Bad effects attendant on slave-keeping, as well to the masters as the slaves.

Here it is difficult to imagine what vices can be peculiarly attendant on a people so well disposed as the author describes these to be.

Then came the Attendant Months.

The auxiliary bishop said mass, and his attendant deacons were perspiring under the traditional mantles and chasubles covered with beautiful raised embroidery in high and splendid relief, as stiff and uncomfortable as ancient armour.

He nodded to the attendant at the door of Mountain's own suite of offices, strolled tranquilly down the aisle between the several rows of desks at which sat Mountain's personal clerks, and knocked at the glass door on which was printed "Mr. Mountain" in small gilt letters.

An introduction which tells the characters, the time, the place, and enough of the attendant circumstances to make clear the point of the narrative.

If you find that your horse is lame, it would be difficult to prove which of the many possible causes actually operated to produce the lameness, though the attendant circumstances might point to some one cause and so lead you to assume that it was the one.

As used by rhetoricians, arguments from sign include also arguments from attendant circumstances.

If you do use an attendant circumstance, be sure that it adds something to the probability.

b. Arguments from sign and attendant circumstances.

The construction here is equivalent to a clause denoting time or cause or some circumstance attendant on the main action of the sentence.

Attendant circumstances: argument from.

Such are the cruel hardships attendant on voyages of discovery.

We shall give the receipt for one, as we received it from the confidential attendant of an English lady, who is in the habit of using it every week, and we can confidently recommend it to the notice of our readers.

BOYER, BARON, French anatomist and surgeon; attendant on Napoleon, afterwards professor in the University of Paris; wrote works on anatomy and surgical diseases, which continued for long text-books on those subjects; was a man of very conservative opinions (1757-1833).

THIALFI, in the Norse mythology the god of manual labour, Thor's henchman and attendant.

TRIESTE (158), an ancient town and still the first seaport of Austro-Hungary; at the head of the NE. arm of the Adriatic, 214 m. SW. of Vienna; an imperial free city since 1849; consists of an old and a new town on the level fronting the sea; has a fine harbour and extensive manufactures, embracing shipbuilding, rope-making, &c. TRIM, CORPORAL, Uncle Toby's attendant in "Tristram Shandy.

In one of the last terrible battles of the war, that of Five Forks, he was wounded and put into the hospital ward where I was an attendant.

" President Lincoln was busily engaged in his office when an attendant, a young man of sixteen, unceremoniously entered and gave him a card.

The apartment of the attendant furnished evidence that its occupant had quitted it in haste, though there was every appearance of her having retired to rest at the usual hour.

Huon and Sherasmin, after a long search, finally found entertainment in a little hut, where an old woman, the mother of the princess's attendant, entertained them by relating that the princess was very reluctant to marry.

"Emirs and viziers, all the courtly crowd Meantime attendant at the sultan's call, With festal splendor grace the nuptial hall.

While they were thus occupied, Huon conducted the willing Rezia to the door, where Sherasmin was waiting for them with fleet steeds, and with Fatima, the princess's favorite attendant.

This magic potion was put in a golden cup and intrusted to Brangwaine, the attendant of Iseult, with strict injunctions to guard the secret well, and to give the draught to her mistress and Mark to quaff together on their wedding day.

His friend, faithful in peace as well as in war, settled near him, and married also, choosing for his wife Ingeborg, Hunvor's attendant.