2916 examples of minor in sentences

But, after the Moors entered into Syria and Asia Minor, as Armenia remained always in the Christian faith, they came to be governed by twelve cardinals.

menor, minor, lesser; el , the least. menos, adv., less, least; except, with the exception of; á lo , at least; al , at least; la cosa no era para , nothing less could be expected; no poder (por) de, not to be able to help; sobre más ó , more or less; approximately, nearly, about; vuelven de los que van, fewer return than go.

Prisoners awaiting trial by, or undergoing sentence of, a general court-martial and those confined for serious offenses will be kept apart, when practicable, from those confined by sentence of an inferior court or for minor offenses.

Enlisted men in confinement for minor offenses, or awaiting trial or the result of trial for the same, will ordinarily be sent to work under charge of unarmed overseers instead of armed sentinels and will be required attend drills unless the commanding officer shall direct otherwise.

Jack answered, as if this were a thing of minor importance beside seeing Prather safely on his way.

From the Minor Prophets and other books he has two exact quotations, seven in which the variation is slight, and thirteen in which it is marked.

And in the Minor Prophets three passages (Hos.

Supposing that some arrangement were made between Austria and Prussia for the extinction of Saxony, and that the Great Powers were to ask how they, only two of the parties to the Treaty of Vienna, could agree to extinguish Saxony, what answer would it bethat some little bit of territory had before been exchanged between some of the minor princes, and that then we made no protest?

The Discreto was one of his minor works.

Except during Clare Dagonet's brief reign the depths in him had not been stirred; but in taking what each sentimental episode had to give he had preserved, through all his minor adventures, his faith in the great adventure to come.

"Mr. Quatremain, the minor canon, has died of the plague in one of the vaults of Saint Faith's," he observed; "and I more than suspect, from the appearance of the body, has not met with fair play.

People who hitherto had been chiefly remarkable for their ignorance of the past and the slowness of their comprehension of the present fell to foretelling the future, with a glibness which made Isaiah and Ezekiel appear like minor prophets, and a destructiveness which nothing would satisfy out the immediate advent of the final conflagration.

It is so hard to love voluntarily,to satisfy one's self with minor affections,to know that life offers no more its grandest culmination, its divinest triumph,to accept a succession of wax-lights because the sun and the day can return no more,above all, to feel that the capacity of receiving that sunlight is fled,that, so far, one's own power is eternally narrowed, like the loss of a right hand or the blinding of a right eye!

It was one of the minor plateaux in which this stream descends.

Minor tributaries were not noticed.

Woodcock | " |Semicole |Scolipax |S. Minor.

Several minor productions were left unfinished and were afterwards published in fragmentary form.

Give an outline of the procedure in a minor civil action.

Now for the next two hours the strident cries of the exasperated pump, and the screaming gabble of many tongues, all refreshed by slumber and eager for exercise, made such a diabolic tumult and discord as to throw even the braying of the donkeys into the minor key.

The version sent to Coleridge differs only in minor and unimportant points from that in Blank Verse.

The version of 1818 here printed differs practically only in minor matters of typography and punctuation from that of 1802.

A phrase which in the synagogues of the Jews proved helpful and illumining, might easily become, among the populations of Asia Minor, of Greece, and of Italy, to whom the gospel was now preached, useless, and even misleading.

After this, there was no Proprietary dominion in Maryland, until it was restored upon the accession of George the First in 1715, when it reappears in the second Charles Calvert, a minor, the grandson of the late Proprietary.

11.] Dr. Sintenis, the botanist, who last year traveled through Asia Minor and Greece, tells me that he saw beautiful specimens of the plant in many places, e.g., in Assos, in the neighborhood of the Dardanelles, under the cypresses of the Turkish cemeteries.

There are other minor causes which act as checks upon the spreading of fires in London.

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