Hougoumont still defied the attacks of nearly the whole of Reille's corps, and the effective part of D'Erlon's corps was hotly engaged at and near La Haye Sainte.
We turn now to follow the chief steps in Napoleon's onward march, which enabled him to impose his system on nearly the whole of the Continent.
The Icelandic language has altered so little within the last one thousand years that it is nearly the same as that of the old Sagas and poems; Sagas and poems which every Icelander can read.
It is only safe to say that Provence was Ligurian, and Dauphine Gallo-Ligurian before it became Romanized: and that the remainder of the ethnological history of the Ligurians of Gaul is nearly the same as that of the Gallic Iberians.
For Calabrian and Apulian Italy the history is nearly the same as that of Sicily.
Jeopardy is nearly the same as peril, but involves, like risk, more of the element of chance or uncertainty; a man tried upon a capital charge is said to be put in jeopardy of life.
Yet with a negative applies to completed action, often replacing a positive statement with still; "he is not gone yet" is nearly the same as "he is here still.
The German usage is nearly the same, the question being "Lord judge, what is your sentence, what shall he do whose pledge I have in my hand?
It is, therefore, not surprising that many games are nearly the same as when Pollux described them in the second century.
The process of making bread is nearly the same in all the countries of modern Europe; though the materials of which it as composed vary with the farinaceous productions of different climates and soils.
Whenever the gold plates have extended under this treatment, to nearly the size of the vellum, they are removed from the packet, and cut into four equal squares by a knife.
The liquor collected in the under vessel runs off by a syphon inserted near its bottom, the leg of which turns up to nearly the level of the ventilating air pipes before it is bent outwards and downwards.
The ridges produced by the separation of the first scales must naturally constitute nearly the middle of the subsequent pieces; and such scales alone as have their ridges thus placed in the middle are fit to be made into gun-flints.
It is a long, narrow barge, nearly the whole of which is taken up by a low cabin.
The principal object of interest in the city is the tower of the Cathedral of St. Martin, which is three hundred and twenty-one feet high, and commands a view of nearly thewhole of Holland and a portion of Belgium.
The eyes--usually two in number--are very large, and sometimes take up nearly the whole of the head.
This insect exists in nearly the whole of Europe, although it is rare or almost unknown in the northern parts.
In the United States, and in the south of Europe, the heat of the plains (from 40 to 43 degrees latitude) is nearly the same as within the tropics; and according to my researches the decrement of caloric equally varies but little.
This is nearly the temperature of the Rio Negro, but four or five degrees below that of the Orinoco.
With respect to the change in the general form of the lake, it appears to me improbable that in the seventeenth century its breadth wasnearly the half of its length.
And now one of the richest known accumulations of fossil mammals belongs to the middle of the secondary series; and true mammals have been discovered in the new red sandstone at nearly the commencement of this great series.
Quite on the contrary [333] it is always the same, or nearly the same, and it is to be considered as an inherent quality of the race.
From the evidence of the other corresponding experiments, and from various statistical inquiries it seems that the value of the progression is nearly the same in most cases, irrespective of the species used and the quality considered.
In doing so we find, that the proportion is nearly the same on all the spikes, and only slight variations would be found in hundreds of them.
To be caught on his feet, is nearly the same as to be caught in a crime.
For though Birmingham has undergone an amazing alteration in extension, riches and population, yet the government is nearly the same as the Saxons left it.
Nearly the whole of this stretch of country is a dead level.
Nearly the whole of it is a plain, and much of it is as flat as the Fen district of Lincolnshire.
In the counter-attack to which the Gordons were now advancing nearly the whole of the First Corps was engaged.
When the Longobards became masters of nearly the whole of Italy, and subjected it to their long and cruel sway, they are known to have appointed a duke to every one of the principal cities they occupied.
The latter party likewise comprised country nobles, such as the Ubertini, the Pazzi of Valdarno, and more particularly the Ubaldini owning nearly the whole of the Mugello and dominating it with their fortified castles.
In fact, when the Longobards had completed the conquest of nearly the whole of Italy, they divided the land into thirty-six Duchies, governed by independent dukes enjoying absolute rule in their respective territories.
Palafox assures us that the Chinese are more fair than the oriental Tartars; that they have also less beards, but that in every other respect their visages are nearly the same.
If it is not, on the contrary, performed till the time of puberty, or a little after, the size is nearly the same as that in other men.
Nearly the same is it with the slaves of Brazil; of all Savages these seem to be the least stupid, indolent, or melancholy.
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