His Commentary on the Romans is the most elaborate of all his works.
These elaboratearticles are written in a lucid and racy style, and invest with a rare interest the themes of which they treat.
He did not see Ella, but he heard her moving about, so knew that she was safe as yet; and Deede Dawson gave him some elaborate parting instructions, a little money, and a loaded revolver.
Those of Wykeham and Edyngdon on the south side of the nave have the space between two pillars screened off with elaborate tabernacle work of stone, and are groined above.
He makes elaborate arrangements for his year-day, with the whole service ordained for the dead, for ever.
Bayonne and St. Jean de Luz are neighbouring towns, and it is possible that the actor had (perhaps unwittingly) incurred the anger of the Countess, who devised this rather elaborate means of revenge.
The other, a very big and stout woman, in an elaborate crimson garment that resembled a teagown, rose and came to meet me with extended hand.
What captured Vera was chiefly the fact that it did not open at the top, as mostelaborate music-stools do, but at either side.
It has the charm and the distinction of absolute verity, a quality for which we may look in vain in more elaborate and ambitious publications.
The dark days are described with absolute fidelity, and this is a quality we may look for in vain 'in more elaborate and ambitious publications.
While such presentation is hardly looked for in more elaborate history of those times, Miss Gay's conception was a wise one, and the record she has given will preserve a most desirable part of the history of our section.
Sticklebacks build elaborate nests in the brooks and defend them with spirit.
These spiracles are the external openings of an elaborate system of air-tubes or tracheae (fig.
The course of development, too, is made very complicated by the elaborate metamorphosis undergone by many of the members of the branch.
Those animals which show the most elaborate and specialized communal life are the termites or white ants, the social bees and wasps, and the true ants.
Such elaborate instincts as these have been developed from the simplest manifestations of sensation and nervous function, just as the complex structures of the body have been developed from simple structures (see Chapter XXIX).
Where fishes of a kind specially used for food gather in great numbers at certain seasons of the year, fishing is carried on extensively and with an elaborate equipment.
The other systems of organs are well developed and in many respects more complex and elaborate than those of any of the other invertebrates.
Burns's powers were concentrative, and he could put into a song what a dramatist might elaborate into a five-act tragedy; but that is not to say that the dramatist is the greater poet.
The picture is given with simple conciseness, and he leaves it; nor does he ever attempt to elaborate a detail into a separate poem.
Upon the base areelaborate reliefs of the various campaigns commemorated.
Penn Mutual Life Building, with an elaborate facade, and the office of the Philadelphia Record.
Its most striking feature is its elaborate imitation of the style and even the manner of thought of the time of Queen Anne’s reign, in which its scenes are laid.
The book concludes with an elaborate examination of the feudal system in France.
Domestic commerce has been further facilitated by anelaborate network of canals.
An elaborate park system is in course of development, which will ultimately surround the city with parks and connecting boulevards.
The walls of this imposing building, forming a cross four hundred and twenty-six by two hundred and three feet, alone cost nearly two million dollars, and the interior with its twenty chapels and elaborate ornamentation, much more.
Some modern races, like the Zuñis, have an elaborateand highly mystical ritual, to the exhibitions of which none but the initiated are admissible.
The larvæ either resemble caterpillars or are pale, helpless maggots, devoid of limbs, for the welfare of which more or less elaborate provisions are made by the mother insect.
The man had settled himself, and ordered quite an elaborate dinner.
They had a somewhat elaborate dinner, and then Tom and Sam took the newcomers out for a walk up "The Great White Way.
I am only a simple American gentleman, and Monsieur de St. Aulaire's manners are too elaborate for such.
With a sour smile he got upon his feet, and, making an elaborate courtesy to Madame de St. André, passed through the colonnade from the bosquet.
Some of those same young gentlemen fairly rivalled the ladies in richness of attire, following the elaborate fashions of dress which General Washington had encouraged by his own example.
But whatever their opinion of his talents, Monsieur Necker's cordiality was above reproach, and it was with elaborate politeness that he presented the Americans to Madame Necker.
On the narrow foundation of an etymology mostly doubtful and often impossible, Philo, and Origen, and Jerome loved to erect an elaborate structure theological or philosophical doctrine.
The silence of a Friends' meeting is as much a rite as the most elaborate genuflexion before a highly ornamented altar.
However trivial the burning of incense may be in itself, it formed part of an elaborate and complicated system of ritual.
Accordingly the simplicity of the original doctrine was hedged about with an ingenious and elaborate apologetic.
Upon walls of a sombre crimson, various Implements of Torture are arranged with considerable taste, and an eye for decorative effect, the central space being reserved for more elaborate contrivances in wood and iron.
An elaborate group can be secured only with difficulty, and will never look quite natural.
Perhaps he had found it impossible to obtain in a more elaborate composition the result that he cherished most.
We look in vain for large and elaborate compositions.
He no longer worked on the stone, and abandoned all elaborate finished compositions.
At the same time, if rightly handled, they express certain æsthetic aspects of life better than more elaborate efforts.
La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine" (Whistler apparently was fond of using elaborate titles) is perhaps his finest work in vivid colouring.
True enough all his little squibs and elaborate bids for notoriety had some underlying truth which he wished to express.
Charcoal and chalk have a great similarity, and also lend themselves to elaborate composition, although the more delicate and lighter greys are frequently muddy.
But the Leyland room was overcrowded, with its elaborate ceiling, bulky chandelier and collection of blue and white porcelain on walnut shelves, broken by an endless repetition of perpendicular lines.
Although he had abolished blacks and dark tonal passages at an early date, he frequently painted on the plate with printer's ink, and went through an elaborate process of wiping.
They rode out about a mile and a half from Plevna, where they met two Russian officers, and after an elaborate exchange of polite courtesies the business of the conference was broached.
In our case, and in that of our immediate friends, these precautions have been taken--sometimes in a ratherelaborate manner.
The more recent development of an elaborate scheme of 'cross-correspondence,' entered upon since the death of specially experienced and critical investigators of the S.
All those higher and elaborate modes of expression are human counters; and the difficulties of dealing with them are human too.
With elaborate courtesy he handed Miss Rosey to the chair.
Resisting the proposition to enter then and there into an elaborate calculation of the value of his time and the expenses of the trip, Renshaw found himself at seven o'clock on the San Rafael boat.
Elaborate and complicated drawings having been prepared, the shipbuilder begins his work.
The saloons are fitted up in the most elaborate and costly manner.
We conceive this elaborate explanation to be necessary for some readers, and, therefore, don't apologise for making it.
It should consist of from five to ten Acts; it should have a celebrated story for its plot; it should represent heroic or godlike characters and good deeds; it should be written in an elaborate style, and be full of noble sentiments.
Elaborate treatises were written which laid down minute regulations for the construction and conduct of plays, and subjected dramatic composition to highly artificial rules of poetical and rhetorical style.
An advertisement board carried by one of the figures clearly shows that the satire--an elaborate idea badly worked out--has reference to the period when both actors were engaged at "old Drury.
Gives an elaborate estimate of the merits of the later caricaturists and a complete account of their lives.
Women have elaborate head ornaments, decking their hair with artificial flowers, butterflies made of jade, gold pins and pearls.
Again, it is due to the emperor K'ang Hsi that we possess one of the most elaborate compilations of the kind ever planned and carried to completion.
The simplicity of motive and directness of execution which had been the strength of the Sung art gradually gave way during the Ming era to complicated conceptions and elaborate effects.
Figure sculpture, generally represented by graceful figures on each side, which assisted to carry the shelf, was introduced, and the overmantel developed into an elaborate frame for the family portrait over the chimneypiece.
The prosperity of Chile is intimately connected with her ocean-going trade, and no elaborate system of national railway lines and domestic manufactures can ever change this relationship.
The speeches of the Book of History (see Literature) are more manifestly fictitious, by many degrees, than the elaborate orations in Thucydides and Livy.
The same elaborate ceremonialism that characterizes the Chinese funeral customs is found also in their marriage rites and the rules of their social intercourse generally.
Stanley Hall's initiative has led to elaborate inquiries, the principal periodical for the movement being the Pedagogical Seminary.
In the British Museum is a set of prints brought from the East by Kaempfer in 1693, in which eight colours and elaborate gauffrage are used.
Some of them, on the other hand, went in for senseless display, and purchased beautiful armour and fine horses: others procured as provisions of warelaborate dinner-services or some other contrivance to stimulate a jaded taste.
He next delivered a pompous and elaborate speech in the senate, 37 where he was loaded with far-fetched compliments by the members.
Mainly connected with the elaborate system of espionage.
On the trolleys, then, the henequen leaves are conveyed to the hacienda buildings, where an elaborate machinery is waiting to crush out the gold-yielding fibre.
There is a general avoidance of well-water for drinking purposes, and as a substitute the mostelaborate arrangements are made for storing every drop of rain-water during the wet season.
This building had been surmounted by a sort of elaborate stone combing extending the full length of the front and reaching a height of about 15 feet.
Some twelve months back he had set up an elaboratecrane apparatus worked by hand-winches which, projecting considerably over the cenote, and moving in a large half-circle, supported a heavy iron dredger.
That on the north still shows traces of elaborate carvings from floor to roof, and on two pillars, where was once a doorway, are figure carvings.
Over the doorways the ordinary design is broken by specially elaborate carvings which usually take the form of a V shape bordered with a lattice pattern and small projecting squares.
