It was really a fine performance for our infantry and our cavalry patrols, necessarily unsupported by anything like our full artillery strength, to keep up the constant pressure they did on an enemy who enjoyed almost the full protection of his.

It was, I suppose, this assertion of personal liberty which drove our extreme Liberal wing before the war into that determined fighting of the Naval and Military Estimates year after year, that determined hatred of anything that looked like "militarism," and that constant belittlement of the soldier and his profession which so nearly handed us over, for lack of a reasonable "militarism," to the tender mercies of the German variety.

How few of us, except those who have relatives or dear friends in the air-service, realise at all the conditions of this fightingits daring, its epic range, its constant development!

The constant blooming of the gorse has given rise to a popular Northamptonshire proverb: "When gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of season.

Its ominous and sad character is the subject of constant allusion, Virgil having introduced it into the funeral rites of his heroes.

still sad when other's grief is fled, The only constant mourner o'er the dead.

Anyhow, the so-called heliotrope was the subject of constant symbolic allusion: "The flower, enamoured of the sun, At his departure hangs her head and weeps, And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps Sad vigils, like a cloistered nun, Till his reviving ray appears, Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.

Indeed, the subject will always be a popular one; for further details illustrative of which the reader would do well to consult Mr. H.G. Adams's useful work on the "Moral Language and Poetry of Flowers," not to mention the constant allusions scattered throughout the works of our old poets, such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Drayton.

For the same reason, the aspen, from its constant trembling, has been held a specific for this disease.

In Germany holly is Christ-thorn, and according to an Eastern tradition it was the prickly rush, but as Mr. King remarks, "the belief of the East has been tolerably constant to what was possibly the real plant employed, the nabk (Zizyphus spina-Christi), a species of buckthorn.

[Illustration: CORK WITH WOODEN TOP.] CORKS WITH WOODEN TOPS.These are the best corks to use when it is indispensable that the air should not be admitted to the ingredients contained in bottles which are in constant use.

They are composed of the accidental aggregation of particles, which, under certain circumstances, take a constant and regular figure, but which are more frequently found without any definite conformation.

IN THE GENERAL ECONOMY OF NATURE, this class of animals seems destined to preserve a constant equilibrium in the number of animated beings that hold their existence on the surface of the earth.

It is, simply, at every syllable pronounced, to tap at the same time with the finger; by so doing, "the most inveterate stammerer will be surprised to find that he can pronounce quite fluently, and, by long and constant practice, he will pronounce perfectly well.

Constant poulticing both before and after the opening of the whitlow, is the only practice needed; but as the matter lies deep, when it is necessary to open the abscess, the incision must be made deep to reach the suppuration.

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In all minor matters he, or she, is sui generis; for sentiment is in constant ebullition in their souls; this being what is meant by the flow of that part of the human system.

Hated by the Romans, insecure on his throne, in constant terror of the renewal of the revolution, Benedict eventually found himself obliged to abdicate.

The splendor of the imperial city of Byzantium was a constant incitement to their desire for freedom, and they were certain for the most part of being supported in their endeavors by the emperors.

"The air in these tunnels would be foul and stagnant, perhaps unbreathable, if we did not drive a constant current of air through them.

They are reversed twice in a zyda, so that they may create no constant counter-current outside.

Its owner was a man of giant stature, with a slight stoop in his shoulders, as if he was making a constant, good-natured attempt to accommodate himself to ordinary doors and ceilings.

Tuning up the motors is a constant process in the organism.

The ratio in length of the upper limbs to the lower is a fairly constant relationship for each sex normally Deviations occur with a break somewhere in the chain of cooperation of the internal secretions controlling the growth of bone.

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