It formed no part of their duty to go upon crusades in foreign lands; still less to take a share in a religious quarrel, and least of all to assist a monarch against a nation.
A just appreciation of the credit to which each Traditionist was entitled could only be formed from a knowledge of his moral character, and this could be best estimated from an examination of his life.
Indeed, they formed again the basis of our talk the other evening, each of us having a new example to give, all drawn from memories of childhood.
A picture formed on the screen: a heavily-tanned man in his late forties, stocky, hair close cropped.
That thought led naturally to a new one, but before it was fully formed in his own mind, Ludwig voiced it.
Perhaps one of the numerous indigent gentlewomen that formedso large and so important a part of the population of Dinwiddie?
For that end, obedient to the powers of Life, the centuries had formed and coloured her, as they had formed and coloured the wild rose with its whorl of delicate petals.
The body social might move, but the units thatformed the body social must remain stationary.
I never doubted it, darling, but he is young, and his character cannot be entirely formed at his age.
Its root is formed of numerous clustering tubercles, or oblong knobs, with fibres.
She stated that the fragment she produced, which formed the remainder of the torn letter wrapped round the stolen articles, she had picked up in the garden of the château, where it had been dropped by Victor.
I have formedthis sudden caprice—or whim—or whatever you may choose to term it; and I will spare no money and no trouble to accomplish my purpose.
The curtains, which were of good material, were completely disguised in dust; and the windows were so dirty that at mid-day they formed a pleasantly subdued medium for the sun-light.
Yes—they met frequently; and each interview only tended to strengthen the profound attachment which they had formed for each other.
It is toward the middle of the second month that the separation of the cloaca into two regions is marked in the human foetus: a partition is formed which will absolutely isolate the digestive channel from the uro-genital.
A couple formed of equal elements, like a society of equal elements, would be in a state of permanent anarchy; two creatures suffice for anarchy, as for war.
The male cochineal has a long body with very delicate wings, transparent and which at a distance look like those of a bee; he is provided with a sort of tail formed of two silky strands.
The males grip the females and hold them with hooks often formed at the expense of the abdominal fin, by cartilaginous pieces which penetrate the female orifice and serve as slide to the penis.
Nevertheless it must be admitted that the sphex has formed itself slowly, like all complex animals, and that its genius is only the sum of intellectual acquisition slowly crystallized in the specie.
This passivity of the female element is found again in the very figuration of animality, formed by the egg and the spermatozoide.
Naturally, these harems can only be formed by the destruction of other males.
A coupleformed of elements too unequal, would, by the crushing of the weaker, find itself reduced to tyrannized unity.
The first living organisms formed their hierarchies thus: individual unicellular, or plastide; group of plastides or meride.
Many did do so, and formed thus a sort of privileged class throughout the whole South under the special protection of the Government of the United States.
The bill then provided for the submission of the constitution so formed to the voters, {17} and if ratified by a majority thereof, required the provisional governor to certify the same to the President.
Three weeks after his arrival he was informed of a conspiracy that had been formed against him in Moscow.
He is farther responsible for the influence of previously formed prejudice, or that vitiated state of his moral feelings, which prevents him from approaching the subject with the simplicity of a mind which is seriously desirous of the truth.
Our sense of his moral attributes arises, with a feeling of equal certainty, when, from the moral impressions of our own minds, we infer the moral attributes of him who thus formed us.
If either of the voluntary steps be neglected or violated, the mental harmony is lost, and a habit is formed of unfeeling selfishness.
They force themselves upon our conviction by the most simple principles of induction, when, from our own mental and moral endowments, we infer the perfections of him who formed us.
It formed a fit and elegant frame for Mrs. Fitzherbert, who looked handsomer than ever in an exquisite gown, all flounces and furbelows.
Even the children formed companies, and challenged the Turkish boys to combat.
He engaged in all the boyish sports of the day, and later in those chivalric pastimes that formed part of the training of a noble youth.
The Pope, the Doge of Venice, the Duke of Milan, and other Italian princes, had formed a league against the ambitious Charles, and had gathered a large army in northern Italy to cut off his return to France.
He had learned to think and feel deeply on deep subjects, and had formed definite ideals as to a man's proper part in life.
While Barine was telling Helena and Gorgias, also, why all this plan had been formed so hastily, Gorgias was silently comparing the two sisters.
This was apparent by the motion of the vessels lying at anchor in the angle which the shore in front of the superb Temple of Poseidon formed with the Choma.
The ship moved away from the land, the Egyptians formed into ranks and marched off.
Their quarters formed a kind of hamlet apart, composed of various huts with little gardens and poultry yards, all well stocked, and swarming with little darkies gamboling in the sunshine.
No sooner were they formed than they rushed forward shouting like a lot of demons.
Yet such scraps as she could glean formed the excitement of Diana's day, and always she had a vague and formless hope--a hope for which she reproached herself.
Beyond the rocky wall was a hillside of hemlock, which formed part of the estate of a magnate from the West.
In our town we were all formed upon recognised patterns, and those who possessed any one mark of the pattern, had all.
At last the two reached Rocky Island, which formed the turning point.
He was dripping from head to foot, and not being at all a handsomely-formed or good-looking youth, he presented a most comical appearance.
The Indians believe that Michabou, the God of the Waters, formed Lake Superior to serve as a nursery for beavers.
A belt of yellow sand skirted the lake shore in front, and a tall forest of oaks, pines, and poplars, formed the back-ground.
It was taller than herself, and there was something on its brow which proclaimed it to be fiercer and bolder, formed to wrestle with rough winds, and to laugh at the coming tempests.
All the birds which skim through the air, or plunge into the water, were formed from the skin of the dog.
Around his neck hung a string of great sea-shells, upon his forehead was bound another made of the teeth of the cayman, and in his hand was a staff formed of the rib of a whale.
It was originally made of flint or bone, but since they have had communication with the European traders they have formed it of steel.
The great lens formed the object glass, the small, the eyeglass, of a natural telescope of tremendous power, that drew the high summer clouds down within seeming touch and opened out the heavens before my staring eyes.
It was formed of a couple of forty-foot scaffolding poles, stoutly bound and corded together, the base of one to the top of the other, so that they stood at right angles.
But the vast sheets of sluggish water and jelly-like mud formed death-traps for the countless refugees now streaming east.
The Ozarks, islands in a mad sea, formed precarious havens for half-drowned humanity.
In the country they formed here and there small villages.
On the other hand, in the colonies belonging to other countries there are generally troops formed of native contingents.
I also rose, and slowly went into the next room, which was the study of the duke, but its sliding door was opened and formed with the drawing-room one long salon.
In Japanese adverbs are formed by suffixing ni and to, like the English ly and French ment.
They also began gradually to form a sort of class in different provinces, having their leaders, and at last formed a regular class of military men.
The premises of these mansions generally formed a square, the main building stood in the middle, the four sides of the square were generally occupied by long lines of buildings in which the retainers lived.
I gather that you formed a very high opinion of the Japanese character?
A company, which in reality may be taken as a syndicate, may be formed for advancing money by means of debentures.
Ainslie, in whom he had implicit confidence, sent him voluminous reports, and on them he formed a judgment most favourable to the Japanese in every respect.
In that war it was proved that the new troops formedon the system of universal service were more efficient with regard to discipline and cohesive power than the Samurai force of one of the strongest feudal clans.
Suppose they have formed a Government, what do you think will come out of it?
But one thing which is undeniable was, that ethical training formed one of the most important branches everywhere.
Some people imagine that at one time they formed the bottom of the sea.
Those who had been created, on account of blood relationship to Tokugawa, formed a somewhat different category.
When, however, the political atmosphere became heated, he was one of the youths who formed the bands of the anti-foreign party, and as such became a bosom friend of Takasugi and Ito.
Even his sword and dagger, that formed part of his usual dress, had been removed.
In the arches and general construction of these he formed engineering ideas that were new to him.
Near it were several smaller huts roughly but ingeniously formed of boughs and wood poles, which the Indians who worked with him had constructed for themselves.
Here, at the end of the covered-way, was a gateway that formed the entrance to the labyrinth of caverns and galleries in the cliff in which Coryon and his adherents lived.
It has already been explained that it formed the approach to an opening in the rock--closed by gates--which was the principal entrance to Coryon's retreat.
Thus, bending in unconscious ease over the boat's side, the young girl formed one of the rarest models of maidenly grace and loveliness that could that morning have been found amongst Eve's daughters.
For within the rocks was an almost endless series of passages and galleries opening, at the further end, on to an extensive hanging terrace on the very face of the great precipice that formed one end of Roraima's perpendicular sides.
This referred to the small company of guards or soldiers, who were being harangued by one who appeared to be their officer, and who, when he had ended his speech, formedthem into line, as though for a charge upon the strangers.
We formed from this debris an almost complete squadron under the command of Captain de Salverte, who had succeeded in getting through the lines by skirting the forest.
There was a stone quarry on the outskirts, and a quarry no less than a farm like Waterlot, which was to the northward, and Falfemont, to the southward and flanking the village, formed shelter.
A few years ago deserters from the German army became so numerous that a society was formed at Munich, bearing the name "The German Protection Society Against the Foreign Legion.
The sharpshooters of the Imperial Guard had formed an entire company of volunteers, who, led by officers, were always sent to perform particularly dangerous and difficult tasks.
The first section (Alan's section) formed the right and vanguard of the company, and mine formed the left wing.
In this he describes the terrific fighting of the Third German Army, which formed an important part of the battle front in Champagne and had to meet a particularly desperate attack by the French.
It was long and flat, horribly longer and bigger than the mental conception I had formed of what such a thing would be like.
Certain genera possess also sacs formed by distensible folds of the skin in the cheeks.
When laryngeal air-sacs are developed, they are formed by a single sac, with a median aperture--immediately beneath the epiglottis.
This species appears to be confined to the triangle formed by the union of the Japura river and the Amazon.
