He would have worn it on all his fingers in succession had the conformation of his robust hand admitted of its being placed on any but the slenderest.

"Hellenic letters," says Mr. Capes, writing of Armenia in the fourth century, "were welcomed with enthusiasm, and young men of the slenderest means crowded to the schools of Athens" ("University Life in Ancient Athens," p. 73).

She sits in a room with opposite doors and windows, to let in a thorough draught, which gives her slenderer friends tooth-aches.

They imagine that if they are cultivated and clever, can write what is delusively called a "brilliant style," and are familiar with the masterpieces of Literature, they must be more competent to succeed in fiction or the drama than a duller man, with a plainer style and slenderer acquaintance with the "best models."

This is easily explained by the fact that while in the full grown worm the abdominal legs, or pro legs, are nearly equal in length, in the newly hatched worm the second pair are slightly shorter than the third, and the first pair are shorter and slenderer than the seconda state of things approaching that in the full grown cotton worm, though the difference in size in the former case is not nearly so marked as in the latter.

This naïve veracity of self-presentation is attainable by the slenderest talent on the most trivial occasions.

For the most part the rank and file were stamped by their faces and their limbs as being of peasant blood or of the petty artisan type; but here and there, along with the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker, passed one of a slenderer build, usually spectacled and wearing, even in this employment, the unmistakable look of the cultured, scholarly man.

After all, how much of our modern and so-called scientific history must strike the reasoning reader as mere theorizing or as special pleading based upon the slenderest evidence!

She sits in a room with opposite doors and windows, to let in a thorough draught, which gives her slenderer friends tooth-aches.

There can be no doubt, however, that he was an impetuous suitor, ready to continue an acquaintance into a more serious bond on the slenderest ground, and without the slightest regard to the consequences on either side."

It is famous on account of its two minarets, which are 150 feet high, and are said to be the slenderest in the world.

The slenderest allowance I think I can make to such as I consign to be the example and terror of their species, is that of being heard in their own defence.

All I asked was a subsistence; and I was persuaded few persons could subsist upon slenderer means than myself.

It does not follow that because men will some day have this enormous power over themselves, physically and mentally, that they will necessarily make themselves horribleeven by our present standards quite a lot of us would be all the slenderer and more active and graceful for "Metchnikoffing"nor does surgery exhaust the available methods.

If I had not chanced to pick it up, my throat," and she clasped it with her fingers, "had been no slenderer than the others?

"The other species of ash found in this country are not so important as the white, but the black ash is remarkable as the slenderest deciduous tree of its height to be found in the forest.

There were slenderer benches, and these were for the choir; and from a music-book placed on wings of the great golden eagle, the leader conducted the singing.

Female: not so handsome as the Drake, and the middle tail-feathers so much shorter that she is not over two feet long; but the neck is longer and slenderer than usual in this family in proportion to her size.

Mr. Joachim's monistic system of truth rests on an even slenderer point.

She has a delicate face, with big brown eyes, and her fingers are the slenderest of appendages to her atoms of hands.

That is the swaying noise of the great jet that rises from marble shells and falls into a wide basin, where silvery swans swim round and round in enchanted circles; and the other slenderer sound is the smaller jet that rains down its spray into the violet-borders deep in the shrubbery; and that other, the shallow babble of the waters that go down the marble steps to the lake.

Labial Palpi of moderate length, basal joint very short, compressed, curved, clothed with scales and long hairs, second joint about four times as long as the first, subcylindric, clothed with long scales, third joint clothed with small scales, short, elongate-oval, slenderer than the second, the scales of which almost conceal it.

My father liked the slenderer figure, but I liked the corpulentthe Venus standing at the corner of a wood, pouring wine into a goblet, while Cupid, from behind her satin-enveloped knees, drew his bow and shot the doves that flew from glistening poplar trees.

The second variety is much slenderer, unbranched, the cells and their appendages smaller but of the same form, and the cells usually contain a mass of opaque black matter.

When dew and twilight had fallen on the green labyrinths of Marguerite's yard, the faintest, slenderest moon might have been seen bending over toward the spot out of drapery of violet cloud.