But having the misfortune to appear immediately before that revolution, it is already to some degree an obsolete book.
The vessels told off to attempt the bottling operations were obsolete third-class cruisers.
Originally no Seneca was allowed to marry within his phratry, but this custom has long become obsolete and is now confined to the gens.
The council of chiefs, if it had not become obsolete long ago, could not have held any more meetings.
The products of progress are not machinery but men, and the well-drilled-machine idea of a man ought to be as obsolete as more than one recent war has proved it disastrous.
Meanwhile, the estimate of warriors in terms of the scale and the foot rule are still accepted just as if they had not been rendered obsolete for ever with the passing of the "dragons of the prime.
Men have thought and sought until insensibly the fog of obsolete theology has cleared away.
What you say is so much philosophy, my dear fellow, and philosophy is an antique, obsolete kind of thing that has no weight in times when continents are being cut asunder and threads of iron laid around the globe.
I should have expected from the intelligence and judgment of our citizens that they would have deferred neither to the sickly sentimentalism of a bigoted morality nor to the absurdity of obsolete dogmas.
Many countries sell their obsolete dies, with the result that more or less inaccurate reprints are made from them.
Seebeck is not the only man who has printed from discarded dies; there are, in fact, many types of stamps on the market which have been produced from obsolete plates.
As I grew up, the obsolete exuviæ of doctrine dropped off my mind like dead leaves from a tree.
We not only need a glossary for theobsolete Scotch, but we need the most simple and everyday expressions of the things of the soul explained to us till once we begin to speak and to write those expressions ourselves.
After a long and racy introduction, sometimes difficult to decipher, from its Fife idioms and obsolete spelling, she goes on thus: 'Did you get any heart to remember me and my bonds?
Outgate is an old and an almost obsolete word, but it is a word of great expressiveness and point.
Usually the obsolete relative pronoun sang, which has the sense, in this case, of a definite article, is placed before it.
More interesting to me is the survival in this sequestered region of old English words and significations, altogether obsolete elsewhere," continued Bayne.
Whether he use quaint obsolete English or equally delightful perversions, what he says will go straight to the mark with epigrammatic force.
He never goes by that name, but by the obsolete title linkister or link'ster, by some lin-gis-ter.
I have myself taken down from the lips of Carolina mountaineers some eight hundred dialectical or obsolete words, to say nothing of the much greater number of standard English terms that they command.
Footnote 10: These fifteen personages are chiefly theologians and schoolmen, whose names and obsolete writings are, for the most part, no longer worth mention.
And all this assumption of the obsolete and impossible the author gravely proves in all the forms of logic, by arguments drawn from the history of Æneas, and the providential cackle of the Roman geese!
Organised by foreigners, and employed by Chinese, lines of powerful steamers have gradually monopolised the valuable traffic, thus rendering the calling of the buccaneer obsolete and profitless.
The two together form an able disquisition on the state of China which has not become obsolete by lapse of time.
The articles appear to be obsolete among the tribes of New South Wales.
Many of those we have are obsolete and absolutely worthless.
But the salvation of the Northern fleet was of little advantage, for the advent of the Monitor rendered obsolete and useless every warship of every fleet in the world.
The same thing holds equally true with old short-range and obsolete firearms, as compared with the longer range and more accurate guns of the latest pattern.
Tooth-like process of the bill generally obsolete in old, festoon slight in young birds; tail from three to four inches longer than the wings.
His former objections to marriage are never now alluded to and seem relegated to the category of obsolete theories.
