Make the motion of holding andaiming a gun; then add Fire-off.
The man who would intelligently cultivate intelligence will widen, not narrow, his life of strong impulses while aiming at their happy coincidence in operation.
But when it was discovered that Boris was aiming at the erection of an independent Church their enthusiasm abated and they were recalled to Rome in 867.
Hungary, aimingat an outlet on the Adriatic, at the same time subjected most of Dalmatia and parts of Bosnia.
Politically, both Russia and Bulgaria aimingat the same thing, the possession of Constantinople and the hegemony of the Balkan peninsula, their relations were bound to be difficult.
Aiming at the creature's head, near its left eye, I fired.
Aiming directly at the waggon, he struck it, and, heavy as it was, so great was the impetus of his huge body that he sent it on several feet.
His myriad hours of violin and oboe practice, piano, harmony, counterpoint, all had been aiming at that.
Your father's aiming to learn the business," he said.
That's what I am aiming to do," he said, and never did a voice sound sweeter in her ears; at that moment she almost forgave him for the great crime he had committed against her.
They are the children of them that killed the witnesses;--the seed of the serpent aiming a last fatal stroke at the seed of the woman.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfections, the cause of Man's error and misery.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.
The captain of industry performs an important service to society; therefore, it is argued, he should be rewarded accordingly, quite irrespective of the question whether he was aiming at social welfare or at selfish gain.
It is argued that our current standards are sentimental and artificial, aiming to make survive those who are unfit, and thus tending to destroy the conditions that make for advance, and to introduce such as make towards degeneration.
They are not that particular kind of psychological activities which we call moral in the proper sense, for this implies not only getting a good result but aiming at it.
This consideration was formal in that it took no specific account of the quality of the social group concerned--the kind of society aiming at its own perpetuation through education.
Thus in aiming at the increase of his own private pleasurable states of consciousness, he contributes to the consciousness of others.
Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do.
No," I answered, wondering what he could be aiming at, but willing to give him a free rein.
In fact, these energetic men, in spite of their paucity of numbers, were swiftly surrounding the British, cutting off the thirteen States from the smiling interior of America, andaiming no doubt at their final extermination.
According to reports which soon reached us, it emanated from two English light cruisers, Astræa and Pegasus, who were aiming at the wireless tower.
The news of Captain Tafel’s surrender strengthened my reluctance to detach another part of my force, though, in view of my proximity, the junction at which we were both aiming had as nearly as possible been effected.
In the conduct of this Discourse, I am aiming less at physical than at metaphysical order.
The cannon was put on the floor, aiming towards an empty part of the room, three grains of powder were thrust into the touch-hole and a match was put to it.
And to do so he must know what he was aiming at; he must know for certain what was best for each, and having ascertained this it was natural for him to help them both.
I was hurrying then to a diplomatic soirée at the house of a lady of high rank in Petersburg, who was aiming at influence in the Ministry.
It appeared to many that he was aiming at a sort of dictatorship in Mecca, and drawing many susceptible and discontented people to his side; and an attempt was made to discourage and suppress the new movement.
But the next year he was accused of aiming at royal power, and condemned to death.
Darius had already made plans for an expedition into Europe, aiming not at Greece, but to the northward of Greece, across the Bosphorus and Danube.
I was aiming at the other fellow, and had not time to parry fairly.
He fell forward on the colonel; receiving, as he did so, a tremendous blow which the third Ghazi was aiming at the prostrate man.
The majority of the early novels, in aiming to teach some lesson, show the influence of Samuel Richardson, the father of English fiction.
Coming from the office I saw Sam aiming a "greeting" at an old man who sat in a corner of the waiting room.
Tidings of this was sent to King Fernando, and of the great danger of the frontier, as Aben Alhamar, flushed with success, was aiming to drive the Christians out of Andalusia.
The sculptors of this age, instead of aiming at an abstract, unattainable ideal, studied nature in its choicest forms, and attained the beautiful by selecting and concentrating in one those charms which are found diffused over all.
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