Hardly had the echoes died away when there came again the reports of Mukoki's rifle.
He heard the sharp reports of Wabi's rifle behind him, but didn't stop to see the effect of the fire.
It published its first report in 1881, and this and the later reports have had for contents, beside the summary of work constituting the formal report, the following papers:— Vol.
The sections of correspondence and minor papers in these reports soon began to include communications about the development of archæological research in various localities.
Pickering, in the ethnological chart accompanying the reportsof the Wilkes Expedition, makes the original people of Chili and Peru to be Malay, and he connects the Californians with the Polynesians.
Keane reportsupon some in North Carolina in the Journal Anthropological Inst.
The last series is the Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, placed by Congress in the charge of the Smithsonian.
Another very curious and valuable source of information consists of the reports on the origin of Inca sovereignty, which were prepared by order of the Viceroy Don Francisco de Toledo, and forwarded to the council of the Indies.
The islands of classical times, in part actual discoveries, in part born of confused reports of actual discoveries, and in part probably purely mythical, were very generally forgotten as ancient civilization declined.
It is this compilation that rescued from the obscurity of daily newspaper reports the happily conceived, perfectly phrased, and now classical similitude drawn between Mr. Gladstone and a mountain.
Routledge brought out a series of volumes containing reports of the speeches of some six or eight statesmen on questions of the day.
A glance over any volume of "Hansard" shows that it is only the new or inconsiderable member, whose speeches are not likely to become the texts of subsequent debate, who is at pains to revise reports of his Parliamentary utterances.
These men had been in England the year before acting as spies and bringing to Spain reports of the number of guns and troops in Plymouth.
She heard reports of murders, robberies, and other outrages committed by him, and ordered him back to England.
An Arabian writer, who, it is true, belongs to a later period, reportsthat Marcionites called their founder "Apostolorum principem.
But the synoptic reports themselves, especially in the articles for which we have only a solitary witness, shew an extensive legendary material, and even in the Gospel of John, the free production of facts cannot be mistaken.
If an early Christian element is here preserved by the Gnostic schools, it has undoubtedly been hellenised and secularised as the reports shew.
Notice of the failure of Mr. Tescheron's business in the reports of the day would have removed him from the realm of mystery to sure footing on the hard-pan of tough luck.
To have the disturber of his peace in hiding where no man could find him would have pleased Mr. Tescheron; but from the reports of Smith it seemed certain that a crisis was about to be reached.
I have reports from a dozen business men who say you are perfectly square and that is why I send for you now that we may work together and make the greatest headway.
I shall be astonished if he reports well of the canal, and should be well satisfied to be assured of a healthy life until the first ship sailed through the great ditch.
At other times it was not so: games were played, sales of stocks were made, and the telegraph stock rose and fell, varying with the reports received from the electrician's room.
Addresses and Reportson the Reform of the Civil Service of the United States.
About this time there came unfavorable reports from England of the affairs of the telegraph company.
He beckoned, and the second officer, whose watch it now was, read aloud: "Reports of scout patrols still negative.
They have developed new and powerful mobile fortresses mounting unheard-of weapons and the city reports that it cannot long withstand their attack.
During the same period, however, there were nine unfavorable reports and only once did the subject reach the point of a general debate.
Official reports revealed that over twenty per cent of the men of the draft army during the World War could not read a newspaper or write a letter home.
This is revealed in the pages of congressional reportsbased upon first-hand investigations.
He also laid before the Legislature' the reports of the distribution of the fund of two and a half millions of dollars for the support of the indigent families of soldiers.
Reports came to the Spaniards of a wonderful Indian queen who reigned at a place called Yupaha, a settlement as large as a city.
He was minister to France, secretary of the treasury, Vice-President of the United States, and would have been elected President but for reports circulated throughout the country that he had been stricken down with a fatal illness.
These reports showed what havoc the war had created among the people of a State which, not much more than two years before, was one of the most prosperous in the country.
If a president's message, or an inaugural address, or any other public document of voluminous character is to be given out, it is obvious that the newspapers concerned cannot wait for telegraphic reports of its contents.
Often these reportsare interesting; sometimes they are of importance, and in either case the newspaper not allied with a press association must miss them.
But General Lee forbade the publication of his letter unless Mr. Davis should at any time publicly deny the reports made.
Enter the reports of witnesses and declare the man officially dead.
The scoundrels who came seeking Britt in her home would not be as terrifying as the visitor who would seem to be a specter--the shade of the convict whom a mountain had crushed, so said the official reports of the tragic affair.
Frank and Vona had definitely adopted the policy of waiting, and he resolved to take no chances on having that policy prejudiced by anybody carrying random stories to Britt, reports that the cashier had said this or the other.
Files, I wasn't intending to make a formal announcement till my political manager, Ossian Orne, gets back with reports from the field.
He practised reports of fires, weddings, and accidents in his hall bedroom.
It must be Peregrinationis historia, that is, true reports of skilful travellers, as Ptolemy writeth, that in such controversies of geography must put us out of doubt.
The colonel Eighty-Fourth New York said he never had any orders, and acted as his judgment dictated in all matters at the post; he never made any reports to any one, and had been visited by a staff-officer but once.
With a sharp eye kept on the rations, cooking, sanitary condition of grounds and quarters, hardly a day passed without his embodying some suggestion of importance in his daily reports to the colonel.
Surgeon Cummings, appointed vice Lamson resigned, commenced his duties andreports September 6th, at once taking hold of matters with a will and devotion to the interests of men in camp characteristic of him.
Do not fail to make frequent reports of all that transpires within your command, and of whatever important facts you may learn from the enemy in Texas, or from its people.
Lieutenant Tinkham reports that there did not seem to be a head to anything.
Throughout the morning crowds of colored people kept coming along the road, from the direction of Thibodeaux, withreports that the enemy were coming.
Several men had been roughly handled, and reports were current of the assassination of two men in the suburbs, but of the truth of this report there is no definite knowledge.
Nothing could be seen in front, not even flashes of the enemy’s guns; nothing to be heard, except continued reports of artillery and musketry-firing.
But, in consequence of the reports that have reached me, I hope I may safely admit that you are measurably friendly and well-disposed toward us.
The reports of barbarity on one side and suffering on the other attracted attention in Europe; and benevolent and just men began to speak and write against Slavery as a wicked and dangerous institution.
Suddenly the reports of rifle-firing were heard, faint but distinct, and lasting several minutes.
Hope arose with every rod advanced, for if fighting had begun thereports of the guns would be heard, but the listening ears failed to catch the first hostile sound from the Whitney ranch.
The reports were too far off for him to feel any interest in them; that which was foretold by the twitching of his limb must come much closer to answer the demands of the occasion.
These, with the reports of rifles, made her certain that the rustlers had attacked Sterry.
As he did so, deForest Caswell crumpled up the mass of tissue paper reports and flung them into the fireplace.
Constance did not need to be told that this was a sheaf of the daily reports of the agency for which Drummond worked.
It is neither more nor less than the literal truth that these reports were quite as favorable to the Jewish employers as to their Christian competitors.
Fairly accuratereports accounted for Gale Morgan, nursing a wound at home, and for Sassoon, badly wounded and under cover somewhere in the Gap.
Both men shot from the hip; the reports cracked together.
Here she slept that night, for they thought that she must be too weary to see the King at once; moreover, he desired first to receive the reports of Tamboosa and the captains, and to learn all that had happened in this strange business.
He would go round the fortifications and beat any sentries whom he found asleep, or receive the reports of the spies.
It is contained in the records of the Bolshevik government, in its publications, and in the reports of the great Socialist parties of Russia, officially made to the International Socialist Bureau.
Later on, as reports received from the interior of the country showed that the masses were not flocking to their banners, they began to assume a critical attitude toward the Constituent Assembly.
Smith Woodward's Paleontology with me to a Board of Guardians meeting, mingling Pariasaurus and Holoptychians with tenders for repairs and reports from the Master.
He reports to me fragments of his conversations with her, how he snatches a fearful joy by skirting dangerous conversational territory, or he takes a pencil and deftly outlines her profile or the rondeur of her bosom.
These reports of conversations are rather fatuous: yet they give an idea of the sort of person I have to deal with, and also the sort of person I am among this sort of person.
Having indiscreetly talked about what he meant to do to B, B reports him to the police, and he has to abscond and seek shelter in the bush till the matter blows over.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reports" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
