Bogus mines were foisted into the "new chum," and huge companies started to work them; businesses advertised as big affairs with tremendous capitals were in reality a paltry village hut or two, with a few pounds of goods flung into them.
Arabic figures are to be used rather than Roman; but small capitals may be used after the names of sovereigns, princes, and popes.
First, there can be no standard prescribing what words should or should not be capitalized, and the cataloguer will be constantly at a loss, or will use capitals in the most unprincipled way.
The reason for writing and printing all catalogue titles in small letters, without capitals (except for proper names) is two-fold.
The book is genuine and perfect throughout; no washed leaves, and all the large capitals filled in by the rubricator by different colored inks: it has the six additional leaves at end, which Brunet says are nearly always wanting.
All titles to be written in small letters, and printed in lower case, whether in English, German, or any other language, avoiding capitals except in cases named in the rule.
The three-line initials are not in keeping with the capitals of the text; for their thin strokes are in too great a contrast with their thick strokes.
The same sculptor who worked at Notre Dame made the virile capitals of this little church.
The capitals were altogether Romanesque, since sculpture changed less swiftly than construction in those transitional years.
When capitals were given up, the ribs died away weakly in the piers.
Their profiles are alike, their capitalshave similar salient crockets, and their colonnettes were cut from the quarry according to the rock's horizontal strata, and not by the usual method of vertical cutting.
Under ducal patronage the nave of Nantes Cathedral rose apace; the capitals of its north side have deeply undercut curly-tipped foliage, but on the nave's south side the piers lack capitals altogether.
Above their capitals the molds die away in the column--a very early use of a Flamboyant characteristic.
Striking effect is made in the nave by some giant cylinder piers whose height is double what was originally planned and whose capitals are gems of interpretative sculpture, vine leaf and fern.
As the church advanced toward the west, the window tracery changed from Rayonnant to Flamboyant, the profiles grew prismatic, and the sculpture of the capitals became naturalistic rather than an architectural interpretation of foliage.
The capitals then carved are to be seen in the town's Museum.
Some of the capitals show interlacings, and some are of the pleated type popular in Normandy.
Lavish leaf ornamentation forms the capitalsof the piers.
The capitals are mere uncarved bands, and over them certain molds die away in the pier.
When I was a little fellow these capitals taught me to observe and delight in the structure of leaves.
It was a rare example of a northern cloister with arched and pillard openings not intended for glazing, and the delicately-wrought foliage of the capitals seemed still to carry the very touches of the chisel.
This period endured until finally the sombre cities of the corsairs became the commercial capitals of to-day, just as glorious Carthage became a residential suburb of Tunis.
There were many stories about Mary Ogden--Mary Zattiany--always a notable figure in the capitals of Europe.
It is divided into two doorways by a central shaft, and both it and the jam-shafts have richly floriatedcapitals and moulded bases.
At Madrid, as at other capitals of Europe, the Englishman is an object of interest.
Illustration: Capitals in the Strasburg Cathedral, A.
We give two of several capitals exhibiting the sacred rites of the Church travestied by animals.
As the Corinthian capital mimics the leaf of the acanthus, so the capitals of these columns imitated the foliage of the vegetation neighbouring them, some aloe-like, some fern-like.
It was fronted by huge columns, tapering upward from massive plinths, and withcapitals that, as I came nearer, I perceived to be more ornamental and more fantastically graceful that Egyptian architecture allows.
When the illuminator took the book over, he carefully sketched in his designs for the capitals and miniatures, and then worked over them in colour, applying one colour to a number of sketches at a time.
The square part is surrounded by a gilt cornice, supported, at the angles, by fluted pillars, crowned with capitals of fan-like tracery.
The ceiling is partly supported by two oriental columns, of white and gold, enwreathed by serpents, and branching into umbrella capitals hung with bells.
These heavy piers (composed of fourteen small columns) which surround the central nave, and whose capitals (photo, p.
The splaying of the doors is adorned with great statues backed up against columns and separated by smaller columns, the capitals of which are connected to a foliate frieze of elegant design.
The square tower at the corner of the nave and south transept has cubic capitals in the twin bays of the second storey.
The remarkable Roman arches, massive buttresses and blind doorway, framed by two primitive capitals with a wreath-shaped astragal, are apparently vestiges of constructions of an earlier date than those of Abbot Thierry.
The North Transept= Three small white marble Gallo-Roman or Carolingian capitals crown the colonnettes of the triforium.
The lateral arcades have similarcapitals but only one torus.
The capitals of the prismatic pillars and the key-stones of the arches were adorned with escutcheons, fleur-de-lys, flowers and crockets.
The ornamentation of the capitals of six pillars of the first bays is more elaborate and more recent in style.
Its vaulting was pointed, with groining resting on columns, whose capitals were either Romanesque or Gothic.
A few capitals and shafts of the ancient cloister of the Chapter, adjoining the Cathedral, were recently discovered and placed under one of the penthouses built between the buttresses of Notre-Dame.
Tobacco and bills offer a more direct return to those, whose capitals will not permit them to engage in the circuitous commerce I have mentioned.
It can never acquire a right of propriety in the capitals for which it has credit upon its books; but in case of restitution, it is not obliged to restore the same matters, or the same money for which it originally gave these credits.
And Goths and Christian knights have wrought their very likenesses into the stern, helmeted heads that peer out from the capitals of marvellous columns amid the stone grapes and pomegranates most fit for their heroic nourishment.
She also painted in other capitals of Italy, and died at an advanced age in Rome, in 1673.
This constant endeavour to surpass himself, would be evident also from his easel pictures, if they were not so rare in Italy; as he painted many of this description for London and the othercapitals of Europe.
The owners of those particular capitals would be obliged to content themselves with a smaller proportion of the produce of that labour which their respective capitals employed.
As, in the natural scarcity arising from soil and climate, it would be absurd to direct the people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals and industry, so is it likewise in the artificial scarcity arising from such taxes.
As capitals increase in any country, the profits which can be made by employing them necessarily diminish.
Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them.
The capitals of the British manufacturers who work up the flax and hemp annually imported from the coasts of the Baltic, are surely very useful to the countries which produce them.
Foreign capitalsare every day intruding themselves, if I may say so, more and more into the trade of Cadiz and Lisbon.
But the capital of the country is equal to the capital of all its different inhabitants; and the quantity of industry which can be annually maintained in it is equal to what all those different capitals can maintain.
The capitals employed in the agriculture and in the retail trade of any society, must always reside within that society.
When thecapitals are equal, and equally well applied, it is in proportion to their natural fertility.
Simultaneous outbreaks of a more or less violent nature, but all with the same success, occurred in the capitals of the smaller States of Germany.
To make up for the falling off of this old and flamboyant custom, the more recent immigrants have brought with them the names of the capitals and other great cities of their fatherlands.
In America a movement against this use of capitals appeared during the latter part of the eighteenth century.
The tendency to name small American towns after the great capitals of antiquity has excited the derision of the English since the earliest days; there is scarcely an English book upon the states without some fling at it.
He had read of these deserted cities, carved out of the rocks of the wilderness, and once the capitals of flourishing and abounding kingdoms.
If I were a young man with my life to live in the capitals of Europe I should be more or less a social outcast, I suppose.
That equal capitals give equal profits, as a general maxim of trade, would be as false as that equal age or size gives equal bodily strength, or that equal reading or experience gives equal knowledge.
It is not necessary that the whole of the excess, A F should be transferred to C D to make the two capitals equal, but only A E, which, added to C D, brings C D to an equality with E B.
But between distant places, and especially between different countries, profits may continue different; because persons do not usually remove themselves or their capitals to a distant place without a very strong motive.
No great capitals are here employed in any one branch of the arts.
But the population of an English city is not to be compared with, or considered as similar to, the populousness of a Chinese city, as will be obvious by considering the two capitals of these two empires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
