Determined to hold their lead, they forced the ponies to still greater speed.
He recalled that he had overcome the Kiowas under still greater difficulties.
They feared that still greater calamities might befall them.
It soon sinks, and after the lapse of some time, a simple inspection will show which is dissolving with the greater rapidity.
Our horses are undoubtedly first-rate, having more quality and greater speed than foreigners.
Taking this fact into consideration, and the circumstances of elevator use being about the same in this case as in the case of the open tank elevator, we have a greater ratio of difference between the possible or contract H.
But there is no greater mistake than to suppose that a man who is a calculating criminal, is, in any phase of his guilt, otherwise than true to himself, and perfectly consistent with his whole character.
This state of mind being habitual to me, I troubled myself more about this conversation than I might have troubled myself about a greater matter.
If you were here alone, and hemmed in by the rising tide on the flow to fifty feet above your head, you could not be in greater danger than the danger you are now to be saved from.
Well, it wasn't difficult to fire; though the noise of the gun was much greater than that of the gallery rifle there was no recoil; and I tried to be as steady as possible in aiming and squeezing.
This notion struck a panic into the greater part of the crew, and 70 or 80 jumped out of the port-holes into the boats that were alongside the ship.
Forcible executions quickly reimbursed him to an extentgreater than his claim, but the country suffered.
Then, casting away all caution, I answered: "It is precisely a knowledge of those greater matters concerning the family which I have been hungering after ever since I came into the house.
I could wish for no greater pleasure than to sit here listening to you the whole evening.
One is in seeing your work, the other in holding your hand; and I think the last pleasure even greater than the first.
Her waking, which gave me a pang at first, afforded me in the end a still greater bliss.
If the wound had been dangerous, they would have given me much greater alms upon their return.
I am even bound to explain my conduct; because, by the grace of God, your Majesty has no one in this kingdom who serves you with greater love and zeal.
And yet, if we but consider this carefully, we shall see that the Spaniards have done themselves still greater harm, since they have deprived the Indians merely of their property, but have incurred the condemnation of their own souls.
Confession being thus rigorous, even greaterlaxity was permitted than should have been.
Only I pray that our Lord may preserve your Majesty many years in perfect health, and with increase of greater kingdoms and seigniories, in His holy service.
The first time when this galleon "Sancta Ana" sailed from here, I sent by her some artillery removed from your Majesty's forts, in order to provide greater security.
Among them you should always give the preference to those who are most deserving; including, with the other circumstances of greater and better services in the country, their length of residence there.
I advised the sending of a message to him, and the exercise of diligence, as they have greater facility for obtaining news there on account of the many ships which are usually near at hand.
It is somewhat less fatiguing to mount one of the grand circular staircases of the châteaux on the Loire, the task being lightened by the greater width of the steps and the introduction of more frequent landings.
In some of the more important houses the finials were worked with greater elaboration, and were placed not only on the apex of the gable but on the kneelers at its foot (see Fig.
Its projection was far greater than that of any similar feature in Gothic work: it was consequently much less ductile.
Another set, equally substantial and of greater extent, is to be found at Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire (Fig.
In the same district, at Conishead Priory, there is a panelled room of evengreater elaboration than this at Levens.
These are two or three examples out of a great many that still remain, some of them being even more ornamental; the greater number, however, were more nearly allied to the plainer than the richer examples.
Es-Suha" is an obscure star in the Greater Bear, at which people look to try their powers of sight.
Some of us were drowned, and some escaped; but the greater number were drowned, and of those who saved their lives none knew what became of the others, so stupefied were they by the waves and the boisterous wind.
The procession generally pursues a circuitous route, for the sake of greater display; and on leaving the house, turns to the right.
The greaterportion of the floor is elevated about half a foot, or somewhat more, above the rest.
What offence, he exclaimed, could be greater than this?
This feeling arises from their belief of certain services, of greater moment than the richest blessings this world can bestow, which children who die in infancy are to render to their parents.
Their general depravity is pronounced to be much greater than that of men.
This "greater ease" ought to be allowed for by a diminution in the times of the divided work; but as the proportion of times would remain the same, I do not introduce this unnecessary complexity into the calculation.
Thus, documents are only withdrawn from the currency when cancelled, and bullion when it is so effectually lost as that the probability of finding it is no greater than that of finding new gold in the mine.
You know well, when you examine your own hearts, that the greater part of the sums you spend on possessions are spent for pride.
Your water-colour painters are becoming every day capable of expressing greater and better things; and their material is especially adapted to the turn of your best artists' minds.
The husbandry was so imperfect that an unfavourable season for corn-crops, which in our days would have been compensated by a greater production of green crops, was followed by famine.
Man, it has been maintained, has greater natural wants and fewer natural means than any other animal.
But the London editors, and some of the provincial, have to look out for news at a greater distance than is comprised in our "nook-shotten isle of Albion.
The cheapness of glass for common use, which cheapness is produced by chemical knowledge and the division of labour, has set the ingenuity of man to work to give greater beauty to glass as an article of luxury.
The hand-loom weavers have continued to struggle, even up to this time, with the greater productive power of the power-loom; but the struggle is nearly over.
For this purpose, bars or pieces of iron are buried in powdered charcoal, covered up in a vessel, and kept at a red heat for a greater or less number of hours, according to the object desired.
We shall be able to command a greater share in the result of their labour.
You will not, moreover, deny that this excess of price from 1822 to the present time has only occasioned a greater expense to all those who use this fuel--in other words, that it represents a loss.
It seemed to me that life could hold no greater joy than it contained when I took her hand and we stepped down to the front of the stage bowing to our enthusiastic audience.
I argued that music offered me a better future than anything else I had any knowledge of, and, in opposition to my friend's opinion, that I should have greater chances of attracting attention as a colored composer than as a white one.
I am in grave doubt as to whether the greater part of the friction in the South is caused by the whites' having a natural antipathy to Negroes as a race, or an acquired antipathy to Negroes in certain relations to themselves.
So far as racial differences go, the United States puts a greater premium on color, or, better, lack of color, than upon anything else in the world.
It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.
I don't think I have feltgreater embarrassment in my whole life than I did at that moment.
The greater part of the money I now began to earn came through the friend to whom I alluded in the foregoing paragraph.
Its existence is rarely admitted and hardly ever mentioned; it may not be too strong a statement to say that the greater portion of the race is unconscious of its influence; yet this influence, though silent, is constant.
I have worn that gold piece around my neck the greater part of my life, and still possess it, but more than once I have wished that some other way had been found of attaching it to me besides putting a hole through it.
There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.
John Brown's powers in describing the delights of heaven were no greater than those in depicting the horrors of hell.
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband.
Was it possible for him to conceive of any greater folly than to rob himself of this consolation by transporting the child, through the indulgence, to the kingdom of heaven, where he could never see her again.
A greater knowledge of western civilization than is now possessed is essential to the progress of the Middle Kingdom.
There are few institutions in Hong Kong which have conferred greater benefits on the Chinese than the Central School; and it is surprising that an attempt has not been made to establish something of the kind at Shanghai.
The less can arise out of the greater, but not the greater out of the less.
But, in greater measure, the collapse of religion was due to that advance of science and philosophy which we have been considering in these lectures.
I say that the mind of Plato isgreater than the mind of Callias.
On the contrary, he refers to himself as the friend of Plato, but a greater friend of the truth.
Socrates had been independent of all earthly goods and possessions, caring neither for riches nor for applause, only because his heart was set upon a greater treasure, the acquisition of wisdom.
Aristotle, who had no spark of artistic capacity in his composition, whose own writings are the severest of scientific treatises, did far greater justice to art than Plato, and propounded a far more satisfactory theory.
But there was a third, and greater reason, for the condemnation of Socrates.
All Nous," he says, "is alike, both thegreater and the smaller.
In the result, Aristotle finds that all four causes have been recognized in greater or lesser degrees by his predecessors, and this, in his opinion, greatly reinforces his own doctrine.
Secondly, Professor Burnet thinks that it is quite certain that the Nous occupies space, for Anaxagoras speaks of greater and smaller portions of it.
Then as regards the Nous occupying space, it is not true that greater and smaller are necessarily spatial relations.
We must be ready to undergo pain for the sake of a greater pleasure to come.
We must often forego a pleasure if it leads in the end to greater pain.
But even if they had solved this minor problem, the greater question still remained in the background, what does this becoming mean?
It takes a greater man, a larger personality, harmoniously to combine the two.
His round body was swelled to greater proportions as he proceeded, in a roundabout way, to narrate what he knew of the affair.
Explanations were made, the fall over the cliff, the period of unconsciousness, and Dick's search the greater part of the night for his friend.
A commission was in his pocket, in which commission I inserted my own name for greater security.
She was clad in light spring garb that wonderfully set off her trim figure and brought out into greater prominence the wavy darkness of her hair, and depth of her eyes, that seemed deeper and brighter under the mellow sunlight without.
The clouds that had covered the face of the heavens for the greater part of the week had grown in intensity, and had been belching down their floods with renewed violence.
There were no rafts behind to shove us off and we had to wait for a greater flood.
The decision went to Glaze, not on falls, but on points, as he showed thegreater skill.
Well, I thought I was fighting for fair Sabra, and the reality of it seemed to putgreater strength into my arms.
Thus far she had reversed the laws of the spheres, and the greater had followed the less.
The hour will be a happy one which disposes her hand in marriage to some one whose energy is greater than her own, or whose ambition is of as low an order.
He deposited with Balderstone, at the same time, the greater part of his slender funds, with an assurance, which he was obliged to reiterate more than once, that he himself had sufficient supplies in certain prospect.
Lord Ravenswood was an ancient title, and the alliance would, in some measure, legitimate his own possession of the greater part of the Master's spoils, and make the surrender of the rest a subject of less bitter regret.
The Master, with equal skill, and much greater composure, remained chiefly on the defensive, and even declined to avail himself of one or two advantages afforded him by the eagerness of his adversary.
But the greater part of the public, prone to slander the wealthy in their absence as to flatter them in their presence, held a less charitable opinion.
I believe you would not hesitate to sacrifice the birds, Frank, but a greater sacrifice may be demanded of you.
By tying the neck and sleeves of a duck frock, I made a bag, which enabled me to carry the birds more conveniently, and in greater quantities at a time, and with the knives I could skin and prepare a bird in one quarter of the time.
It began to sink lower in the water than was agreeable to either of us, and I found it absolutely necessary to throw back into the sea the greater portion of our catch.
Your responsibility therefore becomes the greater in assisting them in their villainy.
XII Christmas was approaching and no greater wonder had ever dawned on the lives of Mavis and Jason than the way these people in the settlements made ready for it.
Golightly spent the greater part of that summer in trying to get the Corporal and the two soldiers tried by Court-Martial for arresting an "officer and a gentleman.
The bigger man you are, the more information and the greater trouble can you raise.
It is yours unconditionally--the story of McIntosh Jellaludin, which is NOT the story of McIntosh Jellaludin, but of a greater man than he, and of a far greater woman.
It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
But he found himself thinking steadily of the Haggert-Chisane ghost; and he could not be certain whether it was Haggert or Chisane that made up the greater part of the pretty phantom.
You may know the White Hussars by their "side," which is greater than that of all the Cavalry Regiments on the roster.
Ben was willing that a small portion of the amount should be spent for the purchase of a curtain, and for more secure foot-lights; but he insisted that the greater portion of it should be invested where it would be safe.
It was very clear that this new partner was more of a drawback than a help to the firm, and the mystery seemed greater than ever.
During the greater portion of that day the store was filled with such a crowd of newsboys and boot-blacks as was never seen in that vicinity before, and the other merchants looked out in alarm, as if they feared that a riot was in progress.
The relief of the author-actor when he saw Othello was greater than could be expressed by words, and he resolved to regain the good opinion of the audience by the ferocity with which he would wage the combat.
None of the boys, not even Mopsey, had been able to go to work that day, and the greater portion of the forenoon was spent in City Hall Square, trying to come to some understanding about their money.
Then the huge steamer slowly started from the dock, and Paul stood near the stern, where he could see his army of small acquaintances, the greater portion of whom had been so kind to him when he most needed friends.
The number of deaths, the amount of destitution, and the loss of property is far greater than had been anticipated.
Of all the heroism and dogged tenacity of purpose noted in connection with the Galveston storm none was greater than that of W.
The entire remainder of the population is suffering ingreater or less degree.
There is no reason why a greater Galveston, should not speedily rise on the site of the present ruins.
I believe that the assessment and fraternal insurance concerns will have the most losses because of the fact that in such a disaster the loss of life is greater among the poorer classes.
Perhaps stillgreater accuracy in forecasting was displayed by the bureau in the warnings given out to mariners on the Great Lakes on Tuesday morning, September 11.
In fact, it was nearly impossible, but the reports received indicated that those two sections had suffered the same fate as the rest of the city and to a greater degree.
Ten thousand houses were swept away and 1,000 persons perished in Canton alone, while equal or perhaps greater calamity was produced in other sections of the country.
The greater part turned to the north, swept up the brick block and then mixed with the ruins of the villages above down to the stone arch bridge.
The sick were cared for in hospitals and private homes, and the greater number of the others were assigned to places.
