Chiefly he marvelled at the crimson of the Saviour's blood.
Sometimes Leonardo would read over his old diaries, and occasionally he still wrote in them, but of the subject which now chiefly occupied his thoughts--Death.
One of these days he carried his note-book to the Piazza del Broletto, and according to the Master's system he made the required indexed notes of those faces which struck him chiefly in the crowd.
Chiefly they accused him on account of certain words uttered to his disciples three years before his death.
One day he opened a large chest which contained his manuscript-books, stray drawings and sketches, chiefly mechanical, jottings from his two hundred 'Books of Nature.
But what chiefly struck Giovanni was her hair, so light, so soft, so crisp, as if possessed of life.
He found the Florentine Secretary in a tavern, where a troop of gamesters, chiefly Spanish soldiers, were fleecing inexpert players at dice or cards.
Time was wanting to execute his innumerable orders, and many of his pictures were chiefly painted by his pupils.
The credit for initiating this very important move is due chiefly to William F.
Ultimately, by one means or another, and chiefly by the use of armed emissaries, the Visayan Islands, with the exception of Negros, were brought into the Insurgent fold.
The officers of the constabulary were selected chiefly from American volunteers recently mustered out and from honourably discharged soldiers of the United States army.
I shall prove, chiefly by the Insurgent records, that each of them is false.
Their conversation there probably turned chieflyon theological topics, as was the case with most of their correspondence afterwards.
The writings of Locke on Trade and Finance are chiefly interesting to us on account of the place which they occupy in the History of Political Economy.
It can create complex ideas, and that in an infinite variety, out of its simple ideas, and this it does chiefly by combining, comparing, and separating them.
When this is observable, it is said it may be taken for granted that the upper atmosphere is comparatively quiet, and the disturbance is confined chiefly to the lower regions.
The Sharp-tails feed chieflyon Grasshoppers, seeds, buds, blossoms, and berries.
Claudio de Costa, translator of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” was chieflyinfluenced by the Italians and the French.
The intense drama that animates it is chiefly internal, but the feelings, the sensations, the ideas vibrate in it like deeds.
Chiefly dry narrative, and perhaps better than Potyra, though that is negative praise.
The book is chiefly one of facts and analyses of works.
As one reads his numerous short stories, his crisp and vigorous criticisms and his essays, one comes to the realization that, as far as Lobato is concerned, foreign influence is chiefly French and in large measure to be condemned.
Two profoundly serious factors also appear: the Brazilian family, perfectly constituted, and a hatred for the foreigner, nourished chiefly by religious fanaticism.
But his passion is too often spoiled by exaggeration,--the exaggeration of a temperament as well as a school that borrowed chiefly the externals of Hugo’s genius.
But the Brazil that he sings in such deeply felt verses, the Patria that he weeps … is the land in which were left the things he loves and chiefly that unknown girl to whom he dedicated his book.
It was French in inspiration and chiefly behind the lead of the Decadents resulted in a species of continental affirmation.
As already stated, the reformers, whose minds were directed chiefly toward the restoration of evangelical doctrine, had at first no idea of breaking away from this standard.
Perhaps this is the main reason why the learning of antiquity was chiefly preserved in monasteries and churches.
Spanish domination being thus assured, the Navarrese tribunal became usefulchiefly as a precaution to prevent the subject kingdom from continuing to be an asylum for heretics.
The effort, however, was fruitless and is interesting chiefly from the evidence which it gives of the desire of Sixtus to give to Castile the blessing of the Inquisition.
When George came to Edinburgh in 1822, it was Sir Walter who acted virtually as the master of the ceremonies, and to whom it was chiefly due that the visit was so successful.
In fact Scott's comparative abstinence from politics was due, I believe, chiefly to the fact that during almost the whole of his literary life, Tories and not Whigs were in power.
All that time they were fed on fruits, chiefly bananas, with some sago.
They love an affable prince; it was chiefly his affability that made them so fond of Charles II.
You express great indignation at our present race of writers; but believe me the fault lies chiefly on the side of the readers.
And it is chiefly to Voltaire that we owe this instructive species of history.
There is at present a very large Mahometan community in China, chiefly in the province of Yunnan.
The vengeance which I ardently desire, that which our people are resolved on, and which is demanded by the wickedness of the count, and by the slaughter of the band of the Raposo by the Salvadores, chiefly founded by Don Suero, is his death.
Yes, my children," answered Don Suero, as he liked the boys very much, chiefly because he had noticed their evil dispositions.
He finds its origin chiefly in the phenomena of sleep, of dreams, and of the faintness caused by wounds or illness.
Sandstone was chiefly obtained from two localities, Djebel-Ahmar, near Cairo, and Djebel-Silsili in Upper Egypt.
They are chiefly found in Lower Nubia, a fact which has sometimes been explained by the natural configuration of the soil.
They were never used in the buildings to which greater importance was attached; they are introduced chiefly in out-of-the-way corners of the building, and in the substructures of great monumental combinations.
Finally there are pyramids built chiefly of stone which is kept in place by a carefully constructed skeleton, so to speak, of brick.
It is in this capacity chiefly that we reproduce them, as examples of those forms which seemed to the Egyptian imagination to offer the most satisfactory emblems of their gods.
The temples which we have hitherto examined are chiefly remarkable for the simplicity of their plan.
And why do you not come forth and proclaim that you are at peace with all men whatever they may do, and laugh at those chiefly who think that they can harm you?
Against (or with respect to) this kind of thing chiefly a man should exercise himself.
This is usedchiefly as an unaccented final in a word of more than one syllable.
And many others, chiefly names of plants and animals of a more or less gregarious nature.
There is a peculiar construction, found chiefly in Jordan’s Creation, but also in the Ordinalia (e.
Derived nouns, chiefly abstract, are formed from adjectives, verbs, or other nouns.
Chiefly from these towns came the advocates of anarchy, whose hearts swelled with fiendish delight at the prospect of witnessing the utter ruin and humiliation of their rivals in municipal prestige.
Ships at the anchorage communicated with the shore by their own boats or steam-launch, and the loading and discharging of vessels was chiefly effected in the bay, one to three miles off the river mouth, by means of lighters called cascoes.
Up to 1898 the baled tobacco-leaf trade was chiefly in the hands of this company.
The Military Department of Mindanao comprises the large island of that name and the adjacent insular territories inhabited chiefly by Mahometans, called by the Christians Moros (vide p.
The fate of the majority depended chiefly upon the temperament of the native commander of the district.
Since then it has gradually become the shipping centre for the crops (chiefly sugar and sapanwood) raised in the islands of Panay and Negros.
Spain's best men had been drafted off to Cuba, and these were chiefly raw levies who had all to learn in the art of warfare.
It is now chiefly owned by a Philippine half-caste, Don Pedro P.
The death-rate is kept so high chiefly by the heavy mortality among young children in the working-class.
Meat, especially fresh meat, is rarely furnished, chiefly potatoes, the worst possible bread and oatmeal porridge, little or no beer.
The human labour, involved in both spinning and weaving, consists chiefly in piecing broken threads, as the machine does all the rest.
The history of the development of the proletariat contained in the introduction to the present work, is chiefly taken from this work of Gaskell's.
Chartism was from the beginning in 1835 chiefly a movement among the working-men, though not yet sharply separated from the bourgeoisie.
The Highlanders had hitherto beenchiefly poachers and smugglers; they now became farmers and hand-workers.
We went to the Grand Pacific Hotel and were separated by long corridors and staircases, and spent our time chiefly in trying to find one another amidst its vast solitudes.
We had several made up dishes, chiefly fish, but little I could eat!
Lastly, there are several more or less struggling schools, chiefly composed of individual members who agree with each other only to the extent of holding that the causal agency of natural selection is not so great as Darwin supposed.
Both from Kerner's work, and still more from that of Jordan and Naegeli, I conclude that (at all events in plants) prepotency is the way in which physiological selection chiefly acts.
The inquiry resulted eventually in an open verdict, and was chiefly instrumental in killing such compassion as is usually felt for the dead who die in their sins.
At least I went over like one," said I, sending the only clouds into the blue, and chiefly wishing for their longer endurance.
Percival's life had few externalities,--he related himself to society by few points of contact; and I have been compelled to paint him chiefly by glimpses of his literary and interior existence.
What he earned he spent chiefly for books, particularly for such as would assist him in perfecting that striking monument of his varied and profound research, his new translation and edition of Malte-Brun.
What will be chiefly interesting, however, to our readers, is the power of transformation of one of these substances into another.
They were on the German language, and consisted chiefly of translations of prose and poetry into English, intermingled with philosophical commentaries on the peculiarities of the original.
For this Expedition was chiefly designed against the Senekas, who had absolutely refused to meet Monsieur de la Barre, and were most firmly attached to the English.
But this Piece of Severity is not to be wondered at, when this War was undertaken, chiefly to put a Stop to the English Trade, which now began to extend itself far into the Continent, and would in its Consequence ruin theirs.
In this chiefly consists the Art of making a Nation glorious, or the Crime of debasing them into Servitude or Slavery.
And this, as they chiefly drink Spirits, has destroyed greater Numbers, than all their Wars and Diseases put together.
He is now chieflyremembered as the patron of Thomson, whom he called 'one of the best and most beloved' of his friends.
The reader is chiefly concerned with Steele as an essayist, and it is unnecessary to follow his career in the House of Commons and out of it.
He appears, like Swift, to have chiefly regarded the Christian religion as an institution of service to the stability of the State.
The ghost came chiefly for the purpose of recommending Drelincourt's volume, A Christian's Defence Against the Fear of Death, then in its third edition.
But the loss of his wife preyed upon his mind, and he is said, though I believe chiefly on Pope's authority, to have given way to intemperance.
His name is now chiefly known as having assisted Pope in his translation of the Odyssey.
To the student Gay is chiefly interesting as the only noteworthy poet of the period, south of the Tweed, gifted with a lyrical capacity.
His sense of humour enlivens some of the scenes, and is, perhaps, chiefly visible in The Funeral; but for the most part dulness is in the ascendant, and the sentiment is frequently mawkish.
As a statesman Bolingbroke is now comparatively despised, as a man of letters he is generally regarded as a brilliant pretender, and if his name survives in the history of literature it is chiefly due to the friendship of Pope.
