This description, unfavourable as it is, seemed applicable to all the group, with the exception of Reevesby and Spilsby Islands, which are higher and of greater extent, and probably somewhat more productive.
It also, when the Government has to borrow to a greater extent, manages its issues of Treasury bills, or any loan operation that the Government may have to undertake.
Each bank, therefore, to a greater extent than in normal times, is obliged to rely upon itself for means of payment in New York.
Would you say that curing by the men themselves is practised to it greater extent in your parish than anywhere else in Shetland?
Do you think it possible in Shetland to prosecute the [Page 309] winter fishing to a greater extent than at present, if boats of a superior class were introduced?
Like nitrate of soda, but even to a greater extent, its most favourable action is obtained when it is applied along with other manurial ingredients.
They are much affected, like other crops, but to a greater extent, by the nature of the season--a wet season inducing an undue development of straw.
Of these, sand possesses this power to the least extent, clay to a greater extent, while humus possesses it most of all.
Small farmers sometimes make no bad addition to their income by thus disposing of fine fruits, and we always advise that such should be planted to a greater extent than is usually done about farm homesteads.
In 1860 we observed the effects of this creature to a greater extent than we have before known, in not a few instances rendering the crop scarcely worth reaping.
Many of the commercial advantages which recommended its selection still exist, to an equal or greater extent; especially those which related to Cochin China, Champa, and Cambodia.
Few countries can boast of roads, either of a better description, or of a greater extent, than some of those in Java.
Women are very sensitive to the quality of a man's touch, and appear to seek and enjoy contact and pressure to a greater extent than do men, although in early adolescence this impulse seems to be marked in both sexes.
When we look at these phenomena in their broadest biological aspects, love is only to a limited extent a response to beauty; to a greater extent beauty is simply a name for the complexus of stimuli which most adequately arouses love.
As the segments successively enlarge, they increase proportionately to a greater extentin breadth, so that their width for the most part measures from two to four times their length.
I have given them a greater extent in the figure, in order to render them sensible.
They have destroyed it to a greater extent than we destroyed Canton in 1857 by our bombardment.
More particularly, I find a hope expressed that we have plundered the wretched Chinese to a greater extent than is the case.
In a very few cases it has been utilised for pumping sewage, but there is no reason why, under proper conditions, it should not be employed to a greater extent.
It is usually possible to hyper-extend the joint, and, in the extended position, to rotate the leg outwards to a greater extent than is normal.
In India, although India is the home of the most extreme forms of religious asceticism, sexual love has been sanctified and divinized to a greater extent than in any other part of the world.
And during recent years castration has been invoked in the cause of negative eugenics, to a greater extent, indeed, on account of its more radical character, than either the prevention of conception or abortion.
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