The chance of recovering anything dropped into such a place seemed remote, without reckoning the very considerable chance of its being irretrievably damaged.
At daybreak a steady breeze, it grew before night into something like a gale, and it was accompanied by weather so thick that, failing any observation of either sun or stars, the captain lost his reckoning entirely.
This allows, reckoning the weight of wheat at 64 lbs.
It isn't as innocent as it sounds," he added after a penciled reckoning on the back of an envelope.
All this unconscious, instinctive reckoning of the other man's characteristics gave to the young fellow an effect of poise, of judicious balance and quiet confidence.
He gave her a quick, reckoning look which she sustained with a slight deepening of color.
Marrineal is reckoning on the world which lives and thinks largely in terms of what its neighbor thinks of it.
It needed no more than a mechanical reckoning of percentages to tell Banneker that this implied a serious diminution of his own income.
Marrineal put his long, delicate fingers together, tip to tip before his face, and appeared to be carefully reckoning them up.
Loneliness no longer beset Banneker, even though Io was farther separated from him than before in the unimportant reckoning of geographical miles; for now she was on his errand.
Heaven guide me to find the guilty one; and Heaven have mercy upon that wretched creature when the hour of reckoning comes; for I will have none.
If you or any other living being have injured my wife, the reckoning between us shall be no light one.
I stand your champion, I kneel your lover, Elsin, till that day breaks on a red reckoning with him who did this sin!
But I venture to think that the use of thisreckoning for the ploughland, or archaic 'hide', does not establish its general employment.
We have also seen that the formerreckoning extended over those districts which the Danish immigrants had settled.
I gave you my qualities and my shortcomings, without reckoning closely in the matter; I have sought in your case your affection rather than your obedience or your respect.
This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining, made the difference of a million to Danglars.
Do you not know that I am making women my particular, my incessant study, and that I am reckoning on leaving some new and very interesting documents dealing with that branch of natural history?
And that is the day of reckoning with their own people.
In fact--though he himself had never made a reckoning of it--he had been upon eight separate cruises.
But Mr. Van der Pant hoped still to get a reckoningwith the captain of that ship.
His mind took no note of the fact that Heinrich was an enemy, that by the reckoning of a "war of attrition" his death was balance and compensation for the death of Hugh.
There is no evidence that this artificial reckoning according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet was ever much more than a fanciful suggestion.
Jerome and Origen reckon 22 books, taking Ruth with Judges and Lamentations with Jeremiah; whereas the ordinary Jewish reckoning gives 24 books, as in our Hebrew Bibles.
We just now need for the administration of our city household a mayor that understands reckoning closely, and that will curtail unnecessary expenses, so as to do away with the yearly increasing deficit in the budget.
Do your worst, Mr. Shund, but there above we shall have a reckoning with each other.
Having passed the whole evening shut up in Wilhelm’s office, reckoning up the sad accounts, he felt the need of fresh air.
The blood of martyrs will not cry to heaven in vain; God’s day of reckoningwith the empire will surely come.
Now amongst the booty were fifty thousand horses, besides treasure and spoil past reckoning and arithmetic, whereat the Moslems rejoiced with an exceeding joy for that Allah had given them victory and protection.
Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight.
You forget that if you and your father have a heavy reckoning against my cousin, his own kinsmen, whom I represent, consider that theirs is no lighter.
If my deadreckoning is right within a score of miles, we are opposite a beach of sand.
And, besides, between him and me there is a reckoning to be paid.
Will you laugh, I wonder, when God presents His reckoning to you for the blood and plunder with which your hands are full?
At the time that these paragraphs were being written the Board of Trade's entirely arbitrary but very scientific reckoning of living-costs had already dropped to 141 points and was going down further yet.
Upon them an arbitrary reckoning of 125 points was fixed as the maximum that these should reach after the period of after-the-war readjustment was fixed.
You know not how few they are; and, when your hour of reckoning comes, you will have more to account for than the sinners you now condemn to the rack and wheel.
I have a heavy reckoning to make, and death gives not long warning.
Tammuz was originally a Babylonian deity (Dumuzi), but his worship is specially identified with Phoenicia, whence under the name Adonis it was introduced into Greece.
But in both aspects of his work the outlook is equally dispiriting.
After a few other observations and some suggestions as to the kind of equipment he deemed suitable to the road, he took his leave, and I sat down alone to a little quiet reckoning with myself as to the past, the present, and the future.
At the reckoning in the Sanctuary before fighting, victory is to the side that excels in the foregoing matters.
This course is in young persons short; but as the muscles become developed it is lengthened to about two inches, reckoning from the external ring to the funnel-like opening through the transverse fascia.
Just fancy now, I have had in my life something like a hundred and eighty to a hundred and ninety regular duels, without reckoning hasty encounters or chance meetings.
As he ran, the sound of his spurs and of his boots upon the hard ground of the street made a strange jingling noise; a fortunate circumstance in itself, which he was far from reckoning upon.
She caught herselfreckoning inwardly with this man.
My reckoning agrees with yours," cried Careless, who had followed her.
But we told them a day of reckoning was at hand, and that you would drive them all before you.
But on the whole, reckoning the amount of fodder required, the number of beasts which are maintained with advantage is very inconsiderably larger at present than in 1634.
This is the Landsknechts' custom; to make a reckoning and ride off, and pay when we return.
Whatever reckoning others made, this is how it seemed to me, and we might just as well look the probabilities square in the face.
Now some of you, I notice, are in the habit of speaking contemptuously of Philip, as though he were not worth reckoning with; while you dread the king, as a powerful enemy to any whom he chooses to oppose.
The rest can be left for the present out of the reckoning until this enslaved people has had its day of struggle towards the light.
It is part of the business of this year of reckoningand settlement to speak plainly and act with unmistakable purpose in rebuke of these things, in order that they may be forever hereafter impossible.
Indeed that is manifestly part of the business of this year of reckoning and assessment.
We are ready, whenever the final reckoning is made, to be just to the German people, deal fairly with the German power, as with all others.
It is the price of the souls of the people you love; and when it comes down to the final reckoning you have a standard that is immutable.
Footnote 59: Either this is a gross error, or it means that their reckoning still made that distance from the Cape, as nothing nearly approaching to such a distance can possibly be seen.
Footnote 18: This is the true position, reckoning the longitude from Greenwich.
