The King's English (2nd ed, 1906)

• (1) Many of the constituent bodies were under the absolute control of individuals.—MACAULAY.
• Regarding the general effect of Lord Kitchener's proclamation, everything so far as is known here points to the conclusion that the document has failed to secure the surrender of any body of men, Merely a few individuals have yielded.—Times.
• The wise Commons, considering that they are, if not a French Third Estate, at least an aggregate of individuals pretending to some title of that kind, determine ...—CARLYLE.
• (2)  That greenish-coloured individual is an advocate of Arras; his name is Maximilien Robespierre.—CARLYLE. (person)
• Surely my fate is somehow strangely interwoven with that of this mysterious individual.—SCOTT. (person)
• And, as its weight is 151b., nobody save an individual in no condition to distinguish a hawk from a handsaw could possibly mistake it for a saluting charge.—Times. (person)
• The Secretary of State for War was sending the same man down to see what he could do in the Isle of Wight. The individual duly arrived.—Times. (he)
• My own shabby clothes and deplorable aspect, as compared with this regal-looking individual.—CORELLI. (person)
• In the present case, however, the individual who had secured the cab had a companion.—BEACONSFIELD. (man)
• I give my idea of the method in which Mr. Spencer and a Metaphysician would discuss the necessity and validity of the Universal Postulate. We must suppose this imaginary individual to have so far forgotten himself as to make some positive statement.—A. J. BALFOUR. (person)
• But what made her marry that individual, who was at least as much like an oil-barrel as a man?—C. BRONTE, (monstrosity)
• He was a genteelly dressed individual ; rather corpulent, with dark features.—BORROW, (man)
• During his absence two calls were made at the parsonage—one by a very rough-looking individual who left a suspicious document in the hands of the servant.—TROLLOPE. (man)
• (3)  Almost all the recent Anarchist crimes were perpetrated by isolated halfwitted, individuals who aimed at universal notoriety.—Times.
• Which of these two individuals, in plain white cravat, that have come up to regenerate France, might one guess would become their king? For a king or leader they, as all bodies of men, must have.—CARLYLE.

Some apology is due for so heaping up instances of the same thing; but here, as with other common blunders to be ...

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