Do we say root or route

root 3219 occurrences

" Many an ideal state has been thought out, in which fellowship should be the root of social progress.

The man of labor knows the root-problems of the industrial world.

This new idea of ambition should be at the root of education and of religious teaching.

In such wise then, did I live for some time, for it was then pleasing to Love that I should live in this manner; and, in good sooth, so blithely and joyously were these days spent that I had little cause to envy any lady in the whole world, never imagining that the delight wherewith my heart was filled to overflowing, was to nourish the root and plant of my future misery, as I now know to my fruitless and never-ending

All at once his strength seemed to desert him like a tree chopped at the root, and he wilted down against the wall with closed eyes.

The root of this is the failure to fully understand and count the cost, and to prepare to meet it as men generally do in the management of their common affairs.

The root of the herb was concealed in a ring, which was applied to the nostrils of the demoniac; and Josephus remarks that he saw himself a Jewish priest practise the art of Solomon with complete success in the presence of the Emperor Vespasian, his sons and the tribunes of the Roman army.

It is not improbable that the hint was taken from this circumstance for the anodyne necklaces, which, some time ago, were in such repute, as the Doctor, some little way further on, prescribes the same root for the looseness, fevers, and convulsions of children, during the time of teething, mixed, to make it appear more miraculous, with some elk's hoof.

And this, my dear friends, brings us to the very root of the meaning of law.

But as far as my small experience goes, the root of them all is pride and self-conceit.

To thicken and give body to soups and gravies, potato-mucilage, arrow-root, bread-raspings, isinglass, flour and butter, barley, rice, or oatmeal, in a little water rubbed well together, are used.

The accompanying cut represents a pretty winter ornament, obtained by placing a cut from the top of the carrot-root in a shallow vessel of water, when the young leaves spring forth with a charming freshness and fullness.

THE PARSNIP.This is a biennial plant, with a root like a carrot, which, in nutritive and saccharine matter, it nearly equals.

THE POTATO.Humboldt doubted whether this root was a native of South America; but it has been found growing wild both in Chili and Buenos Ayres.

THE PITUITARY In the human skull, the pituitary is a lump of tissue about the size of a pea lying at the base of the brain, a short distance behind the root of the nose.

Himself, [If he] deliver not so much, before ye sleep, Root me from out the borders of this realm.

'But why, in God's name, don't they strike at the root of the matter, and go straight to the landlords and tell them the truth?' asked Lancelot.

"Why am I what I am, when I know more and more daily what I could be?"That is the mystery; and my sins are the fruit, and not the root of it.

The Bitter Root Forest Reserve (see note) 3,456,000 The Priest River Forest Reserve (see note)

1,311,600 The Bitter Root Forest Reserve (see note) 691,200 The Gallatin Forest Reserve 40,320 The Lewis and Clark Forest Reserve 4,670,720

Total of Bitter Root, in Idaho and Montana 4,147,200 Total of Priest River, in Idaho and Washington 645,120 Total of Black Hills, in S. Dakota and Wyoming 1,211,680 Total of Yellowstone, in Wyoming and Montana 8,329,200 United States Military Wood and Timber Reservations Kansas Acres.

ELIHU ROOT, New York City.

Robert discharged his bullet at a brown face and then, as he walked backward, he tripped and fell over a root.

The family was the real root.

O that the dire root of sin were as effectually taken away, never more to disturb my happiness; and that pure perennial peace might succeed,I have been visiting the sick:

route 3109 occurrences

He said that he proposed to cross the James River at that point, attack Petersburg, and cut off the enemy's communications by that route South, making no further demonstration for the present against Richmond.

General Anderson's division will cross at Summerville Ford, follow the route of General Jackson, and act in reserve.

The battalion of light artillery, under Colonel S.D. Lee, will take the same route.

The cavalry, under General Stuart, will cross at Morton's Ford, pursue the route by Stevensburg to Rappahannock Station, destroy the railroad bridge, cut the enemy's communications, telegraph line, and, operating toward Culpepper Court-House, will take position on General Longstreet's right.

It was on September 23rd that Oxley and Evans, while searching for a practicable route, climbed a tall peak, and from the summit caught a glimpse of the sea.

Hume and Hovell's Route 1824; Sturt's Route, 1829 and 1830; Major Mitchell's Route 1836.] 4.1.

Hume and Hovell's Route 1824; Sturt's Route, 1829 and 1830; Major Mitchell's Route 1836.] 4.1.

Hume and Hovell's Route 1824; Sturt's Route, 1829 and 1830; Major Mitchell's Route 1836.] 4.1.

The Mermaid returned by the same route and anchored in Port Jackson on the 24th of July, 1818.

In order to render his chart of the country traversed as complete as possible, he kept a course about equidistant between the route of his outward journey and the coastal watershed.

He noticed that throughout this route, in spite of the dry weather, the cattle were all in good condition; and he found Oxley's swamps and marshes transmuted into grassy flats.

[Map. Leichhardt's Route 1844 and 1845, Mitchell's Route 1845 and 1846, and Kennedy's Route 1847 and 1848]

[Map. Leichhardt's Route 1844 and 1845, Mitchell's Route 1845 and 1846, and Kennedy's Route 1847 and 1848]

[Map. Leichhardt's Route 1844 and 1845, Mitchell's Route 1845 and 1846, and Kennedy's Route 1847 and 1848]

His plan of starting from Moreton Bay to Port Essington differed considerably from Mitchell's proposed journey to the Gulf from Fort Bourke, but although longer and more roundabout, it would be a safer route for his little party to adopt, as they would keep to the comparatively well-watered coastal lands.

To drive home the importance of obeying this order we were reminded of the regulation, printed in French and posted throughout the city, "that whosoever passed the city limits or approached the fighting line without military permit, or on the pretense of having such a permit, or whosoever deviated from the route laid down would be shot 'sur le champ.'"

That same evening, however, army orders declared that the Namur route was closed.

In the morning I had a peculiarly disagreeable experience at Lohne, some distance from the German frontier, where we had again to change trains en route to the capital.

It was impossible to verify the statement of the Bavarian travelers who boasted of the treatment of English prisoners en route to the detention camp.

A half-day spent en route from burning Antwerp with a Jesuit priest of Louvain and the testimony of several villagers would have convinced me of this, had I not already been convinced by the stories of other survivors.

We can map out the route, arrange our stops and meet every evening at some small town where we won't attract too much of a crowd.

In the meantime there were parents' consents to be obtained, plans laid for the route to be followed, and various things purchased for the aërial trip.

Barometrical observations were made as often as necessary for giving a profile of the route from the head of Halls Stream to Arnold or the Chaudiere River, and thence to Lake Magaumac via the corner of the State of New Hampshire.

We plied through to Buffalo, and back to Albany, carrying farm products, hides, wool, wheat, other grain, and such things as potash, pearlash, staves, shingles, and salt from Syracuse, and sometimes a good deal of meat; and what the railway people call "way-freight" between all the places along the route.

I walked treading on my own shadow, a very different boy from the one who had come over this same route sobbing himself almost into convulsions not many months before.

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