This man was so cool, and related all the circumstances of the occurrence with such exactness, as to prove the truthfulness of his statement.
Mr. Humiston has, since 1859, held the position of Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Western Homoeopathic College, and has given ten courses of lectures in that institution.
He held the position of judge of the Supreme Court until 1864, when he resigned.
For several years he held the position of president of the company, and it was through his labors in this channel of commerce, that he became so thoroughly identified with the progress and prosperity of Cleveland.
For six years subsequent to his mayoralty he held the office of commissioner of water works.
For several years he held the office of director in the Merchants Bank, of Cleveland.
The brave and experienced Ben-hadad had perished by the treachery of an ambitious subject, and his assassin, the infamous Hazael, held the throne.
Some years ago, he held the office of city chamberlain, and during his administration of it a difficulty arose in regard to paying the police force their wages.
The exhausted warrior, feeling that the critical moment was at hand, when all depended upon prompt and decisive work, made furious efforts to clamber out of the cavern before the lad who held the key of the situation could prevent.
Here he held the audience of the air captive with his heavenly music.
He held the jaws of the 'gator shut while Dick seized the hind legs of the reptile, and together they carried the creature ashore.
He held the pistol in his right hand at arm's length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it.
With fifteen thousand men I held the enemy at bay for thirty-five hours and beat him; but he would not hold out even for fourteen hours.
By the light of the sparks Bolkhovitinov saw Shcherbinin's youthful face as he held the candle, and the face of another man who was still asleep.
Max, filled the little cup with fragrant China tea, and, supporting the dazed man, held thebeverage to his lips.
He held the pistol in his hand, and buttoned up within his coat was the leather case.
In order to settle the point, he held the face of his watch close to the keyhole, wound its knob in the wrong direction, and lo!
He did not take much part in the debates at Erfurt; as he was one of the youngest of the members, he held the position of Secretary; the President of the Assembly was Simpson, a very distinguished public man, but a converted Jew.
The males suffer from their small size, for according to M.
In the very distinct family of the Cyprinodontidae--inhabitants of the fresh waters of foreign lands--the sexes sometimes differ much in various characters.
He held the door in his hand, as though he were quite ready to shut her out again if she failed.
The hand with which he held the grating (seamed all over the back with ugly scratches newly healed), was unusually small and plump; would have been unusually white but for the prison grime.
He looked sharply at the birds himself, as he held the child up at the grate, especially at the little bird, whose activity he seemed to mistrust.
I poured them from one hand to the other, I held the greatest to my cheek.
Alicia took one as she might have taken a rattlesnake, and I held the other.
Instead, I held the carnations to my face, to hide my whitening lips.
As a man, he held the views of Mazdak; but, as a king, he let it be known that he did not intend to maintain or support the sectaries in any extreme or violent measures.
It may be true, but it is uncertain; for it may have grown out of the earlier statement of Agathangelus, that he held the government of the province of Istakr.
He was his clerk when the latter held the Alcalde's Court in Marysville, in 1850; and was Clerk of the U.
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