They take the flexible sapling and compare it with aged knotty oak, and shake their heads over the lamentable unlikeness: "That this should be the natural outgrowth of that!

This does not deny that one language may not be more flexible, more graphic than any other, more apt to express the facts of Heaven as well as those of earth.

Fine nights are at all times chilly, and men employed out of doors from the fall of the evening to the dispersal of the morning mists rely on an unusually warm under-dress of soft leather, as flexible as kid, but thicker, which is said to keep in the warmth of the body far better than any woven material.

For, to speak in better words than my own, "It is the books we read before middle life that do most to mould our characters and influence our lives; and this not only because our natures are then plastic and our opinions flexible, but also because, to produce lasting impression, it is necessary to give a great author time and meditation.

Browne has, indeed, in his own preface, endeavoured to secure himself from rigorous examination, by alleging, that "many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and, therefore, many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason."

Then the woman answered and said: Ne forte moriamur, lest haply we die, which she said doubting, for lightly she was flexible to every part.

It forms a sort of flexible framework of the body, and so pervades every portion that if all the other tissues were removed, we should still have a complete representation of the bodily shape in every part.

To show how the spinal vertebræ make a firm but flexible column.

Radiating from a common centre, flexible at the base, they stand erect at right angles with the shell when the Urchin is in health; but in disease or death order is lost, and they lie across each other in great confusion.

His body is not set upon nice pins, to be turning and flexible for every motion, but his scrape is homely and his nod worse.

And above the long body his face glowed with its vivid coloring, the liquid golden eyes that moved easily under their lids, the polished black hair sleekly brushed, the red-brown cheeks, the bright lips, flexible and curved, of his Spanish mother.

The bark was like cloth, raspy and flexible, wrapped around and around the heart of the tree.

We found the requisites for learning a language on its own soil to be a firm will, a quick ear, flexible lips, and a great deal of cool audacity.

A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.

Potent and shapely, ne'ertheless, Draws the rogue his flexible limbs, Body firm yet elastic, Craftily forth; the purple shell, Him so grievously binding, Leaving quietly in its place; As the perfected butterfly, From the rigid chrysalid, Pinion unfolding, rapidly glides, Boldly and wantonly sailing through Sun-impregnated ether.

His easy, high-bred air, his graceful, flexible form and handsome face formed a singular contrast to the dark and mouldy apartment, at whose single unglazed window he was sitting.

You see me now: not too tall,five feet four; not slight, or I couldn't have such perfect roundings, such flexible moulding.

There was nothing so large and flexible as the real joys of either righteousness or unrighteousness.

In this feature lies partly the flexible strength, the adaptableness, of our Federal Constitution.

English was proving itself too flexible an instrument for conveying ideas to be longer neglected.

The finest patterns are applied after the glazing has been completed, by taking the impressions from the copperplate on a flexible strap covered with a strong gelatinous mixture of glue and treacle.

The only mammal I saw on the walk was a rather hairy armadillo, with a flexible tail, which I picked up and brought back to Millerit showed none of the speed of the nine-banded armadillos we met on our jaguar-hunt.

There was also a tiny soft-tailed woodpecker, no larger than a kinglet; a queer humming-bird with a slightly flexible bill; and many species of ant-thrush, tanager, manakin, and tody.

There should be hobnailed shoesthe nails many and small, not few and large; and also moccasins or rubber-soled shoes; and light, flexible leggings.

If I were translating the "Assommoir" into English, I should strive after a strong, flexible, but colourless language, somethingwhat shall I say?the style of a modern Addison.