The remains of Artaxata, if they exist, must be looked for on some of the numerous positions which are nearly surrounded by the river.
Various positions were suggested for the statue, and a place under the Loggia met with the greatest approval.
The positions of Nicodemus, Mary Cleophas, and the youth, underwent some slight changes, and the other figures near to Nicodemus were introduced, but the picture preserves very closely the original suggestions of the drawing.
Wherefore in very many matters of business and actions it is clearly not superstitious and idle to observe the positions and conditions of lands, the points of the horizon and the places of the stars.
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Diagram of declinations of the magnetick needle, when excited, in the various positions of the sphere, and horizons of the earth, in which there is no variation of the declination.
Thus one may see on a terrella the level, oblique, and perpendicular positionsof a magnetick needle.
A fixed verticity exists at the pole, so long as the loadstone remains whole; if it is divided or broken, the verticity obtains other * positions in the parts into which it is divided.
If the positions of the lands were uniform and straight along meridians, and not defective and rugged, the variations near lands would be simple; such as appear in the following figure.
His proficiency in the classic languages won the praise of all the best scholars of Europe, and offers were made to him, but in vain, to accept honourable positions outside Holland.
The hour circle is also read by microscopes, and the instrument can be used in both positions (tube preceding and following) for elimination of the effect of flexure on the position angles.
Complete rotation of the head is obviously impossible because of the interference of the declination axis with the rods, and therefore, in some angles, objects cannot be measured in two positions of the circle.
Neither of thesepositions is taken up by the author of this little book.
Were they not forced to take official positions in the insurrection, whereby, in the case of defeat, they risked the loss of their capital?
When these are ascertained, we observe the objects that fill up the intervals, comparing each with the principal object, till we have fixed the positions of all.
The positions and rank of all the persons connected with this extraordinary transaction have been referred to in the course of the details which we have laid before our readers, with the exception of Emanuel Moses.
The convicts were subsequently conveyed to the penal settlements, where they were immediately placed in the positions of painful punishment which had been described to them by the learned judge at the time sentence was passed upon them.
An intelligence officer reports that if there is the slightest delay dawn will break before the positions are reached.
On February 13th information was received that Buller had taken two positions on the north side of the Tugela with small loss--one Krantz Kloof, and the other Vaal Krantz Spruit.
Illustration: Devons Crossing the Sabi River] A story is told anent the positions out of which General Buller's infantry had turned the Boers, which goes to show the estimation in which the British infantry were held by their opponents.
The Boer attack of January 6th on the positions round Ladysmith commenced on Wagon Hill at about 2.
The whole force was ordered to retire and to proceed back at once into their positions in and about the town.
From the nature of the position which they had taken up, no commanding positions affording flanking fire and protection to their flanks were obtainable by the Boers.
Another account relates that the enemy occupied the positions on the Aisne that they had taken up in 1870, and their guns were all placed in concrete positions, carefully prepared against the event.
The captain turned towards the rear of the French, and examined the positions of the two ships mentioned with sufficient deliberation; but Sir Gervaise dropped his head in a musing manner, and began to pace the poop again.
The change in the relative positions was the result of the family influence of the junior, who had passed his senior in the grade of master and commander; a rank that then brought many an honest man up for life, in the English marine.
I would give much to know the exact positions of the divisions of our two rear-admirals.
This was the first observable phenomenon connected with the action, but, as it had been expected, Sir Gervaise had used the precaution to lay his ships as near as possible in the positions in which he intended them to fight the battle.
At the time Sir Gervaise pointed out theirpositions to Greenly, the two vessels just mentioned were quite half a mile to the westward of their nearest consort, and more than that distance to the southward.
When it is remembered that the wind was nearly due west, and that all the French vessels, these two excepted, were steering north, the relative positions of the latter will be understood.
A death-like stillness reigned from the poop to the cock-pit, the older seamen occasionally glancing through their ports in order to ascertain the relative positions of the two fleets, that they might be ready for the collision.
The two ships last named were no longer visible from the cliffs, though their positions were known by their lights; but no sign whatever indicated the part of the ocean on which the Dover was struggling along through the billows.
According to Boer accounts, no fewer than 5,000 projectiles were thrown against these twopositions by the British guns.
Finally, on the 29th, the Boers evacuated their positions at Rensburg, and fell back to Colesberg.
But positions held, as were these, by good and mobile troops cannot be successfully assailed, and certainly cannot be turned unless there is a considerable advantage of numbers on the assailants' side.
This latter could use its range to advantage, while good positions for the British guns could not be found.
It was the only food available for the men in exposed positions at Magersfontein.
Meanwhile the enemy completes the fortification of his positions and the cost of capturing them rises.
Sidenote: Positions of the British at Dundee and Ladysmith.
But the Boers still held trenches along the western end, while from their positions on and under Doorn Kloof they could direct an enfilading fire upon General Lyttelton's Brigade.
Again, it is curious that seemingly no one in the British Army was aware that the Boers had entrenched positions to the south of the Tugela.
All the Christians who had assisted in the defence of their country received a gift of money and eight of them who had shown the greatest bravery in face of the dangers undergone, were promoted to the highest positions in the army.
Phya Tak raised all those who had been his partisans to the highest positions in the State.
He threatened to employ force if his demands were not complied with and informed him that ten positions as strong as Bangkok would be but feeble ramparts against the vengeance he premeditated.
They captured several important positions without meeting any serious opposition and the inhabitants were put to the sword.
To him they seemed invincible, as they possessed the two strongest positions in the Kingdom.
The majority of the military positions of trust are confided to eunuchs, enervated by the luxury of court life.
Even now the bleached skeletons of many thousands of these unfortunate victims to British intervention may be seen in the positions in which they fell, waiting for the hand of decay to obliterate the last sad trace of their existence.
Their positions were respectively those of gunner and chief mate.
Then the umpires, who are high officers in the regular army, decide according to the positions that are taken which side has the best chance of success.
If they had only tried for church positions in a large city in America, had competed in the open market of their own country, they would have been saved a heartbreak and much good money besides.
We had some splendid actors in our cast, some of whom are now in leading positions in the greatest theatres.
There were no $1000 church positions in our town, but one or two of the churches paid respectable salaries to their quartets, and I hoped soon to begin to make a concert career.
Therefore in our short talk before the second act, I told him my positions as nicely as I could, he saying to everything, "Aber warum?
There are very few American singers who have reached positions on the grand opera stage without having previously studied abroad.
I have over one hundred pupils who are making a good living by singing, and as many more holding church positions paying them enough to enable them to continue their studies.
Clasping your hands behind your back or resting them on your hips, are both badpositions for singing.
You will observe that we electrons perform no new duty in connection with this matter; it is entirely the motion of the body carrying us that alters the positions of the lines.
This is not the only case in which we alter the positions of definite lines in the spectrum.
He then examines the positions of the lines we produce in the resulting spectrum, and from these he knows what kinds of atoms are present in the distant star.
As they are in the same positions that the bright lines would have occupied had the waves reached the earth, it makes no difference to the reading of our messages.
He soon discovered the meaning of these lines, for he commenced to take exact notes of the different positions in which we placed these lines.
We had just started out on our march forward when we received such a shaking that we found ourselves in the same isolated positions as at first; we could not get across from one particle to another.
Under God's hand great men make great destinies and great positions for their country as well as for themselves.
Hippolytus Aldobrandini] was a clever man, moderate and prudent to the verge of timidity, and, one who was disinclined to take decisive steps as to difficult questions or positions until after they had been decided by events.
When this is done they take their positions in pairs, each man having an opponent opposite him.
Presently the boat touched the shore, and the boys all leaped out and took up their positions upon the ledge of rock from which they were to start.
Three-fourths of the distance was now covered, and their positionswere unchanged, when with a pang that went right to his heart Jack felt himself weakening.
Andrey Antonoyitch had always had a quite touching sympathy for him, and wherever he could, as he rose himself in the service, had promoted him to subordinate positions under him; but Blum had never been successful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "positions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
