Besetting sins, though apparently opposite ones, sad stumbling-blocks in the way of the cross, are unrestrained activity of thought and indolence: the former proceeds from earthly-mindedness; and the latter as a sure consequence from the want of heavenly-mindedness.

Blocks had been landlords at the Why Not?

The stumbling blocks in the way are the remains of feudal government in Europe and the ignorance and short-sightedness of the common people in many countries.

Yes, sir, broken blocks is bad business.

Then, very warm and comfortable, they went down by the Tower, and the Tower Bridge with its crest of snow, huge pendant icicles, and the ice blocks choked in its side arches, was seasonable seeing.

Great blocks were the stones, that had been in place many, many years.

The materialworked blocks of marble pillaged from ancient monuments, alternating with courses of contemporary brickproduces a completely new aesthetic effect upon the eye; and the structurea grouping of lesser cupolas round a central dome is the very antithesis of the 'upright-and-horizontal' style which confronts him in ruins upon the Akropolis.

The little block in this page is a reproduction of Momo Bangura's statement forwarded to the Colonial Office, duly witnessed by his companions' signatures.

Each block is one house, but a house of the size of a citadel; while the corridors and apartments are like casemates and bastions, so gloomy and savage is their expression.

She is ready too; Block, Block, my man, must be her waiting-man.

Ludov'ico, the chief minister of Naples, heads a conspiracy to murder the king and seize the crown; his great stumbling-block is the marquis of Colonna, a high-minded nobleman, who cannot be corrupted.

Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block of the young is a disposition not to yield to their belief unless it conforms to their own crude notions of propriety and reason.

A block or two further on is a little park with an excellent statue, known as La India.

The smallest and most intimate building block of human society has been the family.

Caesarea in Palestine, founded by Herod the Great, and the principal seat of government to the Roman prefects, had a harbor equal in size to the renowned Piraeus, and was secured against the southwest winds by a mole of such massive construction that the blocks of stone, sunk under the water, were fifty feet in length, eighteen in width, and nine in thickness.

The link block is a socket, open on the side next to the eccentric rods, but closed on the side opposite, from which projects the journal, J, as shown in Fig.

The nearest auction blocks were Mt. Sterling, Kentucky and Gladdville, Virginia.

The great block in the way of Indian aspiration for full freedom was the problem of external defence.

Blocks of stone from Purbeck, used at certain points of the defence, were no doubt additions during this period.

Building blocks are truly, as Froebel puts it, "the finest and most variable material that can be offered a boy for purposes of representation."

The stumbling block is the Regency questionwhether it should be brought forward now, and if brought forward, who shall be Regent.

Do so, good Block; be careful, honest Block. BLO.

The pillow block is a box next crank or disc wheel.