The month in which the sacrifice was held was one of those of truce, when the feuds between the different clans were in abeyance so that they could meet at Mecca.
These latter customs may probably have fallen into abeyance owing to the difficulty of catching a crocodile, and in any case the animals are tribal gods rather than totems.
It was also a rule of the sect not to accept cooked food from the hands of any other caste, whether Hindu or Muhammadan, but this has fallen into abeyance since the famines.
There was a tacit understanding between them that it should remain in abeyanceuntil the time given for the reply of Giles was ended.
He decided to let it remain inabeyance at present.
It is rather an humiliating confession to make about one's Prima Donna--but, I am afraid, Helen was really more disconcerted than her mother at the abeyance in which affairs just then remained.
Well, I believe there is such a thing as paternal authority, though mine has been in abeyance ever since Max was born: I think I should be equal to exercising it if we came to extremities.
And the whole thing is rotten with mawkish sentimentality, and false prudery, and abeyanceof common sense.
In moments of great excitement when all acquired control is in abeyance the individual always returns to the natural action of his group.
In those days when courts were not, and yet where conflicting litigants were, cases for final adjudication would be held in abeyance "till the preacher comes.
In the absence of courts in those pioneer days, matters in dispute were often held in abeyance for adjudication till "the preacher" should come, and his unbiased decision was usually accepted as final.
Material interests of group falling into abeyance as class divisions have grown up, until prestige remains virtually the sole community interest, 51.
Doubtless the falling into abeyance through disuse of so pleasing a virtue as patriotic devotion will seem an impossibly distasteful consummation; and about tastes there is no disputing, but tastes are mainly creations of habit.
Curiously enough, however, these questions remained in abeyance for a long time, and, as a consequence, it was impossible to introduce even the first elements of order into the chaos of ancient Sanskrit literature.
You will not allow it to lie in abeyance for a while?
There could be no possible doubt that his father and mother were married, he said; and he hoped the property of all sorts would be allowed to rest in abeyance until the fact was ascertained, which might be done in a week's time.
Questionable methods that have been used to hold in abeyance the advancing civilization of the age will eventually be overcome and effectually destroyed.
His views along those lines are so far in advance of those of his party that he was obliged, for reasons of political expediency and party exigency, to hold them in abeyance during the Presidential campaign of 1908.
They were but placed in abeyance until a case affecting them might arise.
It fell into abeyance on the death of Richard Duke of Norfolk and his wife Anne Lady Mowbray.
It consisted of the sovereign and eight knights companions, and fell into abeyance at the Revolution of 1688.
Not only Liberty but Justice and Order were largely in abeyance and the range of State action which we to-day describe as 'social legislation' was not even dreamed of.
The perceptivity (we may say) of central organs, in an unfamiliar direction, is stimulated by concentrated attention, involving a certain disturbance or abeyance of perceptivity in other directions.
We must defer that attempt until we have collected something more than the ordinary evidence as to what occurs or does not occur during the abeyance of waking life.
To some extent at least the abeyance of the supraliminal life must be the liberation of the subliminal.
On the one hand, there is of course a general blank and abeyance of control over the realm of waking energies;--or in partial sleep a mere fantastic parody of those energies in incoherent dream.
It may rather be said to be held in an uncertain abeyance by the economic exigencies of today, than to have been definitely supplanted by a habit of mind that is in full accord with these later-developed exigencies.
Father can await his boy's final clearance from guilty suspicions in patient abeyance to public weal.
His old philosophical, speculative, idealistic bent is as completely in abeyance as though stricken with rudimentary palsy.
A word or two about it as a thing of temporary abeyance might have been more plausible.
Not that it was absolutely uninterrupted, because evidences of a chaperon in abeyance were not wanting.
Percival stands waiting for more, one-third of his cigar in abeyance between his finger-tips.
This comprised the series of events that culminated in the restoration of the direct rule of the ancient line of sovereigns of Japan which had remained in abeyance for over six hundred years.
Suspension does not abrogate the connection between the member and his lodge, and places his rights in abeyance only.
Among the Bangala of the Upper Congo, while a man is fishing and when he returns with his catch, his proper name is in abeyance and nobody may mention it.
Their weakness consisted of such strong faith as could, and in emergencies must, put in abeyance the kindlier sentiments of their hearts.
