But the verbal critic will content himself with the remark that Virgil always uses fugio of the flight of time, and always joins "old age" with "disease," and consequently that these are tags to be remembered, and plagiarized hereafter in the pupils' "original composition."

History tells us of the fights which ensued, and we have all heard of the successful miners who were murdered while asleep at half-way houses, and the result of their hard toil turned to base uses and vicious purposes.

There was iron in the plough that broke up the field, in the axe that felled the tree for building houses, in the scythe that mowed the grain, and in the knife, which could be turned to all sorts of uses.

He uses long sticks.

While they are to a certain extent interchangeable, the word "discovery" in science is usually applied to the first enunciation of some property of nature till then unrecognized; "invention," on the other hand, is the application of this property to the uses of mankind.

It is also worthy of note that in this letter, and in all future letters and articles, he, with pardonable pride, uses a capital T in speaking of his Telegraph.

For instance, in a letter of April 20, 1848, he uses the words "your system of marking, lines and dots, which you have patented."

Every valuable nature is there in its own right; and the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture, which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse, but is never subdued and lost in them.

The intellect uses the outward, as the sculptor uses marble, to embody and speak its thought.

The intellect uses the outward, as the sculptor uses marble, to embody and speak its thought.

From the situation, and characters and uses, you might easily be led into a mistake, for such a bed of any other earth would be far less to be expected, and be also a far greater curiosity.

[Footnote 29: I found graywacke in sitû at Iron River, in Lake Superior, in 1826, and subsequently at Presque Isle River, where it is slaty, and fine even grained, and apparently suitable for some economical uses.

The boat which Mrs. Pitman uses during a flood, and which she had tied to the stair-rail, was gone, having been cut loose, not untied.

The Hindu does everything in a squatting posture, hence he uses only short-handled tools.

He frequently takes a party of friends into the jungle for tiger shooting, and uses these tame beasts to scare up the game.

"I suppose it suits a man who only uses it as a place to sleep, but it's bare as a barn.

It is easy now with definiteness and certainty to determine in what sense the apostle in such connections uses the word "brother."

The whip and gun, or pistol, are companions of the overseer; the former he uses very frequently upon the negroes, during their hours of labor, without regard to age or sex.

"You don't know, or at least you can't say positively, what one of many possible uses the designer and maker of any object had in mind when he designed and made that especial object.

So long as the State uses the proceeds of the inheritances in order to liquidate debts and other outgoings, which would have to be met otherwise, the devolution of such inheritances on the State is directly beneficial to all members of the State, because they have to pay less taxes.

2. The words power, speech, faculty, man, faculty, Creator, uses, and purposes, are nouns.

I shall therefore copiously illustrate both their uses and their abuses; with the hope that every reader of this volume will think it worth his while to gain that knowledge which is requisite to the true use of these small but important words.

"To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and disjunctive conjunctions.

"Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as a whole put for the part, or a part for a whole; the species for the genus, or a genus for the species."Ib., p. 142.

"Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they serve for the uses they were made.