257 examples of adepts in sentences

This was that the knowledge of Lao-tsze's secret was confined to certain adepts, most of whom were plunged into so deep a trance that any communication with them was impossible.

All the adepts who had come to life under his present Majesty's most clement reign had immediately emigrated: the only persons, therefore, capable of giving information were now buried in slumber, and of course would only speak when they should awake.

In the Eastern States his adepts form an esoteric sect; the beautiful volume of drawings by Mr. Vedder is a centre of delight and suggestion wherever it exists.

As vanity is one of the mainsprings of human nature, and is nearly universal, the old queens of society had the tact to hide what could not easily be extirpated; and they were adepts in the still greater art of seeming to be unconscious.

The foregoing instance of the systematized instruction of young delinquents by old adepts in the art of pilfering, affords, I think, a satisfactory answer the interrogatory.

Odd atavisms woke in her, and she began to pore over patent medicine advertisements, to send stamped envelopes to beauty doctors and professors of physical development, and to brood on the advantage of consulting faith-healers, mind-readers and their kindred adepts.

When the squaw had departed, Katherine carefully locked away the skins before going in to make tea, for the Indians were adepts at roguery, and if by any means the woman could have stolen them, she would probably have returned to the store to offer them in barter again within the next hour.

The skins were manufactured into moccason-leather by Indian adepts whom Button had in his pay, and who worked for a very low rate of remuneration,quite disproportioned, indeed, to the fancy prices always paid by strangers for the articles turned out by their hands.

Now it is owing to these two narcotics, taken in a proper dose, either alone or combined according to a formula known to Hindoo fakirs and jugglers, but ignored by the lower class, that the former are able to become absolutely insensible themselves or make their adepts so.

It was hashish that the Old Man of the Mountain, the chief of the sect of Assassins, had recourse to for intoxicating his adepts, and it was, it is thought, by the use of a virulent solanaceous planthenbane, thornapple, or belladonnathat he succeeded in rendering them insensible.

He departed as poor as the last drops of an Alembic; for Riches are not poured on the Adepts of this world.

There are in those notes matters new even to adepts.

The result is an increase of difficulties and confusions, not only for persons not thoroughly initiated into these notions, but also for adepts, even, in this new branch of the engineer's art.

The boys were so studious, so simple and gentle, compared with the few others he had known, and the women such adepts at mothering!

They ought to have carriages and horses, mansions and pictures, with all the luxuries of affluenceat least so they thinkand, being destitute of the resources requisite to maintain such state, they become adepts in those arts which qualify for the penitentiary.

(The Adepts in the Western esoteric tradition, pt. 3) © 15Dec49; A572878.

Adepts in self-portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy.

Adepts in self-portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy.

They were adepts in the forcible-feeble style of writing, a sample of which is their rendering him ludicrous by calling him "the Hannibal of the West," and the "Washington of the West."

Some of their negro slaves had been born in Africa, the others had come from the Lower Mississippi or the West Indies; they practised the strange rites of voudooism, and a few were adepts in the art of poisoning.

Being informed of the queen-mother's and the Duke of Anjou's intention, they entered into it eagerly; the young Duke of Guise believed his mother quite capable of striking down the admiral in the very midst of one of the great assemblies at court; the fair ladies of the sixteenth century were adepts in handling dagger and pistol.

These are circumstances not to be forgotten, did not the sad science of discriminating the shades of wickedness, in which (as I have before noticed) the French have been rendered such adepts, oblige them at present to fix their hopesnot according to the degree of merit, but by that of guilt.

I prefer to dwell upon the things which Delsarte carried with him into the grave, having written them only on the memories of certain adepts destined to disappear soon after him.

When lads are being initiated into the secrets of this august society, the adepts cut down some very large and heavy bamboos, one for each lad, and the novices carry them, carefully wrapt up in leaves, to the sacred ground, where they arrive very tired and weary, for they may not let the bamboos touch the ground nor the sun shine on them.

Her room was furnished neatly, but with those touches of beauty that womanly hands are such adepts in giving.

257 examples of  adepts  in sentences