Do we say resource or source

resource 794 occurrences

It is a dreary outlook, but it seems my one resource.

What to do about the railroads and railroad rates A natural resource that should be conserved or restored Do high tariffs breed international ill-will? Should we have a high tariff at this juncture?

His only resource was to keep within the town in the most convenient places, and get information of Achillas's designs.

Slight as was the remuneration, however, it had aided him to live; and when this resource was removed, Gustavo was again obliged to depend upon his wits.

Poison is the resource of the poacher.

Whatever may be the course of your deliberations on the subject of our military establishments, I should fail in my duty in not recommending to your serious attention the importance of giving to our militia, the great bulwark of our security and resource of our power, an organization the best adapted to eventual situations for which the United States ought to be prepared.

If they had thought that there was any resource in themselves, that they would have offered it with the same zeal.

She had thought at once of Laura, and Laura was his only, his inevitable, resource.

when the wretches jerked me on to my feet again, and when I was dragged off up one of the mountain paths, I understood that a time was coming when I was to need all my courage and resource.

It is an affront to Becky's tactics to believe that she could ever be reduced to so low a resource, or, that if she were, anybody would find it out.

In short, except that lucifer matches are twice introduced as familiar things in days when the tinder-box was the only resource in general use for obtaining a light, we have not observed anything in which the authoress could be "caught out.

The subsequent task of dividing one and a quarter pots of jam, five portions of cheese, bacon and a meat-and-potato stew was only settled eventually by resource to a set of dice.

He has, however, with admirable resource substituted parts for four influenza microbes.

Others had pushed on to the Rocky Mountains, and to the huge wilderness of the north-west, preaching, bartering, cheating, baptising, swayed by many motives and holding only in common a courage which never faltered and a fertility of resource which took them in safety past every danger.

Amos knew how daring and dashing were the Iroquois warriors, how cunning and fertile of resource, and his face darkened as he thought of the young wife who had come so far in their safe-keeping, and of the women and children whom he had seen crowding into the fort.

But the savages had one at their head who was as full of wiles and resource as Du Lhut himself.

But the United States has an alternative;her first and best resource,and the most profitable application of her industry is in her broad and fertile lands, the superabundant produce of which would not only feed, but, by exchange, clothe her population, and supply them with all the comforts of civilized life.

Now, upon whichever side the bone of right lay, the strong man would have the power to destroy me; but if I set my brain to work, and contrive an 'infernal machine,' I shall be superior to him, and drive him to the same resource.

Self-oblivion is his only resource, indulgence in alcohol in various disguises his remedy, and death or superstition his only comfort and hope.

Failing of this, moreover, there is always the resource of the legislature, which will usually pass a law taking away a man's wife, or his children, and sometimes his estate, if a pretty pathetic appeal can be made to it, in the way of gossip.

Lord Beaconsfield, speaking in the last year of his life to Mr. Matthew Arnold, said that the task of carrying Mr. Forster's Coercion Bill of 1881 through the House of Commons "needed such a man as Lord Derby was in his youtha man full of nerve, dash, fire, and resource, who carried the House irresistibly along with him"no mean tribute from a consummate judge.

But he is experienced in debate, quick in reply, fertile in resource, takes large views, and frequently compensates for a dry and hesitating manner by the expression of those noble truths that flash across the fancy and rise spontaneously to the lip of men of poetic temperament when addressing popular assemblies.

" For the Abbot Tobias was a man of the readiest resource, and in other circumstances would have made a good soldier.

Recourse, resource, resort, distinguished, 32.

Resort, resource, recourse, distinguished, 32.

source 5001 occurrences

For after an exchange of greetings, Linda divulged the source of her worried expression, which Stella had immediately remarked.

They recognise also, to a great extent, the same moral laws; but differ as to their evidence, and the source from which they derive their authority.

Nor is there any school of thought which refuses to admit that the influence of actions on happiness is a most material and even predominant consideration in many of the details of morals, however unwilling to acknowledge it as the fundamental principle of morality, and the source of moral obligation.

These were inspired by the spirit of chivalry, which, though considered, commonly, as a wild institution, the effect of caprice, and the source of extravagance, arose naturally from the state of society at that period, and had a very serious influence in refining the manners of the European nations.

The fire of the natural sun exists from no other source than from the fire of the spiritual sun, which is divine love, 380.

From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.

But in some of the lines the pauses of punctuation do not come at the right points to make smooth reading: From the same source I have not taken

As she was the source of his greatest happiness, her loss was the occasion of his greatest sorrow.

His ideal was a kind of natural religion, in which God appears as the ultimate source of the beautiful and hardly as a being having any other relation to man.

If she gives more, it is a new source of desire; but the balance quickly rights itself.

The herds of horses were a further excellent source of income, for they could be sold to the Sung, who had no horses.

In the heart of Africa, five hundred miles from the coast and the source of supplies, an American engineer, aided by twenty-one American bridgemen, built twenty-seven viaducts from 128 to 888 feet long within a year.

From descriptions given by Mr. Harris, who has several times been fortunate enough to discover remains, it would appear that no superstitious ideas are held by this tribe with respect to the position in which the body is placed, the space accommodation of the sepulcher probably regulating this matter; and from the same source I learn that it is not usual to find the remains of more than one Indian deposited in one grave.

We had a few months ago from the same source one of the covers, of which the ornamentation was different but more entire.

O source of uncreated light, The Father's promised Paraclete!

Despair at our foundations then to strike, Till you can prove your faith Apostolic; A limpid stream drawn from the native source; Succession lawful in a lineal course.

A law, the source of many future harms, Had banish'd all the poultry from the farms; With loss of life, if any should be found 1070 To crow or peck on this forbidden ground.

But I may add that there is no doubt about it, for the news was confirmed, through another source, half an hour later.

"Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, is another source of darkness in composition.

"An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases.

["Mare Nostrum" (Our Sea), the classic name for the Mediterranean.] was a species of blue beast, powerful and of great intelligencea sacred animal like the dragons and serpents that certain religions adored, believing them to be the source of life.

The actual moneys in circulation in every modern country consist of a wide variety of pieces, differing in denomination, physical size, shape and materials, mode of issue, source or authority of issue, and legal character.

They saw in paper money an unlimited source of income to the government.

The money use is the source of value of the paper notes.

From the year 1500 until 1800 the Western hemisphere was the main source of the precious metals, the alluvial deposits were widely scattered, were gradually discovered, were usually found in small quantities, and were extracted in primitive ways.

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