They are palpably of subsequent and comparatively recent origin.

It seemed, indeed, opportune to remember at the moment that, while this alleged Little Miss was the daughter of Miss Caroline, she was likewiseand even more palpably, as I could note by fugitive swift glimpses of her facethe daughter of a gentleman whose metal had been often tried; one who had won his reputation as much by self-possession under difficulties as by the militant spirit that incurred them.

Perhaps an inch or two taller than her mother, she was of a marked slenderness; a completed slenderness, I might saya slenderness so palpably finished as to details that I can only describe it as felicitous in the extreme.

This book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is palpably working in the sermons, Sunday schools, and literature of our and other lands.

"This is outrageous!" cried Mr. Tutt, palpably shocked at such language.

If the property is worth ten million the consideration is palpably inadequate.

What by all these, and more that I do not think of, have I done palpably, possibly, toward bringing on this terrible crime against justice, humanity and law?

It had not been from any feeling of compunction or hesitation that those who had her fate in their hands left her so long in her dungeon, but from the absolute impossibility of inventing an accusation against her that should not be utterly absurd and palpably groundless.

He instantly issued a declaration of war against the republic, on reasoning too palpably false to require refutation, and too frivolous to merit record to the exclusion of more important matter from our narrow limits.

Now that we look back with impartiality and coolness to the subject of dispute between the mother country and her colonies, there are few, I believe, who do not acknowledge the Americans to have been driven into resistance by claims, which, if they were not palpably unlawful, were at least highly inexpedient and unjust.

It was wonderful that the Italian communities had not wavered, when Hannibal so palpably showed them the superiority of the Phoenicians and the nullity of Roman aid; but how long could they be expected to bear the burden of a double war, and to allow themselves to be plundered under the very eyes of the Roman troops and of their own contingents?

The revenues of some were very large, in one or two instances approaching £20,000 a year, while those of others scarcely exceeded £1000 or £1500 a year, thus affording incomes palpably inadequate to the support of the Episcopal dignity; so inadequate, indeed, that they were generally supplemented by the addition of some better endowed deanery or canonry.

To Jack the hour palpably brought a reminder of the misery of the moment when a thing long postponed must at last be performed.

Or else he saw her, closely, palpably before him, as she sat at her writing-table, frowning and a little flushed, her bent nape showing the light on her hair, her short lip pulled up by the effort of composition; and this picture had the violent reality of dream-images on the verge of waking.

Fourth, what sort of influence brought to bear upon Snail B would be sympathetically indicated most palpably in Snail A.

No sagacious reader of the present book can doubt that this parson, at least, is an exception to the general rule; for he palpably knows more of the world than most men who have made it a special study.

Well, I will admit that God did in one instance, and that He may have done so in others, give special authority to the Jews to do that, which, without such authority, would have been palpably and grossly immoral.

The author palpably uses his observations as materials for his creative faculties to work upon; he does not record, but invents; and he produces something which is natural only under conditions prescribed by his own mind.

In temperament and vitality he is palpably inferior to the masters (Dickens, Thackeray, Hugo, Balzac) whom he reverenced with such a cordial admiration and envy.

Hence, their explanations of all these elements, as well as of many other things equally essential to the study, are palpably erroneous.

Two instances occur in the following sentence; which also contains an error in doctrine, and is moreover obscure, or rather, in its literal sense, palpably absurd: "To substantives belong gender, number, and case; and they are all of the third person when spoken of, and of the second person when spoken to.

In the following sentence, the latter term is palpably misplaced: "It does not clearly appear at first what the antecedent is to they.

"The verb is palpably nothing else but the tie.

All without Rowcliffe being very palpably and positively there.

If there were, more palpably than with all other human beings, angels of good and evil contending for him, swaying him now this way and now that; it was plain from his whole history that nothing had yet availed to keep him under the better influence for long together; and she believed that if he gained herself by these unjust and cruel means the worse spirit would thereby gain the most absolute advantage.