Facetious discourse particularly may be commodious for reproving some vices, and reclaiming some persons (as salt for cleansing and curing some sores).
It was known that they were extremely fertile, but it was thought that the cost and uncertainty of reclaiming them were too great to warrant the enterprise.
While you are talking about redeeming the New Jersey marshes these go-ahead Californians are actually diking and reclaiming similar and, in some cases, richer overflowed lands by the hundred thousand acres.
Many similar enterprises have been conceived and executed in modern times, both for the purpose of reclaiming land covered by water and for sanitary reasons.
Although, therefore, the destruction of a wood and the reclaiming of the soil to agricultural uses suppose the death of its smaller dependent flora, these revolutions do not exclude the possibility of its resurrection.
Enormous sums had been expended in reclaiming it by draining and other familiar agricultural processes, but without results at all proportional to the capital invested.
In reclaiming and reoccupying lands laid waste by human improvidence or malice, and abandoned by man, or occupied only by a nomade or thinly scattered population, the task of the pioneer settler is of a very different character.
The Army succeeds in reclaiming a great number of them; but the thieving instinct is one not easy to eradicate.
It is a small flat near Oxford Street, in which live two women-Officers of the Army, who are engaged in the work of reclaiming prostitutes.
We allude to the efforts made by his Highness the Khedive in acquiring and reclaimingtracts of land in the neighbourhood of Cairo and turning them into fertile farms.
They would figure on first reclaimingall the mesa land on which the water could in this way be used, and then they would build pumping plants with which to irrigate the more elevated lands.
Philip by no means gave up his project ofreclaiming Protestant England.
Yet what a proportion of the energy of the church is to-day required for the reclaiming of those who should never have been allowed to go astray!
Fen-lands of East Anglia until the reclaiming of marsh lands drove it away.
Everyone helped everyone get things back where they belonged, and by noon the Norm girls had succeeded in reclaiming the truant canvas and stretching it again over their summer belongings.
They must have realized the morning would bring to them some strenuous duties, for what about reclaiming Camp Norm?
Every student of the subject admits that much is yet to be learned before the last word has been said concerning the methods of dry-farming in reclaiming the waste places of the earth.
Dry-farming is now reclaiming large areas of formerly worthless land, especially in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the adjoining provinces.
Already his ambition extended beyond the present limits of his domain; already he contemplated the possibility of reclaiming some of the outlying waste and enlarging his borders.
Will had long cast covetous eyes on a tract of moorland immediately adjoining Newtake, and there being little to do at the moment, he conceived the adventurous design of reclaiming it.
The Duchy itself was always reclaiming land without considering the rights and wrongs of the discontented Venville tenants, and Will knew of many a "newtake" besides this he contemplated.
He joined the volunteers at the time of the Nez Perce Indian war and rendered distinguished aid in subduing the Indians and reclaiming the region for the purposes of civilization.
He figured most prominently in connection with the pioneer development of the county and is classed with those who aided in reclaiming this region for the purposes of civilization.
But the country, rich in its natural resources, beckoned the progressive man of the east--the man who is not afraid to face danger, hardships and privations in order to aid in reclaiming this great region for the purposes of civilization.
He became familiar with all of the methods of treacherous warfare practiced by the savages and he aided in reclaiming the region for the purposes of civilization.
You see he has been spending ever so much money in reclaiming that land at Upton Common, and is very hard pressed himself.
Willing hands assisted in reclaiming the wounded and gas victims from the hold of the ship.
The chief concern of the Dewey now was the reclaiming of her sailors from the sea.
He believed in the reality of God's presence in the sanctuary and in the stream of blessings that flowed from His throne, and he believed in the possibility of reclaiming the waste places of his country for the kingdom of God.
The first year, only half of the land was put in cotton, attention being given to reclaiming the other half.
