But eventually, anxiety to succeed as a portrait painter led him to give most of his time to this branch of art.
It was, to take a branch club at Barnes, where there was a handsome and suitable house and grounds well adapted for the purpose.
Bishop Pompallier had landed at Hokianga in 1838 for the purpose of establishing a branch of the Roman Catholic Oceanic Mission, of which he had been appointed Vicar Apostolic.
And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English!
A branch line connects with the Mediterranean at Alexandretta.
There were two old grave apes of enormous size sitting together on the branch of a tree, and deliberately catching the fleas in each other's shaggy coats.
He fell off the branch on to another; but soon, like all the cats, recovered his hold and jumped down to the ground, when he skulked away with his tail behind him.
Finding all his efforts to pacify the child fruitless, he ran off to a mountain-ash tree, and leaping up, pulled a branch of red rowan berries and carried it in his mouth to the child.
That each branch ought to have a negative voice on the other branches; and no bill ought to be passed into a law without the advice and consent of, at least, two-thirds of the members of two of the branches of the legislature.
That every branch of an empire ought to be subject to the supreme legislative head of a nation: To render all proper honour and obedience to the king, and to all in authority, and to be subordinate to the good and wholesome laws of the land.
Having arrived at Hazlitt or Leigh Hunt, you can branch off once more at any one of ten thousand points into still wider circles.
He must have attained to some notion of the inter-relations of the various branches of knowledge before he can properly comprehend the branch in which he specialises.
Every Englishman who is interested in any branch of his native literature, and who respects himself, ought to own a comprehensive and inclusive library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions.
Illustration: Some Annual United States Expenditures] There is no branchof insurance so important as insurance against war.
Our diplomacy, being a branchof our politics, is often inconsistent with our national policy.
Here philosophers and scholars in every branch of science devote themselves to study; and they are surrounded by thousands of disciples from all countries.
The young king Ptolemy was defeated, and, in attempting to make his escape across a branch of the Nile, he was drowned.
The King, as you know, has no children, and the succession passes to the Ostenburg branch of the family.
There is a slip in his ancestry, and the disappearance of a certain Prince Otto, who was the heir to the throne, let in the younger branch of the family, through whom the title has descended to the present King.
In his left hand is a branch of olive, representing the messenger of peace, clearly descended from the emblem of Mercury, whose wand was often used as a flag of truce.
Pray of Toledo, Ohio, and received honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Young of Cleveland, Ohio, and received honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Young of Cleveland, Ohio, and was submitted in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Pray of Toledo, Ohio, and was submitted in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Blake Hillyer of New York City, and received honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
The names of birds, trees, flowers, or any other branch of nature study may be used.
This game was one that received honorable mention, and is here published by the kind permission of the author, and of the Girls' Branch and of Messrs.
Silverman of New York City, and submitted in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
It received honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
The Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City has officially adopted this game for this purpose in elementary schools, where its use precedes Captain Ball or other team games of similar type.
Girls' Branchof the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Jardine of New York City, and received honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906.
Then they alighted on the tree-tops and swung themselves down from branch to branch until they were as near earth as they dared to come.
They heard him chanting his numbers in the depths of the forest; sometimes he intoned them, swinging on the branch of a high tree.
Then, too, his feet were intended for walking and running rather than for perching in trees, and it made his toes ache dreadfully to have to cling to the branch of a tree too long.
It made his toes ache to bend them around the branch on which he was sitting.
Skimmer the Swallow would sit on the branch of a tree, or on the very top of Farmer Brown's barn, and twitter sociably.
The town of Fooah, which, 300 years ago, was situate at the mouth of the Canopic, a branch of the Nile, is now more than seven leagues from it.
Carrie received this Tuesday morning when she called at the West Side branchof the post-office, and answered at once.
She took the car and arrived at Ogden Place in three-quarters of an hour, but decided to ride on to the West Side branch of the Post-office, where she was accustomed to receive Hurstwood's letters.
A moment later, he had squeezed through it, and was standing upon the sill outside, gazing fearfully at the void beneath, and the distance between the sill and the branch in front of him.
The ease with which he caught the branch was such a physical relief that he almost forgot his errand.
Nor is this more characteristic in one branch of study than another.
Unless a dress be cut so low in the neck that it becomes an unhealthful exposure after taking off warmer clothing, it in no wise concerns this branch of the subject.
Each servant understands exactly the duties that belong to her sphere, that is, the regimen in her branch of work, proper for a family in that position.
Some of them, like the men, have stumbled at examinations; but nearly all of them have maintained a most creditable reputation for scholarship in every branch of study which has awaited them in their course.
Moreover, the clothing too frequently interferes with the normal functions of the most important repairing organs, and its consideration, therefore, must constitute the thirdbranch of our inquiry.
This increased force, which we could not prevent if we would, and would not if we could, must be guided into rational channels--and here I have to speak of a branch of the subject which is not often considered.
At that town he was the means, in the hands of the Lord, of raising up a branch of the Church.
We were absent from Burke's Garden just two months to a day, and during that time we held fifty-four public meetings, baptized thirty persons, and organized them into a branch of the Church.
Hugh followed the westerly branch of the stream and, after a little search, found a game trail which led up the steep bank and brought them to the level of the valley, above the forty-foot precipice over which the stream poured.
At length it forked, and at first he could not determine which branch of the stream to take, so he stopped, got off his horse, and waited for the wagon to come up.
Jack arranged his snare, tying it to the end of a straight branch about six feet long, and then advanced very slowly toward the grouse.
He looked about among the bushes to find a suitable branch that he could cut to serve as a walking-stick.
A broad gallery runs athwart the whole labyrinth, and from thisbranch out innumerable passages.
Plunge a cut branch immediately into a colored solution, such as aniline red, and after a time make sections in the stem above the liquid to see what tissues have been stained.
A branch snapped on the hillside in the direction of the path.
Mahomet replied angrily--"I tell you, Ballaban, my will shall now be supreme over every branch of my service.
The last of these dwellings was of ampler proportions than the others, and was occupied by a branch of an ancient family to which the inhabitants of the other houses were all of kin.
