As plants, like animals, manifest phenomena of life, though to a much less conspicuous degree, it is not incomprehensible that the savage should attribute souls to them.
Stevenson, was recruited at Readville, and formed part of the Burnside expedition to North Carolina, and in the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, acted a conspicuous and noble part.
The regiment, after encountering the fearful storms off Hatteras, was among the first to land on Roanoke Island, and in the engagements which followed bore a conspicuous and honorable part.
Her most conspicuous treasure is a rare and valuable Russian censer of chased silver.
The same may be said of groups of women in less conspicuous classes, and when the war is over it is safe to say these women will continue to do as they please.
But the beetle knew his prey's habits of old, and he passed by these spots without a second glance, aware that this conspicuous activity was no more than a ruse to deceive predators like himself.
Among them a score or more of winged shapes loomed conspicuous for their great size; when you made proper allowance for the distance, you realized that they were immense.
To the question write down, always, the answer in large and conspicuous characters.
The postman who sat mounting guard over the netted window at the rear smiled wittily at the popular error which made him for a few brief moments so conspicuous a figure.
Many of them did, and on one occasion the Princess Charlotte was a conspicuous member of the touched and attentive audience.
The town indeed looks a mere appendage of this château, so conspicuousis the ancient stronghold of the Vivarais.
The plaza was little more than a rounded barnyard, the four gaunt and cowardly animals with blunted horns virtually lifeless, picadors and horses were conspicuous by their absence, and the two matadors were not even skilful butchers.
Among the first conspicuous and inspiriting results were the discoveries of the groups of islands known as the Cape Verdes and the Azores.
In recent years the city of New York has not shown conspicuous activity in adopting innovations and improvements on its street-railway lines.
For a few years the safety bicycle was the most conspicuous of vehicles on every country road, and partisans of outdoor life believed that the health and stamina of the generation were to be increased immensely by the new vehicle.
The valour of none shone moreconspicuous in that battle.
These made up a considerable body of men, nor was the bravery or activity of the others more conspicuous in the Volscian war.
Accordingly, whilst no class of persons is disdained, in whom conspicuous merit may be found, the Roman dominion increased.
The most conspicuous of all was himself, riding through the city in a chariot drawn by white horses; and that appeared unbecoming, not to say a citizen, but even a human being.
Most stations in the northern hemisphere have a conspicuous maximum at midsummer with little thunder in winter.
A bright aurora visible over a large part of Europe seems always accompanied by a magnetic storm and earth currents, and the largest magnetic storms and the most conspicuous auroral displays have occurred simultaneously.
At Oxford he was as conspicuous a failure as he had been at Carlisle, and it was said by his enemies that he was made a bishop because he was so bad a dean.
Of the other classical ruins in Attica the best-known is the temple of Athena at Sunium, which forms a conspicuous object on the headland, to which it gave the name of Cape Colonnae, still used by the peasants.
The curtain often shows several conspicuous folds, and the lower edge often resembles frilled drapery.
At some stations the minimum in the afternoon is indistinctly shown, but at Tokyo and Batavia it is mu ch more conspicuous than the morning minimum.
About the year 400 he came, no longer a young man, to Rome, where he lived for more than a decade, and soon made himself conspicuous by his activity and by his opinions.
The brilliant colouring which is so conspicuous in an Athenian sunset is due to the same cause.
The zoology of Australia and Tasmania presents a very conspicuous point of difference from that of other regions of the globe, in the prevalence of non-placental mammalia.
For many years he pursued this controversy in a long series of writings, of which the most conspicuous is the elaborate reply to his old associate and disputant, Faustus of Mileve (Contra Faustum Manichaeum, A.
It is decidedly less at Perpignan and Lisbon than at Potsdam, Kew and Greenwich, but nowhere is the seasonal difference more conspicuous than at Tokyo, which is south of Lisbon.
Frogs of many kinds are plentiful, the brilliant green frogs being especially conspicuous and noisy.
The above figures would be almost conclusive if it were not for the conspicuous differences that exist between the mean sun-spot frequencies for different 11-year periods.
They are also abundant in South Africa, where the order forms the most conspicuous feature of vegetation.
Then Orion spoke out; he explained fully what the reasons were that had moved the Patriarch to display such conspicuous and far-reaching animosity towards his father.
Moor, and the whites of his rolling eyes were ominously conspicuousin his black face.
Hardly a day passed for nearly a week that the big black headlines of the Times did not tell of dynamite found in obviously conspicuous places--in the court house, in the Sands opera house, in the schoolhouses, in the city hall.
Naturally a young man of his conspicuous talents in his exceedingly early twenties who has the vast misfortune to have a lamp of Aladdin to rub, asks genii first of all for girls and girls and more girls.
They were the "Haves" of the town,--conspicuous and highly respectable with rustle of silks and flutter of ribbons.
I thought I could do in the most unconstrained and least conspicuous manner by means of the little prefatory note which I beg of you to print in the small as well as the large V.
Conspicuous are the villages, Doebling, hard by the city Nussdorfer line, and Heiligenstadt, divided from Doebling by a ridge of higher land in a deep gorge.
His unpopularity, however, caused his deposition; and Joseph West was again nominated as governor in 1674, a post which he filled with conspicuoussatisfaction and success for eleven years.
For the same reason Adam Smith has given a conspicuous place to colonial trade in his Wealth of Nations.
If the Marylanders were conspicuous for their irreligion, they were equally noticeable for their industry.
The settlers of the middle colonies plunged with readiness into the intricacies of trade, and the merchant and tradesman were far more conspicuous figures in daily life than in either Virginia or Maryland.
The elegance of the minister was rendered the more conspicuous by the simplicity of the brigadier, who had contrived to moustache his dock, a very short one at the best, in such a manner as to render it nearly invisible.
They who maintain that we form but one great family, reason by certain conspicuous analogies, that serve as so many links to unite the great chain of the animal world.
The conspicuousthing about them is that which marks them out from the rest of the world.
Mr Whitehead has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so exceptionally qualified to undertake.
Aucassin and Nicolette stands out as a conspicuous exception, but this is pure French, and the more English romances, such as Guy of Warwick or Bevis of Hampton, take everything with intense seriousness.
Moreover, in it may be noticed that sympathy with the freshness and joy of nature which forms so strong a bond between Chaucer and his Scottish disciples, and is so conspicuousby its absence in the work of the English Chaucerians.
The question how far he himself attained to his own standard we are right in passing by unless there was any conspicuous contrast between his theory and his practice.
On the love of truth and justice I need not dwell; they are conspicuous in every page that Borrow wrote.
But the important thing is to avoid seizing upon one or two conspicuous geographic elements in the problem and ignoring the rest.
This national feeling is conspicuous in the English, Japanese, Swiss and Dutch, as it was in the ancient city-states of Greece.
The conspicuous fact in the foreign history of Japan has been its intimate connection with Korea above all the other states.
His dependence upon nature has become more far-reaching, though less conspicuous and especially less arbitrary.
The general fact of increasing nigrescence from temperate towards equatorial regions isconspicuous enough, despite some irregularity of the shading.
This is one geographic fact back of the conspicuous westward movement formulated into an historical principle: "Westward the star of empire takes its course.
The differentiating influence is conspicuousin the speech of island people, which tends to form a distinct language or dialect or, in an archipelago, a group of dialects.
Cannibalism was not habitual in the Tonga Islands, but became conspicuous during periods of famine.
Hence it is safe to predict that a conspicuous part of the future economic and cultural history of the Dark Continent will consist in the release of agricultural regions from nomad occupancy and dominion.
Johannes von Muller, in the introduction to his history of Switzerland, assigns to federations and migrations a conspicuous rôle in historical development.
The effect of mere current upon the course of trade and political expansion was conspicuous in the early history of the Mississippi Valley, before steam navigation began to modify the geographic influence of a river's flow.
Around our Parish Church and half-way up the steeple, there are, at almost every angle and prominence, rudely carved monstrosities, conspicuous for nothing but their ineffable and heathenish ugliness.
In all the country there was at that time no one whose successes were so conspicuousas to point him out as the coming man.
In that state he had risen from obscurity to be the most conspicuous man in the United States.
France affords a conspicuous example of self-devotion to ideals and of a noble conception of political and moral duties.
The devotion of the members of a community to each other is nowhere so splendidly conspicuous as in war.
Or was he now turning from her in dreadful abandonment because after this scandal she would be too conspicuous to make it agreeable to carry out the intentions--perhaps only the vaguely realized intentions--of the past?
Shyly she protested that she did not know the American dances, and then, to her astonishment, he turned to his wife, and the two hurried out upon the floor, leaving her alone and unattended at that conspicuous table.
