Take a basin of water to represent the ether, and take a piece of potassium like that which we used in our last lecture, and hold it with a pair of nippers in the middle of the water.
If you will gather some of these orchids during your next spring walk in the woods, and will put a pencil down the tube to represent the head of the bee you may see the little box open, and the two pollen-masses cling to the pencil.
For this reason, our best writers have always omitted those terminations, when they intended to represent the action as being doubtful and contingent as well as conditional.
He also supposes them to represent the nouns which govern them--nouns with which they do not agree in any respect!
The end of the temple shown in our illustration was covered with a great plate of gold intended torepresent the sun.
This is another pipe of great interest, and is supposed to represent the head of a woman.
Although the council was superior in authority, it was rarely in session, and questions might arise demanding the provisional action of some one authorized to represent the tribe, subject to the ratification of his acts by the council.
Valentine thinks he was, to represent the dispersion of the Toltecs in the eleventh century, he surely would have found some way to refer to such an important event as the founding of their Pueblo.
A more promising-looking subject to represent the fugitives in Canada, was not readily to be found.
Again, we sometimes employ a verb when we do not wish to declare a thing, nor to represent the action in a doubtful or conditional manner; but we wish to command some one to act.
This tense is sometimes applied to represent the actions of persons long since dead; as, "Seneca reasons and moralizes well; An honest man is the noblest work of God.
The second law is torepresent the resistance of morality opposed to suffering.
The highest aim of art is to represent the super-sensuous, and this is effected in particular by tragic art, because it represents by sensible marks the moral man, maintaining himself in a state of passion, independently of the laws of nature.
When the chief has no son, his soul is caught in a bag, which is fastened to an image made to represent the deceased; the soul is then believed to pass into the image.
He lays down a quid of betel before a stake which is cut in a particular way to represent the Lord of the Wood, and having done so he prays to the spirit to signify his consent or refusal.
The blood is thought to represent the rain, and the down the clouds.
More trustworthy traditions, recorded among the Family Histories of Venice, but still no more it is believed than traditions, represent the Family of Polo as having come from Sebenico in Dalmatia, in the 11th century.
Pauthier's edition is embellished with a good engraving which purports to represent the House of Marco Polo.
He was also made member of the Legislative Committee torepresent the State at the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, of which more later.
But a far more desirable appointment was to the committee which is to represent the State at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition.
It sometimes happens that a nation is divided into two nearly equal parties, each of which affects to represent the majority.
In Europe there are few associations which do not affect to represent the majority, or which do not believe that they represent it.
At the beginning of the song the dancers should be at a little distance from the space set apart to represent the "field," so that they will be able at the proper time to go toward it.
A space should be set apart to represent the "field" where the dramatic action takes place.
These words are the cue for those who are to represent the Violets to prepare to enter from different points on the right, and to make a soft, stirring sound before they come into view, singing the following song: Song No.
Authority, absolute and without appeal, was vested in a council composed of the governor, Le Jeune, and the syndic, an official supposed to represent the interests of the inhabitants.
In 1639, deputies were covertly sent to beg relief in France, and "to represent the hell in which the consciences of the colony were kept by the union of the temporal and spiritual authority in the same hands.
The "four angels" represent the instruments of providence.
This most dreadful of all elements in the material universe, is that which is commonly employed to represent the wrath of God.
A variety of symbols is here employed to represent the judgment to be inflicted.
In 1812 he presided over a meeting at Liverpool, which was called to invite Mr. Canning to represent the borough in Parliament.
The grant proposed by the government to the Princess Louise on her marriage aroused the opposition of some members of the House, who claimed to represent the sentiments of a considerable number of people.
However Mr. Gladstone had won as we have seen the golden opinions of many, and the dreams of his more youthful days were realized when he was sent to represent the people in the House of Commons.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "represent the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
