The originals were all written in the year 1837, and I have purposely shown them because their extraordinary variations entirely negative the popular idea about the uniformity of Dickens's handwriting, and because these mobile hand-gestures are a striking illustration of the mobility and great sensibility to impressions which were prominent features in Charles Dickens's nature.

No better illustration of the slight difference between a pennant winning machine and a losing team in the American League has occurred recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year.

Of this latter spirit, the widespread violation of the prohibition law is a familiar illustration.

The book abounds with anecdotes, and contains numerous illustrations.

He descanted on the advantages of this manual, and ocular mode of teaching the science of numbers, and gave us practical illustrations of its efficacy, by examining his pupils in our presence.

We had a curious illustration of the great fact on a very humble scale.

There is also a portrait of this arch rogue and star-gazer, an admirable illustration for Lavater.

An apt illustration occurs in a voyage made by the ship Bonaventure in 1591, recorded in Hakluyt.

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The history of attitudes toward nerve and mental disorders is a remarkable illustration of the vicissitudes of ignorance playing with words.

The Manual is a kind of abstract of Epictetus's ethical principles, which, with many additional illustrations and with more expansion, are also explained in the Discourses.

Her letters are amongst the most amusing illustrations of the petty affectations and squabbles characteristic of such a provincial clique.

An abstract discussion may be enlivened by a concrete illustration.

In 1785, he edited Milton's minor poems, with very copious illustrations; and in the year following, was elected to the Camden Professorship of History, and was appointed to succeed Whitehead, as Poet Laureate.

Some of these dialogues are today valuable illustrations of the social and industrial life of the time.

There is one purpose for which box, and box alone, is properly adapted, and that is the forming of wood-cuts, for scientific or other illustrations in books.

Industrial production illustration for students, draftsmen, and illustrators, by Randolph Philip Hoelscher, Clifford Harry Springer & Richard F. Pohle.

We ourselves prefer the mode as shown in our coloured illustration "O;" but others may, upon equally good grounds, like the way shown in the engraving on this page.

"Honor thy father and thy mother," stands at the head of those commands which prescribe the duties of man to man; and, throughout the Bible, the parental relation is God's favorite illustration, of his own relations to the whole family of man.

In my own family, if I may give a homely illustration, it was a generally accepted axiom that in times of domestic disagreement it was necessary only to invite my Aunt Annie for a visit to heal all breaches between the other members of the household.

To those who have not read the novel, it must seem as though the mere illustrations of Jewish life entirely overlaid and overwhelmed the action.

Pictorial illustration has its dangers, as we daily see in the clumsy imitators of Macaulay, who have not the fine instinct of style, but obey the vulgar instinct of display, and imagine they can produce a brilliant effect by the use of strong lights, whereas they distract the attention with images alien to the general impression, just as crude colourists vex the eye with importunate splendours.

" Tree-worship too has been more or less prevalent among the American Indians, abundant illustrations of which have been given by travellers at different periods.

In the march of the French army on Naples in 1501, the French commander had for lieutenant Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, whose career furnishes a vivid illustration of the internal conditions of Italy at this period.

The following fact, related by the late lamented THOMAS PRINGLE, whose Life and Poems have published in England, is an appropriate illustration.