Indistinct as the whole complex scene may be, some parts of it more brilliant, or more striking in general character, are less indistinct than others.
Perhaps a more striking illustration of the difficulties we encounter, when we attempt to apply the theory under consideration even to the best known European countries, is afforded by what is called "The System of the Longmynds.
There is, I believe, no place in the world where there is a more striking example of the opposition or contrast of the laws of animate and inanimate nature, of the forces of inorganic chemical affinity, and those of the powers of life.
No river affords a more striking illustration of the law before mentioned, that an augmentation of volume does not occasion a proportional increase of surface, nay, is even sometimes attended with a narrowing of the channel.
Nothing is more striking in the Alps than the extraordinary abundance in the summer of insects of all kinds, as we know to our cost in the sun-baked valleys; and on the mountains it is equally wonderful though less annoying.
I venture to assert that no event in the life of our colleague affords a more striking proof of the goodness of his natural disposition and the amiability of his manners.
The details would be more striking, and the name of Bailly would ennoble them.
The moderns also produced a whole, a more striking whole; but it was by blending materials and fusing the parts together.
But as of more importance, so more striking, is the judgment displayed by our truly dramatic poet, as well as poet of the drama, in the management of his first scenes.
The legate's palace is now divided into barracks and a prison, and the nakedness of its appearance upon a nearer view make its lofty proportions more striking.
The position of the glaciers at this place and in the Gulf of Penas may be put even in a more striking point of view, for they descend to the sea-coast within 7.
And it would be impossible to find any point of his administration in which his genius and his character appear in a more striking or complete manner.
Is it possible to imagine a more striking proof of the robust faith people then had in all these devilries?
HER LIFE In the judicial annals of France there has never been a more striking or celebrated figure than the Marquise de Brinvilliers.
In no previous war have the British given more strikingproof of their inherent quality of doggedness.
No more striking proof of this fact can be cited than the modern experiment in prison reform in which hardened convicts, when "given a chance," frequently become useful citizens.
And what could be a more striking proof of the existence of this Providence, or a more fitting acknowledgment on his part of the Bumpus virtues, than that Janet should become the wife of the agent of the Chippering Mills?
The moderns also produced a whole—a more striking whole; but it was by blending materials, and fusing the parts together.
There is scarcely to be found a more striking illustration of chemical genius, than that afforded by his chapter on the "Absorption of Nitrous Gas by solutions of green Sulphate of Iron.
There never, perhaps, was a more striking exemplification of the adage, that "necessity is the parent of invention.
A more striking case is that at present, in one of the Philippine Islands, the semi-barbarous inhabitants have distinct native names for no less than nine sub-breeds of the Game fowl.
But what makes the case still more striking is that in these colts the hair of the mane resembled that of the quagga, being short, stiff, and upright.
In some respects the evidence of inheritance is more striking when we consider the reappearance of trifling peculiarities.
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