but the monotony of endless recurrence, in which was no soul.

During these months, the darkest of the year, scarcely a night passed without the recurrence of these inexplicable cries.

The constant recurrences of the elections accustom men to changes in their public functionaries; the great increase in the population brings new faces; and the sudden accumulations of property place new men in conspicuous stations.

It accords with the amusing comparison of Malebranche, that Seneca's composition, with its perpetual and futile recurrences, calls up to him the image of a dancer who ends where he begins.

From the hour when I sailed from home, Lucy's image was seldom absent from my imagination, ten minutes at a time; I thought of her, sleeping and waking; in all my troubles; the interest of the sea-fight I had seen could not prevent this recurrence of my ideas to their polar star, their powerful magnet; but I do not remember to have thought of Lucy, even, once after Marble was thus carried away from my side.

In theory and practice, the teacher of language to the deaf, by whatever method, endeavors to present to the eye of the child as many completed sentences as are nominally addressed to the earhaving them "caught" by the eye and reproduced with as frequent recurrence as is ordinarily done by the child of normal faculties.

We do not cure smallpox by punishing the patient, nor do we thus prevent its recurrence among others.

The effect appears in the numerous recurrences of open protest and passive resistance in the place of the earlier submission.

The number of negroes who died from it was probably not small, and of those who survived some were incapacitated and bedridden with each recurrence of winter.

Hell and its terrors were always present to me, and she taught me that the wandering suggestions of childish imagination, the recurrence of profane expressions heard from others, and all forms of irreverent fantasies were the very whisperings of the devil, to her, as to me, consequently, an ever-present spirit, perpetually tempting me to repeat, and so make myself responsible for the wickedness in them.

The whole community in which we lived, with the exception of a small Episcopal church, had the same ideas of conversion and regeneration, and a prominent feature in our social existence was the frequent recurrence of the great revival meetings in which all the rude eloquence of celebrated and powerful preachers, Baptist, Methodist, and of other sects, was poured out on excited congregations.

"Dropping one l prevents the recurrence of three very near each other.

In Greek and Latin poetry, it is the regular recurrence of long syllables, according to settled laws, which constitutes verse."Ib., p. 186.

He had two recurrences of madness, and both times made attempts upon his life.

The affectation "of the word" and "of the letter," for alliteration was almost as fashionable as punning, seemed, in some degree, to bring back English composition to the barbarous rules of the ancient Anglo-Saxons, the merit of whose poems consisted, not in the ideas, but in the quaint arrangement of the words, and the regular recurrence of some favourite sound or letter.

Again and again he turned upon himself fiercely, discovering that an hour had passed, while he had been tranced in strange attention for the recurrence of some voice in his brain.

I should like to have them in my home, as they have gold-fishes in a globe, to feed them every hour, to see how they would devour...." Ferragut felt a recurrence of the same uneasiness that he had experienced one morning in the temple of Virgil.

It was in fact a recurrence to an old woman's recipe against ghostsof course it might be serviceable, too, against impostors; at all events, seeming, as I have said, very much interested and puzzled, he advised it, and it was tried.

He was emaciated to an alarming degree and his complexion was of the pale, yellow-green that spoke of many recurrences of malaria.

We only know of law in nature in the sense of recurrences in nature, classes of facts, like facts in naturea chain of which, the junction not being reducible to reason, the interruption is not against reason.

It is only when these recurrences do not submit themselves to our puny powers of analysis and measurement that we are incredulous of a larger aspect of the law of time-return.

It was at one time the affairs of the Duke of Brittany or those of Prince Charles of France, become Duke of Guienne; at another it was the relations with the different claimants to the throne of England, or the fate of the towns, in Picardy, handed over to the Duke of Burgundy by the treaties of Conflans and Peronne, which served as a ground or pretext for the frequent recurrences of war.

This detection of my own previously erroneous impressions, seemed to account for the recurrence in charts of elongated-shaped reefs, others having doubtless fallen into the same error.

That there is nevertheless, a noticeable degree of regularity in the recurrence of crises may be due to the presence of one dominating factor.

The three years thus spent at Maulbronn were marked by recurrences of several of the diseases from which he had suffered in childhood, and also by family troubles at his home.