They are not bouyantlighter than the element in which they move, but immensely heavier; besides they do not guide themselves wholly by their tails.

I also found that the best flyers were not equal to the feat of keeping me company, when walking at my usual pace; hence I inferred that velocity was a necessary element in flight, and that gravity, so fatal to human attempts to fly, might be made a powerful auxiliary when rightly used.

In these programmes quantity as well as quality was an element not forgotten in the consideration and arrangement of the miscellaneous selections.

Then there's a Bolshevist element among the Zionistsgot teeth, too.

" "Since the interdependence of things, as you call it, is your especial element," replied Edward, "one should either never listen to any of your trains of reasoning, or make up one's mind to allow you to be in the right; and, indeed, you have been in the right up to the present day.

What we have to look to is, that we introduce no alien element, nothing which shall cross or obstruct us.

This is prevented by filling the diving compartment, which is separated from the main part of the ship by steel walls, with compressed air of sufficient pressure to keep the water from coming inthat is, the pressure of water from without equals the pressure of air from within and neither element can pass into the other's domain.

Each element has its seed in itself.

Had I one particle more of the essential element!

The institution of marriage is as beneficent as the element of fire; yet, like that, it sometimes tortures when it should only have comforted.

" "Ah! and he heard you both, my dear," said I; "and he says Mr. Moore has no element of reverence in his character!" Here the Panther dropped his pipe, and starting from his chair looked like his namesake just ready for a spring, as the sharp, quick bark of a little dog was heard from the nearest house.

Here was a new element of discord.

What sudden beams dispel the clouds so fast, Whose drenching rains laid all our vineyards waste? The spring, so far behind her course delay'd, On the instant is in all her bloom array'd; 1120 The winds breathe low, the element serene; Yet mark what motion in the waves is seen!

So that, in fact, it is reserved for some future Parliament, in which it cannot be doubted that the Radical element will be more numerous and more powerful, to determine what should have been decided on this very evening.

As for himself, he did not need it; that element was not lacking.

Another element at this time wrought in favor of the Abolitionists.

" To the aid of the Emancipation leaders there came now a new element, a power so strong that it required no small share of skill to hold it in, that it might work no evil in contributing to the desired end.

Giotto, however, had no sooner freed himself from the hampering conditions under which his predecessors worked, than we begin to feel the human element enter into art.

On the whole, there still remained almost as much of one element as of the other, in the view; which of itself, however, was a vast change from what had previously been the condition of the shoals.

Fortunately the wind had piled up the element in such a way as to carry the craft clear of the rocks, and in three hours after the Neshamony was lifted out of her cradle, she was in the open ocean, to leeward of all the dangers.

In two cases, it thus appears, should the severest censor be prepared to modify his condemnation of the bad taste or the impurity to be found in writers of geniusfirst, in that of a civilization, perfect in its kind, but destitute of the refining and sublimating element which a revelation only can supply; and, secondly, in that of those ages in which the lights of knowledge and religion are contending with the gloom of barbarian rudeness.

Her nerves were on edge this morning, and in its relentless stealth it began to assume an element of the uncanny.

Truly, the disagreeable element which would creep in where Billy had least expected scored a point there, and once more the castle he had builded for himself and Dill and one other lay in shadow.

The master establishes that the inflections of the voice betray more especially the sensitive nature; that gesture is the interpreter of emotion; that articulationa special element of speechis in the direct service of intelligence and thought.

Delsarte, in order to avoid confusion between the word state applied to primordial modalitieswhich he defines as sensitive, moral and intellectual states,often uses the word element in place of that of state in speaking of concentration, eccentration and normality, which, in this case, he also calls calm; but, in teaching, he was always accustomed to use these more exact terms: normal state, concentric state, eccentric state.