Isolation for the night is also our demand, but we object to continuous solitary confinement by day and night.

Besides his continuous and exhausting labors in procuring money for Congress at home, and for nearly all of its representatives abroad, Franklin was always effecting some good thing for his country.

On his final retirement to Monticello, in 1809, after forty-four years of continuous public service, Jefferson devoted himself chiefly to the care of his estate, which had been much neglected during his presidential career.

The year's pay of an A.B., 'non-continuous service,' as Elizabeth's sailors were, is at the present time £24 6s.

In time of peace as well as in time of war there is a continuous consumption of the articles of various kinds used on board ship, viz.

This was of great importance for two reasons: it was in Spain first, at least first on any larger scale, that the military occupation of the land became continuous; and it was there consequently that the service acquired a permanent character.

Who would relish an obituary such as: "He died like a hero, his last words being 'XB35/067K'"? To the ramping of the continuous crump the B.M. scraped away the dirt and stuff that had fallen from the throbbing walls of his dug-out and fished out the Code-Book.

Life in a convalescent hospital for officers is not one continuous round of gaiety, but it has its incidents for all that.

But he explained very well the advantages which he had discovered here; in the first place, an utterly peaceful retreat in which he might live the secluded life he desired; then, an unsuspected field for continuous research in the light of the facts of heredity, which was his passion, in this little town where he knew every family and where he could follow the phenomena kept most secret, through two or three generations.

He loved life; and the continuous work of life was a continual joy to him in spite of all the evil, all the misery, that it might contain.

He opened one of the windows of his room; the sky was dark, some storm must be passing in the distance, for there was a continuous rumbling of thunder.

He had gradually become more and more excited, and had so come to make this confession of his faith in the continuous and victorious work of animated nature.

Hot days alternate with cold nights, and in winter there is almost continuous rain.

Even as a child, his weak lungs caused great anxiety to all the family except himself; but although Death loves a shining mark, it took over forty years of continuous practice for the grim archer to send the black arrow home.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.

In early and late summer, when the weather was fine and warm, these stone floors and continuous draughts may have been solacing; but in winter and early spring, when Florentine weather can be so bitterly hostile, what then?

The most continuous and heaviest rain falls from June till the end of October.

It was not a separate structure, but under the same continuous roof with the next.

There is an undeniable attraction in a play which constitutes, so to speak, one brisk and continuous adventure, begun, developed, and ended before our eyes.

Then Karthalo, who had the command of the cavalry, charging at full speed, and having put them to flight before he came within a dart's throw, pursued them for five miles almost in a continuous course.

This attack is delivered by one continuous spiral movement of the bayonet from the moment contact is abandoned.

It is delivered by one continuous spiral movement of the bayonet into the opening.

In fact, Chrysostom Trotter was one of those numerous half-way men between the old beliefs and their new modifications, which the continuous advance of scientific discovery and philosophical speculation on the one hand, and the obstinate survival of Christianity on the other, necessitateif men of spiritual intuitions who are not poets and artists are to earn their living.

Country places in adjacent counties were opened and guests flitted from one house to the other in a continuous round of visits.

The work has been well begun, but it is a work of years, and it is to the youth of the country that we must look for its continuous expansion and perpetuation.