Then I figures a woods camp meeting will steady me up and I goes.
All de way from Richmond to a place dey call Waco, Texas, we traveled by ox-wagon and boats, and den de Master figures we all be better off over in Arkansas and goes to Pine Bluff.
Nearest I figures it the year was 1850--the month don't make no difference nohow.
It is useless to argue on suppositions; we must cling to our definite evidence, even though it yields figures which are probably below the mark.
All these figures are reproduced by Ploss and Bartels.
He also gives the figures for each class of crime separately, and every crime is found to have its own yearly curve.
At Rome, it is interesting to note, the serpent was the symbol of fecundation, and as such often figuresat Pompeii as the genius patrisfamilias, the generative power of the family.
Marro, however, has investigated this question in Turin on a large scale and reaches results not very dissimilar from those shown by Wey's figures in New York.
These figures are too uncertain to prove anything, but, as far as they go, they are in fair agreement with the much more extensive record, that of W.
On the other hand, it is absolutely necessary to do so, or to keep the pieces for our own use; for none, either male or female, of the present generation will take or apply them as furniture if the figures are naked.
According to Seler, Quetzalcouatl and Tezeatlipoca, the two most considerable figures in the Mexican pantheon, are to be regarded mainly as complementary forms of the moon divinity, and the moon was the chief Mexican measurer of time.
The statement was supported byfigures furnished by lending libraries, and has since been widely copied.
To-night it appeared as merely an open gate through which stretched a vista beyond ken; across this many figures passed to and fro, but with faces in shadow or averted.
In two nights Moosatuck became a vast mirror, in which the figures of the skaters by daylight and torchlight were reflected, framed by wonderful prismatic colors.
If industrial progress is still retarded, both figures will sink enormously, and the whole system of finance sketched in the preceding pages will require revision.
But there is this distinction, that whereas in the intricate calculations of secondary finance the figures are mere counters, the elaboration of accepted data, in the higher and simpler finance they are symbols.
These figures may be taken as below normal, since supplies for the army of occupation are not included, and at the same time the number of inhabitants in the towns and natives in the mines were largely below the ordinary figures.
These figures include the deep levels, but do not take into account any of the Rand extensions, in which the Main Reef has been traced for over 300 miles.
Actors' Boating Party Many of the prints produced during the early years of the eighteenth century were large single figures of actors, geishas, and women of the Yoshiwara.
Usually, in such cases, the second design differed very little from the first, save in such details as the patterns upon the garments of the figures and the styles of hair arrangement, which invariably reflected the current mode.
Ay, I thought I'd run over to see Jack, and how Wilmet figures as a bride; and it is a good speculation to get you to do all the French.
The melancholy patter of the rain, and the discordant creaking and rattling of an iron shutter and rusty hinge, made music harmonious to the scene.
Naszeb, he found figures of goats upon almost every inscribed tomb-stone; this animal is not very frequent in the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt.
On the sides figures of goats are drawn with charcoal; but I saw no inscriptions cut in the rock.
In the small room it is painted all over with serpents, hares, gazelles, mares, and birds; there are neither human figures nor trees amongst the paintings.
I enquired in vain for a piece of marble, with figures in relief, which La Roque saw; but in the corner of a house in the Bazar is a stone with a number [p.
Medayn Szaleh [Arabic], with a number of habitations hewn in the rock; and many sculptured figures of men and animals.
No inscriptions were visible, but the annexedfigures were drawn between the animals.
The cavern is formed by nature in a beautiful granite rock; its interior is covered on all sides with figures of mountain goats drawn with charcoal in the rudest manner; they are done by the shepherd boys and girls of the Towaras.
I had occasion to remark in the course of my tour, that the present Bedouins of Sinai are in the habit of carving the figures of goats upon rocks and in grottos.
I found worked on it these two figures of gazelles and admired it with great admiration.
Omar was doubtless a great man, but he is one of the most ungenial figuresin Moslem history which does not abound in genialities.
About the saloon were figures carved in human form, and fashioned on such wise that the air passed through them and set in motion musical instruments within, so that the beholder would fancy they spoke.
Photographs shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3 are no more than a few hundred feet apart.
The reliability of these figures is much poorer than those given for northeastern United States, owing to the smaller number of profiles in this sector.
Of the sixty photographs taken at this location three resembled Figures 2 and 3, several resembled Figure 1, and in the remainder the ocean floor was composed entirely of the light and dark gravel.
It is perhaps even more noteworthy that figures thought to be cherubs have been found at Zenjirli, within the ancient North Syrian kingdom of Ya'di (see Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, pp.
They include colossal figures of Aesculapius and Bacchus, and the lower half of a seated Egyptian divinity in black basalt, bearing the cartouche of Tethmosis (Thothmes) I.
There was a mythic bird-cherub, and then perhaps a winged animal-form, analogous to the winged figures of bulls and lions with human faces which guarded Babylonian and Assyrian temples and palaces.
There is a whole class of chests known as "tilting coffers," carved with representations of tournaments or feats of arms, and sometimes with a grotesque admixture of chivalric figures and mythical monsters.
After Cherubini's disappointing visit to Vienna he divided his time between teaching at the conservatoire and cutting up playing-cards into figures and landscapes, which he framed and placed round the walls of his study.
But he borrowed it of Whitney, worse luck--and Whitney being an old friend, pulls a long face over it whenever we find we need a little more than the original figures showed.
It's nothing to worry about really, because even on the basis of a bigger investment than we had any idea of making when we went in, it figures a peach of a profit.
Don't think we haven't been pounding our skulls, but the figures are hopeless.
He went over the figures he knew so well; the acceleration and the total energy necessary to drive a ship to the nearest stars.
The spectators had seen the figures dragged aboard, but from that distance could not tell whether some of them were alive or dead.
It’s been shaped with a chisel and it looks as though it had figures or letters on it.
They had not quite finished when Bobby caught sight of two figures at the edge of a fringe of trees some distance away.
When Mr. Kleesman saw the little figures sitting on his door-step he started.
These are my best eyes," he said, "to read the small figures with.
After Ulrica had laid Nelly on the bed, she went to the big chest in the corner, and took out a fine red woollen blanket, with bright blue figures in the corners.
Mrs. March had been walking up and down the road anxiously for an hour, when she saw the two littlefigures coming down the very steepest of the hills.
Nor would it have been at all difficult for her to imagine figures called up from the old days when these dark uniforms were the only civilized female dress in all the region of the Saguenay.
She obeyed him and told him what she knew; lying there, where he had motioned her, in the shadow under the figures of the three grandsons of Chaos.
The great Barabbas, and the painted panels and canvases, and all the pigments and tools and articles of an artist's store, were gone; but the figures on the walls were perforce left there to perish.
The figures inscribed and circumscribed to the segment are made up of such narrow strips and have a saw-like edge; all the elements are trapezia except two, which are triangles, one in each figure.
Adding the elements of the inscribed and circumscribed figures respectively and using the method of exhaustion, Archimedes finds the volumes of the respective segments of the solids in the approved manner (Props.
These assumptions are fundamental to his investigation, which proceeds throughout by means of figures inscribed and circumscribed to the curved lines or surfaces that have to be measured.
His 'Nathan the Wise' is an embodiment of morality and sublime virtues; his figures are apostles of true humanity.
Footnote A: A knight called Bullstrode, as having got his name in the way set forth, is mentioned by Guillim; but whether he is the same as he who figures in the Scotch legend I do not know.
Again did a host of activefigures leap into sight from the coverts where until now they had lain concealed awaiting the success or failure of the first action.
Luckily none of the Germans seemed to have paid any attention to the little assemblage of three figures in faded khaki on that slight rise of ground.
He is closely pursued, however, by two assassins in long cloaks, who, like all the other figures we have seen, move noiselessly in soft shoes or canvas sandals.
Gleams of sharp radiance lay in the deep embrasures without penetrating; and, at one, the intricacies of open-work above the arch were mapped in clear figures of light on a space of jet-black floor.
I confess that for myself I enjoyed the dance, and could not help being struck by the contrast of this boyish gayety with the heavy gorgeousness of the priests and the immobile frown of the sculptured figures on the massive ogee arch.
Rudolph Virchow, an eminent German pathologist and anthropologist and scholar; then one of the most prominent figures of the German Reichstag.
He covered pages with figures that never ran short of millions, and frequently approached the billion mark.
Five years later he wrote: "She is indeed realized to the modern sense as few figures of the past have been realized in fiction.
I shall figure up the rise, as the figures come in, and push up my literary prices accordingly, till I get my literature up to where nobody can afford it but the family.
I now saw that resistance would be vain, as several figures clad in armour like the first, and well armed, appeared at each door.
Every movement that we made by bending our bodies, these figures imitated; but with this difference, that the phenomenon was sometimes weak and faint, sometimes strong and well-defined.
We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed upon the same spot; and, in a little time, the two figures again stood before us, and were joined by a third.
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