Do we say later or latter

later 22379 occurrences

But the intelligence of that demonstration in their favor never reached them, nor that of its suppression a few days later; when La Fayette, who, as on a former occasion, had committed himself to measures beyond his strength to carry out, was forced to fly from the country, and by a strange violation of military law was thrown into an Austrian prison.

With the failure of De Batz every project of escape was abandoned; and a few weeks later the queen congratulated herself that she had refused to flee without her boy, since in the course of May he was seized with illness which for some days threatened to assume a dangerous character.

Six weeks later, an English gentleman saw her in her dungeon.

'It was not a minute later than 6.15,' he averred.

Tump Pack piloted Peter Siner to a negro cafe where they could eat, and later they searched out a negro lodging-house on Gate Street where they could sleep.

Sure enough, the singing ranks disappeared behind the wharf-boat, and a minute later came marching around the stern and lined up on the outer guard of the vessel.

Through the veils of flying dust he made out some one, and a moment later identified not Tump Pack, but the gangling form of Jim Pink Staggs, clad in a dark-blue sack-coat and white flannel trousers with pin stripes.

A moment later DICK moves near CLAIRE; stands uncertainly, then puts a hand upon her.

The later refined Hellenism looked down on the poetical performances of this period with some degree of contempt; it should rather perhaps have looked up to the poets, who with all their imperfection yet stood in a more intimate relation to Greek poetry, and approached nearer to genuine poetical art, than their more cultivated successors.

* Three days later Boris appeared before me with a sullen face.

I am not of these later days.

But the day came, in some countries a little earlier, in some a little later, when it was replaced by the national idioms.

" Mrs Norton and Kitty spoke daily of invitations, and later on of cooking and the various things that were wanted.

Twenty-four hours later I would not have answered for your life.

Besides, to-day, or to-morrow, sooner or later the truth would have to be told.

Later on I shall add a refectory, and put a lavatory at one end of the ambulatory.

"Oh! when you like, later on, only say you will be mine, that you will be mistress of Thornby Place one day, that is all I want.

A few weeks later the Papal sanction was obtained.

The fact that colored men born a few years later than himself were free, by the act of gradual emancipation, while he was compelled to remain in bondage, had long been a source of uneasiness; and increase of knowledge by no means increased his contentment.

Butsooner or later he must sleep!...

When later on they go out to teach they are themselves taught by the social surroundings of the households into which they enter to still more dislike the old-fashioned ways of agriculture.

It was of red brick, somewhat square in style, and had little of the true Elizabethan characterit was doubtless later in date, though not modern.

One Monday night we went down as usual; some of us came in,for we had been playing croquet until into the twilight, and the Haddens had just gone away, so we were later than usual at our laundry work.

She answered it next day; and it was a month later when one night up stairs she began something she had to say about our winter shopping with, "If I had gone to New York" and there she stopped, as if she had accidentally said what she did not intend.

A week later, I marked the familiar bloat in his cheeks, and suspected the truth.

latter 18161 occurrences

An affray was actually in progress between the Italian Ripaldi and the incriminated man Quadling, but the witness arrived as the last fatal blow was struck by the latter.

The third passenger in question had just been in conversation with Sinclair, and the latter was telling his wife of their curious meeting.

Sinclair asked Foster to join him in the smoking-compartment and tell him the promised story, which the latter did.

Sinclair joined the latter, and had a few words with him as the train moved on.

The latter whispered as he passed him: "Major, I found Arizona Joe, the scout, in the smokin'-car, and he's on the front platform.

He passed through the baggage and express cars, finding in the latter the agent sitting behind his safe, on which lay two large revolvers.

When Sinclair reached the latter and nodded, he rose and faced the men, and his fine voice was clearly heard above the rattle of the train.

The latter was a small, plump yellow woman, with large, gentle black eyes, and the soft voice so often found among Virginia "house" servants.

Now and then, in these latter days, he confuses things a little, always suffering the keenest mortification when he discovers his mistakes.

There was one shading from dark green through to red, only a drop of the latter color on the very tip of the arrow where blood would first kiss blood.

are you going out of town "in search of the picturesque"if so, bend your course to the classic, the consecrated ground of HAGLEY! think of LYTTLETON, POPE, SHENSTONE, and THOMSON, or refresh your memory from the "Spring" of the latter, as Courting the muse, thro' Hagley Park thou strayst.

It is from these latter that certain devices of peculiar construction take up the current.

The Trampler pyrometer is based upon the difference in the coefficients of dilatation for iron and graphite, that of the latter being about two-thirds that of the former.

F. ether is the liquid used, from thence to 680° it is water, and above the latter temperature mercury is employed.

It will be noticed that the temperature of the large heater is proportionally higher than that of the small heater, a fact showing that the latter, owing to its higher temperature, loses more heat by radiation and convection than the former.

W. Nageli maintains that granulose, or soluble starch, differs from amylodextrin in the former being precipitated by tannic acid and acetate of lead, while the latter is not.

If a mixture of filtered potato starch paste and erythrodextrin is dried in a watch glass covered with a thin pellicle of collodion, and a drop of iodine solution placed on the latter, it penetrates very slowly through the pellicle, the dextrin becoming first tinctured with red, and the granulose afterward with blue.

3 and 4, without any arms, but with slabs like arms fixed on its underside; and this latter is claimed to be the most effective.

If this current should enter the latter at too sharp an angle, it would carry it toward the mouth of the chimney before the chemical combustion of the carbon and oxygen was finished; and if, on the contrary, it should traverse it at too obtuse an angle, it would depress and contract it.

As it was of interest to see whether this increase in intensity was not due to a greater consumption of oil, a determination was made of the quantity of the latter consumed per hour.

This latter advantage is a great one, as, with the ordinary link motion, large cylinders are exceedingly difficult to design so as to get the requisite clear exhaust.

stroke, with coupled wheels 7 ft. diameter and leading wheels 4 ft. diameter, the latter being fitted with a radial axle on a somewhat similar plan to that previously described as adopted by Mr. Webb for the new North-Western engines; the frames are single, with inside bearings to all the wheels, and Joy's valve gear is used.

Mr. Stirling conducts his traffic at a higher rate of speed, and certainly with equal punctuality, with his magnificent single 8 ft. engines, as Mr. Webb on the North-Western with coupled engines, and the economy of fuel of the former class over the latter is very remarkable; this is, no doubt, owing, as has been previously pointed out, to their ample cylinder power, which permits of the steam being worked at a high rate of expansion.

The latter must have viewed with no little satisfaction the prospect of a Hohenzollern occupying the throne of Rumania at this juncture; and Prince Carol, allowing himself to be influenced by the Iron Chancellor's advice, answered the call of the Rumanian nation, which had proclaimed him as 'Carol I, Hereditary Prince of Rumania'.

He first resolved to submit it to the criticism of Lionardo Salviati and Scipione Gonzaga, the latter of whom had been a member of the unlucky committee for the revision of the Gerusalemme.

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