The methods of fixing a standard and defining the proportions of the human frame, are either analytic or synthetic, from the whole to the parts, or from the parts to the whole, and have been promiscuously adopted.
Lodges of green bark were promiscuously interspersed over this spot, with here and there a cluster of trees, or a solitary pine, which had escaped the fury of tempests for a thousand years.
This was the part destined for those who had recently died: a little further on, bones half decayed were scattered about, and in the centre of the building was a large pile of them heaped promiscuously on each other.
Gay sounds of song and minstrelsy greeted his ears as he approached the spot--Bacchanalian scraps promiscuously chimed in chorus with more sentimental ditties, and all occasionally drowned in boisterous shouts of laughter.
At the foot of the white-washed walls, tiger-skin pebbles were, without regard to pattern, promiscuously inserted in the earth in such a way as of their own selves to form streaks.
The leaves of the latter are small, opposite, and of a sapgreen; those of the former grow promiscuously and are of a silver green.
On the other hand, I could not discover any on the flowers of the poppy or of a wild rocket (Diplotaxis muralis) which grew promiscuously among the plants aforesaid.
Hidden at first promiscuously under the potsherds, the Carabi make a rush for the wretched Snail, who, in his despair, alternately puts out and withdraws his horns.
They dwell in separate districts, and are as fearful of going promiscuously among them, as into a den of wild beasts.
We were obliged to sleep promiscuously among the Turks, one or other of whom was smoking all night long.
The highest part of the heiau wall still upright is about 10 feet; but some of the stones within, promiscuously heaped, are 2 to 3 feet higher.
The dark earth contained much less of refuse than nearer the entrance; such shells and ashes as appeared were promiscuously distributed and not in little piles or masses as before.
These gave up the farmhouse, with its feudality of cothouses, to a taciturn bachelor shepherd or two, who squatted promiscuously in the once voluble kitchen.
The fair was got up by the colored members of the Wesleyan church; nevertheless, some of the first ladies and gentlemen in town attended it, and mingled promiscuously in the throng.
Words were promiscuously selected from the chapter they had read, and every one was promptly spelled.
Part of the teachers were colored and part white, as were also the scholars, and they stood side by side, mingled promiscuously together.
They seat themselves promiscuously around a council fire, some leaning one way, some another, so that a stranger on viewing them, might be led to conclude they were inattentive to what was said, or had become tired of attending.
The female mourners seated themselves promiscuously near to each other, among some low bushes that were at the distance of from twelve to fifteen yards east of the grave.
Africans were poured in to obviate these difficulties, and these were bought promiscuously by all.
He had been taken captive and sold; and was then in the hold, confined promiscuouslywith the rest.
A kibitka serves for a whole family; men, women, and children sleep in it promiscuously without any separation.
The mother and sister are keen for it, but Clanmacnalty is in no haste to marry, and by all accounts the Elf carries on promiscuouslywith three or four at once.
If there is any coffee and a bit of something cold, I'd rather eat it promiscuously here.
General Hawkins, with the Sixth and Sixteenth Regulars, advanced against the main blockhouse, which crested a slope of two hundred feet, and the men of the Seventy-first New York Volunteers joined promiscuously in the charge.
All the shades of color, from "snowy white to sooty" were there, and there did not seem to be any order in the seating of the congregation, the shades being promiscuously mixed.
Mell is plainly derived from the French word mesler, to mingle together, the master and servant promiscuously at the same table.
Such is the opinion of the writers on the fine arts; "that variety is pleasing;" an opinion embraced without exception, and applied promiscuously to the works of nature and of art.
