351 Verbs to Use for the Word materials

This is used for various purposes; one species, as soft as our cotton cloth, and withal exceedingly tough, is used for a handkerchief; another furnishes the material for taking notes, or for wrapping up what is left after a feast.

" Mary was busy collecting building materials and other things for the church of Ikpe.

The vista of the sand is the child's free land; where the grown-ups seem half afraid; even nurse forgets to sniff and to call "come here" as she sits very near to the far up cliff and you venture alone with your spade.... Even indoors, a child could probably find for himself all the material for investigation, all the stimuli he requires, if it were not that his investigations interfere with adult purposes.

Froebel's "Gifts" were an attempt to supply right play material.

At the outset of our study together we warned you that, though we should gather the material and point the way, you yourself must do the work.

" This is clearly the time to show a glass prism and to let these children make rainbows for themselves, to tell the story of Iris, and to use any colour material, Milton Bradley spectrum papers, Montessori silks, colour top, and anything else so long as the children keep up their interest.

The first vital principle then is that the teacher of young children must provide life in miniature; that is, she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for experience.

Indeed, the tree, whether in planks, bark, or leaves, seems in ancient times to have afforded the principal materials for writing on.

" Again, in the martyrology of Tallaght, from which Gorman, a later martyrologist, says that Oengus, the Culdee, drew his materials, is found under date May 3rd, a mention of the celebration of the Conception of Mary.

The answer is simple and expressive: "Not half has ever been told;" yet the German newspapers contain more than sufficient materials to prove that the floodgates of barbarism were opened wide.

The ignorant flippancy of a priest in an article (in a very secular periodical) on St. Expeditus gave great pain to Catholics and gave material for years to come to scoffing bigots.

For instance, all the textile fabrics on sale in the province were to be seen in one or other of two warehouses; all metals in sheets, blocks, and wires in another; in a third all finished metal-work, except writing materials; all writing, phonographic, and telegraphic conveniences in a fourth; all furs, feathers, and fabrics made from these in a fifth.

In the first case (which is not likely, since Germany succeeds only with difficulty, owing to her exchange, in obtaining raw materials, and must encounter worse difficulties in this respect than other countries), Germany would be preparing the ruin of the other countries in organizing forms of production which are superior to those of all her rivals.

" "We've certainly got good material to work on," said Patty, giving a satisfied glance around the pretty room.

Soon after thisit is supposed in 1444Gutenberg returned to his native city, by leave of the town council, which he was obliged to ask, bringing with him all his materials.

It is always difficult to see the beginnings of things: we know that stories form the raw material of morality, it is not easy to trace morality in Little Black Sambo, The Three Bears, Alice in Wonderland, or The Sleeping Beauty, but nevertheless morality is there if we recognise morality in everyday things.

Nothing had been left to chance and the advance guard was accompanied by enormous automobiles filled with corps of sappers who carried bridge and road building materials.

He took the raw material from me, wherewith to build that room, because he wanted that room.

They say that he had a few hundred thousand dollars over here, ostensibly for buying material, and that he has taken the lot out West.

Oh, well, you can easily procure writing materials from the captain's clerk," volunteered Dave generously.

The question at once arose: had the man himself offered the material for the purpose?

When he arrived in Europe he had not even prepared in outline a scheme of what the League of Nations was to be; the principal problems found him unprepared, and the duty of the crowd of experts (sometimes not too expert) who followed him seemed rather to be to demonstrate the truth of his idea than to prepare material for seriously thought out decisions.

From this store-house of images, or after effects of sensation, the reasoning faculty derives the materials for thought as well as those for artistic expression.

I hope you will find I have executed the office with a tolerably faithful pen, as you know I took notes each day during those conversations, and arranged my materials after you were retired to rest.

With him he learned something about an artist's methods, and received from him as a parting gift, various artist's materials that he had made industrious use of.

351 Verbs to Use for the Word  materials