In every way the Slovak districts form the natural continuation of Bohemia and are the necessary link between it and Russia, upon whose moral support the new State must rely in the first critical years of its existence.

CYCLIC POETS, a series of epic poets, who wrote continuations or additions to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; they were called "Cyclic" because they confined themselves to the cycle of the Trojan war.

By the French minister the proposal was gratefully received; he promised the royal fugitive the continuation of his pension, ordered the arrears to be immediately discharged, and paid him for the next half-year in advance.

Gov. Randolph said, that honorable gentleman, and some others, have insisted that the abolition of slavery will result from it, and at the same time have complained, that it encourages its continuation.

as a beginning, and always contemplated a continuation.

It is because you cannot demonstrate your meaning nor secure the continuation of your works by the ballot.

When the friend went to see her later in the day to endeavour to obtain a continuation of the narrations of the Passion, he found her, contrary to his expectation, more calm, and apparently better in health than on the previous day.

[Footnote: For Byron's reply to this letter, see Moore's Memoirs, iii. 115.] Moore received the continuation of Lord Byron's Memoirs on December 26, 1820, the postage amounting to forty-six francs and a half.

If we except Canada, which we may consider a territorial continuation, the two best customers of the United States were Great Britain and Germany.

Please have the kindness, therefore, to proceed and to send me the continuation at the earliest possible moment.

This begins to show itself soon after her return home, as will be seen by the following extract: "Since my arrival I have enjoyed a continuation of that rest from exercise of mind which began last spring, until to-night.

The cuts can be executed continuation of strokes, thrusts, lunges, and parries.

This was not much for a sea; but, after the late violent gale, I had some reason to expect a continuation of comparatively good weather.

"The first [participle] expresses a continuation; the other, a completion.

So nearly did the scene of this evening resemble that of the past, the numbers of the throng on the hill and the greater interest excepted, that one who had been present at the former might readily have fancied the latter merely its continuation.

'I don't know, Sir; I have felt myself at times in a state of almost mere physical existence, satisfied to eat, drink, and sleep, and walk about, and enjoy my own thoughts; and I can figure a continuation of this.'

Three miles farther up we put ashore to rest and refresh the boat's crew; and whilst I was occupied at the beach Mr. Hunter ascended the hill to examine the country but found only a continuation of the same rocky hills and sterile desert.

On March 14th I gave the Cambridge Philosophical Society a Paper, 'Continuation of researches into the value of Jupiter's Mass.' On Apr. 14th, 'On the Latitude of Cambridge Observatory.'

There was a turn in the road just beyond us that hid its continuation from us.

Our march for this day led for some miles along a flat, grassy plain, a continuation of the Nisa Gol Maidan, then up and over a fairly high spur, and gradually down to the river bed opposite the village of Awi or Avi.

To do this meant the continuation of the custom of taking youths of African blood as apprentices.

As an evidence of this fact we need but note the continuation of mob rule and lynching in the South despite the preachings against it of the organs of thought which heretofore winked at it.

On returning from Grand River, I observed a continuation of the misrepresentations begun last winter, respecting the Indian policy and proceedings of the Department.

I fear that her inquisitorial eye will soon detect our intrigue and obstruct its continuation.

The learned and judicious writer to whom is due the first idea of a "Constitutional History of England," and of whose admirable work I here venture to offer a continuation, regards "the spirit of the government" as having been "almost wholly monarchical till the Revolution of 1688," and in the four subsequent reigns, with the last of which his volumes close, as "having turned chiefly to an aristocracy."