This remarkable bird was unknown till George Shaw described and figuredit in 1813 (Nat.
Where Grotius, defender of the faith, figuredas a heretic, unbelief could not speak out, though there are traces of its underground life.
Nevertheless, he refused to return to Halle on any invitation till the accession (1740) of Frederick the Great, one of his warmest admirers, whereafter he figured as the German thinker of his age.
Although Grotius figuredfor a century as one of the chief exponents of Christian evidences, it is certain that his great work on the Law of War and Peace (1625) made for a rationalistic conception of society.
In his own country, in his own day, he had little success qua prophet, though always esteemed for his character and his high secular competence; and he finally figured rather as a heresiarch than otherwise.
When the detail plans for our plant were being drawn, Mr. Edison and I figured over the coal capacity and coal economy of the sixty-foot kiln, and each time thought that both could he materially bettered.
In a conversation during 1909, he remarked, as though it were nothing out of the way, that up to seven years previously his average of daily working hours was nineteen and one-half, but that since then he figured it at eighteen.
Stepping to the chest of drawers in one corner of her room, she took out the figured taffeta dress.
Had she been asked quite suddenly what that had to do with a figured taffeta dress, she might not, perhaps, have been able to tell.
She told, too, of the figuredtaffeta dress, the alligator shoes and the gay hat.
There she selected with care a figured taffeta dress, a bright new hat and new shoes.
Forrester figured that two hundred feet would bring him to the crest of the rise before him and he kept his eyes on the left side of the road as he drove slowly along.
She wears a dress of figured brocade, worked with coloured flowers and foliage on a white ground, and trimmed with white ribbons; her sleeves are short and edged with lace.
Eileen thus discovered that the girl sometimes figured as a super, when travelling companies came with sensational pieces, relying upon local talent, hastily drilled, for the crowds.
And the piper figured literally in the household accounts, as well as the fiddler, for the O'Keeffe was what the mud cabins called a "ginthleman to the backbone.
More than twenty years afterwards the latter figured as a character in Les Miserables, and a correspondence, alike honourable to both, ensued between him and the author.
She was descended, through the intermarriage of one of the Mortlakes with a co-heiress, of the ancient Barons de Mortuo Lacu, who figured during the reign of the Edwards.
I'd figured out, in Shainsa, why the mistake was logical.
I forgot it," replied I; "and nothing drove it out of my mind but these two figured gazelles.
His entire supply has cost him five dollars a ton and he had figured to sell it at six, which would allow him his usual satisfactory profit.
Figured as a return for our labor, killing as that was, it was magnificent.
There was nothing said about the bribe to the other deputy who had figured as the hack driver; from which I inferred that the Irishman had pocketed my money and held his peace.
This accidental meeting with Barton figured as a crude misfortune, but I saw no way to mitigate it.
It may be added that Babylonian seal-cylinders have been found in Cyprus, one of which is of the age of Sargon of Accad, its style and workmanship being the same as that of the cylinder figured in vol.
Thinis figured in the historic period as one of the least of Egyptian cities.
From the following entry by Henslowe we learn that this worthy figured in a play: "Pd.
It was the Imperial Government, of course, which figured most prominently throughout the "North-West" question.
He figured to himself a magnificent temple, and filled it, as the illustrious artists of Italy did the Sistine, with pictures from his favorite poet.
He was particularly distinguished for cavalry-battles, hunting scenes, and other incidents in which the horse figured largely as actor.
With so many guests around, they had figured that, of course, they would be dog-safe.
Why, I'd just got it all figured out in my mind how to do it.
When Chuba had come rushing in, crying out in a voice filled with fright, Biff had figured that another in the series of strange happenings had taken place.
I figured the boys had pecked around about deep enough on the outskirts of your pile, and that it was about time for me to sit in and save the rest.
I thought you hadn't the nerve to come here, unless you figured you were safe some way or another.
Before Wedgwood's time the designs which figured upon our china and stoneware were hideous both in drawing and execution, and he determined to improve both.
The interview lasted two hours, during which Jacquard, placed at his ease by the Emperor's affability, explained to him the improvements which he proposed to make in the looms for weaving figured goods.
The number of persons occupied in the manufacture of figured goods in Lyons, was stated by M.
I think that I can now see the principal dramatis personae who figuredin the scene.
The distress of the country figured largely in the speeches of several members, but without finding much sympathy.
The remaining objects found among the effects of the Midē´ referred to will be described and figured hereafter.
But this is where William got the better of him, for White went to a friend of his at Dartmouth and between them they figured up a very clever scheme which caused Jonas a lot of inconvenience.
So he just took stock and had speech with Richard off and on and heard the gossip and figuredup Dick pretty well.
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