So doing will give increased command over the staff, and will not in any way detract from speed or general efficiency.
Without wishing to detract from the undoubted merits, in certain special cases, of these very big sticks, I am bound to say that, only being useful to a limited extent, they should not be encouraged.
We are very far from desiring even to do justice to poor Robert Greene, if in so doing we shall detract a hair's weight from the merits of William Shakespeare.
It is amusing to compare the French histories of the English with the English histories of the Americans, and to notice the similarity of the arguments they use to detractfrom their opponents' fame.
It may be as well to mention here, again, that James' accusations do not really detract from the interest attaching to the war, and its value for purposes of study.
Does it detract from its heavenly fulness and freeness?
If anybody on the stage should move, if a chair is moved or if a door is opened at the wrong time while the dialogue is going on, it would detract from the line and kill the play.
Cheap garments and inferior costumes detract from the dancer's ability to do the best work, however unconscious of this fact the dancer may be.
In other words, a too lavish production will detract from the dance itself and from the one who is performing the dance.
A bell would be heard by the audience and detract from the performance.
The course we take in this matter is not from any desire on our part to detract from him; for although we have some occasion that might lead us to that, our courage is not equal to it, and neither is it our use and wont.
Carlstadt comes forward and seeks to become a new doctor; “he is anxious to detract from my importance and to introduce among the people his own regulations.
The young man was not slow to associate himself in the enterprise; and in his desire for success there mingled generous thoughts and more kindly sympathies, which assuredly did not detract from the interest of the pursuit.
His madonnas often detract much from the idolatry which his church laboured to confirm.
His face is fuller and handsomer; and his thick mustaches give him a rough bold look, which does not, however, detract from his prepossessing appearance.
But, Netta, I have to endure some ill will, and cold looks, which detractfrom my happiness.
Prague, I'm astonished to hear you detract from the worth and honesty of your son-in-law, even in our private conversation.
I wonder if there is any truth in the rumor that Mrs. General Reynolds once taught a district school, and if she did, how much would that detractfrom the merits of her son, Lieutenant Bob.
Was it one to detract from the Cameron line kept untarnished so long?
That they were still poor did not detract from their happiness, but probably served only to promote it.
Her poetic enthusiasm and cultured mind did not unfit her for the common duties of life, or detract from her high sense of duty and service.
Does this notdetract from the mediatorship of Christ?
And how can this doctrine detract from the mediatorship of Christ when he is made the source, the origin, the end of everything?
If Catholic doctrine claimed this intercourse independently of the Theanthropos, it would certainlydetract from his mediatorship.
The decreasing length of each plane, the first eighty feet, the second sixty and the last forty feet, did not detract from the majesty of the structure and only added to its birdlike appearance.
The Herald is going to print nothing that will detract from the spectacular finish of what we shall try to do.
Nor does it at all detract from his credit that the enemy was much inferior in numbers; eleven to twenty-one.
She spoke and thought with independent perceptions and clearness, yet without the tactlessness and masculine abruptness that is apt to detract from feminine originality of reflection.
That he disclaimed all merit of his own, affirming that he had simply put together into shape all the scattered memoranda of the elder scholar, did not detract from the learning or from the value of his annotations.
Nothing which could detract from the reverence in which we hold the Scripture was implied.
Her icy silence did not detract from the delights of his gestation.
She had, for the first time, the curious feeling of being years older than he, yet this did notdetract from a new-born admiration.
But, not todetract from a nation, to which during my life I shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed that whatever this famous tower wants in height is amply made up in beauty and strength.
The French horsemen, taking their advantage, offered a skirmish, to detract time, till better opportunity served to give a charge.
