The prime wood, and the one with which most boys are familiar, is white pine.
Now the prime object of nearly all the double-roofed trusses was to utilize the space between the rafters so as to give height and majesty to the interior.
After this personage came theprime minister; then two musicians, one playing the drum, and the other a flageolet of rude construction.
I could see the prime minister, Muda, and Bud-ruddeen, as they rose in turns to speak.
At last every thing was arranged amicably; and just before starting, the prime minister, Quilp, and a large party of chiefs, condescended to pay a visit to the ship.
A canoe came off, containing, as at Gonong Tabor, the prime minister.
We were received by theprime minister, who informed us that the sultan was somewhat indisposed, and begged to postpone the interview until the following day.
In the course of the evening the sultan's prime minister and suite visited the barge, which was moored within a few yards of the landing-place.
Randall could almost see his next objective from the prime high ground of Cibik Ridge.
As if, forsooth, It were their prime of evils in great death To parch, poor tongues, with thirst and arid drought, Or chafe for any lack.
And let it be remembered that, before his absolute refusal to answer her crucial question about his prime motive for the marriage, Rachel had grown rather to like that place.
Yet it was something to have solved the prime problem; nay, everything, since it freed his mind for concentration upon his own immediate course.
Then let me hear the prime motive at last, for I am tired of trying to guess it!
Mr. Minchin had reached his prime in the underworld, of which he also was a native, without touching affluence, until his fortieth year.
Of prime importance should be rated maize or Indian Corn.
Prime in order, and many would say in power, is "The Wretched.
Here's a cheer, and may be you'd make so free for to take a pipe of prime Americane, your honour?
During the period of a man's prime he is usually muscled to an excellent symmetry.
The teeth are large and strong, and, whereas in old age they frequently become few and discolored, during prime they are often white and clean.
His legs are generally straight; the thighs and calves are those of a prime pedestrian accustomed to long and frequent walks.
However, the rough and irregular bowl has apparently retained relatively a larger amount of moisture and is in prime condition to be thinned, expanded, and given final form.
To see all that timber and prime cotton-land going to waste.
The prime purpose in taking the census is to find out the number of people in each state, so that representation may be equalized.
The selection of an honest man for the office, so far as possible, is a prime consideration.
The only person who ever knocked at their door in that way was the new vicar, the prime mover in the church-building.
He now thought it necessary to tell her of the real nature of the Springroves' obligation to Miss Aldclyffe--and their nearly certain knowledge that Manston was the prime mover in effecting their embarrassment.
Buzzby acted with great spirit and was evidently a prime favourite.
The crew was made up of stout, active men in the prime of life, nearly all of whom had been more or less accustomed to the whale-fishing, and some of the harpooners were giants in muscular development and breadth of shoulder, if not in height.
A person to consider himself as the prime mover of certain remarkable events, but to discover that his actions have not contributed in the least thereto.
Take this boy as the germ of a tavern-haunter, a country roue, to spend a wild and brutal youth, ten years of his prime in the State Prison, and his old age in the poorhouse.
Some of these hallucinations are of considerable interest, since they have been the prime cause of many superstitions.
This substratum of superstition is the prime cause of the retention of those figments of degenerated and christianized mythology which are yet found among us, and for the persistence of the most generally received of these figments--ghosts.
First plants and trees, afterwards men and animals, were produced from the earth in the early and vigorous prime of the world.
Born in the vigorous prime of Italian civilisation he came into the inheritance of the bold fancies of the earlier Greeks and of the dull rationalism of their later speculation.
Lucilius when he went with Scipio to Spain would be in the prime of manhood, thirty-two or thirty-four years of age.
If we are no longer moved by the eager hopes and buoyant fancies of the youthful prime of the ancient world, we seem to gather up, with a more sober sympathy, the fruits of its mature experience and mellowed reflexion.
On a sunny slope we met the Prime Minister with a considerable train of horsemen.
A rug can scarcely be said to have reached its prime or artistic mellowness of tint till it has been "down" for ten years.
This city after the fall of the Caliphate of Cordova had been ruled for forty-four years by descendants of Almanzor, the great Prime Minister of the last period of the Ommiad dynasty.
In half an hour more, Romayne was presented to a well-bred, amiable gentleman in the prime of life, smoking, and reading the newspaper.
Can I dismiss from memory the unmerited misfortunes which have taken from me, in the prime of her charms, the woman whom I love?
That, however, was long after, and Talus was now in the prime of life, and the terror of all the country-side.
But as it was, Achilles died in battle far from his native land, in the prime and flower of his manhood.
When she saw there was one man among the Cyprians who had reached the prime of life without giving her a thought, or offering up one prayer before her shrine, she was angry, and determined that he should feel her power.
Am I not even now in the prime of my manhood, when others look forward to many a long year of joyous life?
Nay, but in any case Death must lay his hand upon thee soon, whilst I am in the prime of life.
Truly it was a goodly sight to see them marching past, strong men all, in the prime of life.
The gentleman by his side, with the short, corpulent figure and aristocratic countenance, from which a smile never disappeared, was the chancellor of state and prime minister of King Frederick William III, Baron von Hardenberg.
And as on this Monday evening the prime virulence of the massacre had begun to abate--though it held after a fashion to the end of the week--Paris without was quiet also.
