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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.

Copyright laws in most countries are in a constant state of change.

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.

Copyright laws in most countries are in a constant state of change.

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T. Westwood has passed a retired life in this hamlet of thirty or forty years, living upon the minimum which is consistent with gentility, yet a star among the minor gentry, receiving the bows of the tradespeople and courtesies of the alms' women daily.

I write not this to enforce his request, for we are fully aware that the refusal of such publication would be quite consistent with all that is good in your character.

Although these offenders against the laws have forfeited the protection of their country, yet the Government may, so far as consistent with its obligations to other countries and its fixed purpose to maintain and enforce the laws, entertain sympathy for their unoffending families and friends, as well as a feeling of compassion for themselves.

Orders have therefore been issued for the reduction of the number of persons employed within the smallest limits consistent with the safety of those engaged in the service and the prompt and efficient execution of their important duties.

It is hoped that Congress, in the ample opportunity afforded by the present session, will thoroughly investigate this important subject, and establish such modes of determining guilt and such gradations of punishment as are consistent with humanity and the personal rights of individuals, and at the same time shall insure the most energetic and efficient performance of duty and the suppression of crime in our ships of war.

Nothing could exceed John's patience under the criticisms of his colleagues, who were, most of them, also his friends, some of them very dear friendsnothing could exceed his readiness to admit and listen to difference of opinion from them; but it was trying to find the difference always in one direction, and that a direction hardly consistent with the character of a Whig Ministry.

I regret that the Nizzards (who have a keen eye to the value of building lots) are wrenched from us by a French filou; but I cannot forget that the Savoyards have constantly upheld the Pope, and have been firm and consistent in their detestation of Liberal Government in Sardinia.

In accordance with these principles, the heads of the different Executive Departments of the Government have been instructed to reduce their estimates for the next fiscal year to the lowest standard consistent with the efficiency of the service, and this duty they have performed in a spirit of just economy.

The advance of Reimarus beyond Wolff consists in the consistent application of the criteria for the divine character of revelation, which Wolff had set up without making a positive, not to speak of a negative, use of them.

Reality slips away from both these systemsthey are the only consistent ones there arematerial reality escaping from the former and suprasensible reality from the latter; and this must be so, because reality, of whatever kind it be, cannot be known, but only believed and felt.

Cousin is the only writer we know of who has made any attempt at this, and we believe him to be the most consistent and intelligent metaphysician that has yet appeared.

Were the master, in every case, a wise and good manas wise and good as is consistent with this wicked and heaven-daring assumption on his partthe condition of the slave would it is true, be far more tolerable, than it now is.

To be consistent with your design in quoting this passage, you must argue from it, that Abraham was perfect.

By a definition sufficiently ambiguous and slippery, he undertakes to set forth a form of slavery which he looks upon as consistent with the law of Righteousness.

Of the existence of any such form of slavery as is consistent with Professor Hodge's account of the requisitions of Christianity, they know nothing.

How can the South feel itself protected by any shield which may be thrown over SUCH SLAVERY, as may be consistent with what the Princeton professor describes as the requisitions of Christianity? Is this THE slavery which their laws describe, and their hands maintain?

The subject is one of the deepest interest to us as Englishmen, inasmuch as it is the duty of every government to enlarge, as far as is consistent with the welfare of the nation, the liberty of the subject.

If in the text of the Morocco treaty such action was called an explanation of the treaty of 1909, and thus the notion was spread that our policy had followed a consistent line, such explanation is tantamount to a complete change of front.

There is just as much reason to deny and degrade the Greek or French article, (or that of any other language,) as the English; and, if those who are so zealous to reform our the, an, and a into adjectives, cared at all to appear consistent in the view of Comparative or General Grammar, they would either set about a wider reformation or back out soon from the pettiness of this.

Vice does not form with them, as with the English roue, an occasional excess, but is consistent and regular in its habits.

The consistent truth of the costume, and the exquisite gradations of relief with which the most opposite hues are approximated, blend all into harmony.

Another writes, "I first became acquainted with her about 1823, and have always found her the same consistent character.

Moreover, it was wholly impossible for our policy to be always consistent.

The conduct of Judge Innes is difficult to explain on any ground consistent with his integrity and with the official propriety of his actions.

Ces établisemens consistent en maisons, comme les kans de Syrie.

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