Now, my dear child, I myself have never met a German officer, but from various accounts I understand that they are men of a disorderly mode of life who would not hesitate to compromise a young, inexperienced girl.
Frau von Arnim, who was working at her accounts by the window, never failed to catch that fleeting expression of suffering.
Two officers of the expedition, Walley and Savage, have left accounts of it, as Phips would probably have done, had his literary acquirements been equal to the task.
Thus the three accounts of the deserter, Belmont, and Davis, tally exactly as to the sum total.
The French accounts say that about a hundred persons, including women and children, were killed, and about eighty captured.
La Hontan says that the scene of the treachery was one of the rapids of the St. Lawrence, but more authentic accounts place it at La Famine.
English accounts place the number of Indians at from two to three hundred.
Compare the English accounts in Mather, Williamson, and Niles.
She had written to her people and sent them photographs and newspapers with the accounts of her triumph.
There had been accounts in the newspapers of a mysterious tragedy to which no motive could be assigned, and for which no one could be brought to justice, and that was all.
Hence, but few well-authenticated and circumstantial accountsof the operations of this species of force have descended to the present time.
The garrison which he had left on the island of Hispaniola had disappeared, and the natives seemed less favorably disposed towards the white man than at first--a change which probably accounts for the fate of the garrison.
The most recent accounts represent Bolivia as being in a state of civil war.
Added to this, Arnold was mortified and exasperated that his accounts were not fully and promptly allowed by a committee appointed to audit them.
Nearly all the English fell--some accounts say that they sold their lives, to the last man.
Furthermore, contemporary accounts of any noteworthy occurrences among the Negroes during slavery days or the Reconstruction period should be copied, if taken from contemporary newspapers.
In addition, we should like to have you collect and send in copies of any laws or accounts of any established customs relating to the admission to your State of bodies of slaves from Africa or other sections, the escape of slaves, etc.
This accounts for the fact that children who have learnt to speak, and suffer in early life with ear disease, lose the use of their vocal instrument unless they are trained by lip language and imitation to speak.
This difference in length of the vocal cords accounts for the difference in the pitch of the speaking voice and the register of the singing voice of the two sexes.
Yes, there are several accounts in the Bible of St. Paul's healing power.
I suppose, mother, that it had never occurred to father, that there were two accounts of creation in the Bible, and possibly it had never been pointed out to him.
From otheraccounts it appears that an intermediate toe is likewise sometimes superadded.
But these authors apparently have not considered the manyaccounts given by travellers of the wretched food collected by savages.
I have received severalaccounts of their breeding perfectly true.
Several accounts have likewise been published of young birds, reared in the United States from the eggs of the wild species, crossing and commingling with the common breed.
But this difficulty is not invariable, as I have received two accounts of perfect success in taming and breeding from the wild rabbit.
This reduction of the crest in all the breeds probably accounts for the great variability, before referred to, in the curvature of the furcula, and in the shape of its sternal extremity.
The improved short-faced Tumblers have almost lost the power of tumbling; but there are several authentic accounts of their occasionally tumbling.
Great heat, however, seems to act directly on the fleece: several accounts have been published of the change which sheep imported from Europe undergo in the West Indies.
The accurate Macgillivray[330] asserts that he completely tamed a wild rock-pigeon in the Hebrides; and several accounts are on record of these pigeons having bred in dovecots in the Shetland Islands.
Several accounts have been published on the fertility of the offspring from wild and tame swine.
De Candolle informs me that since the publication of his great work he has received accounts from Guiana, the Antilles, and Mauritius, that in these countries sweet oranges faithfully transmit their character.
Tippets, Sir Richard Haddock, and Mr. Southerne, were set apart to endeavour to reduce the accounts for the past five years into some sort of order.
The truth is, that he looked upon the minute examination of accounts as work beneath his dignity, and fit only for subordinate officials, whom he regarded as his servants.
Provoked perhaps as much by the snub as by the admiral's refusal to support his policy, the king dismissed Herbert from his places, and caused his accounts as Master of the Robes to be severely examined.
Playfair's Scourge of Christendom gives full accounts of them.
Even, however, if we allow for a large element of exaggeration in our own accounts of the battle, it was not a feat which redounded much to their glory.
From the French accounts it appears that they joined Rupert about this time.
The Bill for Examining Public Accounts passed the Commons.
It is significant that during the years this Commission lasted no accounts were kept, nor could any afterwards be obtained.
Where no accounts were kept, it was doubtless because nobody concerned ventured to say what had really been done with the money: that it was not spent in maintaining the fleet is certain.
The wild gunnery of the time accounts for Blake's escape from utter destruction.
It was his duty to make a statement of accounts for others to pass--that is to say, to accept as accurate in so far as their own departments were concerned.
The difficulty of making a trustworthy breech-piece accounts for the triumph of the muzzle-loader, which drove its rival out of the field for centuries.
A certain lingering confusion between the Navy Royal and the general shipping of the country probably accounts for the king's decision to leave the management of Deptford Dockyard in the hands of the Trinity House.
The rival accounts of Dutch governors and English naval officers are utterly irreconcilable, and perhaps not worth reconciling.
Ages ago a savage mode of keepingaccounts on notched sticks was introduced into the Court of Exchequer, and the accounts were kept, much as Robinson Crusoe kept his calendar on the desert island.
Still official routine inclined to these notched sticks, as if they were pillars of the constitution, and still the Exchequer accounts continued to be kept on certain splints of elm wood called "tallies.
They brought us accounts at the same time of some damage done to the machinery which was destined to supply the operative classes with employment.
Some accounts give rather a romantic origin to this affair, tracing it to the stormy night when M'Dougal, in the course of an exploring expedition, was driven by stress of weather to seek shelter in the royal abode of Comcomly.
Should Mr. Hunt have failed to arrive at Astoria, the whole establishment would be under the control of Mr. M'Dougal, of whose fidelity he had received very disparaging accounts from Captain Thorn.
When the first greetings were over, the different bands interchanged accounts of their several wanderings, after separating at Snake River; we shall briefly notice a few of the leading particulars.
It was a region almost as vast and trackless as the ocean, and, at the time of which we treat, but little known, excepting through the vague accounts of Indian hunters.
He was beset, too, with the same disparagingaccounts of the interior trade, and of the whole concerns and prospects of the company that had been rendered to Mr. Astor.
Mr. Hunt, however, had been so frequently deceived by Indian accounts of routes and distances, that he gave but little faith to this information.
They brought disastrous accounts of the Tonquin, which were at first treated as fables, but which were too sadly confirmed by a different tribe that arrived a few days subsequently.
They endeavored to excite the indignation of their visitors by accounts of robberies and murders committed on lonely white hunters and trappers by Crows and Blackfeet.
It appears, from the accounts of subsequent voyagers, that Tamaahmaah afterwards succeeded in his wish of purchasing a large ship.
From the accountsof their recent visitors, they were led to believe, though erroneously, that they were upon the Quicourt, or Rapid River.
The records contain accounts of 'conspiracies,' and attempts to destroy the societies, accompanied by reports of committees, treating the subject with the dignity of a danger to the State.
In Greece, the graves are generally small, being designed for single corpses, which accounts for the comparatively small size of the vases discovered in that country.
Several works have also been published, giving detailed accounts of painted vases in general.
In two respects, all the accountsconcerning him agree--that he had traveled much, and that he was afflicted with blindness.
It was, in fact, a pictorial representation on stone, which is evidently the character of all the bas-reliefs on Egyptian monuments, and which readily accounts for the imperfect arrangement of their figures.
The Iliad was the Greek Bible, and every page of it was full of accounts of Troy, its people and its heroes.
The Egyptians treated their women very differently, as the accounts of ancient authors and the sculptures sufficiently prove.
Pausanius, Philostratus, Pliny and several other writers give us accountsof the remains of gigantic bodies which have been found in the earth, serving in some degree to confirm Moses' account of the antediluvian giants.
This more rapid development in the south probably accounts in part for the recent serious outbreak of this insect in Virginia and the Carolinas.
We have cost accounts covering these items on many crops such as apples and wheat, but not on nuts.
To make their time pass agreeably, he entertains them with accounts of many odd manners and customs, and also of such strange phenomena of nature as are peculiar to his country.
Now hands are being shaken warmly on both sides, and mutual accounts rendered of what had happened to each party since their forced separation.
That characteristic is stamped on all their reports and probably accounts for the fact that no member of the corps would ever attempt writing a full record of its work as a nation-builder.
Goulet's theory possibly accounts for the fact that Dumont, whose judgment was for a night attack on Middleton's camp at Fish Creek, gave up the idea rather swiftly when Riel did not seem to see its advisability.
Oh, but you can easily have sketches in the illustrated papers from accounts supplied by eye-witnesses,' I said.
When he awoke at one o'clock he gave me lurid accounts of what he said was history, but which was obviously collective hysteria.
Exaggerated accounts must have been given of the desolations caused by these various scourges, or else both city and county must have more than once lost the great part of their inhabitants.
In his accounts of Norwich and of Caistor he falls into the most extraordinary errors, confounding the courses of the three rivers, the Wensum, the Taes, and the Yare.
They nearly all agree in their accounts of the rise and progress of Norwich, and of its condition at different periods.
He directed attention to the purely fictitious accounts of the origin of the city to be found in the early historians, who drew in all good faith on their fertile imaginations.
To the antiquary, their testimony is invariably honourable; the most frequent notices being, votes of money for the service he had rendered in adjusting the different accounts of the city.
For centuries there are not even legendary accounts of East Anglia or of its capital.
In any case, members of the royal house arranged, and even participated in, duels of this order; and one of the best accounts of the practice has been preserved in a long and elaborate epistle addressed to Richard II.
The outlay on these plays was necessarily large, and theaccounts of gilds and corporations prove that not only were considerable sums expended on the dresses of the actors, but the latter received fees for their services.
This fact accounts in its measure for the vast shifting of the population that took place when the Roman Empire was in its protracted death-agony.
Perhaps the Chinese origin of the Tanabata divinities accounts for the fact that their public worship was at no time represented by many temples.
These and similar facts lead us to receive the above accounts with a very large grain of salt.
Even logs of canoe trips on the great river, and accounts of recent steamer trips, are singularly scarce.
I gave the concert; this accounts for the fourteen days.
They spoke of it in terror, as a region into which they did not dare to venture, and gave me dreadful accounts of the rocks and difficulties against which I should have to contend.
On the 17th started at quarter-past six for the eastward, with as much water as we could carry in the cart, as from the accounts of the natives we scarcely hoped to find any.
Great care has been taken to exclude from its pages thoseaccounts of the habits of vicious persons, and descriptions of the mechanical accessories of vice, with which many works upon sexual subjects abound.
Books treating of this subject are unfortunately too full of accounts of the habits of such children.
Acton, "I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me of what they have seen or even been drawn into at schools.
This fact accountsfor the unproductiveness of certain varieties of strawberries unless mixed with plants of some other variety, it being well known to nursery-men that some varieties produce only the female parts of flowers.
