It is this elasticity which should beaimed at in the instrumental works of Handel when they are executed nowadays.
He sought nothing but clear, pleasing, and striking designs, and even aimed at descriptive music.
Dropping to the ground again, the daring assailant ducked in time to avoid the revolver bullet aimed at him, and gliding in among the fleeing cattle, escaped before the infuriated frontiersman could get in another shot.
The hard stick hurls through the air--aimed nearly as far ahead of the quarry as the latter is distant from the marksman.
Like lightning he aimed a blow at his assailant's head with his heavy kerrie--a blow which would have shattered the skull like an egg shell.
Quickly every weapon was aimed at the head and as quickly lowered.
Speeds the arrow swift as lightning; Much too low he aimed the missile, Into earth the arrow plunges, Pierces to the lower regions, Splits in two the old Sand Mountain.
It's going to last till I've done what I aimed at doing when I started!
I aimedat forcing George Grice to put up his shutters!
The sights and the object aimed at cannot be in focus together, and a great deal depends on the form of sight.
The only object ever aimed at in those days was to prepare tables for predicting the places of the planets.
She will forgive me, even if I have unwittingly drawn upon her a shot or two aimed at her unworthy son; for she is generous, and the cause in which I fight is, after all, hers.
And God prospered Antar in all that he did, so that he slew all he aimed at, and overthrew all he touched.
In other words, Arnold was a critic of civilization more than of books, and aimed at illumination by means of ideas.
As I have said, the founders of these Italian chapelsaimed at realism.
But the inevitable consequences happened; my mother had aimedtoo high and had overshot her mark.
Again he emerged, bearing something in his hand, which he raised and aimed directly at the gleaming face.
The line of glistening, flying wheels aimeditself fair at Colonel Witham's dog, who roused himself and stood, growling hoarsely, with ears set back and tail between his legs.
Where the highest perfection is aimed at, shops are nowhere.
Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.
To meet or reach what was aimedat or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection.
Design has reference to something definitely aimed at.
Formerly, in the use of the other gun there was the personal variation of the man who aimed the gun quickly, after each shot had displaced or disarranged it, and the other man who assisted him.
When it was first aimed its fire could be carefully controlled, but the trouble with it was it threw itself out of place every time it shot.
Then came an unexpected check: the fleet and the army of ten thousand experienced French troops were unable to break down the resistance of Toussaint Louverture, a native black general who aimed to be the Napoleon of the island.
They aimed to be the intermediary for the fur-trade from the northwest.
The friends of the measure, in order to deprecate the charge that they aimed at centralization, took upon themselves the name of Federalists.
Wycherley is supposed to have aimed at her in his Widow Blackacre in the Plain Dealer.
Russia, apart from her desire to protect the Orthodox nationalities subject to the Ottoman power, aimed at owning or controlling the straits by which alone she could find an outlet to the Mediterranean and the ocean beyond.
The statute is aimed at appeals; but the words used in it concerning "citations and all other processes" are wide enough to take away also the "original" jurisdiction of the pope.
They aimed at the rule, not at the destruction of their country.
They supposed, and they aimed at, an increase of the commerce of France.
When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade or totally negligent of their duty.
Their resistance was made to concession; their revolt was from protection; their blow was aimed at a hand holding out graces, favors, and immunities.
This brings us to the third idea of the allegory--that the result aimed at in our connection with Christ is fruit-bearing.
His trial was not an examination to discover whether He was guilty or innocent, but a cross-questioning whichaimed at betraying Him into some acknowledgment which might give colour to the sentence of death already decreed.
And that attack was aimed at the pope, not the Tartars.
Again that little frown and shake of the head, aimed at her alone.
It was among the Benedictines that the monastic studies of medicine first received a new direction and aimed at a higher standard.
One apologetic contention, aimed at Gentile readers, is found among the motives of Acts.
Aquila seems to have aimed at an imitation of Dante and Petrarch; and his poems, which were extravagantly praised during the author's lifetime, are occasionally of considerable merit.
In their presence he aimed another blow at the lad: but the blow fell short, and before he could raise his stick a third time the astonished looks of the three in the room reminded him where he was, and in a measure sobered him.
He snatched his cap from the table, and with an incoherent word, aimed at the Syndic and meant for leave-taking, he made for the door, plucked it open and disappeared.
It was aimed at the scanty audience of strangers with words of unblushing directness.
I will give her a gentle reminder;" so I gathered a spray from the honeysuckle, a late bloom among the fast-falling leaves, and aimed it right at the muslin curtain.
Colonel Duckett threatened to cane him, for a licentious stroke aimed at him, which Pope recanted.
He expatriated himself several years, and returned fierce with the republican spirit he had caught among the Calvinists at Geneva, which aimed at the extirpation of the bishops.
These wanted a Reformation of a Reformation--they aimed at reform, but they designed Revolution; and they would not accept of toleration, because they had determined on predominance.
They became nests of rebellion for the English Catholics; or for any one, who, being discontented with government, was easily converted to any religion whichaimed to overturn the British Constitution.
But, beyond his depth, he would fall easy victim to the first well-aimed paddle-stroke.
But it is one thing to aim a blow, from a tilting canoe; and quite another to make that blow land in the spot aimed for.
Yet, as luck would have it, this second shot found a mark where the first and better aimed bullet had gone wild.
Lad's leap did not carry him half the distance he had aimed for.
He reached back again for his pistol, whipped it out, and, coming to a standstill, aimed at the pup.
For any one reading the history of our city may perceive, how many calumnies have at all times been aimed against those of its citizens who have taken a leading part in its affairs.
He had not aimed high, in one sense of the word, and yet he had in another sense always aimed high and nobly--to do his duty.
The first aimed to show that there were substantial grounds for dissent from Mr. Bancroft’s views regarding the Aztec civilization.
The colonists of the latter aimed to secure by treaty and purchase the absolute fee and ownership of a given region.
The French, in the mean while, aimed from the start for occupying the interior.
Delawares, and repeats a story of the Indians long ago selling the same sacred book to the whites with which the missionaries in the end aimed to make them acquainted.
