On the discussion of this point he spoke a second time, and this to such effect that, he had the satisfaction at this meeting to see minutes made more fully than any before, and a committee appointed for the advancement of the great object, to which he had now been instrumental in turning the attention of many, and to witness a considerable spreading of the cause.

We rejoice that your vigilance, energy, and well-timed exertions have crushed so daring an opposition and prevented the spreading of such treasonable combinations.

There was danger in cracks between the obstructing logs, for cracks meant a draught, and a draught meant the spreading of the fire.

Lewis of France had his Infancy attended by Crafty and Worldly Men, who made Extent of Territory the most glorious [Instance ] of Power, and mistook the spreading of Fame for the Acquisition of Honour.

It consists in carrying the hand obliquely as in negation, observing the spreading of the fingers which characterizes this species.

I'm enough of a psychologist to feel the evil spreading, and I've the scent of a rat-terrier.

Fireproof roofings and projecting party walls also retard the spreading of conflagrations.

They made quick work of evacuating those who had it, and stop its spreading, to the regret, I am afraid, of a good many of the boys.

PASSING CLOUDS. "CAN ANY UNDERSTAND THE SPREADINGS OF THE CLOUDS."Job xxxvi.

His fingers moved over the keys as it were by instinct, and in a few moments Avery forgot that she was tired and dispirited with the bearing of many burdens, forgot all the problems and difficulties of life, forgot even her charges at the Vicarage and the waiting schoolroom tea, and sat wrapt as it were in a golden mist of delight, watching the slow spreading of a dawn such as she had never seen even in her dreams.

Suppose that some enduring intelligence watched through the ages the successions of life upon this planet, marked the spreading first of this species and then that, the conflicts, the adaptations, the predominances, the dyings away, and conceive how it would have witnessed this strange dramatic emergence of a rare great ape to manhood.