On the way to my house I was elaborating a story to the effect that my overcoat had been stolen from a restaurant where I and my client had dined.
He read from notes, elaborating them as he went along, for the benefit of the women, who had not been fully informed.
On the battlefield or in the senate-house, or at the counter of merchant adventurers, this work is slowly elaborating itself.
The biting satire, the sharp humor, the rapid development of situations, are only excelled by his dramatic sense, which makes him pass rapidly from descriptions, without elaborating them to the form of dialogue.
His impulsiveness keeps him from elaborating his sketches into long novels, such as Spektor and Dienesohn have produced.
After thus elaborating the movement, he hastily copied it all, as it is now printed.
Probably he submitted the sketch to Raaff before elaborating the song; it coincides in all but a few unimportant alterations with the later elaboration.
The author or authors of 'The Everlasting Gospel' illustrated this very conception by elaborating a thesis really more destructive of the Catholic faith than Catharism itself.
For such men their study was their picture; they devised tents and huts in wild glens and upon waste moors, and spent weeks in elaborating their details directly from nature, instead of painting at home from sketches on the spot.
In these he appears to have sketched the outline of a new conception of social science, which he was now elaborating with more attempt at system and brevity than he had been accustomed to use.
Social Organization Until recently there has been more interest manifested in elaboratingtheories of the stages in the evolution of society than in analyzing the structure of different types of societies.
Then he proceeded to tell the board how he could overcome the fortress, elaborating on his remarks to Beverly.
Daily she sent glowing letters to her father, mother and brothers in Washington, elaborating vastly upon the paradise into which she had fallen.
I answered that I should be there shortly, and, while elaborating this proposition, I managed to inspect the French poodle's collar, on which was engraved the name of the fair owner.
The atrophying muscles of the digestive tube, unable to hurry on the mixed products of indigestion; fermentation; and micro-organisms inciting fermentations and elaborating toxic alkaloids, poison and disorder the functions of life.
The higher musical fancy has many ways of expressing itself or of elaborating musical ideas, but there are two of its characteristic modes which the student will do well to observe at the start.
And the only contrivance by which he could surely reckon on success was to insert the Covenant in the Peace Treaty and set before his colleagues an irresistible incentive for elaborating both at the same time.
If they had been capable of elaborating a comprehensive plan, they no longer possessed the means of executing it.
It came to Ann Veronica one night after a long talk with Miss Miniver, as a sudden remarkable thing, as a grotesque, novel aspect, that this slowly elaborating biological scheme had something more than an academic interest for herself.
It is much easier to picture Demosthenes speaking from the rostrum which still remains, than to imagine Socrates propounding here his questions and elaborating the method of reasoning to which his name has been given.
The next forty-five years of his life he spent in expounding and elaborating his doctrines, in formulating rules and in perfecting the details of his system.
The first three lines turn on a contrast that Donne is fond of elaborating between the extreme Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only and the Catholic, especially Jesuit, doctrine of co-operant works.
At the time we are speaking of he served in the Ministry of the Interior under Kochubay, and was engaged in elaborating plans of reform for the various departments of the civil service.
In elaborating this conception Anaxagoras proved himself one of the most remarkable scientific dreamers of antiquity.
I shut my eyes and gave rein to my thoughts, gradually elaborating the wild dream of a thinker who was unaware that he had at last dropped off to sleep.
In her leisure moments, as she moved about the house, Margaret would employ herself in elaborating this young man, in adding to him yet another and another perfection.
The preceding diagram, elaborating that of Place, Work, Folk (p.
A factory, or other producing establishment, or a town made up of such establishments, is an agency for elaborating some commodity consumed by society at large; and may be regarded as analogous to a gland or viscus in an individual organism.
She wanted to get a glimpse of the work of art that he was elaborating with such care before he discovered her.
The destiny of all things, mademoiselle," he remarked, still elaboratinghis work.
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