It was with the most satisfied of smiles therefore that I ascertained the purchase of railroad accommodations by Carl Schmidt for Bremen, the sailing port of the big North German Lloyd liner.
I soon ascertained young Rajah's haunts and made it my business to frequent them.
I soonascertained that my lady and her friends followed all the whims of London society.
My grandparents, having ascertained that Miss Travers was a quite unexceptional person, had an access of cheerfulness.
After the funeral at Damerstown was over I had gone to see Mrs. Dawson, having ascertained first that her son was absent for a few days.
Already it was ascertainedthat a number of culverts on the railway line had been destroyed by the hostile troops, and rumours of Boer invasion were continually being brought in.
He reconnoitred in and around Molteno, and visited the outposts of regulars, irregulars, and police, and ascertained to an almost pitiful degree the slenderness of his resources should any strain occur.
It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertainedby actual measurement of an arc of a meridian.
A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.
Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
Defn: A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.
Unliquidated damages (Law), penalties or damages not ascertained in money.
So called because it was the first definitely ascertained principle of the brain.
Defn: The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
But the location of this vital turning-point was very uncertain, and until it was ascertained and carried, late in the afternoon, the action raged with more or less intensity along the entire line.
In fact, as I ascertained by the following cablegram which came into my hands, Napoleon's instructions for the French evacuation were in Mexico at the very time of this pathetic scene between him and Carlotta.
They haveascertained the views and feeling of the different sections of the country; they have embodied the result of their labors in this report.
I therefore move that we call upon him in a body at such a time as will be most agreeable to him; such time to be ascertained by the President of this Conference.
If the lamp be too near to the condenser, the centre of the disc will be darkened; if too far off, the margin of the disc will be obscured; the proper distance will be easily ascertained when the lamp is lighted and placed in the lantern.
Having got your keel ready, and the stem and stern posts kneed in, and ascertained by a plumb line that they are perpendicular to the keel, the next thing is to cut out shadows, or frames, from the body plan.
Answering the challenge of the armed seaman on sentry, the patrol menascertained that the "Pompey's" boat had not yet put off to bring back a party of officers who had been ashore on leave.
In each of the cellular subdivisions of the hull a man had to crawl in as best he might, having first ascertained by means of the lighted candle that the air was sufficiently pure.
The fact of increased production from a given quantity of land, by draining, being ascertained beyond question, and the measure of that increase, at its minimum, being more than the interest at six per cent.
We are aware, that upon this, as every other point, ascertained facts may seem strangely to conflict.
The ascertained instances of the obstruction of pipes, by excluding the water from the joints, are very few.
It was thus ascertained that one cubic foot of earth held 0.
Upon particular inquiry, we ascertained that very little inconvenience is experienced there from the freezing of the pipes.
Yet, with all these variations, very great reliance may be placed upon the ascertained results of the observations already at our command.
The water may flow into a stone trough provided with an overflow-pipe, by which the quantity discharged may be ascertained at any time, so as to compare the drainage before and after rain, &c.
Having now ascertained the general nature of the contemporary socialistic movement, we shall be in a better position to judge of its bearings and importance.
There is a normal length of the day of labour, and it ought to be ascertained and fixed by law.
But the more the range and character of Leonardo's studies becomes ascertained the more his greatness dwarfs them all.
Our method must be to discover which conjecture, as it is developed, most consistently and successfully colligates all theascertained facts and best endures the touchstone of logic.
He made inquiries concerning it and ascertained that it was in circulation over a considerable part of Europe--Spain, Italy, Germany and the South of France.
It was in use as a game of chance or skill, after the ordinary manner of playing-cards; and he ascertained further how the game was played.
He might have ascertained very easily beforehand what would happen, or have contrived to keep her away from Dublin.
He is convinced that Peel will at once make a fair and cordial overture to Stanley, and thinks it of the greatest importance that Stanley's disposition and probable demands should be ascertained before Peel arrives.
On the return of the party each animal killed is inspected by the chief in the presence of all the hunters and its ownership ascertained by the spear-head that caused the mortal wound, each weapon being duly marked.
It cannot be ascertainedwhen a change was made but in the half-year Accounts for 1617 there occurs the entry: Item: to the Maister and Usher, xvli.
It has been ascertained beyond the possibility of doubt, that she cannot see a ray of light, cannot hear the least sound, and never exercises her sense of smell, if she have any.
So we arrive at a physiological conception of culture after the analogy of the ascertained physiological processes seen in the biological domain.
He then turns to the serious business of accounting for value and price theoretically, and making the ascertained facts articulate with his teleological theory of economic life.
The tonnage employed at any given time can, of course, not be ascertained with anything like a confident approximation; but its steady increase is unmistakable.
In either case, the fitness of the master or mistress is ascertained and reported.
That it is so, may be ascertained by a glance at any file of Spanish newspapers.
I had no intention of writing you a scientific analysis of all that I believe to be really ascertained upon this curious subject.
I have also ascertained that this "evaporation" of new capacity is a new phenomenon.
New Orleans: It is now ascertained that the break in the levees was caused by a huge trench digging machine left unattended overnight at a lonely spot twenty miles South of Baton Rouge.
How frequent they had these meetings is not stated; but it was soon ascertained that they met to try projects, or to do or produce superhuman acts.
How they ascertained that she was gone is not told.
Jacques had, the evening before, ascertained from the soldiers the position of Parma's army.
Although caught in a gale in the Channel, Drake held on, and, reaching Gibraltar on the 16th April, ascertained that Cadiz was crowded with transports and store ships.
We understand that experiments are in progress which have ascertained that water, charged with matters which are known to stimulate vegetation, when filtered through four feet of retentive soil, comes out pure.
