Of course, if we could decide which is the gravest crime, then we could also decide on the heaviest sentence and formulate a descending scale which would establish the relative fitting proportions between crime and punishment.

The flow begins in either March or April, and the descending waters find the channels of all these rivers dried out, except in certain pools in their beds, which have long dry spaces between them.

A half-dozen or more of men and boys were there, crowding in toward the carriage-way, with fear stamped on their soiled faces, looking anxiously up for the descending carriage.

There are eels in the Lake of Neufchatel, which communicates by a stream with the Rhine; but there are none in the Lake of Geneva, because the Rhone makes a subterraneous fall below Geneva; and though small eels can pass by moss or mount rocks, they cannot penetrate limestone rocks, or move against a rapid descending current of water, passing, as it were, through a pipe.

How well I remember hearing as I sat in the banquette of the diligence which was just leaving Susa for its climb up the mountain amid the snow, then rapidly falling, the driver of the descending diligence, which had accomplished its work and was just about entering the haven of Susa, sing out to our driver"Vous allez vous amuser joliment là haut, croyez moi!

Before leaving Buffalo a friend admonished me to avoid looking upon the descending floods until I should reach Table Rock, as this precaution would give me a more satisfactory impression.

Let us begin with the descending gamut, and let the hand pass over all the divisions of the attractive centres.

He not only flung himself far enough up, but too far, and his descending knee, striving for a hold, slipped off as if from an oiled surface.

What I heard was the sound of the stumble, followed by the quick thud, thud, of the descending shot-bag, exactly resembling the footfalls of a heavy man running down the stairs barefoot.

This singular laugh consisted of a brilliant stacatto passage on a high key, interrupted by occasional snorts, and terminating with a slur which covered the whole descending octave.

They came at last to the great strand called Traig Eotaile, but now Ballysadare, the Cataract of the Oaks,where the descending river is cloven into white terraces by the rocks, and the sea, retreating at low tide, leaves a world of wet sand glinting under the moonlight.

But the wind was puffy now, and Peggy did not dare to attempt short descending spirals.

Very beautiful is this descending spray, and the rainbow dwells in its bosom; but there is no longer any stream, nothing but an iridescent mist.

On reaching the last descending step, just before entering the church, the Vice-Principal bade me look upward and view the corkscrew staircase.

A swift bird, the swiftest of all the birds, is the eagle, when he takes his descending stoop from his place away up in the sky.

Very softly she felt along the skull for some dreadful fracture that might have caused instant death; but the descending trunk had missed his head, at least.

those thighs of thine will I smash with my fierce descending mace, on the expiration of thirteen years.

A dark half-naked form was interposed to receive the descending blade, which fell on the staff of a half-pike and severed it as though it had been a reed.

"For the rest of the day I remained in the well, and when people came to draw waterand this happened many times in the course of the afternoon I crouched down as much as I could; but at such times I would have been concealed by the descending bucket, even if any one had chosen to look down the well.