Evidently, some of the brutes were feeling with their claw-hands, about the door, to discover whether there were any means of ingress.

"What do I mean by brittle?

But every word of that prayer was meant for the uplifting of my heart.

As for you, an American boy, why don't you go to h I mean to the West. Go West, young man!

He smoothed her cold forehead, and tried to comfort her by every means in his power.

Carleton's reconnaissance convinced him that he could have little chance of reducing it quickly, if at all, with the means at hand, especially as the Americans had supplies close by at Lake George, while he was now a hundred miles south of his base.

All later editions 'shrivel'd', which is by no means as good.

And the publication, in 1864, of M. Van Beneden's memoir on the Miocene and Pliocene Squalodon, furnished much better means than anatomists previously possessed of fitting in another link of the chain which connects the existing Cetacea with Zeuglodon.

Thatthat's what I mean about having no shame.

Some men eat too much; some drink too much; some sleep too much; some waste their vital energies in sensual indulgence, while all have some vicious habit (I mean with reference to the preservation of life), known or unknown to the world, which, sooner or later, undermines the constitution, and helps on the work of dilapidation.

As he greeted the two strangers, and said simply that he had just arrived, himself, by way of the Anvik portage, the Colonel felt that he must have meant from New York or from Paris instead of the words he added, "from St. Michael's.

" "Oh, I mean on those long narrow snow-shoes that make you go so fast you always trip up!

No one can begin to understand what modern war means without some personal acquaintance with shell-shock cases.

What a fool I have been not to surmise what this confounded pain meant between my shoulders!

Thus, though neither of them had anticipated such a bolt from the blue, both Carleton and Cramahe had taken all the reasonable means within their most restricted power to provide against unforeseen contingencies.

Twenty years from now a league including cities of the Philippines, China and Japan, is by no means out of the question, and it may be that the introduction of Base Ball into all three countries will result in a better understanding between the peoples and perhaps bring all three races to a better frame of mind as relates to their personal ambitions and rivalries.

The quiet of the nation has been, for years, disturbed by a faction, against which all factions ought to conspire; for its original principle is the desire of leveling; it is only animated, under the name of zeal, by the natural malignity of the mean against the great.

To make ourselves defenceless (after having been most strongly defended), from loftiness of sentiment, is the means towards genuine peace....

Tell me, Wyandotté, how came you to discover that Robert was a prisoner, and by what means did he contrive to give you his letter?" The Indian assumed a look of pride, a little blended with hauteur; for he felt that he was manifesting the superiority of a red-man over the pale-face, as he related the means through which he had made his discoveries.

"You mean like a phonograph record on a turntable?" "No," replied Lisa.

In the midst of danger fear was removed from us, and we were blessed with the unspeakable advantage of presence of mind, and enabled to use the best means under Divine Providence to save our lives.

She was by no means above self-sympathy.

[Footnote 1: The Assyrian scribe annotates in the margin that the same god is meant throughout, under all these different epithets.]

His mother had few means beyond the labour of her hands for their support.

And thus we brought them reverently to the dwelling of our brethren, where they rest in peace, and where God continually works miracles by their means among the idolaters.