Instead of being evenly balanced, his mind was often swayed by delusive fancies.
In arguing this case, I have striven to argue evenly on both sides, as though I were retained by both plaintiff and defendant to discover the truth.
Others of the collection show less definite resemblances to French models and are less evenly and carefully composed; but there are in most of them traces of an alien exactitude and an alien wit.
I know not whether in this case the sum of human happiness will be greater, but it will certainly--it and the sum of human dullness--be more evenly distributed.
By this means the colour is evenly scattered without producing 'blurs' or 'blots.
In the opposite case a mixture made of chalk and glue, or something of the kind, must be put on first, and very evenlysmoothed after being dry.
The plates are to be rubbed hard and evenly with balls of cotton wool dipped in this mixture.
This done the new canvas has to be fixed upon it by means of a mixture of glue, varnish, and turpentine, and the substance of the picture pressed tightly and evenly against it by means of warm irons.
Then any tough paper is covered evenly with glue, having about one third more water than is generally employed for wood work.
Now breathe on the glass, and if the breath deposits evenly the plate is clean.
A coating of melted wax was then evenlyspread over all, and when it had become quite cold was finally polished.
Make a stiff ointment with butter or lard and black lead or lamp black, and smear it thinly and evenly over soft writing paper by means of a piece of flannel; the next day wipe off the superfluous portion with a piece of soft rag.
This can be accomplished by shaking out and evenly spreading each forkful and repeatedly and evenly tramping down as the bed is built up.
This has the advantage of evenly spacing the plants and so locating the rows that the plants will be little liable to injury from drip.
Three evenly spaced stars lying in a straight line that is exactly three degrees in length form the Belt of Orion, and from the Belt hangs the Sword of Orion, outlined by three faint stars.
Paint a porch floor or other surface evenly and without laps.
Cover this roof with a foot of hay or straw or grass, and cover {62} that again evenly with about four inches of stiff clay.
Rub the pieces in corn meal or powdered crumbs, thinly and evenly (that browns them), fry in plenty of hot fat to a golden brown, sprinkling lightly with salt just as the color turns.
Marjorie had arrived in London three months ago, to find that overcrowded metropolis fairly evenly divided between two classes--the people who had taken up war work, and the people who were doing it.
It is worthy of notice that names ending in ingham or ington are not confined so closely to this district, but are spread much more evenly all over England.
Taking the bordarii or cottage tenants first, the map will show howevenly they were scattered over the whole country.
Danish district, were pretty evenly dispersed all over England.
Then he shod the horse as the hunchback directed, paring the hoof and setting the nails evenly through the outer rim, clipping the nail ends, and clinching them by doubling the cut points.
The columns were evenly spaced and at a spot exactly between each two columns was a great cresset of stone.
Practically indestructible, and evenly matched, they had fought to a standstill.
They held there, like two wrestlers evenly matched.
Before you split or divide the sheet, press the paper-knife all along the fold, so as to flatten the crease, and make it cut evenly and easily.
Lay the grass evenly and, beginning about half-way down, wind brown wool or silk thread round and round closely and, very like splicing a cricket bat, work downwards towards the thick part of the grass stalk.
Your own observation will supply you with other little and valueless things, which will become valuable as soon as you stick them evenly and closely on a foundation of their own colour.
This species is recognizable at once by its regular, uniform, depressed, annulate or pitted sporangia, scattered evenly over the habitat of rotten leaves or wood.
The men were so evenly matched that it was impossible for either to score a victory.
Well, I'll work evenly and regularly, and, perhaps, pull off one or other of them.
Proceed in like manner until you have enough of the white; then add enough of the green powder to make a bright color, and heat and stir thoroughly until the color is evenly distributed, then proceed as for sheeting white wax.
These small wires are all brought to the center wire and laid evenly by its side till they all come to the stem, where they are all twisted around it to form one long, thick stem.
Rub the paint evenly over the perforations, and it will leave the lines clean, sharp and distinct.
My notion about the stage is, that it keeps along pretty evenly with the rest of the world; the stage is usually quite up to the level of the audience.
Weighing the merits of the leaders of the two armies, they would seem to be pretty evenly balanced.
It was Lee's opinion that he would have won the battle of Gettysburg had he had Jackson with him, and this is more than probable, so evenly did victory and defeat hang in the balance there.
The paper ought, at last, to look lightly and evenly toned all over, with no lines distinctly visible.
Now, try to fill in that square space with crossed lines, so completely and evenly that it shall look like a square patch of gray silk or cloth, cut out and laid on the white paper, as at b.
A conspicuous modification of the otherwise generally evenly curved border of the Gulf of Mexico is thus produced, a result that could only be reached in a water body but little disturbed by wind or tidal currents.
These tubes are yellow, and some have a broad, short strap at the mouth of the tube, and in some the mouth is evenly nicked all round.
The yellow tube flowers in the centre are evenly nicked all round the mouth, and they have yellow stamens whose heads you can see forming a circle round the yellow tip of the seed-vessel with its two curled points.
In some the mouth of the tube is cut evenly all round into small scollops, and in others there is a yellow strap at one side of the tube.
In the centre you find a crowded mass of tiny yellow tube-flowers which are evenlynotched all round the mouth.
The garden was becoming evenly green throughout; and the vegetables, in some cases, could scarcely be distinguished from the ranker growth of crowding, unknown plants among and around them.
Mousie clung timidly to my side, but I reassured her by saying: "See how steadily, how evenly and boldly, our great craft goes out on the wide river.
He drew the useful tool carefully and evenly through the spaces between the rows, and our enemies were lying on their sides ready to wither away in the morning sun.
In Maryland they divided the electoral vote evenly with their opponents.
Jefferson received the vote of eight States, but not the majority which was needed to elect, inasmuch as the delegations of two States were evenly divided.
He did not dream that Clark was even that moment thinking of him as the private car clicked evenly over the rail joints on the way to the iron mines.
