The number of days in the period being known, it is easy to ascertain its accuracyboth in respect of the solar and lunar motions.
They have regular aerial highways, and some of the tree frogs are veritable wonders in the accuracy of their leaps from tree to tree.
They have special sense organs that tell them when they are nearing an object, and can fly at headlong speed with the accuracy of a rifle bullet directly into a small opening.
While fully believing in the accuracy of the conclusions I have reached, I desire to avoid dogmatism.
Miss Stoddart’s accuracy and learning and acuteness have been of the greatest use to me, and there is scarcely a chapter in the volume which does not owe much to her.
I have often met persons who have been altogether struck up and amazed at the accuracy with which some wandering Professor of Phrenology had read their characters written upon their skulls.
Exact accuracy on this point was impossible, as, like the cockatrice, the glance of its eye was death.
He proposed several inquiries, and was astonished at the force, the accuracy and the clearness of his answers.
This means that no matter whether the sea is quiet or rough the submarine must be able to execute its operations with a fair degree of accuracy and promptness and must also be capable of making continuous headway.
If the Allies have the supremacy of the air the German artillery will lose its accuracy of aim.
Actual action indeed proved that to be safe from the shells of anti-aircraft guns, the Zeppelins were forced to fly so high that their own bombs could not be dropped with any degree of accuracy upon a desired target.
The accuracy of artillery fire depends entirely on its being directed by an airplane.
So impressed was the lawyer with Holland's accuracy and honesty in asking not a cent more than he actually needed that he at once advanced the money.
But what was lacking in individual accuracy was made up by the numbers of the bombing craft.
Though no records of assured accuracy are available, the names of forty-eight aeronauts who gave up their lives in the century following the Montgolfiers' invention are recorded.
Usually our son attended to such work with accuracyand despatch.
You may rely upon the accuracy of these facts, colonel.
The same mechanical accuracy also and perfect finish, which distinguishes the architectural details, is observable in the labours of the sculptor.
Herodotus himself does not of course at all comprehend the meaning of this alleged phenomenon; he even asserts that he doubts the accuracy of this statement.
As the very division into provinces was for the purpose of collecting with greater accuracy the tribute, the political administration of the satrapies connected therewith was not matured at once, but gradually developed.
The belief in the personal existence of angels, and of evil spirits likewise, the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead in the enlightened aspect of the immortality of the soul, a greater accuracy of chronological statement, etc.
The accuracy of the mention of the places, which were the stations of the wandering in the desert, cannot, however, be brought forward as historical proof of this time in the desert.
The modern potter is, if less patient, more fortunate in that the course has been marked out with more or less accuracy and, if the landmarks of science be heeded, a certain degree of success may be attained.
It is almost impossible to build with sufficient accuracy for the work to run true, and a great deal of time is consumed in filling hollows and removing lumps.
This template should fit with reasonable accuracy but need not be absolutely exact.
He began with great accuracy to toss small stones at a log showing above the surface of the water.
She was astonished by this revelation of depths behind that well-remembered clear gaze of admiration, and dismayed by such unnatural accuracy of observation.
Sir John Ross did little more on that occasion than effect a survey of Baffin's Bay, and prove the accuracy of the ancient pilot.
It will be necessary, moreover, that we should look with some degree of accuracy into the state of our future income, and our expenditure.
He now expressed himself as quite satisfied with the accuracy with which his ideas had been wrought out, and returned through the wintry woods in high good humor.
The shots produced results too, and the assailants became more cautious of the Kentuckians, who had learned to use their guns with such accuracy of aim.
How do you ascertain the accuracy of the parallel motion?
With four times the exhaustion, therefore, there will be about twice the evaporation, and experiment shows that this theoretical law holds with tolerable accuracy in practice.
Are there any facts recorded illustrative of the accuracy of this conclusion?
The number of tactile corpuscles present in a given area of the skin determines the accuracy and ease with which objects may be known by touch.
For the sake of great accuracy in the statement of our prognosis are we to add a hundred times to the mother's alarm by stating the possibility of death?
To this mother the explanation must be extended to fit these observations, of the accuracy of which there need be no doubt.
Nevertheless, these good ladies might serve to act in subordinate parts, and she assigned to each of them their position in her scheme with wonderful accuracy and skill.
Perhaps it is from a conviction that men judge less frequently from impulse, decide more generally from cause, that this presumption of their accuracy exists.
Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections that you would make with the respect to the accuracy of that letter?
The easiest way of estimating a quarter of a second with some accuracy is to drop a bullet one foot.
Not, however, so entirely a speck as to resist the terrific accuracy of the present century, and their microscopic relative displacement with the season of the year has now at length been detected, and the distance of many thereby measured.
He then set to work to consider the perturbations produced by Jupiter and Saturn, to see if they had been with perfect accuracy allowed for, or whether some minute improvements could be made sufficient to destroy the irregularities.
It is a matter for accuracy of observation, therefore, to decide whether the minutest trace of such deviation can be detected, i.
It was long, indeed, after Tycho's death before observations approaching in accuracy to his were again made.
All is in readiness to turn out the news with unerring accuracy and incredible speed.
Everything is news, and the responsibility for the accuracy of the writing is upon the heads of the reporters.
It has been said that "leading ideas" are fatal to accuracy of statement; and these dominate in the minds of French philosophical annalists; while the more sympathetic class are fond of rhetorical display and fanciful episodes.
I have not the least doubt, if he were respectfully approached and interrogated upon the subject, he would answer with the greatest ease and accuracy the famous question with which Dean Swift posed the theological tailor.
But it is altogether incongruous in the work of his successor, and violates, not only the accuracy of history, but the decencies of fiction.
He denies the accuracy of our counting, and, by reckoning all the Scotch and Irish peers as peers of the United Kingdom, certainly makes very different numbers from those which we gave.
He afterwards expresses some doubt as to the accuracy of the documents from which this estimate has been formed, and rates the number of births as high as 414.
Is it thus that he avails himself of those registers on the accuracy and fulness of which he descants so largely?
