Nothing could be done until Jack was either exchanged or until his advocate had made out a documentary case that could be presented to the military authorities.

In six months I saw enough of its documentary evidence to convince me that I hated it from my heart, and that nothing on earth would induce me to become a solicitor.

Poets there were before Chaucer,vixere fortes ante Agamemnona,but search Rymer from cord to clasp and you shall find no documentary evidence of any one of them wearing the leaf or receiving the stipend distinctive of the place.

But he has seen too many aspirants for the Presidency contrive to drown themselves in their inkstands, and is far too shrewd a man, to elaborate any documentary evidence of his opinions.

"I suppose," he said, gloomily, "you have documentary evidencewritten promises and protestationserer love-letters, in fact?" "Nonary a letter!

I have availed myself freely of Credner's collection of variants, indicating the cases where the existence of documentary (or, in some places, inferential) evidence for Justin's readings has led to the quotation being placed in a different class from that to which it would at first sight seem to belong.

This may seem to point to a documentary source no longer extant.

We arrived at "Vlady," and in four days had completed the arrangements for the move and secured verbal and documentary instructions as to the general policy to be pursued.

Well authenticated facts, accompanied with the testimony, verbal and documentary, of public men, planters, and other responsible individuals, make up the body of the volume, as almost every page will show.

A Marxist analysis of the 1927 events is Manabendra Nath Roy, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in China, Calcutta 1946; the relevant documents are translated in C. Brandt, B. Schwartz, J.K. Fairbank, A Documentary History of Chinese Communism, Cambridge, Mass., 1952.

Documentary History of American Industrial Society.

He conducted a research into pre-documentary history.

What evidence, human or documentary could she bring forward here in New York to prove Hermia's culpability, if, as it seemed to be her intention, she insisted on carrying her sweet vengeance to its end?

His books are neither documentary nor representational; his characters are symbols of human desires and motives.

Grierson on documentary.

Documentary background of World War 2, 1931-1941.

The documentary evidence is often wholly contradictory, for the simple reason that Shelley had no conception of accuracy.

A legend differs from an historical narrative only in thisthat it is without documentary evidence of authenticity.

We can discover no trace of any reply whatever from Francis I. According to most of the documentary evidence, uncertainty lasted for three days.

I shall hope to be able to fill some of the gaps that he has left in the documentary history of the events which he discusses and by so doing, very materially to change its purport.

I ask the forbearance of my readers if, in the three chapters which I devote to these matters, I quote documentary evidence at length.

In nearly all instances references are given to sources of documentary information.

Will you give me one as a reminder when I return to America?' "I replied to him that I was convinced of his word of honour and that there was no necessity whatever to draw up in documentary form his agreements, and as for the flag, that he could count on it, even at that very moment.

Mr. Tylor's affection for his theory leads him, perhaps, to that opinion; while my affection for my theory leads me to prefer documentary evidence in its favour.

It was attempted to be set up that the goods belonged to citizens of the United States, but in the absence of documentary proof condemnation was decreed on the ground of hostile ownership.