The work is mainly a result of the author's own experiences and struggles--an outgrowth of the practical methods by which he has secured, at least, many of the objects not altogether unworthy of his ambition and hopes.
The attack upon the Minister and his methods was only postponed in order to lure her and her father into a sense of security.
Recollect the eye-opener into Italian methods we had when we saw the Minister of War regarding the contracts for Abyssinia.
He was a poseur, and owed his position to his ingenious methods and his plausible tongue.
I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed.
First, that your family and servants have no dependence upon the said gentleman, farther than by the old agreement, which obliges you to have the same steward, and to regulate your household by such methods as you should both agree to.
They had heard many a time of their particular methods of fighting in the forests, of their cunning and of their value as scouts.
It was a horrible exhibition of cruelty and inhumanity, and it is a wonder that, seeing the helpless methods adopted, Montcalm and his officers contrived to save a single one of the unfortunates who had surrendered to them.
But he knew the methods of the backwoods, and was well acquainted with the reputation of this Frenchman.
With these comrades other methods are wanted perhaps.
Indeed, the Canadians engaged in this war looked upon the methods and desires of the Indians with favour.
Then one half was set to fight the other, the men being roused to such keenness by these methods that they hardly seemed to notice any fatigue.
You see, his literary methods are very simple; they mean work early and late, work done doggedly, and as scrupulously as if the keenest critic were looking over his shoulder.
The swiftly done work of the journalist, and the cheap finish and ready-made methods to which it leads, you must try to counteract in private by writing with the most considerate slowness and on the most ambitious models.
If the degree of accuracy attainable with the methods and instruments at the assayer's service is known, it is easy to calculate what quantity should be taken for any particular case.
The assay of bismuth by wet methods presents little difficulty, and is fairly accurate.
There are several methods in use which leave little to be desired either in speed or accuracy.
Other methods of statement are in use, and have advantages in certain special cases.
A standard solution of ferric chloride is prepared in the same manner as that described under the experiments on the methods of reduction; but it should be of twice the strength, so that 100 c.
The two methods are based on the oxidising effect of manganese dioxide; and if the metal does not already exist in this form it will require a preliminary treatment to convert it.
Cupellation is at once the neatest and the most important of the dry methods of assaying.
Knowing that only certain bodies are present, it is evident that the number of separations can be reduced, and that simple methods can be devised for arriving at the results sought for.
The usual methods of supporting the funnel during filtration are shown in fig.
A sample of galena determined by the three methods gave the following results:-- By pot assay 7.
The government must advance loans for the special erection of water-wheels, or othermethods of irrigation, at 6 per cent.
The district of Larnaca will offer a fair example of the usual methods of taxation, and as the figures have been most kindly supplied by the authorities of the division, they can be thoroughly relied upon.
The Turk was very intelligent, and thoroughly conversant with the various methods of breech-loading firearms; he examined several rifles and guns belonging to me, and at once comprehended the mechanism, and explained it to the admiring crowd.
As Raynal was a mere literary compiler, it was not to be expected that he should rise above the common deficiencies in the thought and methods of his time.
In your place, I would put those famous methods on paper.
Without even a gun or torpedo on board, the 'Deutschland' is revolutionising the entire methods of navigation, overseas trade and international rights, a revolution whose effects can hardly be fully realised as yet.
There is much good sense in the book, and there is plenty of occasion for attacking the ordinary methods of cooking, as well as the common style of diet.
It was necessary, in the case of Mount Rainier, to resort to long-distance methods of angulation.
In connection with so great an altitude, nine feet is an insignificant quantity, and the close correspondence in the results of the two methods of measurement is truly remarkable.
In 1913 the United States Geological Survey, in connection with its topographic surveys of the Mount Rainier National Park, was able to make a new series of measurements by triangulation methods at close range.
An account of the data, with description of the methods employed in reduction and computation, is given, to indicate the degree of reliance to be placed upon the result.
Nothing but failure can result from suchmethods of sketching, nor have I ever seen a single instance of an earnest study of snowy mountains by any one.
Many other methods still more childish are resorted to, in order to pass the time and to give a zest to their wine; but the usual resource here, as well as elsewhere, against the tediousness of time, is gaming.
He then describes the three methods of broadcast, drilling, and dibbling, and gives a decided preference of the last, though it be the most laborious.
He had been able by subtlemethods to place himself in the Bishop's favor, but this time that august individual artfully kept from meeting him directly.
Well, under the circumstances, methods had to be resorted to--er, rather to fit the occasion.
Why, I do not understand clearly, but such methods appear to be a recognized custom in those parts," countered the Elder evasively.
These methods became, however, toward 1860, too slow for the radicals, and the trade grew more defiant and open.
In 1821 a committee of Congress characterized prevailing methods as those "of the grossest fraud that could be practised to deceive the officers of government.
Yet the Apostles, with their old-fashioned ways, would not accept such a success as a satisfactory sign of the Divine sanction, nor depart from their own methods of leading the way to the higher life.
I am copiously abused for speaking of the Jesuitical methods of the superior officials of the Salvation Army.
In my belief, all methods of technical training are at present tentative, and, to be successful, each must be adapted to the special peculiarities of its locality.
Whatever differences of opinion may exist among experts there is a general consensus that the ape and [53] tiger methods of the struggle for existence are not reconcilable with sound ethical principles.
As various methods of dyeing hair black are in use, the means of restoring the original color differ.
The detection of toxical substances, often contained in wine, is accomplished by the methods described under the head of detection of poisons.
Numerous methods have been proposed to accomplish this estimation.
The metals dissolved in the several filtrates are then detected, either by the processes previously given for the detection of metallic poisons, or by the more completemethods contained in works on chemical analysis.
With an account of the Regimen of the Missouri River, and a description of the methodsused for Founding in that River.
Of the variousmethods for obtaining from the stains a preparation adapted to the microscopic examination, the one proposed by M.
The methods used in examinations of this nature vary, as the weapon under inspection is one provided with a flint or an ordinary percussion lock.
Unfortunately, up to the present, the government has adopted methods less sure.
As the methods to be pursued in either of these cases differ somewhat, they will be treated separately.
The special methodswhich allow of the detection of various individual poisons will, however, first be indicated.
As this operation requires considerable practice and the methods employed are to be found in all treatises on quantitative analysis, we will not reproduce them here.
Nets were employed for this purpose, and we may safely infer that the forms of the nets and the methods of using them were identical with those which are employed in the same country at the present day.
There are many methods of arranging the sale, all of which I should like to describe particularly; however, I will confine myself to a general statement.
As to the various methods of capturing Fish, we will first take the simplest plan, that of the hook and line.
These so-called bottles are made from the entire skin of the animal, which is prepared in slightly differentmethods according to the locality in which the manufacture is carried on.
By this time Slocumb had begun to see plainly that Claire was proof against all his known methods of conquest.
He marveled now, as he had repeatedly done on recent occasions, at her remarkable power to grasp new phrases, new forms of thought, new methods of inquiry.
We ought to recognise that all educational aims and methods are really subordinate to this great end; if this were properly realised by adolescents it would be of the greatest service and help in their training.
While I have my own views as to the best method to adopt, I am quite sure that each one of very many methods can, in suitable hands, produce great good, and that the very poorest method is infinitely superior to no method at all.
As each species of bird requires a different mode, I shall mention the various methods in the course of the work, and shall here only speak of bird catching in general.
There are several different methods of taking quails, but I shall only mention the commonest and easiest.
To prove by chemical and physical methods that a certain stain is that of blood, is often only one step in the inquiry, the next question being whether the blood is that of man or of animals.
The mineral substances in this are easy of detection by the methods already given; the aloes by the formation of chrysammic acid, and the rhubarb by its microscopical characters.
The more perfect of the methods of evolving arsenic can be made quantitative.
Analytical methods which experience has shown to be faulty have been omitted, and replaced by newer and more accurate processes.
Most of the methods for the quantitative determination of arsenic are also excellent tests for its presence.
Whatever use or abuse might be made of a few violent poisons, Greek and Roman knowledge of poisons, their effects and methods of detection, was stationary, primitive, and incomplete.
With regard to othermethods of medical treatment, they are simply those suggested by the symptoms and well-known effects of the poison.
There are othermethods of producing the colour test.
Various other methodswere tried, but the best was the one given; the method not only separates the alkaloid with but little loss, but also in a sufficiently pure state to admit of identification.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "methods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
