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Example sentences for "not find"

  • To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  • But if the same species can be produced at two separate points, why do we not find a single mammal common to Europe and Australia or South America?

  • And we can understand this fact; for in molluscs, even in the lowest members of the class, we do not find nearly so much indefinite repetition of any one part, as we find in the other great classes of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

  • Thus in the snapdragon (antirrhinum) we generally do not find a rudiment of a fifth stamen; but this may sometimes be seen.

  • Men do not find it very hard to give up cinders for diamonds, ashes for pearls, dross for gold.

  • She admits that she loved Abelard passionately; moreover: "If I must indeed lay bare all the weakness of my miserable heart, I do not find in my heart contrition or penitence sufficient to appease God.

  • Queen Berengere; but she had too much good sense to flood her court with Spanish dependents and Spanish customs, and, therefore, we do not find a great number of Spaniards occupying important posts in the court.

  • Notwithstanding Lord Sandwich's masked battery, the tide runs violently for Wilkes, and I do not find people in general so inclined to excuse his lordship as I was.

  • I do not find it so uncomfortable to grow old, when One is not obliged to expose oneself in public.

  • This seems to forecast Schumpeter's doctrine, but in the development which follows, we do not find it.

  • I do not find an explicit statement in which definitions are given.

  • I do not find any of the contrasts thus far discussed quite satisfactory.

  • I do not find in Ricardo any clear statement to the effect that cost of production operates through influence on supply.

  • Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon by him and all men as a knave.

  • But I do not find that my Lord do much like it.

  • Thus I do not find it in the editions of Schurerius, Argent.

  • There are many things in the prophets both divinely said and piously done, many things in Moses and other men famous for holiness of life, but this complete range you will not find in any man.

  • If poor Lollards found in him an earnestness and simple faith they did not find elsewhere, he knew that it was not his fault.

  • It reminds of nearer and deadlier perils than ever environed the Roman Republic,--perils out of which if the wisdom and courage of the people do not find a way, some new Caesar will point it with the sword.

  • I do not find it take away from my feeling of the magnanimity of Prometheus that he should, in truth, complain (as he does from beginning to end) of what he finds himself suffering.

  • And if you do not find them in the margin of your copy, how you must wonder!

  • But then his learning was the sine qua non: he knew how to make the most of it; but I do not find by any dishonest means.

  • Sir, gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  • I do not find that he ever finished it--indignation, or a dearth of rhymes, causing him to break off in the middle.

  • It is a secret well known to the professors of the art and mystery of criticism, to insist upon what they do not find in a man's works, and to pass over in silence what they do.

  • I do not find a Dinah Cropley among Miss Kelly's parts.

  • In the abstract of Major Smith's Itinerary as we have given it, we do not find Polo's city of Camadi.

  • I do not find, however, that Seneca there mentions categorically more than five, viz.

  • I do not find it stated how great this projection was in the mediaeval galleys, but in those of the 17th century it was on each side as much as 2/9ths of the true beam.

  • I do not find mention of its hot springs by modern travellers, but Lazari says Armenians assured him of their existence.

  • You do not find this in tropical countries.

  • There is a peculiar quality of superiority which comes from dealing with realities that we do not find in the superficial city conditions.

  • You do not find here so done to the life the chargings of lordly tuskers, the gilt and crimson, the scarlet and pomp and blazonry, of war.

  • There is a quality in it you do not find in the Illiad.

  • You'll not find me a bad chum--but ready to hunt down any game you can start.

  • You'll not find me at fault here, depend on't.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her power; much attention; not difficult; not given; not have; not here; not knowing; not like; not long after the; not merely; not see; not such; not the same thing; not there; not well; not what; not with; notary public; nothing doubting; nothing except; nothing loath; nothing remarkable; nothing short; nothing that; nothing was; noticed hereafter