The finder having accidentally lost his gun-flint, went to the spot to look for a flint to replace it, and in searching about he discovered the antique.
But should the whole, by some fortunate chance, be re-assembled in a single collection, it becomes possible for a skilful manipulator to piece the fragments together, and replace them with an elegant and valuable work of art.
Stuff an old handkerchief or piece of square linen into the lemon, after which replace the plug and secure it with pins.
To cause it to reappear you replace the cone and carry away the glass under it.
Replace the drawer, secretly turn over the cabinet, and place it on your table.
Adult students generally dislike the work of acquiring new habits, and seek to replace it by forms of study dependent upon the intellect, striving to justify their abstention from mechanical work on educational grounds.
He seeks immediately to replace the required new effort by a known effort--and replaces the French é by the English ay.
Adult students in general dislike forming new habits and avoid such work as far as possible; they seek to replace it by forms of study requiring discrimination and other processes of the intellect.
The following precepts may serve as concrete examples of the way we can carry the principles of concreteness into practice: (1) Let the example precede or evenreplace the rule.
Certain habits have been formed, and we all realize what it means to eradicate a bad habit and to replace it by a good one.
To replace this method by something less cruel is the function of such things as guides, teachers, and pedagogic devices.
Practising scales on the piano is monotonous and inartistic; let us therefore abolish such finger-gymnastics and replace all such work by the theory of harmony!
In what cases do you replace the word far by the expression a long way?
Learning sentences by heart and performing these drills are so tedious; let us therefore reject these forms of work, and replace them by analysing a text or by trying our hand at literary composition!
The temptation to replace habit-forming by analysis and synthesis is so strong that the teacher must continually react against it.
But when the coverlet slipped away she did not fail to replace it tenderly over her mother's feet, and every now and then her fingers gave a caressing touch to the delicate hand of which Mrs. Penfold was so proud.
In this state of things the commanding-officer judged it prudent to withdraw the troops (the 14th Light Dragoons) and replace them with a body of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, commanded by Captain Warrington.
I then said that we might put out to sea and replace the jury-rudder, and stand in and get a pilot the following morning.
MY DEAR SIR:--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 28th April, in which you offer to replace the present garrison at Port Trumbull with volunteers, which you propose to raise at your own expense.
It was not until Jack had been, as he expressed it, "so well rinsed it was time to wring him out," that either he or Aunt Nancy remembered the very important fact that he had no clothes to replace those which were so thoroughly soaked.
The posts had so far decayed that an expert workman would have considered it necessary to replace them with new timbers; but since this was beyond his skill, he set about mending it after his own fashion.
Hence the attempt to replace the latter by Prince Hohenlohe, the present Minister of the Interior, is beset with much difficulty.
He also considered Grumme the best man he had ever had round him, and it would be difficult to replace him.
At the same time, however, she could never tolerate the weakening or the crushing of France, because it would disturb the Balance of Power and replace it by the ascendancy of Germany.
So he goes off and fishes patiently, hours long, toreplace his lost catch.
Perhaps there is also a bit of envy or regret in my meditation as I tie on a new hook to replace the one that an uneasy eel is trying to rid himself of, down in the mud.
It may be supposed that by this time we were in a tolerably forlorn condition, with nearly every yard of our spare canvas expended, and with scarcely a spar remaining to replace our jury-masts, should they be carried away.
We sailed on the 12th of September, but, having carried away our mainmast, we had to return to replace it, so that it was not till the 20th that we could make a fair start.
I could find none with which to replace them, and there we lay, almost water-logged, at the mercy of the winds and waves.
When he had thus sacrificed the flower of his professional troops and had hardly had time to replace the local governments of the provinces by anything much better than general anarchy, he found himself faced by a Russian assault.
Send somebody to replace me," he called down to the crowd of people, who for the greater part stood idly gaping.
He thought of making himself a sort of inspector, who could at any time replace the absent master, and work himself where the farm-servants needed a good example.
Thomism, starting from the efficacy of the first cause, tends to reduce more and more the efficacy of second causes, and to replace it by a passivity which receives without producing, which is determined without determining.
One can easily figure it so and replace the lost parts of the old facade, more or less at haphazard, from the front of Noyon.
Dried foods, as foods so treated are called, will not replace fresh or canned foods.
In warm weather, they are an excellent substitute for heavy cocktails made of lobster or crab, and they may even be used to replace the soup course.
Add the sugar to the quince pulp, replace on the fire, and cook until the mixture is thick, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
Now the several philosophical systems by which the councillors of the age propose to replace the dethroned Church, are one by one submitted to the judgment of the age; and Esther, coming last, shall find favour.
If this is done, it ought to result in conditions which will replace a great part of the government spending which the failure of cooperation has made necessary this year.
The relative fighting power on the Navy had been greatly diminished by failure to replace ships and equipment, which had become out-of-date.
We have had to give them bread to replace that which was stolen out of their mouths by the Germans.
He wore a wooden leg to replace the one he had lost and was a great friend of all the children in Oz because he could whittle all sorts of toys out of wood with his big jack-knife.
No iceberg had been seen, nor any large glacier ice-blocks, such as on the coasts of Spitzbergen replace the Greenland icebergs.
Everywhere a small number of men are being enabled toreplace a large number of men.
What must we do in order to replace the unconscious by the conscious in our patient?
Interpretation based on a knowledge of symbols is not a technique that can replace the associative technique, or even compare with it.
In this way you will be able to smooth away to some extent the crudity of imagery when the latter is endeavoring to replace word expression.
You will also have to allow the dream-work to replace an element that is as hard to depict as for instance, broken faith, by another kind of rupture, a broken leg.
Only a person with a mania for authority, a person who must replace his religious catechism with some other, even though it be scientific, would make such a demand.
Then we no longer differ very widely; the genital organs merely replace other organs.
If, on the other hand, we were to give the victory to sexuality, symptoms would have to replace the sexual suppression, which has been pushed aside.
He did not know much about banking, but it was possible that Gerald had used his employers' money, hoping to replace it before he was found out.
Lee's reply explained that his idea of detaching troops from Heath's division was merely for expedition's sake, intending to replace them from his own.
During the melee, Lee had come up and endeavored with the dragoons of the third section toreplace the planks of the bridge.
