We perceive, therefore, that he belongs not so much to the modern world, which has been termed the romantic one, as to a naive world, since, though his significance really rests upon the present, he scarcely, even in his tenderest moments, touches the borders of longing, and then only at the outermost edge.

The rectangular armor plate of rolled iron rests against an elastic cushion of sand compactly rammed into an iron plate caisson.

It rests upon a pivot, p, around which it revolves through the intermedium of rollers placed in a circle, r.

The turret consists of three plates assembled by slit and tongue joints, and rests upon a ring of strong iron plate strengthened by angle irons.

The basal diameter of this second hemisphere is such that when the latter is placed over J its edge rests upon the lower disk, M.

This account of Matthews' visit to Madagascar rests to a great extent on the narrative of Clement Downing, who held the rating of a midshipman on board the Salisbury at the time.

As all civilization is built upon the back of labor, and as all culture and leisure rests upon labor, and is not possible otherwise, so all cultural and liberal education, as generally understood, shall be sequent to the productive and vocational.

Also in the claims that industry makes upon her in her relation to the productive life of the community, under such primitive conditions, her life rests upon the same basis as before.

It is not strange that she with whom industry had its rise and upon whom all society rests should be the last to benefit by the forces of reorganization which are spiritually regenerating the race and elevating it to a level never before reached.

[Stands near fireplace; rests head on hand and remains motionless.

It is part of our discharge for the leisure and advantages the system has given us, part of that just give and take, over and above the solicitor's and bargain-hunter's and money-lender's conception of justice, upon which social order ultimately rests.

The interest of a visit rests entirely on the romantic legend, and the wild view over the hills around, particularly that in front, where on the opposite mountain are the ruins of Rodenstein, to which the wild Huntsman was wont to ride at midnightwhere he now rides no more.

Oh! think not she rests in the grave's chilly slumber Nor sheds o'er the present her glorious light, Since Tyranny's shackles the free soul incumber

Raphael's claim to consideration as an architect rests upon the Palazzi Vidoni and Pandolfini, the Cappella Chigi in S. Maria del Popolo, and the Villa Madama.

At such times the Bay seems strangely homely, especially when the eye rests on our camp with the hut and lighted windows.

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Each Preterite, however, rests on good authority.

This rests on the principle that the electric resistance of metal conductors increases with the temperature.

At the top of the stick of graphite is a metal cap carrying a knife-edge, on which rests a bent lever pressed down upon it by a light spring.

This cone rests upon the convergent one, B, whose angle, as we have said, varies between 35° and 45°.

I live, as I said before, the life of a plant; I rest as one rests after a long fatigue, and as if immersed in a warm bath.

In a hand-to-hand fight, like this, the victory rests always with us.

Her whole power rests in her ownership of the land, our only wealth.

Religious questions of a dogmatic nature are settled by the Holy Synod of Bucarest, composed of the two metropolitans of Bucarest and Jassy and the eight bishops; the Minister for Education, with whom the administrative part of the Church rests, having only a deliberative vote.

It rests with Madame to carry on the game, and to betray the confidence of Monsieur Dorinet.

Then also speculation on the wages' ratio wrests all nobility from labor, which is regarded as the worst misfortune a man can be condemned to, when in reality it is the most precious of boons.

Do thou, my country, receive this weapon, armed with which in thy behalf I would fain have defended this citadel, since a father wrests it from me."

The slave desires to receive the rewards of his own labor; the power of the master wrests them from him.

The slave desires to receive the rewards of his own labor; the power of the master wrests them from him.

Michael Angelo is the prophet and Sibylline seer; to him the Renaissance discloses the travail of her spirit; him she endues with power; he wrests her secret, voyaging, like an ideal Columbus, the vast abyss of thought alone.

He fights with bold Sir Ferris, wrests a sword, And flashes it with fury in their midst.

Erased the marks of city slavery, Here where the sun gleams gold through azure hours Here wrests the spirit from all bondage free, The fields grown green and the syringa flowers!

She was no longer the mere performer who wrests a cry of desire and of passion from an old man by a perverted twisting of her loins; who destroys the energy and breaks the will of a king by trembling breasts and quivering belly.