It is easier to practice such tricks, as the slave, subdued by fear and harsh treatment, does not dare to make the least objection to any assertion of his Turkoman master.
Spirituous drinks are seldom taken by the sovereigns of Khiva and Bokhara, although the other members of the royal family and the grandees frequently transgress on this point, and indulge in the practice to excess.
In Hungary we find the same practice prevailing at the present day, for the custom of tying coloured handkerchiefs to the heads of the horses at marriage feasts most probably has its origin in this ancient usage.
Khatun means in Turkish, woman, of which word we wish to avail ourselves instead of a name, as this is the practice in the MS.
It is the ordinary practice of the men-stealers to keep their booty by them not longer than two or three days.
For life was far from being all play that fall--if hard practice and strict training can be called play!
Despite his forebodings, the studies proved not formidable, and at four o'clock Joel reported for football practice with a comforting knowledge of duties performed.
Yes, but it doesn't have to rain just when a fellow has fixed to practice golf, does it?
Individual practicewas followed by team practice against an imaginary foe, and this in turn gave place to a line-up against the second eleven.
You see there's the golf tournament next Saturday week, and I've got to put in a lot of hard practice between now and then.
The meal over, save for a half hour of practice for the backs behind the gymnasium the men were free to give all their energies to lessons, and so hurried away to recitation hall or room.
Despair and discouragement threatened on all sides, and, as every thoughtful one expected, there was such a slump in the practice as kept Remsen and Whipple and poor Blair awake o' nights during the next week.
The practicewas secret every afternoon, and the coaches lost weight eluding the newspaper reporters.
First and second Eleven rushes and quarters down the field and practice formations.
Some day with hard practice you may make a kicker.
We had a stiff hour's practice with the ball and learned two new formations.
Then the line of march was taken up toward Sailors' Field, where they arrived just in time to see the beginning of the practice game between the Varsity and the scrub.
I used to practice when I didn't have much to do, which wasn't very often.
People are influenced more by what a man says, if his practice is suitable to it, because they are blockheads.
This custom, however, is not peculiar to our Highlands; it is well known that in India a similar practice prevails.
I regretted that Dr Johnson did not practice the art of accommodating himself to different sorts of people.
When Dr Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr M'Aulay said, he had no notion of people being in earnest in their good professions, whose practice was not suitable to them.
This is thepractice of the French Protestant churches.
If a man is not convinced of that, he never will practice it.
That puts me in mind of Montesquieu, who is really a fellow of genius too in many respects; whenever he wants to support a strange opinion, he quotes you the practice of Japan or of some other distant country, of which he knows nothing.
He is so philosophically; but not in the practice of life.
You must give him an opportunity topractice your precepts.
By the salary which the earl allows him, and the practice which he has had, he is in very easy circumstances.
Dr Johnson was unquestionably in the right; and whoever examines himself candidly, will be satisfied of it, though the inconsistency between principles and practice is greater in some men than in others.
Apparently it had been the old man's practice to have them regard him as the great I am.
But today, all race loving people give their practice to their own, except those who are nearly white, and wish they were.
She is a beautiful girl, intelligent, kind and winning, although she does not, as I can see, practice or exercise any arts to be winning.
There were certain classes of his race to whom he never made a practice of showing the book for several reasons.
Also, knowing the laws of life thoroughly, they perceived that the special practice necessary to bring any manual art to perfection strengthened the body distortedly; one energy or member gaining at the expense of the rest.
At times, adhering to this practice has almost converted my home into a hotel for tramps.
It was once the practice to rise even earlier than five, but there are not many farmers who do so now.
Now the practice of selling by auction has become very general, and the cattle are either put into the auctioneer's private yard, or in an enclosure provided by the town authorities.
And yet the old practice still continues, only a little checked by wholesome terror of the law.
This practice of locking the door and leaving the key in it is very prevalent.
The prose summary in the form of a marginal gloss, first added in the edition of 1817, is a practice taken from early printed books, but not from balladry, which is normally oral.
That of medicine, however, had been in existence five years previously as a teaching body under the name of the Montreal Medical Institution, with power to admit to practice but not to confer degrees.
He quietly returned later, when the embargo was raised, and settled down again to practice law at Montreal, but still keeping his attention on politics.
In 1843 a “nolle sequi” allowed him to return to practice medicine in Montreal.
French advocates and proctors could practice in this court, though not in the superior court.
This opinion proved correct, for after a little practice the extraordinary rate of speed of twenty miles per hour was obtained.
All physicians are invited to report to a central station cases of tuberculosis occurring in their practice which cannot be fully treated by them.
Or should he practice the ancient blood-oath that had echoed and destroyed down through the ages--An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
In practice he had broken heavy boards, splintering them instantly with the short, precise stroke.
It was he who first reduced the practice of the torture to a perfect system, extending over a period of forty-one days.
The canon's absence of mind was very great, and when his coachman drove him into Bath he had to practice all kinds of cautions to keep him to time and place.
He was till lately in extensive practice as a physician, besides being a successful author.
Her practiceaccords harmoniously with her doctrines.
The experiences of that night would in themselves make one willing to practice walking for years in order to be able to walk through such a night in whose dawn all Europe waked to war.
Surely it is not consistent for us as Americans to demand democracy in government and practice autocracy in industry.
The theories of protection and free trade have been bitterly debated for generations, but in this instance the practice was eminently successful and the results were vastly impressive.
One might almost be pardoned for the supposition that every discontented fly in London makes it a practice to go to Soho and die.
Alfred with nervous eagerness: "it will be practice for me you know.
At first they were apt to be made into palimpsests; but when good new parchment became abundant and comparatively cheap, this practice was dropped.
It was happily a common practice to write on the fly-leaf or first leaf Liber (Sancte Marie) de (tali loco).
With the antique firelock such a practice was necessary; but nothing in our day so stamps a man a poacher as this total denial of 'law' to the game.
It does not take much practiceto hit the happy medium.
She has her own receipts for preserving furs and feathers, and long practice has rendered her an adept.
By constant practice a wonderful dexterity may be acquired in this trick; men will snare almost any bird in broad daylight.
Long practice and delicate skill are essential to successful snaring.
After long acquaintance and practice in the field we learn the habits and ways of game--to know where it will or not be found.
He looks upon such a practice as the ruin of all true woodcraft, and a proof of the decay of the present generation.
You may practice your espionage upon your suspected compatriots; but I will never allow you to keep observation upon my friends here in England.
At that instant it occurred to me that she was an adept in preserving a mystery; she could practice deception with a verisimilitude little short of marvellous.
The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prevent, by means of an ordeal, that cruelpractice of peremptory divorce which had been in vogue at some period among the Hebrews.
We may wonder that the Hebrew law, enlightened on many points, did not wholly abolish the practice of blood revenge.
In the passage before us nothing whatever is said as to the reasons which the law recognised for the practice of Naziritism.
But if neither temporal well-being nor enjoyment of religious privilege appears to be certain, our common practice is to turn in another direction.
We notice first that the statutes regarding the man-slayer are frankly based on the primitive practice of blood revenge.
No practicefollowed under the shield of religion and in its name deserves stronger reprobation.
It was anciently the practice to apportion the revenues of royal and great monastic establishments to some specific branch of the expenditure; and as the profits of certain manors, &c.
This practice was kept up for years and the resulting data were collated and compiled in the society's reports.
In some towns it is the practiceto remove the young nuts from the trees in July so as to prevent them from being stoned and broken by boys later on when the "conker" demand begins.
Urban authorities and park-keepers must discontinue the practice this year.
On the principle that "Like begets like," I feel sure that the continued practice of cracking the shell to get at the sweet meat inside will tend to put more phosphorus and less lime into the skull of the race.
Perhaps the English merchants at Königsberg, being amongst Kant's oldest and most intimate friends, had early familiarized him to the practice of drinking tea, and to other English tastes.
Gradually the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened into an intellectual art.
It is also on this principle that the whole practice and doctrine of Sortilegy rest.
Long practice had taught him a very dexterous mode of nesting himself, as it were, in the bed-clothes.
The latterpractice he still observed, but not the other.
Besides, I'm beginning to practice for my call at your new quarters.
Theory had not put itself into practice as quickly as the emergency required,--all the less so in that it had to work through a crew encumbered with a longish skirt and a close jacket.
Even Joseph Foster had contrived to get himself brought down by Peter: further practice for the day when he should make a still more ambitious flight and dine at Randolph's new table.
Reference has been made, in the chapter on courtship and marriage, to the Welsh practice of planting graves with flowers.
The practice is traced by another writer[117] to 'the custom of Cymhortha, or the neighbourly aid practised among farmers, which is of various kinds.
The speaker then mentioned the parish of Llandebie where the above practice 'was said to have prevailed to a recent period.
This ghost makes a practice of appearing when any mishap is about to befall a member of the house of Stradling--the direct line of which is, however, extinct, a fact not very well apprehended among the neighbouring peasantry.
The presentation of pins to the well, though now a meaningless rite on the part of those who practice it, was originally intended as a propitiatory offering to the evil spirit of the well.
The origin of this custom, as given by the Welsh, is to be found in the former practice of burying criminals at cross-roads.
The practice was even extended, most illiberally and unjustly, to the graves of old maids, who certainly needed no such insult added to their injury.
To discuss its moral character is not my province in these pages; but I may properly record the fact that its practice is not confined to the irreligious classes.
This was an illustration, according to the popular belief, of the wickedness of hiding anything, however trifling its value--a practice strongly condemned by the Welsh peasantry.
Besides such familiar forms of this widely popular practice as sleeping on a bit of wedding-cake, etc.
Lloyd Morgan says: "We do not yet know the limits within which education and practice may refine the application of central powers of discrimination within little-used areas.
The journey left its mark because, in the course of it, I found that practice in modelling had increased my perception of beauty in form.
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