Sometimes he seemed to be obeying some hidden impulse, which commanded him to touch every post in a street or tread on the centre of every paving-stone, and would return if his task had not been accurately performed.
Then, with a chain of twenty-two yards, the relative positions of the two wickets may be accurately determined.
Wylie's grape seedlings cannot be accurately told as many of them were never disseminated.
The accompanying illustration shows the size of the berry accuratelybut the bunch, as shown here, is too small.
The arrangements now perfected for the first time enabled natural days, seasons, and years to have their limits accurately marked.
Previously to this period there had been no distinctly marked seasons, and consequently no natural separation of years, nor were the limits of days at all accurately defined.
The corvette, in consequence of not having her shot-holes accurately stopped, leaked so much that she could not be kept afloat without great difficulty, the pumps being at work without cessation.
Probably it will never be accurately known either how Khartoum fell into the hands of the Mahdi, or how the gallant defender actually met his fate.
Though he held on for nearly six weeks longer, nothing is known accurately after the Bordeen left Khartoum.
It would, however, be difficult to find any other term by which accurately to describe the change that took place in Gordon's life.
Critics who study the Entstehungsgeschichte of works of art help us to analyze them more intelligently and reproduce more accurately what, at various times, may have been the intention of their authors.
The literary merits of Goethe's Faust correspond accurately with its philosophical excellences.
It foreshadows, and accurately defines, the whole transition from antiquity to the middle age, from naturalism to supernaturalism, from Lucretius to Dante.
She was too delicately and too accurately determined in her tastes to be a fool to cigarettes, or swept down in a current of profanity.
The money was all right; it would be accurately on tap Saturday, so Binks took no fret on that point.
But it occurs that a literature rather accurately reflects all the virtues and other vices of its period and country, and its tendencies are but the matchings of thought with action.
I performed all the steps accurately and with great agility.
But the body is a clumsy piece of machinery, requiring some attention and observation to keep it accurately in time to the fiddling.
The movements of the enemy had, however, been so rapid that Lee's dispositions seem to have been made before they were fully developed and accurately known to him.
The incidents here related define the views and feelings of General Lee as accurately as they could be set forth in a whole volume.
The bud is now adjusted accurately in its place, the overlapping bark closing neatly around it.
This position had beenaccurately located several days previously by a reconnoitering party.
Several well-directed shells sent the Filipinos flying from the blockhouse and a few more accurately trained shots annihilated the little church.
Between the second and the third case there was no interval--the one fitting accurately within the other.
He here closed the book and leaned forward in the chair, placing himself accurately in the position which I had occupied at the moment of beholding "the monster.
The whole elements of the flight of the projectile could then be accurately determined by recording the intervals of time between its passage through the respective screens.
What happened on that day will never be accurately known.
I had to study and gauge accurately the tactical and strategical results of the victory of Hamel, and to lose no time in using the advantage gained.
There were dozens of accurately drawn detailed maps, and minute descriptions of every tactical feature of the defences.
In such a circular camera each lens would be numbered, and the position of each would be accurately determined with regard to the points of the compass by the use of guy-cords stretching from the main line to the framework of the apparatus.
This quotation, from the catalogue of the National Gallery where the original picture is placed, accurately describes it.
Another pair of scales had two cups, with a weight on the side opposite to the material weighed, to mark more accurately the fractional weight; this weight was called by the ancients ligula, and examen.
Neither the place nor date of the birth of Zeuxis can be accurately ascertained, though he was probably born about 455 B.
This is one of his most brilliant efforts, and so accurately finished in its minute parts, that it may be regarded as a masterpiece of skill in all that relates to the graces of style and composition.
His date can not be accurately ascertained, but he was probably rather younger than his contemporary, Zeuxis, and it is certain that he enjoyed a high reputation before the death of Socrates.
Small neat cement pads were then put in and accurately leveled, and on these the steel rings were placed, and the steel tank was erected.
In order to insure a perfectly round tank, each course was erected against wooden templates accurately centered and fastened to the inside scaffold.
So invariably is this the case that a piece of music might be accurately written from the forms assumed by the sand.
The answer was that they were at that time visiting a church, which was accurately described.
She was described to me as nervous and delicate, which is perhaps the right temperament to enable her accurately to depict in her romances the strained artificiality and silken softness of aristocratic existence.
An embankment in Adams County, Ohio, represents veryaccurately a serpent 1000 feet long.
The direction had been accurately calculated, so that the gunners did not need to see the points towards which they were to aim.
He sets his invention to work again, and produces a narrative of a robbery or a murder, with all the circumstances of time and place accurately adjusted.
That all are happily imagined, or accurately polished, that the same sentiments have not sometimes recurred, or the same expressions been too frequently repeated, I have not confidence in my abilities sufficient to warrant.
It seems to me very probable that these isolated sporangia are identical with the hyaline coagula so accuratelydescribed by Frerichs, who has observed them in the blood of patients dying of intermittent fevers.
If we could know accurately the date of the "first visit" to the district with his sister (referred to in the Fenwick note), and if we could implicitly trust this MS.
It is so hidden in trees, and so retired, that the situation is most accurately described as the shy recess Of Barden's lowly quietness.
On returning home the priest observed that he wished that Lazarus would revisit the place, and make sure that the inscription had been accurately copied.
