I was about to sink under the accumulationof distress when you took me on board.
She took her ease, and never handled a broom except when the accumulation of filth almost upset her.
But toil as they might at the accumulation of firewood, Captain Servadac and his companions could not resist the conviction that the consumption of a very short period would exhaust the total stock.
The first step was to clear the cavern of its accumulation of ashes, and then the labor of removal commenced in earnest.
Such a life, which was one of uncertainty and often of hardship, permitted no accumulation of wealth, gave no leisure, suggested no higher want than that of food, and was in all respects unfavourable to material progress.
The needs of defence, a defence in which they doubtless counted on the aid of the Free State and of a section of their own Uitlanders, sufficiently explain the accumulation of warlike munitions on which so much stress has been laid.
They have, however, almost always been somewhat modified by the transfer to them of some of the successive variations, through the accumulation of which the males were rendered beautiful.
I had town-lots, also, which were becoming productive; and a special minority of seven years had made an accumulation of cash that was well vested in New York State stock, and which promised well for the future.
It is the accumulation of the drainage of innumerable gone drinks,--fancy and otherwise.
Around it, among the accumulation of rubbish, were found a large number of stone hammers, and some copper chisels, but no utensils of iron.
To triumph over a long accumulation of prejudices, the popular cause needed a chief of transcendent merit, and a concurrence of circumstances difficult to foresee.
But such accumulation seems still more inconceivable when the electrical fire has but a few feet depth of water to penetrate, to return to the place from whence it is supposed to be collected.
Accumulation of the electrical Fire proved to be in the electrified Glass.
Accumulation of the electrical fire proved to be in the electrified glass.
Hence whatever the quantity may be in nature, and whatever the power in the clouds of collecting it; yet an accumulation and force beyond what mankind has hitherto been acquainted with is scarce to be expected[89].
Whether the accumulation of the electrical fire be in the electrified glass, or in the non-electric matter connected with the glass?
They ought never to accustom their eyes to behold an undue accumulation of money, but liberally to deal it out in charity to the poor and afflicted in proportion to their gains, thus making their occupations a blessing to mankind.
But in proportion as such accumulation of substance is beheld, the love of it increases.
Hence they will have before their eyes the sight of a greater accumulation of wealth.
But what Christian can harbour a money-getting spirit, or be concerned in an extensive accumulation of wealth?
In the fireplace, vine branches hiss and splutter; the flame leaps high, lighting up the chimney plaque, the lines and reliefs of which are deeply buried beneath an accumulation of soot.
But here the accumulation of discomforts becomes almost unendurable.
Mr. Darwin says, They are due to the gradual and undesignedaccumulation of slight variations.
According to Darwin's theory organs are formed by the slow accumulation of unintended variations, which happen to be favorable to the subject of them in the struggle for life.
In order to obtain a really trustworthy plan, this accumulation would have to be cleared away over the whole area of the temple.
We feel oppressed by the ever-growing accumulation of facts, and can neither determine where to begin our work, nor how to leave it off: we cannot see the forest for the trees!
It was the same with furniture and clothes; the narrow dimensions of the tomb, moreover, would forbid the accumulation there of everything which its sombre tenant might desire.
All that Cale told us I had known in part, but never had I known the circumstances in detail, freed from the accumulation of gossip.
You see, the use of this rent-accumulation to reduce their interest rate for the first year or two, is a part of my general scheme.
If you would allow yourself to reason at all, you must know that sensation must be normal and always on guard to give notice by local or general misery, of unnatural accumulation of the circulating fluids.
In tropical countries, the rapidity with which vegetation decays prevents, as a rule, any greataccumulation taking place; but the mangrove swamps are exceptions.
How does unconformability prove a lapse of time between the accumulation of the underlying and overlying strata?
Such are the ejection from the interior of the earth of heated matters, and their accumulation upon the surface.
Owing to the vast accumulation of snow and ice in the northern hemisphere, the difference of temperature between equatorial and temperate and polar regions would be greater in that hemisphere than in the southern.
Sub-oceanic districts in a state of seismic strain may be so far loaded by the accumulation of sediments that gentle bending may be accompanied by sudden yieldings.
As in most of such cases the food is long retained in the stomach, it is apt to undergo fermentive changes, one of the results of which is the accumulation of gases which cause flatulence and eructations of an acid or foul character.
The obstruction of this passage brought about an accumulation of air within the Earth, and the increased pressure may occasion oscillations of the surface, which may be so intense as to cause earthquakes.
