Collapse of the assumption in the case of Nazareth.
Brasses should always be made strong and thick, as when thin they collapse upon the bearing and increase the friction and the wear.
In a few hours the whole mine would collapse owing to this immense falling-in of earth.
The old man regarded the prospect of such a collapse calmly, for to die in a mine seemed to him quite natural as he had been born there.
It is becoming more and more recognised, I think, that physical collapse has generally behind it a mental cause, or a long series of mental causes too subtle for tabulation.
Hissár suffered severely from the disorders which followed on the collapse of the Moghal Empire and its ruin was consummated by the terrible famine of 1783.
Of some of these the paid up capital is absurdly small, and the recent collapse of the largest and of two smaller native banks has drawn attention to the extremely risky nature of the business done.
She seemed to collapse before him into a little sobbing child.
The snow melted from underneath, sinking with audible groans of collapse and running off across the frozen ground to swell Hidden Creek.
About the close of the century, for some reason not known, but possibly owing to collapse brought about by the marshy nature of the site, this was replaced by a temple of regular Hellenic form.
It used to collapse with me regularly when I was nursing Mabel with scarlet-fever!
It is a terrible collapse to all our bright schemes, but with such trouble at home you have no choice, and there is nothing gained by staying on for a few odd days.
Another of Gordon's troubles arose from the collapse of his staff under the terrible heat.
Even the decisive defeat of Chung Wang alone might have entailed the collapse of the cause now tottering to its fall.
Listen to the bed; it sounds as if it would collapse at any moment.
In 1812 an earthquake caused a partialcollapse of this structure.
The second shock, a half-hour later, caused the total collapse of nearly all the buildings.
It is not, however, altogether fair to place the whole responsibility for the collapse of French policy in Italy upon Napoleon III.
His sufferings were very great, which prevented me from ascribing his collapse to mere superstitious terror.
The collapse of this regime was due, not to popular agitation, but to the resentment of Louis at the clerical opposition to the influence of his mistress, Lola Montez.
Our artificially-established classificationscollapse whilst we gain further insight into the mutual affinities of the existing groups.
The formation of the Balkan League, and especially the collapse of Turkey, had meant a serious blow to the Central Powers' policy of peaceful penetration.
Ottoman collapse was complete everywhere, except on the Chataldja front.
Neither they nor any one else expected such an Ottoman collapseas was in store.
Hardly were his tribesmen settled, however, among the Bithynians and Greeks of Yenishehr, before the Seljuk collapse became a fact.
The sudden collapse of letters on the death of Augustus is easily accounted for.
The extreme delicacy of the artistic product shows it to have been due to some extent to careful nursing, and its almost immediate collapse confirms this conclusion.
I'll try to be comfortable until your return, dearest," and with a mocking smile Tom Parsons sank down into an easy chair that threatened to collapse under his substantial bulk.
The collapse had come, as on former occasions, just as I had expected.
Bestow a curve in thecollapse and there is no withdrawal and that which is secure has some way of preserving any walking.
Not, however, as she had done then; for then she had been in a state of nervous collapse and unable to judge fairly of anything or any one, of herself least of all.
The word integrity had made him collapse a little, but ere the end of the sentence he had recovered his self-esteem, and with it his pomposity.
Nor did Philip wonder at her collapse when he thought of what it must have been for her to stand by helpless, and see those who had left her in anger swept away into the unforgiveness of death.
One author, Miss Thatcher, in trying to repeat these observations, did not notice the total collapse of the tissues and concluded that my observations must have been wrong.
In Campanularia also the process of collapse described above is only apparent in a fraction of the cases as in Driesch's observations on Clavellina.
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