During the final days of the siege, when the temper and endurance of the Belgian defenders were strained almost to the breaking-point, I motored out to witness the German assault on the forts near Willebroeck.

Ever since the silver age of Hadrian, when a Bithynian slave by his beauty gave a final impulse to the Genius of Greece, sculpture had been gradually declining until nothing was left but a formal repetition of conventional outlines.

The student of art may, therefore, now enjoy the pleasure of tracing sculpturesque or pictorial motives from their genesis in some rude fragment to their final development in the master-works of a Lionardo or a Raphael, where scientific grouping of figures, higher idealisation of style, the suggestion of freer movement, and more varied dramatic expression yield at last the full flower that the simple germ enfolded.

The façade of Orvieto was the final achievement of the first or architectural period of Italian sculpture.

The final effort of Italian sculpture to express human activity in the person of a mounted warrior has perished.

Jacopo Sansovino marks the final intrusion of paganism into modern art.

Della Quercia, on the façade of S. Petronio, confines himself to the creative act, expressed by the raised hand of the Maker, and the answering attitude of Eve; and this conception receives final treatment from Michael Angelo in the frescoes of the Sistine.

The Creation, the Fall, the Redemption of the World, the moral discipline of man, the Judgment, and the final state of bliss or miseryall these he quickened into beautiful and breathing forms.

It has often been remarked that the drama of the life beyond this worldits prologue in the courts of death, the tragedy of judgment, and the final state of bliss or misery prepared for soulspreoccupied the mind of the Italians at the close of the Middle Ages.

We are thus led by a gradual progress up to the final achievement of Raphael in the Vatican.

It remained for Raphael and his contemporaries to achieve the final synthesis of art in masterpieces of consummate beauty.

As a final stop, the period is immeasurable; and so may be the pause after a question or an exclamation.

When they had made the tour of the establishment and had reached the head of the great stairway again, Mr. Jefferson dismissed the two young men with a final injunction to return soon, as he had much to talk over with Calvert.

The next and final step would be to pour corn-meal into the thick liquid, after which it was ready to be eaten.

At the same time the Ottoman army of the west moved south again under a new commander, Rashid Pasha of Yannina, and laid final siege on April 27 to Mesolonghi, just a year after Byron had died of fever within its walls.

Rashid, after pacifying the north-west, moved on to the north-eastern districts, where the national cause had been shaken by the final treachery and speedy assassination of Odhyssèvs.

It brought the immediate débâcle of the army and the reoccupation of Thessaly for a year by Turkish troops, while its final penalties were the cession of the chief strategical positions along the northern frontier and the imposition of an international commission of control over the Greek finances, in view of the complete national bankruptcy entailed by the war.

SEE Hilldrup, Barbara W. HILLS, EDWIN A. The sailing rules in yacht racing, interpreted and applied in official protest decisions of yachting tribunals of final jurisdiction.

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Final report on the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure.

FRANKFURTER, MARION D. Final report on the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure.

Indeed, now, when I come to think of it, it seems to me that my father was the only person of my acquaintance who did not suspect that I was resolved never to wear either the black robe of Inquisition or the crimson of Final Judgment.

At a swinging pace he soon left Gravelton behind him, and, coming to the river, sat down to smoke a final pipe before turning his back forever on a town which had treated him so badly.

The armaments, fitted in no fewer than nine successive efforts, were mostly equipped with such haste and ignorance, and with so little choice, that ruinous delays, shipwrecks, and final discomfiture, were naturally to be expected.

It cannot be said that a final satisfactory solution of the railroad problem has been attained; indeed, in most human affairs such a thing is unattainable.