The complete statement makes a pile three inches high, and is of no use when it is made except to keep in work thousands of officials to check the returns.
Is it wholly impossible, then, for men of mechanical experience and large sympathies to checkthe mere patent-hunter and bring forward the man with an idea?
The collator should check off all plates and maps called for by the table of contents to make sure that the copy is perfect.
If his tendencies toward idealism are strong, he should hold them in check by addicting himself to steady, practical, every-day work.
To check a library over is to take an account of stock of all the books it should contain.
Another benefit of copyright between nations has been to checkthe relentless flood of cheap, unpaid-for fiction, which formerly poured from the press, submerging the better literature.
About noon I received from a pious physician the following note, with a check for five pounds:-- MY DEAR SIR: I send you something towards buying bread for the orphans.
MY DEAR SIR:-- I hasten to thank you for your kind communication, and to inform you that your check for one hundred pounds has safely come to hand.
I gratefully acknowledge the Lord's goodness in the receipt of your check for ten pounds.
That sardonic smile still curving his wide lips, he turned over the check and carefully indorsed it; across the back of the paper he wrote the same name which he had signed to the note.
I takes that check and lights out and cashes it 'fore old Mackintavers heard what had happened to Dorales.
After an instant he folded the check and glanced up at the professor.
He left the note upon the table, and with it the indorsed check and legally phrased paper, knowing that these would in some measure make matters clear to Mrs. Crump.
Then he took the check book, tore it across, and flung the pieces away.
He produced the check which he had previously filled out.
He indorsed that check merely as a mute message to Mrs. Crump.
She fumbled in her bosom and produced a folded check book.
It was a right smart trick to indorse thatcheck Dorales had made ready for ye--'bout the smartest thing I ever knowed ye to do, Thady.
The check caught his eye, and he pulled it toward him; smiling sardonically, he read and reread that magic slip of paper which stood for ten thousand dollars.
That there check for ten thousand was the jackpot.
He picked up the check and held it for a moment over the oil lamp--then he quickly jerked it back.
Now, to tear a check book across is not an easy thing.
He looked down at the check in his hand, then looked out the window; he could see Thady Shea climbing into the buckboard and driving off.
Yet the absurdity did not make his grief the less: and the consciousness of the intrinsic, almost radiant, purity of this newsprung affection for a flown spirit forbade him to check it.
Spain almost immediately occupied Pensacola and Nacogdoches, in order to check the progress of the French eastwardly and westwardly; but she did not attempt to disturb them in their settlements on the Mississippi and its tributaries.
And once again, as before, my nearness to her seemed for a moment to meddle with my heart and check it; then, as though to gain the beats they lost, every little pulse began to hurry faster.
China is prepared to ally herself with all forces that are opposed to Japanese imperialism in order to check Japanese aggression and to safeguard peace in the Far East.
It is a fact that even if Soviet Russia remains at peace, she can check Japan (unless Soviet Russia proclaims amity with Japan, and makes adequate assurances, in which case it will greatly influence our condition).
To understand Chinese government in war time, one might first check the outstanding points of old Chinese development and their modern derivatives.
Their presence is undoubtedly the greatest check to the development of democracy in China; the presence of a totalitarian party, respecting no rules but its own, jeopardizes the entire experiment.
They have aided a great deal in transforming the atmosphere of government, and act as competent outside critical bodies to check the administrative officers.
Weldon, make out the salary list of this company, and I'll give you a check covering two weeks' salaries for each member of the organization.
I am sorry if I have inconvenienced you, but you shall have a check after dinner.
Then the flying sat down to rest, while the elated commandant of the pursuing force telegraphed that he held all in check and observation.
The State had tossed him into a corner of the province for seventeen weary years, there to check smuggling of salt, and to hope for promotion that never came.
The troops were at once set to work to construct batteries, and a strong chain of outposts was pushed forward to within five hundred yards of the fortifications, to check the frequent sorties made by the Neapolitans.
The six burglars, amazed and savage at being held in check by a girl, went under the shadow of the lamp and held council, with humiliated and furious shrugs of their shoulders.
This remark made Gavroche cry out, for the petrified air of the two lads rendered a check necessary.
Will you do so much for me as to check your tears?
Being in preference to doing is the great aim, and this comes to us rather by a resigned willingness than a wilful activity, which is a check to all divine growth," responded Brother Timon.
It is easier to forbear all examination and enquiry, than to check ourselves in so natural a propensity, and guard against that assurance, which always arises from an exact and full survey of an object.
All of the details had been worked out and gone over so many times by the boys that they did not need to check again.
Stan eased down a bit and called to Allison for a check on their location and course.
To-morrow you shall handle the amount in nice white silver; my husband will sign you a check on the Royal Bank of Dantzic.
Nothing at all will be found; and even thecheck that we signed, will be turned into tinder.
The second application of the handkerchief had so increased the effect, that Jack found it impossible to check his laughter, while the cooper, whose attention was now drawn to his sister's face, burst out in a similar manner.
Federation is a check on independence; but many of the states had never known separate independence.
The growth of a land free from the beginning might perchance have been slower; let it be so; a slight check on the forward march would not have been dearly purchased by unbroken friendship between parent and child from the beginning.
The regal power had not and could not have any external check imposed upon it by law: the master of the community had no judge of his acts within the community, any more than the housefather had a judge within his household.
Mrs. Armadale sometimes sighed to herself; but this, if the others heard it, could not check them.
Lois spoke naturally, yet Miss Caruthers fancied she could discern a certain check to the flow of her words.
Did you suppose I would specially need to use money instead of a check this week?
Generally Phil was paid in a check payable to the order of Mr. Carter.
Yes; he called, as usual, to get my checkfrom Mr. Pitkin.
He picked up and handed to his mother a check on a Philadelphia bank for the sum of one hundred dollars.
I know you are trustworthy, or I would have given you a check instead.
I was fidgeting to go, but he took hold of one of the ends of my little check silk tie, and kept fiddling it about between his finger and thumb.
The cross and the check may have been necessary and salutary, but that does not do away with the essential difference between the main stream of man's advance and a cross or side stream.
Yet there is a very important difference between the defeat inflicted on Hellenism by Christianity eighteen hundred years ago, and the check given to the Renascence by Puritanism.
