But whatever the depression at the failure of the first attempt to lay a telegraph across the ocean, and at the thick-coming disasters on land and sea, it did not interfere with renewed and vigorous efforts to prepare for a second expedition.
To prepare for this, she was armed with chains and ropes and irons of the most formidable kind.
It was already the first of March, and but four months remained to manufacture sixteen hundred and sixty nautical miles of cable, and to prepare for sea.
But he was indefatigable, rising with the sun to prepare for teaching.
These offered a form of advanced education, in the language of the educated classes of the time, for those intending to go to the universities to prepare forservice in either Church or State, and for teaching.
As youths were received at an early age [6] into the monasteries to prepare for a monastic life, it was necessary that they be taught to read if they were later to use the sacred books.
It provided the means toprepare for and to maintain resumption.
Under color of intending toprepare for it, I hope they will not make their measure the pretext for repealing the law as it stands, which fixes a day for resumption and will secure the end we both aim at.
This bill also provides ample means to prepare for and to maintain resumption.
A like fate to his may be that of any one of us before another day has passed; and I would earnestly urge you, for the short time which yet may remain for you, to turn your hearts to God--to prepare for eternity.
But it was with a less lightsome heart that Jock went to his quarters to prepare for a fancy ball, where he expected to meet Elvira, though whether he should approach her or not would depend on her own caprice.
He wanted to take her back to prepare for them, as he said—-in reality to lesson any horrors there might be to see.
The time had not come when it would be prudent to be more definite, but he might say that Mr. O'Neill was trying to arrange a happy and enviable future for his daughter, and therefore he wished her to return home to prepare for it.
After a while I began to prepare for bed, but it took me long to undress, for I stopped every moment to think.
As the Lily appeared to be gaining on her, the commander gave the order to prepare for action.
It served, however, as a signal to prepare for action.
We must manage to take her before she reaches the other, then we shall have time to prepare for a second action," observed Mr Lascelles.
The captain thinks so, or he wouldn't have given the order to prepare for action.
But I have my sermon to prepare for to-morrow, and I can sit here no longer.
He thus sought to reinstate Greece and Rome, but entirely neglected those things which prepare for life.
It makes the highest aim of education to prepare for war, and therefore does not cultivate the arts of peace.
Only a few ever reach this stage, and the purpose of this advanced work is not intellectual development, or even the accumulation of knowledge, but to prepare for a position under the government, which can be reached by no other means.
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