The lady thus criticised had now re-entered the room, and was busily engaged in studying the announcement of steamboat departures and arrivals, over the chimney.
Similar over-estimating had occurred previously, it is understood, through many oversea departures not being recorded by those who supplied information to the department.
In 1891 there was severe commercial depression, and by that time arrivals had annually decreased, and departurescame very near in numbers to the arrivals.
Of late years allowances have been made for unrecorded arrivals and departures in preparing the intercensus returns, and it may be hoped that in future the discrepancies will be less disconcerting than in the past.
These comments should not be construed as an underestimation of the usefulness of the simple intellectual test as a preliminary precaution in engaging employees or in detecting extreme departures from the mode or average.
The use of such tests in discovering such departures and variants as idiocy, imbecility and general stupidity has been amply justified by experience with them.
The Union was to be restored with as few departures from the ways of the Constitution as was possible; but such departures became his duty whenever he was thoroughly convinced that they were needful for the restoration of the Union.
The first and best known of these artistic departures was that of the Rookwood Pottery at Cincinnati, and again it was an amateur, Mrs Bellamy Storer, who founded an enterprise which has since produced some very original work.
Villeroy and Boch reproduced the old Rhenish stonewares, and many interesting new departures in addition, but mostly in German forms that have not commended the wares to other nations.
This fellowship may be broken by manifest departures from the faith or practice of the Scriptures, on the part of any church.
Departures from first loves are not uncommon in the church and out of it.
Yet there were many departures from a perfectly circular form.
These departures from the normal show a certain rough periodicity.
Hence there have been less radical departures from the present distribution during the relatively recent Cenozoic era than in the ancient Paleozoic because the submergence of continental areas has become less general and less frequent.
Hence the many lamentable departures from the spirit and precepts of the gospel, every day witnessed in the United Slates.
God forbid that it should be fancied that Christian sainthood is more tolerant of evil than worldly morality, or has any fantastic standard of goodness which makes up for departuresfrom the plain rule of right by prayers and raptures.
The expensive magnificence and luxury of Solomon's reign, and his departures from God into idolatrous worship, awakened the divine indignation.
There were dissensions and civil strife in Israel, in consequence of these departures from the Lord, and strange melancholy blindness to their preeminence over other nations.
A man who is left-handed, and a shell in which the spire turns in the wrong direction, are departures from the normal though a symmetrical condition, and they are well known to be inherited.
In the structure of the skeleton striking departures from the typical mammalian forms are noticeable.
But the most markeddepartures from the prairie surface are in the N.
But meanwhile also new departures had been made in each of the two parties.
But they were such departures as might be expected when an act is drawn up, by a person unlearned in the law, who, having the patent before him, aims at substantial rather than at literal conformity therewith.
The Massachusetts act undoubtedly contained departures from the terms of the patent.
But even so, the departures from standard usage that were unearthed were numerous and striking, and their tendency to accumulate in definite groups showed plainly the working of general laws.
He put the blame for it, and for various other departures from the strict canon of contemporary English, upon "the American common school, the American newspaper, and the American Dutchman and Dago.
We have seen that, while the priests ministered to the regular and recurring needs of the people, the Divine guidance in special emergencies and the Divine authority for new departures were given by the prophets.
Other species of mosquitoes may exhibit radicaldepartures from Culex pipiens in life-history and habits.
Indeed, the writer feels very much at a loss how to proceed in discussing this branch of the subject, and hardly knows what departures from undoubted health and vigor should be considered worthy of the title of disease.
For the departures from equilibrium which gluts and scarcities represent are always transient and are usually confined within narrow limits.
The further departures from this relation, which would follow from any likely applications of the postal principle, might not matter in themselves so very much.
In some Instances slight Departures are made from the Copy; and in all these, such Departures are also Departures from the Original.
Niles's Register for these years is full of accounts of the building, launching, and departures and arrivals of steam craft throughout the whole interior of the country.
Chart showing, by means of small maps, the actual precipitation, departures from normal precipitation, departures from normal temperature, and maximum and minimum temperatures.
Notice the temperatures at all the other stations which fall within the limits of the circle, and mark down at the proper places on the tracing paper, the + or - departures of these local temperatures from the standard temperature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "departures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
