The popular modes of measuring distance are ingenious, but, to a stranger at least, misleading.
The citizens of Paris and Rome should not be too ready to think all the rest of the world bound down to the same modes of living and thinking as themselves.
Smeaton contrived more efficient machines and bettermodes of working the mines and managing the estate.
Since there is something more or less common in the modes of lighting and in the general economy of all lighthouses, a general view of the subject is likely to prove of more interest than particular details.
Ancient and Modern Modes of Measuring Time, with curious Illustrations of the application of Clockwork.
Of the various modes of computing time, the best known are those of the Greeks and the Romans; the former by olympiads, the latter by years from the foundation of Rome.
Originating at first in the variety of tribes settled in one and the same country, and their different modes of life.
The different dates assigned to the death of Alfred," says Sir Francis Palgrave, "afford a singular proof of the uncertainty arising from various modes of computation.
As the modes of interment among all early nations were in many respects similar, there is perhaps no part of our national antiquities which has given scope to so much conjecture as this.
Footnote 669: Nearly one-third of the words in the Irish tongue are the same as the modern Welsh, and many idioms and modes of speech are common to both languages.
If these cultures are taken out the curve shows two modes more clearly.
These cross-over values were plotted and gave a bimodal curve with modes 7 units apart.
Again, if the cross-over values of the lethals with some other character, such as white eyes, be found and plotted, the curve should show two modes corresponding to the two lethals.
This test was applied, but the curve failed to show two modes clearly,[7] the two lethals being too close together to be differentiated by the small number of determinations that were made.
Their appearance was strongly marked with the modes of civil life.
For, however desirous the great bulk of the colonists were that only they of their own moral habits andmodes of thinking should be connected with their enterprise, it was impossible completely to exclude the obnoxious.
Hence, let it not be wondered at, that, in consequence of the prison breach, several innocent persons were arrested, whose modes of life or principles of faith came not up to the orthodox standard.
He looked into the reflexion of the thought, that rose of itself in his mind; that he should reflect for his pleasure, upon the various conditions of common people, and the different modes of their life.
It is for boys only to remain contented with their act of offering flowers and incense to gods, whom they honour in the modes of worship, which they have adopted of their own hobby-choice.
He is not in the babbling and prattling of babes and boys, nor in the bawling of beasts and brutes, nor in the jargon of savages; but equally understood by all in their peculiar modes of speech.
There will be this Narada with his present course of life, as also differing from the same; so likewise there will be many others also, with their various modes of life.
Argument:--Description of the five siddhis or modes of consummation.
Arguments--The causes of the feelings of Pleasure and Pain, and Happiness and Misery in this world, and the modes and means of their prevention and avoidance.
I have worshipped the Divine spirit, in all modes and forms and offering of flowers, as they presented of themselves to me; and notwithstanding the interruptions, I have uninterruptedly adored my god at all times, both by day and night.
It is because of the inseparable and overruling power of destiny, which no body can prevent or set aside; that I am doomed to live in this wise and others in their particular modes of life.
This Lord is worshipped in various forms by different people in the many modes as described below.
A thing has not not been, it is not customary, it is strange, it disturbs our ordinary modes of thought, and we will have nothing to do with it.
Vaughan, Abram Pryne, Sarah Pellet, and Matilda Joslyn Gage be a committee to prepare an address to capitalists and industrialists of New York, on the best modes of employing and remunerating the industry of women.
Let woman give up the irrational modesof clothing her person, and these doctrines and sentiments would be deprived of their most vital aliment by being deprived of their most natural expression.
The sum of this whole doctrine of society is, that we are to try the value of all modes and forms of social entertainment by their effect in producing real acquaintance and real friendship and good will.
Then, what is far different from any other modes of gaining a livelihood, a woman in this capacity can make and feel herself really and truly beloved.
The Quakers and the Methodists prescribed certain fixed modesof costume as a barrier against its frivolities and follies.
I treat of them as actual existences, and speak only of the modes of making the most of them.
The most usual modes of preparing the potato for the table are by roasting or boiling.
When meats have been properly divided--so that each portion can receive its own appropriate style of treatment--next comes the consideration of the modes of cooking.
If only they are not drenched with rancid butter, their own native excellence makes itself known in most of the ordinary modes of preparation.
But the defect of all these modes of warfare on the elegances and refinements of the toilet was that they were too indiscriminate.
Of all modes of spending money, the swallowing of expensive dainties brings the least return.
Is it not time that civilization should learn to demand somewhat more care and nicety in the modes of preparing what is to be cooked and eaten?
He inquired into English civilization, into the habits, manners, and modes of thought of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote.
They invent illegal modes of expenditure; and what do they or their wives care about the law?
He notices that the English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences, and is adopting foreign, especially French, modes of living.
His election may save him from arrest, but the law has other modes of public exposure and effectual ruin.
Who can judge," thought Harley, "through what modes retribution comes home to the breast?
And after five hundred years, with all the obscurity of language and obsolete modes of spelling, they still give pleasure to the true lovers of poetry when they have once mastered the language, which is not, after all, very difficult.
Other modes of arriving at [Greek: a)rchai\] are noticed by the philosopher himself in other places.
In these prior doctrines, however, his predecessors had treated the sophisticalmodes of refutation without reference to the Syllogism and its general theory.
Should it be true, he cannot solve the syllogism except by controverting one or both of the premisses; but should the conclusion be false, two modes of solution are open to him.
The other possible modes he sets aside as in the two preceding figures.
These three are the only simple modes of motion or currents: as I said in the last chapter that body was made complete in the number three, so also the motion of body is made complete in the number three.
Before the respondent undertakes to defend any thesis or definition, he ought to have previously studied the various modes attacking it, and to have prepared himself for meeting them.
For since the simple modes of motion are limited in number, the simple bodies must be alike limited; each simple mode of notion belonging to its own special simple body, and each natural body having always its own natural motion.
These two modes of flight are associated with equally distinct modifications of structure, and just as we have every intermediate state of flight between flapping and soaring so the two structural extremes are merged into one another.
For these things, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.
Hooke's writings show that even in his day the idea that both light and heat are modes of motion had taken possession of many minds.
We were now to leave the Hebrides, where we had spent some weeks with sufficient amusement, and where we had amplified our thoughts with new scenes of nature, and new modes of life.
Lady Macleod, who had lived many years in England, was newly come hither with her son and four daughters, who knew all the arts of southern elegance, and all the modes of English economy.
Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation.
Here was a constant irritation, a system of provocation to the appetite for blood, such as in other nations are connected with the rudest stages of society, and with the most barbarous modes of warfare.
His memorials, of which two or three are given, show a perfect familiarity with diplomatic modes and habits, and they are both well written and ably reasoned.
The Indian differs from the white man in education and manner of life, and so, of course, in his modes of thought.
Dunbar published a most interesting account of this tribe, but his sketch is mainly historical, and does not profess to treat exhaustively of the lives and modes of thought of this people.
With the new modes of living come new views of life, new motives, new sympathies--in a word, civilization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
