Away then with the sinister forebodings which have originated the recent devices for protruding through the sterns of sluggish ships of war additional guns for defence in fight!
He thereupon, after releasing the Turkish prisoners at Candia, returned to Poros, there to leave his prizes and endeavour to take back a larger force with which worthily to supplement his recent successes.
It is interesting to note that the recent introduction among us of the Turkish bath was due to Lord Dundonald.
On the 1st of October, he sent out thirty war-ships with orders to enter the Gulf of Lepanto and punish Hastings and Thomas for their recent exploits.
But the land force was long in coming, and before its arrival Lord Cochrane had to write to the Government, explaining his recent movement and the reasons which compelled him to abandon the project of fighting in Albania.
Some of the recent bitumen has an odour resembling vegetable gum.
However, geologists have been able to separate lead from recent marine sediments, obtained from the ocean bottom, far from land.
One of the most talked-about age measurements in recent years was the determination of the unexpectedly great age of fossil ancestors of man, found by the British anthropologist, Dr.
In some recent designs, the anticoincidence ring and sample counter are combined in a single cylindrical housing with a thin foil of metallized plastic between them.
At last the young pair arrived at the banks of a stream, which traversed the path and had become swollen by the recentheavy rains.
Yes; some one whom you know, and who is not a recent arrival here.
Neither of these species are typical; as they represent the recent costated Volutes, in the adjoining group.
This is perhaps the rarest, and certainly the most extraordinary bird, which the recent Zoological researches in India has brought to light.
Some of the morerecent Russian symphonies are charged with buoyant joyousness.
It is significant, in the problem of future music, that of the symphonies based upon recent French ideas, the most subtly conceived and designed should have been written in America.
Upon this part of the subject both King and Law have fallen into an error which recent discoveries place in a singularly clear light.
Meantime Kaffir deserters brought in a lot of chatter about the recent fighting.
To this she attributed the suppuration of several recent wounds.
It is not unusual to hear arguments against our institutions and our government, addressed particularly to recent arrivals and the sons of recent arrivals to our shores.
From the many notable autobiographies that have appeared during recent years the editor has chosen two from which to reprint brief passages.
So great has been our physical endowment that until the most recent years we have been indifferent as to the share which each received of the wealth produced.
In a recent winter fifty-seven schooners were lost on the New England coast, most of which were unfit for anything but summer breezes.
These little coasters, surviving long after the stately merchant marine had vanished from blue water, have enjoyed a slant of favoring fortune in recent years.
In a recent editorial in the New York Times it was said that the men and the times of Aristophanes were much more modern than the administration of Rutherford B.
His most recent friendships had all been among the Carrs, and no insult to his own people had been uttered in his hearing which he had not capped with one more scathing.
Now, in an instant, he stiffened into affronted rigidity, and made no effort to conceal the black, almost malignant, wave of hostility that usurped the recent mildness of his eyes.
Until recent days he had also directed, with a dictator's fiat power, most of the affairs of the countryside.
She filled in for him the events of the two days of herrecent and somewhat mysterious absence, and its cause.
The reader will obtain some notion of the difficulties alluded to, and the best mode of grappling with them, by consulting the recent Cambridge edition, published with English notes (Iph.
He walked rapidly through the familiar sunny streets and strove to forget the impression made upon him by the recent interview.
The old love of adventure, which had run him into many perils already, had not been quenched by his recent experiences.
It was plain that he had received recent injuries, and apparently these did not smooth his temper.
But recent mysterious occurrences had made him desirous not only of telling her his own tale, but of seeking information from her; and here he stood in the wind and rain making request for admittance.
Even as the Trevlyn brothers had passed through the streets of the city on their way out, they had been hissed and hooted and even pelted by the crowd, some amongst which knew well the part they had played in the recent persecutions.
It was enough to tell her of his recent adventures in the forest, and his growing hopes of coming upon traces of the lost treasure.
Between Buchanan and the Prince of Wales, however, owing to the former's recent residence at the court of St. James, there existed more of a personal feeling than is usual between the President and state guests.
A few years ago the favorable verdict of a man whom a recent historian of New York society has designated its self-appointed dictator went far towards establishing a woman's reputation for beauty or distinction on a national footing.
Contact with the world, together with her recent touch of sorrow, had worn away the angles of her youthful exuberance.
She was also a guest at Chatsworth House during a recent visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, taking part there in the private theatricals which were part of the entertainment offered to their Royal Highnesses.
It has in recent years become a distinctive feature of the capital, its members having built there some of the handsome homes that adorn the city, and which they occupy usually for a few months each year.
She came into the White House bearing the burden of personal loss in the recent death of her only sister.
Shortly after the death of Marcia's father, Van Ness erected, close by the old cottage, one of the handsomest houses of that day in the city and one that compares not unfavorably with the most elegant homes built there in recent years.
The returning coach took an urgent invitation to Jerome and his suite to visit that city from Commodore Barney, who had been his recent comrade-in-arms in the West Indies.
While stationed in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, upon military duty, he met the lady whom he afterwards married, and who had not long previously arrived in America, whither she had come with her parents to trace a recent acquisition of land.
The drawings on these pipes are reproduced in Naidaillac's recent work, Les Premiers Hommes et les Temps Prehistoriques, vol.
The most recent and complete work on one of the countries where the species is cultivated, the Flora of Chili, by Cl.
Bretschneider confirms this in a recent work, Notes on Botanical Questions, p.
Lindley[1995] also gives a description and a drawing from seeds brought, it is said, from the Rocky Mountains, but this is not confirmed by recent Californian floras.
It was not cultivated in Japan in the time of Thunberg, that is to say a century ago, and the silence of ancient writers on China on this head shows that it is of recent introduction there.
I have read nothing to the contrary in recent publications, and we must not forget that a plant so easy of cultivation would have spread itself even among nomadic tribes, had they possessed it.
It has other names in the Malay Archipelago, which argues an existence prior to that of the more recent peoples of these regions.
It was cultivated in the neighbourhood of Montbelliard in the sixteenth century,[555] and it is not stated that it was then of recent introduction.
The flora of British India, in which the Graminae have not yet appeared, will perhaps tell us the plant has been found wild in recent explorations.
When I said that the cultivation of rice in India was probably more recentthan in China, I did not mean that the plant was not wild there.
It cannot be doubted that it is a form obtained by cultivation, probably in the east of Europe, at an unknown, perhaps recent epoch.
I have even been obliged to appeal to the courtesy of travellers or botanists in all parts of the world to obtain recent information.
How his young heart swelled as, still limping a little and somewhat pale from recent illness, he approached the well-known house in the Bree Straat, the home that sheltered his mother and his love.
His recent experience of sickness had been ample, and although he was no coward he had a special dislike of infectious diseases, which at the time were many.
His mother he could spare, especially after her recent contact with a plague patient, but under the circumstances Elsa's absence was annoying.
Yet both Denon's drawings, and the more recent ones of Captain W.
The walls, in the interior of the buildings, are generally adorned with fresco paintings, the colours of which are in a state of perfect preservation, and have all the freshness of recent finishing.
This event has since happened, and the recent French papers announce that the obelisk has been set up in the centre of the Place Louis XVI.
Bryan's Mines are seated on Hazel run, and are among the most recent discoveries of consequence.
I observed to-day, at Cape St. Comb, large angular fragments of a species of coarse granular sandstone rock, which appear to be disjecta membra of a much more recent formation than that underlying the prevalent surface formation.
This recentdeposit appears to consist essentially of silex and alumine, in a state of very intimate mixture.
SIR: I beg leave to address you on the subject of my recentexpedition into the Ozark region.
And besides, they were but recent settlers, and had not yet completed their houses and improvements.
But if we adopt the opinion of a recent writer, our conclusions will be at war with nature, reason, and universal observation.
While here, Mr. Lee's son returned from the forest with the flesh of the bear and buffalo, the fruits of his own prowess in the chase, and amused us with an account of his recent exhibition of skill in these departments.
Their language is quite different from all the Polynesian dialects, and appears of more recent formation.
In Mr. M'Clellan's recent Harmony I notice only two deviations from the order in St. Mark, ii.
That the Gospels as used by the Christian writers at the end of the first century, so far from being of recent composition, had already a long history behind them, is nothing less than certain.
Lightfoot's recent investigations, in view of which the two sentences that follow should perhaps be cancelled; see Cont.
Endnote 264:1] The Pastor of Hermas, a work of recent date, may be read but not published in the Church before the people, and cannot be included either in the number of the prophets or apostles.
The spiritual movements of recent times have opened men's eyes more and more to its supreme spiritual excellence.
We will follow the example that is set us in presenting the whole of the passages alleged to contain allusions to the fourth Gospel; and it is the more interesting to do so with the key that the recent discovery has put into Our hands.
For full details of the most recent improvements in the cyanide process and in other methods of extraction, the reader is referred to Dr.
Gladden has embodied his college reminiscences more fully in his recentvolume Recollections, wherein is told also the story of "The Mountains.
The dividends for a recent five years average $20 to the temperance members, and $17 to the drinking members.
Among the more recent findings of science in regard to the effects of alcohol are the action of this drug upon the leucocytes or "guardian cells" of the body.
It has been proved by recent experiments that alcohol retards, perverts, and is destructive either in large or small doses to normal cell growth and development.
There might be some excuse for the idea that disease is an entity, from the facts that have been brought to light by the germ theory, but this theory is of recent date, while the entity theory is as old as superstition.
Iron is said by recent investigators to be very injurious to the stomach.
The recent work on the so-called food value of alcohol is the subject of much misunderstanding.
In a recent medical meeting he remarked, 'I thought for many years that I could not do without spirits as medicine.
Persons suffering from headache need to be warned against taking remedies that contain opium and alcohol, and also against the use of a recent popular remedy, usually called a 'white powder' or 'white tablet.
It would be no surprise, especially after recent events in Mexico, if the south-western frontier of the States gradually advanced down the broad and narrow isthmus until it reached and passed the line of the canal.
He said:-- Nothing has been more carefully studied of recent years than the existence of malaria amongst indigenous populations.
A very recent example of what we have related above is what has occurred with the negotiations of the Panama Canal, which, when taken under consideration by Congress, was rejected in a summary manner.
All the recent and marvellous advance in scientific knowledge of these diseases was available when the Americans began their work, and was applied with the greatest efficiency and success.
In his recent work on South America Mr. Bryce devotes one of his delightful chapters to the Isthmus of Panama.
Vrooman eloquently voiced the sentiment of the great port and of British Columbia at a recentluncheon of the Progress Club at Vancouver.
Even in recent times very few emigrants from Europe, who went out with the intention of going far west, penetrated much further than Chicago or Manitoba.
Again, Suez is a healthy district, whereas Panama was, until recent years, a pest-house as deadly as Sierra Leone or the Guinea coast.
In recent times my constant prayer has been that I might come into good society which might elevate me, and avoid evil companionship which, to say the least, involves an injurious connection with the lower plane.
We, on the other hand, will mention some events of recent years and connect them with certain natural phenomena which may possibly denote the presence of warning and chastising powers.
The latter is, however, still under doubt and discussion among geologists, and more recent investigations tend to show that this Russian region, supposed at first to be exclusively Permian, is at least in part Triassic.
He demonstrated from recent history the facility with which France could transport large forces by sea to distant points.
This is, however, but the beginning of the work; and the recent investigations of the French geologist, Coquand, indicate that several of these periods at least are susceptible of further subdivision.
Every peer, except some of recent creation, has from childhood enjoyed all conceivable facilities for acquiring a finished education.
They attack it not only because they consider it a recent innovation, but also because it threatens the permanence of their order.
The recent cases of the Brilliant, Hiawatha, and Amy Warwick settle this beyond all question.
A large white blossom of cravat expanded under his nude, beefy chin, and he wore a black dress-coat, creased with its recent packing.
Among the recent developments of the remains of ancient art, by far the most important and interesting are those of Mr. Layard at the site of Nineveh, a full account of which is given in the volumes recently published by George P.
On the south side I discovered, to my great satisfaction, two human figures, considerably above the natural size, sculptured in low relief, and still exhibiting all the freshness of a recent work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
