76 Metaphors for means

But behind this purpose there was that other fixed resolution to get Harry at last accepted as her husband, and perhaps the means taken were the best.

Our only means of discharging this weighty debt is by the strictest economy, the most exemplary conduct and care.

The means which poetry uses for this end are the exhibition of significant characters and the invention of circumstances which will bring about significant situations, giving occasion to the characters to unfold their peculiarities and show what is in them; so that by some such representation a clearer and fuller knowledge of the many-sided idea of humanity may be attained.

And, first, I tell thee, haughty peer, He, who does England's message here, Although the meanest in her state, May well, proud Angus, be thy mate: Even in thy pitch of pride, Here in thy hold, thy vassals near I tell thee, thou'rt defied!

The second means of clarifying ideas is classification.

The latter's only means of defence was its tail, with which it lashed at them with terrific force and rapidity.

The original means for building the church, was a subscription for shares of one hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-nine shares being taken by forty-three persons.

The means for doing so is the school.

They seemed to have been designed for a race of beings whose only means of locomotion were hands and knees, and to enter them without making use of those means required a flexibility of spinal vertebrae only to be acquired by long and persevering practice.

The means to reach these ends, Mazzini maintained, were not assassination, as represented by the dagger of the Carbonari, but education and insurrection,and insurrection by guerrilla bands, as the only way for the people to emancipate themselves from a foreign yoke.

Now the means of production are labour, implements, and materials.

The means by which these are to be exerted is a corporation to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of the United States.

The means which suggests itself as most likely to be effective is a scientific exploration of the mineral regions in those Territories with a view to the publication of its results at home and in foreign countriesresults which can not fail to be auspicious.

The means of raising the requisite amount of money became, during the next few weeks, the anxious theme of all Ralph's thoughts.

It was felt that in order to condemn a man, one must have the certainty of his guilty, and it was said that the best means of obtaining tins certainty, the queen of proofs, was the confession of the criminal.

A corollary of his law is that the planets move in their orbits because they are impelled thereto between the two forces, and move in a mean curve between them; but it was not until 1896 that you discovered that the mean between two forces is always a curve and never a straight line.

So even the highest means of happiness may become a savor of death unto death when perverted or unimproved.

But the chief means by which Edgar maintained his authority, and preserved public peace, was the paying of court to Dunstan and the monks, who had at first placed him on the throne, and who, by their pretensions to superior sanctity and purity of manners, had acquired an ascendant over the people.

In troth I pity this disgrace in you, yet of mine own I am senceless: do but follow my Counsel, and I'le pawn my spirit, we'l overreach 'em yet; the means is this Enter Servant.

It had ceased to thaw much, however; and the mean of the thermometer was not many degrees above zero.

This means, of course, that the navicular bone is more or less constantly subject to compression, and constant pressure, as we know full well, is a pretty sure factor in bringing about malnutrition of the parts, with atrophy or chronic inflammatory changes as an end result.

Fear in this case would be his great duty, and might yet prove the means of saving himdespair would be his very heinous and destroying sin.

Thus, at Fort Brady, where the mean of five years' observations is 29.68 inches, the extremes are 36.92 and 22.44.

After the confiscation of the greater part of the Papal revenues by Napoleon, his chief means of livelihood was a pension of £4,000 a year allowed him by George IV.

The means which have proved most efficacious in decomposing these bases are the action of oxidizing and reducing agents, of bromine, of organic iodides, of concentrated acids and alkalies, and of heat.

76 Metaphors for  means