It was such a shocking affair.

" "I don't believe it," cried the old lady, springing forward excitedly in her invalid's chair, "such wickedness cannot go unpunished.

I'm going to take the chance, and," he nodded confidently, "between you and me, it isn't such a slim chance, either.

Such measures Coquenil proceeded to conceive and carry out, realizing fully that, in so doing, he was taking his life in his hands.

The small birds, such as the wren, make an incision on the outside, near the bottom of the flower, and extract a part of the juices.

The gardener found these insects very destructive to plants upon which they fostered, and although he tried every means short of injuring the plants to remove them, he found it impossible, as they adhere to the leaves and parts of the stem with such tenacity, and are so prolific, that the young ones are often found spreading themselves over the neighbouring plants.

They vainly imagine that, after death, they shall survive in history, or in marbles, which shall leap emulously from their quarries to form such monuments of pride as you have just beheld; but they are miserably deceived; their existence ends at the instant they expire, and their fame, however deeply engraven on brass and marble, cannot have a longer duration than that of a brief moment when compared with eternity!

I have always felt that, among the countless evidences of the ordering of Providence by which the war for the preservation of the Union was signalized, not the least striking was the raising up of this remarkable man, to accomplish alone, and in the very nick of time, a work which at once became of such national importance.

Clearly, there is only one such force, and that is, the force which holds it to the center, and compels it, in its uniform motion, to maintain a fixed distance from this center.

Once for all approximate estimations of the temperature of the field might be made in terms of the resistance of the platinum strip, the variation of such resistance with rise of temperature being known.

Such observations being made on a suitably protected strip might be compared with the wedge readings, the latter being then used for ready determinations.

Want of time has hindered me from making such observations up to this.

But it cannot be maintained that such is the case.

Such a theory accuses, in substance, the Maker of creating something needless, and is repugnant to the conceptions we have of the Supreme Being.

We see no good reason why such accomplishment may not be wrought.

But while any such distinctions remain, and the verb is actually modified to form them, they belong as properly to this part of speech as they can to any other.

When the love of contraction came to operate on such verbs as to burst and to light, it found such a clump of consonants already at the end of the words, that, it could add none.

When the love of contraction came to operate on such verbs as to burst and to light, it found such a clump of consonants already at the end of the words, that, it could add none.

The phrase, "those who are educated in our seminaries," hardly includes such as have been educated there in times past: much less does it apply to these exclusively, as some seem to think.

To this root-and-branch democracy he opposed the view that every old belief, or institution, such as the throne or the Church, had served some need, and had a rational idea at the bottom of it, to which it might be again recalled, and made once more a benefit to society, instead of a curse and an anachronism.

Such is the quality of his best lyrics, like When We Two Parted, the Elegy on Thyrza, Stanzas to Augusta, She Walks in Beauty, and of innumerable passages, lyrical and descriptive, in his longer poems.

Two of the pieces in this 1833 volume, the May Queen and the Miller's Daughter, were Tennyson's first poems of the affections, and as ballads of simple rustic life they anticipated his more perfect idyls in blank verse, such as Dora, the Brook, Edwin Morris, and the Gardener's Daughter.

If he had had such an idea, it would have been easy enough for him to put his knife into him when he met him in that quiet street.

He was quite sure that the great stroke of fortune which had enabled the captain's family to live in Paris in such fine style ought to be investigated.

For our maidsespecially those of the countrylook too much as if they had been made out of wooden pillows such as laborers use to lay their heads on of nightsone large bolster set on the top of two other little ones, and all three well wadded with ticking and feathers.