Children played with the dogs or practiced with small bows and arrows.
It was practiced by the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, by the Greeks, and particularly by the Romans, who used it not only in furniture-making but also in door frames and panels.
The distance was far; Bruce was not a practiced rifle shot, and it bordered on the miraculous that his lead went anywhere near the bear's body.
If a man were practiced at dodging lightning bolts he might do it, but not an ordinary mortal.
As much heroism as could be practiced in thirty-six years of Carlsruhe.
The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon.
The first thing Weimer did when he arose was to go to the door and survey sky and mountains with practiced eye, as he sniffed the bracing air.
Mr. Pierson gave the boys some good advice, and getting into the shell several times, practiced what he preached.
Sire, I do not know why trickery was practiced on me, or who practiced it: why such pains were taken to mix the clues which led to the dauphin.
When the Episcopal Bishop of New York showed me kindness, and Pastor Storrs warned me against being proselyted, I could not tell him the charm in the form of worship practiced by the woman I loved.
And all the time I practiced the Iroquois tongue as well as English and French, and began the translation of books into the language of the nation I hoped to build.
He practiced first at Bologna, afterwards in Verona.
He was educated at Montpelier and practicedsurgery for a time in France.
Unfortunately many students of science followed these writers apparently without a hint of the deception that was being practiced on them.
Here are the quotations from the Anatomy of Mondino which show that he practiced not one but many methods of making dissections, according to the purposes he had in view.
This method having obtained some vogue, it behooved those who practiced 'pure' medicine to decide whether the operation were consistent with the traditions of purity.
Pope {124} John learned how much imposition was being practiced on the people by certain so-called alchemists who claimed to be able to make silver and gold out of baser metals.
But, as pointed out by Roth, dissection was practiced very successfully, and the anatomical tradition established at Padua, before it came under the dominion of Venice.
After his return Yperman settled down in his native town and practiced surgery until his death, which probably took place about 1330.
At least, we have no proof that the ancient nations practiced the art of aerial navigation to any extent whatever.
Leonardo da Vinci might have known the art of flying in the air, and might even have practiced it.
This process of ablution was practiced with such zeal upon their own craft and transient passers-by, that a hogshead of rum was drawn in a short time, running in brooks over the floor.
I recollect a ludicrous instance of imposition practiced upon an individual by furnishing him with bear meat for his dinner, while he supposed that he was feasting upon fresh pork.
Lower down the river, in the vicinity of new settlements, the usual ceremonies on funeral occasions are practiced when an itinerant clergyman chances to pass that way.
She has been described by her daughter as "a great artist lost for want of development"; showing a wonderful dexterity in whatever she put her hand to, no matter if practiced in it or not.
Amman in the past three years has worked closely with the IMF, practiced careful monetary policy, and made substantial headway with privatization.
Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave.
A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.
A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Having laid him on his bed, she began to search his pockets with the stealthy touch of a practiced hand.
Ingham then told her about various criminal devices for obtaining money, which he had practiced in New York several years before, and called her attention to the ease with which they might rob strangers by the "panel" game.
Bragg practiced law, regularly, in the Courts of Northampton, Halifax, Hertford, and Gates counties up to the time he became Governor.
He had a proper conception of the value of wealth, and all his life practiced a judicious economy, but he knew well both how to lend and how to give.
It may be that awe of his character, and a consciousness of his practiced sagacity and penetration constrained witnesses, when in his hands, to an unwonted utterance of the truth.
But he had the accuracy in thought and speech of a practiced writer.
We shall possess a horn--on which Wee Jessie once practiced in her youth--to gather up the crowd when we enter a village.
Those who are practiced in such matters--humped men who blink with learning--claim to discover evidence of the letter now and then in their reading.
But there were two young rascals who practiced these eccentricities and after they had gone to bed, for the exquisite humor of it, they nodded their heads, too, and sucked their teeth with loud hissing noises.
The house was as black as if it practiced to be a cave, yet an instinct instructed us that now at least darkness was safe.
My friend, therefore, practiced a palsy until, being perfect in the part, he could take his seat without notice or embarrassment.
Eileen had practiced subterfuges so long, she was so accomplished, that it would have taken an expert to distinguish reality from subterfuge.
When several ledgers and account books were laid before him, with practicedhand he turned to what he wanted.
He came with noiseless tread to the bedside, and the instant his practiced eyes fell on the sleeping face they lighted up with a quick, glad look.
Arnold stood quietly before the sleeper--felt his pulse, bent his head and listened to the beating heart, touched with practicedfingers the swollen veins in his temples, then stood up and turned toward the waiting gentlemen.
Thus, it is important to note that during this period in Europe, swimming was a skill practiced by few, primarily soldiers and sailors.
He referred to women, wearing only drawers, bathing with men as a custom no longer practiced when he wrote his book in 1538.
As previously stated, swimming was practiced through the Middle Ages as a useful skill for men.
I had from a child been delighted with this exercise, had studied and practiced Thevenot's motions and position, and added some of my own, aiming at the graceful and easy, as well as the useful.
Adult voices show the same tendency to increase the volume of tone when first applying words to a passage practiced pianissimo with a vowel-sound.
If the vowel-elements have been carefully practiced in vocalizes, there will be little effort required to secure the correct formation of all the vowel-sounds of words.
If thin, soft singing alone be allowed, quiet deep breathing will be practiced instinctively.
No man had studied more deeply, orpracticed more constantly, the military science.
