To account for the disappearance of his children he appeared very much grieved and said they had died from want.
In the event of a sudden disappearance of game they would be driven to extreme want and thousands would perhaps perish before they would of their own accord apply themselves to agricultural pursuits.
Agapitus took the hasty disappearance of the enemy for wild flight, he sighed deeply and thankfully and turned to go down to the field of battle, and to speak consolation to his wounded fellow-Christians.
This diminution of pressure proceeds from sudden rarefaction of the atmosphere--due probably to the disappearance of air in a particular place, or resulting from a change of the wind, or the formation of heavy rain.
The recession of the water was not always an ebbing or sinking in, but a diminution or disappearance of the same, like the water in a glass lessens in quantity, or becomes thoroughly solid, if salt crystallizes therein.
With the disappearanceof the spathose leaves, and the appearance of the ramules, the nodes and bulbs also disappear.
Every disappearanceof the Finite is a retrogression into the Eternal; for it must return to whence it came.
One of the most remarkable and unaccountable things that happened in the Convent, was the disappearance of the old Superior.
He had made few demands upon her, but this sudden and unexplained disappearance was a strain which even the merest friendship should not be called upon to bear.
She has totally disappeared, and, of course, her disappearancemakes Cousin Arthur more sure than ever that she is guilty; and oh!
The most common change which we have had an opportunity to notice is the decline and final disappearance of the practice under European influence; but we must not assume that every change has been in the direction towards extinction.
According to others the disappearance of slavery was largely effected by the great famines and epidemics with which Europe was visited during the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth {701} centuries.
The gradual disappearance of slavery in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages has also commonly been in the main attributed to the influence of the Church.
Another factor which led to the disappearance of serfdom was the encouragement which Sovereigns, always jealous of the great lords, gave to the villeins to encroach upon their authority.
The disappearance of mediæval slavery has further, to some extent, been attributed to the efforts of kings to weaken the power of the nobles.
We may discern two different ways in which this {385} gradual disappearance of marriage by purchase has taken place.
The decline and disappearance of the judicial duel, p.
The disappearance of corporal punishment in Europe, p.
In the latter case the money naturally disappears, and the people explain its disappearance by saying that the evil spirit has come and fetched it.
They themselves, however, are conspicuous for their rapacity, and by no means remarkable for honesty; and doubtless many a stray sheep is debited to the hyenas, of whose disappearance the Hottentots could give a very good account.
He gave a plain narrative of the wonderful disappearance of the sergeant, and did not conceal his regret that the ravisher had thus escaped his vengeance.
On the night of the murder, they had devised no plan for washing out the blood, and removing the body, which of course required to be disposed of, so that the disappearance of Ruhler might cause no suspicion.
Every year, owing to the disappearance of the buffalo from their former haunts, the Indians are necessitated to encroach upon each other's hunting-grounds, which is a fruitful cause of war between the different tribes.
It gave a chance of escape to Nicholas: it accounted for the disappearance of the corporal.
A reasonable whim, you will own, considering that the disappearance of the child is causing him grave anxiety.
He seemed almost dazed now with the awful catastrophe that had befallen him, and the fear that his own wretched life would have to pay the penalty for the disappearanceof the child.
Not until to-morrow would any alarm at their disappearance be awakened either at Chamonix or at Courmayeur.
He was sure now why Gabriel Strood had changed his name; he knew now why Gabriel Strood no longer climbed the Alps; and why Kenyon would answer no question as to the disappearance of his friend.
This work was found in the chamber of Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, the old gentleman whose sudden and mysterious disappearance has been noticed.
It is certain, however, that they proceeded in due time to the East, for they were seen in both India and Ceylon several months after their disappearance from Paris.
Did it not strike you as odd that a man who was torn with grief over the disappearance of a loved friend should think of modelling any sort of a statue on that very first day, much less such an inartistic one as that?
You say the disappearance occurred there, at night, and that he went into a bedroom.
Her disappointment at my escape evidently softened her toward her gallants, for I heard her exchanging views with the one whom she had lashed away from her in the morning, over the mysterious disappearance of her prisoner.
But I felt restless and nervous about the disappearance of Standwhile, and a few moments ago returned.
They related principally to the exact time at which the murder had occurred, and how soon the disappearance of Li Min had been discovered.
The secret of the disappearance of this mysterious sovereign of chance is known to but few.
Just as I direct, I may wish you to control the disappearance of that young one, who stands between me and our marriage.
The disappearance of Louise Moreau startles her yet.
The theories and conjectures respecting the disappearanceof this man are perfectly bewildering, and many are the excited discussions concerning it.
In his endeavour to ascertain whether a search of Mr. Samuel Boyd's house would afford a clue to the silence of its proprietor and to the disappearance of Abel Death, our reporter ran the risk of being arrested for burglary.
The murder was talked of everywhere, and in some mysterious way the disappearance of Abel Death was associated with it.
But the man was gone, and the mystery of his disappearance was still unexplained.
They are coupling hisdisappearance with the murder.
Secondary only in importance to the murder is the disappearance of Samuel Boyd's clerk, Abel Death.
The next witness was Mrs. Abel Death, who, despite her distress, gave her evidence of the disappearance of her husband and her search for him in a fairly clear manner.
Well, I was in the Bishop Street Station at about midnight when Mrs. Abel Death reported the disappearance of her husband and asked the assistance of the police.
We may be allowed to form a conjecture as to the disappearance of Christianity and as to the places where it will be the slowest to retreat, if we consider where and for what reasons Protestantism spread with such startling rapidity.
Even after thedisappearance of this superstition the sentiments awakened by it continue to exercise their influence, to ripen and to blossom.
I reasoned that this was the one that involved the disappearance of the automobile-coat.
Take the letter which I read from Miss Lytton, which was found following the strange disappearance of the note from Thurston.
This explains the inexplicable disappearance of evidence incriminating one person, Thurston, and the sudden appearance of evidence incriminating another, Dr.
I should have considered the young fellow's story only an attempt to gain a little reputation for pluck, if in any way I could have accounted for the appearance and disappearanceof the robbers.
The bravo, who did not perceive that he had been detected, and who could not account for the sudden disappearance of his prey, came straight on, his cloak wrapped about his face, his naked sword in his hand.
Ever since her return from her mysterious disappearance she maintained an impenetrable reserve.
He had arrived early at the ball, hoping to pick up information from some friend as to how the Second Bureau was taking the disappearance of Corporal Vinson.
