The introduction of the scallop-shell as an almost constant element of ornamentation gives already a foretaste of the Rocaille-Coquille, the so-called Chippendale fashions of the next reign.
William of Malmesbury gives a letter to Justus of the year 625, in which Canterbury is constituted the metropolitan see of Britain for ever.
Rohricht, Geschichte des Konigreichs Jerusalem (Innsbruck, 1898), gives practically all that is known about the history of Antioch and Tripoli.
Titicaca, which gives an average fall for the Desaguadero of very nearly 21 ft.
Experience has shown that this arrangement gives a better evaporative efficiency than where the furnace gases are allowed to pass unbaffled straight up between the tubes.
This line gives La Paz access to the Peruvian port of Mollendo, 496 m.
The custom of investing savings in gold and silver ornaments gives employment to many goldsmiths; the metal is usually supplied by the customer, and the goldsmith charges for his labour.
But experience has shown that in the hands of careful and skilful surgeons Lister's operation of openly wiring the fragments gives a perfect result with a comparatively small risk.
It is only in Khotan that tradition, if not history, gives a more detailed narrative.
Feer gives forty-five subdivisions, some of which appear as separate treatises in the section of the Chinese Tripitaka called Hua Yen[982].
As in funeral rites, so in matters of daily life, Buddhism gives its countenance and help to popular superstition, to every kind of charm for reading the future, securing happiness and driving away evil spirits.
What relation does the story of the girl who givestwo copper coins to the Sangha bear to the parable of the widow's mite?
It was a great problem to be resolved how society should exist at all, and history gives us the solution of it.
In respect to the question whether sucre and sucré were introduced into Language because of their resemblance to the idea of sweetness, Professor Müller gives a valid negative answer.
But so long as God gives us the glorious privilege of emulating the stars, we shall not seek to win a place among the 'tallow dips' of parrot-poetry.
Then for four or five years play gives increased mastery of the child's own body, and over the objects and materials with which he plays.
If she gives in gracefully, because she can understand the reasons, or just out of respect for your wishes, having found your guidance wise before, hers as well as yours is the triumph.
This gives them not only a measure of the value of their service, but makes them feel the responsibility of each contributing toward the maintenance of the establishment.
In both instances he gives voice to his feelings for the larger, comprehensive ideals that are just surging to the surface of his consciousness.
Some spaces, probably held by the owners for that rise in value which the industry of others providentiallygives to the land of the wise and good, it left vacant comparatively far down the road, and built up others at remoter points.
Who is it gives toil, and where will your rich men be when once the poor shall refuse to give toil'?
Everybody's puzzled to know what she does with her baby when she's at work--whether she gives it soothing syrup.
Christine was self-possessed because she felt that a knowledge of her father's fortune had got around, and she had the peace which money gives to ignorance; but Beaton attributed her poise to indifference to social values.
Lumawig makes it rain and storm, gives day and night, heat and cold.
For some months after the mother gives birth to a child she wears an extra wa'-kis wrapped tightly about her, over which the skirt is worn as usual.
As this blanket of grass finally gives way here and there the attending potters replenish it with more bunches.
In the case of the girl's pregnancy, marriage is more assured, and her father builds or gives her a house.
Without attempt at remonstrance the father gives a rice sementera to the child when it is 6 or 7 years old, for that is the price fixed by the group conscience for deserting a girl with a child.
It is customary for the couple to take their meals with the parents of the girl, in which case the young man gives his labors to the family.
A hog is killed and each household gives Ang'-way a manojo of palay.
Thus the possession of heads gives them great considerations as warriors and men of wealth, the skulls being prized as the most valuable of goods.
The men of the Bontoc area know none of the peoples by whom they are surrounded by the names history gives or the peoples designate themselves, with the exception of the Lepanto Igorot, the It-neg', and the Ilokano of the west coast.
If a woman gives birth to a stillborn child it is at once washed, wrapped in a bit of cloth, and buried in a camote sementera close to the dwelling.
It no doubtgives its wearer a certain advantage in combat -- a confidence and conceit in his own ability, and, likely, it tends to unnerve a combatant who has not the same emblem and experience.
This sheathing column is of a red colour, which givesthe tree a strange look.
But it is the sap which gives celebrity to the tree.
These creatures are enabled to produce this vast volume of voice in consequence of a hollow bony structure at the root of the tongue, which acts as a drum, and which gives them the appearance of a swelling, or goitre, in the throat.
Sometimes these lesser ones are supported on three roots, like the tripod of a surveyor's compass, and this gives them a somewhat ludicrous appearance.
Feeling within their breasts a shuddering sympathy, which at least gives token of the sin that might have been, they will thank God for any place in the grand procession of human existence, save among those most wretched ones.
The second volume contains the works relating to America, and its greatest value consists in the notices it gives of the Spanish manuscripts on the subjects, most of which are still existing in Spain.
It is scarcely possible to find a volume or a manuscript in any way connected with French history which is not fully described, and it frequently gives curious details respecting English historians.
Gives a general view of the state of learning throughout Europe, and contains accounts of the most valuable books then published, with abstracts, memoirs of authors, and other miscellaneous matter relative to literature.
Dibdin gives (more suo) a long account of the contest for this volume in his Bibliographical Decameron, III.
This elaborate work givesan account of special bibliographies up to date.
Ay, in truth do I; and as good a gentleman too as ever came into a family, and one that never gives a servant a bad word, nor that does any one an ill turn neither behind their back, nor before their face.
His whole happiness depends upon this bargain with my lord; for it gives him the possession of three boroughs, and those, madam, are much dearer to him than the happiness of his children.
The secret soul; it bids the coward fight-- Gives being to our hopes; and from our hearts Drives the dull sorrow, and inspires new arts.
The man who gives away his friends without losing them.
Sir Bonamy Croesus gives seven Dinner Parties a week, and expects his Friends to come and choose their own day, and inscribe their Names and the Date on the Dinner-Book in the Hall.
Written by Jackson to promote his wallpapers, it repeats some of his assertions in the Enquiry but gives little detail concerning his career.
Who wants the like o' that in this 'ere mortal wurrld, where we all commences to fight from the moment we lays in our cradles till the last kick we gives 'fore we goes to our graves?
To help bring out a great genius gives ME some little sense of importance, you see!
I'll 'ave a fine bit o' talk with Passon 'bout her as soon as iver he gives me the chance.
This gives a glimpse at the medical practice of the time.
William Penn gives the following testimony to Fox's power in prayer: "But above all he excelled in prayer.
In signed papers in the Spence collection he gives orders for the disposal of money invested "in ships and trade," as well as of a thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania which William Penn had assigned to him.
During his second visit to Holland, Fox had another interview with the famous Mennonite which gives an interesting side light on the penetrating power of Fox's eyes, already noticed.
The same Light which lets you see sin and transgression, will let you see the covenant of God, which blots out your sin and transgression, which gives victory and dominion over it, and brings into covenant with God.
The journal of the second visit to Holland gives little matter of fresh interest.
He goes to inns, always has a good horse, wears clean linen and frequently gives to charity.
There is every reason for believing that the picture which he gives of Lampitt is correct, though in Calamy's "Ejected Ministers" he is spoken of as "a warm and lively preacher.
It is this conviction which unifies and gives direction to all his activities.
Ger-rub-ber, Any thing thatgives fire, as a gun, etc.
In the evenings, a large wreath of jessamine is also put round the hair, which gives a very agreeable perfume.
The lawyer gives us hopes that we may recover something from the wreck of our lost fortune.
Mr. Beach, the lawyer, gives us hopes, but they are not based on much.
Don't know what givesit that scent and taste, do you?
Wallace gives such dreadful strong medicines, and Lucy is so delicate, that I have hesitated.
There's something besides my pie and ham and wine that gives that look to your face.
That's the worst of women--God occasionally gives them brains, but they've scarcely begun to use them when heart and sentiment step in and overthrow all reason.
There's nothing finer in the world than the fresh air and the scent of the good brown earth that gives you the reward of your labour, always providing it is labour and not 'scamp' service.
They goes where they can be made most comfortable--an' it don't matter what sort o' woman gives the comfort so long as they gits it.
This greater spread of wheels, throwing more weight on the drivers, gives the engine greater adhesion, and thus adds to its efficiency for freight service.
The distribution of the total weight of the engine gives about twenty-two thousand pounds for each pair of drivers,--a weight no greater than is carried on each pair of drivers of the larger sizes of ordinary eight-wheeled C engines.
The Chronicle of the same date noticed the trial more at length, as follows: "It gives us pleasure to state that the locomotive engine built by our townsman, M.
The soul's language, it takes up the thread dropped by words andgives utterance to those refined sentiments and holy aspirations words are inadequate to awaken or express.
Truly indeed has it been said that its universality gives music its high worth.
Folk-music it is called, and it gives untrammeled utterance to human longings, human grief and despair, and human wondering over the mysteries of life, death and the great Beyond.
He gives a vivid picture of the rapidly settling Illinois with its squatters and its fertile and inviting land.
This very rare book gives valuable insight into the revolting customs of the Indians.
At the close of the chapter the author gives a bibliography for Illinois--five titles and two maps.
Mrs. Gratiot, who early lived in Galena, gives reminiscences of her life there.
Gives several facts concerning the early history of the Galena region.
Gives valuable information concerning the cost and manner of transportation, and concerning social life.
Gives the bill of sale, taken from the county records of Jo Daviess County, Ill.
His pallor was of the pathetic kind that givesan odd transparence to deeply tanned skin, almost like a light shining through.
Only the "liquid powder" which gives the strange pallor loved in Paris suggested that this chic figure had ever shown itself on the stage.
But to do it gives me the most divine joy, which I can't describe.
I wrote: There is a reason why you must get us invited by Miss Reardon to the last seance she gives before leaving.
To-day, Maisons, La Muette and Bagatelle are mere names which serve the tram lines for roof signs and scarcely one in a thousand strangers gives them a thought.
He who mentions the Louvre to a Frenchman gives a greater pleasure than that of Méhémet-Ali when one praises the pyramids.
The oratory is in the pure style of the Empire, and the stairway, lighted up by a curiously arranged dome-lantern, gives a most startling effect to the entrance vestibule.
It was the work of Visconti and Lefuel, and with the adoption of this plan was finally accomplished the interpolation of that range of pavilions which gives the architecture of the Louvre one of its principal distinctions.
Before the celebrated Écuries is a green, velvety pelouse which gives an admirable approach.
The Cour d'Honneur gives it its chief exterior distinction and the two pavilions have a certain grace of charm, when considered separately, which the ensemble somewhat lacks.
O, life is short to him who gives Long years for selfish pay; In righteous cause, the soldier lives A lifetime in a day.
The noble banyan dying lives, In youth 'twould shield a single man, In age its spreading shelter gives Shade for a prince's caravan.
O soldier with the shattered breast, Beside the shell-swept Flanders road, The One who gives the weary rest Knows all the burden of your load.
And God givesto every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lift him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
The author gives a short account of the then known plants and animals of Brazil, and concludes with the hope that the mines believed to exist may speedily be found.
A friend who was present at the Assembly to-day givesme the following account of the debate.
It gives the mouth the appearance of an ape's; and the peculiar mumping it occasions is so hideously unnatural, that it gives credit to, if it did not originally suggest, the stories of their cannibalism.
He also gives us good accounts of the government, its finances, &c.
To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, a heart To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs.
It is the sailors' only festival; and I like a festival: itgives the heart room to play.
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