Hector returned the salute, nearly dropping his spear in the process.
He wondered how much damage one could do with a nearly weightless stone, then remembered that inertial mass was unaffected by gravitational fields, or the lack of them.
Leoh had been nearly at the voluntary retirement age for scientists when he realized what he, and his fellow scientists, had done.
He hurried back to Leoh bumping into seven bewildered citizens of various descriptions and nearly breaking both his legs when he tripped as he ran back onto the moving slideway.
Spencer was saying, "So this hired assassin, after killing four men and nearly wrecking a government, has returned to his native worlds.
The three had nearly finished breakfast when there came a tapping of quick heels on the stairs.
The bar was nearlyempty when Loudon and Laguerre entered the hotel.
That would be nearly a year ago, when poor Williams was already ailing.
He had been rector of the little Warwickshire town for nearly forty years; and although his people were ready enough to busy themselves with the question of his successor, he did not lack honor in his death.
I presented a man nearly thrice his age, do you hear!
Perhaps you do not know that he turned the sheep out of the churchyard after breakfast this morning, and half of them were found nearly a mile down the Red Lane!
I should say that it was very nearlythe worst house in the town!
The soft muck saved him from a broken neck; it also nearly smothered him.
The roar of Finnerty's 10-bore, the two shocks almost in one, nearly burst their eardrums, and Swinton stood keyed to rigidity by the call for steady nerve.
I got a couple of those vermin, anyway," and Finnerty pointed to two dogs the big 8-bore bullet had nearly blown to pieces.
I'm awfully sorry, major; that fool nearly cost us a life by frightening my horse with his frantic efforts to open the gate.
He was nearly seventy years old, and the rude life of the country, the horseback rides in the rain, the rivers forded upon his swimming horse, the nights passed in the open air, had brought on a rheumatism that was torturing his best days.
Upon a bloodless countenance, with a chin as sharp as a dagger, the gifted Spaniard would trace a pair of nearly round eyes, and at the centre of each pupil he would aim a white brush stroke, a point of light .
The grape vines were extending their branches the length of their supports, and the full bunches, nearly ripe, were beginning to show their triangular lusciousness among the leaves.
As they came into Paris, the nearly empty streets seemed to him to be crowded with people.
The nearly two million inhabitants who had been living quietly in their homes without letting themselves be drawn into the panic, had accepted the victory with grave serenity.
There was thirteen men there--they was the watch on deck of course.
Nearly every tribe had a different dialect, but the language was radically the same.
A brave, nearly nude, decorated with "war-paint" and astride a characteristic Indian pony.
The mound which was raised over the chief and his horse is now nearly obliterated, "yet the hill of the Blackbird continues an object of veneration to the wandering savage, and a landmark to the voyager of the Missouri.
They have good schools, at which nearly one-fourth of the tribe attend, and nearly one-half of the whole number can read.
A few of the tribes retain very nearly their original hunting-grounds; the principal migrations of those who have moved having been southwestwardly, from the headwaters of the Mississippi to the Missouri.
They occupy nearly all of the great Salt Lake Basin, to the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, and extend also easterly to Texas.
The portraits made under the supervision of the Survey are generally accompanied by measurements that are as nearly accurate as it has been possible to make them.
Nearly all of these now dress in civilized attire, and many of them have taken farms, their lands being divided into 40-acre allotments for the purpose, upon which they are building neat and comfortable cottages.
As nearly as can be ascertained at the present time, he visited and subdued the Pueblos in the neighborhood of Zuni, along the Rio Grande, and the Moqui of the province of Tusayan; but only occupied the country two years.
Of the large number of tribes forming this family, many are now extinct, others so reduced and merged into neighboring tribes as to be lost, while nearly all of the rest have been removed far from their original hunting-grounds.
They were originally the same people as the Pawnees of the Platte River, their language being nearly the same.
Its powers have been attributed by some to supernatural influence, by others to subconsciousness, but science has looked upon it with disdain, as, until recent years, science has looked upon nearly all unprecedented phenomena.
Possibly it was because the poet has not the same zest in painting pictures of winter that she has in depicting scenes of kindlier seasons, in which she is in accord with nearly all poets, and, for that matter, with nearly all people.
There is spiritual significance, more or less profound, in nearly all of the poems.
And yet when one analyzes it, one finds that whatever may be the nature or the subject of the composition, in nearly every instance love is the inspiration.
There is more or less spiritual significance in nearly all of her poetry and in some of her prose, and while her references to the after life are usually veiled under figures of speech, they nevertheless give assurances of its existence.
After the sitting, the matter is punctuated and lined as nearly in accord with the principles of blank verse construction as the abilities of the editor will permit.
Oscar could lay his hand upon his studious heart and await the Day of Judgment like--I had nearly said a Christian!
Dear lady," he said with provoking insolence, "do you know that it is one o'clock and that we are nearly five miles from Charing Cross?
When he fought with me in Bukharest, more than twenty years ago, I met him as a man of honor and nearly paid with my life for the folly.
The dirt ofnearly a hundred years is cast upon his monument by Time.
Georges Odin, the records say, died in the fortress prison of Krajova nearly ten years ago.
Business, she knew not of what nature, had carried her father to London nearly a week ago.
In the present case the victims numbered nearly a hundred, and the finding of them consumed the best part of two hours.
At length, when we had pulled about half a mile, as nearly as I could judge, I detected a slight suspicion of a softening in the velvety blackness of the sky in the eastern quarter.
But this was not nearlyso easy as I had believed it would be.
She hailed from Santiago de Cuba, and was quite a new ship; whereas the Don Miguel was nearlytwenty years old, and leaked like a basket when heavily pressed by her canvas, as some of us soon discovered.
Then father was taken sick, and now he tells me that the crops this year are not going to be nearly as good as usual.
In a moment more the three Rovers had re-entered the touring cars, and then the machines were sent forward through the water, which was now nearly a foot deep on the roadway.
An uncle died and left nearly his entire estate to the brother.
Nearly a week before, the youngest Rover had made a date with Grace Laning, inviting her, if the snow remained on the ground, to a sleighride that afternoon and evening.
But all this had taken time and as a consequence, although they ran along the other highway at a speed of nearly forty miles an hour, they saw nothing of the auto-stage which had gone on ahead.
Take away that imagined useless half and every man, woman and child in the community would still have very nearly half a square mile of land if the country were equally divided.
Nearly two years ago, travelling in the Blue Mountains--miles upon miles away from everywhere--I came upon a huge board erected in the bush.
I applied to that ostler pretty nearly all the opprobrious names in his language with which I was acquainted.
This had an air of reason about it, but I was not nearly so curious to see the fortifications as I had been.
I published the result of my own researches into it in the columns of Mayfair now nearly thirty years ago, and suggested a very simple and easy remedy for its defects.
Things are very much otherwise to-day; but nearly three-score years ago there was a certain purposed austerity practised by the most dutiful and praiseworthy parents, which froze the natural budding affections of a child.
Since the great South Staffordshire coal fault was circumvented, nearly all the wide reaches of rural land which I remember are overgrown and defaced by labour.
He borrowed a razor from a friend, went to the place, and nearlysevered her head from her body.
Nearly all his life he was embroiled in controversy of one sort or another.
I worked in the ramshackle, bankrupt, old printing office at home until I was nearly eighteen years of age, and it was then decided to send me to London to complete my education in the business.
The place was nearly always crowded with men in black frock-coats and crimson fezzes.
After walking swiftly for nearly an hour, following a path which less primitive eyes could not have found, the boy came out on a small meadow bright with fires.
Her garments were unusually barbaric--lynx-skins shapelessly stitched together and hung about with belts and charms, and a great knife of flint nearly as long as a cutlass.
In experiments on this point double-walled glass tubes, as nearly identical in shape and size as possible, were mounted in sets of three on a common stem which communicated with an air-pump, so that the degree of exhaustion in each was equal.
Turning from our knowledge of Spirit to our knowledge of Matter, nearly all that one can affirm or deny about "things external is," according to Locke, not knowledge but venture or presumptive trust.
A few days later he repeated the experiment with hydrogen, using a pressure of nearly 300 atmospheres, and observed in his tube an exceedingly fine and subtle fog which vanished almost instantaneously.
Nearly all geckos are nocturnal and the pupil contracts into a vertical slit, except in a few diurnal kinds, e.
The Livs, who formerly extended east into the government of Vitebsk, have nearly all passed away.
We now come to the two western groups of liturgies, which more nearly concern the Latin-speaking nations of Europe, and which, therefore, must be treated of more fully.
It numbers about two hundred species, natives of nearly all the temperate and warmer regions of the world, excepting central and eastern Europe as well as western Asia.
But our knowledge of their contents is chiefly derived from the so-called periochae or epitomes, of which we have fortunately a nearly complete series, the epitomes of books cxxxvi.
At this place he recited nearly the same sermon he had in vain preached to the Gallileans.
The Anthem was repeated nightly till nearly the end of November, and the managers of Covent Garden Theatre followed suit.
In October, 1758, Cibber was crossing the sea to fulfil an engagement with Sheridan in Dublin, when the vessel was shipwrecked, and he with nearly all the passengers drowned.
The purchasing value of a sovereign in Elizabeth's time would be equal to the value of nearly eight pounds of our money, and Shakespeare's most learned biographers are of opinion that he was a careful and a saving man.
Shakespeare was a baby in arms when a visitation of the plague gave nearly fifteen per cent.
Coradi's integraph works on an ordinary drawing board, but since there are nearly 10 inches between the guide point and tracer, the sum curve is thrown 10 inches behind the primitive in each integration.
They are nearlyconfined to a belt of moderate width stretching through Wisconsin and overlapping into Minnesota and Iowa.
In the center of each retort is a pipe leading nearly to the rear end of the retort, and containing baffle plates.
At the bombardment of Alexandria, the English armorclads, with their rifled guns, were not nearly as efficient against the feeble chalk fortifications as our wooden ships would have been with smooth bore guns.
I think, fairly take it that 16 candle coal gas, as made by the big London companies, costs, as nearly as can be, 1s.
Mr. Peet has paid much attention to the kind of animals represented, and has, it seems to us, more nearly solved the question than any one else.
I nearly replied in a hurry that almost any woman would do for a wife; but that is not the way to bring people to conviction of sin.
I No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals who compose it can, somewhere between death and birth, have a perfectly corking time for a few years.
You could feast your highly creditable appetite for these excellent things for very nearly a solid mile upon the signs of "wholesale dealers and commission merchants" in them.
The groaning rose to a shriek, and the little flame jumped in a panic, and nearly left its white column.
She refused to have her hair up; though she was nearly seventeen.
England is more nearly fit than any other nation to wield the power that is hers.
The good mower, serene and able, stands as nearly straight as the shape of the scythe will let him, and follows up every stroke closely, moving his left foot forward.
Brunak, or a cup of cool milk and water, bran tea, or even a cup of water that has been boiled and allowed to go nearly cold.
Peel your apples, cut away the cores and all the worm-eaten parts--for nearly the whole of the windfalls are more or less worm-eaten.
Prepare the vegetables, scald and skin the tomatoes, cut them in pieces not bigger than a walnut, stew them in the butter and 1 pint of water until nearly tender, add the pepper and salt and the mixed herbs.
Heat the milk until nearly boiling, sweeten it with sugar, and add any kind of flavouring.
Have ready buttered pudding basins, nearly fill them with the mixture, cover with pieces of buttered paper, tie pudding cloths over the basins, and boil for 12 hours.
When nearly cold cover the top with ratafia biscuits and decorate with angelica and cherries.
Wash the rice, put it into a pie-dish, cover with cold water, and bake until the rice is nearly soft throughout.
Allinson wholemeal, boil the potatoes till nearly tender; drain them and cut them in slices.
Baked potatoes are the most wholesome, and their skins should always be eaten; steamed potatoes are next; whilst boiled ones, especially if peeled, are not nearly so good.
Sweeten the milk and let it come nearlyto boiling-point.
Boil the potatoes in their skins, and when nearly soft drain, peel, and cut them into pieces, scald and skin the tomatoes and cut them into pieces also.
Halve the potatoes, scoop them out, leaving nearly 1 inch of the inside all round.
In the latter part of June and the beginning of July the battery was reduced tonearly one-half and the March replacement draft to Camp Merritt took thirty-two picked men from the regiment.
In the next four days they stowed nearly four thousand tons dead weight into the "Dimbula," and took her out from Liverpool.
I have contracted a cold by sleeping on the floor, which has settled in my head, and nearly sets me crazy with catarrh.
The meeting continued in session nearly all night, when it adjourned without accomplishing anything, Mr. Lincoln refusing to yield his objections and to support the obnoxious measure.
Grasping both hands over the butt of the bayonet, with the point towards his breast, he thrust the blade with desperate energy nearly through his body.
As nearly as I can recall the facts, up to this time I had shown no literary tendency whatever, since the receipt of that check for two dollars and a half.
At the time of the escape the top kite, a four-footer, was up nearly a mile, and the other seven were flying at a good elevation.
It contains a remarkable record of the achievements of the Lincoln family, whose services to the country extended through nearly a century--a century which included the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
Our July and August thermometers used to stand up hard at over ninety degrees, day and night, for nearly a week at a time.
He had paid out nearlytwo miles of cord, when the top kite, a little two-footer, stood straight over the spar buoy in Newark Bay.
For a moment I nearly forgot that I was an American with "nerve," bent on making him say something, preferably indiscreet; it seemed almost a shame to bother this man whose brain was big with the fate of empire.
In a great financial emergencynearly every country has, at one time or another, been tempted to confuse the monetary with the fiscal functions of the Treasury.
The first loan issued by the British Government was nearly twice the national debt of the United States; and it is supposed that its proceeds will be all spent before next Summer.
So it is very nearly true to say of nearly all the combatants respectively that they have no enemy today that was not, historically speaking, quite recently an ally, and not an ally today that was not in the recent past an enemy.
This is not nearly as far as similar airships have traveled in the past.
To do this he must have written nearly nine hundred lines a day all through his life.
In later years a wise government has come to see that the slight loss of farmland is not nearly so important as the effect woodlands have on climate.
This having been said, we shall not be surprised to find that in ancient times the difference between a gift of land and a loan of land was not nearly so well marked as it would be by modern law.
Gilbert reckon that for an unmanured acre in England 16 bushels would be an average return, but that if the same acre is continuously sown with wheat, the yield will decline at the rate of nearly a quarter of a bushel every year.
A common standard is not nearly as necessary in this case as it is in the case of cloth.
The dominical flocks and herds were not large, but the lords were receiving divers ploughshares in return for the pasture rights accorded to the tenants and in some of the vills there was not nearly enough meadow for the oxen of the villeins.
He gets nearly all his agricultural work done for him by his villeins and his cottiers.
If the theory that we have been suggesting is true, all or very nearly all our ancient boroughs (and we will draw the line of ancientry at the Conquest) are in their inception royal boroughs.
In the others the bordarii are nearly or quite universal, to the exclusion of the cotarii.
Moreover, if all the cattle not of the plough were enumerated under the title animalia, there would not be nearly enough to renew the number of beasts of the plough.
We fully admit that these forces were doing an important work; but they were doing it slowly and it was not nearly achieved when the Normans came.
At first sight it may seem incredible that the average human being annually required the produce of nearly seven acres.
Nearly two columns, to say nothing of some precedent pages, are void[710].
But this tenurial heterogeneity seems to be an attribute of all or nearly all the very ancient boroughs, the county towns.
