We might find a few emancipated souls scouring the town for heavy refectory tables and divans into which one could sink, reclining or upright, with a perfect sense of ease, but these would be as rare as Steinway pianos in Coney Island.
Nor will you find novices who are able to sing Schumann and Franz lieder, although they may be blessed with well-nigh perfect vocal organs.
The book is dedicated to Edgar Fawcett, "perfect poet--perfect friend" and is embellished with a portrait of its author.
Edgar Saltus says: "A perfect dinner should resemble a concert.
Had Cameron known of this tormenting vision and this haunting memory he might have questioned the perfect sincerity of his friend's counsel.
Look at this vast area lying between these four posts that form an almost perfect quadrilateral.
With a perfect way whereby to avoid the insuing danger.
He asked no question, however, having perfect faith in Nat's sagacity.
He listened in perfect silence, with his eyes bent gravely on the ground, and remained without answering for some moments after the other had done speaking.
I believe that it is by his will or permission that it does take place; but still I believe in man's responsibility for his own actions, and in his perfect freedom to choose between good and evil!
There was so much truth in the statement as to give it perfect verisimilitude, and to render it impossible to say that it was all a lie, but with so much left untold as to create an impression as erroneous as if the whole had been untrue.
Two or three days of perfect tranquillity and confinement will remove all evil, except aches and bruises.
Are you sure that you comprehend the meaning of your own tenet--'Perfect Love and Fulfilment'?
I have read the story in English, and it is magnificent, but Italian is its perfect raiment.
I regard not one man in a million, however admirable his life, as fit for thatperfect state called Heaven and not one in a hundred millions, however evil, as deserving of that utter damnation called Hell.
Heedless of those who urged him to take cover, of the flat shrieking of whistles and later of the roar of the barrage, Paul walked on under the stars of a perfect night and above him droned the Gotha engines.
The sympathy between the two was so perfect that Paul Mario knew the question to refer not to his private plans but to his part in the world drama.
The Aunt once had a cottage in Devon furnished by Liberty and it was the most perfect gem of a cottage one could imagine.
The understanding between father and daughter was complete and was rendered more perfect by the necessity for companionship experienced by both.
That for every man there is a perfect maid, and for every maid a perfect lover; that their union will be eternal, but that until it is accomplished each must remain incomplete--a work in two volumes of which one is missing.
A man who had come as near to perfection as is possible in this world would have found his perfect mate, what Paul calls his 'Isis-self.
He spoke perfect English and when Duveen asked him his name and rank and requested him to hand over the sword he was wearing, he bluntly refused to have any dealings whatever with a 'damned common sergeant.
Her face was a perfect oval, and she had the most beautifully chiselled straight little nose imaginable.
The resemblance is so perfect that any one might be deceived if unacquainted with the phenomenon.
Rob Roy also stood, in a state of perfect bliss, in the middle of the pool, sucking the water in with unwearied vigour.
Stephen would have been more than human if he could have stood the loss of all his earthly goods with perfect equanimity.
Generally speaking, he hated and despised in equal measure whatever seemed to suggest that he personally was not the most perfect human being conceivable.
His conception of perfect conduct is industrious persistence along the worn-down, well-marked grooves of the great recorded days.
We wanted to know what we were going to do, and whatever we did we meant to do in the most perfect concert.
Let me confess it wasn't any sense of perfect and incurable trust and confidence that brought me back, or any idea that now I had strength to refrain.
They should be opened just enough to admit sufficient air to produce perfect combustion, but not enough to cool the fire-box.
To feed as small a quantity of oil as possible and regularly to give perfect lubrication.
Is it necessary that the engineer and fireman on an oil burning locomotive work in perfect harmony and advise each other of intended action at every change of conditions?
It is desirable to use as little atomizer as will make engine show perfectcombustion and economy.
In order to avoid damaging valves and cylinders, to insure perfect lubrication and obtain the most efficient service from the locomotive.
An ethnical element is therefore necessarily of a dependent nature; its durability arises from its perfect correspondence with the conditions by which it is surrounded.
So in every other department, wherever these opposite principles are equally adjusted by allowing each full play, there results perfect consonance and peace.
Be ye perfect as I am perfect,' is the precept of the Master.
Its perfect manifestation is seen in that grandest of all epics, 'Christ on the Cross,' wherein we behold a most complete absorption of the self of the individual in the universal self of the race.
Mr. Crosby had a perfect right to use the word in the sense in which he obviously did use it.
Which of these classes shall we regard as the truest and most perfect type?
The valley there is narrow, and the aspect in every direction is that of perfect pastoral repose.
And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.
Lord Anglesea was at that time residing in perfect privacy with his family at Sir Harcourt Lee's country house, near Blackrock, and expressed a wish to get an evening from the great violinist, to gratify his domestic circle.
He falls into perfect raptures when speaking of our national character and our national institutions, and regrets that it was not in his power to remain here for ever.
If writers were allowed to do so, and would perform the task with perfect sincerity and unreserve, their opinions of their own productions would often be more valuable and instructive than the works themselves.
Rachel plays the two characters of Massalina and the courtezan--of course with the most perfect success.
His speech, which took nearly two hours in delivery, was a perfect model of lucid exposition and convincing argument.
For an hour and a quarter the procession filed through the gates, the men taking up their positions with perfect movement and not the faintest suggestion of confusion.
When the king observed what we were in search of he offered Hartog for his acceptance a number of pearls, some of large size and perfect colour, which from time to time he had collected.
Well, I promised myself that I would make him a model of the "Golden Seahorse", perfect in every detail, and big enough for him to sail in.
And you know, mother, that though poor now she was formerly wealthy, is a perfect lady, and her having been to Europe once or twice would make her all the more valuable companion to them.
I am fully convinced that in the perfect keeping of them all perfect happiness would be found.
I suppose it would take cycles of time to produce another such as he--so perfect in form and feature.
When the season was over and the flowers were dead, and we drew from the hive the finished product, so perfect in all its parts and richly stored with sweetened treasures, we began to realize that there was a master mind behind it all.
His horse had closely cropped the grass all around him, and as far out as he could reach, and so completely had he taken every spear of grass about the soldier that when he got up he left a perfect outline of his body on the field.
With but few exceptions, the two races lived together inperfect harmony.
A line of this route drawn on the map would form almost a perfect letter C, and if it had not been for a small obstacle in our way, in all probability we would have continued the march, forming the letter O.
These letters were written home by a young lady who went to Germany to perfecther piano-playing.
The beautiful organization of the perfect insect has been going on under the dry and repulsive exterior.
It is interesting, however, to trace in the perfect insect these indications of its previous larval condition, especially when we remember the strange appearance it underwent while a pupa.
Illustration: Pupa and perfect Insect of the Chironomus Plumosus.
The dragon-fly too stands conspicuous among the insect devourers, not only in its larva but in its perfect condition, and falls upon multitudes of insects, plucking off their wings, and with savage relish devouring their bodies.
We need not go far for an illustration, first, of a larva like the perfect insect, and next, for one totally unlike it.
It may be asked, Are these all lost in theperfect insect; or are they still to be traced in it?
