"Grinning old popinjay!" thought Mr. Parkinson; and envied him and internally noted, and with an unholy fervor cursed, the adroitness of intonation and the discreetly modulated gesture with which the colonel gave to every point of his merry-Andrewing its precise value.

'It is impossible to judge of the precise situation at so great a distance' and 'His Majesty's affairs are so situated that further deliberations give way to instant decision.

Patterson had no precise official reason.

Affecting to be anxious to get up to the precise point where the boat lay, I mystified Monsieur Le Gros in my answers, telling him I would stand on a short distance, or until I could fetch him, when I would tack.

We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectaresthere is nothing like being precise at the finish.

And he submitted uncomplainingly when they took him to the Bertillon measuring department and stood him up against the wall, bare as a babe, arms extended, and noted down his dimensions one by one, every limb and feature being precisely described in length and breadth, every physical peculiarity recorded, down to the impression of his thumb lines and the precise location of a small mole on his left arm.

His imagination told him that the person who committed this crime had suggested the manner of it, and overseen the details of it down to even the precise placing of the eye holes.

" He did as he was bidden, and when she was served he stood over her, wondering, as other men had wondered, what was the precise secret of her charm.

"Of course, no one can tell what the precise effect will be," he qualified.

In the fiacre Hortense Petitpré talked on with such incessant abuse, virulent and violent, of Quadling, that her charges were neither precise nor intelligible.

Not only did the furrows have to be carefully weeded and the caterpillars kept off the plants, but when the stalks were being cut and carried to the vats great pains were necessary to keep the bluish bloom on the leaves from being rubbed off and lost, and the fermentation required precise control for the sake of quality in the product.

She knew exactly what they were all doing at that precise moment.

We shall understand them better by considering the precise nature of the danger that an ox runs.

The answers I received whenever I have pushed my questions, have been straightforward and precise.

Of the few who see them with more objectivity, many are unable to paint or are unwilling to take the trouble required to match the precise colours of their fancies.

Thirdly, that the seers are invariably most minute in their description of the precise tint and hue of the colour.

"The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.

Can any of your correspondents favour me with the precise words of the original record, or explain the meaning of the term used? EDWARD FOSS.

She accepts Dante as a genuine realist, for "he is at once the most precise and homely in his reproduction of actual objects, and the most soaringly at large in his imaginative combinations."

Within the last eight yearsthe precise date I purposely omitI I was ordered by my physician, my health being in an unsatisfactory state, to change my residence to one upon the sea-coast; and accordingly, I took a house for a year in a fashionable watering-place, at a moderate distance from the city in which I had previously resided, and connected with it by a railway.

There was no division of opinion as to this precise point, which they indicated in the most distinct and confident way.

By linking up, however, what is known antecedent to that period with the precise data available regarding the following it, and by checking the inferred results with what little evidence exists respecting the obscure epoch of Rumanian history, it has been possible to reconstruct, almost to a certainty, the evolution of the Rumanians during the Middle Ages.

As the available official statistics generally show political bias it is not possible to give precise figures; but roughly speaking there are about one million Rumanians in Bessarabia, a quarter of a million in Bucovina, three and a half millions in Hungary, while something above half a million form scattered colonies in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia.

Read, by the way, what he says of the Spa's morals[A]"I found a sober, modest man was always looked upon by both sexes as a precise, unfashioned fellow of no life or spirit.

He did it in terms at once so simple, so precise, and of such exquisite clarity, that we may venture to think that reason itself could not have better rendered the terms of its own entity.