But little by little truth emerges; itreceives the suffrages of those who are competent to judge; gradually the controversy narrows; parts of it are closed up entirely, and a solid and permanent advance is made.
Moses when he receiveshis commission at the burning bush, [Greek: tis eimi ego hoti me pempeis; ego de eimi ischnophonos kai braduglossos.
He receives many people, and actively engages in public affairs, in order to be elected to the Ministry.
If she receives two blows of the stick upon her little feet I shall never see her again.
Our conviction that the Peruvian religion had but a very elementary moral significance, receives a final confirmation from the beliefs concerning the future life.
It is quite true that each one of these deities receives in his turn epithets which seem to attribute omnipotence to him and to make him the sole creator.
This hypothesis seems to leave no point unexplained, and it receives additional probability from a detail which can hardly be satisfactorily accounted for by the advocates of the rival theory.
Next comes an ass dressed, armed, and sceptred like a Pharaoh; with a majestic swagger he receives the offerings brought to him by a cat of high degree, to whom a bull is proud to act as conductor.
Sir," said the sultaness, "I will go and see her; I am much deceived if she receives me in the same manner.
Since I have been here," replied the princess, "he repairs once every day to see me; and I am persuaded the little satisfaction he receives from his visits makes him come no oftener.
Arethusa always receives her with the respect and honour due to her Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair.
When any of the audience leaves Signor Greco's marionette theatre in Palermo to smoke a cigarette or to drink a glass of water between the acts he receives a ticket with a picture of two fighting paladins, which he gives up on returning.
And, unless he speedily receives additional force and munition, it will be impossible to engage the enemy.
Mr. Palmer is at home, and receiveshis visiter in a cordial manner.
In the place of the promised crown, Isfendyar receives from his father the high mission of spreading abroad the new faith.
This basin is formed by and receives important streams flowing from the inner slopes of the northern and eastern edge.
If Astyages receives the satrapy of the Hyrcanians in Justin, this nation and the Parthians, who were still nearer neighbours of Media, must have been among those who were subject to Cyrus.
But the first army of the Iranians under Tur is defeated; and when Feriborz receives the command the warriors of Iran are again severely beaten in the valley of Peshen; a third army is shut up on Mount Hamaven.
Afrasiab receiveshim with honour, and gives him his daughter Feringis to wife.
It is a meritorious act among the Persians to have many children, and he who can show the most receives gifts each year from the king.
New charm and new nobility breathe around her in the scene in which she receives the letter from her husband, designed to lure her to her death.
The lady receives the letter with great joy, and next morning takes horse to ride with the servant to the country house.
There is nobody comes after her: she receives no letters, but now-and-then one from her father and mother, and those she shews me.
In like manner as no dishonour affects a man so much, as that which he receives from a bad wife.
I am to carry along with me, that I am intrusted to his honour and yours, and to be returned to him heart-whole and dutiful, and with a reputation as unsullied as he receives me.
But she was dethroned by Thackeray, and there are signs that the final kingship will be given to Charles Dickens, unless Scott receives it instead.
They part, and for a time tender billets-doux pass between them, until Calantha receives a cruel letter from Glenarvon, in which he bids her leave him in peace.
Finally Geraldine receives a letter informing her that her husband is ill.
Glenmurray, a man of sensitive nature, suffers more than Adeline from the indignities she constantly receives when she frankly says she is Mr. Glenmurray's companion, not his wife.
The influence man receives from woman is of a very mixed character.
There may be brutality in the sport, but there can be no question as to the merit, when the smaller prizefighter, who receives again and again his adversary's knockdown blow, again gets up and is ready for the fray.
At the reserve he flies to keep his hand in, practises on any new make of machine that happens to come out or that he may be put on in place of the Nieuport, and receivesinformation regarding old and new makes of enemy airplanes.
At last the pilot receives his call to the front, where he takes his place in some established or newly formed escadrille.
But once assigned to duty over the firing line he receives the treatment accorded an officer, no matter what his grade.
It is in the Psalms that personal religion receives its clearest exposition in the Old Testament, and this spirit owes much to the personal experience of Jeremiah.
The transcendence of God receives full appreciation, but it is never in terms of spatial distance, but in an inward realisation of His moral excellence (Ps.
This hope was seized upon by the Prophets, and by them elevated above a merely material expectation; they enriched it by the wealth of their creative genius, and from their time it receives a definite content.
This figure receives his peculiar outline largely from the needs of their immediate times, and any person of whom great things are expected may be hailed as the Messiah (Cyrus, Isa.
The Hebrew religion receives much inspiration from its tradition of the past, but infinitely more from its hopes for the future: the golden age is not thought to lie far back in history, but in a time yet to come.
This problem receives no conscious solution throughout the book.
This is the more true because the skin is valued for its wool as well as for its pelt; indeed, the wool is often considered of primary importance, and receives first consideration in fellmongering.
This view receives some support from the other types of method of manufacture.
This idea receives some support from the hydrate theory of solution, and the zones of compression and orientation are the colloid analogue of the hydrates supposed to exist in solutions of electrolytes.
This tannage is fairly typical of high-class sole leather, in which the liquors are worked down the yard, but worked towards the offal, which thus receives liquors with relatively greater proportions of mellow tans and soluble non-tans.
The average tannery worker receives a wage which is never much above the level of subsistence.
The former receives the thanks of mankind; the latter of that valuable part, the virtuosi.
A hole in the centre admits of the grain being poured in with the left hand, whilst a second hole out of centre receives the end of the handle used in causing the upper stone to revolve on the lower.
Do the same with the next pair, and fit on the next felloe piece, taking care that it receives fairly the dowel of the first.
An eye in the peak of the latter receives the upper point of the sprit, while the lower end is set into the eye of a snorter, a bight of rope passing round the mast and tightened chiefly by the strain of the sail upon it.
In consequence of this when the vessel is before the wind the sails fill, but as their surface catches it obliquely they do not exert their full force till the vessel receives the wind upon her quarter.
The end of the line is securely stopped to the staff, which is secured from splitting by being bound round with small cord, with a kind of Turk's-head knot turned upon the end that receives the iron.
This receives a deep semicircular notch, cut to exactly correspond with it on the under side of the bed log.
Blows are still more intolerable, and considered such grievous affronts, that, by law, the person who receives them is considered justified in putting the offender to death.
But it still has as strenuous advocates as ever, and receives much support from popular feelings.
Some of the Nagas of Central India maintain that "a murdered man's soul receives that of his murderer in the spirit world and makes him his slave.
If an Aleut receives a gift he accepts it, saying Akh!
He is not susceptible to human influence, and therefore receives no worship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
