69 collocations for elucidating

But Chippenfield and I wanted to have all the credit of elucidating the Riversbrook mystery.

I consider myself justified in plagiarizing anything from anybody, if I conceive it will help to elucidate my subject or amuse my reader, provided always I have a reasonable ground for believing the source is one with which the general reader is not likely to be acquainted.

There have been, however, several excellent scholars, who have thought it an object not unworthy of their talents, to prescribe and elucidate the principles of English Grammar.

Cross-examination on this point had only served to elucidate a mysterious fact.

To elucidate this point, I mentioned several specific instances out of those which I had collected in my journey, and which I could depend upon as authentic, of honourgratitudefidelityfilial, fraternal, and conjugal affectionand of the finest sensibility on the part of those who had been brought into our colonies from Africa in the character of slaves; and then I proceeded for a while in the following words:

" "And," Gifford added, "it seems to go no way towards elucidating the problem of how Henshaw came to his death.

"Peggy," he demanded of her, in the semi-privacy of the vestibule, "will you kindly elucidate the meaning of this dathis idiotic foolishness?" "Why, this," she explained, easily, and exhibited a folded paper.

Had it shone with its full strength, the writer of this Introduction would not have attempted either to translate the works, or elucidate the doctrines of Plato; but though it rose with vigor, it dispersed not the clouds in which its light was gradually involved, and the eye in vain anxiously waited for it's meridian beam.

As a whole, Becket is one of his weakest productions; but the Prologue and the first act would have formed an excellent first and third act for a play of wholly different sequel, had he interposed, in a second act, the obligatory scene required to elucidate Becket's character.

It demonstrated divine purpose working consciously through all things with a result in perfect coherency; it gave history a new meaning as revealing reality and as a thing forever present and never past, and above all it elucidated the nature of both matter and spirit and made clear their operation through the doctrine of sacramentalism.

" Now it is very interesting to note that Euripides was a friend of Socrates, who often declared that his philosophy was the science of love, and whose two pupils, Xenophon and Plato, elucidated this science in several of their works.

Several elucidated the manner in which some particular governmental problems were solved in their respective States, all of which was more or less interesting.

Then I remembered promises made by me of contributions to a certain album,further contributions,for I had already furnished several pages of it with food for mind and eye in the form of melancholy verses and "funny" sketches, with brief dramatic dialogues beneath the latter, to elucidate the "story."

Were it in my power to give an accurate description of the different positions assumed by the enemy, and provided I had the leisure to survey the ground, then I am well aware that I might have claimed additional interest for my pages, as I should have elucidated the mode of warfare peculiar to the Affgh[=a]ns; but such an attempt would perhaps carry me out of my depth.

The particular object of this work is "to exhibit such a number of examples of foliage and other ornamental details of the different styles as clearly to elucidate the characteristic features peculiar to each period; and drawn sufficiently large in scale to be practically useful in facilitating the labours of the Architect and Artist.

Green's appeal to an eternal self-consciousness does nothing of itself to elucidate this distinction.

He went to ethnographic sources, to the origins of myths, and he compared and elucidated their intricate enigmas.

The former has already been sufficiently described; but a short account of the present state of the actors may serve to elucidate the events that are to follow.

Now Mr. Baron Hatsel had shown himself a well- meaning but weak and vacillating judge, whose summing up was apt rather to confuse than to elucidate the evidence; and as to the jury, Mr. Lee scanned their stolid countenances somewhat ruefully when they were marshalled before the prisoner, to be challenged if desirable.

"By all natural laws, stagnation breeds disease and death, and what could stir up this most venerable and respectable institution more than an application of the strong-minded, with short hair and shorter skirts, invading its dignified realm and elucidating all the excellences of female suffrage.

The scattered notes here introduced have only for their purpose to elucidate the most unusual and perplexing expressions.

Later days elucidate his fate by declaring that overbalancing himself he broke his neck on the marble pavement.

CHABAS, FRANÇOIS, a French Egyptologist, born in Briançon; his works have contributed much to elucidate the history of the invasion and repulsion of the Hyksos in Egypt (1817-1882).

A book which we could wish to see in every 'Parlour Window.'" BELL'S MESSENGER."We never met with any book which is more likely to elucidate the historical incidents of these localities.

"Much snow come in winter," elucidated the Indian.

69 collocations for  elucidating