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Example sentences for "special"

Lexicographically close words:
spearmen; spearmint; spears; spec; speche; speciale; speciali; specialisation; specialise; specialised
  1. One of these may lead us to notice that, in all conversation, special attention should ever be paid to the feelings of all present.

  2. We learn by special Zadkiel telegram that, on emerging from the Hall after the meeting, the Rev.

  3. As good luck had it, a mail boat had arrived in Southampton that morning, and, in consequence, I was able to travel to town by the special train conveying the passengers and mails.

  4. With personal prepossessions and special relations out of the way, the man is for the man, the woman for the woman.

  5. Moreover--here the subject was treated in a more general way, though the special application was not obscure--suppose he did!

  6. So soon as she had definite ground for according to him a special treatment, she had dealt openly with him and made a clean breast of it.

  7. But however great or small the success of this special pleading, it did not alter the truth.

  8. I'm human, and I dare say I did do a bit of special pleading.

  9. In the use of his name he was in the habit of recognizing some rather special call on his services or his attention.

  10. Moreover there was a special bond of sympathy between Lady Rosaline and Maxon.

  11. He had fulfilled so many special missions to uncivilized and half-civilized and queerly civilized tribes that he had come to feel as if he habitually went on his way with the might of the British Empire to back him.

  12. I was merely going by instinct when I thought you might have a special motive for helping Cousin Henry.

  13. Every one knows it's only a special providence that he didn't go.

  14. If, apart from the reasons for which people are supposed to go to church, he had any special thought, it was that of meeting Mrs. Fane.

  15. Considering that the king of Canboja wishes to advance Diego de Belosso, and that he is a deserving man, I have given special orders that he should go, as he does, free from restrictions, and with satisfactory equipment.

  16. Moreover, in according me this, his Holiness will confer upon me a special favor and kindness, which you will therefore make known to him.

  17. He shall not engage in, commence, or carry out any other expedition or entry into any realm or island, far or near, without the special commission and order to be secured therefor from his Majesty.

  18. In the margin: "Let this be referred to the governor, so that if there is no special disadvantage, and it does not conflict with his present orders, he may grant permission for the sailing of this vessel.

  19. On the contrary, both you and the said Audiencia shall take special care to remedy the said wrongs, and to punish those who inflict them.

  20. From the beginning when that island was gained and settled, the religious of the order of St Augustine have had the said Chinese and natives in charge, to whose conversion and baptism they have paid special attention.

  21. They should not be men with selfish interests, or have special objects or pretensions in view which would divert them from their chief aim.

  22. You shall exercise great care not to send judges on special commissions except in necessary and unavoidable cases, in order to avoid the harm that they generally cause to communities.

  23. But it is equally true that such persons were not prevented from being present; that there was no attempt at secrecy or concealment; and that no subject of experiment, particular spot, or special audience was ever chosen.

  24. A second reason for the special disqualification of the members of the Sanhedrin to sit as judges at the trial of Christ was the fact that they had determined upon His guilt and had sentenced Him to death before the trial began.

  25. Many auditors in his lecture audiences have asked for special treatment, from a lawyer's standpoint, of the New Testament Gospels.

  26. We come now to consider the special disqualifications of members of the Sanhedrin to sit in judgment upon the life of Jesus.

  27. A special reason assigned for not swearing the accused is that offered in the celebrated maxim: "In most men religion is silent when interest speaks.

  28. Mr. Sargent's work deserves special commendation for the exquisite justice it does to living writers but little known.

  29. Spirits were supposed to maintain an obdurate silence till interrogated by the persons to whom they made their special appearance.

  30. Judging, then, from the elaborate account which the poet has bequeathed us of the fairies, it is evident that the subject was one in which he took a special interest.

  31. The supposed proof of this is that each sister exercises the special function of one of the Norns.

  32. These have, from time immemorial, been regarded as ominous, and special attention has been paid by the superstitious to their position on the body.

  33. The play of "All's Well that Ends Well" has a special interest, because, as Dr.

  34. The important part which Shakespeare has assigned to the ghost in "Hamlet" has a special value, inasmuch as it illustrates many of the old beliefs current in his day respecting their history and habits.

  35. The special agent in transactions of the sort was also Queen Mab, and hence Mercutio says: "She is the fairies' midwife.

  36. He knew, also, that the Palace folk must be all discussing the Resident's garden party, with a view to their own special aims and objects.

  37. Not tragically, as Jim Douglas had hinted, but easily, naturally, in this special duty which had removed her husband both from Alice Gissing and his own past reputation.

  38. And was not the third allowed by special favor of the Queen to go away and do it privately?

  39. I had it carefully inquired into, however, by a man who has special opportunities for that sort of work.

  40. In 1860, he gave a special ascension in honor of the Prince of Wales.

  41. This branch of the stream is used to irrigate the province of Tanjore, and the coming of its floods is celebrated by the natives with special festivities, as they consider the river to be one of their most beneficent deities.

  42. The writer points out the special importance of the epigraphic discoveries of E.

  43. From our special point of view the Orthodox and Umayyad Caliphates, which form the subject of the present chapter, are somewhat barren.

  44. Elegy (rithAi or marthiya) was regarded as their special province.

  45. If it revolts us to see God Almighty introduced in the rA'le of special pleader, we ought to remember that Mua¸Yammad, being what he was, could scarcely have considered the question from that point of view.

  46. Amongst the innumerable kingdoms which supplanted the decaying Caliphate only a few of the most important can be singled out for special notice on account of their literary or religious interest.

  47. By some unhappy accident they too had to be hurried off by special train for some awkward manifestations at Mitchelstown.

  48. I thought when the right honorable gentleman constructed his artificial return, he had some very special purpose in view.

  49. Sorrowful, but cheered up by party in special train.

  50. She had boasted that she would be able to tell about a special bird.

  51. Those that were sick were housed in a special pen.

  52. Perhaps she would see a special sea bird on which she could report.

  53. The special police was, in fact, composed of a class too cowardly or too traitorous to aid, honestly and manfully, in the defence of the city.

  54. But the brutal ruffians who composed the regular and special police took every opportunity to inflict abuse and insult upon the men whom they arrested.

  55. In his message vetoing the bill, he resorted to a laborious effort of special pleading to prove that the negro was not a citizen.

  56. We used to think so; that is, we assented to it before we gave the subject any special thought: but we do not think so now.

  57. The colored soldiers were deeply pained at seeing the officers of their own color and choice taken from them; for they were much attached to their commanders, some of whom were special favorites with the whole regiment.

  58. But it is undeniable that Germanism, like Judaism, has evolved a doctrine of special election.

  59. The very miracles of the Old Testament were side-tracked by the Rabbinic exposition that they were merely special creations antecedent to that unchangeable system of nature which went its course, however fools suffered.

  60. He was a real scholar; not only in the general sense of one who loved great books, but also in the special sense that he possessed the technical knowledge of an expert.

  61. The comparatively modern Chassidism, anticipating Mazzini, teaches that every nation and language has a special channel through which it receives God's gifts.

  62. There are two of these poems to which I have time to call special attention.

  63. As a rule, he is a believer in special providence, and is egotistic enough to suppose that everything that happens in the universe happens in reference to him.

  64. But Cordula read the young Bohemian's child heart, and it afforded her special pleasure to deal her a heavy blow in the warfare they were waging, which perhaps might aid another purpose.

  65. If it was necessary to turn the sick man, she paid special heed to every aching spot in his tortured body, and invented contrivances which she arranged with patient care to save him pain.

  66. He is certainly mutely accusing me of vexatious interference with his paternal rights, and yet he may be sure that I feel a special regard for him.

  67. She did special work on the Nashville Tennessee Banner and writes a great deal of magazine verse.

  68. Special investigations and researches on the subject of the old Santa Fe Trail days and lecturers on educational and literary topics resulted from years spent in that historic place.

  69. Since then, Mrs. Jarrell has contributed to almost all the high class magazines and has furnished special feature articles to newspapers.

  70. Each religious order is characterized by the special purpose for which it was founded, and by the constitution and rule which its members are to follow.

  71. This, however, does not prevent their having a special mass said, should any of their near relatives die.

  72. Maritza herself prepared a special dish called turte for the occasion.

  73. It was the special service on the Lord's Day.

  74. There must be, too, special services for such organisations as Boy Scouts and Church Lads' Brigade.

  75. There is no doubt that this tremendous gift is the special promise given by Christianity.

  76. Let us look then first at the case against religion, and then the special case against the Christian religion as deduced in many minds by the existence of the present War.

  77. Even, therefore, without going further, as we are bound to do presently with the special teaching of the Christian religion, this conception of the Potter and the Clay relieves our minds of its worst fears.

  78. Be prepared beforehand for the special temptations and difficulties of that particular day; remember that no day will ever come again, and that every day has to be lived out as a young priest of GOD.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "special" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    special administrative; special agent; special arrangement; special care; special constable; special constables; special creations; special delivery; special edition; special friend; special importance; special interest; special license; special meeting; special mention; special name; special order; special privilege; special providences; special purpose; special sense; special session; special significance; special train; special type; specialized tanker