A sounding-board is merely there for ceremony.

His spirit was bold and enterprising, yet guided by prudence: his ambition, which was exorbitant, and lay little under the restraints of justice, still less under those of humanity, ever submitted to the dictates of sound policy.

For suppose that Donnegan wakened out of his sound sleep and observed the motion of the door; he would be suspicious if the door opened in a single continued motion; but if it worked in these degrees he would be hypersuspicious if he dreamed of danger.

As is well known, it is electric currents and not sound-waves that are transmitted over a telephone circuit.

His master was a sound sleeper, he said, and if Birchill waited until he went to bed there would be no danger of awakening him.

" Scott, like all hale men of sound sense, regretted the almost fatal incontinence which, in the year of his greatest private troubles, led his friend to make a parade of them before the public.

I do not believe the time has yet come when Christian women "will not endure sound doctrine," even on the subject of Slavery, if it is spoken to them in tenderness and love, therefore I now address you.

Jeff slid from the saddle on to his sound leg; then, counting rapidly the shining tins, he said reflectively: "Bin here about a month, I reckon.

You know, as we do, that piety to be vital must be mixed with sound learning.

And this is wisdom, and denoteth now that a sound Principle shall prevent Practice from becoming monstrous.

They are truth and fact and sound philosophy.

Out of this necessity grew the use of the lead and sounding line; and, ultimately, marine-surveying, which is the recording of the form of coasts and of the depth of the sea, as ascertained by the sounding-lead, upon charts.

But before this bench of bumbles started some masked men seized Walker in his own house and gave him a good sound thrashing.

Thus in process of nature a maimed and [Sidenote: A.D. 138 (a.u. 891)] senseless creature is often given to a parent, but by process of voluntary decision one of sound body and sound mind is certain to be selected.

Weather elements, the Polar front theory; a guide for use with the instructional sound film The weather, by Kelvin Brodshaug & Donald C. Doane, in collaboration with Harry Wexler.

Another that hath better observed, adds to shining yellow great weight: and then the sound gold, when he uses it, stands for a complex idea of a shining yellow and a very weighty substance.

The use of voice, bell, or gong, has long been known as a means of inducing the hypnotic state, and during this almost instantaneous trance of his there came a sudden revelation of the magical possibilities of sound-vibration.

Oh, it was the sair nicht for those twa, yell ken withoot ma tellin' ye! Come three o' the clock next afternoon and there was the sound o' wheels ootside the wee hoose.

The electric fork was started, the temperature noted, and the sound-beats between it and the standard fork counted for 60 seconds.

The boys nearly choked with laughter and all I was able to do was to give Edwin a sound box on the ear," Bruno concluded, nearly boiling with rage.

Let me take oar, and turn mine eager prow, Back to the quiet waveless source again, Where no harsh sound breaks on the dreaming brain, And winds steal softly round the careless brow, Swift as a dream my tiny bark hath gone,

Now I would give three golden angels from my own pocket if yon stout fellow would give Little John a right sound drubbing!

He obeyed the summons with alacrity and gave the poor woman sound advice regarding the direction of the Zemindary.

The neighbors used to say that I laid the foundation of my present competence by trading one sound cow for two lame ones every few miles along the Ridge Road, coming into the state, and then feeding my stock on speculators' grass in the summer and straw that my neighbors would otherwise have burned up in the winter.

At length the sounding-rod came up, and its lower end was held out, in order to ascertain how high up it was wet.