It is a piece of justice I owe to historical truth to say, that I have never tried Burnet's facts by the tests of dates and of original papers, without finding them wrong.
Now this stile was in a shaky condition, consequently a piece of the woodwork gave way as Olive was in the act of crossing.
A piece of silk cord, such as might be used for an eyeglass.
The piece of envelope put forward, bearing as it did nearly the complete name of the prisoner, and part of a London address, was to his lordship's mind the completing link in the chain of identity.
And Eustace himself was thinking, as they ascended the steep, turfy slopes, what a great piece of luck this was which had fallen in his way.
Make a list of them here," handing him a piece of paper.
A piece of stray drift-ice thumped against the boat and grated along its side.
The eyes shifted to Harnish, who scribbled on a piece of paper and shoved it forward.
He dropped the piece of quartz, slid down the slide, and started up the trail, running heavily.
Best piece of horseflesh I ever straddled, and I've seen a few in my time.
He straightened up with even a richer piece of gold-laden quartz.
A piece of dry birch bark started the fire, and Daylight went ahead with the cooking while the Indian unloaded the sled and fed the dogs their ration of dried fish.
Only," he added thoughtfully, "it's a blame thin pieceuh ham.
It was eleven o'clock by the time-piece on her mantel when she heard him come in, but he did not come to their room.
That generally gets the riggin' slinger, but a piece of it's liable to hit anybody.
Matt, the cook, roused all the camp at six o'clock with a tremendous banging on a piece of boiler plate hung by a wire.
There was a piece uh timber beyond that he thought he could save.
The reservoir of water here is a most admirable piece of art; and so is the grotto over against it.
He who came in first won a Bull covered with scarlet, and fifty scudi; the second a piece of silken stuff with thirty gold florins, the third got only geese and garlic.
It is Donatello's only large bronze group, and was probably designed for the centre piece of a fountain, the mattress on which Holofernes has fallen having little spouts for water.
The Assumption was painted at Vallombrosa late in the year 1500, and is a fine piece of work in Perugino's more mannered style.
One, a Madonna and Child by Gentile da Fabriano, is full of a mysterious loveliness that did not survive him; the other is an altar-piece from S.
In the far sky, marvellous with infinite stars, the moon will sail like a little platter of silver, like a piece of money new from the mint, like a golden rose in a mirror of silver.
If they could steal a chicken or pig and kill and cut it up, this one would take a piece and that one would take a piece and they would burn the cotton to keep down the scent.
I wasn't born right in the town but out a piece from the town in the old Bouden place, in 1875.
In mah days ah've done plenty uv work but ah don' do nothing now but piece quilts.
When I first come to dis county I done public work--piece work.
There wasn't a man ever thought they would see me in that job again after that piece of steel cut me down.
We would rake the fireplace and push the ashes back and then you would put the cake down on the hearth or on a piece of paper or a leaf and then pull the ashes over the cake to cook it.
They didn't allow them to pick up a piece of paper in slave time for fear they would learn.
While in service I had my jaw broken in two pieces and four front teeth knocked out by a pieceof flying steel.
I'd set 'round till they got it worked up so I could get a piece of bread and fresh butter and a big cup of that fresh milk.
To keep them from being stark naked, they'd give them a piece to wear.
Maybe a few turnips on top and a bigpiece of fresh meat.
An old custom practiced to prevent the separation of a husband and wife was to wrap a rabbit's forefoot, a piece of loadstone, and 9 hairs from the top of the head in red flannel, and bury it under the front door steps.
We et three times a day and now if I get one piece I do well.
I opened it and it was a note from Mrs. Jeter and a piece of corn bread.
And now she turned round, and passed the pieceof iron into her left hand.
Was it not a piece of rare good luck that I was stuck on the jury?
Mehetabel put out her hand, picked up a piece of furze, and cast it at the spider, which fell.
It was a piece of hematite iron, such as frequently occurs in the sand, liver-shaped, and of the color of liver.
If I had my fowlin' piece I'd shoot off blank cartridge under his belly, and wouldn't old Clutch go up all fours into the air; but he knows well enough the gun is at home.
She required a hammer, wherewith to knock on Thor's anvil, and make her necessities known, and this piece of iron would serve her purpose.
She was as a piece of mechanism in the hands of Jonas.
He took a piece of it in his bill, hopped upon his bath-tub, and dropped the cracker in the water.
Give them a sizing of glue; rub them down with a piece of flannel.
Here take this ere piece of paper, you might spile the sheet, and I'm mighty particular about hevin it in prime order.
Very soon she was quite absorbed, in practicing a difficult piece of music, which her lover had, heretofore, recommended in vain.
Now here is where the music comes from," said Little Wolf, placing her hand upon the instrument, and following her piece of information with a lively air.
Figure in center piece of arch, "Power of Industry," the American workman.
As a matter of fact, he did this piece when he must have been tired out from managing all the sculpture on the grounds.
He had made up his mind on a certain matter; and, with the object of doing a certain piece of work, he had escaped from the two dominant women of his household, who had done their best to intercept him.
He was that Swatty boy, and I gave him a good piece of my mind about thieving, while I had the chance.
It just shows how worthless you are, Harvey Redding, offering to pawn your only son like he was a pieceof junk.
How many times does a junkman have to buy a piece of lead before it becomes sinful to steal from him?
She writes principally before she rises in the morning on a little piece of board, with her inkstand on a table by her side.
Friday This morning came Thackeray, who is the soul of PUNCH, and showed me a piece he had written for the next number.
I am not cosmopolitan enough to love any nature so well as our American nature, and in addition to the charm of its poetry, every piece brought up to me the scenes amidst which it had been written.
The first piece of intelligence I heard at Lady Palmerston's was the death of the Princess Sophia, an event which is a happy release for her, for she was blind and a great sufferer.
The chapel is really a beautiful little piece of architecture, with a vaulted roof and windows of painted glass.
Their canoes are very skilfully made out of one piece of wood, some of them being so large that they will hold 20 and even more blacks.
In a cave at the station of Oyes, was found stretched upon a bed of stones a skeleton with a piece of flint, which had been flung with great force, imbedded in the upper part of the humerus.
On this necklace hung a round piece of human cranium, and in the Gallic cemetery at Varille, the exterior lamina of a human lumbar vertebra was fastened to a necklace made of coral beads.
Dupont picked up in the Chaleux Cave a kidney-shaped pieceof iron pyrites, hollowed out in a peculiar manner, which had evidently been used to obtain the precious spark.
Did the patient die under the hands of the surgeon, or was the piece of bone taken out after death to be used as an ornament or an amulet?
Prunieres, to whom science has reason to be very grateful for his singular discovery, presented to the members of the French Association, in session at Lyons, a human parietal with a rounded piece of bone let into it.
The Abbe Bourgeois found at Villehonneur not only a piece of red chalk as big as a nut, but also an oval-shaped pebble, which had been used for grinding it, the interstices of the surface still retaining traces of coloring matter.
This piece of bone was rather larger than a five-franc piece, and the skull into which it had been fixed was found beneath the Lozere dolmen.
Round about the crater of the Rana-Raraku volcano, forty of these figures have been counted, all of a similar type, all cut in one piece of solid trachyte rock.
The inflammation of the bone noticed along the edges of the trepanation proves that a notched implement was used to saw out the piece of skull.
In taking from the gangue in which it was imbedded a skull from the megalithic monument of Vaureal, Pruner Bey noticed a fragment of a human shoulder blade pierced with an incision in which was fixed a little rounded piece of bone.
It has been suggested that the piece of bone taken from the skull had been used to make a lance or arrow-head, which was superstitiously supposed by the owner to ensure his victory.
Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire was the mouth-piece of an immense majority of his colleagues, when he declared that the objections to the great antiquity of the human race had all melted away.
He contented himself by printing the others with a list of the actors he would have liked to see in the different parts, if he had been able to get them performed--a touching piece of naivete which does much to endear him to us.
It was all of a piecewith their pretence that Christianity was a religion of kindliness and enlightenment.
It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold.
That opening might have led to a piece of great orchestral prose; but he turned on himself and wrote instead some pages of cheerful colloquial prose, sprinkled with fine sentences.
In commissioning any painting or piece of sculpture with a dictated subject there is always the danger that the subject will be uncongenial to the artist, that it may have no connection with his own intimate experience.
Even the chiaroscuro block prints are capable of very pleasing effects, a hint of them appearing in the tail-piece on page 4.
Peake introduces himself to the public with a distinguished piece of work.
On the other side, everypiece of ordinary perception is shot through with imagination, as with emotion.
After long consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the following sonnet, from Brother and Sister, is the best piece of sustained poetry that George Eliot achieved.
Personally, I have nothing but praise for it, as being a magnificent piece of lyrical painting.
Then she melted a carefully measured piece of buffalo tallow, and began to fry for her husband and master the cakes no other of his squaws could so well prepare.
It was a pieceof very simple poetry, in short lines and brief stanzas, and Rita was staring at its title.
Let it be a volume of history, and read it in the nows and thens when you are waiting for father to finish a note; let it be a piece of embroidery or crochet-work, and take it up when there is time for only a few stitches at once.
Carry the piece to a vertical position in front of the center of the body and take the position of present arms.
An injury to the rifling at the muzzle causes the piece to shoot very irregularly.
Should the piece be inspected without handling, each man executes ORDER ARMS as soon as the captain passes to the next, man.
Study any piece of open ground and note how much wider are the ridges than the valleys.
Press the butt down quickly and throw the piece diagonally across the body, the right hand retaining the grasp of the butt.
Allowing the piece to drop through the right hand to the ground, or other similar abuse of the rifle to produce effect in executing the manual, is prohibited.
The adversary may attempt a greater extension in the thrust and lunge by quitting the grasp of his piece with the left hand and advancing the right as far as possible.
Grasp thepiece with the right hand at the small of the stock.
Carry the piece diagonally across the body and take the position of port arms.
When the facings, alignments, open and close ranks, taking interval or distance, and assemblings are executed from the order, raise the piece to the trail while in motion and resume the order on halting.
In case of the approach of an armed party of the guard, the sentinel will halt when it is about 30 paces from him, facing toward the party with his piece at the right shoulder.
Tenants and occupiers of a piece of waste ground called "The Moors," in the County of Salop, come forth and do your service!
Both wainscoting and chimney-piece retain remnants of colour and gilding; and the chamber is lighted by traceried windows bearing a general resemblance to those of the adjoining hall.
On its staircase is a piece of timber quartering ornamented with a rude shield on which appear the words anno.
The hall, with its carved oak chimney-piece and quaint Dutch tiles, its panelled walls and oaken floors, has a sombre, dignified air about it.
The body of a bird, like that of a man, is but a piece of chemical apparatus made capable of transforming hard and fixed substances into others of a very unlike nature.
The next piece we shall cite has travelled across the Atlantic, and come back again under false pretences, and without its author's leave or knowledge.
The leak would then be above the surface of the water, the repairs would be practicable, and he would be able immediately to replace the stuff by a piece of planking, and thus substitute for the temporary stoppage a complete repair.
A piece of silk stolen during the last war from the palace of the Emperor of China represents a shark eating a crocodile, who is eating a serpent, who is devouring an eagle, who is preying on a swallow, who in his turn is eating a caterpillar.
Mess Lethierry opened the drawer of his table, took a piece of string, tied the three letters which he had just written across and across, and threw the packet to the boy, who caught it between his hands.
Sieur Landoys, the registrar, bestowed his approval upon the vessel--an undoubted piece of impartiality on his part, as he did not like Lethierry.
He cut into lengths the iron bars of the captain's bridge on which Clubin used to pass to and fro from paddle-box to paddle-box giving his orders; forged at one extremity of each piece a point, and at the other a flat head.
The garret window having no frame, he had nailed across it a piece of iron sheathing, part of the wreck of a ship.
Upon the large species they diminish gradually from the diameter of a five-franc pieceto the size of a split pea.
A stopper made of a piece of tow served to close it in case of need.
In what had been Tangrouille's cabin he had found a piece of chalk, which he preserved carefully.
With a piece of hoop-wood he made a screen for his forge-fire.
With the planks of these paddle-boxes, he made two cases in which he deposited the two paddles, piece by piece, each part being carefully numbered.
This was the only fresh piece of information that was of any importance.
His lordship plainly disliked the whole business, and it was a very awkward thing for Sir James that I was here, a circumstantial pieceof evidence against him.
During the moments I was awaiting her I examined the birding-piece to make sure it was in order.
As I understand it, your Highlander fires his piece from a good distance, throws it away, and then rushes to the attack.
Another good piece of work, Oliver," said the Colonel.
It was well managed, and is, I am told, a very creditable piece of soldiership.
That, apparently, should go without saying, and if I had come to grief over some piece of important soldier-craft, no one would have been surprised and I should not have been to blame.
With my rusty old birding-piece I was as ill-equipped for highwaymanship as I was for farming with my Georgics.
I heartily enough, but feeling very crestfallen at this telling piece of evidence against me.
A difficult piece of virtue she is, to be sure, and if you could only escape a hanging, which you will not, you might have learned to-night a useful lesson in the art of managing a woman.
They had seen an old constitution taken down, and a new one put up, pieceby piece, in its stead.
A piece of the hardest limestone, when deprived by calcination of its carbonic acid, becomes a body which may be crushed by the least pressure, or if treated with water assumes double its original bulk and falls to powder.
I then sawed off, horizontally, a few feet of that part which had suffered most from the flames, and afterwards split the same piece longitudinally with steel wedges, in order to examine its condition.
He impressed his comrades with a certain unity of tone, brought out the talents of promising comedians, enlarged one part, curtailed another, and squared the piece to be performed with the capacities he could control.
The conclusion arrived at was that we must all die of hunger unless we sold some piece of the estate upon our joint lives.
One of their pastimes is to balance a heavy piece of marble on the lifted palm of the right hand, and hurl it after taking a running jump.
We were eager to be present at the first night, to back the piece with our approval, and to witness its triumph.
Celio, who stood for Goldoni in this piece of nonsense, ought not to have protected Tartaglia and Truffaldino.
Nevertheless, this piece was constructed on different principles from those which governed the Commedia dell' Arte.
He kept continually pointing to the concourse which crowded the Venetian theatres when a new piece from his pen was advertised.
Goldoni received a check in mid-career, which became serious when the Carnival of 1749 closed with the total failure of a new piecefrom his pen, L'Erede Fortunata.
Such was the position of affairs when Gozzi, who wrote assiduously for the theatre, produced a drama modelled on a Spanish piece by Tirso da Molina.
Not a piece remained of that fine gallery of pictures which my grandfather had bequeathed as heirlooms to the family.
The firstpiece which revealed his leading talent was a comedy in outline; Il Gondoliere Veneziano, represented at Milan in 1733.
The piece has each time to be produced afresh by the concerted action of the players who will bring it on the boards.
Charles, William, and Henry, had a large piece of ground given to them to make a garden of.
A lady, who visited his mamma, and who was extremely fond of him, met him in the hall on new year's day, and gave him a seven shilling piece to purchase something to amuse himself.
