"particularise" the programme in accordance with the character and specific needs of a school community. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Is as an inventory to particularise their abundance. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I was impelled toward the women I shall presently particularise. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
I need not particularise the fishes, for my brother knows well enough what they are. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Another version of the ballad, however, gives the name as James, and it is useless and unnecessary to particularise. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
This singular mode of omitting to particularise himself, forms a curious trait in the character of the immortal hero. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
We have no further additions to the fabric to particularise in this sketch, with the exception of the chapel of Bishop Alcock. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
'Tis hard I confess, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularise them according to their species. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
It were an injury to the virtues of so great a man, to particularise his just dealings, his temperance, and the cleanness of his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, Is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; Our sufferance is a gain to them. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, NELSON MANDELA TO THE JOINT HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM] Reference
In this distressing complaint, as you may be aware, an early symptom is a fit of sneezing, with other manifest discomfort which I need not here particularise. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
To particularise: an under-sized dog will, ten to one, break off from the chase71 faint and flagging in the performance of his duty owing to mere diminutiveness. From Wordnik.com. [On Hunting] Reference
The recent Africa Commission report recognised this in the abstract, but many of its readers will have wanted to strengthen and particularise this element considerably. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Address - General Synod, York] Reference
But at times, under favourable circumstances, occasions which I could not, however, particularise nor foresee, my shyness vanishes completely, as at this moment, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
We shall not attempt to particularise the arrivals, as they were precisely the same set as our readers have invariably met at routs of the second class for these last five years. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
But it would be invidious to particularise too much. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
Men; 'but it seems invidious to particularise when all are good. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference
"Did it particularise the time you expected to reach Albuquerque?". From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
It is not necessary to particularise how the rest of the family were stowed away. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers] Reference
I cannot particularise the number of its cylinders or say if it is electrically started. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914] Reference
I cannot particularise them after this preface, lest I should be accused of indelicacy myself. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
And this variety continues after a fashion which it would be tedious to particularise further. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
When they particularise, they are commonly trivial: when they would generalise, they become indistinct. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference
I shall here particularise the routine of one of our days, which will serve as an example of all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
I need not further particularise each capture as it occurred, though each was in itself especially interesting. From Wordnik.com. [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference
It would be only tiresome, if it were possible, to particularise all the suggestions and discussions which ensued. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852] Reference
They particularise all sorts of messages, but I tell them that they had better write themselves if they want to send any. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference
I met them not in Texas, but the United States -- New Orleans -- where we had certain relations; I need not particularise you. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
Turning from consideration of the various services to the exploits of the men composing them, it is difficult to particularise. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
The official accounts do not particularise, but give as the total casualties, February 16-27, killed 255, wounded 1,209, missing 70. From Wordnik.com. [Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900] Reference
Even he did not accuse her directly, but he hinted that she was responsible, in some way which he did not particularise, for Thornton. From Wordnik.com. [The Daffodil Mystery] Reference
A young minister, I need hardly say, my dear Thomas, ought to confine himself to what is generally accepted, and not to particularise. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
An outline of its general appearance has been already given in a former chapter, so I will now proceed to particularise the buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Hudson Bay] Reference
It is impossible to describe the exultation with which he seemed to dwell upon, and to particularise the fate which he intended for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers — Volume 3] Reference
Of their divorces many are the laws; and care is taken to particularise bills of divorces written by men in delirium or dangerously ill. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
What there was in him that had found favour in Ella Hylton's fastidious eyes the narrator is not rash enough to attempt to particularise. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference
It were too long to particularise a number of other considerations of this nature, things but of mean appearance, but of singular efficacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
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