Bent upon employment for idle and destitute workmen, he exhibited in Philadelphia in 1775 the first spinning-jenny seen in America.
So few were they, however, and so delicate, that we feel justified in describing the spot as being utterly destitute of verdure.
I have actually acceded to a request from my American publishers, men wholly destitute of humor, to supply the reader with a translation of the few French sentences used in this little volume.
Some good, straightforward boys are whollydestitute of humor.
However, as long as things went well, she was willing to be amiable, and the young girl was at least not left entirely destitute of any confidant.
Sebastian was picked up by another ship, the captain of which, Antonio by name, most kindly befriended the destituteyoung stranger.
Until lately, however, this fact was supposed to be fabulous; and fishes were believed by the greatest masters of modern zoology to be utterly destitute of the parental instinct.
All these creatures are Mollusca very closely allied to the Cowry and the Trochus which we lately examined, but destitute of a shell.
The body is destitute of a thoracic shield, or conspicuous collar.
I was altogether destitute of Love, Friendship, or the Moral sentiments.
Besides this, the government denied all supplies of fresh raiment, so that the wretches who were destitute of friends or means, were alive and hideous with vermin in a few days after incarceration.
The bravest among Pizarro's men were discouraged at the news of the cowardly way in which they had been abandoned, and at the destitute condition in which they were left.
The youth replied by seizing one of the boxes, and lifting it with ease on his shoulder, shewing that, though destitute of fat, he had more than the average allowance of bone and sinew.
There were stout iron bars ready to be shot home the instant he condescended to pass through this entrance; but Caleb, as Croft called him, shewed himself sadly destitute of an inquiring disposition.
I can not well imagine how this may happen, unless with one who is either destitute of sense or rash enough to plead without preparation.
There is an abundance that is rich, an abundance that smiles amidst the gaiety of flowers, and there is more than one sort of power, for whatever is complete in its kind can not be destitute of its proper strength and efficacy.
It must be remembered, however, that nowhere is less allowance made than here for failing in memory or appearing destitute of the power of articulating many words together.
I never knew a woman so absolutely destitute of originality.
Destitute of mouth and tentacles, they occupy special cells, which are larger than the others.
The Conchifera are divisible into two sections, Siphonida, from the animals having respiratory siphons, and Asiphonida, destitute of them.
This passage from Limaceans entirely destitute of shells to those furnished with a very small shell, as in Testacella, is very exactly indicated by Nature.
The tissue of which the bodies of the Protozoa are composed is habitually destitute of cellular structure.
The Medusæ are not absolutely destitute of nervous system.
When we see one of these animals stranded upon the shore, it appears to be entirely destitute of all power of progression.
Among the Limaceans nearlydestitute of shells we find Testacella haliotidea (Fig.
The Chitons are very singular creatures, destitute of eyes, of tentacles, and without jaws; they bear upon their back in place of a shell a cuirass composed of imbricated and movable scales.
They constitute a family that are destitute of any covering.
The western coast of Africa, and the east coast of the American continent, are almost entirely destitute of great madreporic reefs, but they abound in the Caribbean Seas.
They appear to be altogether destitute of organs of sight.
The nutritive system is very simple, presenting in most of the family a single orifice in the centre of the lower surface of the body, destitute of teeth, performing the functions both of mouth and anus.
The Billechula numerals are, certainly, the same as the Hailtsa; the remainder of the vocabulary being unlike, though not altogether destitute of coincidences.
If any of the shipwrecked crew did survive the catastrophe, two months have already elapsed since the vessel went down, and they are perhaps in a destitute and even famishing condition upon some desert coast.
And now the daring tourist was slowly but persistently making his way over the rough and slippery ledge of rock, destitute alike of shrubbery or grass, know as the Passe de Marie, or the Maristien.
The Revolution, however, had left this good man so destitute that he was obliged to request a loan in order to make the journey.
The unfortunate course which he took to avenge himself for the atrocious wrongs heaped upon him by the party in Congress then in power led him to exile, where he died destitute and dishonored.
The idea entertained by each nation that all other nations are destitute of rights--in other 356 words, patriotism founded upon egotism, prejudice, and love of plunder.
Is it possible that this will was made by a pauper --by a destitute outcast--by a man who suffered for the ordinary necessaries of life?
Proba- bly there is not a book in the world entirely destitute 20 of truth, and not one entirely exempt from error.
When he contemplates the condition of a fellow-being destitute of religion, a fellow-being now travelling the thorny path to eternal fire, he should be filled with pity instead of hate.
He spoke of him as a base and shameless drunkard, utterly destitute of moral principle.
The fact is, Eusebius was utterly destitute of truth.
But the fact is that opportunities very inviting to such an attempt have offered; and the scheme itself was not destituteof some arguments, not wholly unplausible, to recommend it.
If these evil dispositions should spread much farther, they must end in our destruction; for nothing can save a people destitute of public and private faith.
In the hurry of London I was destitute of books; in the solitude of Hampshire I was not master of my time.
Mr. Mallet, a name among the English poets, is praised by an unforgiving enemy, for the ease and elegance of his conversation, and his wife was not destitute of wit or learning.
That philosophic divine supposes, that, in the period between death and the resurrection, human souls exist without a body, endowed with internal consciousness, but destitute of all active or passive connection with the external world.
But my ardour, destitute of aid and emulation, was gradually cooled, and, from the barren task of searching words in a lexicon, I withdrew to the free and familiar conversation of Virgil and Tacitus.
My condition seemed as destitute of hope, as it was devoid of pleasure: I was separated for an indefinite, which appeared an infinite term from my native country; and I had lost all connexion with my catholic friends.
At Crassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity: but on my return to England, I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless.
He had formed a company of gentlemen and ladies, some of whom were not destitute of talents.
Moreover, a large majority of the church members are destitute of active piety; to put the interests of religion into the hands of such men would seem to be a dangerous experiment.
These falls were occasioned by the passage of a high range of mountains; beyond which the country stretches into a vast level plain, wholly destitute of timber.
The men are completely destitute of beard, and both men and women, are intensely ugly.
No people are found entirely destitute of clothing when the weather is cold, and if they can manage to obtain garments of any sort at one time of year they can at another.
The condition of the Wallas 'is the most miserable that it is possible to conceive; their mode of living, the most abject and destitute known to man.
One day a gang of dirty Arabs in the market-place dressed up a blind beggar in clothes such as Israel wore, and sent him abroad through the town to beg as one that was destitute and in a miserable condition.
At every step their numbers had increased but their substance had diminished, for only the destitute had joined them.
Boston, for the benefit of our disabled comrades, and the needy and destitute wards of the "Grand Army.
The branches seemed destituteof sap, as the leaves were of verdure; they had not reached maturity, and yet possessed none of the lithe grace of saplings.
Or perhaps he has talent, but is destitute of the requisite tact to make it tell upon the world.
Mr. Shellabarger was logical and effective but he was destitute of imagination utterly.
The father was an austere county judge, largely destitute of the rich equipment for the profession for which the son was distinguished.
Soon after the inauguration the President was informed that the small garrison in Fort Sumter was nearly destitute of provisions and that an attempt to add to the supply would be resisted.
With great military capacity, he was destitute of the military spirit.
On one occasion, leading Republican members of Congress engaged in a movement for a change in the Cabinet; a movement which was without a precedent and wholly destitute of justification under our system of government.
But General Grant was destitute of the war spirit, and he chose to exhaust all the powers of negotiation before he would advise a resort to force.
There were some men of wealth in the Coalition Party but the three places that I have named were held by men who were destitute of even the means of well-to-do mechanics and tradespeople.
