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  • Three, in- of the United States is the Presi- cluding the Lord Chancellor; thirty dent of the Senate.

  • The Presi- he need not promulgate them if four- dent must order a new election in teen votes have been cast against case of dissolution.

  • Auditors, all appointed by the Presi- dent of the republic.

  • Cardinal James |Claude Debussy, |dent of the United | | A.

  • If it be too hard, the action of the drill-stick will merely dent and polish it; if very soft, it will be worn away before the friction has time to heat it sufficiently: ivy is excellent.

  • The sulphur is melted on a heated stone, or in an old spoon, bit of crockery, bit of tin with a dent made in it, or even a piece of paper, and the points of the pieces of wood dipped in the molten mass.

  • On one instance, I selected a hilltop in Switzerland, on the way from Chambery to the Dent du Midi, during a violent and long-continued thunderstorm.

  • John Dent dashed them all aside, and took his son again in his arms.

  • John Dent passed him by, and came to the side of Olive Rothesay.

  • John Dent had gone out with his fellows, less to find the living than to bring back the dead.

  • And then John Dent broke into such a paroxysm of despair, that one by one his comforters quitted the cottage.

  • At last there was a tramp of many feet on the frozen ground, the latch was lifted, and John Dent burst in.

  • It is closer clipped round the edges, and it has a distinct dent upon the obverse side, just below the W of Wulfric.

  • The two coins were struck at just the same mint from the same die, and I examined them closely together, and saw absolutely no difference between them, except the dent and the amount of the clipping.

  • It has been clipped round the edge with a sharp instrument, and a slight dent has been made by pressure on the obverse side, just below the W of Wulfric.

  • Dent gave critical scrutiny to the scratched bar for a moment.

  • Dent was secretly glad about the delay, for he found his place lonesome.

  • And speaking of fights, Dent was certain that Mr. Cassidy had been in one recently, for his face bore marks that could only be acquired in that way.

  • Dent hovered on the flanks, his hands full of rope, and begged with great earnestness to be allowed to apply it to parts of Johnny's thrashing anatomy.

  • Dent knew just how it should be done, and was generous with the knowledge until Johnny zealously planted five knuckles on his one good eye, when the engagement became general.

  • Hopalong pushed Dent off him and managed to catch Johnny's flaying arm on the third attempt, while Dent made tentative sorties against Johnny's spurred boots.

  • After Red had departed, Hopalong and Dent smoked a while and then, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, Hopalong arose.

  • Moruill hilles, and afterward crossing the Dent brooke, that runneth thither from Dent towne, beneath Sebbar, they continue their course as one into the Burbecke, from whence it is called Lune.

  • On account of home demands Mrs. Thompson declined re-election and Mrs. Dent was made president.

  • The sublime Dent du Midi on the south, the proud Dent de Morcles on the north, picturesquely situated opposite each other, point out from afar to the traveller's eye the beginning of this latter basin.

  • Select a dry, well-seasoned block; nick or deeply dent the surface with a sharp stone.

  • The end of the plunger was flat, a very small portion of the ball touched it, and hence would naturally dent and wedge.

  • And I remember the dent just below the date.

  • It actually made a dent in my cranium and got me so wide awake that I couldn't drop off again.

  • She hurried upstairs for her new hair-ribbon, which she tied round what she called the newel post's neck, and sitting down she tried to smooth out the dent and soothe the newel post's hurt feelings at the same time.

  • And suddenly, in the midst of the pounding and kicking, Susan spied a big dent in the side of the post.

  • Perhaps Grandmother could have explained that dent as made by a trunk carelessly carried upstairs, but Susan always believed that she had made it.

  • If the dent remains, the baking must be continued, but if it springs back into place, the baking is completed.

  • Another fairly accurate means of testing baked mixtures that do not form a very hard crust consists in making a dent in the center with the finger.

  • Some aluminum utensils are very thin, and since they melt and dent very easily they are suitable for only light, careful handling.

  • J’ai une dent contre lui = I have a grudge against him.

  • Dent J’ai les dents bien longues aujourd’hui = I am very hungry to-day.

  • The Lune (saith master Moore) of some commonlie called the Loine, riseth at Crosseho, in Dent dale, in the edge of Richmondshire out of three heads.

  • So the Rainbow's Daughter touched his side lightly and sang: "Here's a dent by accident; Such a thing was never meant.

  • The Tin Woodman had watched Polychrome with much interest, and he now said: "Please take the dent out of my side, Poly, for I am more crippled than was the Soldier.

  • Down at the bottom of his heart John Dent was a little sentimental.

  • Parkinson was not yet satisfied that she couldn't dent the opposing line, and Cole and Wells were hurled against it, with the result that after three attempts the ball was not far from where it had started.

  • During that time there was a constant correspondence between Miss Dent and myself, but we only met once in the period of four years and three months.

  • If Colonel Dent should not succeed in securing the requisite amount of transportation for the 18th corps before reaching you, please have the balance supplied.

  • Two of his unmarried brothers were living at home at that time, and as I had taken with me from Ohio, my horse, saddle and bridle, I soon found my way out to White Haven, the name of the Dent estate.

  • Colonel Dent goes to the Chickahominy to take to you the 18th corps.

  • Later still, a skull was found near by with a hole in the centre, batting in one ear and a dent on the forehead to one side of the centre.

  • His next move was to make a dent in the manganese surface across the joint where the door fits the body.

  • Under the dent he made a sort of little cup of red clay and poured in the 'soup' - the nitroglycerin - so that it would run into the depression.

  • Grand Cornier and the Dent Blanche, and from this place a route was readily traced.

  • There was not much skin left; they were perfectly raw, and for weeks afterwards I was reminded of the ascent of the Dent Blanche by the twinges which I felt when I pulled on my boots.

  • The weather was superb, the men made light of the toil, and shouted to rouse the echoes from the Dent d'Herens.

  • Instead of descending to Aosta, I turned aside into the Val Pelline, in order to obtain views of the Dent d'Erin.

  • At the place where we were camped a remarkable echo could be heard (one so remarkable that if it could be heard in this country it would draw crowds for its own sake); I believe it came from the cliffs of the Dent d'Herens.

  • The Dent d'Erin had not been ascended at this time, and we had diverged from our route on the 4th, and had scrambled some distance up the base of Mont Brule, to see how far its south-western slopes were assailable.

  • During most of the day the Dent Blanche was perfectly unclouded, though, for a time, light fleecy clouds were hovering about its upper 2000 feet.

  • The Col de Zinal or Triftjoch, between the Trifthorn and the Ober Gabelhorn; and the Col Durand between the last-mentioned mountain and the Dent Blanche.

  • The Dent Blanche is a mountain that is little known except to the climbing fraternity.

  • It is not a better climb than the Dent Blanche.

  • Monte Rosa from Macugnaga, the Dom and Taeschhorn from Saas, the Weisshorn from north or east, the Dent Blanche from the Triftjoch, are objects as imposing each in its own way as is the Matterhorn from Zermatt or the Riffelalp.

  • There are better examples near the Dent du Midi, which may be more widely known than I imagine.

  • The Dent Blanche and all the other peaks mostly engaged in powdering their heads behind a curtain of cloud.


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