I saw all these things, and how men had graduallyimproved through the generations that are dead.
We have improved just as we lost this religion and this superstition.
Some 20 gunners were out there last week with the most improved paraphernalia for the sport, and did telling work.
Selection andimproved training are the only factors operative.
And while we recognize that improved environment alone can not correct human deficiencies we must nevertheless not relax our efforts to get cleaner foods, cleaner surroundings, cleaner politics and cleaner hearts.
It is now well known that many cases of chronic insanity may be measurably improved under the care of a psychiatrist by systematic re-education, especially in industrial lines.
Improved Environment Will Help Conserve the Superior Strains When They Do Appear.
Moreover, improved sanitation has cut down the death-rate in asylums.
Doubtless if the faculty exists intuitively, it may be perfected, or at all events much improved by study and practice, but he that has it not from birth, I think, can never acquire it.
Sometimes the place is sadly and stupidly altered in my dream, and I am irritated; at other times it is improved and enriched, and the very landscape is idealized into a nobler and more perfect beauty.
Since those days I have much improved the construction of catamarans, so that their evolutions are now quicker and more certain.
The sympathetic action of England improved the feeling very much; and really I think the check will in the end benefit Japan.
In small towns, and some quite large cities, most of the streets are improved in this way.
The hamlet of Petersburg would be submerged, but the damages from the destruction of improved property would not be very great, as the improvements and the land are not especially valuable.
The natural advantages, however, are so great and the land included within Great Passaic Swamp is of so little value that the surrounding country would be improved and beautified by the construction of such a reservoir.
The construction of Newfoundland reservoir would be very expensive, as it would involve the flooding of Newfoundland Village, in which there is considerable improved property.
The channel in the lower valley may be improved at certain points by straightening it and judiciously making cut-offs.
Well, then, three days hence I shall be in Cassel again, and, I believe, I have improved my six days in a highly commendable manner.
All the mournful news which during her illness had been concealed from her, overwhelmed her as soon as she recovered, and for this reason her health had improved but very slowly.
Thomas Beaufort, duke of Exeter, from whom it passed to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, who largely improved the property and named it Placentia.
Colonel Bidwell and the officers must have had a shrewd suspicion of the truth, and there was a common remark in the town upon the improved physical appearance of the "Brigade.
We opened with a prologue, originally written by myself, but re-cast and very muchimproved by John McArdle.
Christy looked at him with astonishment when he saw him get out of his berth without any apparent difficulty; for he certainly looked like a very sick man, though his appearance had somewhat improved since he left the pilot-house.
These were altered, rearranged, andimproved upon time after time, until at length we felt we had got them as near perfection as the dimensions of the boat and our own knowledge would carry us.
And I may as well say at once that throughout the entire voyage we never had the slightest reason to think our little vessel could be in any way improved upon by alteration.
This powerful ruler had been muchimproved by his personal communication with the traders of Zanzibar.
I sometimes sent a party of my "Forty" to hunt, in which sport they took a great interest, and the practice with the rifle improved their shooting.
Although the force had much improved by the increase of discipline, they would have much preferred the good old times of plunder and prisoners.
Having lightened the vessel by taking out more cargo, I divided the labour; Higginbotham sinking two kyassas and making them fast as lifters, while other men cut away the flooded bank with spades and improved the shelf.
The terrible absence of discipline among the troops was a great difficulty, but I had alreadyimproved them greatly.
On arrival at the Bahr Giraffe, we found that the canals which I had formerly cut were much improved by the force of the stream.
A crimson sash round his waist, and a red tarboosh (fez) upon his head, improved his appearance wonderfully, and he began to feel at home.
She improved rapidly and their departure was delayed only until young Quincy's wound was healed.
He improved the opportunity by asking her to be his wife.
He improved his opportunity by asking Florence to be his wife.
Our perspective can certainly be improved by the European method.
He also much improved the social and moral tone of his profession by the force of his character.
We have made many new guns and cannon, improved on the Western models, and they are our weapons of to-day.
With us, however, outdoor sports have always been considered childish, and the rude sports of children have never been improved to suit grown-up men.
Soon after the inauguration of the Imperial Government, we began to remodel the postal system which had existed previously, and it has been gradually expanded and improved on the European method.
Do you think that, speaking generally, character is improved in Japan by the Western influence?
I believe that the railway services in those quarters will be muchimproved and made quicker, but at present, that is to say, judging from experience before the war, the service is said to be very irregular and long.
If the ringing is improved in the first case, the spring is too strong; if improvement takes place in the latter case, the spring is too weak.
Lord John Russell, which is reprinted here as an example of the improved portraiture of the period.
As the public taste improved under the influence of the pictorial press new fields were opened up for cultivation by the enterprising journalist.
Thus perhaps several species of wolves and jackals were domesticated in very early times, and from breeds derived from these, crossed and improved by selection, our existing dogs have descended.
In order that plants and animals may be improved and modified to any considerable extent, it is of course essential that suitable variations should occur with tolerable frequency.
About the middle of the last century a new and improved kind of foxhound was produced; the greyhound was also greatly improved at the end of the last century, while the true bulldog was brought to perfection about the same period.
Again sowing these, we obtain a further slight increase of size, and in a very few years we obtain a greatly improved race, which will always produce larger seeds than the unimproved race, even if cultivated without any special care.
These are, the preservation of useful variations in the struggle for life; that no creature can be improved beyond its necessities for the time being; that the law acts by life and death, and by the survival of the fittest.
It is a very common but mistaken idea that this improvement is due to crossing and feeding in the case of animals, and to improved cultivation in the case of plants.
The Short-faced tumblers are an improved sub-race which have almost lost the power of tumbling, but are valued for possessing some other characteristics in an extreme degree.
Although in later times it has been a very different place from the sink of filth and dirt it once was, even its improved condition holds out but little temptation to the extravagant, or consolation to the improvident.
The old lady's hearing decidedly improved and the unlucky Miller felt as much out of his element as a dolphin in a sentry-box.
The reader would look in vain for any of these ancient hostelries, among the Golden Crosses and Bull and Mouths, which rear their stately fronts in the improved streets of London.
Its mills, with their equipment, were repaired and improved in order to increase the quality and quantity of their output.
The mill has developed fast, and in spite of improved machinery has rapidly increased the number of its employes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
