Matthew Arnold, when accounting for the sterility of Gray as a poet, says that throughout the first nine decades of the eighteenth century, until the French Revolution roused men to generosity, "a spiritual east wind was blowing."

But having weighed idealism in the balance of criticism, he finds it far short of its pretensions to be an adequate accounting for the data of experience; he finds that it leads the mind in all directions to impassable chasms which only faith can overleap.

There is no accounting for their distribution; though provident anglers have assisted nature of late, one still comes upon roaring brown waters where trout might very well be, but are not.

It is covered with epidermic cells which multiply rapidly, thus accounting for the rapid growth of the hair.

Attribution N. attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for &c v.; palaetiology1, imputation, derivation from.

I was pleased, but answered: 'The point is unimportant; and there really is no accounting for the vagaries of such a man.

To those who adopted the "short and easy method" of accounting for the Disestablishment movement in Scotland by saying that it was all due to jealousy and spite on the part of its promoters, his adhesion to that movement presented a serious difficulty.

Near the banks of the principal rivers the ground is elevated into bluffs, on which may be still found the traces left by water, which was evidently once much higher than it now is; whence it is inferred, that, where the fertile plains of Illinois now extend, there must once have been a vast sheet of water, the mud deposited by which formed the soil, thus accounting for the great fertility of the prairies.

There is no accounting for tastes.

"As I was saying, she was an Episcopawlian,a downright, open-day defender o' Archbishop Laud and the bloody Claverhouse; and she wished to prove down through me the priority and supremacy o' bishops ower presbyteries,just downright nonsense, ye ken; but there's nae accounting for sooperstition.

Also, a committee of the state Senate began an inquiry into the strike, thus further educating the public into an understanding of the causes lying back of all the discontent, and accounting for much of the determination not to give in.

" It is unfortunate that such a pretty manner of accounting for the nature and origin of falling stars should be unsustained by sound astronomical data, and utterly discountenanced by Herschel and Bond.

There is no accounting for the way in which the human mind works.

Accounting for colleges and universities.

While accounting for the capture, it does not explain the resistance of the women.

In other words, circumstantial evidence must first lead to a suspect, and then this suspect must prove equal to accounting for the facts.

"There's no accounting for tastes," he said to himself, in modest explanation.

but this may be a very good way of accounting for what we frequently see, to wit, that dull Fellows prove very good Men of Business.

When I am talking of this unhappy way of accounting for our selves, I cannot but reflect upon a particular Set of People, who, in their own Favour, resolve every thing that is possible into what is probable, and then reckon on that Probability as on what must certainly happen.

11.A story accounting for the situation shown in the picture on page 90.

Many persons look upon this type of cases as almost wholly accounting for the problem of the unemployed.

He went in for accounting for things, I fancy, and explaining things away.

Indeed his youthful appearance had hitherto puzzled me much in accounting for his very superior intelligence and the important duties confided to him.

Now, you will observe that the story was not told to me as a complaint; it was a thing long past and over, of which she only spoke in the natural course of accounting for her children to me.

The post-office laws have been honestly administered, and fidelity has been observed in accounting for and paying over by the subordinates of the Department the moneys which have been received.