He smoked and listened composedly to Santa Margherita and Barbarisi, who were discussing--apropos of a recent case in France--whether it was legitimate or not to use the left hand against an adversary.
But two or three links in the chain of evidence are wanting, and as soon as I become myself convinced that this young man is, beyond all reasonable doubt, the legitimate son of my brother John, my course will be soon taken.
After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, The Old Man of the Mountains--drunk in solemn silence.
I consider all these poisoning cases, compared with the legitimate style, as no better than wax-work by the side of sculpture, or a lithographic print by the side of a fine Volpato.
Such a policy of neutrality might result, too, it was thought, in securing the throne of England for the young Scottish queen, whose claims as the nearest legitimate heir could not be questioned.
He appears to have indicated the measures necessary for developing its resources, and for attracting the trade of the neighbouring provinces from their expensive and indirect channel into their legitimate route.
From these two it is a Legitimate Corollary: That Somewhere between Europe, and the North part of America, there ought to be an Easterly Variation, or at least no Westerly.
I shall not at present inquire into the Cause of its uncertainty, but the Matter of Fact being most undoubted, the Legitimate Consequences thereof must be allow'd me, let it proceed from what it will.
The franchise, however, did not constitute a legitimate cause of war, for the British Government always admitted they had no right to demand it.
A singular result of the course things took was that war broke out before any legitimate casus belli had arisen.
He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool.
So, even against his will, an elderly man is forced, if he wishes to have the legitimate and socially-sanctioned companionship of a woman, to seek in marriage one of the young girls who alone are in India available for a suitor.
With the commands of justice and with the contracts which made possible and legitimate the companionship and love of man and woman they never really sought to interfere.
These have at least a perfectly legitimate title to the name by a sort of cadet copyhold.
Exempted even by priestly ordinance from the oppressive asceticism that is in general obligatory to the Hindu mind, they have formed for themselves a code of honour coloured by the legitimate hopes and enjoyments of a warrior clan.
Teach her children to till the soil--to cultivate available exports by which they may obtain in exchange, through the medium of a legitimate commerce, the European products and manufactures necessary for their use and enjoyment.
What I wish, and I imagine every friend of Africa does the same, is to see a legitimate commerce established in The Desert.
But yet, who does not see that the proposal is well worthy the attention of any Government that wishes to establish in Africa a legitimate commerce, a system of trade which a good man and a good Government may approve of and support?
Until the free-trader can prove to me that the traffic in slaves is a legitimate commerce, I shall advocate the crippling of it by restrictions, let these restrictive regulations be ever so puerile.
So the legitimate commerce, already so limited, is diminishing instead of increasing.
The officers have no legitimate wives, nor, of course the privates.
All that the Saharan tribes do, is to escort the merchants over The Desert; and they would still escort them over The Desert did they not deal in slaves, carrying on only legitimate commerce.
One might have escaped the fever, as one might have been picked up by the swimming of a black man; but such a "might" belongs to accident, not the planning and arranging of legitimate expectation.
Hence the legitimate pride they take in their commercial belongings--a genuine Lancashire man would rather you praised his mill or warehouse than his mansion.
Politely called the "West India trade," no doubt legitimatecommerce was bound up with the shocking misdeed, but the kernel was the same.
The legitimate and healthful recreation of the multitude is in Lancashire, with the thoughtful, as constant an object as their intellectual succour.
As might have been expected, this enterprise was regarded at home as a failure, and Cabot had made many enemies in the exercise of his legitimate authority in quelling the mutinies which had from time to time broken out among his men.
A full account of the pedigree of the Calverts will be found in An Appeal to the citizens of Maryland, from the legitimate descendants of the Baltimore family, by Charles Browning, Baltimore, 1821.
The voyage of Martin Pring, as already pointed out, was a legitimate enterprise, having the sanction of Sir Walter Raleigh, the patentee.
He can take the wealth of those Brahmanas also that have fallen away from their legitimate duties.
These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of king-craft.
He separated the legitimate paths of human inquiry, giving his attention to poetry and politics and metaphysics, as well as to physics.
If there be too much of it for the legitimate purposes of trade and commerce, it will flow out of the country.
As more currency should be required for the transaction of legitimate business, new banks would be started, and in turn banks would wind up their business when it was found that there was a superabundance of currency.
The currency, being of fluctuating value, and therefore unsafe to hold for legitimate transactions requiring money, became a subject of speculation within itself.
I have hoped that Spain would be enabled to establish peace in her colony, to afford security to the property and the interests of our citizens, and allow legitimate scope to trade and commerce and the natural productions of the island.
Elasticity to our circulating medium, therefore, and just enough of it to transact the legitimate business of the country and to keep all industries employed, is what is most to be desired.
I have kept many badgers in confinement, but never to "try" my dogs, and all my terriers learnt their trade in legitimate fashion.
In my opinion there are two legitimate methods of hunting the badger.
Julia de St. Val, and furthermore acknowledged him as rightful and legitimate heir to the entail.
With their departure had gone, also, the sole legitimate object of the expedition; there remained but a project of wanton aggression and usurpation.
Dost Mahomed was neither kith nor kin to the legitimate dynasty which he displaced.
Herat was the only remnant of Afghan territory that still remained to a member of the legitimate royal house.
In that meeting his lofty and invaluable career finds its legitimate date.
Don Luis, having nolegitimate son, was succeeded by his nephew Diego, son to his brother Christopher.
Diego died without issue in 1578, and with him the legitimate male line of Columbus became extinct.
Don Bartholomew had not the same legitimate authority in their eyes as his brother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legitimate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
