But recollecting the wide region the imagination has to traverse in order to connect the idea of detrimentwith the idea of price, we are disposed to allow that this mental circuit is enlivened with some shreds of grotesque imagery.
How is it, then, that the full detriment of this system was never taken into account before, and that the obverse of the present practice was not more generally adopted.
Did the manumitted blacks remain in Canada after their liberation, or did they seek a more congenial climate?
Our prying eyes soon discovered a trap door leading into the cellar.
In front is a gallery or balcony resting on a wall and buttresses at the edge of the cliff.
The Lieutenant General having brought so strong a reinforcement of men and necessaries for the settlement, was extremely urgent with Cartier to go back again to Cap Rouge, but without success.
We were only wrong in computing our distances and making them a little too great, which obliged us to follow a new course, and make a river, which led us round to Quebec, instead of going straight to it.
About that time it was bruited in London that my Lord Surrey had received no small detriment by the bad example he had at Cambridge, and the liberty permitted him.
Children were put to the study of the Talmud at a tender age, certainly to the detriment of the natural development of their minds.
The infuriated Don Juan acquiesced in this agitation, in so far as it did not tend to the detriment of the royal finances.
Durham, was shameless in his methods of twisting feudal or national law to the detriment of the taxpayer.
The colour on the tomb has suffered from whitewashing at various times, and the tomb has been scorched by the heat generated by the warming apparatus in the corner, to the detriment of the painted panel.
That for the time to come, the senate would look to the affairs of Syracuse, and would give it in charge to the consul Laevinus, to consult the interest of that state, so far as it could be done without detriment to the commonwealth.
In such matters activity could never sleep; for the towns anticipated modern nations in the faith that the advantage of one community must be the detriment of another, and competition and commercial jealousy ran high.
Forest fires ultimately make the land a desert, and are a detriment to all that portion of the State tributary to the streams through the woods where they occur.
My successor acknowledged the right, upheld the view of the politicians in question, and abandoned the commissions, to the lasting detriment of the people as a whole.
All his late acts had tended to thedetriment of Prussia.
Churchill good-humouredly acknowledged the justice of the satire; he had said, perhaps, all he cared to say to the detriment of Murphy, and was content with this proof that his shafts had reached their mark.
Footnote 11: In the very characteristic and amusing duet for the two quarrelling women in Auber's "Maurer" the realism of the musical representation is of some detriment to the grace of expression and delivery.
In fact, once one of the professors rose, at a meeting, ably reinforced by several others, to complain that you were actually crazy, and a detriment to the school.
Each time I have made off that way, from a multitude of varying employments, it has not been, surely, to the detriment of my successive employers.
In this way it was a very easy matter for the criminal to gain an intimate knowledge of conditions, which they used to their own advantage later on to the detriment of people generally.
That justice and sound policy forbid the Federal Government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another.
He was determined that the upper class should lose its fiscal privileges with as little further detriment as possible.
It was then proposed that the tithe should be commuted; and the clergy showed themselves as zealous as the laity to carry out to their own detriment the doctrine that imposed so many sacrifices.
In spite of their democratic spirit, these communities consented to have their trade regulated and restricted, to their own detriment and the advantage of English merchants.
Can and shall science take faith as a guide in many instances withoutdetriment to its own innate freedom?
Such violent exertion in a hot country was greatly to the detrimentof his health.
But the Suez Canal has disturbed this arrangement, and the European nations can more easily obtain their supplies direct through the Canal, to the detriment of our labour market.
It also tended to substitute horseplay and rowdyism for mere fun--greatly to the detriment of our self-respect and enjoyment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detriment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
