772 collocations for traces

Ed. NOTE.From the unfinished word, it is possible, on the MS., to trace a faint line of ink, which suggests that the pen has trailed away over the paper; possibly, through fright and weakness.

But then it was a mystery which it was the business of mind to lay bare; and what more has science done in tracing the history and progress of this earth of ours, as written upon the rocks, among which geology has been so long delving?

At the time of this interesting discovery I was exploring the névé amphitheaters of the group, and tracing the courses of the ancient glaciers that once poured from its ample fountains through the Illilouette Basin and the Yosemite Valley, not expecting to find any active glaciers so far south in the land of sunshine.

There is, however, my dear Atterley, little satisfaction in tracing the origin of vulgar superstitions.

[Footnote 3: I have recently traced out the development of the "coccoliths" from a diameter of 1/7000th of an inch up to their largest size (which is about 1/1000th), and no longer doubt that they are produced by independent organisms, which, like the Globigerinoe, live and die at the bottom of the sea.]

We can almost trace its progress, and we feel that the time spent by us here is full of profit as well as pleasure.

The Mayor of Jerusalem, who unfortunately died of pneumonia a fortnight later, and the Mufti, who, like the Mayor, was a member of a Mahomedan family which traces its descent back through many centuries, were presented, as were also the sheikhs in charge of the Mosque of Omar, 'the Tomb of the Rock,' and the Mosque of El Aksa, and Moslems belonging to the Khaldieh and Alamieh families.

Slowly, I traced the shadowy outline of one of the Things.

He traced a few steps, also, the tracks of the calf; but, seeing no blood, soon relinquished the search.

In this we can trace the influence of Aesop's beast-fables, which were moral lessons drawn from the animal creation for the instruction of mankind.

They gather around it and plant gardens with the bright-colored balls; they use it for geography, moulding the hills, mountains, valleys, and tracing the rivers near their homes; they arrange historical dramas, as "Paul Revere's Ride," or the "Landing of the Pilgrims:" but no child does any one of these things alone; there is constant and happy coöperation.

The letters blazed like stars, gleaming among his papersglittering around the chair where Marina used to sit, climbing up into the air, closing nearer to himwavering, writhing lines of living fire, tracing those awful words he could not forget "My God!"

Can you trace a connection between the pastor of a church and a pastoral life?

Jack Assheton and myself have, or rather had a strong family likeness to each other, and, though the thought is new to me, I can now easily trace this resemblance to myself.

It is, no doubt, pleasant in its way for us British to draw this picture of Germany, and to trace the causes which led the ruling powers there, years ago, to make up their minds for war, because, of course, the process in some degree exonerates us.

It is not uncommon, sir, in judging of future events, and tracing effects from causes, for the most sagacious to be mistaken.

All my first day was pure pleasure; simply mountaineering indulgence, crossing the dry pathways of the ancient glaciers, tracing happy streams, and learning the habits of the birds and marmots in the groves and rocks.

And if you trace their own lineage, you will find for some that it is but decent and middle-class, for some that it is mongrelized and miscegenetic, for some that it is proud, ancient, yea perhaps patriarchal.

I traced the paths of the ancient glaciers over many a shining pavement, and marked the gaps in the upper forests that told the power of the winter avalanches.

III For our purpose, that of tracing the evolution of the English short-story, its history commences with the Gesta Romanorum.

When he wished to write, he made a picture with a stick, a stone, on a leaf, or traced his idea in the mud.

" THE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE MONKEYS A FABLE When beasts by words their meanings could declare, Some well-drest men and women did repair To gaze upon two monkeys at a fair: And one who was the spokesman in the place Said, in their count'nance you might plainly trace The likeness of a wither'd old man's face.

We trace Johnson's own character in his observations on Blackmore's 'magnanimity as an authour.'

Each wafer was numbered, and they were arranged after a definite plan, so that I should be able to trace the exact movements of any living thing that went across the floor.

The biographers of Lamennais trace the beginning of his downfall to his exemption from his daily Office.

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