The outcome of this purpose is the beautiful city which we have already described, in the erection and fortification of which the order reached the acme of its defensive purposes.
Like Citta Vecchia, her glory was at its acme in mediaeval days.
One can readily imagine the many festive occasions, elaborate and pompous ceremonials, military, civic, and religious, which have taken place within these walls while the Knights were at the acme of their power.
The mysterious 'One,' the metaphysical abstraction without attributes and without form which constitutes the First Person of the Alexandrian Trinity, is the acme of human thought, and the condition of ecstasy is the acme of moral perfection.
Bismarck is also at the acme of his triumph; he is presiding at his Congress of Paris.
All the maxims of the Acme of Perfection and Learning-Promoting King have not brought the Chinese out of moral twilight.
It was the passionate love of manly sports which produced the matchless Greek form, the acme of physical perfection.
It is considered the acme of honesty to beat the circus in that region--in fact, paying is heartily deprecated.
They are indeed their tribe fellows, but it is not because he belongs to Levi that Aaron is chosen, and his priesthood cannot be said to be the acme and flower of the general vocation of his tribe.
It is obvious how the metamorphosis of the gift and the meal into a bloody atonement advances and reaches its acme in this last sacrificial act.
Judas was now at the acme of his prosperity; about this time he concluded his (profitless) treaty with the Romans.
The detestation of feeling, the fire of moral indignation, and the agony of soul which I have felt kindling and swelling within me, in the progress of this review, under this section reach the acme of intensity.
Can that be innocence in the temperate zone, which is the acme of all guilt near the equator?
During their acme the face wears the aspect of the intense suffering, which is expressed in outcries and groans.
The symptoms sometimes reach their acme in rather less than forty-eight hours, and then gradually subside.
It aids in the diagnosis when it occurs after eating at the acme of a gastralgic attack and is followed by the relief of pain.
Alimentary vomiting, which is more indicative of gastric ulcer, usually occurs not immediately after taking food, but at the acme of a gastralgic attack caused by the food.
This Piece of knavery was received as the acme of cuteness; and I well recollect the language in which the brute wound up his self-laudations: "If any chap can steal faster than me, let him.
On the one hand, it is said to be the acme of comfort; on the other, the essence of unrest.
Samuel Henderson led the way, proud of his new position, and looked upon by the soldiers of his boat as the very acme of an Indian.
Acme is all right if you do not let the weeds get the start of you (which you should never do, but you will sometimes); then the disc is the implement.
Growing crops for five or six years is long enough; then cultivation should be done with a disc, an Acme or a common harrow; I prefer a reversible disc.
I plant my orchard to corn, potatoes, tomatoes and cabbage for seven years, using a cultivator and harrow (I like theAcme and spading harrow).
Cultivate often to a good old age with a disc andAcme harrow.
I plant my orchard four to six years with any cultivated crop; if it is corn or potatoes I use an ordinary corn cultivator; at other times I use an Acme harrow.
I cultivate all the time, even in bearing orchards, using an Acme harrow, planting corn; cease cropping after four years; put nothing in a bearing orchard.
I grow early corn in my young orchard, using an Acmeand cutaway harrow, and cultivate as for corn.
I plant my orchard to corn or potatoes, cultivating two or four times a year until they begin to bear, using a stirring plow, Acme harrow, and Planet jr.
I cultivate for six years in corn and potatoes; then sow to clover, plowing this under every third or fourth year, using the Acme harrow run shallow.
I cultivate my orchard by subsoiling and shallow cultivation, using a disc and Acme harrow; I grow nothing in a bearing orchard, not even weeds.
I cultivate my orchard to garden-truck and hoed crops, using plow in spring, then the disc or Acme harrow.
Here, one fine afternoon, when the flowers had reached their acmeof refulgence, Mr. Theodore pulled up his dennet.
Neither is it theacme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
At the acme of his agony, his eyes still closed, he heard an exquisite voice saying, "Are you asleep, Gwynplaine?
To poison the sting, from time to time, is the acme of art.
The apartment was very bare, mannish, and scarcely theacme of neatness.
It was a handsome desk, heavily carved, yet like the rest of the furniture, the acme of simplicity.
Equipped with nothing more than an echo from this dream, I had started off on this mad chase, to run down a man who had proved and was proving himself the acme of decorous respectability.
Nothin' gaudy, but the acme of neatness an' form, as the feller said who sold it to me.
To Emmeline the idea of dancing was quite enough to be the acme of enjoyment.
In consequence we were in the acmeof condition, and some of the teams nearly lost their breath when they tackled us for the first time.
The result was that Hilton forgot all about Helen Perowne for the time, and found himself comparing Grey Stuart with the Inche Maida as the two opposite poles of womanly beauty--the acme of the dark, and the acme of the fair.
