The Assyrians are always represented at war, hunting, or in the performance of ceremonies; their women never appear on the bas-reliefs; they were confined in a harem and never went into public life.
In the great execution at Lyons, in 177, the Christians, after being tortured and confined in narrow prison quarters, were brought to the arena.
As I have just escaped from a physician and a fever, which confined me five days to bed, you won't expect much 'allegrezza' in the ensuing letter.
Nor was his interest confinedto mere remembrances and enquiries after health.
Madame, the use of the sword is not confined to your country nor to de Clermont alone," and then he saw the tears that sprang to my eyes.
He confined his attentions to a careful search for the pouch, but nowhere upon or about the corpse was any sign of the missing article or its contents.
Tarzan was sure that there was another and more lovely world than that which was confined to the darkness of the four stone walls surrounding him.
The beast was tearing at the bonds that confined her ankles and wrists, pulling and gnawing upon the cords.
I presume from the last sentence of Mr. Hunt, that he has confinedhis experiments to the smaller sized plates.
This interference is not confined to the buffing operation alone, but sometimes is discoverable even in the ordinary process of scouring.
These volumes were confined exclusively to raw material, and contained only tables and statements, without any generalizations.
In a region confined mainly to agriculture, landholding is the determining factor of economic life.
They wereconfined to a particular people or group of peoples.
In great part the Indians would become a cringing sudra caste, tilling the poorer lands and confined to the menial or repulsive occupations.
At the close of the fifteenth century the white race was confined to western and central Europe, together with Scandinavia and the northwestern parts of European Russia.
During the closing decades of the past century, not only were biology and economics less advanced than to-day, but they were also infinitely less widely understood, exact knowledge being confined to academic circles.
This movement was at first confined to the upper-class Hindus, the great Mohammedan element preserving its traditional loyalty to the British "Raj," which it considered a protection against the Brahmanistic Hindu majority.
We saw a small part of the tower where Mary, Queen of Scots, was confined on her first coming to England; these remains consist only of a portion of a winding stone staircase, at which we glanced through a window.
Afterwards, our guide showed, in a gloomy quadrangle of the castle, the low windows of the dungeons where two of the leaders of the insurrectionists had been confined before their execution.
The soldier's most romantic story was of a daughter of Lord Scroope, a former governor of the castle, when Mary of Scotland was confined here.
To this day, Anarchism has remained confined almost exclusively to the Latin countries, and has been associated with, a hatred of Germany, growing out of the contests between Marx and Bakunin in the International.
It is true that there will also be many who have very little ability; the desire to become a painter, for example, is by no means confined to those who can paint.
Working in the metals appears to have been confined to the southern continent; or, at least, never to have found its way northward of the Mexican plateau.
It should be observed that the poet gives the whole succession of incidents which are merely hinted at by the artist, who is confined to one moment in the story.
And why are youconfined within the bounds of Dykeman's Hollow?
The ship had ceased to pitch and roll, and the bright sky and warm sun were delightful after the confined gloom of the cabin.
Oh, we have been confined within the bounds of Rogers' property for several weeks, and we made up a party to-day to come here, more for something to do than anything else.
Their humanities, although immense, are confined to this war centre.
Outside of the United States, the relief of the sick and wounded in war was not confined to Cuba and the Philippines, but was extended to Porto Rico.
The labors of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross in New York were not confined to the work in the camps.
My observations were confined to the four western provinces, which constitute about one-half the island.
It wisely confined its ambition to the construction of a solid foundation for the monument which it wished to erect, and which was perhaps destined to become one of the glories of our century.
While eminently a reading people, we are almost exclusively confined to the English language.
At Bazarjik when we inquired concerning the health of the place, an official said they had no sickness except a few cases of smallpox, and this was confined to children--that his little girl had it, and she was brought in as a proof.
In the room where he was confined were very various documents, which the prisoner got hold of.
I am now confined to my room; my maid has been taken away from me.
After which, with open arms, he received the exhausted danseuse, her breasts heaving and panting as though they would burst the silken corset that so slightly confined them.
Since the breaking out of the Rebellion these had been mostly of the military kind, though not confined to either party in the strife.
No light matter just then; for, though not kept confined in a prison, he might at any moment be cast into one, only to be led forth from it to execution.
There is also a guildhall, a town-hall, and the museum, chiefly confined to natural history, has a grand collection of Silurian fossils.
Meyrick observes, "The barde was the complete armour for the horse, though sometimes confined to the poitrail, which when made to reach up to the pomel of the saddle, was called haute barde.
These, in the time of Henry the Eighth, were confined to the chase.
The Mew was a close place in which hawks were confined whilst moulting.
The entry relating to her is of a gratuity given to her nurse and midwife, hence it is certain that her Ladyship was confined early in February, 1530.
Inconveniences like these necessarily localized andconfined all classes of Mexicans except the very rich or those whose business imperatively required them to encounter a life of expensive adventure.
The manufactures of Jalisco are chiefly confined to rude cotton fabrics or some fanciful articles of dress.
Nor is the utility of the plant confined to this; the Aztecs prepared from its leaves the paper on which their hieroglyphics were written, pieces of which, of various thickness, may be found at the present day.
Many large bodies of water are confined in its capacious bosom, and among them are the Utah and Great Salt Lakes.
A pure air and a deep blue sky surround and span the region; but the heat of summer is intense, parching the thin soil, and rendering life almost insupportable in the more exposed regions, or in the narrow and confined glens.
The federal jurisdiction was confined to admirality cases, fiscal transactions, and causes which concerned the public functionaries, while the military and ecclesiastical tribunals were left untouched.
The plantations of the cochineal cactus are confined to the district of the Misteca, in the state of Oajaca and in the valley of Oajaca at Ocotlan.
Lead is taken abundantly from the mine of La Targea; but the mining operations of the State are chiefly confined to silver.
Her population therefore is substantially confined within the narrow limits of natural increase by birth alone.
Turning now to domesticated and confined birds, I will commence by giving what little I have learnt respecting the courtship of fowls.
In some, perhaps in many cases, the differences may be the result of variations confined to one sex and transmitted to the same sex, without any good having been thus gained, and therefore without the aid of selection.
The proper musk-sack, from its position, is necessarily confined to the male, and forms an additional scent-organ.
Insects and some few spiders are the lowest animals which voluntarily produce any sound; and this is generally effected by the aid of beautifully constructed stridulating organs, which are often confined to the males alone.
Napoleonis the ocelli are confined to the tail, and the back is of a rich metallic blue, in which respects this species approaches the Java peacock.
It will have been seen that I cannot follow Mr. Wallace in the belief that dull colours when confined to the females have been in most cases specially gained for the sake of protection.
The characters which we have the best reason for supposing to have been thus acquired are confined to one sex; and this alone renders it probable that they are in some way connected with the act of reproduction.
This, however, occurred in an aged and confined Macacus cynomolgus, whose moustaches were "remarkably long and human-like.
From the very beginning of the Austrian conflict we strove and worked toward the end that this trouble remain confined to Austria-Hungary and Servia.
In the meantime the business which we shall take will beconfined to necessary matters which will not be of a controversial character.
Until the present our troops have confined their activity to the protection of our borders.
Reverting to his efforts to show his friendship for England, the Kaiser said they had not been confined to words.
She did not permit the Servian-Austrian dispute to be confined to the parties concerned.
What he said most definitely was this: That Russia could not possibly permit the Servian-Austrian dispute to be confined to the parties concerned.
