So subtle and evanescent, so much a matter of the most delicate shadings was this ideal that he himself often found the distinction quite hazy between it and that which looked disquietingly like "tommy rot.

We are told neither too little nor too much; the facts noted, the letters selected, are all such as serve to give the liveliest conception of what Sterling was and what he did; and though the book speaks much of other persons, this collateral matter is all a kind of scene-painting, and is accessory to the main purpose.

On August 16 Morse writes to Smith: "Our Telegraph matters are in a situation to do none of us any good, unless some understanding can be entered into among the proprietors.

What's the matter with you two fellows forming a team to represent the Boy Scouts, and I'll get up a team of village boys, to compete for the prizes.

The word rendered "evolutions" is kheperu, literally "rollings"; and that rendered "primeval matter" is paut, the original "stuff" out of which everything was made.

A more serious matter from the point of view of our work was the absence of water in the operating theatre.

The gray matter is the portion having the highest functions, and its apparent quantity is largely increased by being formed in convolutions.

That is to say; matter and spirit are both the result of the divine creative act, and though separate, and in a sense opposed, find their point of origin in the Divine Actuality.

Finally, the matter became an affair of State, and the king appointed a commission to sit, at Issy, upon her orthodoxyBossuet, De Noailles, and Tronson.

The tone of the brief note showed that Sylvia felt the whole matter to be a keen disgrace that not only compromised herself but her friends.

For body stands for a solid extended figured substance, whereof matter is but a partial and more confused conception; it seeming to me to be used for the substance and solidity of body, without taking in its extension and figure: and therefore it is that, speaking of matter, we speak of it always as one, because in truth it expressly contains nothing but the idea of a solid substance, which is everywhere the same, everywhere uniform.

not,some er de w'ite folks don't, er says dey don't,but de truf er de matter is dat dis yer ole vimya'd is goophered.

For as the carpenter's material is wood, and that of the statuary is copper, so the matter of the art of living is each man's life.

Another matter to which I had referred was the consistent blowing of the wind from one quarter, and this the writer told me happened for as much as six months in the year, keeping up a very steady strength.

The matter of most interest in modern American legislation for municipal government is probably the home-rule principle.

" The more Browning thought the matter over the greater became his regret that he had learned the trick of breaking an opponent's wrist.

The other matter was the establishment of the Anglo-Prussian bishopric at Jerusalem.

I was much touched by the kindness of Mr. Kellogg, who drew from his wallet a piece of tongue and a slice of fruit-cake, which he said "he had been saving for the lady since the day before, for he saw how matters were a going.

"Why, Honorine, what's the matter?"

What the dream is, matters not at allit may be a dream of sainthood, kingship, love, art, asceticism or sensual pleasureso long as it is fully expressed with all the resources of self.

"Marina, this whole matter is a question for the government to decide; it is not for ecclesiastics to discussthey know nothing of any laws but their own.

Another matter, concerning which the President and I disagreed, was the secrecy with which the negotiations were carried on between him and the principal European statesmen, incidental to which was the willingness, if not the desire, to prevent the proceedings and decisions from becoming known even to the delegates of the smaller nations which were represented at the Peace Conference.

What makes the whole matter of overwhelming importance is the wasteful way in which the health, the lives, and the capacity for future motherhood of our young girls are squandered during the few brief years they spend as human machines in our factories and stores.

The matter now in hand is the reëstablishment of order, the reaffirmation of national unity, and the settling once for all whether there can be such a thing as a government without the right to use its power in self-defence.

This matter of language is in itself no slight difficulty.