Mrs. Digby had worn heavy mourning for her husband the exact length of time demanded by strict propriety.
As I tell Kate," she continued, "people don't always know the exact state of their own feelings.
He was curious and exact in his choice of words and commanded a wide vocabulary.
He begged Agatha to borrow that hat of Clotilda, and make him an exact copy of it, because he wanted to give it as a present.
Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother.
This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
But in considering the meaning of an incipient and growing force, it would be a mistake to dwell on possible limitations and difficulties; and it would be pedantic and unpractical to demand precise consistency or exact definition.
The exact position of Santo Domingo is not easy to define.
In law, the exact boundary of land is always a matter of evidence; where no evidence is available, the court acts on presumption.
London, 1890) contains an exact picture of the state in the period (c.
The begs and agas continued to exact their forced labour and one-third of their produce; the central government imposed a tithe which had become an eighth by 1875.
The chief of Zinder had ceased to pay tribute, and the sultan was not strong enough to exactit by force.
As a cold, exact science, however, eugenics can never hope for application without some consideration of the personal equation which makes marriage at its best not a mating merely, but a joining of souls.
The exact proportion of any income devoted to each of these is of course a matter conditioned by the needs of the particular family as well as by its tastes and desires.
It is the image of Christ the Christian looks for and loves; and this does not consist in being exact in a few items, but in general devotion to the whole truth as far as known.
The tendency of all these churches was toward a rather literalistic and legalistic interpretation of Scripture, with special emphasis upon exact conformity to a pattern of ordinances, organization, and worship.
Their insistence upon conformity to an exact pattern of supposedly primitive procedure, about which there were sure to be differences of opinion, tended toward division.
They were placated, however, by being allowed to share in the labor of clearing a sufficient area around and above the wreck to permit of its exact size being ascertained.
He sank two more coracles, and had killed or wounded three men, when a flint pebble struck him on the head, finding the exact spot where he was injured during the wreck.
Being a mere man, he was not aware that blue eyes in shadow assume that exact tint.
In the half-light it was difficult to discern just what support was given to the squat rectangle of the chart-house; Maseden had to look long and steadily through the flying scud before he gathered the exact facts.
So that was the Christian name of the woman whom he was taking "till death do us part," for the Spanish liturgy provided almost an exact equivalent of the English service.
In fact, she was almost in the exactcondition in which she had left the ship.
He, of course, had been told the exact facts by Nina on that night passed on the island in Nelson Straits.
There is theexact spot where the clay was found to make Adam; Adam's grave; the tears of the Virgin petrified in the form of a cross.
In our ancient books there are stories of five different races of people who made their way to Ireland in old times, with very exact accounts of their wanderings before their arrival, and of the battles they fought after landing.
We are not quite sure of the exact year of Brigit's settlement here; but it probably occurred about 485, when she was thirty years of age.
But though so fierce in war, he was gentle and modest in time of peace and very exact in attending to his religious devotions; and when he had gained a victory he gave all the glory to God, and took none to himself.
She is eighty-odd years old, but does not know her exact age.
Well I haven't heard my baby cry at all in the past week I wuzn't there but I know the exact date you took my baby up, cause I never heard it cry no more".
The exact number of slaves on the plantation were not known, but there were enough to carry on the work of plowing, hoeing and chopping the cotton and other crops.
It is related in her exact words as nearly as possible.
Calloway could never verify this, but became suspicious when Jesse's wife gave birth to two children who were the exact duplicate of Jesse.
There were so many of these enterprises that their exactnumber is unknown.
We shall never know the exact ratios between the Scotch and the English, the Welsh and the Irish blended in this hardy, self-assertive, and fecund strain.
Ye gods, witnesses of the treaty, assist us, and exact the penalty, due for yourselves having been violated, and for us who have been deceived through the appeal made to your divinity.
Its exact limits varied, but included the eastern Madras coast from Pulicat to Chicacole, running inland from the Bay of Bengal to the Eastern Ghats.
The exact measure of reformation achieved can never be exactly known, from the absence of authentic statistics and the difficulty of following up the surveillance of individuals when released on parole.
The number of interjections is very large, and they are distinguished by minute rules depending on the gender of the person addressed and the exact amount of respect due to him.
The theoretical proof rather serves as useful aid towards the more exact determination of the nature and province of self-determination, and of its relation to the whole concrete nature of humanity.
The name Karamania is now often given by geographers to Ichili only; but so far as it has had any exact significance in modern times, it has stood for the whole province of Konia.
Just the schedule of labor--the hours--the exact things done.
In the hand-cart methods of small housekeeping it is impossible to exact the swift precision of such work, but not in the standardized tasks and regular hours of such an establishment as this.
That Mrs. Halsey was undoubtedly gone, she had to admit; yet so far failed to find the exact words of reproof for a woman of independent means discharging her own housekeeper when it pleased her.
It is impossible to give exact proportions; it depends not only on the size of the bird, but also on the quality and degree of fatness of the bird.
The exact date of his appearance in public arena is difficult to ascertain, however, "in the traditions of his followers he is almost uniformly represented as an old, or as a gray-headed man.
But who shall say in what exact light he presented himself to the vulgar, who had continually before their eyes the indecent figures under which the painters and sculptors portrayed him?
Freud's exact analysis has taught that the dream as it presents itself to us, exhibits merely a facade, which betrays nothing of the inmost part of the house.
Because of the enormous rent and exactions, for a theatre which even in the most prosperous seasons, make the exactdifference between profit and loss.
Gentlemen, there has been a great deal of discussion lately as to the exact nature of the bond which united Great Britain and the United States.
He's bound to have the exact range, for it's such a landmark.
He was in ignorance of the exact nature of the attack until, as on the last occasion, the Russian soldiers came back by twos and threes and re-entered the casemate.
They have his exact description, and are watching at the Mairie.
I can't give you the exact dates, but we have been advised of their arrival these last few weeks.
He paused, lingering irresolutely, when the colonel noticed his agitation, and quickly guessed the exact state of the case.
It will be best, I think, to tell her the exact state of the case.
The exact meaning of the gesture no man survived to tell, but its direction was unhappily towards a formidable Russian battery which closed the gorge of the north valley, and not to the heights crowned by the captured redoubts.
Mariquita, now at the top of her voice, and this frenzied appeal had the exacteffect she hoped.
The natural result of this habit of ascending to a superlunary home, was the loss of an exact sense of how she was behaving below.
Her surging look of reproach in submission pointed to the golden time, and as he was a man of honour, pledged to her for life, he had no remorse, and no scruple in determining to exact her dated promise, on this occasion deliberately.
She had never confided to Tony the exact nature and the growth of her malady, thinking it mortal, and fearing to alarm her dearest.
It is almost enough to say that in all but disregard of money he was the exact antipodes of Newcastle.
My Dear Child, I need not intimate to your good understanding and right Intentions, what a high degree of Prudence and exact attention to your Conduct and whole behaviour is render'd necessary by the sad errors of others.
But though thus essentially apart, there is one capital point which the careers of Walpole and Pitt bear an almost exact resemblance to each other.
This is the exact truth, as the ill-fated chronicler who gropes about among the treaties and conventions is fain to confess.
We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.
So the Bill was carried, and the job, whatever its exact denomination may have been, lasted for nearly a century.
Mahler by Brugsch will admit of suchexact conclusions being drawn from them, and I should fix the fifty-four years of the reign of Thûtmosis III.
Just see how exact is the parallel between our story and Ibsen's.
Well, it seems good servants are so scarce we got a place at once--the exact thing we were looking for.
The first half-hour passed quickly because my mother was busy thinking out the exact phrases in which to touch her higher nature.
