From this variety in the progress of vegetation, some persons have endeavoured to calculate the relative ages of the cones; but these opinions are exceedingly vague, as it requires a longer period to form a soil on some lavas than on others.

He was delightfully vague about what had happened to him after his glorious day at Epsom, but unfortunately for you the taxi-cab driver who drove him remembered seeing the pin on him when he got out of the cab.

Our poets are not merely vague and confused, they are altogether fragmentarydisjecta membra poetarum; they need some uniting idea.

Meditation upon an utterly vague subject, whether of apprehension or of hope, speedily lapses into reverie.

"It all seems remarkably vague, Blindwaywhy couldn't they give us more news?" "Don't know, sirthey seemed purposely vague," replied the detective.

There is no doubt that, in many instances, his allusions to place are intentionally vague; and, in some of his most realistic passages, he avowedly weaves together a description of localities remote from each other.

"It all seems remarkably vague, Blindwaywhy couldn't they give us more news?" "Don't know, sirthey seemed purposely vague," replied the detective.

Thence we saw Katahdin, noble as ever, unclouded in the sunny morning, near, and yet enchantingly vague, with the blue sky which surrounded it.

The future looked hideously vague and dark; still Jolliffe was capable of being transformed into a decent husband, while the other man assuredly was not.

Of the transition there can be no telling in words, for thoughts are more subtle than words and emotions infinitely vaguer.

As soon as the officers had filed in and taken their seats the doors and windows were thrown open to admit "la vague," and we all stood up and faced about to see them come.

The French, in spite of the theory propounded by one of their most distinguished philosophers, Descartes, that the soul is located in the pineal gland, still insist in using the term ventre in a sense, which, if anatomically too vague, is nevertheless physiologically significant.

And alway, as I went, I to see the Land blindly, and oft vague and grey as that I did look at naught real, and again with strange flashings of light, and the glare of fires; and anon to see the Land as it did be, and all odd whiles to have now to me the feel of a dread and monstrous dreaming.

Then, after ringing the bell and informing Mrs. Oldbury that I should be out to dinner, I left the house with the pleasantly vague intention of wandering up West until I found some really attractive restaurant.

" "But I'll be dependent until" Adelaide paused, then added a satisfactorily vague, "for a long time.

At last, by so many steps all in one direction, things had come to such a passthe two prelusive meals of the Roman morning, each for itself separately vague from the beginning, had so communicated and interfused their several and joint vaguenesses, that at last no man knew or cared to know what any other man included in his idea of either; how much or how little.

The late Archbishop Trench, a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits, resigned the See of Dublin on account of advancing years, and settled in London.

It was the face of a woman grown, yet of a strangely vague and childlike look.

This view of concepts is Hegel's revolutionary performance; but so studiously vague and ambiguous are all his expressions of it that one can hardly tell whether it is the concepts as such, or the sensible experiences and elements conceived, that Hegel really means to work with.

The word came again, and now again, but still it was tauntingly vague.

"Tone," to be sure, is a terribly vague word to use, but there is no other, and this whole meditation is over questions of tone.

The answer from the woman who had left his arms was mercifully vague, but the voice at the door whimpered, "Only it was the General!"

Both on the side of the Allies and on the side of the Germans the declarations of public policy remain childishly vague and disingenuous, childishly "diplomatic."

One thing I am sure of, that from that time some idea of religion, although then comparatively vague and confused, never left me; I frequently caught myself musing on the origin of the universe, on the vicissitudes of nature, and on the future condition of those numerous beings, who are seen for a short time on the earth and then disappear.

The prudent philosopher replied in conveniently vague and guarded terms.