Its main design is rather to benefit the apprentice than the master.

As there were three festivals in the year, the main body of the servants would be absent from their stated employments at least nine weeks annually, which would amount in forty-two years, subtracting the sabbaths, to six years and eighty-four days.

Were they seized and circumcised by main strength?

The main body were thus absent from their homes not less than three weeks each time, making nine weeks annually.

Whenever allusion is made to them in the history, the main body are spoken of as at home. (2.)

That the great body of the people were not in the service of the Egyptians, we infer (1) from the fact, that the extent and variety of their own possessions, together with such a cultivation of their crops as would provide them with bread, and such care of their immense flocks and herds, as would secure their profitable increase, must have furnished constant employment for the main body of the nation.

Indeed, unless the injury was done inadvertently, the loss of the servant's services is only a part of the punishmentmere reparation to the individual for injury done; the main punishment, that strictly judicial, was, reparation to the community for injury to one of its members.

It was not pursued as a permanent business, but resorted to on emergenciesa sort of episode in the main scope of their lives.

In this respect, his condition differed from that of the main body of Jewish bought servants, which seems to have consisted of those, who had not yet come into possession of their inheritance, or of those who were dislodging from it an incumbrance.

Its main design is rather to benefit the apprentice than the master.

The citizens of London contributed largely to their relief, as did most of the inhabitants of the main streets through which the melancholy procession passed.

We are quite aware that the doctrine assumed in our main proposition with regard to Beauty, as holding exclusive relation to the Physical, is not very likely to forestall favor; we therefore beg for it only such candid attention as, for the reasons advanced, it may appear to deserve.

As regards wage-earning working-women, the two main channels through which this new spirit is manifesting itself are first, their increasing efforts after industrial organization, and next in the more general realization by them of the need of the vote as a means of self-expression, whether individual or collective.

In these days of fierce competition there was no chance for meopportunity, not talent, was the main requisite.

It was sunsetmost majestic hour of the twenty-fourwhen we drove up to the great white gates which opened into the avenue leading to the main homestead of Five-Bob Downs stationbeautiful far-reaching Five-Bob Downs!

It did not take me long to change my clothes, hang them to dry, and appear on the main veranda where Miss Augusta was still sewing.

Besides, as you cannot well have forgotten, our main dependence is upon the half-promised alliance with Queen Stultitia, who is, as far as I can foresee, my darling, the only monarch anywhere likely to support us.

"I control all dreams and madnesses, Dom Manuel; and these are the main powers of darkness.

To reach the top of the Wrekin from Wellingtona distance of 3 milesone must follow the main road to Shrewsbury for a mile; then turning to the left, having skirted a ridge of the hills, and following a lane one reaches the foot of the ascent.

The most striking view of the abbey is obtained by leaving the main road and taking the footpath across Duncombe Park, where a sudden turn brings one in sight of a bend in the Rye, with the great roofless church rising on the left bank of the river.

Totnes has a very quaint little main street which rises steeply from the bridge over the Dart.

There are two churches of some interest, the more important being the one in the main street, where the famous Rhys Pritchard was vicar in 1602.

Main-travelled roads.

With Morgan on the Main.

But, after all, Katrin was no ways averse to love-making of any kind, which, after all, is the main thing.