He was a superb horseman--as all the older Illinoisans are and, for all his two-score years and ten, he recognized few superiors for strength and activity in the Battalion.
The activity and audacity of the Raiders gave them the impression that at least half the able-bodied men in the Stockade were engaged in these depredations.
Both breeding and molting are sources of considerable stress, and the delay of the peak of molting activity until November when breeding activityhas decreased seems of benefit to the mice.
As the sheep increase in numbers this activity may be regarded as a problem.
For a time the people believed this, but soon they lost patience, and seeing signs of a renewed activity on the part of the anti-suffragists, they became aggressive again.
We have often been asked that question, even by the women our actions spurred into an activitythey had never before thought themselves capable of.
In consequence of its activity and cunning, the rock-rabbit is seldom killed by white men; and when a hunter does secure one, it is generally by means of a long shot.
Perhaps it is surpassed in point of sheer strength by the mole, but it possesses infinitely more activity than that animal.
The active areas he believed to be also the seats of the formation of sun-spots, but believed that their activitymight precede and outlive the visible existence of the sun-spot.
This increased activity added largely to the stock of information, sometimes in forms of marked practical utility; it was also manifested in the publication of a number of papers of a speculative character.
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
Little by little, for the tide of industrial activity had barely begun to rise, new uses were found for wire.
While in some lines there is activity partitioned among all three plants, in the main the various divisions of labor are well concentrated.
The perfect insect appears from January till March, and flies with greatactivity in the hottest sunshine.
In captivity I have also noticed the extreme activity of the male when first emerged.
Any accumulation of unabsorbed food in the lower intestines becomes a breeding ground for putrefactive bacteria, the product of whose activity imposes a serious tax upon an already overworked organ.
These are the result of the activity of certain specific bacteria which inhabit the entire digestive tract of the individual from a few hours after birth until death.
The changes in the foods so far mentioned have been chiefly the result of the activity of the enzymes existing in the various digestive processes throughout the body.
However, since they are so firmly established in the body it is well to study the various types and learn as much as possible of the products of their activity and the influence which they exert in human nutrition.
Any external movement will increase this rate; the greater the activity the higher the increase.
Cereals and Breadstuffs: (Activity of person determining the amount.
The lactose, maltose, and sucrose are changed through the activity of the lactase, maltase, and invertase into glucose.
The substances thus formed through bacterial activity are not believed to be toxic in character, but merely irritating.
As Sherman has stated, "all fermentation is brought about either directly or indirectly by the activity of animal or vegetable organisms or cells.
The activity of the mind passeth, and our thoughts are gone when we have done thinking.
Thus does reasoning cease and knowledge remain; and in the same way mental activity ceases, but experience, wisdom, and all the fruits of our acts endure.
It has been the fashion of late, for those gentlemen, to talk as if the British farmers were infinitely behind the rest of the world in activity and intelligence.
Down this, some quarter of a mile long, he rushed with an activity I could not have dreamed of seeing in one so aged, and which put me to much trouble in pursuit.
In other words, attention is absent where there is uniformity ofactivity in accordance with uniform, or uniformly changing, environment.
But the time was one of almost universal ecclesiastical and intellectual excitement; and so powerful a mental activity as his was naturally drawn forth in all directions.
Indeed, except in certain districts of the Alpine region, where this branch of humanactivity is carried on under excellent conditions, there is much room for improvement.
About the year 400 he came, no longer a young man, to Rome, where he lived for more than a decade, and soon made himself conspicuous by his activity and by his opinions.
Nothing certain is known as to the foundation of this industry, but it was in full activity at least as far back as 1531.
Industrial activity is greatly developed in Bohemia, Lower Austria, Silesia, Moravia and Vorarlberg, while in Dalmatia and Bukovina it is almost non-existent.
Sidenote: The mysterious stranger of Hadley] This repulse did not check for a moment the activity of the Indians, though for a long time we hear nothing more of Philip.
If this were really so, it would be difficult indeed to account for the period of brilliant mental activity which immediately followed.
And one need not fear contradiction in saying that no other people in modern times, in proportion to their numbers, have achieved so much in all departments of human activity as the people of Scotland have achieved.
He was growing haggard; his health was failing; his activity shrank within the narrowest possible limits; he shunned men's gaze.
Two or three days went by without any alarming symptoms, but as he learnt that another case of small-pox had declared itself in the Lane, he postponed his personal activity there for the present, and remained a good deal at home.
Ears medium size, well set on, alert; the erect and quick "pricking" motion indicates activity and spirit.
There was a wave of building and renovation activity in town and country.
Judicial activity encouraged the recording of royal legislation in writing which both looked to the past and attempted to set down law current in Henry's own day.
Since the King had the authority to interpret these pledges, they were a formidable check on any activity which could be considered to be disloyal.
He developed the methods and structure of government so that there was a great increase in the scope of administrative activity without a concurrent increase of personal power of the officials who discharged it.
He appears also, in his theories on the divine nature, to have substituted in some degree the active powers of nature for the activity of the Gods.
He supposes an inward harmony, the preservation of which is pleasure, while its disturbance is pain; and as pleasure is always dependent on the activity from which it springs, the more this activity is elevated the purer the pleasure becomes.
Sanskrit even now, we have before us a stream of literary activity extending over three thousand four hundred years.
The whole of this incipient literary activity belonged to Asia Minor.
By his opera, Lensky has again given us a significant example of how greatly the reproductive activity of an artist hinders the development of his creative powers.
His whole activity was increased; he worked more intently than formerly.
The source of the little information and intelligence I possess I must refer to a restless activity of spirit, a love of glory which ever belonged to my infancy, and a sensibility easily excited and not easily conquered.
Nature appears at once smiling and frowning, in activity and repose.
Activity and originality of mind, with a persistent habit of inquiry and experiment, brought Davy friends who could appreciate and help him.
Of all the climates of Europe, England seems to me most fitted for the activity of the mind, and the least suited to repose.
Every one is judge of the danger of the fellow on the ladder, and his activity in coming down safe; but very few are judges of the distress of a hero in a play, or of his manner of behaviour in those circumstances.
A great deal of good company of us were this day to see, or rather to hear, an artful person[28] do several feats of activity with his throat and windpipe.
