And I had hardly been enjoying them half a dozen seconds when the bonds which had seemed to bind me parted, proving themselves to be but the phantasmal creations of a crooked mood.
And yet Crookshanks was not only making up to the Princess, but, in Grimshaw's judgment, he was proving himself a dangerous rival.
Educational work has not been limited to the Filipinos, but has been carried on among the children of the wilder tribes, many of whom are proving to be apt pupils and are making extraordinary progress in industrial work.
He won his case, proving that his house was about a hundred yards over the line.
Who but visible or audible spirits, proving themselves to be such, can give decisive response to that momentous question?
This ore milled from eight to ten dollars a ton, proving to be of a grade sufficiently high to pay for developing and milling, and leave a good surplus.
For the same reason plastering is not advisable, the uneven freezing and thawing proving ruinous to both brick and plaster.
Ills wife laughed and displayed a double row of fine white teeth, whose strength she was just proving by cracking hazel-nuts.
Proving how her strong nature has been cowed by that scoundrel," cried Johannes with warmth.
The latter knew that Harrwitz stated that he beat him the majority of games, and he was most desirous of proving the fallacy of the assertion, and immediately proposed an encounter.
Club, proving themselves just two too many for their opponents.
I wonder if there will be any trouble about proving my identity," she thought; "I have heard of such things, and it will appear very strange to them at first.
And you can't take her away from here without proving your right.
The plan was tentative and hypothetical, but so suggestive that he was becoming interested in proving its verification.
If Bennett went down to Los Angeles he'd take the same train and turn up at a circle there, proving he was the same spirit by the rings that had been given him up here.
We must take it as a scurrilous invention, proving the revolution of public opinion, which since his books had been put upon the Index in 1559, undoubtedly took place.
The Church, since the date of Thomas Aquinas, had so committed herself to Aristotle that proving a discrepancy between her dogma and the Aristotelian text upon any vital point, was much the same as attacking the dogma itself.
The autograph at Ferrara shows page upon page of alteration, transposition, and refinement on the first draught, proving that the Homeric limpidity and ease we now admire, were gained by assiduous self-criticism.
In this case a post-mortem examination was made and on analysis both strychnine and morphine were found in the stomach, proving that the woman had been poisoned.
Dust had settled everywhere, proving conclusively that Miller had not been at home for a long time.
To begin an argument here, proving the origin of the aborigines of Tibet as connected with one of the three great races which superseded each other in Babylonia, whether we call them the Akkadians (a name invented by F.
In spite of all this there are plenty of people who carp and cavil but will not take the trouble of proving the thing for themselves.
Muller's regrettable efforts to invalidate every Buddhist evidence, he seems to have ill-succeeded in proving his case, if we can judge from the openly expressed opinion of his own German confreres.
One argument in proof of Providence is analogous to one mode of proving a creation.
The creation also evinces a Providence by proving God's right to rule, on the admitted principle that every one may do what he will with his own.
But if this supper was a fair sample of their homely fare, I should not be ambitious of again proving the cookery of a Khan.
We were, however, growing sufficient grain and food to supply our large family so that they could be kept from year to year under Christian training without their proving a heavy burden on the mission financially.
Although he was quite young, he was proving to be a very steadfast and useful helper, both at Matopo and at Mapani Mission.
There was no increase in the number of boys, but some of those who had been with us were proving helpful as teachers and evangelists among the people.
During the entire rainy season these had been held in the tent, which was proving inadequate for the growing congregation.
These scraps of puerile pedantry would indeed matter little if it were not also true that the alleged philosophical resemblances are also of these two kinds, either proving too much or not proving anything.
I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.
The only way of proving it, however, will be to turn to our maps.
The same day brought things nearly to a crisis; for the overfed Snowball, proving too much for Fergus's horsemanship, came rushing home at a fierce gallop without him, having indeed left him in a ditch by the roadside.
Is it not the constant thwarting of their aims, the rendering of their desires futile, and their ends a mockery, that alone prevents them and their lives from proving an absolute failure?
He felt much inclined to associate Donal with him in his watch this time, but was too desirous ofproving his courage both to himself and to the world, to yield to the suggestion of his fear.
I am, I think, the first, and you have now the opportunity of proving whether you are a mere cutthroat, or a liar.
This contention had naturally been resisted by the Porte, and there was little difficulty in proving that suzerainty had been effectually established by a Firman of 1871.
A long series of letters followed, and after much hesitation, the Queen finally abandoned her intention, the prospect of hot weather apparentlyproving to be too great a deterrent.
Such an admission would not prove matter to be eternal, but only that science has not yet placed within the reach of man the means of proving its non-eternity.
It will be hardly necessary to spend much time in proving that intellectual philosophy will be one of the subjects of investigation in a future world.
Should the future investigations of physical science bring to light any facts, indisputably proving the anterior existence of the matter of this earth, such facts would not militate against the Christian Scriptures.
Thus science, instead of proving his statements to be erroneous, only enables us more correctly to understand them.
We have seen that geology is not alone in proving death to be a law of nature, essential to the present system of the world, and, indeed, indicative of divine wisdom and benevolence.
You ought to have fairness enough to admit that you called upon me to deposit one thousand dollars with an honest man, that you might, by proving that Thomas Paine did die in terror, obtain the money.
