Comparatively few men thoroughly understand how to rate other men, and to these few men, as in all other great enterprises, must be given the power and authority to select and adjust.

You are of course aware that of the enormous number of words contained in the dictionary relatively few are at your beck and bidding.

And for this reason: that it asserted the possibility of consecrating the whole manhood, and not merely a few faculties thereof, to God; and it thus contained the first germ of that Protestantism which conquered at the Reformation.

The form of the area was a little irregular; just enough so to be picturesque; while the inequalities were surprisingly few and trifling.

Time after time I saw famished fugitives pause at farmhouses and offer all of their pitifully few belongings for a loaf of bread; but the kind- hearted country-people, with tears streaming down their cheeks, could only shake their heads and tell them that they had long since given all their food away.

It ceased, in fact, to exist as soon as it touched that strong sense of duty which is to be found in many men and in remarkably few women.

I think I've spotted a few slackers, but mighty few.

To say that some slight errors have crept into Daniel Deronda is to say that no human work is perfect; and these inaccuracies are singularly few and unimportant."

The gloom was so deep that she could see barely a few paces beyond the pointed ears in front, but when the ground showed an abrupt rise she recalled the location and knew he had followed the exact course she desired.

There have been very few of those melancholy accidents that we so often hear of from Switzerland, because, probably, considerably fewer tourists attempt these mountains than attempt the Alps.

They did this the more easily during a great part of the summer, because our ships were kept back by storms, and the difficulty of sailing was very great in that vast and open sea, with its strong tides and its harbours far apart and exceedingly few in number.

For this is a sphere where there are infinitely fewer rivals, and a man of only moderate capacity may soon find an opportunity of proclaiming a theory which shall be both new and true; nay, the merit of his discovery will partly rest upon the difficulty of coming at the facts.

"Aggression on private property, such as breaking into houses, cutting canes, &c., are decidedly fewer than formerly.

Consequently few of the original stock of Quakers are likely to have had the temperament that is associated with a love for colour, and it is in consequence most reasonable to believe that a larger proportion of colour-blind men would have been found among them than among the rest of the population.

Nearly half its members were killed or wounded; but astonishingly few women in mourning are to be seen on the street, and none of the men wear those crape arm bands that are so common in Europe ordinarily; nor, except about the railroad station, are very many wounded to be seen.

Yet it occurs thirty-five times in the Old Testamentin almost every instance, it is translated avengein a few, "to take vengeance," or "to revenge," and in this instance ALONE, "punish."

The rendezvousalways held under cover of darkness, but naked and open to the eye of the watchful Hestersometimes clashed with the science lectures, when these latter would be put off, so that they became gradually fewer, and then almost ceased.' 'Your narrative becomes unexpectedly interesting,' said Zaleski; 'but this unearthed letter of Randolph'swhat was in it?' I read as follows: '"Dear Mdlle.

Industrial production being for use not profit, the great city becomes a thing of the past, and life is rendered simpler through the elimination of a thousand useless and vicious luxuries; those employed in mechanical industries will be incalculably fewer than now, while those that remain will give only a portion of their time to industrial production, the remainder being available for productive work on their own gardens and farms.

The more harmonious anything isthe fewer its internal discrepancies or contradictionsthe higher is its degree of reality; and the greater its comprehensivenessthe fewer predicates left outside itthe higher also is its degree of reality.

But though I may smile at him, even rudely laugh at him, he is a great public servant who once at leastthough few at the time knewsaved his country from a most grievous peril.

He also gives some pictures of the fighting, in which the backwoodsmen are depicted in full Continental uniform, which probably not a mancertainly very few of themwore.]

It had been good to have him near herBut then, she had been so lonely, had seen so few menscarcely any at allSuppose when she met him next she said "No," told him that she could not love him, and he went away, leaving her forever; would she be sorry?

Accidents are miraculously few and far between in Ski-ing, considering the falls and the large number of people who ski.

The moon was nearly full, and after nightfall a few of the Indians suddenly held an improvised dance for us in front of our house.

Few men, notably few artists, have preserved that continuity of moral, intellectual, and physical development in one unbroken course which is the specific characterisation of Michelangelo.