In N the carbide is held in a considerable number of small receptacles, two only of which are shown in the drawing, provided with detachable lids and hinged bottoms kept shut by suitable catches.
For economical reasons, therefore, one large central source of light is best in an apartment, but for physiological and æsthetic reasons a considerable number of correspondingly smaller units are preferable.
On each side there is a row of elegant houses, inhabited chiefly by the noblesse, of which there is here a considerable number.
We passed through a considerable number of ships and vessels lying at anchor, and landing at the water-gate, repaired to an inn called La Croix de Malthe in the neighbourhood of the harbour.
Nevertheless these plants, whilst still protected by the net, spontaneously produced a considerable number of self-fertilised capsules.
It should however be observed that as only a few plants of some species, whilst a considerable number of others, were measured, the value of the mean or average heights of the several species is very different.
Bonpland and myself collected a considerable number of materials, the publication of which may throw some light on the history of nations, and advance the study of nature.
During the week, however, that I continued in this city, a considerable number of copies were disposed of, and a fair prospect opened that many more would be demanded.
I had great hope that by means of these a considerable number of New Testaments would be sold.
It would certainly tend to bring a considerable number of English to Spain," said I, "and it would not be the first time that the son of a Carlos has married a Princess of England.
A considerable number of people are thrown out of employment, who bid one against another, in order to get it, which sometimes lowers both the real and the money price of labour.
A considerable numberof observations bearing on this question are given by Goebel in his "Experimentelle Morphologie der Pflanzen", Leipzig, 1908.
Hence the reconstructed maps of Europe, the only continent tolerably known, show a considerable number of islands in puzzling changes, while elsewhere, e.
Free and democratic communities, then, will always contain a considerable number of people enjoying opulence or competency.
God, therefore, stands in no need of general ideas; that is to say, he is never sensible of the necessity of collecting a considerable number of analogous objects under the same form for greater convenience in thinking.
The majority of them were simply scholarly business men who would drop in to read the sacred books for an hour or two, but there was a considerable number of such as made it the occupation of their life.
Besides the friends he purchased, George III possessed a considerable number of enthusiastic and conscientious supporters.
A considerable number of the Body Guards, who were wounded on the 6th of October, betook themselves to the infirmary at Versailles.
It was at that time proposed to hire a considerable number of persons in order to secure loud acclamations when the King and his family should make their appearance at the play upon the acceptance of the constitution.
They had a considerable number of horses, and large troops of dogs.
They had a considerable number of cattle, and were transporting their household furniture in large, heavy wagons.
We saw a considerable number of them, and, with the exception of a small bird like a sparrow, it is the only inhabitant of this elevated part of the mountains.
It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands and also buy or hire others to labor for them; but this is only a mixed and not a distinct class.
A considerable number of prisoners and a large amount of stock were the result of the movement, but it was very evident that there was a waste of energy in the employment of such forces for such an end.
For these mingled reasons of health and of strategy a considerable number of burghers united in this district under the command of the Bothas and of Smuts.
A few were killed, and a considerable number taken, 270 being the respectable total of the prisoners.
The ship immediately filled and sank, with above a thousand Spanish sailors on board, besides a considerable number of soldiers.
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