But, I say, old fellow, you have not the cheek to tell me that they want you to correct their cocker or spoon for them by proxy?
But will you correct my sketch, or give me another according to your own ideas?
You are quite right, however, in your surmise that I have other clients than those who, like yourself, think I could correct their verbs or their spelling.
If this be the correct explanation, the path of the originating fault may be taken as that indicated by the broken line in Fig.
Coseismal lines were defined by Mallet as long ago as 1849, but, owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the correct time, they have so far been of little service in the investigation of earthquakes.
Major Dutton regards this estimate as probably correct within two miles.
Another discovery was the assignment of a correct description to the glosses found in a document known as the Vespasian Psalter; so called because it is an early Latin Psalter, or book of Psalms, contained in a Cotton MS.
It took me some time to win the child's confidence, but when I did, I had no trouble to correct many of her habits, and I soon taught her to dress herself and learn to read.
With a single stroke of this bow, he could correct the erroneous, or animate the lethargic.
The aids and animations of the leg, the bridle-hand, the body, and the voice, may be made sufficiently severe tocorrect and render a horse obedient in all ordinary cases.
To correct or avoid these and similar faults, is important.
In many instances, the power of a movement performed by the hand may be destroyed by the omission of a correct accompanying aid or defence, with the body, or the leg.
The king was not the god of the people; it were much more correct to designate him as the proprietor of the state.
If Herodotus is correct in the period which he assigns to Homer, the Greeks were still unacquainted with Italy a century before the foundation of Rome.
But, frankly, does the nature of my own occupation in the arts preclude me from pronouncing a correct judgment on portraits and portraiture?
Conan Doyle honestly gave his opinion, and the correct one, that taking one thing with another you can make just as much money in England as you can in America or the Colonies.
I have no hesitation in saying that the latter opinion is the correct one.
He is not trying to hide, if we are correctin our surmise, and his eccentricities of dress and deportment would attract attention to him anywhere.
The greenest I see look quitecorrect and starched and tailor-made.
Thus, in preparing the Cameos for separate publication, it has been found better to supply what had previously been omitted, as well as to try to correct and alter the other Cameos by the light of increasing information.
We therefore demand that the powers of government be entrusted to a committee of Barons and Prelates, who may correct abuses and enact sound laws.
I was glad that his habits and his friends were all so correct and so entirely free from the unconventionality which is sometimes noticed in the social doings of young artists.
But really it was scarcely more impossible to conclude how he got in, than to imagine Graham Leroy getting in at all, except in correct and ordinary fashion.
The correct quantity of oil must be fed to the burner and it must be properly vaporized by heat.
Colored light is made of thecorrect quality which does not affect photographic plates of various sensibilities.
Music room would, perhaps, be a more correct name for it, since I think it may be fairly doubted whether the Arabs ever cultivated music to such an extent as to warrant our using the term concert in speaking of it.
Mr. Lecky is hardly correct when he says that nothing analogous to the ancient oracles was incorporated with Christianity.
Just as there is only one correct opinion concerning a mathematical problem, so also with regard to things of the higher worlds; but before one can arrive at this knowledge he must first prepare himself.
And just as everyone who chooses the correct method may learn to write, so too can everyone who searches after the right way become a disciple, and even a teacher.
Now, at last, it is possible that a correct understanding between the candidate and the Initiate begin to arise concerning the spheres of the higher worlds.
Here we must recognize quite clearly that we are dealing with a consensus of opinion that amounts to a sign of the times, which we may not simply pronounce as incompetent, nor deal with as possibly a correct but unjust criticism.
All I can say is that if their hair is the real malazite blue and the correct corazine green, they could have anything they like in the Land of Gee-Whiz; for these are the Royal Hereditary Colors.
She spoke with the sudden seriousness which is often meant to correct an unfair or indiscreet sally, having a bitterness against Klesmer in her secret soul which she knew herself unable to justify.
He's got something the matter inside him," said Jacob, coming up to correct this erratum of his grandmother's.
Only by those who hold it a sign of weakness to be obliged for an idea, and prefer to hint that they have implicitly held in a more correct form whatever others have stated with a sadly short-coming explicitness.
But Sir Hugo was so strongly of the same opinion that he could not correct it as a feminine mistake; and his ill-humor at the disproof of his disagreeable conclusions on behalf of Gwendolen was left without vent.
In fact, his mind seems so broad that I find my own correct opinions lying in it quite commodiously, and how they are to be brought into agreement with the vast remainder is his affair, not mine.
Her eyes swept across Grandcourt as she made this movement, but there was no language in them to correct the carelessness of her reply.
But do you know I am bold enough to wish to correct you, and require you to understand a joke?
Again though, as I have said, a child will try to give a correct local arrangement, for example putting the nose between and below the eyes, he does not always reach accuracy of localisation.
Again, if, as we have supposed, children's fears are mostly due to a feeling of insecurity in view of the unknown, they may be said to correct themselves to a large extent.
Supposing that this is thecorrect view, there still remains the question whether children's imagination always plays in the same fashion.
The imitative impulse of childhood is wont in these cases to follow out the correct and prescribed order with punctilious exactness.
With children of finer perception the transition to a correct profile view may be carried much further.
Was this playful punning or a half-serious attempt to correct a misstatement?
The correct and most thorough method of cleaning a chimney is to do so manually or to employ modern exhaust or vacuum methods used by furnace repairmen.
All fireplaces should be built in accordance with the few simple essentials of correct design given herein if satisfactory performance is to be realized.
Even though the unit is well designed, it will not operate properly if the chimney is inadequate; therefore the rules for correct chimney construction must be adhered to with the modified unit as well as with the ordinary fireplace.
No doubt the care and pains which Norman had needed to bestow on his little adopted sister, had done much to correct the native thoughtlessness of his character, and no doubt her love and care would henceforth make the happiness of his life.
Mr Greenleaf had heard such words before, and he had taken them "for what they were worth," as a correct thing for a minister to say.
If Fanny has faults, it is better that Arthur should know them for the sake of both--that he may learn to have patience with them, and that she may learn to correct them.
Truly that is not a correct attitude, monsieur, but really it was no reason for killing him, was it now?
In fact, I suspect that you yourself would endorse it emphatically, especially when I admit that the premise iscorrect from which the conclusion is drawn.
It would be more correct to say that I did my best to hasten, but so many of the villagers stopped me to offer their greetings and inquire the news that my progress was considerably retarded.
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