To the youthful stranger's request she answered by putting her little white feet in such active motion, that they seemed to tread upon the air instead of the green sward.
Thus saying, Carl was about putting his long legs in active motion, when Magde exclaimed: "Carl!
Volunteer cycling corps often include a motor or two, which in activeservice would be most valuable for scouting purposes, especially if powerful enough to tow a light machine-gun.
Mr. Norman omits one recommendation that must in active service count heavily in favour of the motor boat, and that is its practical invisibility in the day or at night time.
To this spot were brought the reports from the fire-control stationed at the rear mast and from the last active stations.
Once before Australia had taken an active part in politics.
It was recognized on both sides of the Atlantic that President Wilson in all essential matters affecting the war was active in the preparation of all state papers and in the direction of that department.
While strict military discipline must be maintained on active service, all restrictions upon soldiers in the enjoyment of social rights granted to other citizens are to be abolished.
All of the ships that were in active commission in the Navy were already ready for duty.
The Naval Department, therefore, was working at full speed, getting the Navy ready for active service as soon as war should be declared.
During the rest of the summer the Americans took an active part in Foch's great offensive which ultimately crushed the German army.
It was not only a removal of a menace to the French citizens of Verdun, but it released the French armies at that point foractive offensive operation.
It is only fair to add that in all his plans he had the active support of his Imperial Master.
The first collision was sure to mean an active state of war.
Finally, its mission was to throw back the three active army corps and the reserve corps which faced it.
Admiral de Roebeck, second in command, who had been very active in the operations, was appointed to succeed him.
Retired officers were called out, and assigned to duty which would permit officers on the active list to be employed in sea duty.
The Navy therefore still lacked thirty-five thousand men to bring it up to its full authorized strength at the beginning, but after the declaration of war an active recruiting campaign brought volunteers by thousands.
There was no proper prison in our village, and Edith was guarded in one of the rooms of the deacon's house who had been so active in her accusation.
It is the most active hydragogue purgative known, causing also much depression and violent griping.
Let us suppose that we have one very activeacid like hydrochloric, in which dissociation is nearly complete, another like acetic, in which it is very small.
In each conductor a current may exist, and along each conductor there is a fall of potential, or an active electromotive force may be acting in it.
He was bound on active duty at once, and he took me along as second in command.
Exactly," said Frank, "and as such I have seen considerable active service beneath the sea as well as upon its surface.
He has been anxious, especially now that he has been ordered again on active service.
While Holland, Zealand and Friesland made this progress in their peculiar branches of industry, the southern provinces were not less active or successful.
Du Bart, a celebrated adventurer of Dunkirk, occupies the leading place in those affairs, in which he carried on a desultory but active warfare against the Dutch and English fleets, and generally with great success.
But cause enough for Maurice's death may be found in the wearing effects of thirty years of active military service, and the more wasting ravages of half as many of domestic despotism.
Many active and ardent minds, hitherto withheld by the doubtful construction of the association, now freely entered into it when it took the form of union and respectability.
Frederick Henry had, soon after his succession to the chief command, commenced an active course of martial operations, and was successful in almost all his enterprises.
No new stadtholder was now appointed; the supreme authority being vested in the general assembly of the states, and the active direction of affairs confided to the grand pensionary.
But ere the deep-sown seeds of bigotry ripened to revolt, or produced the fruit of active resistance in Belgium, Holland had to endure the mortification of another war with England.
This year was doubly occupied in a negotiation for peace and anactive prosecution of the war.
At the South Mr. Garie had never borne the reputation of an active person.
Charlie is such a bright, active little fellow; I hate to have him living there as a servant.
At such an hour memory, more active than every other faculty, drags all the good and evil from the past and sets them in distinct array before us.
Gough thought it necessary to wait for several weeks, while heavy guns were brought up, before resuming active operations in person.
The alarm of the Dutch for their own safety was great, and instead of objecting to active measures, they were eager for a battle, though Marlborough without Eugene was inferior to the enemy in numbers.
Nor was this all; in the secondactive stage of the great war, when Henry V.
The result however was that D'Erlon's corps wasted the day in marching to and fro, and took part in neither battle, though its active co-operation ought to have been decisive on either field.
A month later, when changing circumstances rendered it expedient that active operations should be attempted without waiting any longer for Whish, he indulged the same propensity in a most wanton manner.
When active hostilities were resumed in the spring of 1643, all went favourably for the king.
Archery, as an amusement, has lost much of its popularity of late years, being superseded by other sports which demand less space and afford more active exercise.
Here however the ever active Todleben seized and fortified, just in the nick of time, a knoll some way in advance of the Malakoff redoubt, the main defence of this side of Sebastopol.
We have in America a fast-growing number of cultivated young people who have no recognized outlet for their active faculties.
This opinion was founded upon the fact that Judge Dunne had rendered a favorable decision in the teachers' suit and that the teachers had been veryactive in the campaign which had resulted in his election as mayor of the city.
Having thus "gained accuracy, would woman bring this force to bear throughout morals and justice, then she must find in active labor the promptings and inspirations that come from growing insight.
It is true that there is nothing after disease, indigence and a sense of guilt, so fatal to health and to life itself as the want of a proper outlet for active faculties.
Outside her window helpless immobility seemed to be combined with intense consciousness; a meditative inertness possessed all things, oppressively contrasting with her own active emotions.
The conspicuous coat of the active though blanching mare made horse and rider easy objects for the vision.
He who employs sluggards, and is satisfied with their snail-like pace, cannot be a veryactive man himself.
If you are idle in Christ's work, you are active in the devil's work.
If your mind is more clear and active at one time than at another, then sow the principal wheat.
PUPA With the fourth molt the activefeeding larva changes to the still active but non-feeding pupa (Fig.
He belongs to a class of men who seem too busy to think of deep things--things aside from an active routine, but I am sure he will like you.
Your faith seems such a living, active thing, and even while down there under all that sadness I found myself somehow feeling that your thoughts--your prayers were with us.
The two elements which compose civilization are active effort and passive property, the labor of human things and the tools which human beings use.
It is to separate property from creative ability, and to divide society into two classes, of which one has its {69} primary interest in passive ownership, while the other is mainly dependent upon active work.
But it was defended as a right which was not only widely exercised, but which was indispensable to the performance of the active function of providing food and clothing.
He saw these creatures, not only among sleeping men but waking also, active in pursuits irreconcilable with one another, and possessing or assuming natures the most opposite.
In summer-time it springs into active bustle, with house-room at a premium, and the shops and streets filled with a gay crowd.
But then Chiltern has a way of saying funny things, and I am not sure that he was in earnest in telling us that this active young man was really the veteran of Droitwich.
It is the Prince of Wales's daily work, and it is impossible to conceive it accomplished with fuller appearance of real pleasure on the part of the active agent.
The essential trait of all dynamic characters is the preponderance within them of the element of will; and the persons of a play must therefore be people with active wills and emphatic intentions.
Education occurs when a man is confronted with something true and beautiful and good which stimulates to active life that "bright effluence of bright essence increate" which dwells within him.
He closely attached himself to Prince Rupert, and was an active agent in affecting the reconciliation between that prince and his uncle Charles I.
He thinks that much of our misfortune hath been for want of an active Lord Treasurer, and that such a man as Sir W.
He is a long way too active for these slack modern days.
He cursed him-self for a fool and a brute, and whipped up an already over-active horse, till it was all but unmanageable.
A clear race in the open he did not mind; but he had no stomach for a game of hide-and-seek around an unscalable wall with an active enemy.
A healthy and active young woman, the mere prospect of an open-air life gave her pleasure.
Forza is built of great, rough stones, with ends projecting in places cyclopean-wise, which to an active man might give a foothold.
