Their methodical and exact mode of life obtained for them the name of Methodists.
Vices, indeed, we have to deplore among certain classes of our people, which are often superinduced by their migratory habits and irregular mode of life.
This is a safe, and at the same time not the most honorable, mode of attack, as the people of those nations are too far off to defend themselves.
The good old aunts religiously preserved the secret of the mode of Tanneguy's death; but no one who knew the niece could doubt that the whole story would be at the mercy of whoever chose to cultivate her confidence.
Stella, in rather a melancholy voice, as she found her usual modeof observation quite inadequate.
Why not recur at once to the old modeof management, rather than injure himself by kicking against the pricks.
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, represent the most approved mode of washing and shearing sheep.
Stringing is the mode commonly resorted to for this end; that is to say a cord is drawn tightly round the neck, close to the shoulder, so as to stop the circulation through the vein, and render it perceptible to the finger.
The relative positions of the layers of the skin, the modein which the hairs rise from them, and the form and situation of the sebaceous follicles, will be better understood by referring to the following cross section Fig 5.
Changes are wrought for the most part by attention to the mode of propagation of the plant or animal, by the plan of crossing; and by careful selection of the parent stock.
The administration of it therefore in rot, no matter what may be the form or mode in which it is exhibited, will to a certainty aggravate the symptoms, and shorten life.
Why, that it is not unusual to meet with sheep-owners who lose at least one out of every fifteen, and all owing, as may easily be proved, to this mode of management.
For this reason, I hold them worthy of particular description; as it is only by becoming acquainted with their history and habits that we can form correct ideas either of their mode of origin or of their supposed ability to cause rot.
Relative positions of the layers of the skin, mode in which the hairs rise from, and situation of, the sebaceous follicles; a.
It is only within a very recent period, that the mode of improving live-stock by skilful breeding, has been properly attended to.
We returned to the camp at Mzez Ammar; a few days afterwards we were attacked by the Arabs, who showed great spirit and determination in their desultory mode of warfare, which, however, can make no impression on such troops as the French.
In the mode of narration, I am vain enough to flatter myself that the reader will find little reason to hesitate between us.
All weakness is suffering and humiliation, no matter for its mode or its subject.
I applied, therefore, at once, for information as to the propermode of effecting this purpose without delay.
Sometimes, again, wearied out with this mode of suffering, they took a circuit of perhaps a hundred miles, in order to strike into a land with few or no inhabitants.
Christendom, as a Jewish and a Heathen mode of questioning the dark future.
Another proof,” mused the Duke in whimsical despair, “that it is impossible to make anymode of life permanently interesting.
A modeof cooking a dish of hippopotamus, discovered by Sir Samuel Baker, is well worth bearing in mind.
D shows a modeby which the end of a rope may be quickly fastened to a ring.
The illustration on the opposite page represents the mode of setting a dislocated shoulder.
The mode of setting the sails, spreading the awning, &c.
It will often happen that in the erection of some makeshift contrivance, or the laying out of a ground plan for future operations, some rough and ready mode of levelling will be needed.
Wherever the aloe plant grows, the above rough and ready mode of obtaining its juices may be had recourse to.
These are so numerous in form and mode of construction, that to describe half that are known to practical riggers and sailors would require a goodly volume.
The mode of harnessing the deer is peculiar, the bridle loop, formed of tendons, being under the front of the sledge; this arrangement gives lifting power.
Its modeof use will be understood on reference to the illustration.
The mode of carrying used in mountainous countries by a chair strapped on the back of a porter, and still further secured by a band passing round his forehead, as shown at Fig.
The common mode of priming a gun from a flask or horn, when there are no percussion or friction tubes to be obtained, is, to say the least of it, inconvenient and dangerous.
His ordinary mode of life was simple and unostentatious, and his favorite residence was the palace of Sans Souci, at Potsdam.
Another mode of stating his principle is this: "To know the finite as such, is also to know the infinite.
Various are the attempts to shadow forth the other lineaments of so supreme a personality to our human imagination; various the ways of conceiving in what mode the recognition, the hearkening to our cry, can come.
By an unfortunate diet I destroyed my powers of digestion, so that I experienced great uneasiness, yet without being able to embrace a resolution for a more rational mode of life.
The fancy is no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, and blended with, and modified by, choice.
From Greenwich the steamers offer much the most agreeable modeof getting to London.
When, therefore, he perceived that his opponent gained ground, he had recourse to some sudden mode of robust sophistry.
During the whole period of diminishing the opium I had the torments of a man passing out of one mode of existence into another.
They have a deadly hatred to the French, so that some of our company were flouted at for wearing red cloaks, as the mode then was.
The preponderating influence in morphogenesis is osmotic pressure, the osmotic forms varying with its intensity, distribution, and mode of application.
The doctrine asserts the simultaneous variations in organic forms and in the physical influences which produce them, but says {167} nothing as to their mode of action.
These equipotential lines of diffusion give us the best and most concrete reproduction of the mode of propagation of periodic waves in space.
It is the grouping of physical reactions and their mode of association and succession, their harmony in fact, which constitutes life.
It is in this sense only that function may be said to make an organ, but this mode of expression should be avoided, as it is apt to be misunderstood.
As I pointed out in the Revue Scientifique of March 1906, Traube made the first artificial cell, and studied the osmotic properties of membranes and their mode of production.
There was a difference of opinion as to the best mode of attack; St. Clair was unwilling to attempt it first with his vessels, because the fort was so far above the water that it could send a plunging fire upon their decks.
It is a perfectly legitimate mode of defence, as every student of history knows; and why should we censure the garrison for thus employing an acknowledged means of defence, to check the progress of an invader?
The village was then plundered and burned, the savages adding all the atrocities characteristic of their mode of warfare.
The modern mode of transmitting messages by pigeon-post is much more ingenious, and less irksome to the bird.
While there is much diversity of view as to the modeand the object and the duration of suffering, there is a broad basis of agreement as to the fact.
When a child is born into the world it is not even aware for a time that it has entered on a new mode of existence.
Faith can wait for the revelation of the mode and the time.
The mode in which the cranium is set upon the cervical spine serves also to diffuse the pressure at the points where the two opposing forces meet--viz.
Mode of performing the taxis according to the course of the hernia.
Mode of compressing this vessel against the humerus.
When we consider the texture of the peritonaeum, and the mode of its connexion to the abdominal parietes, we cannot fancy the possibility of tearing the membrane by any attitude or motion.
In somewhat the same mode as the posterior half of the omo-hyoid subdivides the larger posterior triangle into two of lesser dimensions, the anterior half of the same muscle divides the anterior triangle into two of smaller capacity.
This mode of distribution becomes the more apparent, according as we rise from particulars to take a view of the whole.
It appears to me to be one of those questions which do not admit of a precise answer by any mode of mathematical computation; and even if it did, where then is the practical inference?
Another mode of divination runs in this way: On going to bed the girl eats two spoonfuls of salt.
Burning the nuts is perhaps the most popular mode of trying conclusions with fate, as it certainly is the most mirth-provoking.
This mode of self-torture is supposed to derive its origin from the great use formerly made of mirrors by magicians and other obsolete impostors in carrying on their mystical trade.
I could not help comparing our presentmode of transportation with that allowed us while on our march from Alexandria to Fredericksburg, by the way of Maryland and Aquia Creek, two months before.
The river was not deep at this place, and the mode of propelling was by pushing with poles.
Fascinated by the brilliancy of the sketches which the accomplished historian has drawn of the statesmen of the age of William of Orange, Mr Francis thinks he will not do justice to his subject unless he adopts a similar mode of handling.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate modeof conferring a compliment," replied the urbane Italian, as he recovered from his first surprise at Randal's sudden address, and extended his hand.
Augury was a mode of ascertaining the divine will in respect to questions of expediency or duty, by means of certain prognostications and signs.
The ancient Mexicans had a mode of writing which seems to have been symbolical in its character, and their characters had, many of them at least, a natural signification.
The system was, therefore, well adapted to commemorate what was already known, but was of little service as a mode of communicating knowledge anew.
The idea is conveyed in the symbolical mode by one character, while by the phonetic it requires no less than six.
The symbolical mode of writing possesses some advantages which must not be overlooked.
At what time and in what manner the transition was made among the ancient nations from the symbolic to the phonetic mode of writing, is not now known.
The moderator's mode of introduction had not been one to reassure a timid man, nor to prepossess an audience favorably toward a speaker.
Instead of obeying her father's command, Betsy spent her solitary hours in trying to hit upon some mode of escape from her prison, or at least for some means of communicating with her lover.
Everything was in such confusion that it was impossible to prepare a suitable mode of conveyance for the Emperor.
Would not this mode of proceeding be preferable to that of causing letters to be opened by any one who may be employed, and replying to them by a circular to which it is only necessary to attach a date?
Under the foolish illusion of his vanity Bonaparte imagined that France was desirous of being governed even by a bastard if supposed to be a child of his,--a singular mode truly of founding a new legitimacy!
These were golden words, and Napoleon thought of a more noble and truly national mode of parrying the danger which threatened him.
Napoleon often reflected on the best mode of making this communication to the Empress; still he was reluctant to speak to her.
But this mode of treatment was not sufficient; for such was Bonaparte's situation between the Jacobins and the Royalists that he could not strike a blow at one party without strengthening the other.
Bonaparte was, however, mistaken as to the mode of accomplishing the object he had in view.
That is a more secure mode of obtaining peace on good conditions than the system of injuring ourselves for the sake of committing a greater injury upon the enemy.
This was a favourite modeof interrogation with him in similar cases, and I have heard him say that it was a sure way of drawing out all that a man had observed in any country that he had visited.
The moment now arrived for consulting the Council of State as to the mode to be adopted for invoking and collecting the suffrages of the people.
This would have been a most impolitic mode of commencing the conquest of Egypt, which had no strong places requiring to be intimidated by a great example.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mode" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
