His grandfather, though worldly-wise enough not to wish the lad to grow up too singular a human being, had not realized that the life he had made his grandson lead up to the age of fourteen was not a fit preliminary to a public school.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Athena looked at the man standing before her in a very singular manner.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Now that it had come he felt himself struck with a singular weakness, and did not seize it and tear it open.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine