Its principal food consists of the various species of rodents, insects and small birds.
I invaded the retirement of his study where the principal feature was a colossal silver inkstand presented to him on his fiftieth year by a subscription of all his wards then living.
As Wiechmann and Lloyd were the principal witnesses against Mrs. Surratt, and their evidence so conclusively established her guilt, her counsel made an effort to discredit their testimony, but utterly failed to do so.
One of the principal witnesses against her was Louis J.
If he could be regarded as a principal and not as an accessory he could be held equally guilty with Booth although he might not have been present and assisting in the assassination.
To me the most interesting and picturesque life to be found in North America, at least north of Mexico, is that which is occasioned by this principal phase of the company's operations.
I asked a Canadian lady how that could be possible, and she answered with a list of the principal garments those girls were wearing.
Fish is their principal diet, and stores of dried fish are kept for their winter food.
The cooks are therefore under him, and this fact suggests a mention of the principal building in the camp--the mess hall, or "grub tent.
The principal studies and sketches were prepared for and published in Harper's Magazine.
All the larger streams are the haven of salmon in the spawning season, and in time the principal ones will be the bases of canning operations.
Vancouver, the principal city of the main-land, is slightly smaller than Victoria, but did not begin to displace the forest until 1886.
But five principal actors there must be, and there stood four of them looking anxiously, full into Penelope Carlton's face.
She may not care to come, for I think her principalreason was to have a chat with me; but there is no saying.
The principal figure, and the most important, is that of Helen of Troy.
All these thoughts with regard to it rushed through her mind as she stood for a minute, unnoticed, on the green sward which swept up to the house at each side of the principal entrance.
The first division was assigned to the command of Sandoval, and was ordered to march southward to the city of Iztapalapan, which commanded the principal causeway, or approach to Mexico.
On the contrary, the causeways, so to speak, were continued up to within half a mile of the principal square which was in the very centre of the city, and contained the great pyramid, as well as the chief temples of Mexico.
Here are its principal clauses; In the name of the most blessed Trinity, etc.
Having always loved society, I had multiplied in the two principal blocks of the sleeping-rooms and the entrance-hall complete apartments for the lady inmates.
Allow me to express a hope that her principal streets will be widened, that her temples, most of them of real beauty, may be isolated.
The Marquis de Seignelay, eldest son of this minister, counted on succeeding to the principal offices of his father.
Independently of the obelisk, the cupola of this temple bore eight allegorical statues, of which the one was France in mourning; the second, Justice raising her sword, and the others the principal virtues of the King.
He had made up his mind to go to the principal Jewish citizen in Wilna, only he must be a good scholar, so as to understand what Reb Nochumtzi had to say to him.
Not in a corner where no one sees or hears, but before all the people in the great Shool, in the principal Shool of the town.
She had a lover--indeed, she had many, but the principalwas a hunter named Logi.
It was rank bad luck that he should meet on his way two of his principal creditors.
He married her, and took her to his hut, making her his principal wife, and investing her with all the privileges and dignity of that office.
These fancy forms are varieties of the European beech, one of the principal lumber trees of the Old World.
Thus was Harvey led to believe that the blood and not the heart is the first part to live and the last to die, the principal part of the body, the generator of the heart and of all the rest.
There seems to me to have been one single principal cause of hesitation and error in this matter, viz.
Maura shrank from the ordeal, but in the end I persuaded her to accompany me to the cedar parlour, where the Lady Principal was writing.
His wife survived him five years: she had the comfort of having provided a competency for her son by her hazardous journey to Terreagles, though his title and principal estates had been confiscated by his father's attainder.
The principal chaplains were members of the legislative councils, and were consulted on most measures relative to religion.
The principal candidates were attended with numerous banners and long processions.
The jurors were not unfrequently interested: in some instances the prosecutor sat as witness and judge, giving the principalevidence in the case in which he was both to decide the guilt and apportion the punishment.
Arthur did not press the project, and during a conference with the merchants and other principal inhabitants, discussed the question with courtesy.
It cannot be supported if England cause herself to be regarded as the author of a continual wrong; and if respect be forfeited, the principal tie of love and obedience will be severed.
Their confession left no doubt of their guilt: they had committed murder that they might escape from misery; but they asserted that the principal was Browne, and the accessory Salmon--the reverse of the indictment.
Mr. Knopwood was superseded, as principal chaplain, by the Rev.
The delegates, invited to a public banquet in honor of their mission, were met by the city members, the mayor, the principal merchants, and professional gentlemen.
The principal objection to Launceston was the navigation of the river, which was dreaded by vessels of tonnage; but its reputation was worse than its dangers.
A meeting was called by the sheriff, and the principal speakers were the Gellibrands, Crombie, Cartwright, Abbott, F.
The names of the principal persons are as follows:--Lieutenant-Governor Collins; Rev.
After this tumult at Ephesus Paul departed into Macedonia and seems to have visited the principal cities and finally arrived at Corinth where a plot to kill him was formed.
The geography of the country with the principal cities mentioned.
Oh, no, no, that is myprincipal dread; therefore do I fear to die.
To the right hand, in a dark alley, was the door of a store, not less obscure, in which constantly resided the principal tenant of this garni.
Rome and Paris are the principal seats of the trade, and immense numbers of shell cameos are imported by England and America, and mounted in rings, brooches, etc.
Aluminum is derived from the oxide alumina, which is the principal constituent of common clay.
The Work is edited by three of the principal Contributors.
Therein the talented Principal of the Royal Academy of Music paid a high tribute to the personal qualities of the doyen of composers.
An opera on the subject of "King Lear" had already been promised by Verdi, the principal part being intended for Signor Lablache.
Less excelling in melody than any Italian composer of name," we read of Verdi, "he has always chosen to rely rather on the effect of the ensemble than on the isolated displays of the principal singers.
Piccolomini, who delineated the emotions of the principal character, belong the honours of a triumph with which the composer has as little to do as possible.
Verdi was at Naples superintending the rehearsal of one of his operas, when suddenly one of the principal singers was seized with an indisposition.
Delna, the two principal interpreters of this version of the Merry Wives of Windsor.
On this occasion the principal parts were filled by Madame Viardot[41] (Azucena), Mdlle.
Several of the principal senators had previously felt disposed to plead for his pardon, but unhappily, while this was taking place, he breathed his last in his Candian prison.
Everybody knows the tragedy, and that it was suppressed lest the cap should fit, because the principal part of Francois Premier showed a depraved libertine, whose capers were not unreflected in Royalty.
Moved by the stirring music and the unstinted exertions of the principal singers, Signora Frezzolini and Signori Guasco and Derivis, the auditors were so overcome that they re-demanded number after number.
One of the principal performers is a good-humoured looking gentleman beating harmony out of the salt-box.
No sponsors are so much as lawful (as is showed before) who are not owners or their deputies, or mere secondary subservient parties, who suppose theprincipal covenanting party.
Our great and principal business in coming to the church assembly is to join with them in the public worship; and this is it that accordingly, as our great business, we must intend and do.
And though my own judgment be, that they should be theprincipal covenanters for the child expressly, yet the want of that expressness, will not make us unbaptized persons.
And that legislation is the first and principal part of government: and therefore if he had made no laws for his church, he were not the full governor of it.
Where hath the church been destroyed, or religion rooted out, in any nation of the earth, but divisions had a principal hand in the effect?
But the principal sense of their distinction is the same with Constantine's, who distinguished of a bishop without and within; or of our common distinction of intrinsic and extrinsic government.
And our hearts aching with parting with Morris (we must come back to that principal grief).
Her neighbours are certain that, in the course of her alterations, everyprincipal beam of her house has been cut through, and that the whole will fall in.
The approaching county election was the principaltopic at dinner, as it was probably at every dinner-table in Deerbrook.
On her return to Scotland she was entertained at Monkstadt in Skye, at a banquet, to which the principal families were invited.
Nearly all the principal chiefs of the clans were drawn into the movement.
The principal cause for the war was brought on by the conflicting territorial claims of the two nations.
It was delivered to a swift trusty runner, who with the utmost speed carried it to the first hamlet and delivered it to the principal person with the word of rendezvous.
When the British drew very near, in three principal columns, to attack simultaneously the left, the center, and the right, they became entangled among the rubbish and broken into disorder by clambering over logs and projecting limbs.
Besides forts and minor villages there had been laid out and settled the principal towns of Augusta, Ebenezer, Savannah, New Inverness, and Frederica.
The other columns, seeing the discomfiture of the principal attack, retired without any further attempt.
On November 16th the Hessians, under General Knyphausen, supported by the whole of the reserve under earl Percy, with the exception of the 42nd, who were to make a feint on the east side of the fort, were to make the principal attack.
