Still, when I looked more intently, I was unable to say that it was really mist; for it appeared to blend with the plain, giving it a peculiar unrealness, and conveying to the senses the idea of unsubstantiality.

When he wished to write, he made a picture with a stick, a stone, on a leaf, or traced his idea in the mud.

My ambassador was very fidgety and nervous, appealing to me all the time, but by the time I had laboriously condensed and translated some of the remarks, they were talking of something quite different, and I am afraid he had very hazy ideas as to what they were all saying.

The originals were all written in the year 1837, and I have purposely shown them because their extraordinary variations entirely negative the popular idea about the uniformity of Dickens's handwriting, and because these mobile hand-gestures are a striking illustration of the mobility and great sensibility to impressions which were prominent features in Charles Dickens's nature.

" This was a new idea to many people.

The cost was only eight shillings, but the boy then got an idea for the first time of the value of learning.

To contemplate so pure and resolute a being in this point of view, may lead us to form just ideas on the true nature of this primary virtue, on the sacred source from whence it should proceed, and the sublime end to which it should aspire.

But he soon had to put this idea from him.

It occurred to me that he had not received more than one half the punishment justly due him, and that now would be a good time to give him the balanceso I carried the idea into immediate execution.

I should then, by his advice, have taken Lady Studley to the Riviera, but she opposed the idea with such passion and distress, that I abandoned it.

I have gradually accustomed Bruce to my idea by removing one thing at a time photographs, pictures, horrid old wedding presents, all the little things people have.

I notice, however, that they continue playing in the afternoon since then, I suppose it struck them as a good idea at the time.

I use the word "Artistic" as more nearly expressing an almost unstatable idea than any other I can think of, for the work of the artist approaches more closely to creation ex nihilo than any other form of human activity.

But perhaps the best thing you can do is to try to get the idea out of your head.

It was minor poets who first expressed sentimental ideas without inconsistency.

It disseminated new ideas among the masses, stirred up the indifferent to feel an interest in the affairs of the country, and gave a purpose to the national aspirations.

Sometimes the things they designate are more or less related, so that the ideas behind the words rather than the words themselves are responsible for the confusion.

First comes a kitchen and next a bathroom, then an out-of-doors playground with abundant material for gaining ideas through actionsand, pebbles, pine-cones, moss, shells and straw.

" "Joel is a little of an enigma to me, captain Willoughby," returned the chaplain; "sometimes seizing an idea like a cat pouncing upon a rat, and then coquetting with it, as the same cat will play with a mouse, when it has no appetite for food.

The ordinary connection of ideas between handcuffs and policemen does not need very acute mental powers to grasp, but there is a further connection, a philological one, which is only evident at first sight to those who have made a small acquaintance with the science of words.

"And you, sir; have you any idea beyond the known facts?" "None," was the answer, "except that he took his own life.

That's the idea under the Foundation, so to speak, and the work is now established in nine of the great State Universities."

Of course, it's small, but then with this London idea before us" "Such extravagance!"

Besides articulate sounds, therefore, it was further necessary that he should be able to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the ideas within his own mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the thoughts of men's minds be conveyed from one to another.

" They did work like heroes, and even in her pain and peril, Helen admired the skill, energy, and courage of the young men, who, an hour ago, had seemed to have no ideas above pipes and beer.