It is clear that there is here a veiled allusion to the Zodiacthat mysterious belt of constellations which runs like a river round the whole starry heavens, and rises in the constellation of the Ram or He-lambbut to debate that question now would be unprofitable, even were one fully competent to do so.

It was a delicate question, an affair of nuances, of almost imperceptible graduations; and in debating a matter of such nicety, a man must necessarily lay aside all petty irritation, such as being nettled by an irrational nickname, and approach the question with unbiased mind.

It was plain that he had spoken their general thought; but they were all too hot and sleepy to debate even a point of safety.

It came out the other day, in a trial in this court, that the colored people have debating-societies among themselves.

While we were debating this subject, thirty-six men entered the house where we were drinking; they were of such large stature that each one was taller when upon his knees than I when standing erect.

She debated the possibility of slackening the speed a bit as they struck the highway, such as it was.

This was a very serious consideration, and it detained the captain in the house, some time after the people were assembled, debating the chances, in the bosom of his own family.

It offended the conservatives by exposing sores that could not be healed, while on the other hand the radicals did not wish to be told that men were far from being equal,that in fact they were very unequal; and that society could not be advanced by debating clubs or economical theories, but only by gifted individuals as instruments of Divine Providence, guiding mankind by their superior wisdom.

The recruiting depots were thronged daily and thousands were enrolled for active service while Congress was debating the respective merits of the volunteer system and the "selective draft" advocated by the general staff of the Army and approved by the President and his cabinet.

" Johnnie debated a moment.

and 'How much debating convenience'?

Isn't it romantic?" Lillian looked at him steadily for a moment, as if she were debating some course of action.

" They debated these two plans for some time, finally deciding on part of both.

The grandmother and sister had been keenly debating the news and what to do about it, the elder bird fierce to stay, the younger bent on flight, and had just separated to different windows, when they heard, turned and beheld him there, a stranger in tattered gray and railway dirt, yet their own coxcomb boy from his curls to his ill-shod feet.

How to debate; a revised edition of Contest debating, a textbook for beginners, by Harrison Boyd Summers & Forest Livings Whan.

Having debated every thing within her own mind, she thought she ought not to continue a day longer in the power of a man who loved her to this extravagant degree: where to go indeed she knew not;she had no friend, or even acquaintance, to whom she might repair, or hope to be received.

But the Parliament, instead of doing it, sets to debating the "Form of Government" and its sanctioning.

Can we then blame harmony and melody for the humming-bird "amours" of the Abbe Liszt,for the many women he made material love to from his early youth,for the very dubious honesty of his bearing toward the Comtesse d'Agoult and the Princess Wittgenstein, with whom he debated the formalities of marriage without hesitating over the actualities?

Among ourselves we debated as we walked along to the squalid tavern where we had been quartered, which of the spectacles we had that day seen most fitly typified the fruitage of warthe shattered, haunted forts lying now in the moonlight beyond the town, or the brooding conquered, half-destroyed town itself.

The Itinerists followed the Duke and his procession into the Parliament House, and heard debated the great questionthe greatest of all possible questions for Scotlandwhether this magnificence should cease, whether there should be an end of an auld sangin short, whether the proposed Act of Union should be proceeded with.

From time to time, they had debated among themselves the intentions of Captain Horn in regard to them, and now the idea seized them that perhaps he was going to leave them where he had found them.

He challenged Douglas to debate the issues with him before the people, and Douglas accepted the challenge.

It looked as if they were reconnoitering the house from a distance and debating the best manner of procedure.

During that time he served on at least one hundred committees, and was always at the front in debating measures of consequence.

'Twas in this answer that they showed, at least to me, their design of embroiling the king with his English subjects; they discoursed very freely with me, and did not order me to withdraw when they debated their private opinions.