The windows were all open, and the soft night air blew the dainty curls off her white forehead and disclosed the fact of her very recent tears.

The weight of this valve on one side of the cylinder is balanced by a weight hung upon the other side of the cylinder; but in the most recent engines this weight is discarded, and two valves are used, which balance one another.

In more recent engines, and especially in those of large size, Messrs. Penn employ for the piston packing a single metallic ring with tongue piece and indented plate behind the joint; and this ring is packed behind with hemp squeezed by the junk ring as in ordinary hemp-packed pistons.

The houses were for the most part unoccupiedthe streets overgrown with grasswhile every object, animate and inanimate, bore some marks of the recent visitation.

But it did trouble him to observe on Lady Bearwarden's face traces of recent emotion, even, he thought, to tears.

" "This is a picture of Edward Savoy, who accomplished one of the most signal diplomatic triumphs in connection with recent relations with Spain.

" "In a recent conversation with the Adjutant General of the army, I was assured by him that in the organization of the ten regiments of immunes which Congress has authorized, the President had decided that five of them should be composed of Negroes, and that while the field and staff officers and captains are to be white, the lieutenants may be Negroes.

Taken with others by the Commander-in-Chief in the recent glorious victory of the tin soldiers over the cat pirates.

Putnam's recent promotion produced bitter complaints; and Gates was laboring night and day, aided by a powerful faction, to displace Washington from the chief command.

His recent death on the ill-fated Titanic will be fresh in the minds of all.

Its excellence is not confined, however, to the letter-press; for we are furnished with a series of colored maps, embodying the results of the most recent explorations, and also with a profusion of admirable woodcuts, illustrating the subject wherever pictorial exposition may aid the verbal.

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" Every lady sees, of course, that Helen was quite right; but perhaps here and there one will think that Dudley Venner was all wrong,that he was too hasty,that he should have been too full of his recent grief for such a confession as he has just made, and the passion from which it sprung.

The nose seems to have acquired its sensitiveness within a hundred years,the lungs their objection to foul air, and the palate its disgust at ditch-water like the Thames, within a more recent period.

And what place is cheap for those who do not? Contrary to the old notion, the more accurate statistics of recent times have proved the city, as compared with the country, the more healthy, the more moral, and the more religious place.

Last January, however, a dead trout, weighing three pounds eight ounces, was found at Bibury Mill, and a few others about the same size have been taken during recent years.

Considering his recent financial depression the thirty dollars was all to the good, covered Madeline's check and Elsie's violets.

During the past five hundred years the English county has gradually sunk from a self-governing community into an administrative district; and in recent times its boundaries have been so crossed and crisscrossed with those of other administrative areas, such as those of school-boards, sanitary boards, etc., that very little of the old county is left in recognizable shape.

Even in comparatively recent times the development of town life in Virginia has been very slow.

Recent state constitutions enter more and more boldly upon the general work of legislation.

The examples of Bayard,sans peur et sans reproche,of Sidney, of the heroes of old or recent days, are for our imitation.

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But the recent death had affected the crew too deeply to allow them to indulge in the unrestrained hilarity of that season.

The jeweller was now restored to his occupation, although still subjected to a rigid surveillance, and I instituted inquiries into the recent movements of the young man Ulster.

Steevens was of opinion that authors in the time of Shakspeare never read their own proof-sheets; and Mr. Spedding, in his recent edition of Bacon, comes independently to the same conclusion.[B] We may be very sure that Heminge and Condell did not, as vicars, take upon themselves a disagreeable task which the author would have been too careless to assume.

There wasn't a man in the camp who didn't resent the millionaire's tone.

Of course no crab of spirit is going to receive an insult before his beloved and not resent it; with one painful quiver of his little legs, he sets the lady crab down, and then the two amorous lovers proceed to deadly combat.

John Ruskin was another man too great and too good to resent love's going where it is sent.

She was not jealous, but she nevertheless resentedas women do resent such thingsthat I should fall in love with a friend's photograph.

Constantine was too weak to resent the menace with vigor, and Mahomet treated his mild protest with contempt, denying the right of a vassal of the Porte to dispute the Sultan's will.

Yet now they prostrated themselves humbly before his feet, whom they acknowledged to be mightier than they, and besought him that he would bestow the rites of hospitality upon them, for that Jove was the avenger of wrongs done to strangers, and would fiercely resent any injury which they might suffer.

Ray did not resent the tone.

They must be very careful not to resent injuries which may be offered to them, nor to think highly of themselves, so as to despise the poor heathens, and by those means lay a foundation for their resentment, or rejection of the gospel.

It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparations for our defense.

But I do resent his saying that I am not a Cockney.

Then there is a third class of things on which the best civilisation does permit privacy, does resent all inquiry or explanation.

Like other petted animals, they are sometimes mischievous, and are said to resent with a push of their horns any delay in gratifying their wishes.

"The character of Zimri in my 'Absalom' is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for him it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.

"Father, do you mean that the people won't resent this sudden change of front on the part of the Emperor?

" "And they won't resent that?" snapped the prelate, now thoroughly irritated.

I protest, but I do not resent it.

It had become impressed upon him that, whether for good or evil, the world was as it was; that Christian civilization had taken the form which he perceived round him, and that to struggle against it was as futile, from a mental point of view, as to resent the physical laws of the universe.

Every true Roman held his wife's or his daughter's honor sacred, and would resent to the death any attempt to violate it; but, by the connivance of corrupt officials, the protection of an upright father was rendered of no avail, by a perjurer being found who would appear before the proper tribunal and swear the maid or woman in question to be his slave.

He was not, therefore ill-disposed to resent on the part of Mr. Smirkie the spirit of persecution with which that gentleman seemed to regard his nephew.

She seemed to resent the intrusion.

The young man, I had remarked, was proud, firm, jealous of the point of honor, and, from my observation of him, quite likely to resent to the bitter end what he deemed a slight or an injustice.

To some of her literary admirers, this serious tone was distasteful; they were inclined to resent the prominence given to moral ideas in a quarter from which they preferred to look merely for intellectual refreshment.

There are deeds a gentleman must resent and punishwith the extreme penalty.

" "The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the natives came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew prudently did not resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys, as peace-offerings, upon which the assailants desisted from farther hostilities.

When one knew that, he could hardly resent her being heavily enamelled.