After this there is a minstrel's song, on the Restoration of Lord Clifford the Shepherd, which is in a very different strain of poetry; and then the volume is wound up with an "Ode," with no other title but the motto Paulo majora canamus.

In the same strain we are told of a convent whose "walls sweat, and its floors quiver," when a contumacious brother treads them;and when the parents of the same personage are torn from his room by the Director of the convent, we are informed that "the rushing of their robes as he dragged them out, seemed like the whirlwind that attends the presence of the destroying angel."

In the same strain of thankless kindness, he assures us that "fond is foolish," "but, except," "content, contentment," and vice versa, "period

Whatever he writes, be it on the most trivial subject, be it in the most simple strain, his imagination, in spite of himself, affects it.

But although we wish to increase our army on a more extensive scale, we must admit that, even if we strain our resources, the process can only work slowly, and that we cannot hope for a long time to equalize even approximately the superior forces of our opponents.

The essential point is not to match battalion with battalion, battery with battery, or to command a number of cannons, machine guns, airships, and other mechanical contrivances equal to that of the probable opponent; it is foolish initiative to strain every nerve to be abreast with the enemy in all material domains.

Such an institution would be a heavy strain on the existing teaching personnel in the army, and would be indirectly detrimental to it as well.

All this puts a heavy strain on personality.

Although extremely aristocratic in his attitude toward strangers, his native strain made him resent McHenry's rascally arrogance as a reflection upon his mother's race.

" "My thoughts are not unmeaning," continued Roderick, in a louder and far bolder strain.

But it will be admitted that we have grievances to complain of, if the tone and the strain of English opinion and sentiment have been such as to inspirit the South and to dispirit the North.

Young poets often affect a melancholy strain, and none more frequently put on a sad and sentimental mood in verse than those who are as happy as an utter want of feeling for any body but themselves can make them.

It would, of course, be necessary to pay him his income, and though this would be a great strain on the finances of the two partners, it was manageable.

A strain, too, of Puritan piety was bound up in the constitution of his soul, and in private life he exercised high morality, and was also kind and charitable.

As on former occasions, the missile was one of the old 16 inch pattern, but it was understood that the charge of gun cotton had been reduced to 87 lb., so that the net protection should not bear a greater strain than would be the case in actual hostilities.

The whole strain coming thus upon the steel links, they in course of time cut through the bolts and thus broke the belt to pieces.

This makes them very pliable and increases their toughness, so that they will stand a strain three times as great as a piece of hard rolled sole leather.

We are preparing a table showing results, and so far we can report that they can stand about twice the strain of double flat belts.

That strain is over; I am in a sense at rest; but not satisfied.

But the German hirelings or allies had another character which (by that same strain of evil coincidence which we are tracing in this book) encouraged all that was worst in the English conservatism and inequality, while discouraging all that was best in it.

Silences, not devoid of strain, will fall from time to time.

Crevasses, caused by strains from variations in the rate of motion of different parts of the glacier and convexities in the channel, are mere cracks when they first open, so narrow as hardly to admit the blade of a pocket-knife, and gradually widen according to the extent of the strain and the depth of the glacier.

Never before had I been so long under deadly strain.

And you must admit that England, or rather the English Foreign Office, has put rather a severe strain upon our pride and patience!"

And still, whenever husband and wife Publish the shame of their daily strife, And, with mad cross-purpose, tug and strain At either end of the marriage-chain, The gossips say, with a knowing shake Of their gray heads, "Look at the Double Snake!