It may be stated that only one person aboard the airship had a doubt as to her capacity and his own security, and, as may be guessed, that individual was Carl Reitberg.
Thanks to the water ballast which she had again taken aboard, the airship was wonderfully steady, while her capacity to withstand a gale was proved to the utmost.
Placing it on the table, this sheet opened to its full capacity as soon as the weight of his fingers was removed.
If I had the means I would erect this ship, and prove her capacityto you.
He was afterwards selected for his knowledge of French to act as parlementaire, and visited the Russian headquarters in that capacity with Tewfik Pasha.
I lunched with Captain Giorgione and his brother officers, many of whom spoke German, and evinced a capacity for hearing news which was hardly disinterested.
It was no defence at all when the faults had become the rule, and when there was no security in the system itself for the selection of worth and capacity to exercise its functions.
In all other respects she occupied the position and received the homage due to the actual wife of the English sovereign; and in this capacity it was the desire of Henry that she should be acknowledged by a foreign prince.
Whether he had any pecuniary interest in the expedition, and in what capacity he sailed, does not appear.
It is to be decided whether, in their capacity of Privy Councillors, the judges of the land shall put forth a proclamation the legality or binding force of which they will afterwards sit as judges to try.
He told them distinctly that he was not only their spiritual head but their temporal king, and that in neither capacity would he brook any interference with his authority.
Leipzig is, or pretends to be, the great literary metropolis, and in this capacity the good city holds an annual festival in honor of Schiller.
His torture was presently increased to an immeasurable degree, by a summons he received from the queen to attend her in his capacity of lord chamberlain, during an audience she was about, to give the Muscovite ambassador.
In the capacity to desire, to affect, ant to struggle.
It is thecapacity which, in the case of orators and poets, informs them of the precise moment when they should stop.
McLeod, my associate Commissioner, both in that capacity and as Commander of the Police, was indefatigable in his exertions to bring the negotiations to a successful termination.
Devotion to art and beauty in simplicity and sincerity develops an ever increasing capacity for its enjoyment.
The realization ofcapacity brings with it pleasure.
We have within us the capacity for an ever increasing fullness and richness and intensity of life.
And this capacity to feel the influences which Nature is constantly throwing around us is an indispensable element in noble and elevated character.
Every cruel blow inflicted on an animal leaves an ugly scar in our own hardened hearts, which mars and destroys our capacity for the gentlest and sweetest sympathy with our fellow-men.
The boys had a delicate way of demonstrating their capacityto shoot, by killing a fowl, or pig, or dog, by shooting it with a revolver from a great distance, taking care always to make the exhibition as public as possible.
Had Jesse James been other than a man of extraordinary capacity in great emergencies, his career would have been brought to an inglorious close before the clock of Time would have indicated the commencement of the New Year, 1880.
They became scouts and spies for Quantrell at the beginning of their career, and showed themselves possessors of remarkable capacity for such service.
He is said to have been a confectioner, to have even acted as cook to Foote, and to have travelled in some humble capacity abroad, where he learnt French, and the way to play French valets and similar characters.
This is, as far as mycapacity for judging is worth, sincere.
Data acquisition on the 910 was limited in array size to the capacity of the core memory.
The capacity for understanding speech is well advanced, and an appeal to reason is often successful while the child is still powerless to express his own thoughts in words.
Lagging behind in physical development and in the capacity to interest themselves in the pursuits of normal children, their emotional state remains that of a much younger child.
At eighteen months of age observation and imitative capacity will have made more complex pursuits possible.
Vanity and an amorous temperament had made him a conspirator, since he fancied he interested the ladies more in that capacity than any other.
Of course, in my capacity of Prefet, I have no small influence in my department in support of a Government candidate.
Dave, too proud to admit that he had not the capacityfor carrying on this work successfully, refused to entertain any thought of leaving the place.
Given a certain kink in a human brain, and there might result capacity we ought to consider, even if we can't, in our admittably systematized civilization, utilize it.
Hence the perpetual glorification in Romantic literature of capacity and strength of desire, of wish; a subject to which Friedrich Schlegel in particular perpetually recurs.
It is wrong to do what Griesebach and Scherer have done, namely, turn this praise into a depreciation of Heine's merits, credit him only with the greater literary dexterity, Brentano with the greater capacity of invention.
A strong feeling of the creative arbitrariness, the boundlessness, the infinite many-sidedness, the sacred originality, and the unlimited capacity of the human spirit is taking possession of men.
His chief gift was a capacity for moulding language; and accuracy, dexterity, and the sense of proportion were qualities he was born with.
In his capacity of Government official he was zealous, conscientious, and steady--one of the men who do their duty and are guilty of no extravagances, and whose position is consequently assured.
They evidence their descent from him both by their continuation of the Sturm und Drang period and by their capacity of understanding and reproducing the poetry of all countries.
In their social capacity they vowed undying hatred to all dead conventionality in the relations between the sexes.
He realised that Fichte's doctrine of the Ego contained in extremely abstract terms the idea of the unlimited capacity of the human mind to find itself in everything and to find everything in itself.
Wackenroder resembled Novalis in constitution, but had even lesscapacity for resistance to the storms of life.
He understood that he himself, as a poetical translator, must practise the same self-abnegation and develop a similar capacity of intellectual re-creation.
Construction has boomed, with hotel capacityfive times the 1985 level.
The inherent capacity for deviation is thus much less in the mollusk than in the bird; and in the bird much less than in the quadruped.
Along with the admission of our comparative ignorance of the minute structure of the cell, is the assertion that this cell "possesses the capacity to feel, to will, to think.
It conclusively established two facts: that such women are utterly unfit to be trusted as nurses; and that their employment in that capacity does not effect all the saving that might be supposed.
My father had such confidence in her rectitude and capacity that he left everything in her hands.
Perhaps her capacity for loving had died with her husband.
The capacity for improvement is also indicated by the large variety of occupations which the Negro is successfully pursuing.
The avidity with which they receive education, and profit by it, is another indication of theircapacity for advancement.
But his importance as a factor in securing a National prosperity is much enhanced when we note his remarkable capacity for improvement.
