State to three places in decimals the respective wealth of each at the expiration of twenty-seven years!
Thus his Majesty may expect to be obeyed in all places where the Government is in Quakers' hands.
In some places of its overflowing, the rocky side of the hill being more perpendicular and hanging over the plain beneath, the water pours down in a cataract, so as to leave a dry space under the spout, and form a kind of arch of water.
The Losses above mentioned were betwixt the 5th, and 10th of September; as was advertized from sundry Places out of Ireland.
The very coloring seemed unearthly, in places dismal black, and in others the fire-consumed crags are of strange metallic hues, vermilion red and copper yellow.
There are few more interesting places in London than Lloyd's, encrusted as it is with the barnacles of conservative tradition, and hedged about with all the exclusiveness of a club.
At these places boring was carried on means of steel rods to a depth of one hundred and forty feet, while the dredges were busy exploring the vicinity of the sand bank.
To all and each of these places “Rambles in Dickens’ Land” leads the way, if the reader chooses to follow.
Notes on Some Dickens’ Places and People”—in which he deprecates the endeavours of those inquirers who have attempted any localisation of these places.
The indications given in the various tales have, in some cases, been purposely rendered vague and uncertain; it being the evident aim of the author to avoid precision, and to afford no definite clue to the position of manyplaces named.
The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place were the public-houses, and in them the lowest orders of the Irish were wrangling with might and main.
And in the open places there was always a solemn procession of cliffs and peaks, marching with us sometimes, and then turning to slip past again when the bowl whirled the other way.
And a little later Myra went to bed and to sleep, wondering if, after all, there were not secretplaces in the heart of her transparent kinswoman which evaded the search-warrant of cousinly disinterest.
Behold him, then, awakening what time the volleying sun has changedplaces with the moon-archers.
If I had the money I believe I'd change places with you; that is, I'd give you the money in exchange for your good chance of being able to shuffle off mortality without the help of extraneous means.
I gave up a modest certainty at home to come here, and"--The musicians were taking theirplaces again, and he stopped abruptly.
The little cloud of dust puffing from beneath the drop-curtain began to subside, and the thumping and rumbling on the stage died away what time the musicians were clambering back to their places in the orchestra.
It was slow work, for the writing in many places was so poor as to be nearly illegible, but, with burning cheeks and eyes flashing with indignation at what it revealed, she read it to the end.
Why, near the point where they had first started, I could see the ore shining in places over my head, and there were croppings of it all along.
I tell you, the gambling houses and the dance halls, and all them places was lively in them days.
Give our places to those gentlemen," said Lindlay, indicating Haight and Morgan, and with rather a painful emphasis on the word "gentlemen.
He also picked up samples of ore in the most unexpected places which he examined with the closest scrutiny.
Now that's all cleaned out, and the few placeswhere there is any quantity of ore in sight show up to good advantage, and we've hauled eight or ten tons of ore from the Yankee Boy down onto the dump, so it makes a pretty respectable showing.
He was a very eccentric man, and his peculiar hobby when in London was to go about to dine at all sorts of odd places of entertainment, to amuse himself with the odd characters he fell in with.
The Ghost presents his compliments to the Goblin, thanks him very much, tells him where the places are, and begs him to send the things from those places to the usual haunt of the Ghost.
In 1895 I retain the lakes of Gosau in recollection as amongst the most beautiful places I have ever visited.
A delightful and instructive guide to theplaces visited.
I remember his describing how all the places ending in s in England take their names from people who have lived there.
The kindness of Lord Barrington also secured my favourable reception at every other house in the county, and many were the visits I paid in Berkshire at places described in my Handbook.
And I don't think describing people is much better than to show places on a map.
The boy, after he has pulled the girl across the line, places his hand on her head to complete the capture and to make a prisoner.
Miss Burne adds, at other places the knights call only one girl by name each time.
When the play begins the child in the middle runs and places herself in front of one of the groups of two, thus forming a group of three.
When singing the seventh line each boy takes the girl on his left hand,--dances round with her and places her on his right hand.
Nor is this game only appropriated to the men, but in some places the maids have their set matches too, and are as vigorous and active to obtain a victory.
They consist primarily of two players trying to form a row of three stones in three consecutive places on the plan; the one who first accomplishes this, wins.
One of the out party stands in the centre of the circle, and lobs at the different stones in rotation; each hit a player gives all his side must change stations, in some places going round to the left and in others to the right.
Stroke A game at marbles, where each player places a certain number on a line and plays in turns from a distance mark called "scratch," keeping such as he may knock off.
At the fourth line they set to partners and swing round, the girls changing places at the end, and continuing until they have been all round each time with a different partner.
The performers are in a particular manner entitled to the support or regard, when in old age or distress, of those who have partaken of the amusements of those places which they render an ornament to society.
Garrisons were now settled in many places where a red-coat had never before been seen, and the Saxon war-drum resounded among the most hidden recesses of the Highland mountains.
To support these he speculated boldly, and unfortunately; and thus the whole history is told, which may serve for more places than Glentanner.
The crags rise in some places almost perpendicularly from the water, and for their chief extent show no space nor level at their feet, but a rough and narrow edge of stony beach.
Donald had an eye for such spots, and though he had, I dare say, never read Gil Blas or Don Quixote, yet he chose such halting-places as Le Sage or Cervantes would have described.
There are men whose characters are so peculiarly marked, that the delineation of some leading and principal feature inevitably places the whole person before you in his individuality.
Choice of all places for deer-hunting Are the brindled rock and the ridge!
I tell you I am fearful man, but, somehow or other, the more fearful I am the more dam-tight places I get into.
For the first time he heard of the labours of European scholars, who by the help of these and a hundred other documents have identified the Holy Places of Buddhism.
We be followers of the Middle Way, living in peace in our lamasseries, and I go to see the Four Holy Places before I die.
I follow theplaces of His life till I come to the River of the Arrow.
I wish I had their papers also: but you cannot occupy two places in space simultaneously.
He spoke of those places as a scholar removed from vanity, as a Seeker walking in humility, as an old man, wise and temperate, illumining knowledge with brilliant insight.
I am a fearful man--most fearful--but I tell you I have been in dam-tight places more than hairs on my head.
But that only proves that while the present Money System remains, it will be impossible to do away with poverty, for heaps in some places mean little or nothing in other places.
While he was doing this he noticed and touched up a number of other faults; places where Slyme--in his haste to get the work done--had slobbered and smeared the face of the paper with fingermarks and paste.
As for food, most of them lived on such credit as they could get, and on the scraps of broken victuals and meat that their wives brought home from the places they worked at.
They all reviled Hunter, but most of them would have been glad to change places with him also: and if any one of them had been in his place they would have been compelled to do the same things, or lose the job.
He was arrayed in a long garment of costly black cloth, a sort of frock coat, and by the rotundity of his figure he seemed to be one of those accustomed to sit in the chief places at feasts.
They all cursed Crass, but most of them would have been very to change places with him: and if any one of them had been in his place they would have been compelled to act in the same way--or lose the job.
And presently it happened that one of the frayed and worn places that Dawson had remarked about was just at the angle during one of those momentary pauses.
The steps and ladders were put away in their places and the dirty paint-pots and pails were placed in the paint-shop on the bench and on the floor.
The only roads which traverse these places are mere cattle paths, which begin at no place and run nowhere; and, unless a man be thoroughly acquainted with the country, he can never tell where any given path will lead him.
The next morning we met again, having slept in separate placesso as not to attract attention, and went down the road some distance toward Hickman.
Her father's sudden departure surprised her but little, for she told me that he always liked to get to places before the rest of the party with whom he might be journeying.
Reaching a point which commanded a considerable view along the side of the mountain, I could see that in many places the road was completely lost to sight on account of the great snow-drifts piled up on it.
And of all places in the world," continued the young lady, "that we should meet here!
These noisy birds were leaving their resting-places in the trees near by, and starting out to search for breakfast in the fields and gardens of the country.
There are places in the world where children think they are not having much fun unless there is a good deal of shouting and yelling.
In many places the families of the storekeepers lived in the one room that was both store and dwelling, but they did not seem to be troubled when they noticed Chin's black eyes following them.
Soon the streets were astir, and the soldiers were everywhere beginning to arm themselves upon their breasts; then they ran quickly to the square of Khamon to take their places in the ranks.
Here and there were scattered heaps of corn; at other places the barley was shedding its reddened ears.
He proceeded immediately towards the western provinces, to take his vengeance in the very places which had witnessed his shame.
These in some places overlooked the top of the ramparts.
As he found himself again in places where he had already seen her, the interval of the days that had passed was obliterated from his memory.
Have not the Mercenaries already possessed Rhegium and other fortified places in Italy?
Bright fires were burning beneath hanging pots; and their purpled reflections illuminating some places left others completely in the dark.
Would you be willing to change places with a man whose body and mind had been poisoned by alcohol, tobacco, and opium, even though he lived in a palace, and had a million of dollars?
Even wild cattle and buffaloes seek out places where there are salt springs, and go in great herds to get the salt.
There are right places and wrong places for fat, as well as for other things in this world.
Tight shoes cause corns and in-growing nails and other sore placeson the feet.
Again, in the high jump, the latter academy had excelled and both first and second places had gone to her clever youngsters.
His local affections, however, were very strong, and he felt with unusual keenness the final parting from his old home, and the pang of thinking that strangers usurp our dwelling and the familiar places will know us no more.
If there had been anywhere else to move to, Geraldine would certainly have moved, but there seemed to be no vacant places anywhere near, and she was far too shy to bring herself into prominence by going and hunting for one.
But Gerry had a capacity for putting herself into other people's places which was rather unusual in a girl so young; and do what she would, she could not quite banish the mistress's side of the case from her mind.
And then the two conspirators made haste to restore the trap to its place under the boot-lockers and take their places in Chapel, the bell for prayers having already sounded.
She walked on down the field amongst the seniors, feeling that she would not at the moment have changed places with any other girl in the whole of Wakehurst Priory.
The second month was spent in going to many interesting places outside of San Francisco as well as taking in more of the city.
Quite a large percentage of that element in the big cities, who profited by pandering and catering to the depraved tastes of human nature, had left the city in which they carried on their places of business now that the C.
The other wing of the opposition consisted of those who were making money in the saloon business and running low places of amusement.
We talked much about some of the places and people in India we expected to see.
The very élite of Roseland were there, also a few from other places who were on a visit to friends in Roseland, and all made a very gay and brilliant party.
The low dives are closed, and places where girls made exhibitions of themselves for the sole purpose of exciting passion in man are no more.
I said: 'Did he ever do any of the kind of work he has been doing at the different places he worked at before he came to Orangeville?
The trail in many places was washed out and had to be repaired before they could proceed.
I have let her have more milk than would be required to drown herself in, and, as for coal-oil, why the quantity that she has borrowed would illuminate many dark placesof the earth; and my tea and coffee seem just suited to her taste.
In some places land-slides had blocked the trail, and it involved a great amount of labor to clear them off.
And, wishing to dance, in Paris, I have been guilty of visits to the great dance halls and to the small smart places where champagne is oppressively the only listed beverage.
This solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature.
What I believe was strictly true is that innumerable well-observed facts were stored in the minds of naturalists ready to take their proper places as soon as any theory which would receive them was sufficiently explained.
Hoghton Park, though not very extensive, boasted a great deal of magnificent timber, and in some places was so thickly wooded, that, according to Dr.
Heaping on more turf, and shifting the caldron, so that it may receive the full influence of the flame, the hag proceeds to one of the chests, and takes out sundry small matters, which she places one by one with great care on the table.
Still, she acts as if she were the wicked thing she is called; avoids all religious offices; shuns all places of worship; and derides the Holy Scriptures.
James lolled back in his chair, and jested loudly and rather indecorously with the various personages as they took their places around him.
Rendered slippery by the wet, and yet more so by the trampling of the crowd, the road was so bad in places that the horses could scarcely drag the hurdles up it, and more than one delay occurred.
But the hill was steep and the road bad, being full of loose stones, and crossed in many places by bare roots of trees.
At the same time four other men started from theirplaces of concealment behind the stones, and, levelling their calivers at the fugitives, fired.
Thou and I, O brother, will thus secure the servants' places close by; and because of our masters' authority none will dare to disturb us.
Three of his more grossly incompetent men had died, and their places had been filled by their betters.
He was used to messes, and men's bedrooms, and places where ponies are not usually encouraged, and in his youth had jumped on and off a mess-table for a bet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "places" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
