Cairo, Illinois, in the West, became the center of such activities extending its ramifications into all parts of the invaded southern territory.

He would have stayed on, heedless of time, to trace the ramifications of his idea in the complex beauty of the scene, but for the longing to share his mood with Undine.

He had not allowed for the fascinations of the ladyfascinations so alluring that even I, a middle-aged Father of a Family and Justice of the Peace, was instantly reduced by them to the softest moral pulp; and he had not allowed for the Puckish glee with which I welcomed the tale, rolled it round in my wicked fancy, and bent its ramifications into an orderly narrative.

Moreover, the coral has a way of changing its ramifications; its spires build rapidly in the warm surface water.

The kitchen was full of people: whites, Puris, and negroes, children whose parents were whites and Puris, or Puris and negroesin a word, the place was like a book of specimens containing the most varied ramifications of the three principal races of the country.

Just as he distrusted the higher ramifications of finance (his house had gone down uninsured), so before the rites and processes of that inscrutable creature, the Law, he felt himself menaced by the invisible and the unknown, helpless, oppressed; in an abject sense, skeptical.

"It is of an assuredly a pleasing and noble plan," applauded Najib when Kirby finished the divers ramifications of his discourse.

The occupation of this little sea-side village illustrated the ramifications of commerce.

We cannot tell how long the truth may of necessity require to interpenetrate the ramifications of a man's nature.

I doubt not these fellows have aided Monsieur in perplexing his brain respecting the diverse, the world-wide ramifications of this physiological problem.

It was not a little puzzling to perceive the intricate ramifications of the paths in these parts.

Time has not permitted a perfect enumeration, the ramifications of office being too multiplied and remote to be completely traced in a first trial.

2. Again let it be remembered that in this case we should have the special advantage of carrying out the work on a carefully organised plan and in connection with a scheme possessing immense ramifications all over India and the world.

I think it would be a great pityin fact, a great disasterif, in a crisis of this magnitude, we were not enabled to make provisionprovision far more needed now than it was under the simpler conditions that prevailed in the old daysfor all the various ramifications and developments of expenditure which the existence of a state of war between the Great Powers of Europe must entail on any one of them.

Of course a bloody retribution had to follow; the only discussion was as to whether the process should be long or short: whether the wiser and more appropriate course was to probe to the bottom the further ramifications of the treason even beyond Capua, or to terminate the matter by rapid executions.

This chain sends out long ramifications toward the coasts, the interstices of which form beautiful and fertile valleys, composed in the high parts of white and red earths, on the spurs of black and weaker earths, and near the coasts of sand.

The Apex Consolidation scheme, after a long interval of suspense, had obtained its charter and shot out huge ramifications.

Hence follow family alliances, the interchange of hospitalities, and a fusion of sentiments, so that the slavery interest spreads its countless ramifications through every corner of the free north.

He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation.

The plain begins to undulate, for we are approaching the outer ramifications of the eastern orographic system.