invited to a city dinner as a general thing?
When a woman dies she does not do it with a "y" as a general thing.
As a general thing, their wives are not troubled with an epidemic of youth and beauty.
Of course any of us would aim high the first months; but after that, the game will grow smaller and wilder, as a general thing, and our chances less.
The Sound don't rage to any great extent, neither are the engines alles a busting as a general thing.
The "afflicted children" who might be present would not, as a general thing, interrupt the prayers while in progress, but would break out with their wild outcries and convulsive spasms in the intervals of the service.
Firewood, in those days, was not, as a general thing, sawed, but chopped.
The country is adapted to agricultural pursuits, and though inferior as a general thing to much of Minnesota, affords promise of thrift and properity in its future.
Nor, as a general thing, do they present a bold or rocky front.
The records of the phonograph, although of course sometimes faulty, are as a general thing accurate.
Rituals and prayers are repeated in such a low tone that they are, as a general thing, imperfectly reproduced on the wax cylinders of the phonograph.
It is not without probability that the songs sung as ancient songs may have modern strains in them, but as a general thing I think we can say that they are authentic.
I think, as a general thing, the world gives too little credit to the power behind the throne.
They soon screamed over our heads and fell all around us; but, as a general thing, the enemy fired too high.
He has so few capable, warm-hearted co-adjutors in a regiment as a general thing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
