There seems to be no positive basis on which to determine in advance a natural fitness for this work, but there are certain temperamental characteristics that undoubtedly have much to do with the success.

The buoy and the scheme may be never so faintly shown, but yet with sufficient clearness to give a positive guide for the course.

It is doubtful if all the elements could ever be tabulated in any form that would be a positive guide in shaping the final result, but in a general way the designer should make a fairly good guess at the kind of standard toward which he should work.

Fourth, his positive deniall of it, and thereby willing to deprive the king of his dignity and title.

Judith's face, capable of such rare and positive beauty, had now shut down into a hard, repellent little mask of hate.

But while the Professor grew more and more half-hearted in his protestations that he really didn't care where he went, Mrs. Marshall grew more and more positive that he must not be allowed to miss the music, finally silencing his last weak proffer of self-abnegation by saying peremptorily: "No, no, Elliott; go on in to your debauch of emotion.

Her hair was beautiful, a bright chestnut brown with a good deal of red, its brilliant gloss broken into innumerable high-lights by the ripple of its waviness; and she had one other positive beauty, the clearly penciled line of her long, dark eyebrows, which ran up a trifle at the outer ends with a little quirk, giving an indescribable air of alertness and vivacity to her expression.

As it turned out, however, these lessons proved far more to her than a temporary anodyne: they brought her a positive pleasure.

True, there is no probability that the African slave trade will ever again be legalized by the national government; but no credit is due the framers of the Constitution on this ground; for, while they threw around it all the sanction and protection of the national character and power for twenty years, they set no bounds to its continuance by any positive constitutional prohibition.

I had now opened my case to Mr. Forester, and he had given me positive assurances of his protection.

A little subsequent reflection, however, showed me the utter hopelessness of any such proceeding, as I had still only my simple, unsupported assertions to oppose to the strong array of positive and circumstantial evidence against me; that, therefore, no such applications as I contemplated could be listened to for a moment.

To say nothing of his positive orders, I obeyed his every slightest wish with a promptitude and alacrity that left him no shadow of ground to complain of me.

"I'm positive Mr. Sloan's won't let him.

The reasoning which would make the positive degree to be no degree, would also make the nominative case, or the casus rectus of the Latins, to be no case.

The doctrine of grammarians about three such degrees, which they call the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative, must needs be absurd; both because in their Positive there is no comparison at all, and because their Superlative is a Comparative as much as their Comparative itself.' Hermes, p. 197."Brit.

The doctrine of grammarians about three such degrees, which they call the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative, must needs be absurd; both because in their Positive there is no comparison at all, and because their Superlative is a Comparative as much as their Comparative itself.' Hermes, p. 197."Brit.

No comparison can be imagined without bringing together as many as two terms, and if the positive is one of these, it is a degree of comparison; though neither this nor the superlative is, for that reason, "a Comparative."

5."The termination ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the positive, as black, blackish, or tending to blackness; salt, saltish, or having a little taste of salt: they therefore admit of no comparison.

Here is indeed a comparison, but it is altogether in the positive degree, and needs no other name.

This again refutes Harris; who says, that in the positive there is no comparison at all.

and yet the form of the adjective is only that of the positive degree.

The following five want the positive:

"The devil offers his service; He is sent with a positive commission to be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the prophets.

Paralysis is proof positive of conjuration.

The world was just beginning to come out of positive shadow into the indistinctness of dawn.

It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie therethat's disgrace.

From "The Sportlight." THE WORLD IS AGAINST ME Babe Ruth doesn't complain that opposing pitchers try to strike him out; he swings at the ball till he swats it for four bases.

"The world is against me," he said with a sigh.

The folks who have must try to keep Against the thieves who swarm and steal; They dare not stride, they mince along

The exaggerated praise of its admirers raised a bitter opposition amongst the opponents of the new drink; and the priests raised conscientious scruples against the use of so nourishing an article of food on fast days.

The actors stalked on, chattering their parts, which not one of them understood, and moving their arms up and down; and when they reached the edge of the stage, they tacked and went back again like ships sailing against the wind.

The priest, on the other hand, resides continually in the midst of his parishioners, is perfectly acquainted with each of them, and even, on occasion, protects them against the authorities; his, therefore, is the real jurisdiction in the district.

The old woman imitated every motion as if impelled by an irresistible impulse, and expressed at the same time the most extreme indignation against those who abused her infirmity.

The falua belonged to the collector of taxes, and had, in conjunction with another under the command of the alcalde, to protect the north coast of the province against smugglers and pirates, who at this time of the year are accustomed to frequent the hiding-places of the bay of San Miguel.

These circumstances give rise to the conjecture that they may be the last of a race which maintained its independence against the Spanish rule, and probably also against the little tyrants who ruled over the plain before the arrival of the Europeans.

These circumstances give rise to the conjecture that they may be the last of a race which maintained its independence against the Spanish rule, and probably also against the little tyrants who ruled over the plain before the arrival of the Europeans.

Such forays never occurred without bloodshed, and often developed into a little war which was carried on by the mountaineers for a long time afterwards, even against people who were entirely uninterested in itFilipinos and Europeans.

The cattleman's teeth clicked together and he slapped his hand against his thigh in a reach for the gun which was not there.

Purvis and Jordan (since Terry could shoot with his left hand in case of need) went to the other side of the track and lay down against the grade.

The others followed the direction of his eyes and saw Black Bart standing framed against the fading daylight.

"Don't use that name!" Dan slipped a couple of paces down the hall and flattened himself against the wall just as the door opened.

There came the answering whinny and the hot breath of the horse against the side of his face.

Then he felt a hot gust of the wolf's breath against his hand.

His eyes glowed like those of the wolf, yellow fire against the green.

His left arm jerked horribly against the bonds.

The Hindoos tie a strong cord round the trunk and their own body, and another round their feet, which they fix firmly against the tree; they then raise themselves up, drawing the upper rope with their hands and the lower one with the points of their feet, after them.

It was too late to give my letter today, and I therefore seated myself composedly against the luggage, in the belief that I should have to pass the night so; but a Persian came to me and pointed out a niche to sleep in, carried my luggage there, and, after a little while, brought me some bread and water.

A moment ago on the hill below them a man's figure had been in silhouette against the lights.

The room in which we had taken our meal was of small dimensions, just sufficient to accommodate a bed, a table placed against the wall, and the few chairs on which we sat.

Against another was built a rickety sort of bunk.