The frog is a much nearer approximation to this character than the toad.

A rough approximation to the average duration of these mountain lakes may be made from data already suggested, but I cannot stop here to present the subject in detail.

In the official chronology of the United States Geological Surveywhich is no more nor less reliable than that of other geological surveys, because all are alike mere approximations to the truththe Sequoia was a well developed race 10,000,000 of years ago.

I read it with eagerness, and found in it a considerable approximation to what I wanted.

These results were the average of eight fair trials; in each case, the sliding surfaces were totally immersed in muddy salt water, and although the apparatus used for drawing the slide along was not very delicately fitted up, the power required may be considered as a sufficient approximation for practical purposes.

But as each man's faculties, he said, were different from his neighbour's, and all more or less imperfect, it was impossible that the absolute objective truth of anything could be seen by any mortal, but only some partial approximation, and, as it were, sketch of it, according as the object was represented with more or less refraction on the mirror of his subjectivity.

The fractions are treated as successive approximations to a theoretical angle, which represents the best possible exposure to air and light.

A nearer approximation of date would be obtained by determining the age of the version represented by the celebrated Curetonian fragments.

"The negro in some respects makes a slight approximation, ... still he is essentially a man, and separated by a wide gulf from the chimpanzee or gorilla.

We had only one aneroid to determine our altitude, and therefore could make merely a loose approximation to it, but we probably had between two and three times this descent in the aggregate of rapids ahead of us.

It is demonstrable that even if these well-meaning approximations were received with favourand thus far nothing of the kind has appearedthe result, so far as essential unity is concerned, would be nil.

In every case the individual is left alone, his personal beliefs and practices are, he is assured, jealously guarded; all that is asked is that some mechanical amalgamation, some official approximation shall be effected.

The man's eyes twinkled as he gave this precise approximation; but Barney, who had brought the humorist in, whispered to the captain to let him have a moment's speech with the man before he was sent away.

Where, therefore, such values are attempted to be arrived at, it will be understood that the calculations are our own, and pretend no morefor no more could be achievedthan a rough estimate of probable approximation.

The task will not be without its difficulties; for the position and precise data are wanting on which to found, with even a reasonable approximation to mathematical accuracy, a comprehensive estimate, to resolve into shape the various and complex elements of Spanish industry and commerce, legitimate and contraband.

We must not forget, indeed, the lively interchange of ideas between the schools (especially the influence of Descartes on Hobbes, and of the latter on Spinoza; further, of Descartes on Locke, and of the latter on Leibnitz) which led to reciprocal approximation and enrichment.

But if we turn to pathology, it offers us some remarkable approximations to true Xenogenesis.

Almost all marriages are only concubinages, morganatic wedlock, or, rather, provisional attempts and remote approximations to a real marriage, the peculiar essence of which consists in the fact that more than one person are to become but one, not in accordance with the paradoxes of this system or that, but in harmony with all spiritual and temporal laws.

Great alterations cannot be suddenly introduced; and there is, in stability, an advantage which will counterbalance that of a slow approximation to regularity.

There has been a steady concentration of wealth and of the reality as distinguished from the forms of power in the hands of a small energetic minority, and a steady approximation of the condition of the mass of the citizens to that of the so-called proletariat of the European communities.

With Leibnitz a twofold approximation begins.

The following suggestions are offered with extreme diffidence, and only as uncertain and indeterminate approximations.

Thenceforth he merely hangs together;simple cohesion is the utmost approximation to action which can be truly attributed to him.

A very vague approximation to an apron would probably take me in; and if he behaved like an approximately Christian gentleman he would be safe enough from my detection.

Now if there is indeed a possible truth hidden somewhere within somewhat clumsy approximations, it must modify some of our generally accepted ideas.