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adverb

Singly adv.

Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

Only; by one's self; alone. "Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man."

Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly. "At omber singly to decide their doom."

Honestly; sincerely; simply. (R.)

Singularly; peculiarly. (Obs.)

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"Singly" Quotes from Famous Books

... exist except for administration. There was an assemblage of vessels, but not a fleet. All this was the result, or at least the complement, of the theory of commerce destroying, which prescribed cruisers that act singly; and of war by defence only, which proscribed battle-ships, that act in unison and so ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... From a distance the Indians have been gathering during the two previous days, and the hospitality of the patient's family, as well as that of all the people living in the neighboring hogans, is taxed to the utmost. And from early morning until dark the whole plain is dotted with horsemen coming singly and in groups. Great crowds gather at the contests given half a mile from the hogan, where horse-races, foot-races, groups of gamblers, and throngs of Indians riding wildly from race-track to hogan fill the day with hilarity and incidents memorable to all. Toward ...

— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis

... interminable procession of steamers. They went on and on as if in chase of each other, the Baltic trade, the trade of Scandinavia, of Denmark, of Germany, pitching heavily into a head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless distances ahead as if the supply of rather roughly finished mechanical toys were inexhaustible in some mysterious cheap store away there, below the grey curve of the earth. Cargo steam vessels have ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... ornamental garden plant the Bean has never received the attention it seems to deserve. A plant of Broad Beans grown singly is quite a stately plant, and the rich scent is an additional attraction to many, though to many others it is too strong, and it has a bad character—"Sleep in a Bean-field all night if you want to have awful dreams or go crazy," is a Leicestershire ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... into the mysterious recesses of his soul. He did not know it; he did not willingly put her away. But as each plant of the field was destined to grow its own way, side by side with its fellows, so human souls grew singly by themselves from some irresistible inner force. And she was but the parasite that fed upon ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

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