The former is a kind of small shark.

The former is a bold eminence covered with trees, and having all the appearance of youth and verdure.

We have a 10 ft., whilst the other party has a 12 ft.; the former is a distinct advantage in this case.

The two attributes of this absolute are the active, groundless, alogical, infinite will, and the passive, finite representation (Idea); the former is the ground of the that of the world, the latter the ground of its purposive what and how.

The former is about six hundred tons, and carries four Krupp guns; but the latter is little better than a steam-launch.

The former must be a person admitted to practice in all the courts of the state.

It was approved, because the well-intentioned colonists had not learned to confound liberty with licentiousness; but understood the former to be the protection of the citizen in the enjoyment of all his innocent tastes, enjoyments and personal rights, after making such concessions to government as are necessary to its maintenance.

The former is a return in words to a question, a communication, or an argument.

The former is constructive metabolism, or anabolism; the latter, destructive metabolism, or katabolism.

The former are the genuine independent thinkers; they really think and are really independent; they are the true philosophers; they alone are in earnest.

The former was comparatively an aristocratic and the latter a democratic body, and there were frequent disputes between the two.

But the former, being matters of fact, may be the subject of a direct appeal to the faculties which judge of factnamely, our senses, and our internal consciousness.

Setoc set a much greater value on the servant than the master, because the former was more expert in loading the camels; and all the little marks of distinction were shown to him.

As the former was good news to poor, blind, and witless creatures that were wandering and knew not whither they were going; so this is good news to poor souls that find their heart inclining to wander, and loving to go astray.

The former is the story of a convert; the latter a tale of the third century, in which the beautiful heroine and martyr, Callista, is presented with a master's art.

Barsina and Arilla were also maids of honor: the former became the second wife of John, Duke of Argyle (Aridanor), while the latter was that sister of Sir Sidney Meadows celebrated by Pope for her prudence.

The former is chiefly a notice of pictures, and of value to those who may visit the galleries where most of them may be found; and in some degree his remarks will attach a value to those dispersed; the best part of the "Journey," perhaps, is his critical discrimination of the style and genius of Rubens.

Intellect too characterizes the one, but sense the other; and the former, as Plotinus says, is our king, but the latter our messenger.

It was difficult to tell which was the greater dangerfighting Indians on the prairie, or facing the cholera in camp; but the former was decidedly the more inviting.

The inhabitants of the wine countries have fewer singers of wine than those of the beer countries; the latter sing of it, the former are fonder of drinking it.

The former I consider only second to King George's Sound, as it can be entered in all weathers, either from the north or north-east, and there is reason to believe that a safe passage exists between Legendre and Dolphin Islands, leading into Mermaid Straits, where there appears to be an excellent harbour at all seasons of the year.

These formed the "towns and tribes (ethne) of subjects," which appear in the Carthaginian state-treaties; the former being the non-free Libyan villages, the latter the subject Nomades.

The former is always a loss of power; the latter is sometlmes a gain of power.

But the former are herlings which have descended, after spawning early, to the sea, and returned with the increase just mentioned; the latter were nothing more than smolts in May, and have only once enjoyed the benefit of sea bathing.

The former is a shorter explanation of the meaning, but the latter I take to be the true account of the construction; for, by the other, we make whom a double relative, and the object of two governing words at once.