So she mounted the stairs laboriously, counting herself lucky indeed in finding the upper part of the house quite deserted, and shutting the lumber-room door when she was well within it, she proceeded to open the door of the closet.
For the conversion of those natives, ten ministers will be needed, countingone minister to each five hundred tributarios.
All the men, counting those maimed, number two hundred and sixty.
These latter will amount to ten thousand souls, but more rather than less, counting the women and children.
There is need of six ministers of the gospel, counting the one priest that it has.
Four mounted gendarmes surrounded the carriage; thus, without counting the driver, there were eight men to guard one poor wretch.
As he lay upon the grass counting them with every appearance of delight, I was led away by the soldiers.
The house itself is three stories high, without counting the attics under the roof.
In most experiments, the experimenter uses significantly less than 50 percent of the processor time simply because those experiments requiring the sophistication of the computer also have rather low counting rates.
The amount of processor time available to the other users varies inversely with the experimenter's counting rate and the amount of processing he does on his data.
Even Margaret caught some of the enthusiasm, so that I whispered to her, "You beat our Kate at counting your unhatched chickens.
He did ten miles in fifty minutes by my watch, accurate timing andcounting from one milestone to another.
In counting out nine cents, as change, the seller handed the man the new penny he had just received from a stranger.
He thought for a moment counting on his fingers, then said: “I know seven.
From the counting rooms, from the laboratories, and from the American factories the needs of the Government called to Washington several hundred men, experts in a thousand lines, and put them into American officers' uniforms.
Without counting any transportation costs or the expense of handling at all, each man's yearly supply of food cost more than $165.
He was counting aloud now, his voice like the moan of a man on the rack.
The idea came to him that he was counting his own flickering pulse-throbs for the last time.
The blind man had begun to beat time with his hand, countingunder his breath: "One!
But here is a very rough counting scale that may be given, with the warning that it is far from exact: For every one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and forty words count one minute for delivery.
That will beat sound, for that will go more than a thousand miles while you are counting one.
Morse was familiar with all that; he had been educated at Yale College, and he knew that the sound of a gun will travel a mile while you are counting five; but quick as that is, he wanted to find something better and quicker still.
Grimmelshausen intends him to be a "Wunderkind"--a youthful prodigy; and such an explanation is far more likely than that the author is simply careless and countingon the carelessness of his readers to conceal the incongruity.
Here should be mentioned a custom which obtains in Mikir of counting by fours; a group of four is cheke or chike, which corresponds to the Boro zakhai (jakhai).
This system is used for counting such things as eggs, betel-nuts, fowls, etc.
This method of counting by fours is common throughout the Aryan languages of Northern India, where a group of four is called (ganda.
Teddy began to stare at the green square so hard that he scarcely winked, but he heard the Counterpane Fairy counting on in her thin little voice until she reached FORTY-NINE.
And at a table sat the old man himself; the only living creature there; his white face pinched and sharpened by the greediness which made his eyes unnaturally bright--counting the money of which his hands had robbed her.
My dear girl, that's just what I am counting upon!
Captain Fanshawe had found out her address, and it was Christmas-time, when a visitor was justified in counting on a hospitable reception.
For fear of losses, we had received a few head extra, and, on counting them over, found we had not lost a single hoof.
But what's the use of counting the chickens so soon?
Counting Nancrede, we had twelve men in the saddle in our down-river outfit.
I'm certainly counting on seeing Mrs. Rayner then.
Yes," he added, with a gratified start, aftercounting the money.
Before any of these acts there must have been the disposition of mind and will which Paul describes as 'counting it not a thing to be grasped to be on an equality with God.
Now, it is to be observed that this 'counting worthy' refers mainly to a future estimate to be made by God of the completed career and permanent character brought out of earth into another state by Christian souls.
It is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains.
Doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind eachcounting other better than himself; 4.
It is not usual for a man who has 'suffered the loss of all things' to follow their disappearance by countingthem 'but dung.
Joseph followed alone, of course, not counting in the little procession.
Three-and-twenty, counting one little boy, who came by himself.
There are two or three incomes perhaps in Europe, not counting crowned heads, which approach your own, Mr. Beck, but they are saddled.
Phillis, countingthe days, remembered, with a little prick of conscience, that Jack Dunquerque had never told her a single word concerning her second guardian.
The work consists of about forty figures in all, not counting Cupids, and is divided into four main divisions.
But the earl was in no mood for balancing probabilities or counting cost.
And it was not eight years ago," she said, counting on her fingers.
Valentini was disagreeably surprised by Fru Bjork's plan; he had been counting on several weeks more to conduct his siege of the girl's heart, and this sudden departure dashed the untasted cup from his lips.
