Remember," said the Duke anxiously as he opened the door and peered out to see if anybody was on the staircase, "remember that you must take every precaution against damaging the exurotr.
As for Miran, the fellow would probably heave a sigh of relief, because he'd be rid of a troublesome fellow who could carry damaging stories of a certain conspiracy to the Duke of Tropat.
By their aid he can pick up minute objects, draw insects out of crevices without damaging them, and pluck the tiniest flowers without harming their petals.
There's never been a time yet when a body could produce direct, damaging evidence against him.
If they had heard of this movement as soon as they ought, and had been ready to follow immediately, it is quite possible that they might have inflicted a damaging blow on their adversaries.
My father fell at Coronea when I was but a mere child, and the loss of a father is especially damaging when his son is rich and noble.
Both types have a mahogany finished case with rubber feet to prevent damaging furniture.
Lay a flat tool such as a chisel or file on the top edge of the ease to avoid damaging the ease when prying off the connectors.
Wild animals do not take in an especially large amount of salt, and yet I have never heard of wild animals damaging their health because of this.
Money is used in the country because of the influence of the city (the damaging influence of urban commercialism).
The business had grown to such proportions in Brooklyn that its flourishing existence there, practically without interference by the authorities, gave rise to a very damaging political scandal.
There must be some meaning in so widely held an opinion; and, on our side, there are damagingadmissions by many witnesses.
You could not suppress these differences and these debates without damaging our cause.
Mr. Flint found time, too, to write some carefully worded but nevertheless convincing articles for the Newcastle Guardian, very damaging to certain commanders who had proved unfaithful.
The Celebrity chafed, for this was as damaging a statement as could well be uttered against him.
I am sure I do not over estimate the damaging effect which the passage of the bill must have upon American credit.
This damaging blow further demoralized the majority which was eager for the Constitution.
And it was a damaging blow to his scheme of transferring to England our alliance with France.
On each fault system there is a greater probability of one or more damaging earthquakes of somewhat smaller magnitude than the postulated event.
Estimates of property damage for the most probable catastrophic earthquake on the Southern San Andreas (Richter magnitude 8+) and for the less probable but more damaging one (Richter magnitude 7.
If that's a damaging admission, it's his fault, not mine.
But, don't you see that is most damaging to your own side of the story.
In this particular instance the appeal to what he would have considered cool common-sense was utterly damaging to him.
Again, when they were once more upon Scottish soil, they struck a damaging blow at Hawley's army at Falkirk.
The theater managers complained at once that the Chicago catastrophe had a most damaging effect on receipts.
Undismayed by the convincing character of the testimony which had been given, the attorneys for Bucholz labored diligently and ably to explain away the damaging proofs which had been adduced.
The change in him was wonderful--the depression of spirits had disappeared entirely, and this effect had been produced by a proposition to dispose of one who might prove a damaging witness against him.
Do you think you can clean off the top part without damaging the painting underneath?
If Westray had sought far and wide for means of damaging his own cause, he could scarcely have found anything better calculated for that purpose than these last paragraphs.
I informed him how much troubled I had become for fear he was damaging the cause he had so much at heart by the undue severity of his style.
He is secretly sowing tares, with the malicious design of damaging or destroying the wheat.
In this case it should be a very loose fit to the hole, the grip will be obtained by rolling up a piece of paper and inserting it in the tail pin hole, the screw can then be used against this inside without damaging the block.
Yet we may fairly take it from them that rumours damaging to Salisbury were in circulation.
The biplane took the ground sideways, breaking its landing-chassis anddamaging the plane-ends which came first in contact with the earth.
