For many years he had adopted a system for docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.
The measures adopted were not only the best of their kind, but carried out to absolute perfection.
Jim had adoptedthe fashion of talking derogatorily in English to Germans who, not understanding, usually agreed with his sentiments.
If to teach her to control her temper were what was meant, a very unfit method was adopted to effect the purpose.
He adopted the only career open to young Portuguese of the upper middle class, by means of which the gifted could rise to distinction, and to a certain equality with the nobility.
They said without indignation that so and so had adopted the turban.
But even he was entangled in the snares of the Kabbala, and adopted its principles.
She afterwards adopted as a motto in Latin for her gold and silver coins, “I have chosen God for my helper.
The martial band was still more numerous, which executed in the intervals marches afterwards adopted and still used in the armies of France.
But her mother had adopted the principles of the Reformation, and Jeanne d’Albret afterwards became the most ardent defender of the Protestants at a time when such defence required the bravest heart and most unflinching courage.
At this time the badges of the red and the white rose were adopted by the partisans of York and Lancaster.
Being deserted by her mother, she was fed by doves in the desert; and when she was about a year old, a shepherd named Simmas found the infant in a rocky place, and he adopted the foundling as his child, calling her Semiramis.
Different species of beetles were held sacred to the sun, and adopted as an emblem of the world.
The motto afterwards adopted by Queen Catharine, “Not for my crown,” was also derived from the same source; for the crown of the pomegranate is worthless and is always thrown away.
The first set of funeral ceremonies is adopted to effect, by means of oblations, the reimbodying of the soul of the deceased, after burning his corpse.
Some have referred its origin to Pythagoreans, and others to Orpheus, who adopted three principles, called Phanes, Uranus, and Cronus.
Another boundary often adopted in elevated lands is the watershedding line, or, according to the old wording, "where the water falling from Heaven runs both ways.
Perhaps Robert was a servant, and had adopted his master's name; as was sometimes done in olden times.
He had always dreaded the time when his adoptedson would have to be told of his real parentage, fearful of losing him, jealous of sharing his affection and resenting anybody's claim to him over his own.
She left her boy in his keeping, and Ahmed Ben Hassan adopted him formally and made him his heir, giving him his own name--the hereditary name that the Sheik of the tribe has borne for generations.
The only love left in him was given to his adopted father, whom he worshipped.
The story told concerning him is that when an infant he was picked up by a lady in the village of Wick near Bath, carried to her home, adopted and educated.
Its sign was taken from the badge of Richard II, who adopted the emblem of the "White Hart" from the crest of his mother, Joanna of Kent.
The smallness of this sum, with the difficulties which William found in raising it, suffices alone to refute the account which is heedlessly adopted by historians, of the enormous revenue of the Conqueror.
The king answered for Guthrum at the font, gave him the name of Athelstan, and received him as his adopted son.
The citizens of London were his zealous partisans; the bishops and clergy had adopted his cause; and all the powerful nobility, connected with him by alliance or friendship, willingly seconded his pretensions.
In the frame of mind she had adopted she liked to think of Val suffering discomfort and poverty.
Acquaintance with a further element in her husband's life to which she had so far been a stranger was reserved for Val when at Easter his adopted child, Haidee Halston, came home to 68th Street.
The fact that he withheld part of the knowledge of the way he secured it is typical of the methods adopted by leaders from time immemorial of gaining ascendency over the masses.
Make use of this interest in such a way as to lead the child to observe the materials used and forms adopted in the construction of modern fireplaces and chimneys, and encourage him to seek reasons for the same.
Adopted children are carefully educated, and only when they are grown up do they voluntarily join the sect.
The source of all this is the false system of “enlightening” the peasant which has been adopted by the bureaucratic governments.
In the former case, he accepts the principle of interpretation adopted by the early German rationalists; in the latter case he has to show a further criterion by which we can judge what parts of the Bible are elastic and what rigid.
His second wife was niece, and almost adopted daughter, of George Carew.
His eldest son, Nicholas, wasadopted by a maternal uncle, the last Carew of Beddington, and became Sir Nicholas Carew.
Conferences were held between him and the Council in 1599 concerning Ireland, and his advice for the victualling of the garrisons was adopted in the January of the same year.
Together they were, as has been seen, conferring privately with Elizabeth on the policy to be adopted towards Munster rebels a few months before her death.
There can be no doubt of the dishonesty of the devices Wilson adopted to secure him for the block.
After his first wife's death he energetically adoptedreformed doctrines.
Watson's and Brooke's stories proved as unsubstantial as the astonishing romance adopted by grave de Thou.
In shops where it is adopted entirely, the only craftsmen required are the few who have general charge of the shops.
He seems to have early adoptedrevolutionary ideas, but little is known of the part he played at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Official opinion outside England has certainly sanctioned armour, since all over the continent it is to some extent adopted in practice.
The Aristotelian conception of form was nominally, though perhaps in most cases unintelligently, adopted by the Scholastics, to whom, however, its origin in the observation of the physical universe was an entirely foreign idea.
This last condition is adopted by Dini in his treatise (Sopra la serie di Fourier, &c.
It is adopted when the amount of reduction is slight, and also when a steam hammer or other type of power hammer is available.
Poisson's treatment of the subject, which has been adopted in English works (see the Journal de l'ecole polytechnique, vol.
But steel, which has no direction of fibre, can be upset without injury; this method is therefore commonly adopted in steel work, in power presses to an equal extent with drawing down.
It has been adopted in Rumania and Belgium for howitzer cupolas.
And it has long been adoptedin certain of the Paris newspapers.
Robert-Houdin was always modern and never medieval; and he adopted this attitude deliberately.
The abandoning of overt apparatus, which Frikell was forced into by misfortune, Robert-Houdin adopted as an abiding principle.
In her impersonation of the part of Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Siddons adopted successively three different intonations in giving the words we fail.
This observation was repeated very frequently; in truth, it was adopted as the best plan of getting rid of the animals.
I therefore adopted the following principles as a filter to this class of facts.
Standing erect on his hind legs at the full length of his tether, and extending both hands as far as he could reach, he screamed with all his strength, in a tone and with an intensity which he never adopted on any other occasion.
The gun-trap thus set was successful in killing one fox, but never in killing a second; for the foxes afterwards adopted either of two devices whereby to secure the bait without injuring themselves.
The ingenious spider now adopted the contrivance here represented.
Reeks (1871), which says that the wolves of Newfoundland adopt exactly the same stratagem for the capture of deer in winter as that which is adopted by the hunters.
In the same connection, and with the same remarks, I may quote the following case in which a fowl adopted the habit of conveying, not her eggs, but her young chickens.
It was evident that she had noticed the diminution of her family, and had adopted this method to save those that remained.
He adopted the same tactics with my friend the canon, stood on his hind legs, put his paw on his arm, and made for the door.
Orphan monkeys were always adopted and carefully guarded by the other monkeys, both male and female.
She adopted the habit of flying across with her chickens upon her back, taking one chicken on each journey.
We need not say much about Dutch pipes as distinct articles of manufacture, because the process adopted in their production are pretty much like those in use elsewhere.
Besides the above, some fancy sizes have been adopted of late years, but they are made by only a few of the larger manufacturers in Havana.
This may be accounted for from the fact of the imperfect method of curing tobacco adopted by them and all of the natives up to the period of the settlement of Virginia by the English.
Barnes, a standard author, whose commentaries have beenadopted by the Presbyterian Board, takes the position that there can be no question but that Melchizedek was a Canaanite.
In some states in the South the educational qualification is avowedly adopted by the whites to eliminate the Negro from the body politic.
In view of this thought I cannot see that any different role should be adopted by us than by women in general in this land.
The new system just adopted involves merely the pressing of a button on the member's chair, and this rings a small gong while displaying a signal on the back of the chair.
The lease system was adopted in Georgia in 1869, both Democrats and Republicans favoring it.
He has gone a step beyond the ordinary and given us a Greek text-book that has been adopted in many schools.
At his mother's death, which occurred when he was fourteen years old, he was adopted into the family of James T.
The Negro is but a man, with the frailties that bound humanity, and cannot be expected to rid himself of them in any way different from methods adopted for the betterment of mankind generally.
What was best and noblest in the systems of the famous teachers before the advent of Christ was crystallized into the method adopted by the Son of Man.
Was not that the means adopted by the stern angel of fate, to accomplish the decree?
He the more readily adopted the opinion because he considered his master and young mistress under the spell of the same glamourie to which he himself had succumbed.
In this condition, he had probably joined the Indians, and passed several years among them, and afterwards, upon a partial restoration of intellect, adopted the wild notions he professed.
His exposition of the line to be adopted in Ford's defence was perfectly lucid, when all the while he was saying to himself that this was the man whom Miriam Strange had waited for through eight romantic years.
Up to the present he had followed the rule of conduct adopted at the little Canadian station of Saint Jean du Clou Noir.
Besides, he was obliged to go through some further rehearsing of the creed adopted in the dawn on Lake Champlain before his self-justification could be complete.
