It has been somewhat astonishing to me to find how very slight are the social oscillations traceable in a middle-class family and the families it intermarries with through several centuries.
It seemed to be among actual languages, living or dead, that we might most reasonably expect to find a medium of communication likely to receive wide support.
And, when we do so, we find that, not only is the statement of a supposed connection between a high birth-rate and a high degree of prosperity an imperfect statement; it is altogether misleading.
III To get to the bottom of the matter, we thus find it is necessary to look into it more closely than is usually attempted.
Cantlie very properly defines a Londoner as a person whose grandparents all belonged to London--and he could not find any.
When disorderly houses are suppressed on a large scale, there are naturally a great number of prostitutes who have to find homes elsewhere in order to carry on their business.
Turning first to such versions of the combination The Grateful Dead + The Poison Maiden, we find eleven on our list, all of which have already been summarized and discussed in connection with the simple compound.
He frees her, and is taking her home when he meets Raudr, a knight to whom her hand has been promised if he can find her.
The three sons of a king set out tofind the princess of Hungary, who has the only remedy that will cure their father.
The king of Ireland's son sets forth to find a woman with hair as black as the raven, skin as white as snow, and cheeks as red as blood.
I have not been able to find this poem and do not know how closely it accords with Dianese.
In Richars we find the somewhat inept conclusion that the hero asks his friendly helper whether he will take the princess or the property [55] as his share.
Since he does not find the maiden there, he returns to Alexandria with a piece of embroidery which she has sent him, meets her, and elopes by the aid of St. Nicholas, who sends them a ship opportunely.
On his way to find her he meets a red-haired youth, who takes service with him for half of what they may gain in a year and a day.
It evidently rests upon the notion that the soul, when separated from the body, could find no repose.
At midnight the lady came out of her coffin, but could not find the man because he held the cross.
The two elder brothers go to England, and there meet jolly companions, but find no trace of the bird.
By reason of these traits it has absorbed, or has been absorbed by, these other tales, until now it is difficult tofind examples of the simple form.
Thought you'd hole up, you damned fox, where I wouldn't find you.
You will hide in the woods, won't you, so they can't find you?
If none will undertake to lead us right, we shall find guides who will contrive to conduct us to shame and ruin.
I don't find it denied, that, when a treaty is entered into for peace, a demand will be made on the Regicides to surrender a great part of their conquests on the Continent.
But if they will look at it a little more attentively, they will find their gloomy comfort vanish.
So that, in so small a platoon as that of even five, you will find the full complement of all that five men can earn.
We find it to have been so regarded in the practical politics of antiquity, where they are brought more directly homo to our understandings and bosoms in the history of Borne, and above all, in the writings of Cicero.
The persons who have suffered from the cannibal philosophy of France are so like the Duke of Bedford, that nothing but his Grace's probably not speaking quite so good French could enable us to find out any difference.
Fetch along Tom, and I'll do anything you two say, for I've nearly split my old head trying to find a way out; but what could I do single handed?
It gave him a singular sensation to feel the keel grate against the shingle, and to find himself once more setting foot in Lihua.
Of a morning you couldn't find a lady on a front veranda who wasn't stitching and sewing and basting and cutting out.
Stumbling and falling against one another in the dark, they made shift to find the uncertain path, Winterslea, in the lead, coo-eeing like a bushfellow for them to follow.
In his crazy obstinacy he would listen to nothing, and I would find myself, after one of these interviews, in a state of indescribable exasperation and determined never to go near him again.
In Puna Punou you looked for Afiola, and the chances were you'd find him drunk on orange beer and laying for trouble with a gun.
We celebrated it that night with medical comforts unstinted, while the natives they celebrated, too, thankful tofind the world still here and the Day of Judgment postponed.
Some folks might kick at the inscription, but he had always been mighty good and kind and free-handed to us, and you must take a man as you find him.
Then, on the eve of her giving way, as every line in her body showed her longing, as her head drooped as though to find a resting place on the breast of the man she loved, she suddenly called up all her resolution and tore herself free.
I think teachers would find it interesting to keep all data of this kind of work done by their classes, with a view to tabulation and comparison.
All living things must have oxygen to breathe, and this gas is as needful for the germination of seeds, and the action of roots and leaves, as it is for our maintenance of life.
Footnote 1: The so-called seed of Sunflower is really a fruit.
Light is not necessary, and in winter time the neighborhood of the furnace is often a very convenient place to keep them safe from frost.
The root, whatever its origin in any case may be, grows in length only in one way; namely, at a point just behind its very tip.
There is but one bud in each axil, and usually two or three flowers in each bud, but the leaves on the twigs are crowded and the flowers therefore appear in clusters.
We went up to Waverley and found bloodroot up, spice bush out, violets, dog-tooths and anemones, also caltha.
Roots grow from stems, not steins from roots, except in certain cases, like that of the Poplar mentioned above.
Why is there no distinct band of rings as in Beech?
It will throw out roots and the pupil will readily understand that the caulicle does the same thing.
This will bring up the terms dicotyledon and monocotyledon.
The Magnolia is therefore less desirable to begin upon.
The food of the Morning-Glory is called albumen; it does not differ from the others in kind, but only in its manner of storage.
Here he did equally well, taking a First Class Extra Certificate, and a year after we find him as Musketry Instructor at Quetta.
Where it is recorded how in 1874 Mr. Gladstone promised to repeal the income-tax, I find a pencil line and the contemptuous comment, "A bribe for power!
He protested that he wanted the party to get lost so that he could find the way home for them.
Hunting the boar takes place early in the morning and again in the evening, so that men find themselves with nothing to do for the greater part of the day.
Our force, bold as it is, is far too small, and yet we cannot increase it by a man, for the simple reason that if we did we could not find the wherewithal to feed it.
Having emptied his Colt's repeater, he threw it carefully under a peculiar tree, so that he might find it when business was done; then he went to work with his revolver.
Without a moment's reflection he counselled the mother to let the boy draw in whatsoever manner he listed, and together they went to find the young artist at his work.
Wet places, where your feet go sinking deeper and deeper into the mud, and you can't find any stiff firm bit to stand on.
Walk in please, ma'am, though you'll find me sadly untidy this afternoon.
She's always hiding her eggs is Sally, where I can't find them.
You may imagine that they did not find it very easy to get to sleep, and some of them thought as they lay there that very likely they should never see their homes in Sweden again.
Olly did some reading, while Milly wrote in her copybook, and then Olly had his counting-slate and tried to find out what 6 and 4 made, and 5 and 3, and other little sums of the same kind.
At any rate she looked a great deal older than Olly, who was nearly five; and you will soon find out that she was a good deal more than a year and a half wiser.
You see there would always be that dreadful night to think about, if she ever felt inclined to be; but I daresay the queen didn't find it very easy at first.
We can't go across it, but we can go round it, and we shall find the mountains on the other side.
She shall not be able to hide herself in the water, nor under the earth, nor in the forest, nor at the bottom of the sea; let her go where she will, I will find a way after her.
You will never find me, and your poor wicked wife will die of cold and hunger.
Besides, you'll find plenty of ways of doing what other people like before the end of the day without my inventing any.
It is a little town in Oxfordshire, and if you look long enough on the map you may find it, though I won't promise you.
You'll be sure to find them," said Mrs. Backhouse, pointing to the tree.
I know of a merchant who at this time enjoyed the privilege of exporting for six years a hundred thousand pounds free of all dues, but who throughout the year 1783 was unable to find a purchaser in France.
I find that in the Book of Chess of Alfonso the Learned (an illuminated Spanish manuscript executed in the thirteenth century, and now preserved at the Escorial), Alfonso himself is represented (Plate iii.
Nay, more, without there seeming to be cause, her courtiers daily find that by a marvel articles are cheaper here than in the soil which generated them, or in the town where they were wrought.
Prado Gallery)] Riano says: "I do not find any information of a later date which suggests the existence of the manufacture of tapestries in Spain during the Middle Ages.
It would be difficult, I am sure, to find a factory better organized.
It was nearer them than the boat, by full two hundred yards; and Alexis observing this, suddenly conceived a hope that they might yet reach the tree, and find shelter, either upon its trunk or among its branches.
At this work had Pouchskin been left, surrounded by a circle of grinning darkies, in whose company the old grenadier would find material to interest and amuse him.
For the present we must drop the subject, and find out the route of travel which papa has traced out for us.
The neighbourhood, in which he expected to find the bear, was more than two miles from the place where they had entered the forest.
Money is all-powerful everywhere; and a gold coin will conduct to the den of a Pyrenean bear, where the keenest-scented hound or the sharpest-sighted hunter would fail to find it.
Alexis saw none of the trees in flower, their great spathes being yet unfolded; but, toping tofind some one more forward than the rest, he kept on for a considerable distance through the forest.
This enables the pigeon to find food throughout all the year, and it therefore remains in England.
While proceeding towards the ground where they expected to find the bear, their guide informed them that he had not only ringed the animal, but actually knew the den in which it was lying.
Even most of the furs collected by the Hudson's Bay Company find their way into Russia: for the consumption of these goods in Great Britain is extremely limited, compared with that of many other articles de luxe.
We should have to go further up the mountains: where they are more difficult both to find and follow.
It was a long time before the spectators could find any explanation of these odd manoeuvres on the part of the bear.
We find it recorded there, how these people spend their time and obtain their subsistence.
They deploy around the ring, and closing inward, are pretty sure to find the bear either asleep in his den, or just starting out of it, and trying to get off.
I think your Honor will find no difficulty in believing that Mr. Davis acted as counsel for Shadrach, and was in attendance for that purpose.
Do you feel bound, of a pleasant evening, to walk about in the neighborhood and see what fugitives you can find and dispose of?
Of this preliminary point of the evidence I do not find an aiding or abetting within the provisions of the statute.
I begged him, if he could find any honest mode of getting a living, to abandon it.
He will find it so, to his cost, unless he changes the tone of his remarks, on this and future occasions.
Mr. Lunt here intimated that Mr. Dana might find himself changing places at the bar, and be a defendant instead of counsel, if he advocated and expressed such sentiments.
I could not open Its pages anywhere but I could find Myself set forth or mirrored, pointed to.
These several springs I find No new birth in the Spring.
To resume We find it caused by morphological Changes of the cortex cells.
But have you thought If you should find it it would only be A tomb like other tombs?
Or to find the eyes, but to find offence In fingers where the sense Falters with colors, strings, Not touching with closed eyes, out of an immanence Of flame and wings.
Or to find the light, but to find it set behind An eye which is not your dream, nor the shadow thereof, As it were your lamp in a stranger's window.
For you return and find it bare: There is no heaven of golden air.
If we looked To John's heredity we'd find this change Was manifest in mother or in father About the self-same period of life, Most likely in his father.
He tried to find The mother's laugh and secret for the laugh Which kept her to the end--but did she laugh?
And all the time a wind is blowing ashes, And sifting them upon the spotless linen Of kings and dukes in England till at last They findthemselves mistaken for the people.
He told me I could have his body and brain To lecture on, dissect, since some had said He was insane, he told me, and if so I should find something wrong with brain or body.
I feel myself As like a virgin who her body gives For love of one whose love she dreams is hers, But wakes to find herself a toy of blood, And dupe of prodigal breath, abandoned quite For other conquests.
He come th'u in de night an get inter de house, but he cain't find her.
We couldn't find any place to live, so Aunt Aggie got permission from the town to come and live in here until we could find a place.
The only thing they could do was rush to New York, findout which boat was sailing for South America on the first, go on board and search for Tad.
I'll walk until I come to a house on the top of a hill," she decided, "and find it that way.
Failing tofind a doorbell she rapped loudly with her knuckles on the door casing.
The three prairie pards finally find a chance to visit the Wyoming ranch belonging to Adrian, but managed for him by an unscrupulous relative.
But where was one to find a taxicab in this district?
Let's find a masquerade costume for him, too, so he can be one of us.
They'll never find that spring in a million years.
It was one thing to go into a house in search of a voice that wouldn't come to the door; it was another thing to find a man inside.
No, they won't find it open, because I closed it several times, but I left it closed.
The Broncho Rider Boys find themselves impelled to make a brave fight against heavy odds, in order to retain possession of a valuable mine that is claimed by some of their relatives.
Over the top of this wall several large streams fall and break into cascades as they find their way to the lake below.
On looking back I find that my highest expectations of the trip were all fulfilled, and I have nothing but pleasant memories in connection with it.
The deuce take me, if I have learnt anything, or if I find myself a pin the worse for not having learnt anything.
Are you aware that it would perhaps be easier to find a child fit to govern a realm, fit to be a great king, than one fit for a great violin player.
And this is what Voltaire said of Clarissa Harlowe: "It is cruel for a man like me to read nine whole volumes in which you find nothing at all.
Frederick tells D'Alembert that though the Empress overwhelms Diderot with favours, people at St. Petersburg find him tiresome and disputatious, and "talking the same rigmarole over and over again.
Then we soon learn only to be surprised at our old surprise; we find ourselves very well off in our new conditions, just as we come to breathe freely in a crowded theatre, though on entering it we were almost stifled.
I have one thing in the bottom of my heart, and I findmyself saying another.
Very well, then, the only advice I have to give you, is to find your way back as quickly as you can into the house from which your impudence drove you out.
A society ought not to have bad laws, and if it had only good ones, it would never find itself persecuting a man of genius.
Though Hemsterhuys himself never advanced from a philosophy of religion to the active region of dogmatic professions, his disciple could not find contentment on his austere heights.
The wise are perhaps content to find what a man can do, without making it a reproach to him that there is something else which he cannot do.
To which, Orou thus: "These singular precepts I find opposed to nature and contrary to reason.
I'll take her place here an'--an' try to find another place to work.
Alfred Montgomery, when staying for the first time at Eaton, could not, on coming downstairs, find his way to the breakfast room till he encountered a friend who guided him.
Once again we were foiled in our efforts to get round Cape Wrath; and, having spent an afternoon lying down in our cabins, we woke up to find ourselves back again in the quiet of Scapa Flow.
One of the questions as to which I was most anxious for information was whether there were in the neighborhood any other old castles, a visit to which I might find interesting.
He could find no one who knew a syllable of one tongue or the other.
With sublime presence of mind we expressed a hope that we might meet there, adding that, if we did, he might find that the place had seduced us into trying a little system likewise.
He was taking a walk with an undergraduate, who confessed to him that his deepest trouble was his failure to find anything which accurate reason could accept as a proof of God's existence.
The aunts and the niece leave him to find out the reason for himself, which, since it is quite fictitious, he is unable to do.
Where should I find records which would enable me to complete incompleteness and reduce chaos to some comprehensive order?
Then may my trembling pilgrim feet In safety find thy lov'd retreat!
Should the Reader find them but little worthy of his approval, he will not have reason at the same time to condemn their prolixity: their brevity will, at least in some degree, atone for their want of fire and fancy.
He will find the quads of the great block of University buildings, which lie between the 'Broad' and the Radcliffe Square, alive with all sorts and conditions of Oxford men, arrayed in every variety of academic dress.
Either Von Halwig had arrived before time, or some messenger had tried to find the commissariat officers, and had raised an alarm.
We may find it difficult to reach Gand, so I'll wait for you in Ostend, Arthur," she said composedly.
He made his way to the kitchen, pausing only to find out whether or not it held any German soldiers.
Yes, if you trip in the next few yards you'll find yourself on the tow-path after falling sixty feet.
The officer even offered tofind a few men later who would help to pull the wagon out of the ditch, so Jan was told to "stand by" until the column had passed.
How is it credible that she should also find means to keep up a secret service which must have cost millions sterling a year?
Dalroy was relieved to find that the Frenchman and the bereaved woman were friends.
Thus did Captain Arthur Dalroy find himself inside the Friedrich Strasse Station on the night when Germany was already at war with Russia and France.
Trust any woman to find the joint in any man's armour when it suits her purpose.
Not even a board of German officers could find the girl guilty of killing Busch and his companions, and this, he imagined, was the active cause of the hue and cry raised by the authorities.
If this fellow's story is proved true, and youfind the man and the woman he says he brought from Aachen, return here with the three of them, and full investigation will be made.
Her teeth were still clenched, her lips parted as though she dreaded to find some loathsome taste on them.
You and your men will take what is given you, or I'll find your oberleutnant, and hear what he has to say about it.
I shall be surprised if we find any Germans there.
On the same day I was ordered by Colonel Totten, Chief Engineer, to find and cut off the underground-aqueduct which conveyed water into Vera Cruz.
General Smith directed me to take my company as an escort, reconnoitre the village, and find out whether Colonel Riley's brigade was in the vicinity.
General Worth, immediately ordered me to take the engineer company, go into the lane, find the man who fired the shot, and hang him.
As the three who were deserted watched, hoping ardently that Quade would not be able to find the opening, the left side-rockets spouted lances of fire, and they knew he had discovered the way to maneuver the borer laterally.
If we examine the organization of insects closely we shall find but one point at which they are vulnerable.
The borer jerked to the right, but still it could not find the hole.
I had a great fear that the owners of those steps would use them to find us, and then crush us ruthlessly as they had brought down Meriden's plane.
Oh, I suppose you don't find this strange; but to me--!
Milton's voice was shaken and he could find no other words.
If you read the story you will find that Professor Denham was marooned on a three dimensional world.
She thought that she could make them return her furs, and find out where they had put the gun.
But we will have food; we can probably find fuel for the stove in Meriden's plane, if the tanks were well sealed.
They had hoped tofind hydrogen at a thousand or twelve hundred miles from Zeud.
I may yet find my father," murmured he to himself, "and die before him!
He left him in my house, and then drove to Grimaldo, to tell him where to find him.
I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!
You will find him," said he, "some where between this and Vienna.
The Emperor knows that you negociated with Sinzendorff; but am I to remind you, that should he ever suspect her private interference in the affair, his latent jealousy would find its object, and the consequence I need not repeat.
Hear me to an end," continued he, "and you will find the whole perfidy belongs to the Duke of Wharton.
You say most men do; and that you, even you, sometimes find it policy and pastime to follow in the track!
Never, since the hour of his birth, did Louis find himself in so terrible a situation.
Louis glanced on what might have been his home; and the flying horses shot by those splendid gates, to find their owner in a prison!
Oh, my Louis, shall my gratitude to you ever find words to express it?
He lay on the platform so as to be able to reach down and look down where the coupling was, and find out just what had happened.
Search me," I told him; "but I bet he'll be tickled to death to findthat the town is named after him.
Come on up the main street and let's see if we can find an ice-cream store.
For the whole of next day, which was Friday, Johnny remained "Miss Bulstrode," hoping against hope to find an opportunity to escape from his predicament without confession.
The world does not go out of its way to find out things it does not want to know.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
