Glen More is said to be liable to shocks of earthquake, and Loch Ness was violently agitated at the time of the great Lisbon earthquake (1755).
Many of the rivers and several of the lochs abound with salmon and trout, the salmon fisheries of the Beauly, Ness and Lochy yielding a substantial return.
And, in obstinate blindness, this people will wag their poor heads, and attribute their diseases not to simian-ness but to civilization.
Just before the evening meal was announced Jack Ness came up from the barn, and sought out Randolph Rover.
Jack Ness was closely questioned, and he described the spot where he had last seen the unwelcome midnight visitor.
Any sharp promontory on the coast is a Naze orNess (i.
A Miss Charlotte Ness inquired the meaning of the logical terms abstract and concrete.
Burr, sheltered by Van Ness under an umbrella, hurried from the scene, while Hamilton, conveyed in his boat to the city, gradually recovered consciousness.
Van Ness and Platt were absent holding court; but, of the others, Joseph C.
He had made him a judge, and, having done so, the Governor relied with confidence upon his support, in preference to that of either Van Ness or Jonas Platt.
Van Ness aspired to the Supreme Court judgeship made vacant by Brockholst Livingston's appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Graham bowed his adieus to the recordership of Albany as John Van Ness Yates came in; and James O.
John Van Ness Yates, the Governor's nephew, was made secretary of state; William L.
Clintonians objected to King, many Bucktails opposed him, Van Nessdeclared that he could easily be defeated, Thomas J.
Van Ness coupled real literary ability with political audacity, putting Cheetham's fancy flights and inferences to sleep as if they were babes in the woods.
Van Ness wrote with a pen dipped in gall, yet, if contemporary criticism be accepted, he did not exaggerate the feeling entertained for Spencer by the Federalists of that day.
Van Nesshad asked Chancellor Kent to enter the race.
It commands Loch Ness from one end to the other, and is an object on which the traveller fixes an admiring gaze as the steamer paddles her merry way along the mountain-shadowed water.
The last grand heroic stand of the fire fighters was made at the corner of Van Ness avenue and Vallejo streets.
My home was on Vallejo street about five blocks beyond Van Ness and it was generally believed that inasmuch as that street was one hundred and twenty feet wide that it would form a fire break which could not be crossed.
The fire had now reached Van Ness avenue and again came the messengers on horseback who shouted in passing that everyone must move.
My course was down Vallejo street to Van Ness avenue, thence over Pacific street to Montgomery.
Owing to inability to combat the fire, through the lack of water, doubt began to creep in as to whether the width of Van Ness avenue and the puny attempts at fire fighting would check the march of the flames.
The servants always retired early, and Mr. Van Ness required the house to be quiet for his late reading.
Mr. Van Ness lived alone with the exception of a housekeeper and a number of old, very well-disciplined servants.
And Mr. Van Ness has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it; he would have been real pleased to give those cats a home and buy milk and liver for them.
To the Van Ness house, set back from the street in the midst of a well-kept lawn, the three repaired, but not as noiselessly as they could have wished.
The Italian-ness of it all captivated the mother, who had been drawn to this dot on the map, where she was told one could live well at less expense than in the United States, by the lure of the idea of Italy.
The University Two Schools Wits, as men of learning were called, generally of Drama upheld the classical ideal, and ridiculed the crude-ness of the new English plays.
Bid the warriors raise a barrow After the burning, on the ness by the sea, On Hronesness, which shall rise high and be For a remembrance to my people.
Quoth the Sage: "Behind that ness shall ye come to the Rock of the Fighting Man, which is the very Gate of the Mountains; and I will not turn again nor bid you farewell till I have brought you thither.
For that ness is called the Candle of the Giants, and men deem that the kindling thereof forebodeth ill to the lord who sitteth on the throne in the red hall of Utterbol.
I wudna hae presumed but that I thoucht, although I dinna deserve 't, for auld kin'ness ye wud say what ye wud advise.
This answer incensed me greatly, for I had not yet learnt that one of the chief conditions of "comme il faut"-ness was to hold one's tongue about the labour by which it had been acquired.
What mon ashore, managin' a buz'ness worth a hundred thousand pounds wull be gettun' uz small a screw uz twenty pounds?
At Ness this upper till closely resembles, in general appearance, the lower deposit that rests directly upon the rocks.
Resting upon the surface of the shell-beds at Ness and Garabost we find an upper or overlying accumulation of sub-glacial debris or till.
Van Ness was himself from Columbia county and an eminent lawyer.
He had so great faith in the mountain that stood upon the ness that he called it Holyfell;" and he gave out that no man should look upon it unwashed.
The porch-pillars went ashore upon a ness which is called Thorsness to this day, as the site of the shrine Thorolf built is still called Templestead.
All that the Survey says about it is: "In Ness there are five hides belonging to Berkeley, which Earl William put out to make a little castle.
The identity of Berkeley Castle with the Ness castle of Domesday may be regarded as certain.
Louisa Grant to raise her head from her needlework, with a quickness at which she instantly blushed herself.
Yes, yes—you see the reason of the thing, and the wicked ness of shutting up an old man that has spent his days, as one may say, where he could always look into the windows of heaven.
I know of but one objaction to the same, which is an over-careless ness about his sowl.
He shall die without instruction; and in the great- ness of his folly he shall go astray.
But the Van Ness mansion, nearer the Potomac, was always alight, and often strains of music floated out on the night air to the enjoyment of the passer-by.
Daniel Carroll's mansion is an ornament, and the Van Ness house is planned for much gayety and large companies.
And Mrs. Van Ness is giving the most elegant entertainments.
Mrs. Van Ness kept up her interest in it through a long life, after Mrs. Madison retired to her Virginian home to nurse her husband's invalid mother, and finally devote herself to the years of dependence that befell the husband of her love.
The Van Nessmansion was also the scene of much gayety.
Mrs. Van Ness entertained with ease and brilliance, and was as fond of gathering the younger people about her as those more serious companies where the responsible party men met and in a veiled way touched upon the graver questions.
Next morning, while Thorodd and the others were coming in from Ness with the fish, they were all lost out from Enni; the boat and the fish drove on shore there, but the bodies were never found.
They lay there for a long time during the summer, waiting for a favourable wind to sail into the firth, and many people from the Ness went down to trade with them.
During the winter, a little before Christmas, Thorodd went out to Ness for the fish he had there; there were six men in all in a ten-oared boat, and they stayed out there all night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bill; breakwater; delta; head; headland; hook; peninsula; point; promontory; reef; spit; spur; tongue
